THE SEOUL GAMES / DAY 9 : Roundup : Puerto Rico Defeats Yugoslavia in Basketball

A layup by Angel Cruz with 4 seconds left in the game earned Puerto Rico a 74-72 victory over previously unbeaten Yugoslavia Saturday in the Olympic men’s basketball tournament.

Yugoslavia’s loss had no bearing on the Group A standings because both teams already had gained berths in the quarterfinals. But the victory raised Puerto Rico’s spirits before Monday’s game against the unbeaten United States, leader of Group B.

The United States completed the round-robin section of the competition by defeating Egypt, 102-35, and finished the preliminaries with a 5-0 record.

Cruz led Puerto Rico with 18 points.

Yugoslavia will next play Canada, which won its quarterfinal berth when Eli Pasquale scored a 3-point shot with 6 seconds left to beat China, 99-96.

Earlier, Spain overcame a 55-point effort by Oscar Schmidt to beat Brazil for second place in Group B, 118-110. Spain will play Australia in the quarterfinals, and Brazil will face the Soviet Union.

The Soviets beat the Central African Republic Saturday, 87-78, and Australia clinched third ahead of Puerto Rico with a 95-75 victory over South Korea, which has not won a game.

Rowing--East Germany won the men’s quadruple sculls gold medal with a time of 6 minutes 21.06 seconds.

The Soviet Union, with a time of 6:23.47, took the silver. Romania won the bronze in 6:23.81.

Jutta Behrendt of East Germany won the women’s single sculls with a time of 7:47.19 seconds. American Anne Marden of Concord, Me., won the silver in 7:50.28. The bronze went to Magdalena Gueorguieva of Bulgaria in 7:53.65.

Thomas Lange came from behind to win the men’s single sculls race and give East Germany its fourth gold medal of the day.

Romania, the Netherlands and Great Britain each got one gold.

U.S. boats finished fifth in two races and sixth in three, including singles sculler Andy Suddeth’s sixth.

China won its first Olympic medal in rowing when its women’s team won a silver.

The Chinese women led the coxed four race until the final 500 meters, when East Germany rowed through, to win in 6:56 to China’s 6:58.78. Romania was third.

East Germany dominated women’s double sculls, winning in 7:00.48, almost 4 seconds ahead of Romania. Bulgaria finished third.

Yachting--A run of bad luck continued for U.S. sailors Pete Melvin and Pat Muglia when they placed first for the first time in five races, only to be disqualified.

Melvin of Long Beach, and Muglia of San Diego, are sailing a Tornado catamaran in the Olympic competition at Pusan. They had placed 6th, 10th and 14th and had to abandon another race because of equipment failure.

Saturday they crossed the line first but were protested by the Dutch team of Wil Van bladel and Cees Van bladel, who claimed they had right of way but had to alter course when the Americans crossed too close in front on port tack.

Women’s 470 leaders Allison Jolly of Valencia, and crew Lynne Jewell of Newport, R.I., also were disqualified on a similar protest by France’s Florence Le Brun and Sophie Berge after placing third, but they remained in firm command of the fleet.

That was difficult when the edge of a tropical storm blew through Suyong Bay with winds up to 30 knots, creating rough seas, breaking masts and capsizing boats. Jolly and Jewell capsized during their protest incident.

Steep waves and rough weather caused the cancellation of six of eight races Sunday.

Only the Star and Flying Dutchman Class made it to the starting line.

Because of the cancellation, the regatta for all classes will extend at least into Tuesday.

The United States is leading in three classes: Star, Soling and women’s 470. Denmark and France head two each and New Zealand in one.

In men’s 470, John Shadden of Long Beach, and crewman Charlie McKee of Seattle, missed a weather mark they couldn’t see because of the steep waves and had to come back from 16th place to place fifth.

They slipped to third place in the standings.

Sailboarder Mike Gebhardt of Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., finished fifth in his race and is third overall. However, U.S. Coach Dave Ullman calculated that Gebhardt actually was in the lead because his third race will ultimately be scored on average points under the Yacht Materially Prejudiced Rule at the end of the series.

Men’s Field Hockey--Undefeated Australia shut out Pakistan, 4-0, and Great Britain defeated the Soviet Union, 3-1, on the tournament’s fourth day.

West Germany beat South Korea, 1-0, and the Netherlands edged winless Kenya, 2-1.

Australia, Pakistan, the Netherlands and Kenya are in Group A with Spain and Argentina.

Britain, the Soviet Union, West Germany and South Korea make up Group B with Canada and India.

Pakistan, defending Olympic gold medalist, is 3-1. It meets the Netherlands in the fifth and final round of the preliminaries Monday.

Shooting--Taniou Kiriakov of Bulgaria won the gold medal in air pistol shooting on his last shot against U.S. Army officer Erich Buljung of Ft. Benning, Ga.

Buljung’s silver medal was the first medal won by the United States in the shooting events in Seoul.

Xu Haifeng of China won the bronze medal.

In the skeet competition, the last shooting event at the Games, East German truck driver Axel Wegner, 25, edged Alfonso De Iruarrizaga of Chile for the gold, 222 to 221. Jorge Guardiola placed third with 220 points.

Cycling--Cyclist Lutz Hesslich of East Germany won the men’s match sprint gold medal for the second time, and Erika Salumae of the Soviet Union claimed the first women’s sprint title.

Hesslich, who also won the men’s sprint in 1980, powered out of the last turn to overtake Nikolai Kovche of the Soviet Union and complete a 2-0 victory in their best-of-three heat final at the Olympic Velodrome.

Salumae, meanwhile, stopped East Germany’s Christa Rothenburger-Luding’s bid to win gold medals in both the Winter and Summer Olympics. Instead, the 28-year-old speed skater--the first woman to earn medals at both Olympics in the same year--added a silver to the gold and silver she had won at Calgary.

American Connie Paraskevin-Young defeated Isabelle Gautheron of France, 2-0, to win the women’s bronze medal--the first medal for U.S. cyclists in Seoul.