U.S. OLYMPIC FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES 1991 : The Day in Review : Basketball

Karen Jennings, the All-Big Eight center as a sophomore last season at Nebraska, had 26 points and 10 rebounds in the North’s 70-62 victory over the East. Helen Holloway of Norfolk, Va., led the East with 11 points.

In the other women’s game, Peggy Evans of Detroit had 14 points and seven rebounds in the South’s 71-57 victory over the West. Evans’ teammate, Lauretta Freeman of Auburn, had nine rebounds. The West shot only 25% from the field in the second half. Its leading scorer was Michelle Kane of Idaho Falls, Idaho with 11.

With 17 points and 10 rebounds, Glenn Robinson of Gary, Ind., Indiana’s Mr. Basketball last season, led the North to an 84-77 victory over the East in the men’s competition. Shawnell Scott of New York scored 12 points for the East.

Willie Sublitt of Baylor had 19 points and Ralph Davis of Texas El Paso scored 16 in a 105-81 victory for the West over the South.

Bowling

Steve Smith of Anaheim came from behind after a slow start in the first block to win the men’s singles.

“I left a lot of splits in the first block,” he said. “I just tried to be consistent and keep the ball in play and that’s what I did in the second block.”

William Anthony Jr. of Wahiawa, Hawaii was second. Vince Biondo of Hoffman Estates, Ill. was third.

Joe Natoli of Franklin Lakes, Wisc., had a perfect game through the first 10 frames of the fourth game in the first block, but he put his 11th ball into the channel. He rallied with a spare for a score of 280. He led after the first block but fell to fourth in the overall standings.

Judy Gurney of Omaha won the women’s singles. Darlene Weekly of Gilbert, Ariz., beat Maureen Webb of North Andover, Mass. for the silver medal. The U.S. Olympic Committee’s executive director, Harvey Schiller, rolled out the first ball. Actually, he rolled two of them and had two strikes.

Canoe/Kayak

Canoeist Jim Terrell of El Toro, who has won more Festival medals than any other athlete with 25, wasn’t the only paddler to win two golds Saturday. Mitch Kahn, a firefighter and kayaker from San Clemente, won the K-1 1,000 meters, then combined with Patrick Richardson of La Jolla to win the K-2 1,000.

On her 34th birthday, Cathy Marino of Huntington Beach won the K1-500 meters.

Equestrian

Valerie Parr of Santa Ana, on Beelzebub, led the West team to victory in the team show jumping competition. She was backed by Lauren Hough of Morgan Hills, Calif., who rode Carone, and Gaby Salick of Los Angeles, who rode Cassandra.

The second-place South team featured 17-year-old Tricia O’Connor on Marmaduke.

The North’s Erika Heintschel of Toledo, Ohio, had the only perfect rides with zero faults.

Field Hockey

Brian Spencer of Valencia scored all three goals in the first half to lead the West to a 3-0 victory over the South.

The more experienced West team controlled the game from the outset against the South, which includes 15 members of the junior national team.

Caz Pereira of Rockville, Md., scored two of the East’s five second-half goals in a 5-1 victory over the North.

Figure Skating

The world’s No. 3 pairs team, Natasha Kuchiki of Canoga Park and Todd Sand of Thousand Oaks, skated an almost flawlessly to win the original program. They outskated Calla Urbanski of Chicago and Rocky Marval of New Egypt, N.J., who missed one of the required elements when they two-footed a double axel and are in second place entering today’s free skating.

John Nicks, who coaches the 14-year-old Kuchiki and the 27-year-old Sand in Costa Mesa, said that he has never seen them skate better.

“I didn’t see any errors,” he said. “If they skate as they did today, they can beat anybody.”

After the dance compulsories, Jeanne Miley of West Chester, Pa. and Michael Verlich of Long Beach had the lead over national champions Elizabeth Punsalan of Sheffield Lake, Ohio and Jerod Swallow of Northville, Mich.

Miley and Verlich, who are coached by Darlene Gilbert in Westminister, were third in this year’s national championships.

There was a surprise in women’s singles when Nicole Bobek of Chicago, who is sponsored by George Steinbrenner, took the lead after the original program over Tonia Kwiatkowski of Broadview Heights, Ohio and and Lisa Ervin of Lakewood, Ohio.

John Baldwin of San Diego withdrew from the men’s singles after straining his back while bending over to tie the laces on his skates before the original program. Two-time national champion Todd Eldredge, who trains in San Diego, was leading after the original program. Colin Vanderveen of Marietta, Ga., was second, followed by Aren Nielsern of Grandview, Mo.

Roller Skating

Lisa Talias of Marietta, Ga., was a replacement in women’s singles for Jennifer Kern of Northampton, Pa., the defending champion who suffered a back injury. She could be out for three months, which would prevent her from competing in this year’s national championships at Philadelphia.

No results from Saturday’s competition were available.

Shooting

Former Olympian Bob Foth of Colorado Springs, Colo., scored 104.2 out of 109 possible points to win the men’s air rifle competition.

“I’ve shot a couple of 105s before, but I felt like I was working for every point today,” he said.

Women’s rifle winners included 1988 Olympian Launi Meili of Cheney, Wash., in the three-position match and Robin McCall of Tyron, N.C., in the prone event. In pistol shooting, winners were Jerry Wilder of Remington, Ind., in the free pistol match, Jon Frazer of Wheelersburg, Ohio in rapid-fire and Connie Petracek of Nashville, Tenn., in the women’s air pistol.

Wilder won by seven points over two-time Olympian Don Nygord of La Crescenta.

Softball

Facing just 23 batters, Michele Granger of Placentia pitched a no-hitter and struck out 13 in the West’s 1-0 victory over the North. She walked only two batters and did not allow either to advance to second base.

In the other women’s game, the East beat the South, 2-1.

Doug Middleton of Blue Springs, Mo., went three-for-three at the plate and pitched a complete game, striking out 13, in the South’s 4-3 victory over the East. The West men also won, 10-0, over the North.

Synchronized Swimming

World champions Karen and twins from Bristol, Conn., received five perfect 10s for artistic impression from judges to win the duet competition for the second straight year.

“It’s always exciting to get 10s,” Karen said. “You always think that the judges liked what you did, (but) it’s hard to judge whether your performance deserves a 10 or not.”

The 1988 Olympic silver-medalists won by more than four points over second-place Jill Sudduth of Santa Clara and Becky Dyroen of San Jose. Another California duet, Michelle Svitenko and Jill Savery of Concord, finished third.

Tennis

Suffering from dehydration, the top-seeded women’s singles player, Keri Phebus of Newport Beach, was taken to UCLA Medical Center, where she was administered three liters of fluid. In a two hour, 45-minute match Saturday afternoon, she had lost to unseeded Meredith Chiles of Germantown, Tenn., 6-7 (6-8), 6-1, 6-4.

Phebus, who will be a senior at Corona del Mar High, had been an uncertain participant in the tournament because of flu. The illness forced her to withdraw from Wimbledon’s junior tournament and the U.S. Tennis Assn. junior clay court championships.

Chiles won the first five games of the match. But Phebus fought off several set points, then won six consecutive games. Chiles forced a tiebreaker, but Phebus won it. She, however, won only five more games in the next two sets.

The second-seeded woman, Jennifer Nasser of Arlington Heights, Ill., also was upset, losing th Keirstel Allen of Melrose, Mass., 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Third-seeded Lee-Ann Rostovsky of LaJolla beat Maribel Amadeo of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 6-4, 6-4, and fourth-seeded Beth Berris of Lodi won, 6-1, 6-4, over Ashley Johnson of Austin, Tex.

The men’s top four seeds won in straight sets, led by No. 1 Chris Woodruff’s 6-1, 6-2 victory over David Caldwell of Richmond, Va. Woodruff is from Knoxville, Tenn.

The No. 1 seed in the wheelchair competition, Ryan Martin of Washington beat fifth-seeded Axel Lopez of Santa Ana, 6-0, 6-2. Last month, Martin won the singles competition at the National Junior Wheelchair Champiopnships.

“Being here is just unbelievable,” he said. “It is a privilege to be part of the Olympic movement.”