Next Goal for Evelyn: Shoot Your Age

You hackers who shoot in the low 100s, take heart. There’s hope for you yet.

Evelyn Tucci, 82, a 32-handicap who is in that 100 category, made two holes in one in one round Tuesday at Crystal Lake Country Club in Pompano Beach, Fla.

She used a four-wood to ace the par-three, 112-yard No. 2 hole, then, with the wind blowing hard, used a driver to ace the par-three, 157-yard fifth hole.

“I prayed before I died to get a hole in one,” Tucci said.

Instead she got two.

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Trivia time: Which was the first West Coast school to be voted No. 1 in the final Division I Associated Press basketball poll?

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He said what? Dan Le Batard of the Miami Herald told Boston Red Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez, formerly with Cleveland: “It has been reported that, because of your baserunning and outfield lapses, the Indians tested you for attention-deficit disorder. Is that true?

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Ramirez: “If they did, I don’t remember it.”

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Role model: Jim Armstrong in the Denver Post: “How much is Johnny Damon, the best leadoff hitter in the business, going to help the A’s? Jayson Stark points out that Damon’s 46 stolen bases last season were six more than Oakland’s entire roster.”

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More Armstrong: “The XFL’s San Francisco Demons have a general manager named Mike Preacher and a defensive coordinator named Mike Church.”

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Freelance skating: Minnesota Wild Coach Jacques Lemaire, responding to criticism by Pittsburgh Penguin player-owner Mario Lemieux of the Wild’s style of play: “If we’re not allowed to hit and not allowed to check, I’m coming back too.”

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Will they get it? Craig Kilborn, host of the “Late, Late Show” on CBS: “Ratings for the second week of the XFL declined almost 50% from the first week.

“For all you XFL fans out there, 50% means half, ‘declining’ is not good and a week is the amount of time it takes for your hangover to go away.”

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Finally, an apology: Ron Rapoport in the Chicago Sun-Times: “Stop the presses! [Washington Redskin owner] Daniel Snyder admits he was wrong about something. The Redskins shouldn’t have charged fans $10 to attend training camp last season.

“Snyder told the Washington Post: ‘Knowing what I know now, I probably wouldn’t have done that.’ ”

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Desperate: Jerry Greene in the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel: “Seattle Coach Mike Holmgren says he will do ‘whatever it takes’ to turn the Seahawks around. Oh, Lordy, he’s going after Ryan Leaf.”

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More Greene: “XFL announcer and part-time governor Jesse Ventura says he likes to refer to sportswriters as ‘pukes.’ . . . Yeah, well, OK, but we’re professional pukes.”

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Trivia answer: University of San Francisco in 1955. The Dons repeated in 1956.

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And finally: Scott Ostler in the San Francisco Chronicle: “I hope Rickey Henderson shows up in someone’s camp. That would be good for affirming tradition.

“I love the part where Rickey reports to camp a week late, and about noonish puts on his uniform and saunters out of the clubhouse, and if he sees his shadow that means there will be another six weeks of bitching about his contract.”