Parry Retains Lead With Wind-Blown Par 70

Craig Parry shot a wind-blown par 70 to retain the lead after three rounds of the Colonial National Invitation PGA Tour event at Ft. Worth.

The stocky 5-foot-6 Australian birdied the last hole to break a tie with 31-year-old rookie Woody Austin and led by one.

“Obviously, it was a very difficult day to play,” Parry said after battling winds that would gust to 35 m.p.h. and then abruptly stop.

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George Archer, making four birdie putts of 18 feet or longer on the back nine and shot a four-under-par 68 despite heavy winds to take a two-stroke lead after three rounds of the $1.1-million Quicksilver senior golf tournament at Midway, Pa.

Archer was at seven-under 137, with defending champion Dave Eichelberger second at 139.

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Alison Nicholas shot a six-under-par 66 to take a two-stroke lead over Pat Bradley after three rounds of the $550,000 Corning Classic at Corning, N.Y.

Nicholas stormed through the final nine holes with four birdies and moved ahead of Bradley with a 20-foot downhill birdie putt on No. 14. Nicholas had seven birdies after bogeying the first hole.

Bradley, the leader after the first two rounds, finished with a 70 and was at 205 for 54 holes over which she has made only one bogey.

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In the LPGA Skins Game at Frisco, Tex., Laura Davies was longer off the tee but defending champion Patty Sheehan was more accurate on the greens and emerged with $110,000 after the first day of the two-day event.

Sheehan rolled in a four-foot putt at the ninth hole for a $30,000 skin to overtake Davies, who earned $100,000. Sheehan is tied with Betsy King as the all-time LPGA Skins Game money-winner with $395,000.

Nancy Lopez and Dottie Mochrie failed to win any money, but there’s still $330,000 available today for the final nine holes at Stonebriar Country Club.

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Kristel Mourgue d’Algue of Arizona State came from four shots off the pace to shoot a two-under-par 70 and win the NCAA women’s golf championship, leading the Sun Devil women to their third consecutive national championship. Arizona State, winning its fourth title of the 1990s, beat runner-up San Jose State by 26 strokes.

Tennis

Stefan Edberg defeated overmatched Karseten Braasch, 7-5, 6-3, to lead Sweden to a 2-1 victory over Germany at Duesseldorf, Germany, and into the final of the World Team Cup against Croatia.

The United States lost to Australia, 3-0, to remain winless.

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Top-seeded Lindsay Davenport won two matches to reach the final of the Strasbourg Open in France. First, Davenport completed a 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 quarterfinal victory over No. 6 Judith Weisner of Austria in a match interrupted by rain Friday. Then, she beat Sandrine Testud of France, 6-1, 6-4, in the semifinals.

In today’s final, Davenport will face second-seeded Kimiko Date of Japan, who defeated Japanese compatriot Yone Kamio, 6-4, 6-2, in the other semifinal.

Motor Sports

Chad Little held off Jeff Green in a tense duel over the closing laps to win the Red Dog 300 NASCAR Busch Grand National race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina.

Damon Hill, the son of Graham Hill, gained the pole position for today’s Monaco Grand Prix at Monte Carlo, averaging 90.859 m.p.h. for the 2.068-mile street circuit. Graham Hill won this race five times in the 1960s.

Miscellany

Angelita Graham finished second in the 400 meters for the second consecutive year and the Cal State Los Angeles women’s track and field team finished second to Abilene Christian at the NCAA Division II championships at Emporia, Kan.

Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the Washington Redskins, said he is abandoning his plans for a new stadium in Laurel, Md., and will turn his attention to a Prince George’s County site inside the Washington beltway.

Cooke’s decision came one day after a meeting with Gov. Parris Glendening.

New Mexico State’s basketball program, under investigation by the NCAA, lost point guard Troy Brewer and forward Daniel Hicks, both of whom are academically ineligible to play next season.

Names in the News

Jorge Castro retained his World Boxing Assn. middleweight title, stopping Anthony Andrews of Guyana in the 12th round at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In the co-main event, Frank Liles retained his WBA super-middleweight title with a sixth-round technical knockout of Frederic Seillier of France. . . . International Boxing Federation light-heavyweight champion Henry Maske won a unanimous decision over Graciano Rocchigiani in Dortmund, Germany, in the sixth defense of his title. . . . E. Terry Bartron, 84, a longtime major league scout in the San Gabriel Valley who also coached baseball at El Monte and Rosemead high schools, died Friday.