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

Favorites Jay Barrs of Mesa, Ariz., and Denise Parker of South Jordan, Utah advanced to the semifinals as the field was trimmed to 12 men and 12 women through two rounds of competition.

Barrs, the 29-year-old Olympic gold medalist, won the first pass, but he trailed Ed Eliason, 53, of Stansbury Park, Utah, and Rick McKinney, 37, of Gilbert, Ariz., after the afternoon pass.

Parker, 17, continued her domination by easily winning the morning and afternoon passes. She scored 332 in the first and 338 in the second, three points short of her personal best.

Badminton

Defending champion Ben Lee of Daly City, Calif., remained unbeaten in the men’s singles competition with a 15-5, 15-3 third-round victory over Al Hundhausen of Boulder, Colo. Two-time national champion Chris Jogis of Manhattan Beach also won in the third round, beating Andrew Ibrahim, 15-1, 15-1.

The defending champion in women’s singles, Linda French of Elmhurst, Ill., also won, beating Nancy Acuna of Hermosa Beach, 11-1, 11-3. Joy Kitzmiller, the 1989 Festival champion from Manhattan Beach, beat Sinikka Wahab of Brooklyn, 11-5, 11-0.

Cycling

Katie Horton of Playa del Rey and Sunne Pollart of Colorado Springs, Colo., advanced to tonight’s final in the women’s 3,000-meter individual pursuit.

Horton defeated Jani Poh of Allentown, Pa., and Pollart beat Dara Rogers of Chatsworth.

In the men’s 4,000-meter individual pursuit, Chris Perry of Champaign, Ill., and Andreas Eulate of Los Altos, Calif., advanced to the final.

Renee Duprel of La Mesa, Julie Gregg of Seattle, Sherry Malotte of Seattle and Cynthia Bridge of Boulder, Colo., advanced to the semifinals in the women’s match sprint. Tray Gannon of Houston, Jeff Solt of Los Altos, Bart Bell of Anniston, Ala., and Maracello Arrue of Van Nuys advanced in the men’s match sprint.

Fencing

Led by four members of this year’s Pan American Games team, the South won the men’s team epee gold medal with a 10-6 victory over the East. Earlier, the South beat the North, 13-3, and the West, 13-3, in round-robin competition.

In the women’s team foil competition, the East and the North both finished with 2-1 records, but the East won the gold medal with victories in 26 bouts to 24 for the North.

Modern Pentathlon

Mike Gostigian of Newton Square, Pa., who returned to competition in January after taking off for two years to pursue a business degree, won the gold medal with 5,453 points.

The bronze medalist at this year’s national championships, Gostigian, 29, distanced himself from the field by placing second in the morning running event for 1,159 points. He scored another 1,010 points in the afternoon riding event.

Rowing

After recording the slowest time in Thursday’s trials among the women’s quadruple sculls crews, the North, from Thames River, won Friday to advance to Sunday’s final against the South, represented by the Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club.

Representing the Potomac Boat Club, the East women’s four with coxswain, which had only the third-fastest time Thursday, moved into the final against the South four from Cincinnati.

One crew that repeated its time trials performance was the East men’s four with coxswain crew from the Penn AC. They’ll meet the North four from Potomac in the final.

The South crew had the fastest time in the men’s lightweight double sculls.

Table Tennis

Scott Butler and Dhiren Narotam each earned their second gold medal, teaming for a three-set victory over Olympian Sean O’Neill and Derek May, 21-13, 13-21, 21-17, for the men’s doubles championship.

There was an upset in the women’s finals when Lan Vuong Tieu and Kerry Terrell beat top-seeded Diana Gee and Alice Kimble, 13-21, 21-13, 21-14.

Taekwando

Diane Murray of San Jose won her third consecutive gold medal in the bantamweight division, while lightweight Garth Cooley of Indianapolis won for the second consecutive year.

Cooley beat Nick Terstenjak of Missoula, Mont., for his fourth Festival medal since 1987. Murray, a three-time national champion, won a decision over Jennifer Grabel, a 15-year-old junior high student from Miami Lakes, Fla. It was Cooley’s third Festival medal.

In an all-California men’s bantamweight final, Scott Fujii of Agoura beat Jose Oilag of Torrance by a 2-1 decision.

Diana Radakovic of San Pedro and Nancy Ferguson of San Jose won the women’s finweight and lightweight championships, respectively. Ferguson was awarded the gold medal by a jury decision based on aggressiveness and technique after she and Debbie Farrell drew, 2-2.

In an upset, Michelle Smith, a state police trooper from Schenectady, N.Y., beat Sharron Jewell in the women’s middleweight division. Jewell was a bronze medal winner in the 1988Summer Olympics.

Volleyball

The North, winless in two previous matches, hit .437 to beat the East, 3-0. The score in each game was 15-11.

Dave Goss of Santa Barbara led the North with 25 kills and a hitting percentage of .533. Todd Ahmadi of San Juan Capistrano hit .529 with 12 kills. The North used 10 service aces and 14 service errors by the East to win.

In women’s play, the South outhit the West, .236 to .174, to win, 3-0. Tammy Schiller of New Carlisle, Ohio, had 10 kills and hit .500. The South also had six aces in advancing to the gold-medal game.

Despite the loss, the West also advanced when the East lost, 3-0, to the North. Trailing 10-0 in the first game, the North rallied to win, 15-10.

Water Polo

Jenny Hodge of Stockton scored five goals, increasing her tournament-leading total to 18, but her North team lost to the West, 9-8.

The North had a four-goal lead in the second quarter, but the West narrowed the margin to two at halftime and rallied to tie in the third quarter on goals by Susan Ortwein of San Diego and Theresa Breckon of Long Beach. Hodge put the North back in front with her fifth goal in the fourth quarter, but the West won on two goals in the final four minutes.

The West returned hours later to beat the South, 4-3. The South went scoreless in the first half, the first time in the tournament that a men’s or women’s team has failed to score in a half. Laura Baker of Fullerton scored two goals for the West.

Earlier in the day, the South beat the East, 9-8, as Shannon Endsley of Redlands and Brenda Reiton of San Antonio combined for seven goals. In a preview of the men’s championship game tonight, the West beat the East, 12-6. Bill Schoening of Merced scored four goals, and Darin Blizzard of Hacienda Heights added three for the West.

Earlier, Scott Schulte of Montclair, N.J., scored six goals for the East in a 12-9 victory over the South. The game was tied, 4-4, at halftime, but the East scored four consecutive goals to put the game out of reach. Playing in his 10th Festival, Schulte has a chance tonight to win his first championship. He has nine medals but no golds.