BRIEFLY : A GUTTY PERFORMANCE.John Mazza opened his PBA PBA Professional Bowlers Association PBA Palm Beach Atlantic University (West Palm Beach, Florida) PBA Partial-Birth Abortion PBA Philippine Basketball Association PBA Public Broadcasting Atlanta (Georgia, USA) Brentwood Classic tournament final against Parker Bohn III Parker Morse Bohn III (born July 13, 1963 in Jackson Township, New Jersey) is a left-handed American professional bowler and has been a member of the Professional Bowlers Association since 1984. He currently ranks fifth all-time with 30 career PBA titles, and has earned over $2. with a gutter ball gutter ball n. A ball played in bowling that goes into the gutter and scores no points. . Then he finished with a 227, well ahead of Bohn's 156 to win the pro-bowling event in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern . ``It's the perfect place to throw a gutter . . . it loosened me up,'' Mazza said, collecting the $16,000 first prize in the televised tournament for his first victory since 1994. TENNIS: Martina Hingis Martina Hingis (pronounced: hɪŋˈɡɪs) (born September 30, 1980 in Košice, Slovakia) is a former World No. 1 Swiss tennis player. , still unbeaten this year, moved into position to win her fourth straight tournament by beating Iva Majoli 6-1, 6-3 in the semifinals of the Paris Open. Anke Huber of Germany will provide Hingis' opposition after a 6-4, 6-3 upset of Jana Novotna in the other semifinal. . . . Defending champion Pete Sampras advanced to the Sybase Open final with an easy 6-2, 6-3 victory over Todd Martin in San Jose. . . . Thomas Muster outslugged Jim Courier 7-6 (7-3), 2-6, 6-3 in a battle of strong hitters in a semifinal of the $1 million Dubai Open and will face top-seeded Goran Ivanisevic for the title in the United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates, federation of sheikhdoms (2005 est. pop. 2,563,000), c.30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. . BOXING: Jorge Castro of Argentina denied former champion Roberto Duran his 100th career victory, beating the 45-year-old by a unanimous decision in Argentina. Duran is 99-13 and wants to win 100 fights before retiring for good. SOCCER: Former Gov. Booth Gardner of Washington was named commissioner of the National Soccer Alliance, an eight-team women's professional league scheduled to begin play in 1998. The league cities will be selected from the top 20 soccer markets in the nation by a bidding process to be held over the next few months. The markets were not specified. |
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