Moses Swims to Record

Ed Moses of the United States set his fifth world record in eight days in short-course swimming, this time in a World Cup meet Saturday at Berlin.

Moses was timed in 2 minutes 3.17 seconds in the 200-meter breaststroke, lowering his time of 2:03.28 five days before at Stockholm.

Moses set three world records at Sweden, and one at Paris on Jan.18.

Also setting world records at Berlin were Australia’s Geoff Huegill in the 50 butterfly (22.74), Ukraine’s Oleg Lisogor in the 50 breaststroke (26.20) and Slovakia’s Martina Moravcova in the women’s 100 butterfly (56.55).

Twenty world records have been set this World Cup season.

American Jason Letzak won the 100 freestyle.

Emma Ingelstroem of Sweden set a European record of 1:06.14 in the women’s 100 breaststroke.

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College Football

Rohan Davey of Louisiana State threw two touchdown passes and Patrick Ramsey of Tulane led three second-half scoring drives as the South scored a 41-26 victory over the North in the Senior Bowl at Mobile, Ala.

Mel Mitchell III intercepted two passes and forced a fumble to set up a touchdown, and Team Florida defeated Team USA, 42-13, in the Gridiron Classic at Orlando, Fla.

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Winter Sports

Austria’s Fritz Strobl won a World Cup super-giant slalom at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. U.S. star Daron Rahlves was ninth.

Renate Goetschl of Austria won a women’s downhill at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. U.S. skiers struggled again, with Kirsten Clark finishing 13th and Picabo Street 19th.

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Chris Thorpe and Clay Ives of the U.S. finished second in men’s luge doubles, and Olympic champion Silke Kraushaar of Germany won the overall World Cup women’s singles title, at Winterberg, Germany. Germans Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch won the race and captured the season’s doubles title.

Andre Lavoie of Canada and Maria Klemperer-Johnson of the U.S. overcame changing weather conditions to win the men’s and women’s 50-kilometer freestyle events, respectively, in the 20th annual Lake Placid (N.Y.) Loppet cross-country competition. Americans won the other events: Walter Pichler the men’s and Julianne Stemp the women’s 25-kilometer classic, and Topher Sabot the men’s and Sara Schulz the women’s 25-kilometer freestyle.

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France’s Bruno Mingeon won a bobsled World Cup four-man race at Calgary, Canada, and Switzerland’s Martin Annen clinched the four-man and two-man season titles.

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Andreas Widhoelzl of Austria won a World Cup ski jumping event at Sapporo, Japan.

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France made a strong showing in World Cup snowboarding, with Thomas Bourgault winning the men’s snowboardcross and Deborah Anthonioz winning the women’s at Kreischberg, Austria.

Miscellany

Panamanian Roberto Duran, 50, a four-time boxing world champion, told the newspaper El Panama America that he is retiring because he’s recuperating slowly from a car crash in October.

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Michigan State hockey coach Ron Mason will be hired as the university’s new athletic director at a board of trustees meeting in February, the university said. He will replace Clarence Underwood, who will retire later this year.

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The Ice Dogs lost their third game in a row, 3-1 at Bakersfield.

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Catawba College linebacker Darris Morris was shot to death after an argument between students from Catawba and Livingstone College, police in Salisbury, N.C., said.

Morris, 21, of Batesburg, S.C., was killed Friday night. Four other students--two from Livingstone and two from Catawba--were wounded in what became a shootout with Catawba security officers.

Six students from Livingstone have been charged with murder in the death of Morris, a two-time all-South Atlantic Conference selection.