With time running out in the gold medal basketball game at the U.S. Olympic Festival, 5-foot-10 Travis Ford drove through the lane and came up against 7-foot Eric Montross. Ford won.
His lofted layup with seven seconds left gave the South a 121-120 victory over the North and avenged a loss that came during the round-robin portion of the tournament."I wanted to shoot right away so if I missed there would be time to get the rebound," Ford said. "Luckily, it went in."
In the women's gold medal game, the East started quickly in both halves and rolled to a 76-54 victory over the West. Also Tuesday, two more festival swimming records fell, a bowler rolled a 300 game and the oldest archer in the competition walked away with the gold.
In the women's game, Tracy Lis of Providence led the winners with 15 points, Kathy Phillips of Penn State had 13 and 16-year-old Michelle Marciniak of Macungie, Pa., had 11.
Two more festival swimming records fell, bringing the three-day total to eight.
Emily Short swam the 200-meter breaststroke in 2 minutes, 32.71 seconds to break the record of 2:36.83 set in 1987 by Laura Gandrud of Bloomington, Minn.
On Monday night, the 14-year-old Short had swum the second-fastest 100 breaststroke in the world this year.
"I now feel I have more of a chance (to make the '92 Olympic team) than I did a week ago," said Short, of Phoenix. "I'm more positive about it now than after last night. I just have to work a lot harder than I have been."
Sean Gouldson of Chelmsford, Mass., won the 100 backstroke in 57.37, breaking the festival record of 57.51 set by Rick Carey in 1981.
In archery, 46-year-old Barry Weinperl set a final-round Grand FITA record with 334 points after almost not qualifying for the six-man finals.
Weinperl's victory marked the second straight year the oldest archer has won the event. In 1989, Ed Eliason of Stansbury Park, Utah, won it at age 50.
The woman's Grand FITA champion was 19-year-old Sherry Robberson of Colorado Springs, Colo., making her first festival appearance.
Bill Watson of Chesapeake, Ohio, rolled a 300 game during the five-player event to match the perfect game rolled last year by Gordon Vadakin of Wichita, Kan.
Watson, 23, was an All-American in 1989 and plans to turn professional after the festival.
In fast-pitch softball, Trent Rubley of Decatur, Ill., playing for the East, had two hits, giving him a festival-record 13 through six games. Darryl Day of Decatur had 12 hits in 1983.