The Tribune from San Luis Obispo, California • 13

1 Monday August 5 1996 c-i San Luis Obispo County TetegranrTribune Jarrett wins Brickyard 400 C-2 Mqjor League round-ups C-2 'ir i fj: 1-0- XXVI Summer Games sb 3 8 8 I--! i -i iJsK AA 4 yjer-r Asaociatad Praia FLIPPING OUT: Few turned things around like the United States women's basketball team and their victory celebration Sunday while boxer David Reid's performance in the finals was a knockout woods MsGo otEGd Ddsods stood! odd 1968 The US total of 101 put hosts atop a non-boycott medal charts for the first time since those games too While the Atlanta Olympics hosted more nations than any previous it was also home to the first terrorist act since Munich in 1972 IOC President Juan wane a former janitor now works "What the medal means to me is that our problems are over in our said Thugwane 25 who dedicated his victory of South African president Nelson Mandela "We are free to run and be part of the international community We are back in the The men's volleyball title went to the Netherlands in a dramatic 15-12 9-15 16-14 9-15 17-15 win over Italy Yugoslavia won the bronze The final medal count from Atlanta: the United States had 101 medals (44 golds 32 silvers 25 bronze) followed by Germany's 65 (20-18-27) Russia's 63 (26-21-16) and China's 50 (16-22-12) The Sunday morning marathon was the perfect metaphor for the Atlanta Games Athletically it was inspiring Logisti-cally it was a nightmare The games' traditional closing event began at 7 am and ended in front of 80000 empty seats at Olympic Stadium If the Atlanta Games reached the Please see OLYMPICS C4 "Reid "had suddenly swapped almost certain silver for a gold lifting the American medal count into triple digits "I was going for the home run because I was down 10 points and it's hard to make up 10 points in the last round" said the 22-year-old Philadelphian knew he was beating me I just wanted to hurt him I threw the right to hurt him" When Duvergel was counted out 156-pounder Reid leaped across the ring and into the arms of coach A1 Mitchell The punch kept US boxers from a gold medal shutout in a non-boycotted Olympics for the first time since 1948 The American's six medals five bronze doubled their take in Barcelona four years ago Marathoner Josia Thugwane all of 5-foot-2 and 99 pounds rolled out of bed early Sunday and outran everybody to capture the marathon It was the first gold medal ever won by a black South African and the closest marathon in Olympic history he won by a mere three seconds The victory set off a wild celebration in the South African mine where Thug- Boxer Reid gets KO and women Dreamers get gold ATLANTA (AP) The Atlanta Games where sprinter Michael Johnson made history and gymnast Kerri Strug defined courage ended with a bang and a boom: US boxer David Reid's stunning gold medal knockout and the women Dream 7Team's romp over Brazil Reid captured America's only gold in the boxing ring Sunday while the US women rolled to a 111-87 victory that capped a year-long odyssey and erased the memory of settling fin a Barcelona bronze The 17th and last day which officially ended with a closing ceremony featuring Stevie Wonder and Gloria Estefen began with a South African marathoner mining an extraordinary gold medal and delivering a message of conciliation 'Later the women's basketball team gave the United States its Atlanta-high 44th gold medal by breezing past Brazil Hie gold haul was die Americans' best in a non-boycott Olympics since its 45 in Barcelona haul of 108 But they became the first nation to crack 2000 cumulative medals in the last 100 years The last medal of the Centennial Games went to the women's hoops team which shot 72 percent in jumping to an 11-point halftime lead It increased the lead in the second half cruising much as the star-laden men's Dream Team did the night before to an easy gold medal win Lisa Leslie led the Americans with 29 points as the women re-established themselves as the world's premier power "1 just knew I wanted to win and have iny teammates count on me scoring said Leslie who was 12-for-14 from the field the best game ever played the best moment of my life We're No 1" Australia captured the bronze defeating the Ukraine 66-56 Reid the last American boxer in the tournament was getting pummeled in the third round of his final match with Cuban Alfredo Duvergel when he landed a devastating right Duvergel went down Antonio Samaranch at the closing ceremony called for a moment of silence for the victims of both attacks the first official IOC mention of the Munich tragedy Samaranch who declared the Barcelona Olympics "the best games in history" opted instead to describe games as most exceptional'' Atlanta chief organizer Billy Payne said the southern games "have given the world a stirring The United States enjoying the home field advantage and a brilliant showing by its women still fell short of their pitching not enough for SLO a SAN LUIS OBISPO Roadrunners rally late to win division sw mis Obispo By Troy Petersen Telegram-Tribune The Central Coast Roadrunners found themselves in an unusual position during Saturday night's playoff game behind The soccer team trailed twice before rallying for a pair of second-half goals and defeated the San Diego Top Guns 3-2 at San Luis Obispo High School's Holt Field With the win the Roadrunners (14-2) advanced to the USISL Premier Six flnalsin Cocoa Bach Fla Jt wasn't easy After Friday 7-0 Southern Division semifinal thrashing of Tus-con the Roadrunners' advancement to the league finals seemed likes foregone conclusion But San Diego held leads of 1-0 and 2-1 in the Ant half Saturday creating some unexpected tension in the crowd of approximately 1100 When 20 minutes passed in the second half with no change in the score the inevitability of a Road-runner win was dwindling Central Coast head coach Dan Tobias then Inserted a third forward Mike Matson into ffw game when the liannia Rodman-like Bryan Taylor helped kicks tart a sporadic of- By Erie Burdick Telegram-Tribune Ben Carey held San Gabriel Valley to one run and three hits in the first four innings But John Grabow blanked San Luis Obispo on three hits over the final five frames Grabow's performance proved to be more decisive than Carey's as the Southern California state champion defeated host San Luis Obispo 5-3 in the opening game of the Pacific Southwest Regional Senior Babe Ruth League All-Star Tournament San Gabriel Valley rallied from a 3-1 deficit with a three-run fifth inning Sunday at San Luis Obispo Stadium and Grabow shut foe door to secure the victory Highlighting the rally was a two-run home run by pinch-hitter Cody Trask which tied foe game at 3-3 "It was a 1-2 curve" San Luis Obispo manager Ron Siskey said "It did not break as well as it should have and it was hit very well" Three batters later Steve Rodrl- snapped the tie with an RBI San Gabriel Valley added another run in the sixth on Jeff RBI single off relief pitcher NicAmanno Grabow retired the last eight San Luis Obispo batters of the game and finished with a nine-hitter striking out nine Siskey whose club fell to 48-31 Jaimia ruabioodT elegram-T ribune TOO LATE: Jeff Bajenaro steals second as Alex Hoover applies the tag Jaltnla ON DEFENSIVE: Joseph Munoz left tries to stop Top Gun progress called out for second high "They said he had high spikes" Siskey said "but too many of our officials do high school and other games where that's illepl We play National League pro rules the same as when Ty Cobb played" he added spikes are not in the San Luis Obispo jumped to a 3-1 lead in the first two innings Goodman singled to knock in a run in the first inning Carey doubled in a run in the second frame and Darren Woods followed with an RBI single on foe year and is the defending regional champion felt his team did not play well Sunday "We didn't do anything he said didn't swing the bats well but got hits anyway We didn't run the bases well we did not field well and we did not coach well Besides that we were fine" Siskey was ejected from foe game in the sixth inning when he argued a close play at first base (the umpire) said ties go to the runner" Siskey said "He needs to show me in the rule book where it says the tie goes to the runner" Siskey also was not pleased with an interference call in foe fifth inning when Scott Goodman was fense Running down the left wing the buzzed bleach-blonde Taylor got around a defender and broke free of an attemped shirt tackle in the left corner of the penalty box He curled a cross to teammate Mario Sanchez' who scored into a wide-open goal mouth guy practically tackled id he still (Taylor) and broke Chicago Bulls forward Rodman scored twice Friday and also assisted Sanchez on the team's first goal of the game But he through With foe score knotted at 2-2 Taylor again found himself free down the left wing and again found a wide-open teammate in front of foe goal this time Abel Gutierrez who scored with just under 15 minutes left in the game Tobias said who confessed read Taylor the recently Please see BABE RUTH C4 published book of Please see RUNNERS C-4 -rw.