Quance Tops Breaststroke Record, Claims Bronze : Swimming: Northridge 15-year-old bests meet mark in 200-meter event.

Kristine Quance, already a two-time gold-medal winner, broke the U. S. Olympic Festival record in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke Tuesday at the University of Minnesota Aquatics Center.

The effort was good enough for a bronze medal.

Emily Short, a 14-year-old from Phoenix, won in 2 minutes 32.71 seconds, the eighth-fastest time by a U. S. woman swimmer.

Kelly Leaman was second in 2:36.46, followed by Quance, whose 2:36.72 exceeded her previous best by four seconds and also eclipsed the Festival record of 2:36.83 set by Laura Gandrud in 1987.

Quance, 15, from Northridge, won gold medals in the 200-meter and 400-meter individual medleys the previous two days.

“When I’m tapered (at a physical peak) and shaved, I can do a lot better,” she said.

Quance has been swimming as much as 4,500 meters in morning practices at the Festival.

The long-course nationals are coming up next month in Austin, Tex., and Quance has her heart set on a string of personal bests.

“I did well here, but I’d rather do better there,” she said.

Short was ahead of the pace for an American record halfway through the race.

BASEBALL

Andrew Lorraine, a Stanford-bound pitcher from Valencia, was one of 23 players selected to try out for the USA Junior Team.

The tryouts begin in Iowa on Friday. A final group of 18 players will assemble in Florida next month to prepare for the World Youth Championships in Cuba, Aug. 24-Sept. 5.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

The second-seeded team of Natasha Pospich and Kristin Osmond defeated Tracee A. Lee and Terry Ann Zawacki, 6-3, 6-4, in the consolation semifinals.

Pospich is from Woodland Hills and Osmond hails from Worthington, Ohio.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

For Lucious Harris, Dedan Thomas and Shon Tarver, it was a festival to forget.

The Valley-area standouts played for the West, the only team that failed to earn a medal.

The previously winless East squad upset the West, 112-110, to win the bronze medal.

Harris, from Cleveland High and Cal State Long Beach, scored five points and made only one of eight field-goal attempts.

In four games, he made 11 of 41 field-goal attempts, including four of 14 from three-point range, and was eight of 16 from the free-throw line.

Against the East, Thomas, from Taft High and Antelope Valley College, scored six points on three-of-four shooting. Overall he made only five of 17 shots, scored 10 points and had seven assists.

And Tarver? Well, at least he had an excuse.

After scoring 18 points in the West’s opener Saturday, the former Santa Clara High standout was limited to 13 minutes over the final three games because of a back injury. Tarver scored two points in five minutes against the East.

FIELD HOCKEY

Larry Amar of Camarillo scored the only goal for the South (3-1) in a 3-1 loss to the East.

In Tuesday’s second game, Tommy Hoang of Westlake Village scored for the West, which tied the North, 2-2.

RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS

Polina Friedland of Van Nuys and Jennifer Haase of Valencia finished in a tie for 11th place with 70.45 points.

Haase finished fourth last year. The winner, for the second consecutive year, was Diane Simpson of Evanston, Ill.