Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, August 22, 1994 TAG: 9408220030
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B2 EDITION: METRO
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Ruehl, 16, of Lakeside Park, Ky., and Gillooly, 18, of Kissimee, Fla., came into the nationals after winning U.S. Junior Olympic platform titles last week.
Ruehl went into the lead in the second of eight rounds and led thereafter in unseating defending champion and 1992 Olympic bronze medalist Mary Ellen Clark of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Ruehl had 409.14 points to Clark's 393.57. Both qualified for the American team that will compete in the Pan American Games in March in Argentina.
Gillooly won his first senior national title with an 11-point victory over 1988 Olympian and two-time American champion Patrick Jeffrey of Miami. Gillooly won all three Junior Olympic titles last week to give him 15 for his career, surpassing the 14 of Bruce Kimball.
Gillooly passed Jeffrey in the ninth round with a back 3 1/2 somersault tuck that gained mostly 9s from the judges. Both earned spots on the 1995 Pan Am team.
Argentina's Julio Cesar Vasquez handed American Ron "Winky" Wright his first defeat, taking a 12-round unanimous decision to retain his WBA junior middleweight boxing title in St. Jean de Luz, France.
Vasquez knocked Wright down five times, twice in the final round, to increase his record to 51-1. Wright is 25-1.
Fred Lebow, who developed the New York City Marathon into the world's biggest marathon, will be inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame on Tuesday.
Lebow, the only race director in the history of the New York City Marathon, also has helped found other races, including the Fifth Avenue Mile, the Advil Mini Marathon and the New York Games, an IAAF Mobil Grand Prix circuit event.
Lebow, 62, took over as president of the NYRRC in 1972 and has presided over its growth from 270 members to more than 31,000, making it the largest organization of its kind in the world.
Bob Hill, an assistant coach with the Orlando Magic, has become the first candidate for the Timberwolves' head-coaching vacancy to openly express an interest in the job.
"I have enormous interest in the Minnesota situation," Hill said Saturday after interrupting a Caribbean vacation to meet for three hours with Minnesota general manager Jack McCloskey.
"It has a lot of potential, and I feel it would be fun to be a part of building that team."
Sidney Lowe was fired Wednesday.
Hill, 45, might have to weigh two coaching offers. The San Antonio Spurs, who interviewed Hill last Sunday, also are considering him.
by CNB