IN BRIEF

MOTOR SPORTS

Servia clocks best time in Indy 500 practice

Oriol Servia was the fastest of 10 drivers in Thursday's practice hoping to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.

Servia's fast lap of 221.343 mph was seventh overall in the six-hour practice session at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where most of the 22 drivers already qualified for the May 24 race shared track time with the drivers trying to find enough speed to make it into the 33-car field in time trials Saturday and Sunday.

Next among the nonqualified drivers was Townsend Bell, who posted a lap of 220.938 as he worked to get enough speed to join two teammates in the lineup -- Mario Moraes, who led Thursday's speed chart at 222.739, and Paul Tracy.

Other fast drivers among the nonqualified entries included E.J. Viso at 220.085 mph and Alex Tagliani at 218.986.

Also: A person familiar with Jeremy Mayfield's drug test results said the positive finding was not for a performance-enhancing drug.

NASCAR officials previously announced the drug violation was not alcohol-related. The administrator of its drug-testing program dismissed Mayfield's explanation that he mixed a prescription with an over-the-counter medicine.

COLLEGES

UNLV golf team shares fifth at NCAA regional

The No. 21 UNLV men's golf team shot a first-round 12-over-par 296 and is tied for fifth in an NCAA regional at Austin, Texas.

Texas Tech leads the field by nine shots after opening with a 2-under 282. UNLV, the fifth seed, is tied with Lamar.

Eddie Olson led the Rebels with a 1-over 72 and is in a six-way tie for ninth place.

The three-round event concludes Saturday.

Also: Matt Vern and Bryan Holaday each went 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs to lead the Texas Christian baseball team (33-14, 13-5 Mountain West Conference) to a 10-4 victory over UNLV at Wilson Stadium.

Ryan Thornton, Jesse Wight and Bryan Resnick hit solo homers for the Rebels (26-28, 9-13). Thornton, Wight and Scott Berke each had two of UNLV's 10 hits.

Michigan coach John Beilein will head a 14-member NCAA coaches coalition that hopes to clarify rules and prevent inadvertent infractions.

The men's basketball ethics coalition also hopes to give coaches a better understanding of rules' intent so that they can learn to play by the spirit of the rule as well as conform to the letter of the law.

MISCELLANEOUS

Hayhurst captures win as 51s beat Redbirds

The 51s grabbed an early lead and defeated Memphis 3-1 in a Pacific Coast League game in Memphis, Tenn.

Three hits and an error in the top of the first led to two Las Vegas runs.

Buck Coats doubled to lead off the game for the 51s and scored on a David Freese throwing error when Howie Clark reached on a bunt single. Clark scored on Randy Ruiz's single to right field before the Redbirds recorded an out.

Las Vegas starter Dirk Hayhurst gained his second victory of the season. The right-hander struck out six and scattered six hits.

Also: Three-time champion Justin Leonard and Paul Goydos shot 7-under-par 63s to share the first-round lead in the Texas Open in San Antonio.

Goydos, who publicly opened up this month about the death of his ex-wife in January and raising his two teenage daughters, had the lead for most of the day until Leonard birdied three of his last four holes.

Helen Alfredsson jump-started a career-best, 10-under 62 by holing out for eagle from 68 yards on her second hole and took a two-stroke lead over Brittany Lincicome after the first round of the Sybase Classic in Clifton, N.J.

Defending champion Andy Murray, top-ranked Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer advanced to the quarterfinals of the Madrid Open.

Andy Roddick advanced after Nikolay Davydenko withdrew with a leg injury. Roddick next will face Federer, who defeated James Blake, 6-2, 6-4.

Argentine tennis player David Nalbandian has had surgery on his right hip and will be sidelined for four months.

Delaware is now the only state east of the Mississippi River to allow betting on sports. Gov. Jack Markell signed the bill into law Thursday.

Delaware is one of only four states, along with Nevada, Montana and Oregon, grandfathered under a 1992 federal law that bans sports gambling.