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Tuesday, July 31, 1984TThe Battalion/Page 7 Sports KYLE | FIELD -chanlcal wived i; 3 discuss :e A&.M Softball Camp Photo by JAIME LOPEZ Texas A&M head softball coach Bob Brock and Phil Burd, head coach of the two-time A.A.U. national women’s softball champion Santa Monica Raiders, talk about softball funda mentals and strategies to this years’ group of girl campers on the fields of the Penburthy Intramural Complex. The 1984 camp, headed by Brock and Burd, lasts through Thursday. sh Gonzales U.S. gymnasts file protests lestroyed | ^ht, and eat and ainst nutii hippint een fieli e lost if (n aten dirci Sweeten, a of fresh is ?t depends! ng harvest: as shipp sared < aked egetables i :nng thee eredthen due to ho: ibles, says a larisons »8 cinches gold with victory United Press International LOS ANGELES — Paul Gonzales, lighting before a frenzied home town crowd, eliminated his stiffest competition for the gold medal Monday by pounding out a lopsided lictory over Kwang-Sun Kim of Ko- Jea in the first round of Olympic boxing competition. Moving skillfully with Kim in pur- l$uit, Gonzales used his height and leach advantage brilliantly. Every lime Kim tried to move inside, Gon- Jales ripped into him with crunching lefts and rights. The easy victory gave Gonzales a Birtual trouble-free ride to the gold Tnedal. Kim was ranked No. 2 in the foods cool®odd, based mostly on his silver and draiixBiedal performance in the World and froafiphamptonships earlier this year, waterasp" Eonzales was ranked No. 3 in the sity of di les were f jf harvest, :ommeri ; theprodo d homes. todd. Cuba's Rafael Sainz, the world •rii champion, is not competing in the Games because of his nation’s boy- ott. United Press International LOS ANGELES — Though they felt they’d been deliberately under scored. the U.S. women Monday took a huge early lead during the compulsory half of the Olympic team gymnastics competition. Led by explosive Mary Lou Ret- lon, the individual high scorer in the morning half of the compulsories, the Americans scored 195.70 of a possible 200 points to finish far ahead of second place West Ger many with 189.85. Japan was third at 187.60 and Spam fourth at 185.40. But the United States’ chief com petition, 1983 World Champion Ro mania and China, were not sched uled to compete until Monday night and the Americans said they were unsure their scores would hold up if the judges gave in to a natural ten dency to get more lenient as a meet goes on. “Scores tend to escalate as a meet goes on and the judges get tired,” said U.S. women’s coach Don Peters. “I just hope the judges give scores tonight they are as strict as they were this morning. And, believe me, they were strict. “But they (U.S. scores) were high enough that I think that no matter what happens tonight, we’ll still be within striking distance of the gold “That Romanian judge at one point gave out a 9.4 while others gave 9.9s. I can’t understand why she wasn’t given a yellow cau tion card or escorted right out of the arena. There is absolutely no excuse for that kind of scoring at Olympic games.” — U.S. Olympic coach Don Peters medal after tonight.” Peters said die felt the U.S. team should have nad an overall score about .3 or .4 point higher. Peters’ major objections con cerned the scoring on balance beam and floor exercise. “I filed so many protests my fin gers are sore,” Peters said. He filed four written protests, all of them de clined. Peters accused Romanian judge Julia Roterescu of deliberately awarding as low a score as she could get away with. “We got hammered on the bal ance beam,” he said. “That Roma nian judge at one point gave out a 9.4 while others gave 9.9s. I can’t un derstand why she wasn’t given a yel low caution card or escorted right out of the arena. There is absolutely no excuse for that kind of scoring at Olympic games.” Four judges score each women’s gymnastics event. The high and low scores are thrown out and the mid dle two averaged to provide the ac tual score. “She did that on purpose,” he said. “You throw out a score so low that you know it gets thrown out, and the next lowest score will count.” Peters said the scores given his best floor performers Retton (9.95) and two-time Olympians Julianne McNamara (9.9) and Kathy Johnson (9.8) were too conservative and would have been worse if the crowd of 8,679 at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion hadn’t been so loudly demonstrative. “I think it’s more a psychological thing that they know it’s morning and they don’t know what they’ll see at night,” Peters said, when asked if the fact that the judges may have given no 10s Monday morning might have been a backlash stem ming from the large number of per fect scores (a total of 10) awarded the men Sunday. U.S. women rout Yugoslavia 83-55 United Press International INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Cheryl Miller answered an early-morning wakeup call Monday with 23 points and the United States women’s bas ketball team began its quest for its first-ever Olympic gold medal Mon day with an 83-55 victory over Yugo slavia. The Americans, rated the tourna ment favorite because of the Soviet Union’s boycott, was forced by the draw to play at 9 a.m. (PDT). T he U.S. team, which had rescheduled its practice sessions to early-morning in preparation, has its second game Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. against Australia. “We’ve been five to a room and (teammate) Pam McGee wakes us up at 5:30,” Miller said. “Pam flips on the lights and it’s a mad race to the bathroom. I’ve learned something about the morning. The birds aren’t up. It’s still dark.” Miller, college basketball’s player of the year, had 17 first-half points, including 9 in a 20-4 run that brought the U.S. from a 25-23 defi cit to a 43-29 halftime lead. The Olympians awoke early when the flashy Miller, a junior-to-be at the University of Southern Califor nia, hit the first 4 U.S. points and be came a factor on the boards. But Jasmina Perazic, who played four years of basketball at the Uni versity of Maryland, led a 16-6 Yu goslavian scoring spree with 12 points and the U.S. team trailed for the first time, 19-18, with 6:34 left in the half. Miller then took over, hitting three foul shots and a duck-under lay-up move in the 20-4 run that putthe U.S. ahead to stay. Miller scored 6 of the U.S. team’s first 8 points of the second half as Coach Pat Summitt rested many of her starters. The lead reached 25 points on a free throw by Pam Mc Gee and 30 when Denise Curry scored with less than seven minutes remaining. McGee had 13 points and Lynette Woodard added 11 for the Ameri cans. “I don’t think we’ve talked about the expectations of everyone else,” Summitt said. “It’s just a challenge and the ultimate and that’s what we’re going for.” Yugoslavian coach Milan Vasoje- vic said the Americans are clearly the world’s best. “As I said last year, the United States has a great Olympic team,” he said. “Even if the Soviets were here, the United States would win. They have a fantastic defense.” Gross, Baumann set Olympic swim records United Press International LOS ANGELES — West Ger many’s Michael Gross and Canada’s Alex Baumann stole some of the thunder from America’s swimming party Monday when they swam to gold medals in world record time. Gross became the Olympics’ first double gold medal winner by setting a world mark in the 100-meter but terfly, nipping previous record holder and favorite Pablo Morales of the United States. Baumann, the current record holder in the 400 indiviual medley, became the first Canadian swimmer in 72 years to capture an Olympic swimming gold when he shaved .12 seconds off the record in capturing the gold. Americans Mary Wayte and Cyn thia “Sippy” Woodhead finished one-two in the women’s 200 free style, nearly duplicating Sunday’s feat by Nancy Hogshead and Carrie Steinseifer who shared the gold in the 100 freestyle. A dejected Morales, who re sponded to the cheers of the capacity crowd, said he tired in the final 10 meters after he had overtaken Gross at the halfway point. “I could hardly move with 10 me ters to go,” said Morales, who over came a serious injury two years ago Minutes later, Anne Ottenbrite captured her country’s second gold by winning the 200-meter breasts troke. American Susan Rapp took the silver, while 15-year-old Ingrid Lempereur of Belgium was the sur prise winner of the bronze. Baumann, who spotted silver medalist and former record holder Ricardo Prado of Brazil the lead af ter 200 meters, came on strong in his strongest strokes — the breast and the freestyle — to also lower the Olympic mark that was set by Rus sia’s Aleksander Sidorenko at the 1980 games. Wayte, a freshman at the Univer sity of Florida, nipped Woodhead at the wall to win the fifth gold medal for the Americans. Woodhead, who swims at nearby USC, is a former world and current American record holder in the event and was clocked 1:59.50, edging An- nemarie Verstappen of Holland by .19 seconds. AGGIE CLEANERS Thursday Special Rluo loanc- Laundered or DIUC JCallO Dry Cleaned $1.50 846-4116 - Northgate- 111 College Hours: M-F 7:30-5:30 Sat. 8-3 pm Your FREE trip to Padre Island is less than 30 days away! Come to Padre Cafe, home of world-famous fajitas, and register to win a free trip to Padre Island. Sun, surf, sand and fun is less than 30 days away! 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