BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 13 : DAILY REPORT : BASKETBALL : Schmidt Leads Brazil; Fighting Mars Spain’s Win Over Angola

Oscar Schmidt scored 29 points and Brazil beat Puerto Rico, 86-84, Thursday and will play Australia in the fifth-place basketball game on Saturday. Australia advanced with a 109-79 victory over Germany.

Brazil (3-4) was knocked out of medal contention when it lost to Lithuania in the quarterfinals.

In the ninth-place game, Spain beat Angola, 78-75, in a game that was marred by kicking, elbows, shoves between assistant coaches and a bench-clearing incident.

In the Brazil-Puerto Rico game, there were eight lead changes in the final seven minutes, the last coming with 50 seconds to play on a jumper by Joao Viana that gave Brazil an 84-82 lead.

Each team missed a shot before Brazil’s Jorge Guerra made two free throws with eight seconds left to seal the victory.

Schmidt was 10 for 21 from the field, five for 11 from three-point range, as he broke out of a two-game shooting slump in which he was nine for 42.

Mario Morales led Puerto Rico (3-4) with 17 points, and Ramon Rivas, who played for the Boston Celtics, had 14 points, nine rebounds and five assists.

In Australia’s victory over Germany, Andrew Gaze, who played for Seton Hall, scored 30 points, 19 in the first half. Australia held Detlef Schrempf, who plays for the Indiana Pacers, to 11 points, 14 below his average for the first six games. But he still had 10 rebounds and five assists. Michael Jackel led Germany (2-5) with 19 points.

Of the rough play in the ninth-place game, Angola’s Jean-Jacques Conceicao, through an interpreter, said, “I think this was not basketball, but American football.”

The problems began early in the game when Angolan point guard Paulo Macedo was kicked by a Spanish player and had to leave. Angola Coach Victorino Cunha said after the game Macedo’s right ankle was broken.

With 10 minutes to play, a push during a scramble for a loose ball turned into a standoff between players. While that went on, an assistant coach for each team got into a shoving match on the sidelines.

The real problems began with 1:03 left when Conceicao threw a flagrant elbow to the head of Spain’s Santiago Aldama. Both benches ran on the floor and punches were thrown, but none connected, although Conceicao’s jersey was ripped. The foul was his fifth of the game and matters seemed settled until 11 seconds later.

Jose Guimares of Angola threw another elbow, this one to the head of Jose Arcega as he drove the lane. Again players pushed and grabbed each other in the final tangle of the game.

Andres Jimenez led Spain (3-4) with 15 points. Conceicao led Angola (2-5) with 21.

In the 11th-place game, Ivan Olivares, who played at Springfield (Mass.) College, scored 32 points to lead Venezuela to a 100-97 victory over China.

FENCING

German Men Win Team Epee With 8-4 Victory Over Hungary

Led by a Russian immigrant, Germany won the Olympic gold medal by beating Hungary, 8-4, in the finals of the men’s team epee. The Commonwealth of Independent States won the bronze.

The German team consisted of Elmar Borrmann, Robert Felisiak, Arnd Schmitt, Uwe Proske and Vladimir Reznitchenko. All but Reznitchenko were on the team that placed third behind the Soviet Union and France in last year’s world championships in Budapest.

Reznitchenko, a former Soviet fencer who has a Cuban father and a Russian mother, recently qualified for the German national team. He has a bronze medal from the 1988 Olympics as part of the Soviet epee team.

Schmitt, the individual Olympic epee champion in 1988, landed the winning hit in a close battle to clinch the match.

TEAM HANDBALL

Sweden, CIS Advance to Final

World champion Sweden held off France, 25-22, and the CIS beat Iceland, 23-19, to reach the men’s Olympic team handball final.

Sweden, which defeated the former Soviet Union in the 1990 World Championships, led most of the way in the game played at Granollers, Spain. But France got close when Frederic Volle connected with a fast-break shot to make it 23-22 with 1:26 left. Pierre Thorsson, Sweden’s top scorer, scored his sixth goal of the game with 48 seconds remaining, and Per Carlen scored on a penalty shot just before the buzzer.

Earlier, Norway and South Korea each won their semifinals by one goal to advance to the women’s final, which will be played Saturday at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. Norway upset the CIS, 24-23, with Siri Eftedal scoring the game-winner three seconds before the buzzer. South Korea edged Germany, 26-25.

The U.S. women play Austria today for fifth place.

RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS

CIS Competitor Is Early Leader

Alexandra Timoshenko of the CIS took the lead after the preliminary round of the individual all-around competition in rhythmic gymnastics. Timoshenko had 19.600 points. In second place was Carolina Pascual Garcia of Spain with 19.200 points. Oksana Skaldina of the CIS was third with 19.075.

Tamara Levinson of Silver Spring, Md., was 42nd with 16.450 points.

MEDALISTS

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(Men’s Team Epee)

GOLD: Germany

SILVER: Hungary

BRONZE: CIS