Bloomsday Will Decide ‘96 Pro Title

The Professional Road Racing Organization has announced that its 1996 World Road Running Championship event will offer $100,000 in prize money and be held May 5 at the Lilac Bloomsday 12K in Spokane.

The races and sites for the following two championship events also were set.

The 1997 final will be the Quad City Times Bix 7-Mile race at Davenport, Iowa, and the 1998 final will be the Boulder Boulder 10K at Boulder, Colo.

The championship race caps the $1 million, 12-race circuit, which also includes the Houston-Tenneco Marathon, Northern Telecom Cherry Blossom 10 Mile at Washington, D.C., Steamboat Classic 4 Mile at Peoria, Ill., Peachtree Road Race 10K at Atlanta, Utica Boilermaker 15K at Utica, N.Y., Crim 10 Mile at Flint, Mich., Philadelphia Distance Run, Twin Cities Marathon at Minneapolis-St. Paul and Tulsa 15K at Tulsa, Okla.

College tennis

The Washington State University women captured the Pacific-10 Northern Division title at the Lloyd Nordstrom Tennis Center on the University of Washington campus Sunday, edging the Huskies 36-33 and handling the University of Oregon 36-4.

Emma Lin, Narelle Hall and Sheetal Khanna all won final-round singles matches for the Cougars. Lin then teamed with Linette Visagie to win a crucial doubles match.