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Saturday, August 9
 
Monday: U.S. wins team handball bronze

Associated Press

BADMINTON
In women's doubles, Jamie Subandhi (Westminster, Calif.) -- the youngest athlete in the U.S. delegation at 13 -- and partner Mesinee Mangkalakiri, of Garden Grove, Calif., lost their quarterfinal match to the second-seeded Peruvian pair of Doriana Rivera and Sandra Jimeno, 15-0, 15-3.

The U.S. men's doubles team of Howard Bach (San Francisco) and Kevin Han (Orange, Calif.) advanced to the semifinals with a win over Virgil Soeroredjo and Mit Wongsodikrmo (Surinam), 15-11, 15-4. Bach and Han play the Canadian team of Mike Beres and Kyle Hunter in Wednesday's semifinal match.

Also advancing for the Americans was the mixed doubles team of Mangkalakiri and Rajiv Rai (Orange, Calif.). They beat Lorena Blanco and Rodrigo Pacheco of Peru 15-6, 15-11.

Samantha Jinadasa (Orange, Calif.) lost to Peru's Lorena Blanco in her women's singles quarterfinal 11-4, 11-0.

BOXING
It was a rugged day early for U.S. boxers, who went 0-for-3 in the afternoon. Light flyweight Rayonta Whitfield of Augusta, Ga., lost 16-8 to 2001 world champion Yan Bartelemy of Cuba. Lightweight Karl Dargan of Philadelphia got off to a strong start against Francisco Javier Vargas of Mexico, using his jab and movement to take a 12-8 lead into the third round. But he tired badly and lost on a late flurry, 19-18.

Light heavyweight Rommel Rene of Orlando, Fla., was beaten 12-5 by Mexico's Ramiro Reducindo. Kooner, 37-13.

CYCLING
The United States finished first and third in the women's 30-kilometer time trial. Kim Bruckner of Boulder, Colo., took the gold in 41 minutes, 11 seconds. Clara Hughes of Canada was 38 seconds behind, with Kristin Armstrong of Boise, Idaho, taking bronze.

Jose Serpa of Colombia edged Chris Baldwin of Boulder to win the men's 50-kilometer time trial. The other American, Colby Pearce, also of Boulder, was 13th.

HANDBALL
Danny Hennessey, a New York police officer, stopped all five penalty shots he faced in goal to spark the U.S. men to a 25-23 win over Uruguay in the bronze medal game. It's the first time the men's team has won a medal since the 1991 games. Joe Fitzgerald (North Babylon, N.Y.) scored five goals on seven shots for the Americans, and Gary ``Hang Time'' Hines (Mableton, Ga.) scored three. In the gold-medal game, Brazil beat Argentina 31-30 in double overtime to win a berth in the 2004 Olympics.

JUDO
Two-time Olympian Brian Olson (Boulder, Colo.) used his signature sumi-gaeshi move to win the Americans' first judo gold here, highlighting a day when the Americans won three medals on the mat.

Christina Yannetsos (Colorado Springs, Colo.) earned silver and Mike Barnes (San Jose, Calif.) won bronze.

KARATE
Clay Morton (Hernaudo, Miss.) and Junko Arai (Seattle) earned silver medals in the men's and women's kata finals, respectively, and the U.S. karate team advanced two other athletes into the final round for Tuesday.

John Fonseca (Northbrook, Ill.) and Cheryl Murphy (Jamaica, N.Y.) qualified for the finals. Fonseca moved a step closer to defending his 1999 Pan Ams title in the men's under-80 kilograms division after going undefeated in his three preliminary matches.

Murphy won all three matches in pool play of the women's over-58 kilograms. But she needed a reverse punch with just 3 seconds left to beat Ana Victoria Montilla of the Dominican Republic, 1-0, in a preliminary match.

MODERN PENTATHLON
Anita Allen of Winimac, Ind., won the modern pentathlon with 5,268 points. Samantha Harvey of Brazil took silver (5,256), and Mary Beth Iagorashvili of Munkwanago, Wis., earned the bronze.

SOCCER
In the women's semifinals, Brazil beat Argentina 2-1 and Canada defeated Mexico 3-2.

SOFTBALL
Left-hander Lori Harrigan of Las Vegas pitched a one-hitter with nine strikeouts for her second Pan Ams win as the U.S. women's team finished round-robin play with a 7-0 win over Colombia. The Americans go into the semifinals Wednesday as the top seed and will face second-seeded Dominican Republic.

The U.S. Pan Ams win streak is at 49 games. The 1996 and 2000 Olympic gold medal team has yet to give up a run, outscoring opponents 53-0. Since the streak began in 1987, the Americans have outscored their opponents 332-6.

In a matchup of two unbeatens, the U.S. men's softball team suffered its first loss of the Pan Ams, 5-1 to Canada. The United States drops to 4-1 and will enter the playoffs as the No. 2 seed; Canada improves to 5-0 and will hold the No. 1 seed.

SQUASH
Preston Quick (Denver) managed one of the biggest upsets of the tournament by defeating the men's No. 3 seed, Jorge Gutierrez of Argentina, in five games in the quarterfinals. He then forfeited his semifinal match against top-seeded Graham Ryding of Canada in order to rest his hurt ankle. Because two bronze medals are awarded, Quick was assured a bronze with his placement to the semifinals.

Quick won 9-4, 9-3, 3-9, 4-9, 9-7 in his early match. Gutierrez entered the match as the defending Pan American Federation champion.

No. 1 seed Latasha Kahn of Seattle advanced to the women's final with two victories: 3-0 over Karin Anderson of Jamaica in the quarterfinals, then 3-1 against Marnie Baizley of Canada. Kahn will play Canada's Melanie Jans for gold.

SWIMMING
Mark Gangloff of Akron, Ohio, set a Pan Ams record in the 100-meter breaststroke of 1 minute, .95 seconds. He broke the mark of Ed Moses set four years ago. Jarrod Marrs of Baton Rouge, La., was second.

Courtney Shealy of Columbia, S.C., a 2000 Olympics relay winner, took the women's 100 freestyle in 55.61. There was a dead heat for silver between Christina Swindle of Miami and Florencia Szigetti of Argentina.

The relay team of Elizabeth Hill, Atlanta; Colleen Lanne, Tucson, Ariz.; Carly Piper, Grosse Pointe, Mich.; and Dana Vollmer, Fort Worth, Texas, never was challenged in setting a Pan Ams record in 8:05.47.

In the 400 individual medley, Georgina Bardach of Argentina was an easy winner over silver medalist Kristen Caverly of San Clemente, Calif. And George Bovell of Trinidad and Tobago, a swimmer for Auburn, beat Dan Ketchum of Cincinnati in the men's 200 freestyle.

TABLE TENNIS
In men's pool play, the Americans lost three matches then bounced back for three wins later in the day. Song Liu of Argentina defeated Mark Hazinski (Mishawaka, Ind.) 11-8, 11-8, 12-10, 12-10. Lin Ju of the Dominican Republic beat David Zhuang (West Windsor, N.J.) 11-6, 11-8, 11-5, 11-6. Canada's Peter Pradeeban defeated Eric Owens (Houston) 11-8, 10-12, 11-8, 11-7, 11-4.

Owens rallied to beat Cuba's Dimeys Gongora 4-3. Hazinski defeated Mexico's Guillermo Munoz 4-1 and Zhuang beat Jonatan Pino from Venezuela 11-5, 11-9, 12-10, 12-10. Tuesday marks the first round of single elimination tournament play.

VOLLEYBALL
Nicole Branagh (Orinda, Calif.) scored 16 points to lead four players in double figures in the U.S. women's 25-18, 25-20, 36-34 victory over Venezuela to earn a semifinal berth.

Branagh had 15 kills and one service ace in the third straight victory for the Americans in the tournament after losing their first match to Brazil.




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