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U.S. OLYMPIC FESTIVAL : Roundup : Davidson Settles for 3 Medals in Table Tennis

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<i> Times Staff Writer </i>

Carol Davidson will return home to North Hollywood with three U.S. Olympic Festival medals, but not the one she wanted most.

Davidson, 30, won a medal in every event--except women’s singles. Arditch Lonnon of St. Paul, Minn., knocked off Davidson 21-18, 9-21, 13-21, 23-21, 21-16, in the quarterfinal round Thursday night at Oklahoma Christian College’s Payne Field House.

Davidson was the second-highest-ranked player in the Olympic Festival field. Only Li Ai of Colorado Springs, Colo., was rated higher, and Davidson had already defeated her once in team competition.

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Ai later defeated Lonnon to win the gold medal, 21-12, 21-14, 21-13.

“With this field I felt I should have won the tournament,” Davidson said. “Normally I can hit, but I played too defensive. I didn’t play smart.”

Davidson advanced to the quarterfinals with a perfect record in pool play.

She defeated Kristey Reed of Enola, Pa., 21-11, 21-8; Donna Sakai of Lanham, Md., 21-17, 21-14; and Kerry Terrel of Richland, Wash., 21-11, 21-15.

Davidson, the 1986 U. S. women’s amateur singles champion, has won nine medals--two golds, one silver and six bronze--in five Festival appearances.

This year, she won a gold medal in women’s doubles and bronzes in the team and mixed doubles events.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

For the second match in a row, the North team, with Coley Kyman at middle blocker, won its first game then lost three in a row. This time it was the West that took advantage for a 6-15, 15-5, 15-13, 15-12 victory at Lloyd Noble Arena in Norman, Okla.

Kyman, a two-time City 3-A player of the year at Reseda High who will be a freshman at Cal State Northridge in the fall, was second on the North with 15 kills. He also had a team-high two service aces and a stuff block.

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TEAM HANDBALL

Jeff Fruin, Kevin Withrow and Mike Hurdle combined to score 12 goals for the West, but the South pulled out an 18-14 win at the State Fairgrounds.

Fruin, from Camarillo, had five goals; Withrow, from Thousand Oaks, had four; and Hurdle, from Reseda, added three.

FIELD HOCKEY

The two teams dominated by Valley-area players--the West and the South--will battle for bronze today.

The North defeated the West, 2-1, on a penalty stroke shoot-out at Cameron University in Lawton, Okla.

The North’s opponent in Friday’s gold-medal game will be the East, which scored four second-half goals to defeat the South, 4-2, in the other semifinal.

BASEBALL

Derek Wallace, a former Chatsworth High standout, took the loss as the East turned 13 hits and five errors into a 13-2 victory over the West at All Sports Stadium.

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The East, which will play the North in Saturday’s gold medal game, was paced by Doug Hecker of Wantgh, N. Y., and pitcher Rob Mosser of Oley, Pa.

Hecker went 4 for 5 with two doubles, two triples and five runs batted in. Mosser pitched a three-hitter and retired 18 in a row from the third inning through the eighth.

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