Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!clarinews From: clarinews@clarinet.com (United Press International) Newsgroups: clari.sports.misc Subject: Sports Digest Keywords: misc sports Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 90 23:50:59 GMT Lines: 71 Approved: clarinews@clarinet.com ACategory: sports Slugword: digest Priority: major Format: regular ANPA: Wc: 761; Id: s1018; Sel: ns--s; Adate: 1-14-645pes; Ver: sked Codes: ysz.rxx. _B_a_s_k_e_t_b_a_l_l Temple Athletic Director Charlie Theokas Sunday declared center Duane Causwell and Joseph Robinson academically ineligible for the remainder of the season. Causwell averaged 11 points and 8 rebounds in 12 games as a starter. Robinson, a walk-on freshman, played in two games this season. ... Senior Derrick Coleman of Syracuse was named The Big East Player of the Week after totaling 44 points and 32 rebounds last week in victories over St. John's and Boston College. _F_o_o_t_b_a_l_l Pittsburgh freshman defensive end Keith Hamilton will decide in the next two weeks whether he will transfer because of the recent firing of defensive line coach Frank D'Alonzo, who Hamilton calls ``a really good friend of mine.'' The Panthers are undergoing changes in their football program after the firing of head coach Mike Gottfried in December. _G_o_l_f Australian Rodger Davis used an eagle at the second hole of a sudden death playoff to defeat Curtis Strange in the Daikyo Palm Meadows Cup in Australia. After hitting a driver on the par-5 18th hole, Davis struck a 3-iron which carried 260 yards and stopped 15 feet from the pin. Davis made the putt and earned $110,000. _H_o_r_s_e_ _R_a_c_i_n_g The $250,000-added Blue Grass Stakes for three-year-olds will highlight 16 stakes races worth a record $1,525,000 that will be run during Keeneland's 15-day spring meeting starting April 6 in Lexington, Ky. The 1 1/8-mile race will be run April 14, three weeks before the Kentucky Derby. Eighteen horses, including Alysheba, Gato Del Sol and Spectacular Bid, have used the Blue Grass Stakes as a stepping stone to victory in the Kentucky Derby. ... Minnesota Racing Commission chairman Ralph Strangis says he expects a deal for the sale of Canterbury Downs will be completed early this week. Strangis attended a meeting Saturday at which a lawyer for New Jersey investor John Aglialoro outlined a proposal for the track's sale. _L_u_g_e East Germany claimed all but one title in the European Luge Championships in Igls, Austria. In the team events Sunday, East Germany collected 138 points to win the title, followed by West Germany with 123 points. Georg Hackl of West Germany captured the men's singles title Friday. _R_o_a_d_ _R_u_n_n_i_n_g Paul Pilkington of Roy, Utah, captured the Houston-Tenneco Marathon in 2:11:13. Maria Trujillo, of Phoenix, came in first for the women, finishing the 26-mile, 385-yard event in 2:32:55. ... England's Mark King won the Scottish Cross Country Union centenary international 10-kilometer race in Irvine, Scotland. King clocked 32 minutes, 24 seconds to beat Sweden's Hakon Borjesson, who finished in 32:27. _S_k_i_i_n_g Austrian Richard Kroell, in his second year on the World Cup circuit, led an Austrian sweep of the top four places in a giant slalom in Val Badia, Italy. Kroell finished with an aggregate time of 2 minutes, 26.55 seconds. Guenther Mader was second down the Gran Risa course in 2:26.63. Hubert Strolz and double world champion Rudolf Nierlich tied for third in 2:26.77. _S_o_c_c_e_r Olympia of Paraguay moved into the semifinals of the Jawaharlal Nehru International soccer championship with a 1-0 victory over East Bengal of India. Olympia will next face Lingby of Denmark, which defeated Indian national champions Salgaonkar 3-0 in the opening match. _T_e_n_n_i_s Frenchman Yannick Noah defeated West German Carl-Uwe Steeb, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, to win the $125,000 New South Wales Open in Sydney, Australia. Natalia Zvereva of the Soviet Union overcame Austrian teenager Barbara Paulus, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, in the women's final. _T_r_a_c_k Debbie Bowker is the women's leader with 20 points after the first two meets of the $200,000 Mobil Indoor Grand Prix. Bowker won the 1,500 meters Friday at the Hamilton Spectator Indoor Games and collected 10 points for her victory in the mile at the K of C Saskatchewan Indoor Games. Freddie Williams of Canada is the men's leader with 13 points. The 11-meet Grand Prix will end at the Mobil Indoor Championships Feb. 23 in New York.