Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 11, 1990 TAG: 9007110223
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: MINNEAPOLIS LENGTH: Medium
Also Tuesday, Travis Ford's layup with seven seconds left gave the South a 121-120 victory over the North in the gold-medal basketball game. The East women beat the West 76-54 to win the gold, while the oldest archer won his event and a bowler rolled the first 300 game of the Festival.
Short finished the 200 in 2 minutes, 32.71 seconds. The previous Festival record of 2:36.83 was set in 1987 by Laura Gandrud of Bloomington, Minn.
"I now feel I have more of a chance [to make the '92 Olympic team] than I did a week ago," said Short, 14, of Phoenix, Ariz. "I'm more positive about it now than after last night. I just have to work a lot harder than I have been."
Sean Gouldson of Chelmsford, Mass., won the 100 backstroke in 57.37, breaking the Festival record of 57.51 set by Rick Carey in 1981.
Eight Festival swimming records were set in the three days of competition.
Ford, a guard at the University of Missouri, finished with 24 points to lead the South, which won despite a low-scoring night from 7-foot-1 Shaquille O'Neal of LSU. O'Neal had 89 points in the first three games but was held to nine Tuesday.
In the women's game, the East broke away quickly at the start of each half in rolling to victory. Tracy Lis of Providence led the winners with 15 points, Kathy Phillips of Penn State had 13 and 16-year-old Michelle Marciniak of Macungie, Pa., had 11. Tammi Reiss of Virginia also added 11 points and eight assists.
In the bronze-medal games, the East men beat the West 101-98 and the North women beat the South 76-74 in overtime.
In archery, 46-year-old Barry Weinperl set a final-round Grand FITA record with 334 points after nearly failing to qualify for the six-man finals.
Weinperl needed to win a shoot-off to earn the 12th and last semifinal spot on Monday.
Weinperl's victory marked the second straight year the oldest archer has won the event.
Weinperl's score for 36 arrows eclipsed the previous final-round record of 332 set in 1987 by Jay Barrs of Tempe, Ariz.
The woman's Grand FITA champion was 19-year-old Sherry Robberson of Colorado Springs, Colo., making her first Festival appearance.
Bill Watson of Chesapeake, Ohio, rolled a 300 game during the five-player event to match the perfect game rolled last year by Gordon Vadakin of Wichita, Kan.
In fast-pitch softball, the East's Trent Rubley of Decatur, Ill., had two hits Tuesday, giving him a Festival-record 13 through six games. Darryl Day of Decatur had 12 hits in 1983.
Also, Mike Parnow of San Francisco hit two homers and matched a Festival record with five RBI in the West's 11-3 victory over the East. He tied the record set in 1987 by Randy Burnside of Bellevue, Wash.
A goal by Shawn McEachern of Waltham, Mass., with 1:51 to play allowed the East hockey team to tie the South 5-5. McEachern had opened the game's scoring and has four goals in two games.
In the other game, third-period goals by Ted Kramer of Findlay, Ohio, and Joe Biondi of Warroad, Minn., snapped a 2-2 tie and gave the North a 4-2 victory over the West.
Five wrestlers gave themselves chances to win two gold medals by advancing to today's championship round of the Greco-Roman division.
Dan Troupe of Kalispell, Mont. (198), Marco Sanchez of San Jose, Calif. (136.5), Brad Knouse of Irving, Texas (180.5), Steve King of Janesville, Minn. (220) and Brandon Paulson of Anoka, Minn. (105.5) each won golds in freestyle earlier this week.
The only Festival wrestler to win two golds was 198-pounder Todd Seiler of Sauk City, Wis., in 1986.
by CNB