Miscellany

Fri., Dec. 6, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

Top-seeded North Carolina (23-1), meets fifth-seeded Santa Clara (18-3-2) and second-seeded defending champion Notre Dame (23-1), faces third-seeded Portland (19-0-2) in the semifinals of the women’s NCAA soccer final four Friday at Santa Clara, Calif.

Boris Becker beat Jakob Hlasek 6-4, 6-1 at the Grand Slam Cup tennis tourney in Munich, Germany and will face Tim Henman - who downed Wimbledon runner-up Malivai Washington 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 - in the semifinals.

Lia Oberstar won the 200-meter backstroke race in U.S. record time (2 minutes, 7.88 seconds) at the U.S. Open Swimming Championships at San Antonio.

In Albuquerque, N.M., Mike Cito, a high school football player who wore a razor-sharp helmet buckle that cut several players from an opposing team during a game this season has been banned from competition for a year.

Police issued an arrest warrant late for University of Cincinnati basketball starter Ruben Patterson in connection with an aggravated burglary in which a woman was attacked in her apartment.

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