Trojans’ Kiss Ends Career of Perfection

Balazs Kiss completed a career at USC in which he was never beaten and he saved his best for last.

Kiss, a 24-year-old Hungarian hammer thrower, had a toss of 265 feet 3 inches, longest in the world this year and longer than any of his competition in the NCAA Track and Field Championships at Eugene, Ore.

He became the fifth athlete to win four NCAA titles in the same event.

The others were Steve Prefontaine of Oregon in the 5,000 meters (1970-73), Suleiman Nyambui of Texas El Paso in the 10,000 meters (1979-82), Scott Neilson of Washington in the hammer (1976-79) and Suzy Favor of Wisconsin in the 1,500 meters (1987-1990).

Ato Boldon of UCLA continued his domination of the 100 meters, easily winning his semifinal heat in a wind-aided 9.97 seconds. Boldon has the fastest time in the world this year at 9.93.

His chief competition, Obadele Thompson of Texas El Paso, who has run a wind-aided 9.69 seconds this year--the fastest 100 ever--pulled a groin muscle while winning his semifinal heat, then a hamstring while running the 200.

In the 10,000 meters, Arkansas teammates Godfrey Siamusiye and Jason Bunston exchanged the lead three times, then ran stride for stride the last five meters before Siamusiye barely edged ahead to win in 28:56.39, 16 hundredths of a second ahead of Bunston.

Tonya Williams of Illinois defended her 400-meter hurdle championship, breaking the meet and Hayward Field record at 54.56 seconds, the third-fastest time in the world this year.

Golf

Tiger Woods of Stanford birdied two of the first three holes and the last two in shooting a 69 at Ooltewah, Tenn., for a 54-hole score of 11-under-par 205 and a nine-stroke lead in the NCAA tournament.

Arizona State is first in the team competition, holding a five-stroke lead over Nevada Las Vegas.

The largest margin of victory in an NCAA tournament is seven strokes, by Ben Crenshaw of Texas in 1971 and Phil Mickelson of Arizona State in 1992.

Woods’ nearest competitor is Rory Sabbatini of Arizona, at 214.

John Huston shot an 11-under 61, two strokes shy of the PGA Tour record, for a two-stroke lead over Ernie Els in the Memorial tournament at Dublin, Ohio.

The 61 left Huston at nine-under 135 through 36 holes and gave him the lead over Els, who was one ahead of a group of six that included Tom Watson and Payne Stewart.

Defending champion Greg Norman shot a 76 for a two-round total of 149 and missed the cut.

Bruce Summerhays and John Bland shot five-under-par 67s and shared the first-round lead in Bruno’s Memorial Classic Senior PGA tournament at Birmingham, Ala.

Esteban Toledo of Costa Mesa fired his second consecutive 67 and took a two-stroke lead over Doug DuChateau of Eugene, Ore., after three rounds of the $100,000 Queen Mary Open at the Lakewood Country Club. Toledo is at 199, 17 under.

UCLA’s Jackie Steinmann was selected national coach of the year by the National Golf Coaches’ Assn. UCLA’s Jenny Park was named a first team-All-American, and teammate Kathi Choi was named to the second team. Amandine Vincent and Jeong Min Park made the third team.

Jurisprudence

Kareem Reid and Marlon Towns, both freshman basketball players at Arkansas, were arrested in a dormitory room and charged with smoking marijuana, a misdemeanor.

A New Jersey appeals court has upheld a lower court decision ordering former New York Giant linebacker Lawrence Taylor to pay $2,010 a month in child support for his illegitimate son.

College Baseball

Matt Randel struck out 10 and pitched a four-hitter as Lewis-Clark State of Lewiston, Idaho, beat St. Ambrose of Davenport, Iowa, 9-0, for the NAIA championship at Sioux City, Iowa.

Dom Horgeshimer drove in five runs to lead St. Joseph’s (52-11) to an 8-3 win over Adelphi (29-16-1) and a berth against Kennesaw (Ga.) State in the NCAA Division II championship game at Birmingham, Ala.

Hockey

The Kings have signed two minor league players, center-right winger Andrew Dale and defenseman Jan Nemecek, to three-year contracts.

The Edmonton Oilers announced that they have sold 13,000 season tickets for the 1996-97 season, ensuring that they won’t move. The Oilers will qualify for up to $2.5 million in league subsidies for last season and as much as $7 million next year. The subsidy was created by the league to help Canadian teams faced with paying many costs, including player salaries, in U.S. dollars.

Detroit Red Wing center Kris Draper underwent 2 1/2 hours of surgery on his broken jaw. He was injured in the first period of Wednesday night’s deciding loss to the Colorado Avalanche in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals. He also suffered a broken nose and a concussion on the hit and has 40 stitches in his right cheek.

The Calgary Flames named Ron Bremner, a Vancouver broadcasting executive, their team president. He succeeds Bill Hay, who was fired in 1995. Al Coates, who had been serving as interim president, was named general manager.

Auto Racing

Jeff Gordon claimed the pole for Sunday’s Miller 500 Winston Cup NASCAR race at Dover Downs International Speedway in Delaware with a track lap of 154.785 mph in his Chevrolet.

At the same track, Bobby Labonte set a track record of 149.963 mph in qualifying for today’s Busch Grand National race, beating the 1994 qualifying record of Harry Gant, 149.638 mph.