U.S. OLYMPIC FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES 1991 : ROUNDUP

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Overcoming a 14-point first-half deficit, the South rallied to bury the West in women’s basketball, 71-57, at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion.

The West, which led, 27-13, midway through the first half, shot just 25% after intermission.

West center Sara Wilson, a Hart High graduate who now plays at Oregon, made one of five field-goal attempts and finished with five points in a team-high 26 minutes.

Wilson added seven rebounds for the West, which had only one player score in double figures. Wilson did help hold South centers Heidi Gillingham (6-8) and Cinietra Henderson (6-4) to just seven combined points.

South forwards, however, combined to score 33 points to just 20 for the West.

“We had our work cut out today trying to contain the South’s inside game,” West Coach Jacqueline Hullah said. “I though we worked hard as a team, but their inside game was too much.”

In the second round, the West will face East today at noon. The East lost to the North, 70-62, Saturday.

WOMEN’S SOFTBALL

Priscilla Rouse of Canoga Park doubled and Kim Maher of Ventura homered to account for two of South’s five hits in a 2-1 loss to the East during a morning game at Hjelte Park in Encino.

The East scored both of its runs in its first at-bat off loser Dee Dee Weiman of Cerritos, who did not survive the inning. She was relieved by Tiffany Boyd of Orange.

Maher, an infielder and former Buena High star who now plays at Fresno State, homered in the bottom of the second.

Rouse, an outfielder, is the Cal State Northridge career leader in home runs with six.

Veteran Barb Reinalda of Shelton, Conn., tossed a five-hitter for East. Reinalda, 33, has played in every Festival since 1985.

SHOOTING

In men’s free-pistol competition, U. S. Shooting Team veteran Jerry Wilder of Remington, Ind., edged two-time Olympian Don Nygord of La Crescenta at Prado Tiro Shooting Park in Chino.

Wilder finished with 637 points to 630 for Nygord.

Nygord was the 1981 world champion in the air pistol. Air-pistol competition begins today at 9:30 a.m., with the finals set for 1:30 p.m.

MEN’S CANOE

Joe Harper of Ventura placed second in the men’s B Final of the 1,000-meter canoe race at Ballona Creek in Marina del Rey.

Jim Ross of Bethesda, Md., placed first at 5:00.86. Harper finished at 5:02.37.

Harper placed second to Wyatt Jones of Honolulu in his morning heat race, which qualified him for the semifinal round. Jones finished at 4:41.01 and Harper finished at 4:54.01.

In the semifinals, Harper placed fifth at 5:20.69, behind race winner Greg Steward of Williamsburg, Ohio, who finished at 5:08.46.

EQUESTRIAN

Gaby Salick of Thousand Oaks helped the West team to a convincing victory in team show-jumping at the L. A. Equestrian Center.

The West team--Salick, Valerie Parr and Lauren Hough--had only 9 3/4 faults, compared with 54 for the runner-up East team.

Riding Cassandra, Salick, a 17-year old senior at Westlake High School, had a clean second round, clearing all 15 obstacles, but had a quarter-point deducted for a time fault.