GOLF ROUNDUP : Fabel, Waldorf Tie for Lead in Rainy Maryland

Brad Fabel survived rainy conditions and a late charge by John Daly to cling to a share of the lead with Duffy Waldorf in Saturday’s suspended third round of the Kemper Open at Potomac, Md.

Fabel, who started the day in a first-place tie with three others at eight under par, never relinquished the lead. With two bogeys and two birdies, he stayed in position for his first victory in eight years on the tour by shooting par over 13 water-logged holes before play was stopped because of darkness with 10 players on the course.

Daly, who led those who completed the third round, had four birdies and two bogeys on the back nine for a 70 and a six-under 205 total. His round included six birdies and five bogeys.

“On a day like this you can’t expect six birdies, but you can expect five bogeys,” he said.

Only 13 of the 62 players who finished the round broke par 71 on the TPC at Avenel course.

Terry Dill, still recovering from surgery last November to remove a non-malignant tumor from his brain, birdied three of the last four holes while shooting a three-under-par 67 and joined Dale Douglass atop the leader board after 36 holes of the Commemorative senior tournament at Scarborough-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Douglass, who shot a 66 over the par-70, 6,645-yard Sleepy Hollow Country Club course, and Dill were at 133, one shot ahead of George Archer and Jim Ferree.

Barb Mucha, who played varsity golf at nearby Michigan State, shot a seven-under-par 65 and climbed into a share of the third-round lead with Deb Richard in the Oldsmobile Classic at East Lansing, Mich.

Richard, playing with intense back pain on a cool, rainy day, followed her second-round 64 with a 69 in the LPGA event at Walnut Hills Country Club.

Mucha and Richard were at 11-under 205 in the $500,000 tournament, two shots ahead of Jane Geddes, who shot 65.

Georgia freshman Vicki Goetze shot a course-record seven-under-par 65 that earned her medalist honors in the NCAA women’s championships at Tempe, Ariz.

Goetze’s four-day total of eight-under 280 left her three shots ahead of Arizona’s Annika Sorenstam, the defending medalist.

San Jose State won the team championship, building on a two-shot lead on the final day to edge Arizona 1,171-1,175.

Goetze helped Georgia’s top foursome shoot an aggregate 287 for the day and 1,181 for the tournament, good for third. Stanford was fourth at 1,187. UCLA, the defending champion titlist, finished fifth.