ROUNDUP : QUANCE IS DOUBLE WINNER.

Byline: Associated Press 

Kristine Quance of USC and Granada Hills, a Olympic medal hopeful for the United States in the women's 100 breaststroke and the 200 individual medley, won both of those events Saturday in the Santa Clara International swim meet.

Meanwhile, U.S. Olympic swimming teammates Jenny Thompson and Jeff Rouse were in their usual position atop the winner's stand.

Thompson won the women's 200-meter freestyle, her third victory in less than 24 hours, and Rouse won the men's 100 backstroke.

The four-day event featuring 59 Olympians, which ends today, is the final major pre-Olympic tuneup meet in the United States.

Allison Wagner, another American considered a top contender for a medal in the 200 individual medley in Atlanta, finished third in the event - behind Quance and Lea Loveless.

Cristina Teuscher, who will compete for the United States in the women's 200 and 400 freestyle as well as two relays in the Olympics, won the 400. She also won the 800 freestyle Thursday on the first day of the Santa Clara meet.

Other winners included Loveless in the women's 100 backstroke.

Thompson, who won the 100 freestyle and 100 butterfly on Friday, got out to a big early lead in the 200 freestyle and finished in 2 minutes, 00.05 seconds - just 0.07 seconds off her career best.

Thompson will compete in the 50 freestyle today.

Rouse, a former Stanford teammate of Thompson, got off to a bad start but still won in 56.39 seconds, edging compatriot Lenny Krazelburg by 0.05 seconds.

Payton added to Dream Team: Seattle SuperSonics guard Gary Payton was selected for the U.S. Olympic basketball team, replacing injured Glenn Robinson.

Payton, the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year and a three-time All-Star, helped the Sonics to a 64-18 record and into the NBA Finals, before they were beaten by the Chicago Bulls in six games.

During the regular season, he averaged 19.3 points per game, the second-highest total of his six-year NBA career; led the league in steals with a 2.85 average, and ranked 10th in assists with a 7.5 average.

Robinson withdrew from the team June 25 because of tendinitis in his right Achilles' tendon.

Cubans beat U.S. baseball team: Team USA finally got a dose of international baseball reality, going down 5-1 to world-champion Cuba in North Carolina.

The Americans had rolled to 18 straight exhibition wins against relatively weak competition in tuneups for the Olympics, hitting .378 and averaging 10.2 runs per game.

Crafty Cuban pitcher Rolando Arrojo was nothing short of brilliant in seven innings against the power-hitting Americans, keeping the entire lineup off stride with a variety of offspeed pitches and deliveries.

Arrojo, who scattered five hits and didn't allow a runner to reach third base, struck out seven of the nine batters in Team USA's starting lineup.

Simi Valley High School graduate Jeff Weaver, a freshman from Fresno State, made his first start for Team USA. He allowed a two-run single in the first inning and a solo homer in the fourth to take the loss.

Beach volleyball pairings: The top eight teams gained first-round byes in the draw for men's Olympic beach volleyball.

Roberto Costa Lopes and Franco Vieira Neto of Brazil are top-seeded in the event, followed by three American teams - Carl Henkel and Sinjin Smith, Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffens, and Mike Dodd and Mike Whitmarsh.

Beach volleyball will be held at an artificially created beach on a lake south of Atlanta.

The competition will be a double elimination tournament.

Distance champ fails at trials: Two-time world 5,000-meter champion Ismail Kirui failed to make the Kenyan Olympic team after finishing eighth in the trials in Nairobi.

Kirui, a gold medalist in the 5,000 at the 1993 and 1995 World Championships, was timed in 14 minutes, 10.41 seconds.

Tom Nyariki was the surprise winner of the 5,000 in 13:28.30. Paul Bitok, the silver medalist at the 1992 Barcelona Games, ewas second in 13:29.25, and 1995 World Championship bronze medalist Shem Kororia was third.