IN BRIEF

COLLEGES

UNLV tennis players set for NCAA tourney

UNLV will have three participants in the NCAA tennis individual championships, with Elena Gantcheva and Kristina Nedeltcheva competing in women’s doubles and Elliot Wronski competing in men’s singles in Athens, Ga.

Gantcheva and Nedeltcheva, ranked 20th with a 23-3 record, will face the No. 3-ranked team of Whitney McCray and Kristi Miller of Georgia Tech on Thursday.

Wronski (19-12), ranked 60th, takes the court today against No. 56 Alex Schweizer of Auburn.

Also: Georgia claimed its fifth NCAA men’s tennis championship with a 4-0 victory over Illinois on Tuesday in Athens, Ga., finishing the season 32-0.

In the women’s final, Georgia Tech beat UCLA, 4-2.

Former Villanova basketball star Howard Porter was found severely beaten in a Minneapolis alley, and he remained hospitalized Tuesday.

Porter, 58, is now a probation officer for Ramsey County, Minn., but it was unclear whether the beating was connected to his job. Police said no one had been arrested and had no suspects.

Reserve forward Ryan Wright plans to transfer from UCLA to Oklahoma, Sooners coach Jeff Capel said.

The 6-foot-8-inch, 240-pound Wright played in 28 games last season for the Bruins.

Louisiana State backup quarterback Ryan Perrilloux was suspended from the team indefinitely after he was cited for trying to illegally enter a riverboat casino in Baton Rouge.

GOLF

Wie takes exemption to John Deere Classic

Michelle Wie accepted a sponsor’s exemption to play in the John Deere Classic for the third straight year, continuing her effort to make the cut in a men’s event.

Wie, graduating from high school next week, has not made the cut in six starts on the PGA Tour. A year ago at the John Deere Classic, she opened with a 77 and withdrew in the middle of the second round with heat exhaustion.

The John Deere Classic will be played July 12-15 at TPC Deere Run in East Moline, Ill.

Annika Sorenstam will return to the LPGA Tour next week at a tournament she hosts in South Carolina, after a two-month break in which she lost her No. 1 world ranking to Lorena Ochoa.

Sorenstam, 36, has been recovering from a herniated disk in her back. Her rehabilitation has “progressed well” and she will play in the inaugural $2.6 million Ginn Tribute Hosted by Annika, agent Mark Steinberg said in a news release.

MISCELLANEOUS

Injured Haas, Murray to miss French Open

Tommy Haas and Andy Murray withdrew from the French Open because of injuries.

The 10th-ranked Haas injured his right shoulder, and No. 11 Murray pulled out in the first round of the Hamburg Masters last week because of a right wrist problem.

The French Open begins Sunday and continues through June 10.

Also: The Las Vegas Wranglers will open next season at Fresno on Oct. 19, and their home opener is Oct. 21 against Stockton at the Orleans Arena.

The annual midnight game will be Dec. 17 against Phoenix.

The Southern Nevada Baseball Coaches Association will have its annual all-star game at 6 tonight at the Community College of Southern Nevada’s Morse Stadium.

The game pits the top seniors from the Sunrise Region against the best seniors from the Sunset.