Wallace Wins, Pressures Earnhardt

Rusty Wallace scored his ninth victory of the season Sunday, winning the AC Delco 500 at Rockingham, N.C., to keep the pressure on Dale Earnhardt in their battle for the Winston Cup championship.

Wallace’s Pontiac Grand Prix beat Earnhardt’s Chevrolet Lumina to the finish line by 3.23 seconds.

Earnhardt, a five-time series champion, has a 72-point lead with two races remaining.

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Ayrton Senna outdueled rival Alain Prost to win the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzaka.

Senna took advantage of a lengthy Prost pit stop during a sudden downpour to defeat the Frenchman by 11.435 seconds before 151,000.

College Football

Florida State and Notre Dame remained on course for a 1-2 showdown, while Kansas State moved into the Associated Press top 25 for the first time in 23 years.

Florida State, which was idle Saturday, was a unanimous No. 1 pick for the second consecutive week.

Notre Dame, which will play Florida State in South Bend on Nov. 13, remained No. 2 after beating USC, 31-13.

UCLA is ranked 15th.

College Basketball

The NCAA and an attorney for Ohio State have investigated attempts by four basketball players to buy cars, an auto dealer said.

On Friday, the NCAA and the university looked at dealer records involving players Greg Simpson and Charles Macon. Each bought cars at Dennis Isuzu in July, said Aaron Masterson, vice president at the dealership.

Both were able to buy cars after relatives co-signed their loans, Masterson said.

Employees at the dealership became suspicious when Jamie Skelton and Derek Anderson wanted to have persons who were not related to the them co-sign car loans, Masterson said.

Volleyball

Tara Cross-Battle and Elaine Youngs each had nine kills as the U.S. women’s volleyball team qualified for the 1994 World Championships by defeating Turkey, 15-2, 15-3, 15-13, in a tournament at Ankara, Turkey.

The World Championships will be held in Brazil.

Names in the News

Wayne Belardi, a first baseman who played behind Gil Hodges in the 1950s for the Brooklyn Dodgers, died in Santa Cruz of chronic hepatitis and diabetes. He was 63.