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

Peggy Evans of Detroit had 17 points and nine rebounds in the South’s 67-59 victory over the North. Sonja Swopes of Cleveland and Katrina Colleton of Tampa each scored 10 points in the East’s 70-54 victory over the West.

In men’s play, Joey Brown, who plays for Georgetown, had 15 points, eight assists and five steals in the East’s 95-81 victory over the West.

Eric Piatkowski of Rapid City, S.D., scored with 36 seconds left to give the North an 89-88 victory over the South. He had eight of his 18 points in the final 3 1/2 minutes. Glenn Robinson of Gary, Ind., led the North with 19 points and 11 rebounds.

Bowling

Steve Smith of Anaheim won his second gold medal, adding one in doubles to the one he won in singles Saturday. For the doubles title, he teamed with Steve Kloempken of Las Vegas to beat Joe Natoli of Franklin, Wis., and Ron Mohr of Eagle River, Alaska by 69 pins.

Canoe/Kayak

Mitch Kahn, a firefighter and kayaker from San Clemente, set a single-day record for gold medals in Festival canoe/kayak competition with five.

“I had no idea I was going for the record,” he said. “I knew I would have a good showing as far as kayak men were concerned, but I thought that Jim (Terrell, a canoeist) would have the record.”

Meantime, Terrell, of Newport Beach, added to his record of Festival medals won with two more golds Sunday to add to the two he won the day before. Terrell, who has won 27 medals, has 17 golds.

Despite his success, Terrell still doesn’t have a sponsor.

Cathy Marino of Huntington Beach, a 1988 Olympian who turned 34 Saturday, won three gold medals.

Equestrian

Riding Mandoir and Erika Heintschel of Toledo, Ohio, won the individual jumping championship. She rode flawlessly in her first attempt, then had only a half-point deducted on her second ride. She had two perfect rides the night before. Dana Tripp of Naperville, Ill., on No Sweat, finished second.

Field Hockey

Brian Spencer of Valencia, who scored three goals Saturday, scored the first one Sunday in the West’s 3-2 victory over the North. The West, the only undefeated team, had a 3-0 lead early in the second half before the North rallied with goals by Barrie Lindsay of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., and Mike Gill of Yuba City, Calif.

Also in men’s play, the East scored two second-half goals to tie the South, 2-2. The South team also is the U.S. junior team.

In women’s play, West Coach Marisa Didio, currently the coach at Northwestern, sent her team against a North team coached by Nancy Stevens, formerly the coach at Northwestern and now the coach at Connecticut.

Their teams tied, 1-1, when the West’s Heather Bryant of Wilmington, Del., scored with 15 seconds remaining. Kathy DeAngelis, a veteran of five Festivals from Boca Raton, Fla., scored for the North on a first-half penalty corner shot.

Eleanor Stone of Cheshire, Conn., and Jennifer Stewart of Langhorne, Pa., scored goals in the East’s 2-0 victory over the South.

Rhythmic Gymnastics

U.S. champion Jennifer Lovell, 17, of Miami, Fla., put together another solid performance to win the gold medal in the all-around competition.

Lovell scored a 9.50 on rope for the highest event score of the two-day competition to finish at 73.60, almost two points ahead of Naomi Hewitt-Couturier, 14, of New York, who finished at 71.750.

Northwestern University’s Diane Simpson, 22, who has won three Festival all-around titles, took the bronze with a score of 71.60.

Judo

Leo White of Seaside, Calif., swept through the 209-pound division without a loss to win his fifth gold medal and seventh overall in Festival competition. White won three contests by a full point and beat silver medalist Damon Keeve of San Francisco on a decision.

After the awards ceremony, White’s teammates carried Jackie Murray of Indianapolis, who won the bronze medal in the 123-pound category Saturday, to the awards stand. White proposed to her on the stand, setting an Aug. 17 wedding date.

“I wasn’t going to get married if I didn’t win the gold,” he said.

Racquetball

John Ellis of Stockton upset former national champion Andy Roberts of Memphis, Tenn., 13-15, 15-4, 11-0.

National champion Michelle Gilman of Ontario, Ore., beat Elaine Hooghe of Columbus, 15-2, 15-8. Hooghe turned an ankle early in the match and had to take a full 15-minute injury timeout.

Roller Skating

Angie Maffei of Roseville, Calif., had just begun her freestyle program Sunday when Shrine Auditorium’s sound system fell silent. Faced with the option of stopping until the problem was solved or continuing to skate, she chose the latter.

She completed the two-minute routine cleanly.

“I heard the music go out, and all I could think was, ‘OK, don’t stop. Just don’t stop,’ ” she said. “I was happy with my performance.”

The judges offered her a chance to re-skate her program or let her score stand. She accepted the score and finished fourth, although she was still within striking distance of the leaders entering Sunday night.

On Saturday night, Dante Muse of West Des Moines, Iowa, won the 1,000-meter final to give him 17 Festival gold medals. No one has ever won more, although canoeist Jim Terrell also won his 17th Sunday. Muse, who hasn’t lost a Festival event since 1985 when he finished second in the 1,500 meters to his brother, Tony, had a chance to win No. 18 Sunday night.

Shooting

In skeet shooting, Bill Roy of Colorado Springs, Colo., shot a perfect 200 to break the national record of 199 that was set in April by Mitch Schmidt.

Three shooters who won gold medals for the second time in this Festival were Connie Petracek of Nashville, Tenn., in women’s pistol, Bob Foth of Colorado Springs, Colo., in the three-position rifle event and Jerry Wilder of Remington, Ind., in men’s air pistol range.

Petracek became the first woman in a Festival to sweep the pistol events.

In the most dramatic contest of the day, Josh Lakatos, 18, of Pasadena beat national champion Bret Erickson of Bennington, Mich., with his final shot in the trap match.

Soccer

UCLA’s Sean Henderson, brother of Olympic and national team midfielder Chris, scored a goal in the final minute to give the West a 1-0 victory over the South.

“I was surprised to see the ball just sitting there,” said Henderson, an Everett, Wash., native who knocked a five-foot shot into the lower left corner of the net.

Softball

Michele Granger of Placentia, who pitched a no-hitter for the West Saturday, was less than invincible a day later, losing 2-0 to the East and 1-0 to North.

The West men shut out the East, 12-0, before losing to the North, 6-1.

Synchronized Swimming

Earning the gold medal in the solo competition, Jenny Mayer of Santa Clara also led the West to the team title. Another West swimmer, Kelly Schmidt of Cincinnati, was second in solo. Heather Roda of Cincinnati was third.

In the team competition, the West beat the North by less than a point.

Tennis

In the first upset in men’s singles, Ricky Becker of Roslyn, N.Y., beat fourth-seeded Eric Dobsha of Titusville, Fla., 6-3, 6-0. Becker advanced to Tuesday’s semifinals against No. 1 Chris Woodruff of Knoxville, Tenn., who beat Rob Chess of East Brunswick, N.J., 6-2, 6-2.

In women’s singles, Meredith Chiles of Germantown, Tenn., who upset top-seeded Keri Phebus of Newport Beach Saturday, advanced to the semifinals with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 victory over Wendy Lyons of Westerville, Ohio.

Water Polo

Maggi Kelly of Berkeley had seven goals and five assists in two games, leading the North to an 8-6 victory over the East and an 11-7 victory over the West.

In a men’s game, the West beat the South, 11-5, as goalkeeper Mike Rall of Riverside turned away 16 shots on goal.

Wrestling

The South won nine of 10 matches against the North. The East won three of the final five matches to beat the West.

The West’s Laurence Jackson of San Diego upset two-time All-American Troy Steiner of Iowa City, Iowa, 3-1, in the 149 1/2 division.