American swimmers sweep gold at PanAm games

. performance. SAN JUAN. UPI i United States swim- Berlin in 1978. she was in third place at the time." Vassallo. 17, who left Puerto Rico when he times to applaud their Calif-sa- 19-year-o- ld mers, like a school of sharks closing in for the of Sarasota. Fla.. was second in It was Jezek's second gold medal of the was 11 and now lives in Mission Viejo, id In men's springboard diving. kill, bared their teeth again and came home 2:01.92 and Canada's Gail Anundrud was third Games and overall, the Americans finished 1-- 2 he was disappointed that he did not break of Mission Viejo defeated three-tim- e with their prey of all five gold medals available in 2:03.38. in six of the 12 events since competition began his own world record of 4 : 20.05 but said lie was world and 1976 Olympic champion Phil in- Tuesday night in Pan American The Americans apparently also finished 1- -2 Monday night. more than pleased with his reception. Boggs of Miami for the first time in 16-year-- competition. in the 100-met- er when . the old U.S. star. Meanwhile, the young and hungry United ternational competition. Louganis had 627.84 15-year-- Trie American swimmers, winners of all six of Los Altos. Calif., edged Kim Carlisle o was upset by old teammate Tami States men's basketball team, playing with the points to Boggs" 593.24. gold medals in Monday's opening events. Cincinnati by 1:03.33 to 1:04.64. But Carlisle Paumier of Columbia. Md.. in the 100-met- er kind of defensive intensity that Coach Bobby The United States came out with as much cleaned up again Tuesday nieht when the was disqualified for failing to touch the end of . Caulkins lost her shot at six gold Knight demands, feasted on Cuba 85-5- 3 in the intensity at the start of the second half and swept the five swimming medals and took the the pool on her turn and Canada's Cheryl Gib- medals when she finished three-tent- hs of a second game of the PanAm Games tour- outscored Cuba 14-- 2 in a six-minu- te stretch to one diving medal available. son was move up to second. second behind Paumier. who won in 1:12.20. nament. build a 57-2- 8 lead. Knight substituted freely in turned in a world record U.S. Coach Frank Keeffe said he would Caulkins. who was clocked in 1:12.52, had won Sparked by 16 points from Michael Brooks of the second half and even got a strong per-

- 7-foo- performance in the 200-met- er freestyle to protest. two gold medals Monday night LaSalle, the U.S squad thoroughly harassed the formance from t-4 high school phenom

15-year-- spark the U.S. team. The old "It's practically impossible." he said. "She of the U.S. received a warm Cubans with its balihawking style and Ralph Sampson. Sampson, who did not play in Woodhead. from Riverside Calif., broke her activated the touch pad with her hand and it homecoming from the Puerto Rican crowd aggressive rebounding. The Americans seldom the first half, scored 10 points in the second half own world mark when she finished in 1:58.43. registered. There was no way she could have when he swam to a nine-secon- d victory over let the Cubans have more than one shot at the and brought the capacity of crowd of 4,000 to its bettering the time of 1:58.57 which she turned missed the pad. If she had activated it with her Canada's Bill Sawchuk to take the 40C-met- er basket and the U.S. team played with such feet with a vicious slam dunk in the final in during the world championships in West foot, she would have been a length ahead but individual medley in 4:21.63. vigor that Knight even left his chair a couple of minutes of play after stealing the ball- -