Hill Notches Another Formula One Win

Damon Hill made it four of five on the Formula One circuit with a victory Sunday in the Grand Prix of San Marino at Imola, Italy.

Hill, the defending race champion, averaged 120.131 mph in the 63-lap event at the 3.04-mile course, and edged Michael Schumacher by 16.4 seconds.

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Rusty Wallace got his second victory of the year and his sixth career road course victory in the Save Mart Supermarkets 300 at Sears Point Raceway at Sonoma, Calif. Wallace overtook Jeff Gordon on the 69th lap of the 74-lap race and held off Mark Martin by two car lengths. . . . Shelly Anderson (top fuel), John Force (funny car) Warren Johnson (pro stock) and John Myers (pro stock motorcycle) won titles at the NHRA Pennzoil Nationals in Dinwiddie, Va.

Golf

Mark Brooks rolled in a 30-foot putt for birdie on the first hole of a playoff with hometown favorite Jeff Maggert to win the Shell Houston Open. Maggert missed his attempt to send the event to a second playoff hole when his 18-foot birdie try from the fringe on the par-four 18th was a few inches to the left of the hole. Each finished at 274 for four rounds.

Karrie Webb won the LPGA Sprint Titleholders Championship at Daytona Beach, Fla., with a six-under-par 66, tapping in for birdie on the 18th hole to defeat Kelly Robbins by one stroke. Webb finished with a 16-under 272. . . . Graham Marsh survived a wet tee shot on the next-to-last hole and won the PaineWebber Invitational at Charlotte, N.C., by one shot over Brian Barnes and Tom Wargo, finishing with a three-under 69.

Tennis

Unseeded Slava Dosedel of the Czech Republic made Carlos Moya of Spain his latest upset victim, capturing the BMW Open at Munich, Germany. Dosedel, who also ousted Goran Ivanisevic and Boris Becker, defeated Moya, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. . . . Spain’s Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario defeated Conchita Martinez, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0, to win the Rexona Cup at Hamburg, Germany. . . . Karim Alami became the first Moroccan to win an ATP event with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Nicklas Kulti in the AT&T; Challenge at Atlanta. . . . Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia beat Bohdan Ulihrach, 7-5, 1-6, 6-3, to win the Czech Open at Prague.

Miscellany

Michael Irvin, the Dallas Cowboy star under indictment, bought cocaine before and after being present during a motel raid in which drugs were seized, KXAS-TV of Fort Worth, Texas, reported. Irvin paid $100 for drugs two days before his April 1 felony indictment in connection with seizure of cocaine and marijuana at the Irving motel room, the station reported. Irvin’s attorney denied the report.

Manchester United won English soccer’s Premier League for the third time in four years, defeating Middlesbrough, 3-0.

Defending champion Lance Armstrong won his third stage of the Tour DuPont, increasing his overall lead to 26 seconds, winning the 112.5-mile cycling road race from Mount Airy to Roanoke, Va., in 4 hours 41 minutes 19 seconds.

Three-time NCAA champion Tim Harden of Kentucky posted a wind-aided 9.94 seconds in the 100 meters in the Gatorade Track Classic at Knoxville, Tenn. . . . World record-holder Butch Reynolds won the 400 meters in 44.7 seconds at the Jesse Owens Track Classic at Columbus, Ohio, the second-fastest time in the world this year. Chris Nelloms won the 200 in 20.7. John Burrell won the 100 in 10.2.

Rick Swenson has won his appeal of a decision that forced him out of this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race after the death of one of his dogs. The appeals board absolved race officials and faulted the so-called “dead-dog rule,” saying it was too vague and ambiguous.

Yugoslavia and Poland qualified for the Olympics in men’s volleyball.