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The Day in Review

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Archery

The United States completed its domination of this sport by winning the team competition in both the men’s and women’s divisions.

Eric Brumlow of Hickory Creek, Tex., Darrell Pace of Hamilton, Ohio, and Edwin Eliason of Stansbury Park, Utah, beat second-place Mexico, 965 points to 947.

Women archers Denise Parker of South Jordan, Utah, Jennifer O’Donnell of Farmington Hills, Mich., and Kitty Frazier of Cross Lanes, W.Va., scored a decisive victory with 970 points. Mexico had 933, Cuba 896.

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Baseball

Aruba edged Canada, 9-8, the Netherlands Antilles defeated Mexico, 6-4, and Puerto Rico beat the Dominican Republic, 6-1.

The United States, which lost to Cuba, 3-2, Sunday, will play Nicaragua today. The U.S. has a 5-1 record and is in second place behind undefeated Cuba. In other games today, Mexico will play Puerto Rico and Antilles will face Canada.

Basketball

The U.S. women’s basketball team beat Canada, 92-61, to win the bronze medal. Brazil won the gold with a 97-76 win over Cuba.

In the men’s quarterfinals, Cuba beat Brazil in overtime, 96-92. In the ninth-place game, the Bahamas defeated Canada, 75-62. The U.S. faces Uruguay today in a quarterfinal game.

Boxing

Not everything went Cuba’s way on Sunday. Their veteran light welterweight champion, Candelario Duvergel, who has won the last two Pan American gold medals, lost on points to Puerto Rico’s Anibal Acevedo.

Two Americans won, keeping the United States in the hunt for eight of 12 gold medals. Steve Johnston defeated veteran Canadian Mark Leduc, 12-6, in the light-welterweight division and Kenneth Friddy beat Marshall Simpson of Jamaica, 17-3.

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Cycling

In women’s cycling, Julie Gregg of Seattle won the silver in the match sprint, and Jessica Greico of Emerson, N.J., took the bronze. Tanya Dubnicoff of Canada beat Gregg for the gold.

In the men’s points race, Hermino Suarez of Argentina won the gold. Jonas Carney of Annadale, N.J., finished fourth. In the men’s match sprint, Richard Young of Canada defeated Hiram Flores of Cuba for the gold.

Fencing

In the women’s individual epee, Taimi Chappe of Cuba won the gold and Angelica Duenas of Mexico took the silver.

Margo Miller of Santa Monica, a three-time member of the U.S. World Championship team, finished seventh.

Gymnastics

In the individual apparatus finals, Chelle Stack of Houston, Tex., won the gold medal in the floor exercise, and Stephanie Woods of Austin, Tex., tied for the balance beam title with Linda Gonzalez of Cuba.

Lisa Parente of Brazil won the uneven bars and the vault. Hillary Anderson of West Granby, Conn., and Anne Woynerowski, Mountain Lakes, N.J., won the silver medals in those events.

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Judo

In the men’s 58-kilogram division, Clifton Sunada of Colorado Springs, Colo., won the silver, finishing behind Luis Martinez of Puerto Rico.

Cathy Lee of Colorado Springs finished second in the women’s 45-kilogram class.

Rowing

American women won three of four gold medals and a silver on the final day of rowing. Liz Behrens of Palos Verdes and Marci Porter of San Ramon, Calif., won the women’s pairs. Cindy Ryder of Townsend, Mass., won the gold medal in singles.

The American women also won the gold in the quadruple event.

The U.S. men won the gold medal in the fours without cox event, and also took two silvers and a bronze.

Shooting

The U.S. skeet-shooting team set a world record in edging Cuba for the gold. Americans Mike Schmidt of Eagan, Minn., Bill Roy of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Dean Clark of Hendersonville, Tenn., registered 445 points, four more than the mark set by the Netherlands Antilles in 1989.

Soccer

The United States beat Cuba, 2-1, in the semifinals to remain undefeated and advance to the gold-medal round against Mexico Tuesday night.

In the other semifinal game, Mexico beat Honduras, 6-1. Honduras will play Cuba for the bronze medal.

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Softball

The U.S. women scored 11 runs in the first inning then left the rest to Lisa Fernandez, who pitched a one-hitter as the Americans beat Canada, 14-5, to win the gold medal.

The United States was undefeated in the Games, winning nine consecutive games, including two perfect games and four no-hitters.

The Canadian women beat Cuba earlier, 1-0, to advance to the gold-medal game. Canada took the silver and Cuba the bronze.

Alan Rebling of Fairfield, Iowa, pitched a no-hitter as the U.S. men beat the Bahamas, 2-0. In other games, Cuba beat Canada, 2-0, Panama took the Dominican Republic, 9-7, Mexico romped over Aruba, 11-2, and Argentina edged the Netherlands Antilles, 4-3.

Team Handball

The United States won the bronze medal with a 28-19 decision over Canada.

Tom Fitzgerald of North Babylon, N.Y., had nine goals, four in a late run to put the game away.

Canada had beaten the Americans on Friday to keep them from advancing to the gold-medal game.

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Tennis

Pam Shriver won her first singles tournament in about three years by beating Joelle Schad of the Dominican Republic, 6-2, 6-0, to take the gold medal. Shriver and Dave DiLucia won the gold in mixed doubles.

In the men’s singles final, DiLucia lost to Luis Herrera of Mexico, 6-3, 6-1.

Volleyball

The U.S. men lost to Brazil, 15-8, 15-4, 15-3. In other men’s play, Argentina beat Puerto Rico in three consecutive games.

In women’s play, the U.S. team lost to Cuba, 14-16, 15-8, 15-2, 15-4. In other women’s matches, Canada shutout Argentina, 3 games to 0 and Peru defeated Brazil, 3-2.

Wrestling

The U.S. wrestling team, led by four-time world champion John Smith of Stillwater, Okla., sent eight men to the finals after victories on Sunday. In tonight’s gold-medal round, three Americans will face Cubans.

Other U.S. finalists include Bruce Baumgartner, the super heavyweight from Cambridge Springs, Pa., who won the 1984 Olympic title.

Yachting

U.C. Irvine’s Lanne Butler, of San Juan Capistrano, won the gold medal in Sailboard and Amy and Susan Lawser won the 470 class.

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In men’s competition, Americans’ Steve Callison of Columbus, Ohio, Sean Fidler of Troy, Mich., and Matt Fisher of Westerville, Ohio, won the gold medal in the Lightening Class. Ted Huang of Los Altos took the silver in sailboard.

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