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College Soccer

Aiken's Gustavson is freshman of year

Aiken's Mike Gustavson has been named Conference USA's Freshman of the Year for his work in goal for South Carolina.

Gustavson was ranked second in the conference in goals-against average (0.98) and save percentage against average to go with 72 saves. Gustavson, who was also named to the all-conference second team, had two shutouts on the season.

Tennis

Hewitt withdraws for birth of child

In Melbourne, Australia, two-time champion Lleyton Hewitt withdrew from the Masters Cup in Shanghai because of the pending birth of his first child and was replaced Tuesday by ninth-ranked Gaston Gaudio.

Hewitt's wife, Australian actress Rebecca Cartwright, is expected to give birth within the next two weeks. The Masters Cup begins Sunday.

Hewitt won the eight-man tournament in 2001 in Sydney and in 2002 in Shanghai.

"I am extremely disappointed," Hewitt said in a statement. "With my baby due in the next two weeks, it is not possible for me to come."

Gaudio joins Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Andre Agassi, Guillermo Coria, Nikolay Davydenko and Ivan Ljubicic in the ATP's $4.45 million season finale.

- In Hershey, Pa., Roddick said his status is "so-so" for the season-ending Masters Cup next week in China because of back and shoulder injuries.

Roddick played in four exhibition sets Monday night at the Advanta World Team Tennis Smash Hits, an annual charity event benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and said he was hurting afterward.

"I'm very sore right now," Roddick said after playing two of his matches. "I feel my status is about so-so right now."

The third-ranked Roddick was first injured Saturday, when he was upset by Ljubicic 6-3, 7-5 in the semifinals of the Paris Masters.

"My concern is not to play if I'm hurt," Roddick said.

Olympics

Cities hope to host doping conference

Montreal, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Madrid submitted bids to host the 2007 World Conference on Doping in Sport, and the World Anti-Doping Agency said it will select one of them Nov. 21.

The conference is seen as an important opportunity to assess the status of the fight against doping following the implementation of the World Anti-Doping Code, and to identify the next steps that should be taken.

It will be the third worldwide conference on doping in sport. The first, organized by the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1999, resulted in the Lausanne Declaration, the document that led to creation of WADA.

The second session, held by WADA in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2003, created the World Anti-Doping Code.

The code calls for two-year suspensions for first time doping offenses. Lifetime bans are reserved for second violations.

Women's Basketball

Auriemma leading Hall of Fame list

In Storrs, Conn., Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma leads the list of those to be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame this spring.

The other inductees are former Texas All-American Clarissa Davis-Wrightsil, Louisiana Tech star Janice Lawrence Braxton, former Georgia All-American Katrina McClain Johnson, Bentley College coach Barbara Stevens and Brazilian Olympian Maria Paula Goncalves da Silva, a person with firsthand knowledge of the induction process told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

The class will be officially announced Sunday during the women's basketball Tipoff Classic at Texas Tech.

Previous inductees include Tennessee coach Pat Summitt, Texas coach Jody Conradt and former players Ann Meyers (UCLA) and Nancy Lieberman (Old Dominion).