Australian Tatrai Wins Race Across America
Gerry Tatrai of Australia won the Race Across America, finishing the transcontinental bike race late Friday in Savannah, Ga.
Tatrai’s elapsed time for the nonstop 2,906-mile race, which started July 23 in Irvine, was 8 days 12 hours 22 minutes. Tatrai, who also won the 1993 RAAM, averaged 14.2 mph and 342 miles per day.
Defending champion Wolfgang Fasching of Austria finished second, 5 hours 11 minutes behind Tatrai, despite a serious fall with 50 miles to go. Fasching clipped a road reflector and fell, breaking his clavicle. He got back on his bike and rode the rest of the way one-handed.
Three-time champion Rob Kish of Port Orange, Fla., was third, 2:42 behind Fasching. Danny Chew, the 1996 champion from Pittsburgh, was another three hours behind.
Fabio Biasiolo of Italy and Andreas Clavedetscher of Liechtenstein and Tom Buckley of Keokuk, Iowa, also finished Saturday. There are 11 other solo riders still on the course. Full results at https://www.raamonline.com.
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Tickets for the Sept. 26 football game between Mater Dei and Concord De La Salle will go on sale Sept. 1.
The game will be played at Edison Field, the first high school football game to be played there since the stadium was remodeled. Tickets will be available at each high school and through Ticketmaster, ranging from $8-$12, Mater Dei Athletic Director Gary McKnight said.
De La Salle has a winning streak of 76 games, and broke the national mark of 72 by Hudson (Mich.) last fall. Mater Dei was the runner-up in the Southern Section Division I playoffs.
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Divers Able Sanchez, Michelle Brown and Kristin Marquis qualified for the U.S. Senior Nationals with their performances Saturday at the U.S. Senior National Zone D Championships at Mission Viejo Aquatics Center.
Sanchez, who competes for L’Equipe Irvine Diving, won the men’s three-meter springboard. Brown of Crown Valley Divers finished third in the women’s one-meter springboard and Marquis, also of the Crown Valley Divers, finished fourth.
The top five in each event advance to the U.S. Senior Nationals, Aug. 11-16, in Atlanta. Marquis also qualified in the women’s three-meter event, finishing second Friday. Sanchez also qualified in another event Friday, finishing fifth in the one-meter springboard.
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Candie Kung is one of three county golfers to qualify for the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championships, which begin Tuesday at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.
Kung, a senior at Fountain Valley High, finished runner-up to Beth Bauer of Cramerton, N.C., in last year’s final. Bauer has since turned 18 and is ineligible to defend her title.
Kung, who won the CIF-SCGA girls’ individual tournament last spring, will be joined in this year’s tournament by San Clemente’s Carla Legaspi and Fullerton’s Angela Rho. Rho won the Mission Hills Desert Junior golf tournament in June.
Kung has also qualified to compete Aug. 10-14 in the Independent Insurance Agent Junior Classic at Oak Tree Country Club in Edmond, Okla.
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The Velo Allegro bicycle team, which has more than 250 members from Los Angeles and Orange counties, hosts the UPS Criterion bike race 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. today.
Cyclists will compete in 11 different categories on a half-mile loop on Burnett Street, between Sterns and Willow, in Long Beach.
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A “Strike Out for Cancer” fund-raising booth will be set up outside Edison Field from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday to benefit the American Cancer Society.
The booth will be manned by Fran Coughlin, Eric Guthoff and Mike Johannes--recent college graduates who are spending 50 days this summer driving more than 12,000 miles in an attempt to attend one baseball game at each of the 30 major league ballparks and raise $30,000 for the American Cancer Society.