BRIEFLY : BATES CLEANS UPWITH 9-UNDER 62.

Byline: Daily News Wire Services

Ben Bates, a veteran of the Nike Tour and the sanitation business, tied the Brown Deer Park course record with a 62 to take a two-shot lead after the first round of the Greater Milwaukee Open.

Ideal playing conditions and a streak of exceptional putting helped Bates' 9-under-par round. Mark Calcavecchia and Tom Pernice Jr. finished at 7-under, and seven others are at 6-under.

``I told the guys I felt like Tiger Woods out there today,'' Bates said in his first visit to a PGA interview room. ``Those things don't happen to me. You watch guys like (Woods) and David Duval on TV, and even with their bad shots, something good happens. That's what it was like.''

Tina Barrett shot a career-best 8-under 64 for a 3-shot lead after the first round of the LPGA Michelob Light Classic in St. Louis. Anika Sorenstam, who has won the tournament three of the last four years, was four shots back with a 68.

Canada's Lori Kane and Nancy Scranton of Tampa, Fla., finished with 5-under 67s on the 6,375-yard course at Forest Hills Country Club.

TENNIS: Top-seeded Wayne Ferreira lost 6-2, 6-2 to defending champion Leander Paes, the Wimbledon doubles and mixed doubles champion, in the second round of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships at Newport, R.I.

Morocco's Younes El Aynaoui defeated third-seeded Marcelo Rios, ranked No. 9 in the world, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-5) in the second round of the Swiss Open in Gstaad.

Nicklas Kulti continued his surprising run in the Swedish Open in Bastad, defeating his close friend Thomas Johansson 6-3, 7-5 to reach the quarterfinals.

With the third-seeded Johansson eliminated, only two seeded players remain in Scandinavia's oldest clay-court championship.

UNIVERSITY GAMES: Leigh Daniel overtook Yuri Kano of Japan with four laps to go and pulled away steadily to win the women's 10,000 meters in the University Games in Palma De Mallorca for the first American gold medal outside of swimming.

Daniel, who took up the sport seriously four years ago, finished in 32 minutes, 58.80 seconds.

WINTER OLYMPICS: The Salt Lake Organizing Committee detailed $113 million in budget cuts, a savings board members were told would shrink the gap between revenue and spending from $300 million to $185 million.

The biggest shares of the $113 million in cuts are $30 million out of staffing and $38 million from the inflation cushion.

FOOTBALL: Washington Redskins linebacker Ken Harvey probably won't play again in the National Football League because of injuries, the Washington Times reported.

NFL all-time leading rusher Walter Payton bought a minority share of an expansion Arena Football League team that plans to begin play near Chicago in 2001.

BASKETBALL: Former UCLA basketball and volleyball All-American Natalie Williams of Utah was among a dozen players selected as reserves for the WNBA All-Star game. Other reserves for the West team are Sacramento's Yolanda Griffith, Ruthie Bolton-Holifield and Ticha Penicheiro; Jennifer Gillom of Phoenix and Tonya Edwards from Minnesota. The East reserves include Shannon Johnson, Taj McWilliams and Nykesha Sales from Orlando; Sandy Brondello of Detroit, Vicky Bullett of Charlotte and Merlakia Jones of Cleveland.