Volleyball Club tryouts Tuesday

The SIUC men’s volleyball club will conduct open tryouts for all part-time or full-time students at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Davies Gymnasium.

The team competes in intercollegiate and regional play. Experience is preferred but not necessary. For more information, contact Bill Burnside at 457-7259.

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Nebraska holds on to No. 1 in ESPN poll

Top-ranked University of Nebraska widened its lead and Florida State University moved ahead of Penn State University into second in the latest ESPN/USA Today college football poll released Sunday.

Nebraska (8-0), which rolled over the University of Oklahoma 69-7, received 50 of the possible 62 first-place votes and 1,526 points from a nationwide panel of coaches. The Cornhuskers received 13 more first-place votes than a week ago and own a 77-point cushion over Florida State (8-0), which moved into second following a 48-35 win over North Carolina State University. Nebraska led last week’s poll by a mere 27 points.

Penn State (7-0) received eight first-place votes, six more than Florida State, but still dropped to third in the latest poll with 1,438 points. The Nittany Lions held on for a 30-27 win over Northwestern University Saturday.

The University of Michigan (8-0) defeated Minnesota 24-3 to receive the remaining two first-place votes and is fourth with 1,373 points. The University of North Carolina (8-0) edged Georgia Tech 16-13 Thursday and remained in fifth with 1,322 points.

The University of Washington (7-1) moved up one spot to sixth in the latest poll and is followed by the University of Tennessee (6-1), Ohio State University (8-1), the University of Georgia (7-1) and Kansas State University (7-1).

UCLA (7-2) is 11th in the latest poll and is followed by LSU (6-2), the University of Florida, the University of Iowa (6-2), Washington State University, Arizona State University (6-2), the University of Auburn (7-2), Virginia Tech University (6-2), Syracuse University (6-3) and the University of Toledo (8-0).

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Pistons place Dumars on DL

The Detroit Pistons placed guard Joe Dumars on the injured list Saturday. Dumars pulled his left hamstring during the Pistons’ season-opener against Washington Friday night and will miss at least the next five games.

The 34-year-old Dumars was injured during the second quarter of Detroit’s 92-79 win. He was driving through a congested lane for a lay up when he simply crumpled on the left side of the floor in obvious pain. He had scored three points before the injury.

Dumars, a 12-year veteran, averaged 14.7 points and 4.0 assists per game in 79 contests last season. He has played his entire career in Detroit, scoring more than 15,000 points.

Sampras, Novotna win tourney titles

Top seed Pete Sampras held off 12th-seeded Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 Sunday in the finals of the $2,.3 million Paris Open, the last of the Super 9 events on the ATP Tour.

Sampras, who won the tournament in 1995 and lost in the 1991 final to Guy Forget, picked up his sixth title of the year and the 50th of his career, the most of any active player on the ATP Tour. He has captured wins at the Sybase Open, the Advanta Championships, the Great American Insurance championship, as well as the Australian Open and Wimbledon.

Top seed Jana Novotna took care of upstart Ai Sugiyama, 6-3, 6-4 in the finals of the $926,250 Kremlin Cup Sunday.

Novotna, who collected the $150,000 top prize, won her third event in 1997. The 29-year-old Novotna, who is ranked second in the world, improved to 48-13 this season. The Czech native, who also won at the Yellow Pages Open and the Sparkassen Cup this year, has 18 career WTA Tour wins.