FACES IN THE CROWD

GREGORY BEST
FLEMINGTON, N.J.
Best, 23, rode Gem Twist to victory at the American Grandprix Association's national show-jumping championship, in Tampa, to become the first rider to be named the AGA Rookie of the Year and win the national title in the same year.

CINDY HAYS
OSCEOLA, NEB.
Cindy, a 6'2" senior center on the Osceola High girls' basketball team, scored a state girls' high school record of 65 points, in an 84-66 win over Benedict High. She broke the old mark, which was set in 1976, by eight points.

BRIDGET BUSHMAN
CINCINNATI
Bridget, a second-grader at St. Antoninus grade school, scored 70 goals to lead the Rajin Cajuns to a 20-0 record and the Ohio state soccer title for girls six and seven years old. St. Antoninus scored 165 goals while giving up only one.

MATT SUGGS
CLARION, PA.
Suggs, a sophomore at the University of South Florida, was second to Kiril Ivanov of the Soviet Union at the World Air Rifle Championships in Budapest. Suggs scored 693.80 out of a possible 700 points to pace the victorious U.S. team.

WILLIE McCLENDON
JACKSONVILLE
McClendon, a senior tailback at University Christian High, ran for 2,969 yards in 13 games this season to break the state single-season rushing record of 2,918 set in 1985 by Emmitt Smith, who's now the tailback at Florida.

LEAH PELLS
LANGLEY, B.C.
Pells, a senior at Simon Fraser University, beat Michelle Marter-Rohl of Wisconsin-Parkside by 33 seconds to win the NAIA women's cross-country title, in Kenosha, Wis. She ran the 3.1 miles in a course-record 16:59.

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ED REINKE

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JOHN PEMBERTON

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PETER BATTISTONI