Roux Makes Edberg Latest Upset Victim

Lionel Roux of France scored his second consecutive victory over a seeded player, knocking No. 9 Stefan Edberg out of the RCA Championships, 6-3, 6-4, Thursday at Indianapolis. Roux, ranked 112th in the world, defeated No. 7 Jason Stoltenberg earlier in the tennis tournament.

Tommy Haas, an 18-year-old German playing in his first tour event, also won his second match against a seeded player when he defeated No. 10 Mark Woodforde, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2. A day earlier, Haas defeated No. 8 Renzo Furlan.

Haas’ next opponent will be top-ranked Pete Sampras, who had little trouble with South Africa’s Marcos Ondruska, 6-1, 6-2.

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Big-serving Mark Philippoussis won two tiebreakers to upset third-seeded Jim Courier, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-3), and reach the quarterfinals of the Pilot Pen International at New Haven, Conn.

Pro Basketball

Free-agent forward Trevor Wilson, who appeared in five games with the Lakers at the beginning of the 1993-94 season, signed a contract with the team Thursday.

Wilson, 28, played in six games with the Philadelphia 76ers last December, averaging 3.8 points and 2.3 rebounds. The 6-foot-8, 215-pounder from UCLA averaged 10.2 points and 5.6 rebounds in his five games with the Lakers.

Pro Hockey

As expected, former King Tony Granato, who underwent surgery in February to remove a blood clot from his brain, signed a one-year contract with the San Jose Sharks. . . . Goaltender Ron Hextall, who had the NHL’s best goals-against average last season, agreed to a contract with the Philadelphia Flyers, avoiding an arbitration hearing. . . . Goaltender Bill Ranford will make $1.75 million next season, down from about $2.1 million, after an arbitrator’s ruling in favor of the Boston Bruins.

Golf

Robin Freeman and Jim Gallagher Jr. had 13 points to lead the weather-delayed Sprint International at Castle Rock, Colo. The first round was halted by darkness with 21 players on the course.

Emilee Klein of Sherman Oaks, who won at Boston last week, shot a five-under-par 68 to share the lead after the opening round of the women’s British Open in Woburn, England.

Jurisprudence

A felony battery complaint has been filed against two Fresno State basketball recruits, Danyell Macklin and Daymond Forney, because of a fight in which a student’s jaw was broken. . . . Former Dallas Cowboy defensive star Harvey Martin pleaded no contest to felony cocaine possession in exchange for probation, a fine and participation in a drug treatment program. . . . West Virginia fullback Leroy White was charged with forging $1,769 in checks to buy a television, VCR and other items in Morgantown, W.Va. . . . Former Milwaukee Brewer pitcher Julio Machado has been convicted of murder and sentenced to 12 years in prison, according to Venezuela authorities.

Miscellany

Dale Ervine and Danny Barber of the Splash each had a goal and an assist but their West team lost to the East, 9-8, in the CISL all-star game in front of 6,951 in Phoenix. . . . Less than two weeks after the Olympic flame was extinguished, the crowds came back to cheer the 3,500 disabled athletes from more than 120 countries competing in Atlanta’s Paralympics. . . . Ricky Craven upstaged the regulars on the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series by winning the pole for the Detroit Gasket 200 at Michigan International Speedway. . . . Angered by the Maryland governor’s rejection of slot-machine gambling, the owner of Pimlico and Laurel race tracks is mounting a campaign to win state financial assistance, invoking the possibility of moving the Preakness Stakes out of Baltimore. . . . Troy Dumais, a 16-year-old diver from Ventura, defeated defending champion Dean Panaro on the one-meter springboard for his first national title at the National Diving Championships at Moultrie, Ga.