Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, July 12, 1990 TAG: 9007120164
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C3 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: MINNEAPOLIS LENGTH: Medium
Schulte, a water polo player from Mahwah, N.J., came away with a silver medal Wednesday when the West beat his East team 6-5. He has played in nine Festivals without winning a title.
"Probably now I'm coming back," said Schulte, an investment broker who has five silver medals and four bronze. "Right now I'd say yes. If you ask me in three months, the answer might be different.
"In the investment business right now, silver is pretty cheap relative to gold."
Several of the Festival events Wednesday were delayed or postponed because of rain in the Twin Cities. The baseball bronze- and gold-medal games were pushed back to today, as was the tennis competition. The bronze-medal games in men's and women's fast-pitch softball were delayed until Wednesday night.
In boxing, Ronald Wright of St. Petersburg, Fla., won a 4-1 decision over Steve Johnston of Denver, the only U.S. champion in the 48-man field, for the 139-pound gold medal.
Wright, who has been fighting for two years - nine fewer than Johnston - had lost to Johnston in the semifinal round of the national championships.
"I came down with the flu [then] and didn't dance around like I did tonight," Wright said. "I told him I'd get him back."
Two controversial 3-2 decisions elicited boos from the crowd at the St. Paul Civic Center.
Jaime Lerma of Waco, Texas, lost to Patrick Byrd of Flint, Mich., at 147 pounds even though he dominated the third round. And at 112 pounds, 16-year-old Juan Delgado of Fort Worth, Texas, appeared to have the upper hand but lost to Marcel Brown of Philadelphia.
"The judges must have been watching a different fight," Lerma said. "Thousands of people here agree with me."
Delgado, whose uncle, Ricardo Delgado, won the 112-pound gold medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, was so upset that tears welled in his eyes.
"I knew I had the fight won," he said in a whisper.
In the game for the gold medal in water polo, Schulte's team fell behind 4-1 in the second quarter but chipped away and trailed 6-5 entering the final seven minutes.
The East had two good shots on goal in the closing minute, but Richard Russey's drive was knocked away with 47 seconds left and Thomas Tomsheck's lob bounced off the crossbar as time ran out.
"It's one thing when you lose by four or five goals," said Schulte, who scored his team's first goal. "It's another when you lose 6-5 and you have a chance to tie with four or five seconds to go."
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