LONDON 2012 RESULTS: MONDAY

LONDON 2012 RESULTS: MONDAY

BADMINTON

Howard Bach and Tony Gunawan lost their third and final match of

pool play to Japan’s Naoki Kawamae and Shoji Sato, 0-2 (15-21 and

15-21), on Monday (July 30) at Wembley Arena. With an 0-3 record,

the pair did not advance past pool play.

BASKETBALL (WOMEN)

Candace Parker scored 14 points to lead a balanced attack as the

U.S. women’s basketball team recorded a 90-38 win over Angola

Monday night in Group A play at the Basketball Arena. The U.S.

improved to 2-0 in preliminary round action and will face Turkey (2-0)

on Wednesday (Aug. 1). Angola led at the outset, but the Americans

rode a 16-3 run to close out the first quarter, giving them a 22-12 lead

that they built in the second stanza, going into the locker room with

a 41-18 halftime margin. Seimone Augustus added 13 and led the

Americans with three rebounds.

BOXING

Team USA suffered its first loss of the Games on Monday (July 30) as

light heavyweight Marcus Browne fell to Damien Hooper of Australia

in the opening round. The bout was closely contested throughout, but

Hooper pulled out the win with a third-round surge, claiming a 13-11

victory. The U.S. takes the ring again this afternoon at ExCeL Arena,

as Jamel Herring opens the light welterweight division against Daniyar

Yeleussinov of Kazakhstan.

CANOE/KAYAK - SLALOM

Team USA’s two remaining boats in the slalom competition did not

advance to the semifinal round on Monday (July 30) at the Lee Valley

White Water Center. The men’s doubles canoe of Eric Hurd and Jeff

Larimer improved on their second run of the day to post a 109.78,

but fell shy of the top-10 semifinal cut by 2.31 seconds. In women’s

kayak, Caroline Queen’s opened with her best run of the day at

117.05 seconds, but it wasn’t enough to place in the top 15, which

was required to advance.

EQUESTRIAN - EVENTING

After Monday’s (July 30) cross-country competition at Greenwich

Park, the equestrian eventing team moved up to fifth place in the

standings with a total of 155.20 penalties. Leading the U.S. individually

is two-time Olympic gold medalist Phillip Dutton in 12th place with

47.1 penalties. Karen O’Connor and Boyd Martin sit at 24th (53.80)

and 26th (54.30). First-time Olympians Tiana Coudray and Will Coleman

each took jumping penalties on the day, which placed Coudray

42nd and Coleman 46th. The eventing competition concludes today

(July 31) with jumping.

FENCING

Team USA’s Maya Lawrence placed 16th in the women’s individual

epee competition after dropping a 15-7 decision to Italy’s Rossella

Fiamingo in the round of 16 at the ExCel Arena on Monday (July 30).

She advanced to the round of 16 with a 15-12 victory over Mara

Navarria of Italy earlier in the day. The other two remaining U.S. epee

fencers fell in the round of 64, as Susie Scanlan lost to the Ukraine’s

Olena Krybytska (15-13) and Courtney Hurley was eliminated by

France’s Laura Flessel-Colovic (15-12). The three fencers will now

turn their attention to the team event, where they will face Italy in the

opening round on Aug. 4.

GYMNASTICS - ARTISTIC

The U.S. men’s team finished fifth with an overall score of 269.952

on Monday evening (July 30) at North Greenwich Arena. The U.S.

was just over six points behind the gold-medal winners from China

(275.997), while Japan (271.952) and Great Britain (271.711) rounded

out the top three. The fortune of the U.S. team – comprised of Jacob

Dalton, Jonathan Horton, Danell Leyva, Sam Mikulak and John Orozco

– was affected by the pommel horse, where Team USA finished seventh 

among the eight teams, and the vault, where the Americans

posted the sixth-highest score. It marks the first time since the 2000

Olympic Games that the U.S. men did not medal in the team event.

ROWING

Despite rough waters and strong winds, three U.S. boats advanced

Monday (July 30) to the next round at Eton Dorney. The men’s four of

Charles Cole, Scott Gault,Glenn Ochal and Henrick Rummel won its

opening heat with a time of 5:54.88 to move on to the semifinals. The

men’s pair of Thomas Peszek and Silas Stafford placed third in the

repechage with a time of 6:27.41, to advance. The men’s quadruple

sculls - featuring Peter Graves, Elliot Hovey, Alex Osborne and Wes

Piermarini - just missed the semifinals cut with a fourth-place finish in

the repechage. In women’s double sculls, Team USA’s Margot Shumway

and Sarah Trowbridge finished third in their heat and progressed

to the repechage, scheduled for today. The U.S. finished second in

the repechage in the women’s quadruple sculls and advanced to the

final. Natalie Dell, Kara Kohler, Megan Kalmoe and Adrienne Martelli

will continue racing on Wednesday.

SAILING

Racing continued in the Starr, Finn and women’s match racing on

Monday (July 30), while opening in the Laser and Radial classes. After

four races, Zach Railey rates 13th against the field in Finn, while the

Star team of Mark Mendelblatt and Brian Fatih sit comfortably in sixth

place. The 49er duo of Erik Storck and Trevor Moore are seventh

after two races. Laser Radial sailor Paige Railey completed day one

in fifth place and Rob Crane currently sits in the 39th position in Laser

competition. Anna Tunnicliffe, Molly O’Bryan Vandemoer and Debbie

Capozzi improved their match racing record to 2-2. Racing continues

in all events today, along with the start of the men’s and women’s

windsurfing series.

SHOOTING

Vincent Hancock led the U.S. men’s skeet field with 74 targets Monday

(July 30) at Royal Artillary Barracks. He is poised to make history

as the first-ever skeet athlete to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals.

Meanwhile, Frank Thompson hit 71 targets to land in a six-way

tie for third. Jonathan Hall finished 27th in men’s 10-meter air rifle with

592 targets to complete his Olympic showing. Matt Emmons was

35th with 590 points and will shoot men’s 50-meter rifle 3-position on

Aug. 6.

TENNIS

Andy Roddick beat Slovakia’s Martin Klizan (7-5, 6-4) in the first round

of men’s singles, while John Isner topped Malek Jaziri of Tunisia (7-6,

6-2) in second-round action on Monday (July 30) at Wimbledon. In

women’s singles, Varvara Lepchenko needed three sets to put away

Paraguay’s Veronica Cepede Royg (7-5, 6-7, 6-2), while Venus Williams

defeated Italy’s Sara Errani (3-6, 1-6). In the second round of

women’s singles competition, Serena Williams secured a 6-2, 6-3

victory against Poland’s Urszula Radwanska. In doubles play, Venus

and Serena Williams combined for a 3-6, 2-6 victory over Romania’s

Sorana Cirstea and Simona Halep. The men’s and women’s singles

tournaments, as well as women’s doubles play continues today.

VOLLEYBALL - BEACH

Two-time defending gold medalists and third-seeded Misty May-

Treanor and Kerri Walsh defeated No. 10 Marketa Slukova and

Kristyna Kolocova of Czech Republic, 21-14, 21-19, on Monday night

(July 30) at Horse Guards Parage. The pair improved to 2-0 and will

complete Pool B play on Wednesday against Austria’s No. 15 Doris

and Stefanie Schwaiger. On the men’s side, Jake Gibb and Sean

Rosenthal lost to the Polish tandem of Mariusz Prudel and Grzegorz

Fijalek (21-17, 21-18). The loss dropped Gibb and Rosenthal to 1-1

in preliminary-round play. The duo will return to action on Wednesday

against Aleksandrs Samiolovs and Ruslans Sorokins of Latvia.

VOLLEYBALL - INDOOR (WOMEN)

IIn a rematch of the 2008 Olympic Games gold-medal match, the

U.S. knocked off Brazil, 3-1, on Monday (July 30). Destinee Hooker

led the team with 23 points with 22 spikes and one block. The U.S.

women only dropped the third set (22-25), while winning the first,

second and fourth to clinch the victory (25-18, 25-17, 25-21). The

team improved to 2-0 with six points in Pool B play, and takes on

third-seeded China (2-0) at Earls Court on Wednesday.

WATER POLO (WOMEN)

Maggie Steffens tied an Olympic record with seven goals as the U.S.

defeated Hungary, 14-13, to open play at the Games on Monday

(July 30). Courtney Mathewson contributed four goals, while Brenda

Villa, Kelly Rulon and Kami Craig supported the scoring effort with

one goal apiece. Betsey Armstrong stopped six shots in the victory.

Team USA never trailed in the high-scoring contest, but the match

was tied on three occasions. Up next, the U.S. will meet Spain in

Group A play today at 6:20 p.m. BST.