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8C THE PALM BEACH POST WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1999 NAIA Spring Championship Games Who's playing where A look at the week's events and where to see what: BASEBALL 1 1 Hi! .1 ill 4 WHERE: Patch Reef Tennis Center, 2000 NW 51st Boca Raton. DIRECTIONS: 1-95 to Yamato Road, exit west, continue for 2-3 miles, center is on left. South County Regional Park Tennis Center, Boca Raton. DIRECTIONS: 1-95 to Glades Road, exit west, make a right onto Cane Boulevard, make a left onto park access road. Palm Beach County Community College at Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton.

DIRECTIONS: 1-95 to Glades, exit east, continue for about 2 miles, college is on left. Lynn University, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton. DIRECTIONS: 1-95 to Yamato, exit west, turn left onto Military Trail, school is on right. Spanish River High School, 5100 Jog Road, Boca Raton.

DIRECTIONS: 1-95 to Yamato, exit west, school is at Yamato and Jog roads. Olympic Heights High School, 20101 Lyons Road, Boca Raton. DIRECTIONS: 1-95 to Yamato, exit west, continue for about 8 miles, turn left onto Lyons Road for 1 mile, school is on right. Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish Community Center, 9801 Donna Klein Boca Raton. DIRECTIONS: 1-95 to Glades, exit west, south on 441, make left onto Central Park Boulevard, make left onto Ruth and Baron Coleman, stay straight onto Donna Klein Boulevard.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD RESULTS Tuesday's finals WOMEN'S HEPTATHLON: 1. Neisha Thompson, McKendree 5014; 2. Xiao Hui Zhang, Azusa Pac 4839; 3. Robin Leafblad, Point Loma 4686: 4. Jessica Walters.

Baker 4496. WOMEN'S 100 METER LOW HURDLES: 1. Shanda Spurlock, Olivet Nazarene (III.) 13.78; 2. Keisha Harvey, McKendree (III.) 14.05; 3. Neisha Thompson, McKendree (III.) 14.09; 4.

Alesha Peel, Southern Nazarene (Okla.) 14.15. WOMEN'S LONG JUMP: 1. Sharen Fidge, Hastings (Neb.) 5.95m (1906.25); 2. Icis Charles, Lindenwood (Mo.) 5.80m 3. Ritza Douglas, Lindenwood (Mo.) 5.65m (1806.50); 4.

Jenna Goddard. Windsor (Ont.) 5.55m (1802.50). WOMEN'S 3,000 METER RACE WALK: 1. Jaimie Roberts, Wisconsin-Parkside 2. Sara Stevenson, Olivet Nazarene (III.) 3.

Laurie Starr, Hastings (Neb.) 4. Angie Nieth, Wisconsin-Parkside 16:21.25. MEN'S DECATHLON 1. Joe Cebulski, Taylor 7431; 2. Chris Carlson.

Azusa Pac 6935; 3. Bryan Clay, Azusa Pac 6898; 4. Chad Gillespie. Doane 6755. MEN'S 110 METER HIGH HURDLES: 1.

Darren Youngstrom, Taylor (Ind.) 14.04; 2. Jordan Hudgens, Azusa Pacific (Calif.) 14.07; 3. Vytautas Kancleris, Hastings (Neb.) 14.27; 4. Tanner Miller, Mary (N.D.) 14.46. MEN'S 5,000 METER RACE WALK: 1.

Lachlan McDonald, Wisconsin-Parkside 24.03.64; 2. Matt DeWitt, Wisconsin-Parkside 3. Matt Reneker, Walsh (Ohio) 4. Jeremy Eye, McKendree (III.) 27:57.97. TICKETS: $5 per day.

WHEN: Today, beginning at 8:30 a.m. WHERE: Blum Stadium, 13601 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens. DIRECTIONS: Exit 1-95 at Donald Ross Road, go east to Military Trail, make a right, school (Dwyer High School) is about one-quarter mile on right. INFORMATION Call (877) NAIA-TIX for tickets.

A week pass is $20. Or for more information, go on line at www.naia.org. FORMAT: 10 teams compete in a double-elimination format. RESULTSSCHEDULE: Ttmday'i mutts Game Dallas Baptist (Texas) 17. Dominican (N.Y.)8 Gam Indiana Tech 9, Embry-Riddle 8 Gam 7: Albertson (Idaho) 9.

Oklahoma City 2 Gam 8: Lewis-Clark State College (Idaho) vs. Culver-Stockton late Thuraday's garnet Gam 9: Oklahoma City vs. Dallas Baptist (Texas). 9 a.m. Gam 10: Loser Game 8 vs.

Indiana Tech, noon Gam 11: Albertson (Idaho) vs. Birmingham-Southern 4 p.m. Gam 12: Winner Game 8 vs. Bellevue 7 p.m. TICKETS: $5 per day.

WHERE: Roger Dean Stadium, 4751 Main Jupiter. DIRECTIONS: 1-95 to Donald Ross Road, exit east, enter complex at Central Drive and follow signs. SOFTBALL FORMAT: 16 teams compete in a double-elimination format. RESULTSSCHEDULE Tuesday's results Gam 1: Simon Fraser University (B.C.) (35-7) vs. Lindenwood University (Mo.) (41-6).

7 p.m. Gam St. Edward's University (Texas) 3, Georgia Southwestern State University 1 Gam 3: Spring Hill College (Ala.) 6, Union University (Tenn.) 4 Gam 4: Eastern Oregon University 8, Olivet Nazarene University (III.) 2 Gam 5: Southern California College 5, Columbia College (Mo.) 1 Gam University of Mobile (Ala.) 8, Nova Southeastern 0 Gam 7: McKendree College (III.) 7, University of Mary (N.D.) 0 Gam 8: Oklahoma City University 12, St. Joseph's College (Maine) 0 Today's games Gam 9: Loser Game 1 vs. Georgia Southwestern State University, 1 p.m.

(loser eliminated) Gam 10: Union University (Tenn.) vs. Olivet Nazarene University, 11 a.m. (loser eliminated) Gam 11: Columbia College (Mo.) vs. Nova Southeastern, 11 a.m. (loser eliminated) Gam 12: University of Mary (N.D.) vs.

St. Joseph College (Maine), 1 p.m. (loser eliminated) Gam 13: Winner Game 1 vs. St. Edward's University (Texas), 5 p.m.

Gam 14: Spring Hill College (Ala.) vs. Eastern Oregon University. 3 p.m. Gam IS: Southern California College vs. University of Mobile 3 p.m.

Gam 16: McKendree College (III.) vs. Oklahoma City University, 5 p.m. TICKETS: $5 per day. WHERE: Jupiter Softball Complex, 3377 Church St. DIRECTIONS: 1-95 to Jupiterlndiantown Road, exit east, make left onto Central Boulevard, make left onto Church Street, complex is on right.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S GOLF TICKETS: Free. WHEN: Today through Thursday, beginning at 8 a.m.; Friday (men only), beginning at 8 a.m. WHERE FOR MEN: Haig Course at PGA National, 1000 Ave. of the Champions. DIRECTIONS: 1-95 to PGA Boulevard, exit west, turn left onto Avenue of Champions, PGA National is on left.

WHERE FOR WOMEN: North Palm Beach Country Club, 901 U.S.I. DIRECTIONS: 1-95 to North Lake, exit east to U.S.I, head rlorth about 2 miles, country club is on left. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS 1 TICKETS: Free. WHEN: Through Saturday, beginning at 8 a.m. l.

Mi iii SHERMAN ZENTStaff Photographer Kate Nosova, who lost in the NAIA singles tournament Tuesday, found the tennis instruction pace slow in her hometown of Chernivtsi, i Motivation moves her game along; Kate Nosova has already accomplished much more socially and athletically than a typical 19-year-old. By Israel Gutierrez Palm Beach Post Staff Writer BOCA RATON In Kate Nosova's world of rapid personal development, the way tennis was taught in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, was too methodical. During the first year with the city's tennis league, players could not step on a court. They were only allowed to hit a ball against a wall, continuously, to help develop the basics of the game. "That was extremely boring.

I wanted to quit," said Nosova, now playing for the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma of the NAIA. "I would ask to go to the bathroom every five minutes. My coach went up to my mom and asked, 'Does she have some problem or It wasn't that Nosova did not want to learn. It was just that she worked at a faster pace. Maybe it was her mother who started Nosova's accelerated maturity when she enrolled her daughter in kindergarten at age 3 The two were married earlier! this year and both Nosova and-Holland will pursue Master's degrees at the University of Okla-3 homa in the fall.

And even though" she has zipped through the col-J lege process so far, Nosova was) still around long enough to affect1 her teammates. i "Even on the tennis court she's! really junior Amy Hisle said. "She knows she's-i not going to be an awesome, stud! tennis player, but she really Nosova has yet to play her last tennis match with USAO. She ex- tended that career at least one, more day as she and Paola Botero, defeated Missy Anderson and; Sandrine Wolf of Webber 6-0, 6-1, in the doubles competition. "I'm sure there are a lot more; people more grown up at 19 than am and have to see a lot more things than I have," Nosova said.t "I just had to mature a little faster which now I wish I wouldn't have1 done, but it might be good for so Nosova could "socialize." But regardless of how it was fostered, Nosova's self-motivation and dedication has her ahead of the pace of a typical 19-year-old.

Just ask her current coach, Scott Linn. Even while Nosova lost 6-3, 6-2 to Auburn-Montgomery's Julie White on Tuesday at the Patch Reef Tennis Center in the NAIA championships, Linn knows Nosova's potential. Nosova is just now beginning to face high-level competition and still has two years of college eligibility. Nosova, however, will not be using those final two years. She's graduating in August "She's playing her best tennis right now," said linn, whose US-AO women's team is 18th after two days of competition.

"It's kind of sad, she's still got two years of eligibility. As a coach, you'd like to say, 'Hey, next year youU be an Ail-American. Stick But she's got too many other bigger things in life to accomplish." Nosova found, her way to Oologah, through an exchange program called the Freedom Support Act and lived with Rex and Sharon McKee. After a year of high school, Nosova was offered a tennis scholarship to USAO, located in Chickasha, Okla. Upon arrival, though, she ran into a snag.

"I got a call from a lady and she said, 'Well, they canceled the tennis Nosova said. "I said, 'Oh my Nosova's scholarship was still honored, however, and continuing with her ahead-of-schedule trend, Nosova found the man she would marry, Jeremy Holland, her freshman year. Race-walking is a path of solitude, speedy strolling Sisters like their chances' 4 A French Open I WHEN: Through June 6. I TV TODAY: 10 a.m. and 1 a.m., USA.

I ON LINE: www.frenchopen.com Venus." I "Obviously, Venus will go into the French as a favorite and if the world turns according to the way Venus has planned, you can al--ready guess who will be holding the 1999 French, Open trophy," she writes, Serena likes her own chances. "At last year's French, Serena succumbed to the villain of inexperience, but don't expect Serena to fall into the same trap this year," she writes. The Associated Press PARIS The Williams sisters have picked their favorites to win the French Open: Themselves. "Don't be surprised if one of the Williams sisters decides it is red clay time," Serena writes in the sisters' newsletter, The Tennis Monthly Recap. The newsletter lists "Serena as chief editor and "Venus Ebony Star" as chief writer.

Big sister Venus considers her chances of winning in an article called, "The world according to Elena Wagner def. Samantha Smith 6-1 7-6 (8-6). Halard Oecugis (16) def. K. Habsudova 1-6, 6-4, 6-1.

A Sanchez-Lorenzo def M. Saeki 6-7 (7-4), 6-4, 6-0. Raluca Sandu def Brie Rippner 5-7, 6-4, 6-3. Monica Seles (3) def. Fang Li 6-2, 6-4.

Paola Suarez def. Emilie Loit 6-3, 6-2. Fabiola Zuluaga, Colombia, def. Sarah Pitkowski 6-2, 7-5. Patty Schnyder (11) def.

Corlna Morarlu 3-6, 6-3, 8-6. Nicole Arendt N.J., def. Sophie Lefevre 6-3, 7-5. Asa Carlsson def. Sabine Appelmans 6-2, 7-5.

Ines Gorrochategui def. Seda Noorlander 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Andrea Glass def. Lisa Raymond, Wayne, 6-4, 7-6. Nathalie Tauziat (9) def.

Amelie Cocheteux 6-4, 6-3. Anna Smashnova def. Sonya Jeyaseelan 2-6, 6-1, 6-3. Els Callens def. Shi-Ting Wang 6-4, 6-1.

Adriana Serra-Zanetti def. Pavlina Stoyanova 0-6, 6-2, 6-4. Mary Pierce (8) def. Joannette Kruger 6-4, 6-3. Lindsay Davenport (2) def.

Jane Chi, Meriden 6-3, 6-1. Jennifer Capriati def. Virginia Ruano-Pascual 6-2, 6-3. Silvia Farina def. Eugenia Koulikovskaya 6-0, 7-5.

Justine Henin def Kristina Brandi 6-4, 6-2. Jana Nejedly def. Maria Alejandra Vento 6-4, 3-6, 6-0. Anna Kournikova def. Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-3, 6-3.

Lubomira Bacheva def. Virginie Razzano 6-3, 6-4. Conchita Martinez def. Cara Black, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. Lilia Osterloh def.

Janet Lee 6-4, 2-6, 7-5. Amy Frazier def. Elena Tatarkova 6-4, 6-2. Gala Leon Garcia def. Rita Kuti Kis 6-4, 6-1.

Elena Likhovtseva def. Katarina Studenikova 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS: Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1 vs. Dominik Hrbaty Natasha Zvereva vs. Venus Williams (5) Arnaud Clement vs. Andre Agassi (13) Martina Hingis (1 vs.

Amelie Mauresmo Serena Williams (10) vs. Mariana Diaz Marcelo Rios (9) vs. Arnaud Boetsch Jim Courier vs. Hicham Arazi Jana Novotna (4) vs. Adriana Gersi Vincent Spadea vs.

Richard Krajicek (5) Katarina Srebotnik vs. Arantxa Sanchez-Vicark) (7) Carlos Moya (4) vs Petr Korda Jiri Novak vs. Tim Henman (7) RESULTS: Area players in bold; seeds in parenthesis. MEN'S SINGLES, FIRST ROUND Thomas Enqvist (16) def. Hector Moretti 4-6, 6-0, 6-4, 6-2.

Younes El Aynaoui def. Xavier Malisse 6-4. Magnus Larsson def. Karol Kucera (1 1) 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. Christian Ruud def.

Carlos Costa 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. Andrea Gaudenzi def. Rainer Schuttler 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. Fernando Meligeni def. Justin Gimelstob 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.

Alex Lopez-Moron def Todd Woodbridge 6-0, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2. Fernando Vicente def. Jeff Tarango 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3. Alex Corretja (6) def. German Puentes 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, 6-2.

Gustavo Kuerten (8) def. Galo Blanco 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. Max Mirnyi def. Mariano Zabaleta 6-1 7-6 (7-4), 6-2. Markus Hantschk def.

Vladimir Voltchkov 6-2, 6-4, 6-2. Patrick Rafter (3) def. Roger Federer 5-7, 6-3, 6-0, 6-2. Tommy Haas def. Marc Rosset 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-4), 6-1.

Albert Portas def. Cecil Mamiit 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. Stoltenberg def. M. Philippoussis (10) 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, 6-1.

Guillermo Canas def. Jan Siemennk 7-6 (7-2), 4-6, 6-2, 6-4. Nicolas Escude def. Petr Luxa 6-4, 6-3. 6-1.

Mose Navarra def. Scott Draper 3-6, 6-1 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-5). Stefan Koubek def. Guillaume Raoux 6-0, 6-4, 7-5. Andrei Medvedev def.

Dinu Pescariu 6-3, 6-1, 6-1. Bohdan Ulihrach def. Ramon Delgado 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. Arnaud Di Pasquale def, C. Rochus 6-2, 6-2, 6-7 (7-3), 6-4.

Seng Schalken def. Paul Haarhuis 6-2. 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Mariano Puerta def. Gianluca Pozzi 6-2, 7-6 (7-0), 6-4.

Gaston Gaudio def. Oliver Gross 6-1, 2-0, retired. B. Karbacher def. M.

Norman 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-2, 6-4. P. Sampras (2) def. J. A.

Mann 6-7 (7-5), 6-4, 7-5, 6-7(11 -9), 6-4. Byron Black, def. Adrian Voinea 4-6, 3-6. 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, Francisco Clavet def. Julian Alonso 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.

Felix Mantilla (14) def. Rodolphe Gilbert 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. S. Grosiean def. Fabrice Santoro 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 6-1.

WOMEN SINGLES, FIRST ROUND Ai Sugiyama def. Amanda Coetzer (14) 7-5, 6-1. Steffi Graf (6) def Magdalena Maleeva 6-2. 6-0. Cristina Torrens-Valero def Sophie Georges 6-2, 6-2.

Capriati wins opener foot surgery and a mysterious breathing ailment took her off her usual training. Mike DeWitt, coach of Wisconsin-Parkside's dynastic walking team, suggested specialized strolling as a temporary substitute. The rest, as they say, is hoofing history. The men walked 5,000 meters Tuesday, 1214 laps around the track, and again it was a Wisconsin-Parkside athlete out front. National champion Lachlan McDonald chugged along for 24 minutes and more in 89-degree heat and then announced "it's quite pleasant at the moment, actually." Of course, McDonald is from Australia, land of the walkabout.

Fine folks, these walking wonders from the NAIA, and indicative of the fine competition scheduled at tonight's more conventional track finals. However, race-walking, like all sports, can become an obsession. Men walk 50,000 meters in the Olympics, better than 31 miles. Great Britain's Harry Whitlock, the 1936 Olympic champion, covered 5 kilometers near the end of the race while vomiting almost continuously. Another balmy Brit, Donald Thompson, collapsed with the finish line in sight at the 1956 Olympics.

In 1960 at Rome he made certain he would be ready for the heat by sealing the doors and windows of his bathroom and exercising several times a week while surrounded by electric space heaters and kettles of boiling water. Thompson won his gold medal, all right. In a walk. GEORGE From 1C races sometimes, how some people will call out at us with stupid remarks as we're going around the track," said Park-side's Jaimie Roberts, the women's NAIA champion at 3,000 meters. "We're all athletes at a meet like this.

Why should it matter what you do? The only thing to do is focus on the race, concentrate on what you're doing." For most of us, the overwhelming urge to break into a trot and coast past the rest of the plodding field would be trouble enough to tame. There is far more to know, however. A champion walker must keep one foot on the ground at all times and the lead leg in every stride locked ramrod straight at the knee. To violate these rules is" to risk disqualification in the middle of the race. Of course, to follow them is to risk skeletal stress and a touch of embarrassment from the visually stunning sway of the hips.

Mae West, one imagines, might have been a champion race walker if she ever cared to break a sweat. She certainly had the motion down, if not the shin-splintering pace. Roberts covered Vk laps Tuesday, just less than 2 miles, in 15 minutes and change. That's some serious shuffling, as proven by the fact that runner-up Sara Stevenson of Olivet Nazarene was more than a minute behind. There was a time when Roberts moved even faster, running cross-country and an occasional quarter-mile.

Then UF police search offices of agent the French Open last year because of an injury. After beating Magdale-i na Maleeva 6-2, 6-0, Graf said she isn't yet certain she can regain the form that brought her 21 career Grand Slam titles. "I think I can, yoq know," she said. "I probably just need to believe in it a little more." Seles, seeded third and; a three-time winner at the French, won 6-2, 6-4 againsf. Fang Li of China.

i Asked about last year's; loss in the final to Arantxa; Sanchez-Vicario, she "Thank goodness my memory is not long. That day was very difficult, tried to learn from it." Davenport, seeded seti ond, made easy work fellow American Jane Chi; winning 6-3, 6-1. Anna Kournikova beat Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand FRENCH From 1C shots. He made me work very hard." The top women had a far easier time. Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, Lindsay Davenport and Mary Pierce all advanced with no trouble.

Also winning was Jennifer Capriati, just days after she won her first title in more than six years. "You're the only one who can really figure out your own life," Capriati said, after defeating Virginia Ruano-Pascal of Spain 6-2, 6-3. "So I think a lot of the credit goes to me." Capriati laughed and patted herself on the back. Graf, a five-time champion at the French, was making her 16th appearance at Roland Garros, where she hasn't lost before the quarterfinals in her past 12 tries: She skipped Black has signed the top eight players at Florida the past three years, including five first-rounders: Belle Glade's Reidel Anthony and Fred Taylor, Ike Hilliard, Jevon Kearse and Reggie McGrew. Kearse, McGrew and Belle Glade's Johnny Rutledge fired Black last month after they were questioned by campus police about illegal agent activity.

So far, three agents face criminal charges involving Gator athletes: Sean Altorfish, Bufford Jordan and Michael Joseph McDonald. Craig Dolch The University of Florida Police Department announced Tuesday it used a search warrant last Friday on the offices of agent William Tank" Black, who has been the subject of a criminal investigation into illegal agent activities at the school. Black last week was charged by the NFL Players Association with giving players cash and use of free cars before their eligibility had ended. A source close to the investigation said the union's illegal recruiting charges involved at least three former UF players..