Sports briefs 10/11/04

Colleges

UAB assistant coach Pat Donohoe was arrested on a marijuana possession charge during a recruiting trip.

Donohoe, 51, was arrested Friday after a small amount of what was apparently marijuana was found in his vehicle, state troopers spokesman Sgt. Tim Sartain said. A trooper had pulled him over for an unspecified traffic violation.

Donohoe, who was in Moulton on a recruiting trip, was not allowed to attend UAB's game at Mississippi State.

Golf

• Andre Stolz played like a veteran instead of a struggling rookie when it counted most Sunday, shooting a 5-under 67 to win the Michelin Championship at Las Vegas by a shot over Tom Lehman and two others.

Stolz two-putted from 45 feet on the final hole to win for the first time on the PGA Tour. The Australian, who had made only $88,373 all year, made a crucial birdie putt on the 16th hole and then parred the last two holes to collect the $720,000 winner's check and gain a tour exemption for the next two years.

Tag Ridings, who tied the course record with a final-round 61, tied for second along with Lehman (69) and Harrison Frazar (67).

Stolz, who missed 10 of 11 cuts at one point this season, including eight in a row, began the day a stroke off the lead held by Lehman and took over it himself with a 32 on the front nine.

• Scotland's Stephen Gallacher won for the first time on the European tour, beating Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell on the first playoff hole at the Dunhill Links Championship.
• Liselotte Neumann won her first LPGA Tour title in six years, holding off a late charge by Grace Park for a three-stroke victory at the LPGA Asahi Ryokuken International Championship.

Neumann, the 1988 U.S. Women's Open champion, closed with a final-round 68 for a 15-under 273 total, for her first win since the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship in 1998.

• Larry Nelson rallied from far off the lead and made a 5-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to beat Hale Irwin and win the Administaff Small Business Classic.

Nelson, who started the final round seven shots back, closed with an 8-under 64 and tied Irwin (67) at 14-under 202, winning his second Champions Tour event of the year and 19th overall.

-- From wire reports