PAN AMERICAN GAMES : The Day in Review

Baseball

Chris Roberts’ single in the 15th inning drove in Jeff Hammonds with the winning run as the United States beat the Dominican Republic, 2-1, to earn the bronze medal.

Cuba had 23 hits, including seven home runs, to beat Puerto Rico, 18-3, and win the gold medal.

Ermidelio Urrutia had three homers for the Cubans and went six for six.

In the U.S. team’s victory, Roberts’ one-out hit ended a nine-at-bat slump, including six at-bats Saturday.

Hammonds, who had three hits, had reached second on a double. He barely beat the throw at the plate.

“I think everybody was getting a little tired,” U.S. Coach Ron Polk said. “We just wanted to get the thing over with. You’ve been playing that long, you might as well force the play. No outs, we wouldn’t have sent him. We weren’t getting too many chances.”

The U.S. team overcame a 163-pitch, 13-inning effort by Dominican starter Felix Nova, who lost his bid for his fourth victory of the tournament.

Reliever John Dettmer gave up three hits and had 10 strikeouts in 7 1/3 scoreless innings for the victory.

Starter David Tuttle gave up four hits in 7 2/3 innings.

Todd Taylor had three hits for the U.S. team, a home run in the second inning, a single in the fourth and a double in the ninth.

The United States finished 8-2 in the tournament.

Rhythmic Gymnastics

Lourdes Medina of Cuba won the gold medal in the all-around competition and Canada edged Cuba and the United States for the team title.

Medina compiled 36.900 points to defeat silver-medalist Mary Fuzeci of Canada, who had 36.500, and Canada’s Susan Cushman, who finished with 36.300.

Naomi Hewitt-Couturi of New York was sixth in the all-around event.

Canada won the team competition with 108.650 points. Cuba finished with 108.300 and the U.S. team, which included Hewitt-Couturi, Diane Simpson and Jenifer Lovell, had 106.300.

Taekwondo

Roberto Abreu of Cuba won the gold medal at 64 kilograms by defeating Stephen Goodwin of Canada.

Jae Lee of Canada earned the gold medal at 76 kilograms with a victory over James Villasana of Houston.

Villasana beat Jose Cruz of Mexico in the quarterfinals and Juan Noa of Cuba in the semifinals.

Volleyball

The U.S. women’s team, led by middle blocker Bev Oden and outside hitter Natalie Williams, beat Argentina, 9-15, 15-6, 15-13, 15-5, to finish fifth.

Brazil swept the U.S. men’s team, 15-5, 15-8, 15-7, and advanced to the final against Puerto Rico, which beat Canada.

Brazil beat Peru and Cuba swept Canada in the women’s semifinals.