Scotland’s Gordon Brown Jr. shot his second...

Scotland’s Gordon Brown Jr. shot his second seven-under-par 65 in the $1.037-million European Masters golf tournament at Crans-Sur-Sierre, Switzerland. Brown’s 130 total equals the lowest halfway score in Europe this season.

Brown held a provisional two-stroke lead over Argentine Eduardo Romero and Scotsman Sam Torrance after rain prevented several players from finishing their second rounds.

Corey Pavin was seven shots back at 137.

Hockey

The Mighty Ducks acquired the rights to minor league defenseman Darren Van Impe from the New York Islanders, giving up a conditional 1995 draft pick.

The 21-year-old Van Impe, who signed a multiyear contract, had 43 goals and 111 assists in 112 games in two seasons with Red Deer of the Western Hockey League. He was selected 170th overall by the Islanders in the 1993 draft.

The Ducks also signed Jeremy Stevenson and Brian Sullivan.

Stevenson, a left wing, was the team’s 11th-round selection in the 1994 entry draft. He scored 43 points in 57 games with Sault Ste. Marie of the Ontario Hockey League last season. Sullivan, a free-agent right wing, scored 61 points for the Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League last season.

Motor Racing

Robby Gordon won the provisional pole for Sunday’s Vancouver Molson-Indy, nipping Nigel Mansell with a fast lap of 109.043 m.p.h. Mansell, the defending Indy-car PPG Cup champion, was relegated to the outside of the front row with a lap of 108.384.