Figure Skater Urbanski, Husband Attacked

Pairs figure skater Calla Urbanski Freeman and her husband were attacked by five assailants Friday night, police said in Wilmington, Del.

Her husband, Jay Freeman, said the altercation started when one of the assailants threw a board into some newly planted shrubbery in front of the house the couple is renovating.

After her husband confronted the group, Freeman said, she was hit in the face and thrown against her car. She said her husband was kicked, punched and struck with clubs.

“They must have hit him over a dozen times . . . and then threw him (onto) a neighbor’s lawn. I stopped and turned back toward them and started screaming at the top of my lungs--just screaming,” Freeman, who skates with Rocky Marval, told the Wilmington News Journal.

The two were treated for their injuries at Wilmington Hospital and released, police said, adding that no arrests have been made.

Freeman said she and Marval will perform a scheduled skating show Wednesday in Vail, Colo.

Pro Football

Thomas Everett and Tony Casillas, key members of the defense that helped the Dallas Cowboys win the last two Super Bowls, won’t be around in the team’s quest for a third.

Dallas traded Pro Bowl safety Everett to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a fourth-round draft pick this year, plus a fourth-round pick in 1995 if Everett makes the Pro Bowl this season.

Casillas, a 6-foot-3, 273-pound lineman, says he will accept a four-year offer from the Kansas City Chiefs worth almost $6 million, although he wanted to stay in Dallas and play for his former college coach, Barry Switzer.

The Buccaneers gave Everett a three-year contract for $3.275 million.

Tennis

Sixth-seeded Natalia Zvereva survived a sluggish start to defeat Mary Pierce, 0-6, 6-3, 6-2, and reach the final of a clay-court tournament at Hilton Head Island, S.C.

Zvereva will play Conchita Martinez, a 6-3, 6-7 (7-3), 6-4 winner over unseeded Iva Majoli.

Pete Sampras needed only 55 minutes to defeat Andre Agassi, 6-3, 6-1, in the semifinals of the Salem Open in Osaka, Japan. Lionel Roux will play Sampras after eliminating Henrik Holm, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3.

Hendrik Dreekman defeated Alexander Volkov, 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 7-5, and Markus Zoecke beat Jakob Hlasek, 6-4, 6-4, to set up an all-German final at the South African Open in Sun City.

Defending champion Andrei Medvedev defeated Javier Sanchez, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, in the semifinals of the Estoril Open in Lisbon and advanced to the final against Carlos Costa, who defeated Alberto Costa, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.

Stephanie Halsell, a 14-year-old from Cypress, Tex., defeated Samantha Reeves of Monoma, Wis., 6-0, 6-1, to become the youngest 18s division champion in the history of the Easter Bowl Junior Tennis Championships in Miami.

In the boys’ 18s, third-seeded Justin Gimelstob of Whippany, N.J., failed in his bid for a third Easter Bowl title, as top-seeded Cecil Mamiit of Los Angeles won, 1-6, 7-5, 6-2.

In the boys’ 16s, Michael Russell from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., defeated his former doubles partner, Kevin Kim of Fullerton, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2.

Basketball

Win Case, who led Oklahoma City University to the NAIA Division I championship this year, was arrested for allegedly trying to scalp Final Four tickets in Charlotte, N.C., police said.

Kerri Welc, a freshman guard for Gannon’s women’s team, was killed in Uniontown, Pa., when a car slammed into the vehicle in which she was a passenger.

Miscellany

Janet Evans won her 38th national title, in the 400-meter freestyle in the U.S. Swimming Championships at Federal Way, Wash. Evans, who was timed in 4:11.01, is favored to win the 1,500 today.

Lake Superior State won its second NCAA hockey title in three seasons, beating Boston University, 9-1, at St. Paul, Minn.

Nigeria, one of Africa’s three qualifiers for the World Cup, advanced to the quarterfinals of the African Nations Cup with a 2-0 victory over Zaire at Tunis, Tunisia.

Ian Duncan of Kenya won the third of four legs of the 2,160-mile Safari Rally through Africa, even after his Toyota Celica Turbo collided with an impala.

James Colligan and his passenger, Ian Thornton, died when their motorcycle and sidecar was involved in a crash during a race at the Mount Panorama circuit in Bathurst, Australia.

Nathalie Lambert won the 1,000- and 3,000-meter finals at Guildford, England, to win her third world short-track speedskating championship in the last four years and Marc Gagnon won the men’s title, taking the 1,000 and finishing third in the 3,000.

Dennis Horan won his first Professional Bowlers Assn. tournament, beating Brian Voss, 267-235, in the $180,000 SplitFire Spark Plug Open in Erie, Pa.