BASEBALL
The United States outlasted Mexico 3-2 in 14 innings to qualify for the final against either Cuba or Nicaragua. Seth Smith of Mississippi scored the winning run in the top of the 14th inning on a sacrifice fly by Rice's Paul Janish. Reliever Huston Street of Texas gave the Americans a gutsy effort. A closer for his college team, Street pitched 8 2/3 innings to keep his scoreless innings streak alive at 29.

Cuba beat Nicaragua, which was undefeated, 2-1. Vicyohandri Odelin struck out 13.

The Cubans play the Americans on Tuesday night for the gold.

BOXING
Juan McPherson, Cleveland, stopped Jinner Guerrero of Ecuador in the third round. Samson Guillermo of Waianae, Hawaii, was outpointed in his first bout by Canada's Andrew Kooner, 37-13.

CYCLING
Jeremiah Bishop (Harrisonburg, Va.) won the men's cross country mountain bike race in the mountain town of Jarabacoa. The circuit through surrounding villages featured a technical descent, difficult climbs and fast, sweeping turns.

Bishop used a final-lap attack to break away from Deiber Esquivel of Costa Rica.

Jimena Florit of Argentina won the women's race, ahead of Mary McConneloug (Fairfax, Calif.)

Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Boulder, Colo.) was forced to abandon the race on the first lap with a stomach infection.

DIVING
Canada concluded its sensational week in diving with another gold medal. Emilie Heymans joined Alexandre Despatie as a triple gold medalist, winning the synchronized 3-meter title with Blythe Hartley. Cassandra Cardinell (Loudonville, N.Y.) and Sara Hildebrand (St. Paul, Minn.) won the bronze.

World champion Heymans also won gold in the 10-meter platform and the 10-meter synchro events. Canada won seven of the eight gold medals.

FIELD HOCKEY
A 6-1 victory over Chile placed the U.S. women into the finals, where an automatic berth in the 2004 Olympics is available.

The Americans took a 5-0 lead and goalie Peggy Storrar wasn't beaten until the 70th minute. they will play Argentina, which beat Uruguay 7-0.

RACQUETBALL
Jack Huczek (Rochester, Mich.) defeated Mike Green of Canada, 15-12, 15-7 to win the singles gold. Rocky Carson (Mission Viejo, Calif.) got a bronze.

Mexico's Alvaro Beltran and Javier Moreno beat Ruben Gonzalez (Staten Island, N.Y.) and Mike Guidry (Carrolton, Texas) 15-9, 15-7 for the doubles title.

In women's play, the United States earned another gold when Cheryl Gudinas (Lisle, Ill.) beat Laura Fenton (Overland Park, Kan.) 11-15, 15-7, 11-5. Fenton got the silver.

But the Mexicans again won in doubles as Susana Acosta and Maria Torres downed Jackie Rice (Ramona, Calif.) and Kim Russell (Austin, Texas) 15-8, 7-15, 11-9.

ROWING
Leading all the way, the U.S. men's eight won the gold medal on the last day of competition on Rincon Lake. The lightweight women's quadruple sculls took the silver medal.

The men's eight of coxswain John Stillings (Edmonds, Wash.), Beau Hoopman (Plymouth, Wis.), Justin Bosley (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.), John Cranston (San Francisc), Chris Liwski (Sarasota, Fla.), Paul Daniels (Burlington, Wis.), Andrew Brennan (Valley Forge, Pa.), Justin Jones (East Aurora, N.Y.), and Dave Friedericks (Port Townsend, Wash.) was 2.52 seconds ahead of the Canadian crew.

The lightweight women's quadruple sculls of Sarah Hirst (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Wendy Campanella (Needham, Mass.), Jen Edwards (Glens Falls, N.Y.), and Anne Finke (North Palm Beach, Fla.) was second to Cuba.

Other winners were Cuba in the men's quadruple sculls and the lightweight men's quadruple sculls.

In all, the United States won nine rowing medals.

RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS
Mary Sanders, an American living in Toronto, won four gold medals, in hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. Olga Karmansky of Brooklyn, N.Y., was second in ball.

SAILING
One day after Mistral women's sailor Lanee Butler (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) clinched a gold medal, the United States won another when J/24 skipper Tim Healy (Newport, R.I.) and crew members Nick Judson (Nantucket, Mass.), Gordon Borges (Newport, R.I.) and Davenport Crocker (Cohasset, Mass.) edged Brazil. They needed to sail only the first of Sunday's two races to secure first place.

Snipe sailors Henry Filter (Stevensville, Md.) and Lisa Griffith (San Diego) wound up fourth as Brazil took the gold.

Brazil also won the Laser class, with Ben Richardson (Gloucester, Mass.) finishing fifth. Laser Radial sailor Sally Barkow (Pine Lake, Wis.) also was fifth, with Mexico taking the gold.

The Sunfish class was wone by Venezuela, with Jeff Linton (Tampa, Fla.) a sixth-place finisher.

Hobie 16 sailors Paul and Mary Ann Hess (Napa, Calif.) were sixth overall, while Puerto Rico won. Peter Wells (Newport Beach, Calif.) was sixth overall in the Mistral men's class won by Brazil.

SOFTBALL
Both U.S. teams remained undefeated.

Lisa Fernandez (Long Beach, Calif.) threw a five-inning no-hitter and struck out 10 as the women romped over the host Dominicans 13-0. The men routed the Dominican Republic 11-2 as Mike Dryer (Excelsior Springs, Mo.) homered in a 13-hit attack.

TENNIS
Ferdinand Meligeni of Brazil upset Marcelo Rios of Chile, a former No. 1 ranked player, 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5) to win the gold, then said he will reconsider his announcement to retire after 13 years on tour.

Rios also lost in doubles as Mexico's Santiago Gonzalez and Alejandro Hernandez beat Rios and Adrian Garcia 6-7, 6-2, 6-3.

Venezuela's Milagros Sequera ended her run of victories over Americans by beating Sarah Taylor of Bradenton, Fla., 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 to win the women's gold medal. Sequera, also beat Carly Gullickson and Ansley Cargill on her way to the title.

Sequera, ranked No. 120 in the world, becomes the second straight Venezuelan to win Pan Ams gold in women's singles. Maria Vento also defeated three American women in succession to win in 1999.

TRIATHLON
Hunter Kemper (Longwood, Fla.) won the men's triathlon with a time of 1 hour, 52 minutes. He beat Brazil's Virgilio De Castillo by nearly 50 seconds.

Canada's Jill Savege was the women's winner in 1:59:30.40. Sheila Taormina (Livonia, Mich.) earned the silver and Becky Gibbs (Minnetonka, Minn.) got the bronze.

WATER POLO
The world champion U.S. women beat Canada 7-3 for the gold medal, then threw coach Gus Baker in the pool in celebration. The Canadians had tied the Americans in the preliminary round, but the United States got off to a quick start and never trailed in the final.

Goalie Jackie Frank (Long Beach, Calif.) stopped nine of 12 shots and Canada hit the framework of the net four times early in the game.

The American men equaled that achievement with a 13-7 decision over Brazil. Tony Azevedo of Long Beach scored twice to finish with 33 goals to lead the tournament. With the game tied at 2, Team USA scored five straight, including Azevedo's goal that put them ahead for good.