Sports briefs 5/9/05

Baseball

* A California businessman was the winning bidder Sunday in an online auction for a one-day contract with the minor-league River City Rascals baseball team.

Mark Skorlich, 41, of Santa Monica, bid $9,050 for a half-inning in the outfield and a chance to bat during the Rascals' May 20 preseason game.

"I can't wait to start working out with the team," said Skorlich, a Web site owner, in a statement issued by Allen Gossett, assistant general manager of the Rascals of O'Fallon in suburban St. Louis.

Skorlich's winning bid also gets him 20 tickets to the game and a uniform, with a jersey -- No. 00.

College

* Jesse Boyer's first career home run helped Nebraska break a tie in the bottom of the 11th inning on Sunday as the Cornhuskers beat Missouri 6-5.

The win put Nebraska up in the 3-game series, 2-1. The Boyer's home run put Nebraska (39-10) at 14-7 in the Big 12, one game within Baylor. The Tigers (32-16) are 12-9 in conference play.

Motorsports

Kimi Raikkonen led all the way in winning the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday, denying Fernando Alonso a fourth straight victory in race before a home crowd of 115,000 that included King Juan Carlos.

Raikkonen, on the pole in his McLaren-Mercedes, won for the third time in the Finnish driver's Formula One career. Alonso, in a Renault, was trying to become the first Spaniard to capture his national race since it was first run 54 years ago.

Seven-time series champion Michael Schumacher was forced out after 46 laps when his Ferrari limped into the pits with a flat tire. Ferrari has failed to score a point in two of the last three races.