Two-time defending champion Ivan Lendl reached the title match in his bid for a record fifth Grand Prix Masters title. After defeating Mats Wilander in the French and U.S. Open finals, Lendl was scheduled to face the third-seeded Swede again in the $500,000 championship match Monday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. ”I hope I can pull it out again,” Lendl said after beating No. 8 Brad Gilbert 6-2, 6-4 Sunday. Wilander defeated Stefan Edberg 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 in Sunday`s first semifinal. . . . In the European Ladies Challenge, Manuela Maleeva won the final by default when Helena Sukova was forced to retire with a knee injury in the second set at Genk, Belgium.
Freshman Richie Richmond, subbing for injured All-America Bruce Murray, scored on a 12-yard shot in the final minute of play as Clemson clinched a 2-0 victory over San Diego State in the championship match of the NCAA soccer tournament Sunday at Clemson, S.C. The championship was the second for Clemson in the past four years and represented the third national title for an Atlantic Coast Conference team in four seasons. Duke won the title last year. Kentucky, which beat Indiana in overtime in the Big Four Classic, was voted the No. 1 team in the Associated Press` college basketball poll, replacing North Carolina, which fell to fifth following its loss to Vanderbilt. Pittsburgh (2-0) received four first-place votes and 928 points in jumping from fourth to second, while Iowa (6-0) moved from sixth to third with two-first-place votes and 902 points. Arizona improved from ninth to fourth. Indiana was sixth. . . . Guard Todd Starks was cut from the Illinois State basketall team by head coach Bob Donewald for undisclosed reasons. The 6-foot- 3-inch junior last season set school records with 243 assists and 61 steals. He averaged 6.9 points a game and shot 44 percent from the floor. . . . Hersey Hawkins of Bradley was named Missouri Valley Conference player of the week. Hawkins scored 42 points Friday in Bradley`s season-opening 111-94 victory over New Orleans. He also had eight rebounds, six assists, four steals and two blocked shots.
Notre Dame quarterback Terry Andrysiak, out with a broken collarbone since October, has been cleared to lift weights and throw a football and may start noncontact practice next weekend, coach Lou Holtz said Monday. His status for the Jan. 1 Cotton Bowl game against Texas A&M will be determined by his progress the next three weeks.
Despite his claim a year ago that baseball is free of drugs, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth said Monday that several major league players received confidential treatment for drug problems during the 1987 season. During his annual state of the sport address to club owners, officials and minor league team executives, Ueberroth said baseball would propose a drug-testing plan in writing for major league players next year ”after one more year of total confidentiality.” . . . San Francisco Giants President and General Manager Al Rosen said he has offered free-agent reliever Dave Righetti a contract. Righetti saved 138 games over the past four seasons for the New York Yankees. Rose, though, said the Giants want to make Righetti a starter, something he did his first three seasons with the Yankees. Rosen didn`t care to divulge the particulars of the Giants` offer or the negotiations. ”Does Macy`s tell Gimbels?” Rosen said. . . . Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose plans to announce his retirement as a player this week, according to The Rocky Mountain News.
Jane Crafter`s 35-foot birdie chip at No. 17 broke a three-way tie and she combined with Steve Jones on a final-round 68 to win the J.C. Penney Classic title by two strokes in Largo, Fla. The winners split the top prize of $130,000. . . . David Ishii of the U.S. and Japan`s Isao Aoki, co-leaders at 7-under 138 after two rounds, shared the victory in the Japan Series of Golf as snow forced cancellation of a scheduled round for the second time in the tournament.
American jockey Cash Asmussen won one race, finished second, third and sixth in the others and won the overall title in the four-race International Invitational Horse Races at Hanshin Race Course in Japan. Asmussen won a prize of $22,730. . . . Asteroid Field, a filly bred in Kentucky but who previously was raced exclusively in Europe, made a successful U.S. debut with a winning stretch drive to capture the $200,000 Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park. Winning the 1 1/8-mile grass race in 1 minute 51 seconds, Asteroid Turf, ridden by Aaron Gryder, paid $21, $9.20 and $5.80.
Park Chong-pal of South Korea survived a first-round knockdown to capture the World Boxing Association super-middleweight title with a knockout victory over Mexico`s Jesus Gallardo :27 into the second round at Seoul. . . . Bashiru Ali of Nigeria retained his World Boxing Council junior cruiserweight crown by knocking out challenger Kevin Wagstaff of Australia at 2:15 of the first round at Ibadan, Nigeria.
Finnish ski jumper Matti Nykanen added the 90-meter title to the 70-meter championship he`d won Saturday to sweep the season-opener of the 1987-88 World Cup circuit at Thunder Bay, Ont. The reigning Olympic 90-meter champion soared 121.5 meters, more than the length of a football field, on his first jump Sunday and followed that with a leap of 126.5 meters for a total of 241.7 points.
