Plu Wins First China Football Contest 20-7

-- COLLEGES

Marc Weekly scored the first touchdown today in China's first live, American-style football game, but the biggest cheers came when his teammates threw miniature footballs into the stands.

Weekly's 3-yard TD run on a quarterback option around right end, followed by scoring passes of 21 and 11 yards to tight end Kevin Engman, led the Pacific Lutheran Lutes to a 20-7 victory over Evangel College in the first of three exhibition games in China.

PLU Coach Frosty Westering said the biggest cause for celebration was that the game took place at all.

"We sweat blood, and we almost had an international situation here," Westering told players from both teams who gathered for a postgame talk and prayer at midfield. "But now it's over and it was a great game. We're just trying to make the Chinese have a good time."

Pacific Lutheran and the Evangel Crusaders of Springfield, Mo., are scheduled to play June 8 in the southern city of Canton and June 12 in the coastal city of Shanghai.

The two teams had threatened to cancel the games when Chinese authorities refused to return camera equipment to U.S. television crews on the trip to document the tour. Customs confiscated the equipment at Beijing airport.

Wang Juxian, liaison for the China International Sports Travel Co., the teams' host, said the crews have tourist visas, which do not allow them to carry in cameras and work as journalists.

-- GOLF

Bob Gilder and rookie Scott Gump shot 7-under-par 65s to share the first-round lead of the Kemper Open in Potomac, Md.

Gump, who broke 70 only twice in 30 rounds this year, had an eagle, five birdies and a bogey to finish with his best round on the PGA Tour.

Gilder, a 16-year veteran who has not won since 1983, had seven birdies, including five on the back nine.

-- Chris Johnson shot a 67 despite a harrowing run-in with lightning for a one-shot lead after the first round of the LPGA Rochester, N.Y., International.

Beth Daniel missed a 4-foot putt and double-bogeyed on the 18th hole to fall out of the lead. She was in a group of eight one stroke back of Johnson.

-- Seve Ballesteros and Colin Montgomerie, who went to a sudden-death playoff earlier this week in the British PGA, shared the lead after one round of the British Masters in Woburn, England.

-- BASEBALL

Greg Umfleet's second home run of the game broke an eighth-inning tie as Lewis-Clark State went on to defeat Hawaii Pacific 11-4 in the NAIA World Series in Lewiston, Idaho.

Lewis-Clark State, the only undefeated team in the tournament and defending champion, was to play Oral Roberts today for the title. A victory by Oral Roberts would force another game for the championship tomorrow.

-- TRACK AND FIELD

Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis, running in separate heats a month before their scheduled rematch in France, both looked flat in the 100 meters at a meet in Seville, Spain.

Lewis finished second in his race, clocking 10.30 seconds, while Johnson was fifth, in 10.69, in his heat.

American Dennis Mitchell had the best 100 time overall, clocking 10.15 seconds despite a strong head wind.

In other events, Jamaican Merlene Ottey ran the fastest women's 200 of the year, and American Danny Harris ran a season's best in the 400-meter hurdles, finishing in 48.39.

In women's 400 hurdles, American Sandra Farmer ran a 54.57, best in the world this year.

-- BOXING

Luis Mendoza unleashed a slashing left hit in the seventh round to knock out Joao Cardoso de Oliveira and retain the World Boxing Association junior featherweight title in Madrid.

-- Monday's closed-circuit telecast of the Virgil Hill-Thomas Hearns light-heavyweight title bout will be offered locally at the Caddyshack Tavern, 2325 California Ave. S.W. Admission is $15. Coverage will begin at 6:30 p.m.