Marshall Shoots 68, Shares Lead in LPGA du Maurier

Kathryn Marshall, battling a migraine headache, shot a five-under-par 68 Thursday to join Colleen Walker and Vicki Fergon atop the leaderboard after the opening round of the LPGA du Maurier Classic at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Canada.

Headaches are a price she pays to play golf, said Marshall, who is from Scotland.

“Whenever I do play well, I tend to get headaches,” she said. “When you’re not well, you concentrate on each shot more. You just want to get off the course.”

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Larry Mize had eight birdies to take the lead in the suspended first round of the rain-delayed Sprint International at Castle Rock, Colo.

Mize posted a score of 15 points under the modified Stableford scoring system used in the tournament, which awards two points for a birdie and subtracts a point for a bogey.

Candie Kung, who will be a junior at Fountain Valley High, advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship at the Legends Club of Tennessee.

Kung beat Emily Gilley of Flossmoor, Ill., 3 and 1, in the second round and Leigh Turner of Alpharetta, Ga., 7 and 6, to advance. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played today with the final Saturday.

John Lee of Placentia advanced to the U.S. Amateur, sharing medalist honors at a qualifying tournament Thursday at the SCGA Members’ Club in Murrieta. Lee shot four-under-par 140 for 36 holes. Also advancing was Carlos Cabral of Lake Forest, who shot a 141, and Benjamin Bost of Mission Viejo, who finished with a 142. The U.S. Amateur begins Aug. 18 at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club in Lemont, Ill.

Nate Blauer of Trabuco Canyon shot a 73 for a combined score of 216 putting him in eighth place after the third round of the AJGA Boys Junior Championship at Trophy Club Country Club in Texas.

Jin Park of Fullerton is at 220 and Bret Parker of Villa Park 222. Leif Olson of Golden, Colo., playing in the 15-16 division, leads with a 208.

Track and Field

As expected, the International Amateur Athletic Federation’s Congress voted by a 2-to-1 margin to reduce its minimum drug bans from four years to two, drawing protests from those wanting the sport to take a tougher stand.

The decision brings the IAAF in line with other world federations and the International Olympic Committee on policing drugs.

The ruling is retroactive, meaning anyone serving a four-year suspension who has completed at least two years could be reinstated immediately.

College Football

The NCAA cleared Grambling football Coach Eddie Robinson of any violations, but put the university on two years’ probation because of minor infractions by his son, Eddie Robinson Jr., and the play of two academically ineligible basketball players.

Steve Spurrier, who coached Florida to its first national championship last season and then spurned NFL offers, has agreed to an contract extension worth about $2 million a year, the Florida Times-Union reported.

Jurisprudence

In return for his guilty plea on one count of filing a false federal income tax statement in 1993, two other counts against NBA referee George Toliver of Harrisonburg, Va., were dismissed. Toliver will be sentenced Oct. 24.

Kentucky football player Jason Watts was charged with first-degree assault in connection with the shooting of teammate Omar Smith, according to police in Lexington, Ky.

Tennis

The du Maurier Canadian Open lost its second- and third-seeded players when Goran Ivanisevic and Thomas Muster were upset in the third round at Montreal.

Ivanisevic was ousted by 57th-ranked Chris Woodruff, 7-6 (8-6), 6-2. Muster lost, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4, to 50th-ranked Fabrice Santoro.

Top-seeded Michael Chang survived, coming from a set down to post a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over the 15th-seeded Alex O’Brien. Chang next will play eighth-seeded Richard Krajicek, who defeated former UCLA standout Justin Gimelstob, 6-2, 6-4.

Miscellany

Mike Dunleavy, named coach of the Portland Trail Blazers 2 1/2 months ago, signed a five-year contract with the team. . . . The Phoenix Coyotes and forward Jim McKenzie agreed to a one-year, $500,000 contract. . . . John Forney, a fixture in the broadcast booth at Alabama football games for more than a quarter-century, died of cardiac arrest. He was 70. . . . Brooke Bennett, who won the 800-meter Olympic gold medal last summer, won the same event at the Phillips 66 National Swimming Championships at Nashville. Her time was 8 minutes, 28.79 seconds. . . The U.S. national water polo team continued to have troubles as the Hungary easily won, 12-5, Thursday in a Unicum Cup Tournament in Budapest, Hungary.