BASEBALL
Thirteen hours after beating the Dominican Republic to extend their winning streak to 25 games, the U.S. team was four-hit by Nicaragua's Olman Rostran in a 3-0 defeat. The Americans could not recapture the emotion from their win the previous night. The Dominicans came back and beat the Bahamas 11-1.

Cuba's vaunted team was upset 7-1 by Mexico.

BASKETBALL
Not since the 1983 team with Michael Jordan has the United States won the Pan Ams gold. It won't win this year, either, after a 92-80 loss to Brazil in the semifinals. Brazil had a 13-0 run in the fourth period and outscored the American collegians 28-17 in the final quarter.

The U.S. women clinched a spot in the semifinals with a 93-78 win over Argentina. Rebekkah Brunson of Georgetown and Loree Moore of Tennessee scored 12 points each for the Americans.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL
The momentum David Fischer (Venice, Calif.) and Brad Torsone (Redondo Beach, Calif.) got in winning their first match disappeared when they fell to Puerto Rico's Ramon Hernandez and Raul Papaleo 21-10, 21-12.

BOWLING
Shannon Pluhowsky of Phoenix won the individual bowling gold with 2,459 pins, a 204.92 average. She also won silver in the team event.

Bill Hoffman of Columbus, Ohio, a gold medalist in doubles, earned a bronze medal in singles with a 212.66 average.

FENCING
The United States edged Cuba 45-44 for gold in the men's team foil. Dan Kellner of Warren, N.J., won the final bout 15-4 after the U.S. trailed by 40-30. It was the first team win in 32 years over the Cubans at the Pan Ams.

Also on the team were Jon Tiomkin and Jed Dupree, both of New York.

FIELD HOCKEY
The U.S. women earned a berth in the semifinals with a 5-0 win over Uruguay. Tracey Fuchs (Centereach, N.Y.) scored three goals, while Dana Rizzo (Walpole, Mass.) and Tracey Larson (Morrisville, Pa.) also scored.

GYMNASTICS
Cuba's Eric Lopez won four of the day's six events, giving him six gold medals for these games and 18 in his Pan Ams career. Lopez won pommel horse, rings, vault and parallel bars.

Clay Strother of Jasper, Texas, took a silver in floor exercise and a bronze in pommel horse.

Chellsie Memmel of West Allis, Wis., earned her third gold medal of the tournament by winning the uneven bars with a 9.575 score. Memmel, 15, also won the all-around and team titles.

Nastia Liukin, 13, of Plano, Texas, took the balance beam gold. Courtney McCool of Lee Summit, Mo., got silver in the vault.

Tia Orlando of Macungie, Pa., the last performer, won the floor exercise.

HANDBALL
The U.S. men beat Mexico 25-22 after falling behind 6-2. Mohammed El Gammal (New York) scored nine times, and Gary ``Hang Time'' Hines added seven goals for the Americans.

RACQUETBALL
American men Rocky Carson and Jack Huczek both won their first and second round matches in straight sets. American women Cheryl Gudinas and Laura Fenton won their pool matches in straight sets, as well. Jackie Rice and Kim Russell won in women's doubles.

ROWING
The lightweight men's double sculls of Tyler Peterson (San Gabriel, Calif.) and Evan Jacobs (Palm Springs, Calif.) qualified for Saturday's finals. So did the lightweight women's double sculls tandem of Sarah Hirst (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Anne Finke (North Palm Beach, Fla.).

SAILING
Mistral sailor Lanee Butler (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) won two races to widen her lead over Dominique Vallee of Canada.

In the J-24 class, Tim Healy (Newport, R.I.), Nick Judson (Nantucket, Mass.), Gordon Borges (Newport, R.I.) and Davenport Crocker (Cohasset, Mass.) finished first and third and were second overall behind Brazil.

Four other U.S. teams were in fifth place in various disciplines.

Snipe sailors Henry Filter (Stevensville, Md.) and Lisa Griffith (San Diego) improved two positions. Hobie 16 sailors, Paul and Mary Ann Hess (Napa, Calif.) maintained their position.

Laser Radial sailor Sally Barkow (Pine Lake, Wis.) also remained fifth, while Ben Richardson (Gloucester, Mass.), who was third overall in Laser class, fell two spots.

In Sunfish, Jeff Linton (Tampa, Fla.) fell one position to seventh overall.

Sailing continues through Sunday.

SHOOTING
Daryl Szarenski of Saginaw, Mich., won the men's 50-meter pistol as the American team continued its strong showing. Kim Rhode of El Monte, Ark., took the women's double trap gold. She won the same event at the 1996 Olympics.

SOFTBALL
Lisa Fernandez (Long Beach, Calif.), one of softball's most dominant pitchers, one-hit Cuba and struck out eight in a 9-0 victory to open the competition. The Americans scored five runs in the first inning.

TENNIS
All six American tennis players won their second-round matches. On the men's side, Alex Kim (Potomac, Md.) and Jeff Morrison (Huntington, W.Va.) won in straight sets, while Alex Bogomolov (Miami) needed three sets. Among the women, Ansley Cargill (Atlanta) dropped the first set 0-6, but rallied to win the next two 6-1, 6-4 from Puerto Rico's Vilmarie Castellvi. Carly Gullickson (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) and Sarah Taylor (Bradenton, Fla.) also won.

Marcelo Rios of Chile, a former world No. 1, also advanced in men's play.

TRACK AND FIELD
Reese Hoffa of Athens, Ga., set a games record with a shot put of 68 feet, 3-4 inches. Then Aretha Hill of Opelika, Ala., won the women's discus at 207-8.

Ecuador won its first medal as Jefferson Perez took the gold in the 20-kilometer walk ahead of Mexicans Bernardo Segura and Alejandro Lopez.

Defending champion Dawn Ellerbe (Columbia, S.C.) struggled to a fifth-place finish in the women's hammer throw, won by Yipsi Moreno of Cuba with a personal best 243 feet, 7 inches that set a Pan Ams record.

VOLLEYBALL
The U.S. women outlasted Puerto Rico in a tight match, 24-26, 25-23, 17-25, 25-23, 16-14. Middle blocker Wiz Bachman (Lakeville, Minn.) led the United States with 19 points on 11 kills, a match-high seven blocks and one service ace. Ogonna Nnamani (Normal, Ill.), a two-time All-American, added 17 points on a team-high 14 kills and three blocks, including the match-winner.

WATER POLO
The world champion U.S. women had a tight game, but beat Brazil 9-4. Ericka Lorenz of San Diego followed her four-goal performance against Puerto Rico with three scores. But coach Guy Baker called it "absolutely the worst game we've played all year.''

The American men had no trouble with Mexico, winning 18-1 as Jeff Powers (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) and Tony Azevedo of Long Beach, Calif., scored four goals apiece.

WRESTLING
Four events, four gold medals.

The United States swept all of the women's freestyle weight classes. Three wrestlers from Colorado Springs took gold: Patricia Miranda at 105 3/4 pounds, Tina George at 121, and Sara McMann at 138 3/4. Toccara Montgomery of Cleveland won at 158 3/4.