Agassi, Chang Beat Heat, Semifinal Foes

Andre Agassi defeated Thomas Enqvist in 95-degree heat Saturday, 6-4, 6-2, to reach the final of the ATP Championship at Mason, Ohio.

Agassi, the world’s top-ranked player, will face Michael Chang in today’s final. Chang defeated Michael Stich, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-5), in an evening match with temperatures still hovering around 90.

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Thomas Muster and Andrea Gaudenzi advanced to the final of the $300,000 San Marino-Muratti Time Open in San Marino. Muster, top-seeded and ranked No. 3 in the world, easily defeated Italy’s Stefano Pescosolido, 6-4, 6-2. Second-seeded Gaudenzi of Italy beat Filip De Wulf of Belgium, 6-4, 6-0.

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Fifth-seeded Taylor Dent of Newport Beach defeated fourth-seeded Scott Lipsky of Merrick, N.Y., 6-3, 6-2, in the final of the U.S. Boys’ 14 National Championships at San Antonio.

Auto Racing

Damon Hill, aiming for a victory on the track where he won his first Formula One race, took the pole for today’s Hungarian Grand Prix at Budapest.

Hill had a best time of 1 minute 16.982 seconds, about 1.4 seconds faster than he managed in provisional qualifying a day earlier at the 2.466-mile Hungaroring circuit. His speed was 115.320 m.p.h.

Jacques Villeneuve held on to the pole position for today’s Miller Genuine Draft 200 at Lexington, Ohio.

Swimming

The United States knocked more than a second off the world record in the men’s 400-meter freestyle relay with a time of 3 minutes 15.11 seconds in the Pan Pacific Swimming championships at Atlanta. The team of David Fox, Joe Hudepohl, Jon Olsen and Gary Hall broke the record of 3:16.53 set by the U.S. team in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

Diving

Kent Ferguson won the three-meter springboard in the Phillips 66 National Diving Championship at Bartlesville, Okla. Becky Ruehl won the gold medal on the women’s platform, edging former NCAA champion Eileen Richetelli.

Golf

Lee Trevino and Bud Allin and first-round leaders Gibby Gilbert and Graham Marsh were nine under par when rain suspended play at the Burnet Senior Classic in Coon Rapids, Minn. Trevino and Allin completed 14 holes and Gilbert and Marsh 11.

The 49 players left on the course when play was suspended are scheduled to complete the round today before the third round.

Trevino birdied his first two holes and added a third on the sixth hole, giving him a three-under 33 on the front nine. Allin birdied three of his final five holes.

Colleen Walker birdied the last two holes to complete a 67 and tie Beth Daniel for the lead after the third round of the LPGA PING-Welch’s Championship at Miami.

Kelli Kuehne of McKinney, Tex., defeated Anne Marie Knight of Australia, 4 and 3, in the 95th U.S. Women’s Amateur at the Country Club in Brookline, Mass.

Kuehne, 18, joins JoAnne Carner as the only players to win the U.S. Girls’ Junior and Women’s Amateur in consecutive years.

Soccer

Club America, one of Mexico’s most popular teams, will play El Salvador champion FAS in an international soccer match at the Coliseum tonight at 6. Among the national team players on the two clubs’ rosters are Mexico’s Luis Garcia, Zaguinho and Joaquin Del Olmo, Cameroon’s Francois Omam-Biyek, Nigeria’s Kalusha Bwalya, the United States’ Hugo Perez and El Salvador’s Guillermo Rivera.

Names in the News

Mickey Mantle remained in serious condition at Baylor University Medical Center where he was resting with his family, a hospital official said.

Michigan State linebacker Ike Reese is spending the weekend in the Ingham County Jail, but an athletic department spokesman said he will remain on the team.

Reese pleaded no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct in connection with a June 1 fight outside an East Lansing nightclub. He was sentenced Tuesday to two days in jail and one year probation.

Miscellany

The University of Miami will continue to receive bowl revenue regardless of whether the NCAA levels sanctions against the school, Commissioner Mike Tranghese of the Big East said.

Brandon Hearns went three for three and drove in two runs to lead Los Angeles to a 6-4 victory over St. Louis in the championship game of the RBI senior division World Series in Philadelphia. Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) is a youth baseball program in 39 cities.

Paul Vaden stopped Vincent Pettway at 2:33 of the 12th round to win the IBF junior-middleweight title in Las Vegas.