Medalist eliminated

Stephanie Kono, who played four playoff holes in the morning to qualify for match play, eliminated stroke-play medalist Tiffany Lua from the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links last night in Lexington, Ky.

Kono beat Lua, 3 and 1, at Kearney Hill Golf Links. It was the first time in five years the stroke-play winner failed to advance out of the first round of match play at the Women's Public.

Other first-round winners included defending champion Tiffany Joh, U.S. Women's Amateur champion Kimberly Kim, and two-time NCAA player of the year Amanda Blumenherst.

College football

Indiana University will hold a public service at noon Saturday for football coach Terry Hoeppner in Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind. Hoeppner, who coached the Hoosiers for two seasons, died Tuesday from complications of a brain tumor. He was 59.

College basketball

Ohio State basketball player David Lighty pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and was fined $250 in a case involving a jogger who was shot with a BB gun last year. James Nugent, 55, was not seriously hurt last June when he was hit in the back by at least one plastic BB while jogging on the high school track.

Frontier League

The Washington Wild Things dropped the first game of a doubleheader with the Southern Illinois Miners, 6-1, at Consol Energy Park.

Sam Mann, a former Washington & Jefferson College All-American pitcher, signed with the Kalamazoo Kings.

Soccer

Dave Sarachan was fired as the coach of Major League Soccer's Chicago Fire after a 4-6-2 start and was replaced on an interim basis by assistant Denis Hamlett. MLS's coach of the year in 2003, Sarachan was 55-50-31 in five seasons with Chicago.

Tennis

Dinara Safina ousted defending champion Michaella Krajicek in the Ordina Open in Den Bosch, Netherlands, winning a rematch of last year's final, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

Tennis star Guillermo Coria settled his lawsuit against a New Jersey-based vitamin maker he blamed for a positive steroid test that cost him millions in earnings. Terms between Coria and Universal Nutrition were not disclosed.

Defending champion Justine Henin beat Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwanska, 6-4, 6-1, at the Eastbourne International in Eastbourne, England.