Women’s Coach Gets Pay Raise at Washington

Chris Gobrecht of the University of Washington became the latest women’s basketball coach to receive a big salary increase that will eventually put her on the same level as the men’s coach.

A new four-year contract that was announced Saturday will pay Gobrecht $94,260 until July 1, 1995. After that, she will make $110,000 per year--the same as men’s Coach Bob Bender will earn in each of the next four years. Gobrecht, who once coached at Cal State Fullerton, made $78,500 last season.

The Huskies qualified for the NCAA tournament in seven of Gobrecht’s first eight years at Washington, and the team is more popular than the men’s.

The move is part of the trend toward gender equity in college athletics. In July, Vivian Stringer of Iowa signed a five-year contract worth $117,872 per year.

But Marianne Stanley, whose team was 22-8 last season, filed a sex-discrimination suit against USC this summer over a contract dispute. Stanley asked to be paid similarly to George Raveling, the men’s basketball coach, but was offered considerably less. When she refused, her contract was not renewed and Cheryl Miller was hired to replace her last Thursday.

Basketball

An all-star team from the Continental Basketball Assn. beat Olympiakos Le Pirea, the national champion of Greece, 85-70, to win the Legrand Trophy tournament at Limoges, France.

Considered one of European basketball’s top preseason competitions, the Legrand Trophy has a six-team field featuring the top pro teams from Greece, Germany, Italy, France and Brazil. Georgia Tech represented the United States in the tournament last year and finished sixth.

The CBA team, coached by Hubie Brown, finished unbeaten in four games and was led Saturday by guards Tracy Moore and Lamont Strothers, who each had 17 points. Duane Washington added 13 points and nine assists.

Golf

Billy Mayfair shot a three-under-par 69 to take a one-stroke lead over defending champion Richard Zokol, Mark Calcavecchia and Jim McGovern after the third round of the Greater Milwaukee Open. Calcavecchia had a 67, Zokol 68 and McGovern 69.

Mayfair, who shared the second-round lead with Harry Taylor, is at 14-under 202. Taylor dropped off the leader board with a 76.

Bob Charles switched from graphite to steel-shafted woods and shot a course-record 65 for the second-round lead in the senior tour’s Quicksilver Classic at Midway, Pa.

The seven-under-par effort left him alone at five-under, two shots in front of Raymond Floyd and George Archer, each of whom shot 71.

Australian Jane Crafter birdied her final three holes to complete a six-under-par 66 and tie Lori West for the first-round lead in the LPGA’s State Farm Rail Classic at Springfield, Ill.

Dottie Mochrie, Kim Williams, Danielle Ammaccapane and Helen Dobson had 67s over the par-72, 6,403-yard Rail Golf Club course. In the group at 68 were Sherri Steinhauer, Martha Faulconer, Jean Zedlitz, Tammie Green and Mary Beth Zimmerman.

Hockey

Dynamo Moscow beat defending champion Duesseldorf EG, 4-0, to win the Epson Cup at Duesseldorf, Germany.

Team USA, tuning up for the Olympics with a series of tournaments in Europe, lost its third consecutive game, 5-3, to Malmoe IF.

Auto Racing

Mark Martin won the Gatorade 200 Busch Grand National stock car race at Darlington Raceway. Martin’s Roush Racing-prepared Ford Thunderbird beat the Chevrolet Lumina of runner-up Randy Lajoie by 0.65 seconds, averaging 117.638 m.p.h. in a race slowed by caution seven times for 27 laps.

Yachting

Roy Heiner skippered the Netherlands to a 3-1 victory over Australia to win the Nations Cup yacht racing grand final at the Hoorn, Netherlands.

Third was France, which beat tournament favorite Peter Holmberg and his U.S. Virgin Islands team, 2-0, in a best-of-three petite final.

Football

The Red Boiling Springs (Tenn.) High football team ended its 69-game, seven-year losing streak, beating King’s Academy of Seymour, Tenn., 38-0, on Friday.

The Bulldogs’ losing streak was thought to be the nation’s second longest, but officials with the National Federation of State High School Assns. said they do not keep track of such things.

Rowing

Christopher Kerber, Jonathan Moss, Thomas Beetham and Mathew Collins of the United States led all the way in winning the lightweight coxless fours at the World Rowing Championships in Roudnice, Czech Republic.

Soccer

The French soccer league’s disciplinary commission, after daylong questioning of the principals in the Olympique Marseille game-fixing scandal, said it still lacked enough information to penalize anyone.

The announcement left the future of both Marseille and the French national soccer team in doubt. Marseille faces possible expulsion from the European Champions Cup, and France has been threatened with suspension from international soccer unless its soccer federation takes action by Sept. 23.

Name in the News

Len Casanova, 88, athletic director emeritus and former head football coach at Oregon, was listed in fair condition at a Ft. Collins, Colo., hospital after suffering a heart attack on the eve of the Ducks’ victory over Colorado State.