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The Morning News Tribune Sunday August 5 1990 E3 OoOnWTT GAMES US-Soviet rematch will decide the gold EVENTS Americans have edge in experience By Mika Kahn The News Tribune There wai something to golly-gee mom and apple pie about Vlada Garastas It wai hard to fathom that ha was Just a visitor from the Soviet Union team has the strongest basketball players on Garas-tas said has the best basketball fans Fans here make our girls feel And his basketball team felt particularly fine despite a Goodwill Games-record 39 points from Brasil's Hortencia Oliva to pull out a 94-87 victory Saturday night in the Seattle Center Arena The semifinal victory put the Soviets in the 1 pm gold medal game against the United States Then Brasil plays Bulgaria a 108-87 loser to the United States Saturday in the bronze-medal contest at 5 pm Soviet team is a dangerous young team that is Improving every game" US coach Theresa Grants said have to take advantage of our bench and our The United States defeated the Soviet Union 88-78 Wednesday Garastas had two goals Saturday: to defeat Brasil and get a rematch Tm very nervous and my girls are very nervous" Garastas said going very slow now To- fi team has the strongest basketball players on it America has the best basketball fans Soviet coach Vladas Garastas ty UfAMCM'O 11 am-3 pm 5:15 pm WOMEN Seattle Center Arena RAQUPTDAI I Classification games: Czechoslovakia DrOrL DnLL (1-3) vs Canada (0-4) seventh place 1 1 am Australia (1-3) vs South Korea (2-2) 7 pm Medal games: US (4-0) vs USSR (3-1) gold 1 pm Brazil (3-1) vs Bulgaria (2- 2) bronze 5:15 pm gold medal time so It must be a rematch for the United States and Soviet Union The United States whipped Bulgaria by 39 points in the first semifinal Saturday for Its 40th straight international win Then the Soviets defeated Brazil 94-87 setting up a chance for the Soviets to avenge BO-78 loss to the United States Brazil and Bulgaria meet in the bronze-medal gaihe Hortencia Oliva set a Goodwill Games record with 39 prints Saturday unri IT Vi 10:30 m--1 P-m 2 pm nUVsrXCLTi Tacoma Dome Medal games: Sweden (2- 2) vs Canada (3-1) bronze 10:30 am US (3-1) vs USSR (4-0) grid 2 pm Miracle on Ice II? We'll see The United States which beat the Soviet Union In the semifinals of the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics on its way to the gold medal goes up against the mighty Soviets one more time The US team has beaten the Soviets' top team only two other times 1960 for theOiymplc grid medal and July 21 In an exhibition game 3-1 In Oakland Calif The Soviets have beaten the Americans twice since then: 5-3 in an exhibition game on July 22 In Portland and 10-1 Monday In Goodwill Games competition Did you know that US coach Jell Sauer coached the University of Wisconsin Badgers to the 1990 NCAA Division I championship I niMP 5 P-R1--7 pm King County Aquatics Center UIVIWU Models competition: platform Xiong the Chinese platform diver who came within 114 points of Greg Louganis at the 1988 Olympics competition is competing today Soviet Vladimir Ti monshin in considered one of the top three platform divers In the world is not The Soviet pulled out of the competition due to a back Injury American Pat Evans gets his second and beat chance at a medal Evans was a last-minute entry into the 1-meter springboard event Friday By definition: The balk Is not exclusive to baseball pitchers Divers who make a false start then do not complete a dive or lose their balance during an armstand or takeoff for the hurdle from both feet also will get called OHYIMP 12:15 pm Seattle Center DVJAIINVJ Coliseum Medals competition: Finals of 106 125 139 156 178 and 201-pkis pounds At 106 Eric Griffin the green-bean eater from Broussard La looks like the Jolly Green Giant to other light flyweights Griffin should devour Soviet Anatoli Filippov At 125 there la guaranteed grid for the United States Ivan Robinson the mighty mite from Philadelphia faces Oscar do la Hoya at 17 the youngest boxer in the Games De la Hoya has the talent Robinson has the heart Robinson should win At 139 two Soviets go for the gold Aleksandr Banin vs the slick veteran Konstantin Tsxyu At 156 look tor East Germany's Torsten Schmitz to dethrone Soviet world champion Israel Akopkohian the Armenian who defeated Puyallup's Paul Vadan in the semifinals At 178 a compelling match between Chicago's honest workmanlike Terry McGroom and Soviet world middleweight champ Andrei Kumyvaka moving up to light heavyweight Kumyvaka knocked out U8 sensation Jeremy Williams to reach the finals He beat McGroom In a narrow decision earlier this year in the US-USSR dual meet At super heavyweight Cincinnati's Larry Donald who recites poetry and flutters about the ring like a wood nymph battles Soviet Yevgeni Belousov conqueror of Cuban world champ Robert Balado inr- 7:30 pm-9 pm Tacoma Dome Exhibition: Moline With this off-season competition finished the Cl ATI NIP toP skaters In the four disciplines will trot out I UNO their show numbers In an exhibition of champions Headliners will include Kurt Browning Viktor Petrenko and Todd Eld radge In men's singles the Soviet trio of pairs that made a medals sweep Ekaterina Gordeeva-Sorgai Grinkov Natalia Mlahkutonok-Artur Dmitriov and Elena Bochko- -Denis Petrov and the women's and dance medalists decided Saturday night 'K -v S' i iv 1 vwy i ii -X- I Karan BUltwooriTh News Tribune In the United 106-67 victory over Bui- out midway through the first half She spent garla Saturday Tammy Jackson takes elm over the rest of the game arguing with her coach Bulgarian center Polina Tzekova who fouled and chewing an apple on the bench (below) rT -K Ti game with Brasil divided into two games We play very strong first half Not strong in the second A lot of that had to do with Oliva and her teammates They were playing one-on-one and El Matador defense throughout the first half and much of the second 20 minutes as well They fell behind by 20 85-45 two minutes into the second half and it was 74-53 with Just 12:30 left wake up late" Oliva said always wake up late" The trapping defense sent the alarmed Soviets reeling A 12-3 burst pulled the Brasilians to within 93-87 on a brilliant array of drives and Jumpers from Oliva is one player" Garastas said play the same whether 20 prints up or 20 prints down She can shoot pass is quick but number one is she has a lot of heart is one player We have six players That is better for the team" Indeed it was as time espired Oliva who is averaging a Games-hlgh 323 points a game was easily offset by three Soviets Irina Chevtchouk (25) Natalia Zassoulskaia (19) and Yelena Khoudachova (17) with 81 prints among them play to Oliva said many points or whether I'm on TV or in the United States what I play Ditto for the Soviets One more crack at the US of A in the arena today Garastas talked about the inability of his team to be able to bounce back for an afternoon game Just as they do in Malaysia during the World Games last month He downplayed his chances of winning with the obligatory happy to be here" routine Now it comes down to what he hoped one more shot at the United States Win or lose blowout or yi close returned for a final shot at the Americans UJLA is in fantastic condition and has three very strong players Garastas said need strong game from more than six players Maybe eight But we make our goal We have a chance to play the None of this made any sense except for the final score On the way to conceding a 108-87 verdict to the United Statra the Bulgarian women's team was just 3-for-4 from the free-throw line print guard Larissa Sachova was wearing University of Wisconsin socks and starting center Polina Tzekova fouled out with 9:31 left in the tint ball was once fouled out three minutes into game 10 years Tzekova said So maybe this so odd Sachova said "Somebody give me And as any coach would contend been on the S-for-4 end of the free-throw line Grentz said nothing unusual But no Meanwhile the United States while winning its 40th consecutive ffii fi JL out with a team-leading five rebounds there a prayer think if I take her out after four fouls more likely to give fifth foul right away when she goes back Lepitchev said stay in with four fouls much more careful" Tzekova had four fouls less than five minutes into the game- Pretty careful oh? It required nearly six more to pick up the fifth and final one She spent the rest of the game arguing with her coach and chewing an apple on the bench Meanwhile the Americans actually struggled to a 55-39 halftime lead were playing hard but we concentrating well" Grants said Lynette Woodard came in and the rest of the bench Yes Woodard the 30-year-old veteran was at it again She finished with 12 points and two steals Not overwhelming stats just efficient And she had a settling effect on the tram Five other players led by Teresa Edwards (19) were in double figures Bulgaria actually cut the deficit to 84-54 with 13:42 left in the game on a three-pointer by Sachova (who wasn't singing "On A 28-9 Woodard-led burst took care of that we beat them in Malaysia we had some trouble getting up for the Woodard said want to look past them to the gold medal game but it was hard From the bench I knew I needed to help get everybody back Shelley driving layup with seven seconds left produced a 64-83 overtime victory for Australia over Czechoslovakia Robyn Maher had 24 to lead Australia and Anna Janostinova had 19 for the Czechs In the final game of the evening Choi Kyung-hee scored 26 points and Seong Jeong-a added 20 to lead South Korea past Canada 80-60 garian coach Ivan Lepitchev wanted the team to play a beautiful technical Nevertheless Bulgaria qualified for the bronze medal game and really played the United States tougher than the score indicated Evladia Slavtcheva had 21 prints and Mariana Tchobanova added 14 But realistically once Tzekova fouled international basketball game sank 23-for-29 free throws made 58 percent of its field goals and outre-bounded the Bulgarians 41-19 for a spot in 1 pm gold medal game are not going to fori ourselves for a minute about beating our strongest competitor the strongest team in the Bul dream from Guam to Reyes follows his gold tens said: made to be medals like the Olympics But very thick and very Houston welterweight Raul Marquez had to settle for a silver medal losing a 4-1 decision to Romanian world champion Franc isc Vastag thought I won but I look too Marques said silver is OK But I wanted the Saddest spectator at the Vastag-Marquez fight was Tacoma's Emmett Linton Jr who punished Vastag in the quarterfinals only to be robbed on a 3-2 decision gave the whole tournament to Vas- tag because the world Linton said was set up for him to win should be me up there Boxing's crazy like that You work and work and work' Then they Just snatch it away from Linton snapped his fingers and shrugged The biggest upset of the finals was Soviet soldier Artur Grigoryan stunning Cuban lightweight champion Julio Gonzales who had won 79 straight fights dating back to 1985 But the disappointing Cubans did win two gold medals with middleweight Orestes Solano and heavyweight Felix Savon I After the fight Reyes wore a T-shirt reading few The proud The Marines in the stands sang the halls of Montezuma to the shores of the famous first verse of the Marine Corps Hymn plan was to Jump on him and stay on him Mustin said Reyes fought like John Wayne going over the top in despite a gnawing pain in his right hand bruised during his quarterfinals victory over Cuban world champion Enrique Carrion The pride of the Marines had his own pride injured earlier this year when he was stuck on Guam with no boxing no friends no hope Reyes called Roosevelt Sanders Jr a US coach who trains Marine boxers at Camp LeJeune NC Reyes begged Sanders to bring him to North Carolina Sanders shepherded three months of paperwork through Marine headquarters at Quantico Va He got Reyes assigned to TAD Marine Jargon for Temporary Additional Duty meaning he could box Reyes proudly stood at attention during the award ceremony clutching his rectangular gold medal and a modest bouquet of purple roses yellow lillies and red alstoem- erias was like stepping onto a Reyes said seem real Not at In the flyweight final Austin floored Soviet Dzhambulat Mutayev with a gorgeous combination in the second round then hung tough to win a 3-2 decision When the decision was announced Mustin shot his fist skyward and Austin leaped atop a turn buckle like a (no wrestler was under instructions that this was a street fight and he was to go after this Mustin said Mutayev hit the street with his transmission in reverse backpedaling much of the bout was hard for me to catch up with Austin said The gold medal matched Austin's grid front tooth Several US boxers complained about the medals calling them The medals made by the 93-year-old awards firm Jostens at its Del City Ok la plant are alloys plated with gold silver or brass unlike the Olympics which swards medals of solid metals Julie Dunn Northwest sales rep for Jos- Corps outpost there For nine months he did little but sweat get haircuts watch palm trees sway and dream of glory lay in bed at night and wonder how I got stuck way out Reyes said be asleep I'd nod off and I'd see grid All bright ana shiny love that dream Oh God I can't believe it This heart of mine wanted this so I got it I won the gold I won it I believe Believe it Sergio You buried a Bulgarian named Serafim Todorov and won a 3-2 decision that everybody at ringside thought was 5-0 Easy believe a said US coach Tom us tin of Tacoma was mighty afraid the Judges were gonna steal another one from If Reyes turns professional his nickname could be He stayed busy making his fists a permanent feature of To-dorov's face Reyes leaped at Todorov like a spawning salmon hurting the Bulgarian with a rat-a-tat-tat attack Todorov who said he wants to be a singer must have heard A1 Martino doing "Please Release Me Let hie By Bart Ripp The News Tribune Monaco wanted to send boxers to the Goodwill Games So did Morocco These fistic powerhouses were told thanks tor the nice stamps on your letters but no thanks One boxer came from Guam Marine Lance Cpl Sergio Reyes went from Guam to gold at the Goodwill Games Saturday Reyes a bantamweight marooned to guard duty on Guam and Cincinnati flyweight Tim Austin won gold medals for the United States Six boxing classes were decided before an appreciative crowd of 6568 at Seattle Center Coliseum The other six divisions will be contested today at 12:15 pm America is guaranteed gold in the featherweight division with Ivan Robinson the mighty mite from Philadel- phia facing 17-year-old Los Angeles prodigy Oscar de la Hoya Guam located about 1500 miles straight south of Tokyo is home to 132000 UiL citizens who cannot vote in national elections Reyes from Fort Worth Texas was assigned barracks guard duty the Marine I.