Faces In The Crowd

Keith Hoard
LOUISVILLE

Hanna Krehling
ELBERTA, ALA.
Hoard and Krehling, golfers at Spring Hill College in Mobile, won individual NAIA national championships. Hoard, a junior making his first appearance at the nationals, beat Peter Quigley of the University of Mobile in a sudden-death playoff to claim the men's title. Hoard birdied the first playoff hole after shooting a four-round, two-over-par 282 at the Tulsa Country Club. Krehling, a senior playing in the finals for the fourth time, won her first championship, by three strokes over Rachel Preble of Southwestern Oklahoma State with a three-round, 14-over-par 230 at the Delray Beach Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Leon Keith Lopez
SANTA FE
Leon, 9, won the Getty Powell Award as the nation's top boys free throw shooter after he made 25 of 25 shots to win the boys' 8-to-9 age group at the Elks Lodge nationals in Springfield, Mass. He was the only boy in any of the three divisions, which covered ages 8 to 13, to convert all of his shots.

Veronica Maher
WARSAW, N.Y.
Veronica, a junior pitcher on the Warsaw High softball team, struck out all 22 batters she faced in the Tigers' 34-0 Section V Class CC semifinal win over Williamson High. She finished the season with a 20-2 record, 285 strikeouts and a 0.42 ERA. She has 17 career no-hitters, five of them perfect games.

Robert Howard
PAWTUCKET, R.I.
Howard, a junior at Arkansas, won the long jump (26'11�") and triple jump (55'6�") at the NCAA outdoor meet in Bloomington, Ind. He is the third jumper to sweep both titles indoors and outdoors in the same year; the others are former Razorbacks Mike Conley (1984 and '85) and Erick Walder ('94).

Richard Kuechler
PAHRUMP, NEV.
Kuechler, 78, became the fifth-oldest bowler ever to roll a perfect game and the oldest so far this year. Kuechler, who has a 190 average, had been bowling for 61 years before getting his first sanctioned 300 game, during league play at the Mountain View Bowling Center.