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

Archery

Jay Barrs of Mesa, Ariz., and Denise Parker of South Jordan, Utah, finished with a series of bull’s-eyes to win the preliminary rounds.

Barrs, the 1988 Olympic gold medalist who turned 29 Wednesday, closed with 12 consecutive bull’s-eyes from 30 meters and finished with 1,320 points out of a possible 1,440. Scoring a personal high of 339 from 50 meters, he was the top scorer from three of four distances.

Parker, 17, closed with six consecutive bull’s-eyes from 30 meters and finished with 1,321 points. She was the top scorer from all four distances.

Badminton

Defending champion Linda French of Elmhurst, Ill., beat her older sister, Ann French of La Jolla, 11-4, 11-2, to remain undefeated through the first two rounds of women’s singles. The men’s defending champion, Ben Lee of Daly City, Calif., also won his first two matches, including a 15-1, 15-7 victory over Pat Murphy of Mt. Sinai, N.Y.

Two-time national champion Chris Jogis of Manhattan Beach won both of his singles matches and then teamed with Tom Carmichael of Ortonville, Mich., in first-round doubles play. Hoang Ly of Costa Mesa and Mike Edstrom of Denver also won two singles matches.

Joy Kitzmiller, the 1989 Festival champion from Manhattan Beach, and Erika Von Heiland of Anaheim were among the women who did not lose in the first two rounds of singles play.

Baseball

Bolstered by Chris Smith’s two-run double, the West scored all of its runs in the first inning of a 5-2 victory over the North. Smith, of Vallejo, Calif., went two for four with two doubles.

Cale Carter of Orange, Jeff Poor of El Segundo and Mike Rennhack of San Jose also had two hits each for the West. Rennhack also was the winning pitcher, allowing seven hits in nine innings.

In the second game, the East took advantage of 13 South errors in a 24-1 victory. Paul Ottavinia of Flanders, N.J., had three hits and three runs batted in.

Cycling

Amanda Henry of Thousand Oaks was a remarkable 1.5 seconds faster than her previous personal best in winning the women’s one-kilometer time trial. Henry won the 1,000-meter all-out sprint in 1:14.923.

Laura Peycke of Tyler, Tex., finished second in 1:18.543, and Karen Dunne of Indianapolis, Ind., was third in 1:18.635.

Freddie Markham of Houston, who rode six years as a professional before being reinstated as an amateur, won the men’s gold medal in 1:08.975. Bobby Walthour of Carmel won the silver medal in 1:09.661. David Bittenbender of Wellsley, Mass., won the bronze in 1:10.081.

Field Hockey

Amy Cox of Houston and Kelly Larkin of Greene, N.Y., scored second-half goals less than two minutes apart as the West upset the previously unbeaten East, 2-0, in the women’s championship game.

Cox scored with 13:36 remaining, followed by Larkin’s goal with 11:37 remaining on an assist by Annabella Stagner of Moorpark. Goalkeeper Andrea Wieland of Atlanta had six saves in recording her second shutout.

In the bronze-medal game, the South beat the North, 2-1, on goals by Lisa Rowe of Douglassville, Pa., and Laura Knorr of Norfolk, Va. Patrice Schena of Boston scored for the North.

Modern Pentathlon

Kim Arata of Vandenberg, Calif., and Mike Gostigian of Newton Square, Pa., each finished in the top two of both the swimming and shooting competitions to lead after three events.

Arata, the national champion, placed second in swimming during the morning and returned in the afternoon to win the shooting with 191 points of a possible 200. She is more than 150 points ahead of second-place Lauren Reister of San Antonio.

Gostigian finished second in swimming and shooting for a 64-point lead over second-place Scott Christie of San Antonio. Christie, 20, scored 198 points in shooting, a world record for modern pentathlon since targets were changed from oval to round in 1989.

Rob Stull of Bryan, Tex., the national champion and the leader after the fencing competition Wednesday, dropped to fifth place after finishing 10th in swimming and 13th in shooting.

Soccer

Andy Strouse of Huntington Beach, who joined the West team after its first game as a replacement for injured Milo Iniguez of Phoenix, scored with eight minutes remaining in a 2-1 victory over the East.

The East scored first on a goal by Rob Smith of Wilmington, Del., but Randy Mann of Riverside scored the equalizer on a penalty kick after a foul by goalkeeper Jeff Causey of Gainesville, Va.

In the second game, the South needed a 5-0 victory to advance to the final against the West and appeared as if it might get it when it took a 2-0 second-half lead over the North. Keith DeFini of McKinney, Tex., scored the first goal in the 57 the minute, followed by a goal in the 72nd minute by Imad Baba of Humble, Tex. On that play, North goalkeeper Scott Budnick of Jasper, Ind., was ejected for a serious foul play.

But the North came back to tie the game, 2-2, and advance to the final on goals by Todd Yeagley of Bloomington, Ind. in the 86th minute and Wayne Lobring of Cincinnati in the 89th minute. Yeagley and Lobring are Indiana University teammates. Lobring has four goals in the tournament.

The U.S. Soccer Federation announced that the U.S. national coach, Bora Milutinovic, will attend Saturday’s games to sign autographs.

Team Handball

Dennis Fercho of Camarillo and Erik Newman of Daly City, Calif.. combined for nine goals in the West’s 18-16 victory over the North. Quentin Cartier of Pewaukee, Wis., scored eight goals in the losing cause. In the other men’s game, Luke Travins of West Hempstead, N.Y., scored five goals in the East’s 23-18 victory over the South. The West will meet the East for the championship.

The North and the West played a preview of their final match, with Laura Coenen of Colorado Springs, Colo., scoring six goals to lead the West to a 21-18 victory. She has 32 goials in three games and needs seven in the gold-medal game to equal the Festival record.

Volleyball

Dijon Douphner of Topanga and David Swatik of Manhattan Beach each had 13 kills in the West’s 3-0 victory over the North. Their teammate, Brian Merrick of Malibu, had 12 blocks. Chip McCaw of Tulsa, Okla., and Dave Goss of Santa Barbara had 13 and 12 kills, respectively.

Debbie Penney of Burbank had 16 kills, nine digs and three blocks in the West’s 3-1 victory over the North.

Water Polo

Peter Campbell of Irvine scored with two seconds remaining after receiving a full-length of the pool pass from goalie Andrew Tinseth of Fullerton to give the South a 10-10 tie with the West. Campbell has 15 goals in four games. Scott Schulte led the East to a 13-7 victory over the North with four goals and one assist.

In women’s play, Serena Buckholz of Newburg, Ore., scored five goals in the North’s 12-9 victory over the East.

Wrestling

Steve King of South Bend, Ind., won his fourth Festival gold medal with the championship in the 220-pound division of the Greco-Roman competition. Two days before, he also won a freestyle gold medal. He also won gold medals in both styles last year at Minneapolis-St. Paul.

“What a relief,” said the Notre Dame sophomore. “I felt like the pressure was really on me coming into the Festival because I was the defending champion in both styles.”

King pinned John Wisniewski of Laramie, Wyo., in 1:02 to earn the Greco-Roman championship.

Dan Russell, a four-time NCAA Division II champion from Portland State, won the 163-pound final, 4-3, over his college teammate, Travis West.