Barry Evans, who won three consecutive tournaments, including $30,000 at the Falling Rock Classic, will be honored tonight as the Tri-State PGA's player of the year and winner of the award for low scoring average.

Evans, head pro at Berry Hills CC in Charleston, W.Va., will receive the Chuck Scally Sr. Player of the Year trophy and the Willie McKay Trophy for low scoring average (69.7).

Also, part-time Champions Tour player Roy Vucinich will be honored as Senior Player of the Year, and Totteridge pro Ryan Sikora will receive Apprentice Player of the Year. Dennis Clark of Nemacolin Woodlands Resort & Spa will receive the golf professional of the year award, and John Kerins of Tam O'Shanter will receive the TSPGA President's Plaque award.

Vucinich and his late brother, Mike, former head pro at Greensburg CC, will be inducted into the TSPGA Hall of Fame.

Other winners: Frank Blazewick, Highland CC, junior golf leader; Eric Johnson, Oakmont, teacher of the year; Joe Boros, Treesdale, Bill Strausbaugh Award; Justin Barroner of California University of Pa., Horton Smith Award for education. Merchandisers of the year are Jesse Horner, Olde Stonewall (public); Bob Gordon, Westmoreland CC (private); and Aaron Gizzi, Lakeview Resort (resort).

Seve Ballesteros was conscious and in stable condition after 12 hours of brain surgery to remove a brain tumor yesterday in Madrid.

• Jim Furyk won the PGA Grand Slam, birdieing the final hole to force a playoff with Padraig Harrington and winning with an 8-foot eagle putt on the first extra hole at Tucker's Town, Bermuda.

Notre Dame tight end Will Yeatman has been suspended from the team for the rest of the season but remains enrolled at school after being arrested on a charge of underage drinking at an off-campus party.

• Clemson president Jim Barker has e-mailed the school's faculty assuring them the money to buy out coach Tommy Bowden's contract won't come from state money or student fees, according to The Greenville (S.C.) News . Barker told the faculty the $3.5 million paid to Bowden over six years will come from athletic department funds.

West Virginia University will hold a free clinic from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the WVU Wrestling Pavilion, with proceeds to offset some of the medical costs incurred when 2005-07 Mountaineers wrestler Mike Wojcik was critically injured in an August ATV accident. .

Thoroughbred racing a series of sweeping safety and integrity reforms to be monitored by ex-Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson. Among the initiatives are a call steroids ban, uniform medication rules for each state, guidelines for injury reporting and prevention, improved safety rules and research and care for retired racehorses.

Cyclists will face four-year bans next season if found guilty of serious doping offenses. International Cycling Union president Pat McQuaid plans to double the current penalty of two years in "aggravating circumstances."

Ringgold named Brett Grandstrand as baseball coach. Grandstrand was a 13th-round draft pick of the Pirates who most recently played for the Washington Wild Things.