Taylor Kicks UCLA Past San Diego

Matt Taylor scored two goals and UCLA defeated San Diego, 4-0, Sunday at San Diego in the second round of the NCAA men’s soccer championship.

Last year, UCLA lost in the first round to San Diego (14-4-1). The Bruins lost to San Diego, 3-0, earlier this season.

Taylor scored in the 23rd minute off a cross from Adolfo Gregorio and in the 70th minute from 15 yards on a breakaway.

Ryan Futagaki scored on a penalty kick in the second half and Tim Pierce capped the scoring.

UCLA (12-6-4) will play top-seeded Southern Methodist (20-0-0) in the third round next weekend at Dallas. SMU advanced with a 2-0 victory over New Mexico.

Dennis Ludwig scored twice and Rutgers defeated Connecticut, 2-1, in triple overtime at Storrs, Conn., eliminating the defending champion in the second round of the NCAA men’s soccer tournament.

Mary-Frances Monroe scored an early goal and No. 3 UCLA defeated Dayton, 3-1, at UCLA in the third round of the NCAA women’s soccer playoffs.

The Bruins (20-2), who set a school record for season victories, will host No. 6 Florida on Sunday.

UCLA held Dayton (17-6) to five shots on goal.

It was UCLA’s 27th consecutive victory at home.

College Basketball

A former assistant coach at small colleges in Michigan, Florida and Louisiana was paid to help secure athletic scholarships for Yugoslavian basketball players, the Dayton Daily News reported Sunday.

The newspaper said its investigation shows that families in Yugoslavia gave Vladimir Bosnjak hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars.

Bosnjak has helped at least 40 Yugoslavians receive scholarships.

Some coaches who recruited players through Bosnjak said they knew he was charging families for finding scholarships, the newspaper said. Others said they never asked him.

NCAA rules prohibit colleges from using agents to recruit players, and athletes could be ruled ineligible for entering into such an agreement.

The newspaper said Bosnjak worked as an assistant at Ferris State in Michigan, Louisiana Tech and Central Florida Community College. He is now in Libya coaching the national team.

Louisiana Tech said he left the school owing $1,662 and it withheld his last paycheck. A year later, the paper said, the state of Florida issued a warrant for his arrest after he allegedly wrote two bad checks.

Golf

Stuart Appleby won the Australian Open by three strokes, shooting a six-under-par 65 at Gold Coast to match the course record. He finished at 13-under 271.

Kiyoshi Murota shot a four-under 68 to win the $1.16-million Casio World Open at Kaimon, Japan.

Murota closed with an eagle to finish at 24-under 264.

Track and Field

Cuba’s Javier Sotomayor, who retired this year as the only high jumper to clear eight feet, tested positive for steroids after a meet in Spain in July, the Spanish national news agency EFE reported.

A test taken after an international meet at Tenerife showed Sotomayor had the banned steroid nandrolone in his system, EFE said.

Giorgio Reineri, a spokesman for the International Amateur Athletic Federation, track and field’s worldwide governing body, was unable to confirm the report when contacted by telephone.

Sotomayor holds the indoor and outdoor high jump world records.

The 1992 Olympic champion successfully fought a ban from competition after testing positive for cocaine in 1999.

Miscellany

U.S. wrestlers Brandon Eggum and Stephanie Murata won silver medals on the final day of the freestyle world championships at Sofia, Bulgaria.

Eggum lost, 3-0 in overtime, to Russia’s Khadjimurad Magomedov in the men’s 187-pound class final.

Murata lost, 3-1, to Japan’s Hitomi Sakamoto in the women’s 112-pound division final.

Germany’s Frank Dittrich won the 10,000-meter speedskating race at The Hague, Netherlands, for his first World Cup victory.

Anni Friesinger, also of Germany, won the women’s 1,500.

World Cup champion Per Elofsson of Sweden won the 10-kilometer freestyle event in the cross-country skiing World Cup at Kuopio, Finland.

Italy’s Armin Zoggeler won the gold medal in the Viessmann Luge World Cup at Lake Placid, N.Y., after strong wind and mild weather forced cancellation of the second men’s heat.

Zoggeler, the two-time defending World Cup champion, had a first run Saturday of 53.883 seconds, just ahead of Austrians Rainer Margreiter and Markus Prock.

World champions Barbara Fusar-Poli and Maurizio Margaglio of Italy won the Cup of Russia Grand Prix ice dancing event at St. Petersburg.

Galit Chait and Sergei Sakhnovsky of Israel finished second and Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov of Ukraine were third.

Cuba won the World Grand Champions Cup men’s volleyball tournament, defeating Argentina in three games in the final of the six-nation event at Tokyo.