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It took five full years but Shingo Katayama, the winningest Japan Tour player of his era, claimed his 27th career title at the Coca-Cola Tokai Classic, defeating Hidemasa Hoshino and Satoshi Tomiyama on the first hole of sudden death.  Katayama, who lost the same event in a playoff in 2012, struggled over the first 36 holes, his rounds of 74-76 leaving him on 150, a full 10 shots off the halfway lead.  But a Saturday 64 (the week's lowest round by two shots) moved him back to the edges of contention before a birdie-eagle start on Sunday pushed him meaningfully into the mix.  Katayama would ultimately make a clutch birdie at the 17th to close in 67, then wait as Hoshino bogeyed the 18th and Tomiyama finished with two pars, bringing the trio home deadlocked on 281.  Kunihiro Kamii recorded two eagles during a Sunday-best 66 to claim solo third (three shots off the pace), while a prominent American entry, 24-year-old Peter Uihlein, closed with a strong 68 to tie for seventh..................Long-hitting Australian Scott Hend won for the second time on the 2013 Asian Tour, surviving demanding conditions imposed by both the incoming Typhoon Fitow and a tricky Taiwan Golf & Country Club layout to claim the Mercuries Taiwan Masters by three strokes.  Hend stood one ahead of American Sam Cyr after opening with rounds of 69-72-70, then closed with a methodical 74 that included pars at his first eight and last eight holes, with bogeys in between at the 9th and 10th.  Cyr, for his part, triple-bogeyed the par-4 5th and doubled the par-4 9th, eventually steadying himself to card a 77 which actually held up well in a steady rain and wind gusts that peaked at over 50 mph.  On an afternoon whose low round was a 71 by Thai veteran Thaworn Wiratchant, up-and-coming Thai prospect Arnond Vongvanij carded a 73 to climb into a tie for third with Bangladesh's Siddikur (77), while Panuphol Pittayarat put an exclamation point on the day's challenges by shooting a Sunday 79, but only falling from third to solo fifth. 

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