OLYMPIC ROUNDUP \ Monday’s other events

Baseball: The U.S. team beat China 9-1 in a game that featured rough play such as a home-plate collision that knocked out China’s top player, a retaliatory hit batsman and three ejections. Also, American second baseman Jayson Nix — still recovering from a foul ball off his left eye that resulted in surgery, stitches, bruises and fuzzy vision — said he hopes to still return to Olympic play. “If the doctors say he can go, he says he can go and [manager Davey Johnson] says he can go, he can go,” said Paul Seiler, USA Baseball’s executive director. “Time will tell, but he’s not a guy you write off.” South Korea remained unbeaten with a wild 9-8 victory over Taiwan and Japan beat Canada 1-0.

Softball: A nine-run first inning against the hostesses started a 9-0 win over China, leaving the Americans two wins from another gold medal. Their win streak is up to 23; two more and they get another gold before their sport goes off the docket until at least 2016. Up next is Japan, already a 7-0 loser to the U.S., although their ace was saved for the rematch. Canada lost to Japan 6-0, but advanced to a semifinal game against Australia.

Diving: In the men’s 3-meter springboard, the leader coming out of prelims is He Chong of China, with two Americans chasing. Chris Colwill finished seventh and Troy Dumais was 12th, getting them into a semifinal this morning. The final is tonight.

Beach volleyball: Although top-ranked duo Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser rolled into the semifinals with a win over a German team, Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal lost to the defending Olympic champions from Brazil.

Women’s soccer: Just like 2004, the final will pit the United States and Brazil. The Americans advanced by beating Japan 4-2. Brazil got there with a 4-1 victory over Germany.

Cycling: The U.S. appears headed toward a second straight Olympics without any medals from the velodrome. American Sarah Hammer appears headed toward a layoff after breaking her left collarbone in a fall during the women’s points race. Jennie Reed also lost in the sprint quarterfinals. Britain continued to dominate, knocking nearly two seconds off the world record it set a day earlier to win the men’s team pursuit. The medal gave Britain 12 golds for the Olympics so far, already its best showing since 1920. It also was its fifth gold medal in track cycling in Beijing.

Boxing: Mauritius, a tiny island nation 560 miles off the eastern coast of Madagascar, is the home of bantamweight Bruno Julie, who beat Venezuela’s Hector Manzanilla in the quarterfinals, securing no worse than bronze. Ukrainian featherweight Vasyl Lomachenko also clinched a medal with his third virtuoso performance of the Olympics, pounding China’s Li Yang. Super heavyweight Zhang Zhilei knocked down Kazakhstan’s Ruslan Myrsatayev twice in a 12-2 victory that assured China of at least two boxing medals in Beijing after winning just one in its previous history. Moldova bantamweight Veaceslav Gojan clinched his nation’s second boxing medal with an upset victory over India’s Akhil Kumar. Cuba secured its fourth medal with bantamweight Yankiel Leon’s victory over Worapoj Petchkoom of Thailand, but Azerbaijan’s Shahin Imranov upset young Cuban featherweight Idel Torriente, just the second of Cuba’s 10 fighters to lose in Beijing.

Weightlifting: Heavyweight Andrei Aramnau of Belarus broke three world records to win his country’s first Olympic gold in weightlifting. He set world records in the snatch, becoming the first man in the weight class to lift 200 kilograms (440.9 pounds); the clean and jerk (236 kg, or 520.3 pounds) and with his total (436 kg, or 961.2 pounds).

Men’s volleyball: The U.S. squad wrapped up pool play a perfect 5-0, beating winless Japan in three sets.

Women’s triathlon: Australia took first and third, with Emma Snowsill pulling away early in the 10-kilometer run to finish more than a minute ahead of the field. American Laura Bennett finished fourth, less than 30 seconds shy of a medal.

Men’s water polo: The U.S. beat Germany and won its preliminary group, earning an automatic berth in the semifinals. The Americans are guaranteed of finishing at least fourth, which would match their best since 1988. The Americans will face the Serbia-Spain winner Friday. There was chatter that the Serbs lost a game to get into an easier bracket — the one the Americans are in.

Women’s field hockey: No goals. No more Olympics for the U.S. women, who were eliminated after a scoreless draw with Britain. The Americans went 1-1-3, remaining without a medal since 1984. This was their first Olympics since 1996, when they got in automatically as the host nation.

Canoe-kayak: Rami Zur, the only American to compete in the men’s 1,000-meter kayak single, advanced to the semis. He’s much better in the 500-meter race, where he’ll also compete today. Also, Hungarian canoers and kayakers wore black armbands to remember Gyorgy Kolonics, a canoeing gold medalist at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics who died last month after collapsing in his canoe while training for the Beijing Games.

Synchronized swimming: The only thing better than one swimmer named Anastasia? Two, of course, especially in synchro. Russia’s tandem of Anastasia Davydova and Anastasia Ermakova led the duet technical routine, more than a point ahead of Spanish duo that featured a Gemma and an Andrea. Using music composed by Elton John, the American pair Christina Jones and Andrea Nott were fifth.

Associated Press