BRIEFLY THREE NOTRE DAME PLAYERS CHARGED.

Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

Three former Notre Dame football players were charged Friday with raping a female student, and a former teammate was charged in South Bend, Ind., with conspiracy to commit rape.

Rape charges were filed against Donald Dykes, who started at strong safety last season; Lorenzo Crawford, a receiver, and Justin Smith, a safety who was a senior last season.

St. Joseph County prosecutors also charged the three men and former safety Abram Elam with conspiracy to commit rape. Crawford and Elam were charged with criminal deviant conduct. Elam, Crawford and Smith also were charged with sexual battery.

The 20-year-old woman, who knew the former players through her work with the athletic department, accused the men of luring her into a bedroom after she met Smith at a bar and agreed to go with the men and another woman to Smith's home. She said the men repeatedly raped her.

If convicted, the three men charged with rape could face up to 20 years in prison and $10,000 fines.

--Dan Hampton, who will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this summer, has been sentenced to a week in jail after pleading guilty last month to drunken-driving charges in Cabot, Ark.

The former Chicago Bears defensive end also was fined $1,000 and ordered to attend alcohol-education courses. The arrest was his second for DWI in five years.

BASKETBALL: Utah Jazz forward Donyell Marshall had surgery to repair a damaged right wrist, an injury that didn't cause him to miss any games last season.

--Oregon State guard Jimmie Haywood is coming back to the Beavers' program after quitting before the end of last season.

Haywood left Feb. 18 with five games to go. But he and new coach Jay John were able to work things out, and Haywood will return for his senior season.

TENNIS: As Pete Sampras swatted practice strokes in a drizzle a few hours after the draw for the French Open, a yellow ball smacked against the net and rolled slowly, gathering rust-colored dirt.

Sampras wandered over, lifted the coated ball, and wondered aloud: ``What is this? The ball doesn't even bounce.''

Things never seem to go Pistol Pete's way at Roland Garros, and this year's draw was no exception, putting him in a tough quarter with top-ranked Lleyton Hewitt, three-time French Open champion Gustavo Kuerten and '98 winner Carlos Moya.

Andre Agassi, who won in Paris three years ago to complete a career Grand Slam, is in the other half of the field and gets to play a qualifier in the first round.

Defending women's champion and top-seeded Jennifer Capriati will open against countrywoman Marissa Irvin (2002 match record: 4-8), and looks to have a relatively easy path to the quarterfinals.

The draw split up Venus and Serena Williams, meaning they could have a reprise of their Sibling Slam final at the U.S. Open.

--Monica Seles and Chandra Rubin advanced to an all-American final at the $170,000 Madrid Open in Spain.

Rubin easily defeated Fabiola Zuluaga 6-4, 6-2, but Seles struggled to a 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Paola Suarez to reach the championship match of the clay-court tournament today.

--Top-seeded Matais Boeker of Georgia beat UNLV's Thomas Schneiter 6-2, 6-1 to advance to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tennis championships in College Station, Texas.

Boeker, a junior from Argentina, will face USC's Nick Rainey, a 6-3, 6-4 winner over Miami's Todd Widom.

In the other quarterfinals, Stanford's David Martin will face California's John Fruttero, and Georgia's Brandon Wagner will play Stanford's Ryan Haviland.

Martin beat fifth-seeded Al Garland of Pepperdine 6-3, 6-4; Fruttero defeated third-seeded Harsh Mankad of Minnesota 6-4, 6-3; Wagner beat Texas A&M's Ryan Newport 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, and Haviland, edged Portland's Travis Parrott 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.

--Top-seeded Bea Bielik of Wake Forest advanced to the final of the NCAA women's tournament, routing Stanford freshman Erin Burdette 6-1, 6-0 in Stanford.

Bielik, a junior from Valley Stream, N.Y., will face third-seeded Jessica Lehnhoff of Florida in the championship match today. Lehnhoff, a senior from Delray Beach, Fla., beat Stanford's Gabriela Lastra 2-6, 6-4, 7-5.

SOFTBALL: Chelsea Spencer provided all the offense with a leadoff homer in the fifth inning as California beat Florida State 1-0 to remain undefeated in the NCAA Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City. The second game between Arizona State and Arizona was suspended because of thunderstorms, with the teams scoreless after three innings. It is scheduled to resume today.

MOUNTAIN CLIMBING: In Nepal, a 66-year-old Italian man scaled Mount Everest, becoming the oldest person to climb the world's highest mountain.

Mario Curnis, whose hometown was not known, reached the 29,035-foot summit with another Italian climber, Simone Morro, and Nepali Sherpa guide Ang Mingma.