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

Denise Parker of South Jordan, Utah, maintained her lead to win the women’s championship, but 1988 Olympic champion Jay Baars of Mesa, Ariz., was upset in the men’s competition by Ed Eliason of Stansbury Park, Utah.

Parker is 17; Eliason is 53.

Parker scored 339 points out of a possible 360 in her final pass to set a Festival Grand FITA record. Her nearest challenger, Terry Quinn of Houston, scored 319.

Eliason, one of Parker’s first coaches, rallied to take the lead with a score of 29 out of 30 on his second last end from 90 meters. He scored a total of 333 out of 360 and beat Gerald Pylypchuk of Bloomfield, N.J., who scored 328 points. Barrs was third with 326.

Badminton

For the first time in three years, Chris Jogis of Manhattan Beach advanced to the final in men’s singles. He was a bronze medalist the last two years after losing in the semifinals, but, this time, he beat Tom Reidy, 17-14, 11-15, 15-13.

In the final, Jogis will meet defending champion Ben Lee of Daley City, Calif., who beat David Shaw, 15-12, 15-5.

Jogis and Lee also will face each other in the doubles final. Lee and Reidy teamed to win their semifinal match, 15-9, 15-11, over Gary Higgins and Guy Chadwick. Jogis and Tom Carmichael beat John Britton and Shaw, 15-9, 15-11.

In women’s singles, Linda French of Elmhurst, Ill., beat defending champion Meiling Okuno, 11-2, 11-4, and advanced to the final against Erika Von Heiland of Anaheim, who defeated 1989 champion Joy Kitzmiller, 8-11, 12-11, 11-5.

French will meet her sister, Ann French of La Jolla, in the doubles finals. In a singles match against each other last week, Linda won. Linda teamed with Kitzmiller for a 15-12, 15-2 semifinal victory over Okuno and Gena Fite. Ann and Von Heiland teamed for a 15-9, 15-9 victory over Nancy Acuna and Terry Lira.

Baseball

The West scored four runs in the first inning and went on to beat the East, 13-1, in the gold-medal game. Jacob Cruz of Oxnard had three hits, including a two-run home run, and Chris Smith of Vallejo had three hits and four runs batted in.

Benjamin Tucker of Fresno allowed three hits in six innings for the victory.

First baseman Kevin Putz of South Bend. Ind., drove in two runs with a 10th-inning double to give the North the lead en route to a 6-5 victory over the South for the bronze medal.

Fencing

The South won all three team events: men’s foil, men’s saber and women’s epee.

In men’s foil, Jerome Demarque of New York, Dean Hinton of San Francisco and Jack Tichacek of Cliffside Park, N.J., all members of the Pan American Games team, combined with two-time Olympian Peter Lewison of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Nat Cohen of New York to win 12-4 over the North, 14-2 over the West and 11-5 over the East.

Twelve-time national champion Peter Westbrook of New York teamed with Michael Lofton of New York, Steve Mermando of Jersey City, N.J., Don Anthony of New York and Herby Raynard of Rosedale, N.Y., as the South saber team won, 11-5, over the North, 15-1 over the West and 10-6 over the East.

The South women’s epee team of Margo Miller of Santa Monica, Cathy McClellan of Marblehead, Mass., Barbara Turpin of Minneapolis, Vanessa Richey of San Antonio and Shannon Forster of Kalamazoo, Mich., won 13-3 over the North and 10-6 over the East, losing only to the West, 7-8. The South won the gold medal because it had 30 bout victories to the West’s 23.

Gymnastics

Jair Lynch of Washington, the men’s all-around champion, won three gold medals and tied for a silver in the individual apparatus finals.

Lynch, a 19-year old from Stanford, scored a 9.9 on the pommel horse, a 9.7 on the parallel bars and a 9.85 on the high bar. He tied Marcus Jordan from Oklahoma in the floor exercise with a score of 9.5.

His first-place finishes Saturday night gave him five gold medals for the Festival. Lynch won a gold medal in the all-around and team competitions Thursday. Jordan, 20, from the University of Oklahoma, won three medals--two silvers and a bronze.

Kerry Huston, 19, of Houston, won the floor exercise with a score of 9.65. Jason Whitfield of Flint, Mich., scored 9.8 to win the rings, and Dennis Harrison, 19, of Nebraska, scored a 9.6 to win the vault.

UCLA’s David St. Pierre, who trains at Broadway Gymnastics in Santa Monica, won two medals--a silver on the pommel horse and a bronze on the rings.

Rowing

Nancy Butt of McLean, Va., continued a family tradition, winning her first Festival medal in the lightweight women’s pairs competition. Her father, Charlie Butt Jr., was a five-time national team member and coaches at Harvard, and his father, Charlie Sr., is one of the country’s most successful high school crew coaches. Nancy teamed with Bernadette Deely of Arlington, Va.

Eleven other bronze medalists were determined.

Soccer

Wane Lobring and Rob Martella, teammates from Club Ohio in Cincinnati, provided all the scoring the North needed in its 2-1 victory over the West for the championship.

With an assist from Lobring, Martella scored in the 41st minute. John Cairel of Livermore, Calif., scored the equalizer 20 minutes later. But Lobring scored the game-winner, his tournament leading fifth goal, in the 79th minute.

In the bronze-medal game, the East scored three goals in the final six minutes for a 4-1 victory over the South. Rich Dunn of Short Hills, N.J., scored twice for the East.

Table Tennis

Olympians Sean O’Neill and Diana Gee beat Jim Butler and Peggy Rosen in three sets for the mixed doubles championship. It was the 17th Festival gold medal for O’Neill.

He and Gee lost the first set and had match point against them in the second set before regrouping.

Lan Vuong Tieu and Khoa Nguyen won the bronze medal in straight sets over Marta Zurowski and Dhiren Narotam.

Taekwondo

Hyon Lee of San Diego won his fourth gold medal in the men’s flyweight division, and Kathy Wagner of Bozeman, Mont., won in a stunning upset over 1988 Olympic champion Lynnette Love in the women’s heavyweight division.

Lee, who competes with a 12-inch metal rod in his right leg due to an injury last year, used a series of spinning, roundhouse kicks to beat Justin Poos of Edmond, Okla., and become the first taekwondo athlete to win four Festival titles.

Team Handball

Tournament MVP Laura Coenen of Colorado Springs, Colo. scored 13 goals in the final game, giving her a Festival record total of 45 for the tournament, as the West beat the East, 22-20, for the gold medal

In the men’s championship game, tournament MVP Erik Newman of Daly City, Calif., scored eight goals in the West’s 24-19 victory over the East.

Volleyball

Kristine Gray of Grand Rapids, Mich., had 11 kills in the East’s 15-5, 15-7, 15-2 victory over the West in the deaf volleyball championship game.

Gray, a first-team Division III All-American at the Rochester Institute of Technology, teamed with Aimee Tucker of St. Polk, La., and Caroline Depcik of Lyons, Ill., to lead the East. Tucker had 19 assists.

Five players had double-figure kill totals as the North won the men’s bronze medal game, 15-6, 15-13, 10-15, 13-15, 15-10, over the East. Dave Goss of Santa Barbara led the North with 27 kills, 14 digs and seven blocks. Goss finished the Festival with a tournament-leading 106 kills.

Down 2-0, the East women beat the North, 14-16, 16-17, 15-6, 15-13, 15-8, to win the bronze medal. Eileen Shannon of Elmhurst, Ill., led five East players in double figures with 21 kills.

Water Polo

Amber Alatorre of Indio scored with two seconds remaining in regulation to send the game into overtime, then scored again with 12 seconds remaining in the second extra period to give the North an 11-10 victory over the West and the gold medal.

Maureen O’Toole-Mendoza of Long Beach, who had won gold medals in all four of her previous Festivals, scored five goals for the West but had to settle for a silver. She tied with the North’s Jen Hodge of Stockton for the tournament lead in goals with 20.

Behind a strong effort from goalie Dean Quintal of Santa Clara, the West won the men’s gold medal in a 10-8 victory over the East.

Peter Campbell of Irvine scored three goals, giving him a tournament high of 23, in the South’s 12-9 victory over the North for the bronze medal. In the women’s bronze-medal game, Margo Miranda of Long Beach and Heidi McElhenny of Honolulu each had two goals in the South’s 6-5 victory over the West.