BRIEFLY\Seles is upset at Pan Pacific.

Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

Monica Seles suffered her first loss of the year against 18-year-old Croatian Iva Majoli in Friday's quarterfinals of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.

Majoli, ranked No. 8 in the world, upset top-ranked Seles 1-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4. Seles, battling a shoulder injury, was 12-0 in 1996, including a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Majoli in the Australian Open quarterfinals.

"I played so well in the first set, and I don't know what happened after that," Seles said. "I was getting frustrated today out there."

COLLEGES

Villanova University received no more than one-fifth of the $5 million that John E. du Pont promised the school when it named its basketball arena after him, sources say.

Du Pont, accused of killing Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz on Jan. 25, only gave the university $500,000 to $1 million, according to former university officials who requested anonymity.

The balance he promised in 1985 never came after the university dropped its wrestling program, which du Pont established and coached.

The U.S. Olympic Committee also announced it will award the widow and former teammates of Schultz more than $57,000 in grants as part of a rescue package for members of the wrestling club run by Du Pont.

Bennie Brown, a former UCLA quarter-miler and an assistant track coach at Cal State Fullerton who won a gold medal on the 1,600-meter relay team at the 1976 Olympics, has died in a car accident.

Brown, 42, hit a slick spot on the road and lost control of his car Thursday, a Fullerton spokesman said.

Brown won the 440-yard dash in the NCAA championships while competing for UCLA in 1975. He was also part of UCLA's championship mile relay teams in 1973, 1974 and 1975.

NHL 

Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Petr Svoboda, who lay unconscious for five minutes in Thursday's game, was released from the hospital and is expected to miss at least one game.

Svoboda was elbowed in the face by Montreal's Marc Bureau in the Flyers' 3-2 overtime victory over the Canadiens. He fell to the ice, hitting his head, and had to be carried off on a stretcher.

TENNIS

Top-seeded Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia advanced to the semifinals of the Croatia Indoors tournament by beating Adrian Voinea of Romania 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) in Zagreb.

Guy Forget of France beat Carl-Uwe Steeb of Germany 6-3, 6-4 to advance to a semifinal match against Ivanisevic today. Marc Goellner of Germany faces Cedric Pioline of France in the other semifinal.

The International Tennis Federation has two weeks to prove it has evidence that tennis stars Mats Wilander and Karel Novacek tested positive for cocaine at last year's French Open.

Five days after the allegations were disclosed in a British newspaper, the two players took the ITF to court in London in an attempt to have the federation's current drug-testing procedures declared unfair and to prove their innocence.

FOOTBALL

USC picked up another major commitment when Dorsey linebacker Na'il Diggs said he would attend USC. Diggs helped the Dons to the 4-A City title as a linebacker, punter and tight end.

USC coaches were impressed with the 6-foot-4, 220-pounder's speed. He could compete for playing time next season. USC basketball coach Charlie Parker also happens to be Diggs' legal guardian, but USC wasn't a shoo-in. He chose USC over Iowa State and Arizona.