BRIEFLY\Randall loses title on head butt.

Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

Argentena's Juan Martin Coggi was taken to a hospital Saturday night after suffering a head injury on an accidental head butt that gave him the WBA junior welterweight title over champion Frankie Randall.

As he was being removed from the Miami Jai-Alai fronton arena, Coggi had reclaimed the title he lost to Randall in September 1994.

All three judges had Coggi ahead on the cards when the fight was stoped 1:15 of the fifth round. Judges Fernando Viso and Hector Hernandez favored Coggi 38-37, while Al Wilensky scored it 39-38. According to WBA rules, a technical decision is awarded to the fighter who is ahead on points but unable to continue due to an accidental butt.

Fabrice Tiozzo of France retained the WBC light-heavyweight title with a unanimous 12-round decision over Canada's Eri Lucas in St. Etienne, France.

Obed Sullivan knocked out veteran Terry Davis in the fifth round to retain his International Boxing Federation Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship in Atlantic City, N.J.

Nate Miller successfully defended his World Boxing Association cruiserweight title by stopping Reynaldo Gimenez of Argentina after four rounds in Miami.

TENNIS

Todd Martin won the men's title Saturday at the Peters International tennis tournament in Sydney, Australia, beating top seed Goran Ivanisevic. The American lost the opening set, then came back to win 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, avenging his loss to the Croatian in last month's Grand Slam Cup.

American Lindsay Davenport also came from behind to defeat second-seeded Kimiko Date of Japan 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 and gain the women's final against Monica Seles. Seles came through with a hard-fought victory over Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 7-6 (8-6), 6-4.

In Auckland, New Zealand, second-seeded MaliVai Washington was upset in the quarterfinals of the BellSouth Open by Guy Forget of France 7-6 (7-2), 6-2. Because of weather delays, Brett Steven of New Zealand will play Forget in one semifinal today, and Javier Frana of Argentina will meet Jiri Novak.

Michael Chang warmed up for the Australian Open by beating Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov and winning the Colonial Classic for the second straight year. Chang defeated Kafelnikov 7-5, 6-1 in the final of the eight-man exhibition at Kooyong in Melbourne.

Younes El Aynaoui of Morocco surprisingly reached the final of the Indonesian Open, upsetting top-seeded Dutchman Paul Haarhuis 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3. In today's final, El Aynaoui will face fifth-seeded Sjeng Schalken of the Netherlands, who rallied to beat American Michael Joyce 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.

BASEBALL

The Florida Marlins won the race for 20-year-old Cuban defector Livan Hernandez, agreeing to pay the pitcher a record $2.5 million signing bonus in a four-year major-league contract worth $4.5 million.

BASKETBALL

Cedric Ceballos remained at Centinela Hospital on Saturday night for flu treatment. the sixth-year forward is listed as very doubtful for Monday afternoon's game against Miami, but Lakers spokesman John Black said Ceballos' condition has improved.

The Utah Jazz has extended the contract of eight-time NBA all-star forward Karl Malone. The terms and length of the extension were not disclosed.

Roy Tarpley, banned from the NBA for drug and alcohol abuse, reportedly has agreed to return to Greece. The Athens sports daily Sportime said that Tarpley would return to Greece with the first-division team Iraklis Salonica.

Freshman Matt Moran, who started 10 of Northwestern's 11 games and was the team's leading rebounder, surprisingly quit the team.

FOOTBALL

John Mackovic agreed in principle to a new five-year contract that will keep him coaching football at Texas through the year 2000, the school announced.

Dean McAdams, whose passing and kicking led the Washington Huskies to a 7-2 record and a No. 10 ranking in 1940, died at a nursing home. He was 78. McAdams went on to play for the old Brooklyn Dodgers in the NFL. He then spent much of his life operating a farm and a distribution company in Salem, Ore.

The wife of NFL star Warren Moon has asked a judge to throw out a subpoena that would force her to testify at Moon's trial on a charge he assaulted her. "Leave me, my privacy and the sanctity of my marriage alone," Felicia Moon pleaded in a motion filed this week in Richmond, Texas.

WINTER SPORTS

Katja Seizinger wiped out a minor blemish in her career - never having won a race in Germany - with an overwhelming victory in a World Cup super-giant slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where she lives.

Austria's Guenther Mader made a record run in winning a men's World Cup downhill race in Kitsbuehel, Austria with a time of 1 minute, 54.29 seconds on the 2-mile course.

GOLF

A swarm of bees attacked golfer Keith Fergus and his caddy while they were on the practice range at Tucson National golf course following the third round of the Nortel Open.

Fergus fled several hundred feet along the first fairway to get away, and caddy Artie Granfield jumped into a lake between the first and 18th holes. Fergus received multiple stings on the head, neck and arms, but PGA officials said he wasn't seriously hurt. Granfield, of Reseda, and three spectators also were hit.

Meanwhile, David Toms completed a 3-under-par 69 in the Nortel Open by parring No. 18. One twosome later, Joel Edwards four-putted the same green and relinquished his share of the lead. Toms' score at the 7,148-yard Tucson National course.