Mediate Shoots 68 for Colonial Lead

It has been three years since Rocco Mediate won on the PGA Tour, so part of Saturday was spent in getting reacquainted with the notoriety that comes with a two-under-par 68 and the third-round lead of the Colonial at Fort Worth.

“I looked at the leaderboard every chance I got, and it was neat to see my name up there,” he said, laughing. “I could get comfortable with that.”

Mediate played through the wind and heat to a 54-hole total of 202 and a one-shot lead over Corey Pavin, who shot a 67 for 203. Fred Couples (68) is at 205.

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Dave Stockton matched Bob Murphy’s one-day-old course record of 10-under-par 62 and joined Murphy at 11-under 133 for the second-round lead of the NFL Classic Senior PGA Tour event in Clifton, N.J. . . . Tiger Woods won the individual title by six shots, leading host Stanford to a one-shot victory over Arizona State and Nevada Las Vegas in the NCAA West Regional.

Boxing

Felix Trinidad knocked out Freddie Pendleton with a hard left hook to the body in the fifth round at Las Vegas, putting an explosive end to a lackluster fight to retain his International Boxing Federation welterweight title.

Trinidad is 29-0 with 25 knockouts.

Wilfredo Vazquez of Puerto Rico unleashed a flurry of punches in the 11th round to stop Eloy Rojas of Venezuela and win the World Boxing Assn. featherweight title.

Phillip Holiday (28-0) of South Africa retained his IBF lightweight title in Melbourne, stopping Australian Jeff Fenech (28-3-1) in the second round.

Tennis

Top-seeded UCLA lost a point in doubles, but the Bruins came back to defeat New Mexico, 4-2, in the first round of the NCAA Championships at Athens, Ga. In another match, Fresno State beat Pepperdine, 4-1.

In the first round of the women’s NCAA championship at Tallahassee, Fla., UCLA defeated Vanderbilt, 5-3, and Duke eliminated USC, 5-2.

Thomas Muster persevered in Rome for a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 victory over Alberto Costa to advance to the Italian Open final, where he will meet Richard Krajicek, who beat Wayne Ferreira, 6-3, 6-3. . . . Steffi Graf beat Iva Majoli, 7-5, 6-1, in Berlin to reach her 11th German Open final. Graf will play Karina Habsudova, who beat Elena Likhovtseva, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4).

Soccer

Michelle Akers scored on a 25-yard shot in the 63rd minute to give the United States a 1-0 victory over China and the U.S. Women’s Cup title in Washington. . . . A Lisbon fan, Rui Mendes, 36, died after a rocket-type firecracker hit him in the stomach during the Portugal Cup final between intracity rivals Sporting and Benfica, won by Benfica, 3-1. . . . Lorenzo Amoruso and Gabriel Batistuta scored for Fiorentina, which won its first Italian Cup title in 21 years, beating Atalanta of Bergamo, 2-0, in Bergamo. . . . FC Barcelona fired its coach, Johan Cruyff, after eight years.

Auto Racing

Michael Waltrip pulled off the biggest upset in the history of stock car racing’s all-star event, charging from the 20th and final starting spot to win the Winston Select at Concord, N.C. . . . Bob Glidden defeated Warren Johnson in the National Hot Rod Assn. Pro Stock Challenge in Englishtown, N.J.

Miscellany

Pasadena City College has suspended its baseball program, according to Coach Tom Cano. . . . Rich Weiss, Horace Holden, Wayne Dickert, David Hearn and Dana Chladek won events at Oconee River, Tenn., to make the U.S. Olympic whitewater team. . . . Michelle Granger struck out all 15 batters she faced as the U.S. Olympic softball team defeated Central Oklahoma, 14-0, in five innings at Oklahoma City.