USC’s Rosales Wins NCAA Golf

The rest of the field at the NCAA Division I women’s golf championship crowded into the clubhouse, waiting out a rainstorm at Madison, Wis., by eating pizza and bagels.

Jennifer Rosales, USC’s 19-year-old freshman from the Philippines who was atop the leaderboard at the time, was too nervous to eat. She opted for some motherly advice.

“I called my mother in Manila. She calmed me down,” said Rosales, who went on to win the title by three strokes over Tulsa sophomore Christina Kuld.

Rosales shot a par round of 72 Saturday and finished with a nine-under-par 279 total in only her sixth collegiate tournament.

Arizona State won its second consecutive team title and fifth in six seasons.

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Jay Sigel shot a Senior PGA Tour-record 27 on the front nine and a 10-under 62 overall to move into the lead of the Bell Atlantic Classic at Avondale, Pa. . . . Tom Watson shot a five-under 65 to grab a share of the lead with Jim Furyk and rookie Harrison Frazar after three rounds of the MasterCard Colonial at Fort Worth. . . . Tammie Green shot a six-under 66 at the LPGA’s Corning Classic at Corning, N.Y., to overtake Brandie Burton and gain a two-shot lead after three rounds. . . . Playing aggressively in the wind, Laura Davies won seven skins worth $150,000 after the first nine holes of the LPGA Skins Game at Frisco, Texas. Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam won $30,000 and Karrie Webb was shut out.

Auto Racing

Alex Zanardi took the lead with a lightning-fast final pit stop and held off Michael Andretti in the Motorola 300 at Madison, Ill.

“Our pit stop wasn’t even bad,” a disappointed Andretti said after falling about three car-lengths short in the 236-lap race.

Zanardi said, “It was very difficult to overtake anyone on the track, so I knew our work in the pits would be critical.

“Our guys have been incredible all year. You think sooner or later they will do something wrong, but it just hasn’t happened.”

Mark Martin will try for a racing trifecta at Charlotte Motor Speedway after winning the Carquest Auto Parts 300 at Concord, N.C.

One week after taking The Winston NASCAR all-star race on the 1.5-mile track when Jeff Gordon ran out of gas on the final lap, Martin passed Jimmy Spencer with four laps left to claim his 33rd career Busch Grand National victory. He will start fifth in today’s Winston Cup Coca-Cola 600.

Mika Hakkinen won his fourth pole position of the season at the Monaco Grand Prix at Monte Carlo.

Soccer

Forward Ali Daei sparked Iran with two goals in a 4-1 victory over UEFA Cup champion Inter Milan in an exhibition at Como, Italy. . . . England captain Alan Shearer missed an easy chance to score and Saudi Arabia celebrated its first visit to Wembley with a scoreless tie. . . . World Cup-bound Mexico survived early pressure and played a scoreless tie against Ireland at Dublin.

Tennis

Germany reached the World Team Cup final when its two young Davis Cup players, Tommy Haas and Nicolas Kiefer, routed Spain’s Carlos Moya and Sergi Bruguera in singles play at Duesseldorf, Germany. . . . Irina Spirlea of Romania won the Strasbourg Open title in France by defeating Julie Halard-Decugis of France, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3. . . . Top-seeded Marcelo Rios of Chile needed only 50 minutes to breeze past American Vince Spadea, 6-2, 6-0, and win the Raiffeisen Grand Prix ATP tournament at St. Poelten, Austria.

Top-seeded Florida defeated Georgia and Duke edged Stanford to advance to the finals of the NCAA Division I women’s championship at South Bend, Ind.

Miscellany

UCLA’s Rachelle Noble won the women’s hammer and was second in the javelin and third in the shotput in the Pacific 10 track and field championships at Palo Alto. Teammate Seilala Sua won the women’s shotput and Scott Slover won the men’s pole vault.

Josh Sims scored with 5:14 to play and two-time defending champion Princeton scored the last four goals of the game to defeat Syracuse, 11-10, in the semifinals of the NCAA lacrosse tournament at Piscataway, N.J. The Tigers (13-1) will play Maryland (14-2) on Monday in the title game.

Oklahoma State scored three unearned runs to beat Michigan, 3-1, and stay alive at the Women’s College World Series at Oklahoma City. Fresno State and Arizona have yet to lose in the double-elimination tournament.

Lisa Leslie had 21 points and nine rebounds as the United States defeated Spain, 74-64, at Madrid in its last warmup basketball game for the World Championships.

Brian Voss won the Professional Bowlers Assn.’s Johnny Petraglia Open at North Brunswick, N.J., defeating Tim Criss, 238-230.

Rod Carew and Angel outfielder Garret Anderson will team with members of the soap opera “The Young and the Restless” in a Red Cross bone marrow drive today at the First AME Church, 2270 S. Harvard Ave., Los Angeles, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Fred Hatfield, who played for five major league teams from 1950 to 1958, died Friday of cancer. He was 74.