European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes ports january 24,1994 Page 32 Urcla poised to claim no. 1 los Angeles a Tyus Edney and de o Bannon each scored 21 Point Sand no 2 Urcla overcame stubborn Ari Zona state 98-81 saturday making it Likely the Bruins will become the nation s top ranked team. Urcla 13-0, 6-0 Pac-10 Likely will ascend to the top spot for the first Tim since january 1983 when the associated poll is released monday night. St. Louis was beaten 62-52 by mar Quette earlier saturday leaving the Bruins As the Only undefeated Naadi vision i team. More College basketball on Page 29 by attrition we probably will be no. 1 since Kansas lost Urcla coach Jim Harrick said. It s Nice to reach that pin  with the game tied 64-64, Ron Riley missed a 3-Pointer for Arizona state and the Bruins scored five straight Points for a 69-64 Cushion. The Sun devils closed to 71-68, but that was the closest they would come the rest of the Way. George Zidek added 18 Points Shon Tarver 17 for the Bruins. Mario Bennett and Isaac Burton Kep the Sun devils 8-6, 3-2 in the game Down the stretch. Bennett had 21 Point when he picked up his fourth foul with 12 23 to play. Bennett was inserted Only on offence for several minutes and refinished with 26 Points. Burton had 20 of his 24 Points in the second half including four 3-pointers. For the second straight game Edne stood out on defense holding Arizona state s Stevin Smith to six Points. Sampras ousts lend Davenport win Byro Gloster Melbourne Australia a top seeded pet Sampras and Steffi Graf advanced to the quarterfinals of the australian open with straight set victories on sunday while Lindsay Davenport ousted Mary Joe Fernandez in a Battle of seeded americans. Sampras served 19 aces in a 7-6 7-56-2, 7-6 7-4 fourth round Victory Over 15th-seeded Ivan Lendl who had 14 aces. Sampras then paid tribute to the player who helped him develop his physical and mental Tough Ness. When he was 17, Sampras went to Lendl shome i Connecticut to train with the Man then ranked no. 2 in the world. Ivan will go Down As one of the greatest of All time said Sampras who rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the final set. I used to be in Awe of  no. 5 Goran Ivanisevic also advanced to the quarterfinals with a6-3, 6-2, 7-6 7-3 defeat of Grant Stafford and no. 10 Magnus Gustafsson was a 2-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-1 Winner Over Marti Damm. V. Davenport the 16th-seeded woman used a booming serve and powerful forehand to overwhelm the sixth seeded Fernandez 6-2, 6-7 4-76-2 despite wasting four match Points in the second set. I was pretty relieved when it got to a third set Davenport said. In the second set when it got close i got nervous and stopped going for my shots. But in the third set i Felt  Fernandez a two time australian open finalist australian open agreed that Davenport was hitting harder in the third set than in the second. She served Well when she had to and really Over powered me on the main Points Fernandez said. She s a big girl. She hits it pretty hard from both t to. Sides. The 6-foot-2 Davenport a 17-year-old from Murrieta Calif., will have a quarterfinal match against Graf Ina Battle of perhaps the two hardest hitters currently on the women s tour. Graf dropped just three games in leading four other women s seeded players into the quarterfinals. Graf took 55 minutes to defeat Sandrine testud 6-1, 6-2.Graf, the Only woman in the Field who has won the australian open before is seeking her fourth title a Melbourne. Graf has reached at least the quarterfinals in 30 consecutive grand slam events a Streak that began with the 1985 . Open. The women s record for consecutive grand slam quarterfinals appearances is 34 by Chris Evert. No. 4 Gabriela Sabatini fell behind 3-1 in her match against no. 9 Mary Pierce but then won seven straight games in route to a 6-3,6-3 Victory. Also reaching the quarterfinals was third Seede Conchita Martinez who overcame an Early deficit to defeat Chanda Rubin 7-6 7-46-3. Rubin $17-year-old from Lafayette la., led the first set 5-2 and wasted a pair of set Points. Martinez will next play no. 10 Kimiko Date a 7-5, 6-1 Winner Over Ginger Helgeson who held her serve just three times in 10 tries. Lindsay Davenport two hands a shot during her 3-set Vic tory Over fellow american Mary Joe Fernandez sunday. Doug Williams hired by Navy Annapolis my. A Doug Williams who led the Washington redskins " to a super bowl Victory has been hired As an assist ant football coach at the naval Academy. Williams named most valuable player in the 1987 super bowl when he led the redskins to a 42-10 Victory Over the Denver Bron cos will coach the midshipmen running backs said head coach George Chaump. Williams set four super bowl re cords in 1987 most Yards passing in a game 340most Yards passing in a Quarter 228most touchdown passes 4and longest completion 80 Yards. He then played two More sea sons with the redskins giving Hima total on nine years in the null. He replaces Frank Hickson who resigned in january to accept a position at South Carolina. Williams played College Ball at rambling. E 1-7 tie in preview of world cup opener by Ken Peters Fullerton Calif. A the United states trailing with two minutes left and pressing the attack got a 1-1 tie with Switzerland when a Swiss defender sailed a header into his own goal sat urday. The game was a preview of the world cup opener Between the Swiss and the americans on june 18 at the Silver dome in Pontiac Mich. The americans have played Well in their last three games beating Norway 2 1 earlier this month after a 3-0 defeat by defending world cup Champion Ger Many in a game that was close until the final minutes. The . Team salvaged a lie when Switzerland s Andre Egli tried to head the Ball to his goalkeeper but instead knocked the Ball into the left Corner of the net beyond the reach of Stefan leh Mann. There were Only nine shots in the game six by the United states. Of the three shots american goalie Rad Friedel faced two were in a split second in the 65th minute As he Dove and knocked Down a shot by Nestor Subi at Only to have Sebastien Fournier who was trailing the play kick the rebound into the net. On the strange tying goal . Half Back Dado Brose brought the Ball up the left Side and passed to Winger Gobi Jones. Jones lifted the Ball deep into the Box just Over the head of teammate Alexi Lalas and Egli went up and struck Heball. Although both squads were without some of their Best players since players from each country Are still competing in the european pro leagues the Ameri cans seemed to have the upper hand in the first meeting Between the teams in1994. The Way we played today against Switzerland i think we will go into the world cup game with a lot of Confidence american defens Eman Paul Cali Giuri said. We realize they re playing without some of their Best players but behave some players coming in  said . Coach Bora Milutinovic the Swiss team did play with their est players and we played under the same  h Roy Hodgson the Swiss coach said the . Is a Good team Well organized and  Lalas said he did t think the game meant anything beyond being just another Chance to gain experience. It was just a very Basic game the american defens Eman said. I Don think we Learned anything but maybe a Little about How Switzerland plays style Wise. We did t play very Well. I think it will be an entirely different game  Jones said we did t play our  the goal i see Lalas coming so i Cen tired the Ball across for him to head  0ii2a6850ii000504