LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Marion Jones won the 100 meters Tuesday for a fifth straight victory, and Gail Devers overcame a clumsy start to set a stadium record in the 100 hurdles at the Athletissima track meet. Jones, who won an unprecedented five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, clocked 11.05 seconds to beat Tayna Lawrence of Jamaica by .09. Bahamas' Debbie Ferguson was third in 11:20. While Jones' time was unremarkable, particularly on a lightning-quick track that has always suited her, it was enough to give her a fourth 100-meter victory in Lausanne. Four years ago, she set the stadium record of 10.72. But this time, a brush in the blocks with Lawrence in lane three prevented Jones from racing at her peak. "At the start, Tanya Lawrence and I hit hands and that threw my race off a little bit," the 26-year-old Jones said. "But I won the race, not very fast, but considering, I'll take it." Jones will race next in Paris on Friday. She has shown strong form this season, winning four other 100s, including the U.S. championships and Golden League meet in Oslo last week. She won her fourth national title in the 100 earlier this year. She has been invincible in both sprints since finishing second to Zhanna Pintusevich-Block of Ukraine in the 100 final last summer at the world championships in Edmonton. The 35-year-old Devers, unbeaten this season in the event, crossed in 12.40 seconds, shaving off 0.11 from the season's previous best time she set June 23 in Stanford, Calif. She also bettered the Pontaise track record she set two years ago by .10 seconds. "I slipped out of the starting block and everybody else was gone," Devers said after recording the fourth-best time of her career. "I tried to attack and keep going. I thank God that He allowed me to get my feet back, and I'm very happy." Mozambique's Maria Mutola smashed the season's best time in the women's 800, clocking 1:56.26. Mutola, who won the Olympics in Sydney and world championships in Edmonton, slashed 1.37 seconds off the previous season's top time of 1:57.63 set by Slovenia's Jolanda Ceplak in May. Francis Obikwelu, a Nigerian who now races for Portugal, won the men's 100 in 10.10. After Olympic and world champion Maurice Greene and Ato Boldon withdrew from the meet citing fatigue, Obikwelu beat Americans Tim Montgomery, Bernard Williams and Joshua Johnson. Lorraine Fenton of Jamaica set another season's best in the women's 400, clocking 50.40 — .03 faster than the previous top time set by Australia's Michelle Collins. Kenya's Benjamin Limo set a year's best time in the 3,000, crossing in 7:36.02 — 1.51 faster than the previous best set by compatriot Paul Bitok. Racing in lane seven, Britain's Chris Rawlingson won the men's 400-meter hurdles in 48.21 ahead of 1997 world champion Stephane Diagana of France and 1999 world titlist Fabrizio Mori of Italy. Olympic champion Angelo Taylor of the United States finished seventh, almost a full second off the pace. Romania's Maria Cioncan won the women's 1,500 in 4:03.11. Cioncan, who won the 2002 European Cup, finished ahead of Russians Yelena Zadorozhnaya and Olga Yegorova. Robert Morris University signed seven men's and women's athletes each to letters of intent, including four each from the district. Joshua Dluhos of Shaler, Michael Francic of Seneca Valley and Levi Fairchild of Kiski School are the district men. Ericka Frazee of Shaler, Courtney Lenart of Quaker Valley, Jessica Miller of Freedom and Suzenne Montecalvo of Washington are the district women. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Muffet McGraw, who guided the Notre Dame women's basketball program to its first national championship a year ago, has signed a four-year contract extension that will keep her as head coach through the 2008-09 season. In 15 seasons at Notre Dame, McGraw has posted a 342-127 record. A rematch of the NCAA title game between Maryland and Indiana is the marquee matchup in this year's ACC-Big Ten Challenge. The Terrapins and Hoosiers will play Dec. 3 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. For the third time in the four-year history of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, the Penn State men's basketball team will meet Clemson. The two teams will play at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 3 in Clemson, S.C. Penn State will open the regular season against another Atlantic Coast Conference team, North Carolina, at 7 p.m. on Nov. 18 in the Preseason NIT. PRO BASKETBALL Washington Mystics forward Chamique Holdsclaw will miss at least the next five games and may miss the WNBA All-Star Game because of a sprained left ankle. Holdsclaw, the WNBA's leading scorer and rebounder, was placed on injured reserve Sunday. An MRI exam yesterday showed more damage to the ankle than expected. The Philadelphia 76ers signed 6-foot-11 Greek center Efthimios Rentzias, a former first- round draft pick who has played in the Spanish League the past five seasons. The 76ers acquired the rights to the 25-year-old Rentzias from Atlanta during the NBA draft. Hall-of-Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar resigned after one season as coach of the Oklahoma Storm, which he guided to the USBL championship. Abdul-Jabbar stepped down so he could seek another coaching position in college or the NBA, USBL spokesman Dennis Truax said. BOXING Roy Jones Jr.'s title bout against Britain's Clinton Woods will be held Sept. 7, but a site for the fight has yet to be selected. An official announcement for the fight, Jones' mandatory World Boxing Council defense, will not come for at least a week, Brad Jacobs, one of Jones' advisers, said. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Robert Morris senior running back Sam Dorsett has been named to the 2002 Sports Network Preseason I-AA Mid-Major All-American Team. Dorsett, 5-foot-9, 190 pounds led the NEC in rushing last season with 1,166 yards. Duquesne University cornerback Leigh Bodden and wide receiver Jeremy Conley, an Allderdice graduate, have been named to the 2002 Sports Network Preseason I-AA Mid-Major All-America team. HIGH SCHOOL The Hempfield Area School District's board is expected to hire Jason Ross as its new athletic director at tonight's regular monthly meeting. Ross, a Hempfield Area graduate, reportedly resigned last week as athletic director at Ringgold High School to take the Hempfield job. Ross, who is out of town, was unavailable for comment. He will replace Rick Druschel, who was reassigned. Druschel will serve as a home and school visitor in the district. If Ross does take the job, that will leave Ringgold without an athletic director and football coach. Scott Venick resigned as Ringgold's football coach last month. GOLF Allegheny College elevated Jeff Groff to men's golf coach from interim men's golf coach. Groff, who also serves as associate athletic director of the NCAA Division III school, will step down as women's soccer coach. Colin Montgomerie is likely to play in the British Open despite persistent back pain. Montgomerie's manager, Guy Kinnings, said the 39-year-old Scot intends to play two events before heading to Muirfield for the British Open, which begins July 18. A day after missing a 3-foot putt worth $140,000, Fred Couples more than made up for it by winning the Par-3 Shootout and earning $410,000. Couples made three of the four birdies posted in the second and final round of the exhibition. He collected $280,000, when he birdied the 148-yard 14th hole, validated that with a par on the 172-yard 15th at Treetops Resort. In the event that also featured Phil Mickelson, Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino, a player who wins a hole must validate that win by winning or matching the low score on the following hole. Tiger Woods withdrew from this week's Advil Western Open, citing an unspecified illness. Woods made the announcement on his Web site. He notified the PGA of his decision, Western Open spokesman Gary Holloway said. HORSE RACING Spain, horse racing's all-time female money-winner, has been retired from racing and sent to Three Chimneys Farm to continue her career as a broodmare. The 5-year-old daughter of 1995 Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch competed in her last two races while in foal to popular sire Storm Cat. ROWING Winchester Thurston graduate Abby Loughrey won best two-out-of-three at the 2002 US Junior World Championship Trials in Princeton, N.J., held June 28-30. Winning the trials gives Loughrey the chance to represent the United States in the 2002 Junior World Championships in Trakai, Lithuania from August 6-10. Loughrey, who will be a freshman at Stanford in the fall, has won the 2002 Pan American Junior Championships in Mexico City, the Cologne International Regatta and the 2002 US Rowing Youth Invitational so far this year. Shadyside Academy sophomore Emily Schofield and Fox Chapel graduate Jessica Stoecklein came in second in two races, one Saturday and one Sunday. They missed first each time by five seconds. The Steel City Rowing Club, which Loughrey, Schofield and Stoecklein are all members of, had the best results from all rowing clubs in the United States. LACROSSE Gannon University named Steve Wagner, a former St. Bonaventure University assistant, as the NCAA Division II school's new women's lacrosse coach. Wagner becomes the third coach in the seven-year history of the program at Gannon. SOCCER Spain soccer coach Jose Antonio Camacho resigned, after taking his team to the quarterfinals of the World Cup, where it lost amid controversy to co-host South Korea. "I had the opportunity to sign an extension and continue with the team and decided not to," Camacho said at a news conference in Madrid. "Life has its steps and in my case this step has passed." OFF THE FIELD The newly appointed commissioner of the Southeastern Conference said a task force would look at ways for the heavily penalized league to cope with repeated NCAA rules violations. Mike Slive, who has led Conference USA since its formation in 1995, said the panel would consider ways of "creating an atmosphere (where) violations are unacceptable. My goal will be to work with and help our institutions when issues come up," Slive said at a news conference announcing his hiring. "But we don't want these issues to come up." The SEC has been hit with 42 major rules violations since record keeping began in 1953, the most of any league. Police began a search for Fresno State wide receiver Rodney Wright, a seventh-round pick by Buffalo in the NFL draft, in connection with an accident that injured two people. Detective Robert Beckwith said Wright was driving a vehicle that struck a van and caused it to hit a post and burst into flames. The extent of the injuries to the two people in the van was not immediately clear. Disgraced French skating chief Didier Gailhaguet will announce today whether he will appeal a three-year ban imposed after the Winter Olympics skating scandal. Gailhaguet was in the process of writing to International Skating Union president Ottavio Cinquanta detailing his decision. Miami of Ohio athletics director Joel Maturi is a finalist for the same job at the University of Minnesota. Maturi was tapped by a search committee and will interview extensively for the job the next week, the university said. The school didn't publicly identify any other finalists. DeShaun Williams was acquitted of assault charges filed by a former female student. A six-member jury cleared the Syracuse basketball player after deliberating less than three hours. The panel returned its verdict shortly after having key testimony from the morning session re-read. The trial lasted two days.