Seizinger Ties Killy Record With Sixth Win in a Row

Germany’s Katja Seizinger won a super-giant slalom Thursday at Val d’Isere, France, for her sixth consecutive victory, tying a World Cup record set by Jean-Claude Killy.

Seizinger was timed in 1 minute 7.09 seconds to defeat Austria’s Renate Goetschl by .02 seconds.

All her victories have been in speed events. When Killy set his record in 1967, he won three downhills, two slaloms and a giant slalom.

Picabo Street was 11th in 1:08.00 after finishing 10th in the sprint downhill in her return to World Cup skiing after being sidelined for a year because of knee surgery.

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Snowboarder Rosey Fletcher of Girdwood, Alaska, held off world champion Sondra Van Ert of Ketchum, Idaho, finishing in 2:25.80 to win the first Olympic qualifying race, a women’s giant slalom, by more than a full second at Carrabassett Valley, Maine. Canadian Mark Fawcett won the men’s GS in 2:10.58. . . . Austrian ski jumping champion Andreas Goldberger, a confessed cocaine user, could be denied entry into Japan for the Winter Olympics because of the country’s strict drug laws.

Baseball

The New York Mets became the latest team to land a veteran player in the World Series champion Florida Marlins’ fire sale, acquiring left-hander Dennis Cook for minor league outfielder Fletcher Bates and pitcher Scott Comer.

Cook, 35, a key middle relief pitcher last season, was 1-2 with a 3.90 earned-run average in 59 relief appearances, striking out 63 in 62 1/3 innings. Then in the playoffs and World Series, he went 2-0 with 10 strikeouts in nine shutout innings, holding batters to an .037 average.

The sale of the Marlins by Wayne Huizenga to a group headed by team President Don Smiley might have hit another snag. The Ackerley Group, a Seattle company that owns the NBA’s SuperSonics, decided against investing in the Marlins because it cannot have the control it wants.

In an effort to get Andy Benes’ $30-million, five-year contract with the St. Louis Cardinals reinstated, the players’ union filed a grievance, which will be heard today in New York by arbitrator Dana Eischen. The contract was not approved by the commissioner’s office because the terms allegedly were agreed to after the negotiating deadline.

The Milwaukee Brewers locked up another player into the next century, signing left-hander Scott Karl, 26, to a three-year contract. . . . The Atlanta Braves traded first baseman Steve Hacker, 23, to the Minnesota Twins as the player to be determined in the Sept. 5 trade in which the Braves acquired catcher Greg Myers. . . . Pitcher Tony Armas Jr. was traded from Boston to Montreal, completing the Nov. 18 deal that sent Pedro Martinez to the Red Sox for pitcher Carl Pavano. . . . The Texas Rangers and infielder Domingo Cedeno, 29, agreed to a $500,000, one-year deal.

Jurisprudence

Retired Fresno State football coach Jim Sweeney’s former secretary, Vickie Gould, has charged in a $2.5-million lawsuit that he sexually harassed her. . . . Cleveland Indian pitcher Jose Mesa has been sued for unspecified civil damages by Christine Allen, a woman who brought a sexual assault charge against him earlier this year. Mesa was found not guilty by a jury in the criminal case. . . . Assault charges against New York Giant safety Tito Wooten were dismissed in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., after Wooten’s girlfriend, Akina Wilson, said the couple had reconciled. . . . University of Georgia quarterback Mike Bobo was arrested and charged with obstructing a police officer early Thursday after he ran from the police outside a bar in Athens, Ga.

Soccer

Bora Milutinovic will earn a monthly salary of $35,000, tax free, to coach Nigeria at next year’s World Cup finals in France, Nigerian Football Assn. chairman Abdulmumini Aminu said in Abuja, Nigeria. . . . The U.S. team will begin its World Cup preparation with an exhibition game against Sweden on Jan. 24 in Orlando, Fla.

Miscellany

Arkansas State has accepted an invitation to join the Big West Conference in football, Commissioner Dennis Farrell announced Thursday. The first season the Indians will compete has not been determined. The school will continue to compete in the Sun Belt Conference in other sports.

Inline Hockey News, a key industry trade publication that closely chronicled the rise of professional roller hockey, including the Bullfrogs, has been discontinued, its editor said.

Richard Graham said he was informed by IHN’s parent company, Sports and Fitness Publishing, of the decision late Wednesday.