IN BRIEF

GOLF

Sabbatini shoots 64, ties for Nelson lead

Rory Sabbatini followed an unconventional par with four consecutive birdies on the way to a season-best 6-under 64 and a share of the second-round lead Friday with John Mallinger at the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas.

Mallinger eagled both par-5s at the TPC Four Seasons course and made a 15-foot birdie putt on his final hole for a 65 to match Sabbatini at 8-under 132.

First-round co-leader James Nitties (68) overcame a double bogey after hitting his first tee shot of the day out of bounds. He was 7 under, along with Brian Davis (65), Briny Baird (64), James Driscoll and Dustin Johnson (65).

Also: Ross Drummond, more famous as the subject of a golf book than for his play, shot a 4-under 66 to take a two-stroke lead after the second round of the Senior PGA Championship in Beachwood, Ohio.

The 52-year-old Scottish player, whose life on the fringes of fame and fortune were told in the popular 1996 book "Four Iron In the Soul," had a 4-under 136 total.

Tom Purtzer, whose 66 tied him for the first-round lead with Scott Hoch, faded to a 72 and was two shots back with Hoch. Also at 2-under 138 were Jeff Sluman (68), Larry Mize (69) and Bernhard Langer (70).

France's Karine Icher carded a 6-under 66 to take a two-stroke lead over South Korea's Hee-Won Han in the final LPGA Corning Classic in Corning, N.Y.

Icher, the first-round co-leader at 8 under with Hee Young Park, had a 14-under 130 total. That broke the 36-hole record for the tournament by one shot and equaled the best back-to-back rounds in Corning history.

Han shot 67.

England's Paul Casey shot 5-under 67 at historic Wentworth to take a two-stroke lead in the BMW PGA Championship in Virginia Water, England.

Casey had an 8-under 136 total. Defending champion Miguel Angel Jimenez (70), David Horsey (71), Anthony Wall (71) and Soren Kjeldsen (69) were 6 under.

American John Daly chipped in three times -- once from a bunker and once for eagle -- on the back nine as he turned an otherwise mediocre round into a 1-under 71 that ensured he made the cut of the European PGA Tour event.

Purdue's Maria Hernandez shot a 1-under 71 for a one-stroke victory in the NCAA Division I Women's Championship in Owings Mills, Md., and Arizona State beat UCLA by eight shots for its seventh team title.

MISCELLANEOUS

Torres sets American record in 50 butterfly

Dara Torres set an American record in the 50-meter butterfly in the morning, then improved that time in the evening final at the Texas Senior Circuit No. 2 meet in College Station.

The 42-year-old Torres, who won three silver medals in Beijing last summer, breezed to victory in 25.72 seconds to beat her record time of 25.84 from the preliminaries.

Both her times beat Jenny Thompson's American record of 26.00, set in Barcelona in 2003. Marleen Veldhuis of the Netherlands set the world record of 25.33 seconds in April.

Also: Mark Cavendish won the 13th stage of the Giro d'Italia in a mass sprint into Florence, Italy, the third time the British cyclist has won a leg of this year's race.

Denis Menchov of Russia kept the overall leader's pink jersey.

Lance Armstrong finished with the main pack, eight seconds behind Cavendish to remain 12th overall, 6 minutes, 34 seconds behind Menchov.

The father of tennis player Jelena Dokic was charged with threatening the Australian ambassador in Belgrade, Serbia. Police found rifles and hand grenades during a search of his house.

Damir Dokic could face up to eight years in prison for "endangering security" of the ambassador and unlawful possession of weapons, his attorney said.

A new Court 3 will be built at Wimbledon in time for the 2011 championships.

The new 2,000-seat court will occupy the site of the old Court 2, with work getting under way in July and scheduled to finish by May 2011.

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux won his professional boxing debut with a third-round technical knockout over Juan Noriega in Miami.

Rigondeaux, who defected from Cuba in February, was not as busy with his punches but still wore down Noriega in their junior featherweight bout.

The South Carolina Stingrays scored three times in the third period to beat the Alaska Aces 4-2 in Game 1 of the best-of-7 ECHL Kelly Cup Finals in Anchorage.