Life change for a child [Times photo: Michael Weimar] Son's health prompted Jill Briles-Hinton to leave pro golf and settle down as UF coach. Elifson leaves Bogie for USF After building the Pirates into a state power, the coach becomes a Bulls assistant. Motorsports Fernandez goes for third Montegi title By now, the CART drivers in Montegi, Japan, for Sunday's Firehawk 500 are going a bit stir-crazy.

Hubert Mizell On an island, Knight waits Bob Knight's future is harder to figure than Wall Street. He's a tough old bull, but the bears are raging at Indiana University. Devil Rays Alvarez hopes to delay surgery Rays starter has rotator cuff problem but hopes rehabilitation will hold him for this season. Rays tonight Devil Rays at Yankees Makeup spoils day of rest NEW YORK -- Getting rained out and having to stay over and lose an off day at home to play the Yankees today was bad enough.

Preps

• Hartley hits, pitches Leopards to title game
  HERNANDO 6, NAVARRE 0: The junior drives in the winning run and limits the Raiders to three hits in the Class 3A state semifinal victory.
• For Sharks, trust goes a long way
  RIVERVIEW -- As a second-year school, Riverview doesn't have a deep softball tradition to uphold. But ending the second season with a final four berth is a good way to start one.
• Sickles' first title won't come easy
  CITRUS PARK -- Sickles shocked many when it advanced to the 1998 final four as a first-year program.
• Bartow rallies, advances to final
  BARTOW 5, RIVIERA BEACH SUNCOAST 4: The Yellow Jackets will be in the final for the 4th straight year.
• Bartow gets another shot at state title
  AUBURNDALE -- While Hernando is in unfamiliar territory in tonight's 6:30 Class 3A championship game, the Leopards' opponents know the title game all too well.
• Pirate superman focused on state
  Able to leap Shaq in a single bound, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Boca Ciega's Jimmy Baxter.
• Plant 3, St. Thomas Aquinas 1:
  The Panthers rally with three runs in the sixth inning to knock off a national power.
• The good, the great and the ugly
  HOLLYWOOD CHR. 12, SEMINOLE PRES. 0: Fifteen errors doom the Lancers as every Eagle run is unearned.

Golf
Penny pinchers will pay the price
An unspoken but clear message is being sent to tournaments on the PGA Tour: pony up the cash, or be left behind.

The right way to play
The rules of golf aren't made to be broken, and ignorance is no excuse -- at least, according to this book.

Bowling
Erie men, Morehead women win college crowns
The Erie Community College men's team from Buffalo, N.Y., and the Morehead State University women's squad from Kentucky are the new bowling champions after week-long competition at Wichita, Kan., last week.