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Splintered Five-Iron Injures Ogle

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From Staff and Wire Reports

Defending champion Brett Ogle escaped serious injury Friday when struck under the left eye by a splintered golf club during the second round of the Hawaiian Open in Honolulu.

Ogle hit his second shot on the 13th hole into a grove of coconut trees. In trying to hit back onto the fairway, his five-iron struck a tree. The head of the club hooked around the tree and the club broke into three pieces.

He was treated and released from a local clinic after suffering a bruise around his left eye and a gash on his left arm.

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Ogle’s injury overshadowed the seven-under 65 shot by Duffy Waldorf, whose two-round total of 133 is three strokes better than John Morse, who also shot a 65, Clark Dennis and Dan Pohl.

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Beth Daniel shot a one-over-par 73 in the second round for a 36-hole score of 142, one shot better than Barb Mucha in the LPGA Tournament of Champions at Orlando, Fla. . . . Raymond Floyd shot a four-under-par 68 to take a one-stroke lead over Jack Kiefer and Jim Dent after the opening round of the Senior Tournament of Champions at Dorado, Puerto Rico.

Football

Running back Leroy Hoard signed a four-year contract with the Cleveland Browns. . . . Detroit Lion linebacker Pat Swilling became an unrestricted free agent. . . . William B. Scherer, coach at Division I-AA James Madison University, was named head coach at the University of Memphis.

Tennis

Pete Sampras beat Stefan Edberg, 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 6-2, to advance to a final-round match against Michael Chang at the Colonial Classic in Melbourne, Australia.

Patrick McEnroe advanced to the final against Richard Fromberg in the New South Wales Open in Sydney by beating Andrea Gaudenzi, 6-3, 6-4.

In women’s play, a strained abdominal muscle forced defending champion Kimiko Date of Japan to forfeit her semifinal match while trailing top-seeded American Lindsay Davenport, 6-4, 4-1. Davenport will face Argentina’s Gabriela Sabatini in Sunday’s final. Second-seeded Sabatini beat Mary Joe Fernandez, 6-1, 6-4, in their semifinal.

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Second-seeded Alexander Volkov of Russia advanced to the semifinals of the $328,000 New Zealand Open in Auckland with a 6-4, 6-7 (2-7), 6-1 victory over Cedric Pioline of France.

Volkov will meet unseeded Swede Thomas Enqvist today. Two U.S. players, Chuck Adams and Vince Spadea, meet in the other semifinal. . . . The Easter Bowl Junior Tennis Championships is moving from Miami to Palm Springs, to be played April 9-15 at Riviera Resort and Racquet Club.

Basketball

Miles Simon, a guard for No. 13 Arizona, had surgery on his right index finger and will sit out at least four weeks. . . . Oregon State Coach Jim Anderson has taken early retirement to avoid losing benefits under a new state law that took effect Jan. 1. He has a part-time contract to continue to coach through March 31.

Soccer

European champion Denmark won the six-nation Intercontinental Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by beating Argentina, 2-0, on goals by Michael Laudrup and Peter Rasmussen.

Miscellany

Kansas City Royal Manager Bob Boone has hired his former Angel boss, Gene Mauch, as bench coach. . . . New York Islander winger Brian Mullen, sidelined last season because of heart problems, retired. . . . Jamaica’s Michael Green ran the 12th-fastest indoor 50 meters in history, winning the event in 5.68 seconds at the Hamilton Indoor Games in Ontario, Canada.

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