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Compiled from Times wires

© St. Petersburg Times, published March 7, 2001

Sampras out; Agassi is, too

The top two seeds fell in the first round of the Franklin Templeton Tennis Classic in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Tuesday.

Andrew Ilie used his baseline game to upset No. 1 Pete Sampras, the third-ranked player on the ATP's entry system, 3-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 for the biggest victory of his career. Ilie is 43rd on the entry system, based on the previous year's play.

In a night match, Francisco Clavet stunned No. 2 Andre Agassi 6-1, 6-7 (7-2), 7-5.

"It wasn't happening for me today," Agassi said about his second straight loss to Clavet in Scottsdale.

AUTOS: Formula One organizers want higher safety fences at tracks and are considering reducing speeds. A volunteer marshal at Sunday's opener in Melbourne, Australia, was struck and killed by a tire off the car of Jacques Villeneuve.

BOXING: Derrick "Smoke" Gainer, who defended his undisputed light heavyweight championship against Victor Polo in Tampa on Feb. 24, pleaded no contest in Pensacola to domestic battery. His estranged wife, Monica, accused him of grabbing her throat and shoving her to the ground Thursday. He was given 12 months probation and ordered to participate in a domestic violence program.

COLLEGES: Kansas will cut its men's tennis and swimming programs because of tight budgets. Officials also said its Oct. 20 "Border War" football game with Missouri won't be played at Arrowhead Stadium. ... Florida State's baseball team beat St. Joseph's 16-4 in Tallahassee. Freshman right-hander Marc LaMacchia earned the win, allowing two runs on three hits and striking out eight. ... Florida State's women's tennis team beat Michigan State 7-0 at Tallahassee. ... Vanderbilt's men's tennis team beat FSU 4-3 in Tallahassee. ... Host Florida A&M beat FSU's softball team 5-4. ... South Florida's tennis team beat Old Dominion 6-1 in Tampa. USF No. 1 Martin Wetzel beat Rodrigo Laender 6-1, 6-0. ... USF's women's tennis team beat Marquette 5-2. The Bulls won all three doubles matches. ... USF's softball team swept Temple 4-3 and 4-0. ... Tampa's baseball team beat Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne 7-1. Freshman Casey McKenzie pitched seven innings for his first win. ... Northwood's softball team beat Tampa 4-2 in the opener, but Tampa rebounded with a 3-0 win in the night game.

GOLF: Two-time Australian Open champion Aaron Baddeley, 19, received a special invitation to play in the Masters next month, the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club said. Shingo Katayama, who won five tournaments and the money title on last year's Japanese tour, also was invited.

SLED DOG RACING: Linwood Fiedler was the first musher to arrive at Nikolai, Alaska, as the leaders of the Iditarod cleared the towering Alaska Range and a 93-mile section of the Farewell Burn.

SWIMMING: Simon Daniel Chocron, 27, a four-time open-water national champion who won academic-athletic honors at Florida State, was freed on $250,000 bond Monday after a weekend in the Duval County Jail at Jacksonville on sexual assault charges. He was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a 15-year-old boy at Bolles School, where he coached.

WRESTLING: Banned wrestler Alexander Leipold has asked international authorities to lift their suspension of all German wrestlers. Leipold was stripped of his Olympic gold medal after testing positive for the steroid nandrolone. He obtained a court order allowing him to compete in Germany despite a two-year international ban. He competed once, and the international federation Feb. 26 suspended all German wrestlers.

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