Sports briefs for September 20, 2005

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2005 | 9:02 a.m.

Rebels named team of the week

The UNLV men's golf team has been recognized as Golfweek Magazine's Men's Team of the Week.

UNLV cruised to a 10-shot victory ahead of BYU on Saturday at the 19-team William H. Tucker Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M. The Rebels finished the 54-hole event at 13-under 851.

Senior Andres Gonzales claimed medalist honors at 9-under 207 and sophomore Jarred Texter placed second at 7-under.

Sorenstam, Creamer win Shoot-Out

At Boise, Annika Sorenstam and Paula Creamer teamed to win the Kraft/Nabisco Shoot-Out on Monday, a day after Sorenstam held off the 19-year-old Creamer by a stroke in the LPGA tour's John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic in Oklahoma.

Sorenstam and Creamer beat the teams of Jason Gore and Troy Matteson and fellow LPGA tour players Natalie Gulbis and Juli Inkster in the nine-hole skins event on the Hillcrest Country Club course, the site the Nationwide Tour's Albertson's Boise Open this week. Sorenstam and Creamer earned $15,000 for women's breast cancer research.

U.S. Open racquets net $40,000 for charity

Racquets used by Roger Federer and Andre Agassi in this month's U.S. Open final sold for $40,625 in an online fund-raising auction for Hurricane Katrina victims.

Top-ranked Federer, who beat Agassi in four sets Sept. 11 for his second consecutive U.S. Open title, autographed the racquet which attracted a top bid of $25,665, the Association of Tennis Professionals said. Agassi's went for $14,960.

Kim Clijsters' winning racquet netted $11,700 and her signed match outfit from her final win against Mary Pierce brought in $5,100. Serena Williams' diamond earrings have produced a high bid of $15,100 with five days left on tenniskatrina.com.

Christian Bimes, head of the French Tennis Federation, said the changes would start at next year's tournament, which will run over three weekends -- from Sunday, May 28-June 11.

Of the four Grand Slams, the Australian Open and the U.S. Open already pay equal prize money. The French Open's new policy leaves Wimbledon as the last of the four majors to pay women less.

At this year's French Open, men's singles champion Rafael Nadal won $1,068,232 and women's winner Justine Henin-Hardenne received $1,052,451.

Lindsay Davenport, coming off a title in Bali, pulled out of the tournament because of a strained back.

U.S. pair sweep 100-meter sprints

At Yokohama, Japan, Justin Gatlin and Allyson Felix gave the United States a sweep of the 100-meter sprints at the Yokohama Super Track and Field meet.

Gatlin, the Olympic and world champion, won the 100 in Yokohama for the second consecutive year, finishing in 10.04 seconds. In the women's 100, Felix won in 11.05.

Referee receives 8-month suspension

A soccer referee received an eight-month suspended sentence for agreeing to accept a bribe to fix a Czech league game.

Vladimir Pastyrik was found guilty of agreeing to accept more than $1,200 to fix a game between Viktoria Zizkov and Brno in February 2004. Pastyrik also must pay a fine of more than $1,200.

-- Sun wire services