European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 22 c a the stars and stripes Friday August 9, 1991u.s. Softball foes doomed american hurdler diver win Gold medals by Steve Wilstein. The associated press Havana a Debbie doom has the name the size and the pitch a a la supersonic a a to the amazed cubans a to strike fear in every team she faces. The Star of the . Women a softball team which won its fifth game wednesday with shutout no. 5, 7-0 Over the Bahamas has thrown two perfect games to complement a no hitter one hitter and two hitter by her teammates. On a Day when an american Man finally won a track Gold a Cletus Clark in the 110-meter hurdles a the . Baseball team won again and women divers added a Gold and Silver to give the americans a perfect 4-for-4 record the softball team kept up its intimidating Pace. Boxer Kenneth Friday the 125-Pound, 29-year-old senior member of the . Boxing team was equally fearsome As he stopped Nicaragua a Eddy Saenz with 40 seconds left in the second round of their opening bout. Friday landed four rights head before the referee broke in for a standing eight count then landed another right that convinced the ref to Stop it. ,_4,. Ravea Springs a 156-Pound left hander used a Quick punishing Jab to win his opening bout against colombians Hernan Mena. Two of the heavily favored cubans Arnaldo Mesa 125, and Juan Lymus 156, also won easily. The . Shooting team won two golds and a controversial ruling Cost it a third. John Mcnally set a pan am record in winning the rapid fire pistol and he was part of the three Man squad that took the Gold in the team Competition in the same event. A the . Was on the Way to Gold in the team free pistol Competition when Jimmie Mccoy was penalized for not registering his pistol with meet officials prior to the beginning of the games. That dropped the men to 12th place and gave the cubans the Gold. A the cubans checked my gun on aug. 2 the first Day of registration and they did not properly Complete the registration a the 38-Ycar-old Mccoy said. A it seems like a Little Home cooking to me. It appeared that politics were going to be kept out of the pan am games Early but that quickly changed today. In be been shooting for 15 years and i know what 1 need to do prior to a after five Days Cuba led the medal race with 43 golds and 70 medals Overall. The United states was second with 16 golds and 56 total. The a Doomer a As her teammates Call her is the most menacing of All the hard throwing . Women softball pitchers. She stands a slender 6-foot-2, but when she finishes her 7-foot stride and releases her 70 Mph Rise Ball with a Windmill delivery she a Only 33 feet from the plate. Instead of seeing the Ball the hitters listen to it pop in the catchers Glove. A Speed is not the most important thing a she says. A movement and control Are the key. The humid air Here is pan american games Usas Isaac Anderson top Downs Ecuador a Daniel Meehan in his Victory in the Pam am trials. Good for me. It helps the Ball As an extra bit of trickery the former psychology major at Urcla also throws a drop Ball and a change up that wafts lazily to the plate about 15 Mph slower than her Riser. Not Only do the american women have a 0.00 Era but they be held hitters to a .027 batting average. A a we a like to throw shutouts every game a doom says. She struck out 33 in her two seven inning games. Only one Ball an easy pop up to shallow Center got past the infield in her second game As she struck out 17, including 10 in a Row. She threw five perfect games at Urcla and says she thinks she a had about 10 in her career plus about 20 More run of the Mill no hitters. A i done to pay attention to statistics a she says. At 28, the Al Monte calif., resident Isnit sure whether Shell still be pitching when women a softball finally makes it to the olympics As a medal sport in 1996. She plays for the Orange county majesties and is headed next for the National tournament in Decatur Iii. To make some extra Money she gives pitching lessons. A right now 1 done to have another career a she says. A softball has been a big part of my life. Its going to be Tough to give it up but i can to make a Good living doing this. There Are a lot of great players in the United states but there a no big Money in women s the cuban fans at diving did their Best to distract the americans again but did no to have much Luck. Jill Schlabach a body builder and surgical intensive care nurse at the University of Michigan medical enter won the women a 1 meter springboard and teammate Alison Maisch took second place. A a it a so neat to see the Flag and hear our National Anthem. That brings Shivers a said Schlabach 25, after the biggest International Competition of her career. The diving squad is one of the few . Teams in Havana that has americans Best. The pan am games Are the biggest International event left on the . Diving teams Calendar unlike in other sports. Despite whistles and Boos from a partisan crowd of 3,500 that extended six deep behind the last Row of seats Schlabach took the Lead on the second of her five dives and then kept it. Fans hooted when her Best score a 55.08 a was posted after her third dive. Schlabach like her teammates jeered in earlier events refused to become rattled. A i heard the booing a she said. A i did no to know if they were booing How i got scored or How i Schlabach s total score was 256.5. Maisch a graduate student at the University of Florida posted the Best score of the event a 57.72 a on her final dive to take the Silver with a 250.68. Clark gave the menus track and Field team its first Gold after it failed to win one in eight previous events. A four years ago i crashed and burned a Clark said recalling that he had fallen in the last pan am this time Clark clipped the final three hurdles knocking Down the final one and raced across the finish line in 13.71 seconds. Cuba picked up two More golds to continue its dominance of track. Liuska Lopez led a 1-2 cuban finish in the women a 100 hurdles and Barbara Hechevarria led the cubans sixth straight pan am 1-2 finish in the women a discus. The other Gold went to Mexico a Arturo Barrios Winner of his second straight 5,000. In baseball the United states won its third game without a loss As Jason Giambi hit two of the teams five Home runs in a 12-0 rout of Aruba. Seven . Greco roman wrestlers advanced to thursday nights final round where they All faced averts Poland upset bid european Little league by Rob Staggenborg staff writer ramste1n a Germany Poland flirted with visions of Victory but a three run third inning paced Germany to an 8-5 Victory in the european Little league championships thursday. Dante Eskridge Germany a Mound hero throughout the tournament did it from the plate thursday lifting a Solo Homer in the first inning to put Germany ahead Early 1-0 in the first inning. Paul Andinor a three run double and a flurry of base hits in the third inning erased a Brief 5-1 Poland Lead and Pul Germany ahead 6-5. Andinor a hard shot to the Fence Cut the poles Lead to 5-4. Scott Lynn walked stole second base with Andino coming across with the tying run on the throw to second. Lynn took Home on a passed Ball on the next pitch giving the boys from Baum older Germany a Lead they would not relinquish. The Victory put Germany at 4-1 in the tournament with an excellent Chance at clinching a spot in the weekend s semifinals. A we Haven to clinched anything yet a said Germany coach John Carberry. A a that show we looking at the upcoming Poland put a scare through Ger t Many a ranks when with the score knotted at 1-1, Piotr Kozak scored on a passed Ball to make it 2-1. Pavel Bragiel singled to bring Milosz Raczka across to make it 3-1. Daniel Kupzyk reached on an error and Miroslaw Stoj lined a double to make it 4-i. Stoj later scored on a passed Ball to make it 51. Andino fanned eight allowing five hits and four walks for the win. Kupczyk struck out seven and allowed seven hits and four walks. Although Germany won Poland made an impression on Carberry who a seen the poles get walloped throughout the tournament. Quot All those East european teams have improved. Yoru never know what an error or a bad Bounce can do. Poland made very few mistakes. They re not the Type of team that will make a lot of errors. For example they wont throw you out by five Steps throw you out by three. But get in other games thursday saudi Arabia 9, Spain 7,8 innings saudi Arabia stayed undefeated but not until it could push across three runs in the top of the eighth inning. John Barty who came on in Relief in the seventh inning picked up the Victory his third of the tournament. He also contributed a double and a single and two Rols to the winning cause. Keith Gorka had a pair of doubles and also drove in two runs. Israel 14, United kingdom 4 Tomer Glantz hit a three run triple to Lead Israel to a rout of the . Assap Keret fanned five and walked three before giving Way to reliever Shlomo Lipez who fanned three for the save. Thashi Talmor went 2 for 2 with u pair of singles for the israelis. Shawn Taylor led . Hitters with a Home run in the top of the second 22, Norway 1 Jud Miller tossed a two hitter As Bel Gium roared through the Norway contingent. Rey Espinoza and Jamie Chan were the Only two Norway batters to get to Miller who fanned three and walked seven. Steve Hillbert went 2 for 2 with three runs batted in with a Home run and a single for Belgium. Patton Halliday also went 2 Tor 2 with a pair of 7, Estonia 4 a a Aaron Demory a base hit to drive in Richard Kiley put Italy ahead for Good. Stephen Brayden went 2 for 2 with a pair of doubles for Italy and Argo Kadas Tik went 3 for 3 for Estonia with three singles. Kiley fanned 11 and allowed five hits and a walks for the win. In wednesdays late game Kmic 25, . 1 Kaiserslautern military Community banged out 21 hits in All in the rout none of which were Home runs. . Completed 10 double plays but was plagued by 10 errors. Twelve of 14 Kmic players hit safely in the game. Tony Scott got the win
