SMA Three wins
\nbasketball title<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): As expected, the highly favored men's and
\nwomen's teams of SMA Three, both won the Coca-Cola Basket Mania
\nCup competitions concluded on Thursday at the Senayan Basketball
\nHall.<\/p>\n
The teams from the government-run high school won the Team
\nPlay event and the Three-on-Three competition. Its female squad
\ndefeated SMA Ragunan 32-26. Their male compatriots beat SMAN 81
\n11-9 to grab the Three-on-Three category in the final.<\/p>\n
Seventeen teams made up of Jakarta high school students took
\npart in the competition, which started on Monday.<\/p>\n
Andrew from SMAN 31 went home with the individual Three Point
\nContest title of the championship organized by the popular soft
\ndrink producer. (rsl)<\/p>\n
Arkansas are
\ntop Hawgs<\/p>\n
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuter): The Arkansas Razorbacks
\nare here and the First Hawg, President Bill Clinton, will be,
\ntoo. Big Dawg got sent home, out-pedigreed by Duke, but the
\nWildcats of Arizona and Gators of Florida have definitely
\narrived.<\/p>\n
This weekend's NCAA Final Four, climax to the 64-team college
\nbasketball tournament known as March Madness, features an
\nArkansas that has expected a championship all season, a Duke here
\nas if by divine right, an Arizona hot to prove its critics wrong
\nand a Florida out to get it right the first time.<\/p>\n
Today's first national semifinal game pits Arkansas, 29-3 so
\nfar this season and the only regional top seed to survive to the
\nFinal Four, against 29-5 Arizona, which was upset in the first
\nround the past two years.<\/p>\n
Capitals beat
\nBlackhawks<\/p>\n
CHICAGO (Reuter): Keith Jones scored a pair of goals to lead
\nthe Washington Capitals to a 6-3 victory over the Chicago
\nBlackhawks on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Michal Pivonka, Pat Peake and John Slaney each had two assists
\nfor the Capitals, who improved to 3-1-2 in their last six games.<\/p>\n
Seventh-place Washington moved three points ahead of eighth-
\nplace Florida in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
Other results:<\/p>\n
Enza sets world
\nsailing record<\/p>\n
BREST, France (AFP): Enza New Zealand made the fastest-ever
\ncircumnavigation of the globe when it reached here yesterday.<\/p>\n
The 92-foot catamaran, skippered by New Zealander Peter Blake
\nand Britain's Robin Knox-Johnston, had left the Isle of Ushant on
\nFrance's westernmost tip 74 days and 22 hours ago.<\/p>\n
Frenchman Bruno Peyron took 79 days six hours 15min 56sec in
\nanother catamaran, Commodore Explorer, last year.<\/p>\n
Ghana set up
\ngrudge match<\/p>\n
SOUSSE, Tunisia (Reuter): Ghana and the Ivory Coast are
\ndestined to meet in a premature repeat of the last African
\nNations Cup final following the last matches in the knockout
\nstage of the competition on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Ghana beat Senegal 1-0 to finish top of group D and set up a
\nquarter-final clash against the Ivorians, who were surprisingly
\nbeaten 1-0 by Zambia earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
Ghana, which welcomed back defender Anthony Baffoe and striker
\nAnthony Yeboah from injury, needed a late winner from substitute
\nPrince Polley Opuku to become the only team to complete the
\nqualifying stages with a 100 percent record.<\/p>\n
Havelange vows
\nto hang on<\/p>\n
ROME (Reuter): FIFA president Joao Havelange has vowed to stay
\non as head of soccer's ruling body despite rumours of a
\nleadership challenge.<\/p>\n
\"The competition has begun. I've got a taste for battle and I
\nnever give in,\" 78-year-old Havelange said in an interview with
\nthe Gazzetta dello Sport on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\"Regarding administration and the running of tournaments, my
\nmanagement has been impeccable. That's why I won't give in,\" he
\nsaid, putting moves against him down to personal ambition.<\/p>\n
Olazabal leads
\ngolf tourney<\/p>\n
NEW ORLEANS (UPI): ose Maria Olazabal of Spain tied a course
\nrecord with a 9-under 63 Wednesday to take the lead after the
\nfirst round of the d1.2 million Freeport-McMoran Classic.<\/p>\n
Olazabal holds a four-stroke advantage over Sam Torrance, who
\nshot a 67.<\/p>\n
The Freeport-McMoran Classic is the final event before the
\nMasters and many notable golfers elected not to make the trip to
\nNew Orleans. Defending Masters champion Bernhard Langer, Greg
\nNorman, Nick Price and Nick Faldo are among the golfers sitting
\nout this week's event.<\/p>",
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