BRIEFLY : REMATCH DEMANDED.

Byline: Daily News Wire Services

Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis, who fought to a controversial draw for the undisputed heavyweight championship, must fight a rematch within six months. The presidents of the IBF, WBA and WBC ordered the action Sunday following a bout many thought Lewis had won.

Bob Lee of the International Boxing Federation, Jose Sulaiman of the World Boxing Council and Gilberto Mendoza of the World Boxing Association met after the fight.

``It's a shame there was so much controversy attached to this important fight,'' Lee said. `But we did what we thought was the most sensible thing by ordering a rematch in six months.''

Holyfield holds the IBF and WBA titles. Lewis is WBC champion.

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BASEBALL: Three Gonzaga players and a trainer were injured when a car plowed into the group as they walked to their game at Fresno State, police said. The worst injury befell trainer Heidi Jill Peterson, 40, who suffered a broken right leg in the Saturday-afternoon accident.

OLYMPICS: A senior IOC official defended an internal corruption investigation against charges that it focused on minor members and let big names off lightly. Kevan Gosper, an executive board member from Australia, said the recommendation to expel a member from Samoa while handing warnings to two others much higher in the committee's hierarchy was based on facts, not favoritism.

German Interior Minister Otto Schily says a European boycott of the next Olympics is possible if the IOC doesn't deal satisfactorily with the current bribery scandal.

HOCKEY: Canada avenged its Olympic loss by beating the United States 3-1 to win its fifth straight title at the Women's World Hockey Championships at Espoo, Finland.