SOFTBALL

* The Woodland Hills-based Southern California Stealth split two pool-play games Tuesday inthe Amateur Softball Assn. 18-and-under Gold national tournament in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Back-to-back triples by Tracy Sherman and Cara Blumfield (El Camino Real) gave the Stealth its first run in a 3-0 victory over the New York Beach Girls in the first game. Lacey Cope (Thousand Oaks) had two hits and Summer Richardson of Cal State Northridge pitched a three-hitter.

The Stealth lost to Washington Aphis, 5-4, in the second game after Aphis scored two runs on two hits and two errors in the fifth inning.

The game was called because of a one-hour 40-minute time limit as soon as Aphis scored the go-ahead run with two out.

Blumfield’s two-run double highlighted a three-run third inning that gave the Stealth a 3-0 lead.

Pool play continues today.

GOLF

* Hana and Ina Kim of Encino qualified Tuesday for match play at the 51st annual U.S. Girls’ Amateur Championship at Green Spring Valley Hunt Club in Owings Mills, Md.

Hana Kim shot 78-75--153 and Ina Kim finished at 78-77--155. Sara Jones of Valencia totaled 85-88--173 and failed to qualify.

* Tim Hogarth of Chatsworth shot 74 on Tuesday and is tied for 15th place, four shots off the lead, after the first round of the Pacific Coast Amateur Championship at Seattle Golf Club.

BASKETBALL

* Greg Adams, girls’ coach at Saugus High last season, has resigned. Adams, 23, said he left to pursue other coaching opportunities.

He led Saugus to a 10-13 record, including a 4-6 mark in Foothill League play in his only season.

TRACK AND FIELD

* Deena Drossin, a 1991 graduate of Agoura High, moved to fourth on the all-time U.S. list in the women’s 5,000 meters by placing third in the Dagens Nyheter Gala meet in Stockholm on Friday.

Drossin, 26, became the fourth American woman to break 15 minutes with her 14:56.84 performance.

The others are Regina Jacobs, who set a U.S. record of 14:52.49 last year, Amy Rudolph (14:56.04 in 1996), and Annette Peters, (14:56.07 in 1993).

* Schquay Brignac of Cleveland High won the high jump in the intermediate girls’ division by clearing 5-7 on the final day of the USA Track & Field championships at Burke High in Omaha, Neb., on Sunday.

Blaine Bussey, who won the boys’ 400 state title as a Taft senior in June, placed second in the young men’s division in 48.04 on Sunday.

TENNIS

* Tom Amspoker of Santa Barbara defeated Kelly Ranuio of Ojai, 6-3, 6-1, in the men’s 40 singles final and Paul Rogers of Ojai beat Mike Perrett of Ojai, 7-6, 6-1, in the men’s 65 singles final Monday in the fourth annual Ojai Valley Athletic Club Clay Court Championships.