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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 7,1988 the stars and stripes Page 27 sports wire Mercer stops foe in olympic trials tuneup from press Dos pitches Las vegas nov. Heavyweight Ray Mercer a Soldier who is stationed at Baum older West Ger Many served notice that he will make a Strong bid to be on inc . Olympic Sci Inez team slopping Zelko Mavoric of Yugoslavia at 2 08 of the first round As . Fighters completed their domination of the Las vegas sports festival boxing sunday by sweeping All six tights against Eastern european opponents. Mercer the . Amateur Champion stunned Mav Roic Midway through the first round with a right hand then finished him o t with another right. Ray is going 10 be a dominant Force in Amateur boning coach torn Coupler said of Mercer who has fought internationally for Only three years. World champions Kulcie Banks and Kenneth Gould also posted victories As the . Squad won ii of 12 fights in the two Day Competition that matched Ameri can olympic hopefuls against fighters from Poland Yugoslavia and Hungary. The bouts served As a Luncus for the olympic trials july 5-10 at Concord calif., where 96 american boxers will compete far the 12 spots on the olympic boxing squad. I think people can Start seeing we re not As weak As some people thought we d be said Coupler we Are finally getting close to the olympics and Are pulling our solid teams  Banks and Gould arc expected to make the olympic team and Coulter predicted three or four other fighters in the weekend Competition could also make the squad. I m quite encouraged by this performance Coulter said. Everybody looked Good out  hungarian coach Zulo Papp a three time olympic Gold medallist also was impressed with the . Win. The american team is belter prepared now than the european team said Papp. I like the . Boxers because they have technique and Are aggressive too Gould ended his welterweight fight against Poland s Jan Dydak in the second round with a right hand that prompted the polish coach to retire his fighter "1 was not expecting him to give up like that said Gould. I would have liked it to go another 20 or 30  Banks of Chicago won a unanimous decision Over smal Jakupi of Yugoslavia at 125 pounds while Michael Collins of la Porte Texas was an impressive 5-0 Winner Over Margim Salsa of Yugoslavia at 119 pounds. Light heavyweight Bomani Parker of Richmond Calif took a 5-0 decision Over Yugoslavia s Onmi Skaro and Todd Foster of great Falls mont., won a 4-1 decision Al 139 pounds Over and race Mozdzen of Poland. American winners saturday night were Tony gon Zalez of Kent Wash 112 pounds Romallis Ellis of Ellenwood ga., 132 pounds Tim Littles of Flint mich., 1s6 pounds Jerome James of Sioux Falls s.d., 165 pounds and Ocvin George of Marrero la., super heavyweight. The Only american to lose was Brian Lonon of fort Hood Texas who dropped a 3-2 decision to Robert Isa Szegi or Hungary at 106 pounds. Gators eliminate Cai Omaha neb. Allen Ruthc dec homered to break a sixth inning lie As fifth ranked Florida rallied from a five run deficit sunday and beat no. 8 California 6-5 in an elimination game of the College world series. Rutledge s Homer off Mike Mathews 7-2, led off the sixth and was his sixth of the season. Tim Cox 4-0, relieved starter Johnny Wiggs in the fourth and retired 15 of the first 16 California hitlers he faced before allowing a two out single to John Kuchl in the ninth. Jamie Mcandrew relieved and got Derek Stark on a ground Oul to earn his 10th save. To today Florida 48-18-1, which is in its first Mcaa baseball championship tuesday play no. I Arizona stale which lost to no. 4 Wichita slate 7-4 on sunday night. Teen swimmer steals show Las vegas Nev. California teenager Janet Evans dominated the swimming Competition sunday at the Las vegas sports festival winning four events in a Luncus for the summer olympics in Seoul. Evans is of Placentia. Calif., holds the world re Cord in the 400-Mclcr, 800-meter and 1,300-meter freestyle. Sti is the first american woman to hold three world records simultaneously since Tracy caul Kins did it in 1978. Sunday s Competition featured 96 swimmers who Are attempting to make the untied Stales olympic team. Halt of those competing sunday Are expected to qualify according to a team spokesman. The final team will b. Selected aug. 8-13 during Competition in Austin trias. Sunday s events were designed to give the olympic hopefuls the Opportunity to face one another Evans who will be a senior at Al Dorado High school in Fullerton calif., this year was the 1987 swimmer of the year. She won the women s 600-meter freestyle sunday in a time of 8 minutes 35.73 seconds 18-Hundrcdlhsoithrr world record time. She won the 400-meter individual Medley in 4 47.75 and the 400-meter freestyle in 4 15.37, the latter 10 seconds off her world Mark. She was an obvious crowd favorite when she was entered at the last minute in the women s 200-meter individual Medley. She came on Strong in the final id Octen to win in 2 20.92.five other swimmers won two events each. Mary t. Meagher 23, Louisville ky., the world record Holder in the women s 100 and 200-Mcler Butterfly won both those events with times of 1 02.24 and 2 14.75. Betsy Mitchell 22 of Marietta Ohio world record Holder m inc women s 100 and 200-meter backstroke won both those events in times of 1 03.89 and 2 17.25, Matt Biondi 22, of Moraga calif., lied for first in the men s 100-meter freestyle with Chris Jacobs 23, of Livingslon no. The time of 51.78 seconds was three seconds off Biondi s world record. Biondi also won the men s 50-meter freestyle in 23.35 seconds. Mary Wayne 23, of Mercer Island wash., won the women s 200-Mcler freestyle in 2 02.5 and the women s 100-meter freestyle in 57.31 seconds. Tracey Mcfarian 21, of Palm Springs calif., won the women s 200-meter breaststroke in 2 42.90 and the women s 100-meter breaststroke in 1 14.73. Rono captures 1,500 meters Burnaby British Columbia Kenya s Peter Rono Drew away on the final Lap to Breeze to Victory in the men s 1,500-meter run sunday at the Harry Jerome International track classic. Rono s time of 3 minutes 35.59 seconds set a Ca Nadian open record. Canadian Doug Consiglio who attends the univer sity of Arkansas finished second in 3 35.82, almost four seconds better than his previous Best and went under the olympic qualifying Standard established by the Canadian olympic association. Lynn Williams of Vancouver the Bronte medallist in inc 1984 olympics won the women s 1,500 in 4 04.25. American. Johnny Gray set a Canadian open record by winning the men s 800 meters in 1 43.70. American wins cycling race Boulder City nov. Doug Shapiro an Amer ican cycling professional broke away with 17 laps remaining and Drew out to a 37-second Victory sunday in the men s Cril Crim at the Las vegas sports Festi Val. Competing against a solid International Field that included a number of the soviet Union s lop riders Shapiro built a huge margin As he led the last 17 taps. His 7-Elevcn teammate Tom Schuter finished a Distant second. Matt Willis a United slates Amateur was third in the race run in winds gusting id approximately 35 Mph and temperatures that reached the 90s. Guerrero out of Hospital Milwaukee wis. Indy car Driver Roberto Guerrero was released from Milwaukee county Gener Al Hospital sunday and immediately headed for Home. Guerrero who was scheduled to drive in sunday s Miller High life 200 at Wisconsin slate fair Park spent the night in the Hospital under observation alter being knocked unconscious in a crash during a sat urday practice session. Dorsett accepts Bronco Jersey Denver Tony Dorsell monday accented an Orange Denver Jersey with his no. 33 on it and said he will compete for a starting Job with the Broncos which he vowed would be the last Stop of his career. Dorsell who played 11 nil seasons with the Dallas cow boys said Tittle about his contract with inc Bron cos at monday morning Newt conference. The con tract agreement was reached last Friday and Dorsell flew to Denver on sunday night to Eccl with reporters today. Bernard wins 15th stage Dormio Italy Jean Francois Bernard of France won the 1 sch stage of the italian cycling Lour monday. The original 82-mile course Lombrano was Short ened by 31 Miles because a heavy snowfall forced the closing of the Alpine pass of sle Tyio. The French cyclist scored his third stage Victory edging in Zimmermann of Switzerland and Flavio Giupponi of Slaty who placed second and third respectively. Zimmermann finished 32 seconds behind inc win Ner while Giupponi was 36 seconds Back. Andrew Hampsten of Columbus Ohio retained the Pink Jersey As the Overall Leader by finishing fourth 51 seconds behind the Winner. The 26-year-old Hampsten who became the first american to Wear the Symbol of the Overall Leader following sunday s stage widened his Lead Over dutch runner up Erik Breukink to 42 seconds. Breukink who trailed inc american by Only 15 seconds ahead of monday s stage lost More Lime to Hampsten As he lagged 1 18 behind Bernard in fifth place. Hampsten who could become the first american Ever to win the italian tour said that four difficult Mountain Ous stages and a much feared against the clock test in the next few Days Slit could reshuffle the lop spots. Joys place Nunez on 15-Day do Toronto the Toronto Blue jays announced monday that Pitcher Jose Nunez has been placed on the 15-Day disabled list and his place on the team s Active roster has been taken by Mark Ross whose ton tract was purchased from Syracuse of the class aaa International league. Nunez a right handed Pitcher whose name was added to the do retroactive to june 3, suffered a trained muscle on june 2. He had been recalled from Syracuse on april 29. The 24-year-old native of the dominican Republic was 0-1 with a 2.95 earned in average in nine games with Toronto. Ross 31, was signed by Syracuse in february he pos Ted a 1-7 record while starting 12 games with the chiefs. Superstition an to tuesday s programs Outt Abc we a i to Ghl quo can Sawia torn Gnu i or  Jim la0740 old Futai Fiji mind 1uw in Raffl he Tony fold act Ria Why. Mos aim Kahra churn to Bikini it Cpl drop pm in he Ianth my an a Mono Ovir  Ioos up Rcpt a troll Eloc Merj or Werwie iwvji1 How her Metw Pirwitz or skied 10 re to co 1030  Hwy Lintt a report frill on w punch Fol of count Wiki twp lira Piru. 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