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

Archery

Former Olympic gold medalist Jay Barrs of Mesa, Ariz., and Denise Parker of South Jordan, Utah, have leads after the first two preliminary rounds.

Barrs, who turned 29 Wednesday, scored 632 points in the men’s competition after shooting 36 arrows each from 90 and 70 meters. His nearest challenger is Ed Eliason, 53, from Stansbury Park, Utah, who scored 624. Barrs had 19 bull’s-eyes and only eight arrows outside the eight-point ring.

Parker, 17, who has been shooting competitively for only four years, holds an almost insurmountable lead in women’s competition with 651 points. She had 24 bull’s-eyes in 36 shots each at 70 and 60 meters and only three arrows outside the eight-point ring.

Baseball

Brian Clarke’s infield single off pitcher Kirt Kishita’s glove in the bottom of the eighth inning scored Mike Martin with the go-ahead run in the South’s 4-2 victory over the West. Carlton Loewer and Brad Rigby combined to hold the West to four hits. Kishita struck out 11 in eight innings but took the loss.

Paul Ottavinia of Flanders, N.J., had three hits in four at bats, and Ryan Luzinski of Medford, N.J., and Scott Schroffell of Pittsburgh each added two as the East beat the North, 9-4. East pitcher Rick Betti of Milford, Mass., allowed only one earned run in 6 1/3 innings.

Bowling

After struggling through the first few days of competition, Lynda Norry of Concord, Calif., came from behind to win the gold medal in individual match play. Norry, 23, was 42 pins behind after 11 games against Dionne Lee of Modesto but took control in the final four games to win 3,495-3,456.

In men’s match play, Patrick Healey of Niagara Falls, N.Y., won the gold medal with a 3,419-3,373 victory over William Anthony Jr. of Wahiawa, Hawaii.

Field Hockey

Sammy Hoang of Westlake Village, one of three Hoang brothers in the tournament, scored on a penalty stroke with 11:50 remaining to give the West a 1-0 victory over the East for the men’s championship.

Hoang’s goal came on one of only two shots on goal for the West.

With 5:37 remaining in a 15-minute sudden-death overtime, Kelly Larkin of Greene, N.Y., rebounded after a save by goalkeeper Kathy Fosina of Virginia Beach, Va., and scored to give the West a 1-0 victory over the South in the women’s semifinals. The West controlled play throughout the game but was unable to score until the overtime against Fosina, who had 10 saves. Andrea Wieland of Atlanta made two saves for her first shutout.

Kristen Winters of Audubon, Pa., scored two goals and teammate Lisa Beruinchak of Lancaster, Pa., added one with eight seconds remaining in the first half of the East’s 3-1 semifinal victory over the North.

Modern Pentathlon

Despite a sub-par performance, U.S. champion Rob Stull of Bryan, Tex., moved into an early lead in men’s competition. Battling shoulder problems, Stull won 36 of 60 fencing bouts for 892 points for an 18-point lead over Greg Losey of San Antonio, who won 35 bouts. Just 54 points separates the top six competitors.

With former world champion Lori Norwood of Bryan, Tex., out of the women’s competition because of an injury, Maria Bottone of Cornell, N.Y., won 26 of 40 fencing bouts for 944 points and the lead. Susan Ginn of Lyndenborough, N.H., won 25 bouts for 916 points and second place.

Racquetball

After upsetting top-seeded Tim Sweeney of Chicago in the semifinals, Andy Roberts of Memphis, Tenn., won the men’s singles gold medal in a 15-11, 7-15, 11-1 victory over John Ellis of Stockton.

Michelle Gilman of Ontario, Ore., beat Malia Bailey of Norfolk, Va., 15-14, 15-5, for the women’s championship.

Doug Ganim of Columbus, Ohio and Brian Hawkes of Santa Ana teamed to win the men’s doubles championship, and the women’s doubles championship was won by Robin Levine of Sacramento and Kim Russell of Marietta, Ga.

Team Handball

Laura Coenen of Colorado Springs, Colo., scored 18 goals, including the game-winner with 36 seconds remaining, to lead the West to a 26-25 victory over the East. A 1988 Olympian, she scored five of her team’s first six goals and then added the final three over the final 3:42. Another Olympian, Leora (Sam) Jones of Raleigh, N.C., scored 14 goals for the East.

Coenen has 26 goals in two games and needs 13 more in the final two games to break the Festival scoring record.

In a men’s game, the West beat the East, 17-16, in a game that was scoreless for the final five minutes. Jeff Fruin of Reseda led the West with five goals.

With eight goals from Quentil Cartier of Pewaukee, Wis., the North beat the South, 24-21.

Tennis

Three of the four singles matches to determine medalists were decided without a ball being served as players defaulted because of injuries.

Top-seeded Chris Woodruff of Knoxville, Tenn. had to withdraw from the men’s final because of back spasms, giving the gold medal to Peter Ayers of Charlotte, N.C.

The bronze-medal match was moved onto the center court, but the fans were disappointed once again as second-seed Chris Pressley of Miami withdrew with a pulled quadriceps. In the women’s bronze-medal match, Meredith Chiles of Germantown, Md., withdrew because of an ankle injury.

But tennis was advertised, and tennis was played, finally, as Beth Berris of Lodi, Calif., beat Sonya Olejar of Tacoma, Wash., 6-0, 2-6, 6-4, in the women’s final.

There also was action in the wheelchair competition as Ryan Martin of Washington won the gold medal with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Javier Gonzalez of Hesperia, Calif. Martin is the junior national wheelchair champion.

Rob Chess of New Brunswick, N.J., and Peter Jeschke of Montecito won, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, over Michael Hopkinson of Indianapolis and Chris Laitala of Edina, Minn., for the men’s doubles championship. Terry Ann Zawacki of Union, N.J., and Jennifer Nasser of Arlington Heights, Ill., beat Berris and Wendy Lyons of Westerville, Ohio, 6-3, 6-3, for the women’s doubles championship.

Volleyball

Mark Presho of Huntington Beach and Neil Coffman of Chatsworth combined for 41 kills in the East’s 3-2 victory over the West. Dijon Douphner of Topanga, the stepson of 1988 U.S. men’s Olympic volleyball coach Marv Dunphy, had 25 kills and six blocks for the West, which had three match points to win and couldn’t capitalize.

Five players had double-figure kill totals in the South’s 3-2 victory over the North. Dave Goss of Santa Barbara had 38 kills, 14 digs and four blocks for the South. Duane Cameron of Huntington Beach had 24 kills and four blocks for the North.

In the opening women’s match, the West used a balanced attack to beat the East, 3-1.

Maria Gurreri of Amherst, N.Y., and Maggie Philgence of St. Croix, V.I., had 11 and 10 kills, respectively, in the South’s 3-0 victory over the North.

Water Polo

Margo Miranda of Long Beach scored with two seconds remaining to give the South a 6-5 victory over the North. But the other women’s game had an even more dramatic conclusion as Erika Billish of Evergreen Park, Ill., scored with one second remaining to give the East a victory over the West.

In men’s play, the South broke open the game with three goals in the final quarter, including two by Peter Campbell of Irvine, in an 8-5 victory over the North.

Wrestling

The West won six of 10 matches, including two by pins, to beat the North, 23-17, in Greco-Roman competition. In the second dual meet, the South’s Steve King of South Bend, Ind., kept his hopes alive of winning a fourth Festival gold medal by pinning the East’s Steven Farr of Maine, N.Y., in 4:33 at 200 pounds. But the East won the dual match, 19.5-18.5.

Yachting

A fall late in the fifth race of the women’s Lechner Division II sailboard competition cost Lanee Butler of San Juan Capistrano any chance of winning the gold medal. She had to settle for the silver.

Sailing in stronger winds, which she prefers, Butler was in second behind eventual gold medalist Kathy Chapin of Cape Canaveral, Fla., when she fell. Had she managed to overtake Chapin, the two would have been tied going into the sixth and final race.

In the women’s Europe class, Nancy Haberland of Satellite Beach, Fla., won the gold with 20 points, just 1.7 less than silver-medalist Kim Logan of Miami. Kevin Lowrey of Alexandria, Va., won the gold medal in the men’s Lechner Division II sailboard competition.