Hill Notches Another Formula One Win

Damon Hill made it four of five on the Formula One circuit with a victory Sunday in the Grand Prix of San Marino at Imola, Italy.

Hill, the defending race champion, averaged 120.131 miles per hour in the 63-lap event at the 3.04-mile course, and edged Michael Schumacher by 16.4.

Rusty Wallace got his second victory of the year and his sixth career road course victory in the Save Mart Supermarkets 300 at Sears Point Raceway at Sonoma, Calif. Wallace overtook Jeff Gordon on the 69th lap of the 74-lap race and went on to hold off Mark Martin by two car lengths.

Golf

Mark Brooks rolled in a 30-foot putt for birdie on the first hole of a playoff with hometown favorite Jeff Maggert to win the Shell Houston Open. Maggert missed his attempt to send the event to a second playoff hole when his 18-foot birdie try from the fringe on the par-4 18th was a few inches to the left of the hole. Each finished at 274 for four rounds.

Australian Karrie Webb won the $1.2 million Sprint Titleholders Championship at Daytona Beach, Fla., with a six-under-par 66, tapping in for birdie on the 18th hole to defeat Kelly Robbins by one stroke and win the richest event on the LPGA Tour. Webb, 21, finished with a 16-under 272. . . . Australian Graham Marsh survived a wet tee shot on the next-to-last hole and won the PaineWebber Invitational at Charlotte, N.C. by one shot over Brian Barnes and Tom Wargo, finishing with a three-under-par 69.

Tennis

Slava Dosedel of the Czech Republic made Carlos Moya his latest upset victim, sweeping past the young Spaniard in three sets to capture the BMW Open at Munich, Germany. The unseeded Dosedel, who had earlier ousted Goran Ivanisevic and Boris Becker, defeated Moya, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.

Spain’s Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario regained her World No. 2 ranking by rallying to win the Rexona Cup at Hamburg, Germany over Conchita Martinez, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0. . . . Second-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia defeated defending champion Czech Bohdan Ulihrach, 7-5, 1-6, 6-3, to win the Czech Open at Prague.

Olympics

World record-holder Butch Reynolds won the 400 meters in 44.7 seconds at the Jesse Owens Track Classic at Columbus, Ohio, the second-fastest time in the world this year. Chris Nelloms won the 200 in 20.7. John Burrell won the 100 in 10.2.

Jim Terrell easily won the canoe 500 meters and qualified for a second event at the 1996 Olympics at the weekend’s Olympic hemispheric qualifier at Gainesville, Ga.

Lisa Rousset, the youngest member of the U.S. squad at 18, qualified in two events. She will race as a member of the women’s kayak four and in the kayak pairs with DeAnne Hemmens, 31, also from Newport Beach.

Yugoslavia beat Australia in straight sets to qualify for the Olympics in men’s volleyball for the first time in 16 years at a four-nation qualifying tournament at Munich, Germany. Poland also qualified, defeating Japan, 3-1, at Patras, Greece.

Miscellany

Manchester United won England’s Premier League for the third time in four years, winning, 3-0, at Middlesbrough on the final day of the season. . . . Ruben Maza set a Venezuelan national record and qualified for the Olympics by edging teammate Carlos Tarazona to win the Pittsburgh Marathon. Maza won in 2 hours, 12 minutes and 2 seconds. Tamara Karlioukova, from Russia, won the women’s race in 2:36.12. . . . Joseph Kimani of Kenya ran a world-best time of 27 minutes, 20 seconds to win the Revco/Cleveland 10K.