Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, July 13, 1990 TAG: 9007130182
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Lance Deal of Casper, Wyo., threw the hammer farther than any American this year, Schowanda Williams of Baton Rouge, La., set a festival record in the 400-meter hurdles, and Shelly Steely of Eugene, Ore., broke the 10,000-meter record.
Skies around the Twin Cities cleared Thursday, allowing the baseball medal games to be held one day late. Aaron Knieper of Saginaw, Mich., pitched 6 innings, had two hits and drove in four runs as the North beat the West 7-4 for the gold medal. The East beat the South 7-3 for the bronze.
The 6-foot-2, 256-pound Deal threw the hammer 254 feet, 9 inches, bettering the festival record of 242-5 by Jud Logan of North Canton, Ohio, in 1985.
The previous best throw this year had been 254-4 by Ken Flax of the New York Athletic Club.
Williams arrived in Minneapolis at 1 p.m., about 3 1/2 hours before her race. Even so, she finished in 55.57 seconds, breaking the festival record of 55.63 by LaTanya Sheffield of El Cajon, Calif., in 1987.
In men's gymnastics, UCLA junior Chainey Umphrey scored a 9.85 on the horizontal bar - his final event of the night - to edge Bill Roth of Temple for the all-around gold medal.
Umphrey won the gold with 57.50 points, beating Roth's 57.45. Mark Warburton of Nebraska finished third with 56.80.
The festival's defending 3-meter diving champion, Kent Ferguson of Boca Raton, Fla., took the lead in Thursday night's preliminary round.
In the women's 3-meter springboard, Krista Wilson of Laguna Hills, Calif., moved past 1988 Olympian Wendy Lucero in the seventh round to win the preliminaries.
by CNB