Pan Am Games

* Capsules of yesterday's events.MEDAL COUNT (TOP 10).. .. .. .. .. .. .G .. ..S .. .B .. TotUnited States .. .. 109 .. 104 .. 74 .. 287Cuba .. .. .. .. .. 116 .. .57 .. 57 .. 230Canada .. .. .. .. ..17 .. .31 .. 47 .. .95Mexico .. .. .. .. ..15 .. .19 .. 30 .. .64Brazil .. .. .. .. ..15 .. .15 .. 30 .. .60Argentina .. .. .. .. 2 .. .10 .. 21 .. .33Colombia .. .. .. .. .3 .. .12 .. 14 .. .29Venezuela .. .. .. .. 2 .. .11 .. 16 .. .29Puerto Rico .. .....

HAVANA -- Don't panic.That was the message issued by United States Olympic Committee president Robert Helmick yesterday midway through the Pan American Games.While the Cubans are hoarding gold medals like U.S. dollars, the Americans are settling for the Pan Am equivalent of pesoes -- silvers and bronzes. Cubans are dominating track and field and weightlifting. They kayoed the U.S. women's basketball team and got a gold in men's platform diving."We've got a great team here," Helmick said during a briefing.

HAVANA -- As Pan American Games officials considered a protest by the Canadian baseball team, that nation's sports minister said yesterday that his government will review the bench-clearing brawl between the Canadian and Mexican teams."

As Pan American Games officials considered a protest by the Canadian baseball team, that nation's sports minister said yesterday that his government will review the bench-clearing brawl between the Canadian and Mexican teams."

HAVANA -- Canada's and Mexico's baseball coaches were hospitalized yesterday after their players engaged in a brawl involving charges of racial insults during a qualifying game at the Pan American Games.Canadian first-base coach John Upham, 49, who played for the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies in the 1960s, was in hospital with angina, and Mexican coach Antonio Pollorena needed four stitches to close a cut over his left eye.Mexican officials said the fight, which lasted several minutes and forced U.S. umpire Dan Pedersen from San Diego to suspend the game with Mexico leading, 7-5, in the top of the sixth inning, was caused by racial comments against them.

HAVANA -- Chris Campbell remembers the moment he heard that the United States was going to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He was in Tbilisi in the Soviet Union, preparing for a freestyle wrestling meet when suddenly there was a news flash that worked its way through the team, leaving everyone drained and furious.An incomprehensible message had come out of Jimmy Carter's White House: Soviet tanks had invaded Afghanistan, so the United States was pulling its athletes from the Moscow Games.

HAVANA -- Jason Giambi hit two of his team's five home runs, as the United States routed Aruba, 12-0.The United States (3-0) scored seven runs in the second inning to break open the game, which was halted after seven innings by the international 10-run rule. Giambi, out of Cal State Long Beach, has three homers in the tournament.In other action, Mexico (2-2) defeated Nicaragua, 3-1, and Canada (0-3) lost to the Dominican Republic, 4-3.SoftballFor the fifth time, the U.S. women had a shutout, as Lisa Fernandez of Long Beach, Calif.