BRIEFLY : HINGIS ROUTS PIERCE.

Top-ranked Martina Hingis routed Mary Pierce 6-0, 6-2 on Saturday in the semifinals of the Toshiba Classic in Carlsbad.

``I played a great match, what else can I say?'' said Hingis, who also easily beat Pierce in the Australian Open final in January.

``She's like a shooting gallery. She hits the ball very hard and you either have no chance to get it or she makes a mistake.''

The 16-year-old Swiss star improved to 53-1 this year, losing only to Iva Majoli in the French Open following a knee injury.

Hingis, seeking her 10th title of the year, will face Monica Seles, who defeated Amanda Coetzer 6-3, 6-4.

Underdogs ruled in the du Maurier Open, with Gustavo Kuerten and Chris Woodruff advancing to the final of the Canadian tennis championship.

Kuerten, the French Open champion from Brazil, routed top-seeded Michael Chang 6-3, 6-1, and Woodruff knocked off fourth-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia 5-7, 7-5, 6-3.

Top seed Carlos Moya of Spain advanced to the final of the $475,000 Grolsch Open ATP clay court tournament in Amsterdam, beating Sweden's Magnus Norman 6-4, 6-3.

Moya will meet Slava Dosedel of the Czech Republic in today's final. Dosedal ousted Uruguay's Marcelo Filippini 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 in the other semifinal.

BOXING: Los Angeles' Shane Mosley overcame dehydration to defeat previously unbeaten Phillip Holiday and take away his IBF lightweight title via unanimous decision at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Montville, Conn.

Mosley displayed no weakness once the fight started. He won the first three rounds on all three judges' cards and was, in fact, so busy that his handlers tried to slow him down. ``They thought I would be out of energy, so they told me to start moving,'' the new champion said.

BASKETBALL: Rick Majerus, the Utah coach who is coaching the U.S. team at the under-23 world basketball championship in Australia, called for better security at the tournament. And his words apparently were heeded.

Majerus made his comments Saturday, a day after coins were tossed onto the court during the game between Australia and Turkey.

Officials at the arena, the Glasshouse, said they did bolster security and will have more people patrolling the stands.

Magic Johnson played 10 minutes and scored only five points for the losing team, but he was the big star at the 12th annual all-star game and named after him that benefits the United Negro College Fund. A Forum crowd of 14,793 saw the Lakers' Kobe Bryant end up as the game's top scorer with 35 points.

FOOTBALL: Ken-Yon Rambo of Poly High School in Long Beach, who is one of the nation's top high school receivers, has been cleared to play as a freshman at Ohio State.

Rambo had met both the minimum grade-point average and minimum pre-enrollment test score requirements. But he took the test with no time limit because of a learning disability. Apparently, he had not been approved to take the test that way.