Mize Holds Off Charge by Zoeller

Larry Mize finally made a bogey, on the last hole of Friday’s second round, but maintained a one-stroke lead over late-charging Fuzzy Zoeller in the Buick Open golf tournament at Grand Blanc, Mich.

It was the only bogey of the tournament for Mize, who shot a three-under-par 69 for a 36-hole total of 133. Zoeller, who shot a 65, was two strokes ahead of Mark O’Meara and Corey Pavin.

Mize played in the morning Thursday, when conditions were perfect at the Warwick Hills course. But he played in the afternoon Friday, in a steady rain.

Zoeller, starting on the back side, was five under par after nine holes. Beginning on No. 3, he reeled off five consecutive birdies to go 10 under par with three holes to play. He played par golf the rest of the round.

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Dana Lofland-Dormann overcame a 10-stroke fall from her opening round and clung to a two-stroke lead halfway through the McCall’s LPGA tournament at Stratton Mountain, Vt.

After matching the lowest round of the season, 63, Thursday, Lofland-Dormann slipped to 73 for an eight-under-par 136 total, still enough to tie the tournament’s two-round record.

Mary Beth Zimmerman and Nancy Ramsbottom were tied for second at 138.

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Tommy Aycock, who became unhappy with the security of his job as a club pro after 28 years, and Bob Betley, a former motorcycle cop who took up golf at 28, shot six-under-par 66s to share the first-round lead in the Bank of Boston senior tournament at Concord, Mass.

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Kellee Booth of Coto de Caza advanced to the final of the USGA Girls’ Junior Golf Championship with a 2-and-1 victory over Kelli Kuehne of McKinney, Tex., at Mesa Verde Country Club in Costa Mesa. Booth will face Erika Hayashida of Lima, Peru, in the championship match at 9 a.m. today. Hayashida beat Anna Umemura of Honolulu, 3 and 2, in the other semifinal.

Pro Basketball

The Portland Trail Blazers denied charges by the NBA that they tried to circumvent the league’s salary cap in their signing of free-agent center Chris Dudley.

NBA Commissioner David Stern voided Dudley’s contract with the Blazers on Thursday.

Laker General Manager Jerry West has scheduled a conversation Tuesday with A.C. Green’s agent, Marc Fleisher, to clarify where the club stands in its efforts to re-sign Green, an unrestricted free agent.

Miscellany

Bryan Gillooly, 17, of Kissimmee, Fla., won a gold medal in the 16-18 boys’ one-meter springboard event during the third day of the National Junior Olympic Diving Championships at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl Aquatics Center.

Gillooly finished with 538.60 points. Grant Gritzmacher, from Essex, Conn., took the silver with a score of 527.75.

The event continues through Monday.

More than a year after they began pursuing Sergei Makarov, the San Jose Sharks finally got him, acquiring the veteran right wing from the Hartford Whalers to complete an earlier trade.

The NCAA won’t adopt an all-encompassing set of gender equity rules, NCAA President Joseph Crowley said.

Instead, the council will put a set of four gender equity guidelines to a vote of NCAA schools at its January meeting.

It took a three-time champion to end Franziska van Almsick’s bid for seven gold medals in the European Swimming Championships at Sheffield, England.

The 15-year-old German settled for silver behind Catherine Plewinski of France in the 100-meter butterfly after winning four golds in freestyle events.

Plewinski, 25, finished almost a meter ahead in 1 minute 0.13 seconds. Van Almsick was second in 1:00.94.

The Women’s Professional Volleyball Assn. will hold a tournament at the Promenade parking lot in downtown Long Beach this weekend. The 32-team competition will start today at 9 a.m. Karolyn Kirby and Liz Masakayan are seeded No. 1 in the double-elimination event.