European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 31,1991 the stars and stripes b Page 23 Virginia s sports wire from wire reports new Orleans a Virginia a Dawn Staley described by coach Debbie Ryan As a the glue of a team favored to win the women a final four was named division i player of the year Friday by the women a basketball coaches association. Staley has 224 assists this season and averages five steals and 14.3 Points per game. Tracy Saunders of Norfolk state was named player of the year in division ii and Ann Gilbert of Oberlin won it in division Iii. Michelle Hendry of Simon Fraser University is the naia player of the year. Higuera goes on 15-Day do Chandler Ariz. A the Milwaukee Brewers placed left hander Teddy Higuera on the 15-Day disabled list saturday retroactive to Friday. Higuera who signed a four year $13 million contract with the Brewers during the off season has a torn rotator cuff and has not been Able to pitch during Spring training. It Tarpley jailed for drunk driving Dallas a Roy Tarpley of the Dallas Mavericks was arrested Friday on suspicion of Drunken driving. Tarpley who has twice violated the a bad a anti drug policy and must stay away from alcohol and drugs to remain eligible posted a $200 Bond on a charge of investigation of driving while  swimmers set record Austin Texas a Texas set a . Record in the 200-Yard Medley and Jason Rhodes captured the 3-meter diving title As the longhorns remained on course for a fourth straight Mcaa championship. Texas compiled 342 Points after two nights of Competition to ?90 for second place Stanford. Texas with Doug Dickinson anchoring in 19.22 seconds smashed Princeton a 1990 american and Mcaa record of 1 27.31 in the 200-Yard Medley relay with a. 1 26.34 clocking. Rhodes gave Texas 20 Points with a Victory in the 3-meter springboard diving. He compiled 620.35 Points. �?�4-Birdie finish lifts Azinger Ponte Vedra Fla a Paul Azinger birdied the final four holes for a round of 68 and a one stroke Lead after the second round of the players championship. Azinger has a 9-under-Par 135 total on the 6,896-Yard pc at saw grass course. Fuzzy Zoeller 68 and australian Steve Elkington 70 shared second at 136. Ian Baker Finch 69 was fourth at 138. E first round Leader Bob Tway shot a 77 to drop into a tie for 23rd at 142.trevino, Barber share first voted player of year Alcott leads by 2 shots Rancho Mirage Calif. Amy Alcott bidding for us final four tips off tomorrow if you re looking in this edition for accounts of last nights College basketball semifinal games you re the victim of a time zone defense because both games started too late in the United states to make the Oress run for this edition of the stars and stripes. For full coverage of  final four see tomorrows newspaper. Victory after winning a world cup giant slalom a week ago. Her two run time Down the Stony Brook course was 1 36.16, .65 ahead of  takes featherweight title for an unprecedented third Dinah Shore Victory shot a 2-under-Par 70 Friday to maintain a two stroke Lead after the second round. Alcott the tournament Champion in 1983 and 1988, had a 7-under 137 total. Shirley Furlong 68 was second at ,139. Seoul South Korea a Park Young Kyun of South Korea fighting in his Hometown of Kwangju out pointed Antonio Esparragoza of Venezuela saturday to capture the world boxing associations featherweight. Championship. The three american judges scored the 12-round fight by a margin of five to six Points for the korean challenger. Undo her Aba rules the South african referee did not score the  drubs Cambridge again Lane shoots into Florence Lead Florence Italy a Barry Lane a member of England a world cup Golf team in 1988, fired a 5-under-Par 67 saturday and moved into a one stroke Lead after three rounds of the Volvo open of Florence. Lane reached the 54-Hole Mark with a 204 total. Mats Lanner of Sweden the co Leader after two rounds fell Back after a 70 in the third round. Scotsmen Sam Torrance and Gordon Brand or. Were tied for third at 206. Brand had a 65, the. Days Best round., the top american Glen Day was Well Back at 213. London a Oxford beat Cambridge for the 15th time in the last 16 years saturday in the 137th boat race along the River thames. The favored Oxford Crew which won by four lengths included americans Hamish Hume and Joseph Michels. A x. A. A a a a the time for the 4,/4-mile race from Putney to Mort Lake was 16 minutes 59 seconds compared with the record of 16 45 set by Oxford in 1984. Cambridge which had one american oarsman Maximilian Justicz crossed the line in 17 12.drag Champ pleads innocents Les Graf gain semis san Antonio a top seeded Monica Seles and second seeded Steffi Graf advanced to the semifinals of the . Women a hard court championships. Seles beat Erika de Lone 6-2, 6-0,. And Graf Defeated seventh seed Susan Sloane 6-1. 6-1. In other quarterfinals third seeded manii Eia Malee a Fragniere downed sixth seeded Lori Mcneil 6-3, 64, and unseeded Julie Halard beat Eva Svi Gerova 6-1, 6-2. Seles was to face Malleva Fragniere and Graf was to play Halard in the semifinals. Lexington by. A a defending Nora pro Stock drag racing Champion Darrell Alderman was out on $10,000 Bond after pleading innocent to drug charges. The drag racer was arraigned Friday in . District court in Lexington. No trial Date was set. Alderman was indicted March 21 on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and knowingly possessing with intent to distribute cocaine. A named in the same indictment were Paul j. Adams i and Gregory Frankel both of Lexington. According to the u. S. Attorneys office the charges Stem from a three year investigation by drug enforcement administration agents Lexington Fayette county police department narcotics officers and internal Rev Educ service special agents. Fernandez Sutkova top doubles it kenyan fits Golden shoe Tarpon Springs Fla. A top seeded Gigi Fernandez and Helena Sutkova beat Elise Burgin and Mary Lou Daniels 6-3, 6-4 in first round of the Light in Lively doubles tournament. The soviet team of Larisa Savchenko and Natalia Zvereva beat Ros Fairbank Nideffer and Brenda Schultz 6-4,6-4.shaw takes Farewell Victory Kurimoto Japan a Lee Trevino had an Eagle and four birdies in a round of 5-under 67 saturday to share the Lead with Miller Barber after the second round of the Fuji electric grand slam seniors Tournai a ment. Trevino and Barber who shot a 68, have 9-under 135 totals on the 6,657-Yard, Par-72 course. Billy Casper 67 and Japan a Seiichi Kanai 68 were tied for third at 138. A Stowe it. A two time olympian Tiger Shaw made his final appearance in his Hometown As a . Ski team racer a dramatic goodbye Friday coming from behind on the second run to win a nor am slalom against a Strong International Field. Shaw who plans to retire after this season was fifth after a first run that took out 36 skiers. Vigevano Italy a Moses Tanui of Kenya won the a Golden shoe a a 8.1-Kilometer race through the cobbled streets of this medieval town in Northern Italy on saturday. Tanui second place. At the world Cross country championship beat defending Champion Ginnaro Dinapoli of Italy by 27 seconds. Tanui troubled last year by a knee injury led from the Start and set a race record with a clocking of 22 minutes 56  trims Sainz s Lea Parisien triumphs again Bartlett . A Julie Parisien held off a second run charge Friday by Stephanie schuster to win a North american championship series slalom at the Atti Iash ski area. Parisien scored her second straight Nairobi Kenya a Carlos Sainz of Spain in a Toyota celica gt4, still led the 39th safari rally saturday but saw his Lead dwindle. Sainz took the Lead shortly after the race began wednesday and captured the first three legs of the six Day 2,790-mile endurance race. But after saturdays 522-mile fourth leg Sainz was Only 4 minutes 2 seconds ahead of Finland a Juha Kankkunen in a Lancia integral. A oilers nip flames in preview series Edmonton Alberta a the Calendar says the Edmonton oilers and Calgary flames done to begin their smythe division semifinal playoff series until thursday. Both teams Are ready now. The oilers insured that  meet the flames in the first round of the Stanley cup playoffs with a 6-5 overtime Victory Over the flames on Friday night. But this time both teams Are looking up at a team that won division title for the first time in its 24-Ytfar existence the los Angeles Kings. J Joe Murphy a goal 1 54 into overtime gave the oilers the win and the Kings their first first place finish. The win came after the flames rallied from a two goal deficit in the third period and had the potential go ahead goal negated by a controversial Call. The oilers the defending Stanley cup champs were itching to Start the smythe semifinal that will get under Way thursday in Calgary. A a we re going to have to play the Kings or Edmonton eventually anyway so it does no to matter who we play first a said Theoren Fleury who had three assists for the flames. Edmonton and Calgary will face each other for the first time in the playoffs since 1988. The Kings who end their regular season with a meaningless visit to the olympic saddled me on sunday will take on the fourth place Vancouver canucks in the other semifinal. With a vocal sellout crowd of 17,503 looking on Glenn Andersen scored a pair of goals against the flames who had won the smythe division Crown each of the last three seasons. Defens eman Chris Joseph had a goal and two assists for the oilers while Dave Brown and Peter Klima also scored for Edmonton. Craig Sirimson had three assists. Robert Reiche had two goals and an assist for the flames while Gary Suter had a goal and two assists for Calgary. Other goals came from Joel Otto and Frantisek Musil