European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1977 town bows in women softball final by Dave cow an stall writer Germany Sis we Fen kotto stay we fought to it to said tomahawks keeper Stella Gorman As v carps Bud or Cugnach captured the Usa Ruer slow pitch softball championship in drizzling rain Here sunday with a 187 to factory Over Kaiserslautern of 21lh slip port come in the championship ii was a fitting raid Lor a tournament that had everyone on pins and Needles As continuous rain fell throughout the three Day scoring five r the heavy at live of them in a didst Dampen the spirits of players and who joined in with the grounds Crew in keeping the Fields How arc we doing in this swimming said Jim Bead at the umpiring Crew Tor the tournament As nearly everyone pitched in with paper Plas tic shovels and rakes to removed puddles of water fro the playing with All the Adverse i think the girls really enjoyed tournament coordinator Bill Gainey said i Haven really heard any griping on the women there was definitely no griping on bad Kreuz Zachs part As coach Mel Woodards tomahawks scored tour unearned runs in the third inning and three More in the sixth u defeat Kaiserslautern in the Champion Kaiser Lautem eliminated setae from the tournament wit i a 74 win in which town scored most of its runs on Ranger oddly town coach Larry Zellers following that Victory we got a few More Breaks for the it seems that Bow we have won All of our games so Zellers team got the Breaks they wanted in the final inning of the Champion ship game when toe tomahawks committed four allowing six runs to thai closed the Gap to with two consecutive base hits by Debbie Shelton and Lorretta it town had the tying runs at the but Lana who was up for a second time in the inning alter reaching first base on an error in her Turat popped up to third baseman to Howell for the final out to give bad k its win and the Usa eur who has bronchitis and was re leased from the Hospital at Lan Stuhl to attend the saw his team commit 1c errors that allowed the Toma Hawks to score eight unearned they came off Hurier Rose who had earlier tossed a two Hitler against Rase radar Lander was the winning yielding nine hits but walking she also scored bad Kre Mach a 20 Lead in the second inning when fro town m chiding one for two accounted far its bad Kreuz Nach again capitalized on Kaiserslautern miscues in the following on seven errors Ayers got Kater stauter on the scoreboard in the fourth inning when she scored on Ous sacrifice bad is Rose radar under Pitcher in final Taiwan rebounds to capture 4th straight big league Crown fort Taiwan rallied from the losers bracket to defeat the Broward Al stars 41 and and win fourth straight championship in he big league Little league world series saturday game saving pitching by a sfoot7 Huang led to the Down fall of unbeaten Broward Taiwan had lost to Broward the first defeat for Taiwan in four years of world series play that meant the taiwanese had to come Back with five consecutive victories to claim the they in the first Taiwan smashed nine hits off two Broward including a two run Homer in the second inning by shortstop to but Taiwan was paced by its powerful right handers scoreless pitching As Huang struck out eight Broward batters in the final four innings of the first then he returned As a Surprise starter in the second game for the first three and two thirds innings and notched five More he was replaced by Hsu who allowed just one Taiwan broke a scoreless tie in the second game with an unearned run in the top of the fourth on two tuts and an Outfield Taiwan added three More in the top of the fifth on a run scaring single by Chang Taiwan nine trims Orlando for senior Little league title api Heleh Chansheng pitched a three Hitler and struck out six saturday night As Tai Wains Huthsing province Defeated in the championship game of the senior utile league world Huang Wuhsiung angled in Taiwan first run in the first Lou Tohom opened the second inning with a advanced to third on two errors and scared the run which gave the Republic of China team the championship for the sixth consecutive Orlando scored its run in the fourth Morgan Kerr was Safe on an look second on a sacrifice and scored on gibe men icons then in the Yin Chen thongs triple capped a two run inning by the champions who went through the double elimination tournament after reaching first on a single and then advancing to third on she tons base Kaiser Lautem which has been used to scoring on other teams mis made three More consecutive errors in the sixth inning that allowed bad Kcruz Nach to come up with three runs in what proved to be the we ring 11 was a rewarding Victory for bad Krei Rauch because last years bad k Tarn dropped out o the us Arbur women softball league Midway through the season because it gel All of its players together at one in just Happy for said coach who is referred Loas Uncle Ibe riddles by his the team played their hearts out and they we have played n lot of dose games ii year but the girls have always come the tomahawks were almost declared the champions Early sunday morning when a Light drizzle began to fall around b not an unusual occurrence since in started thursday and haunt really Jet Gaines Crew worked Long hours to gel the Field in shape and were out at 6 draining and raking the Field for the losers bracket final Between town and the rain held off Long enough for bad or Cugnach to win the Champion Swilp but for awhile it seemed bad k had other compell Lim besides the the town players took us Oul last night arid tried to get us chuckled shortstop Hose Petal Bui in didst won it in the earlier game Kals Erlau tems Rodriguez pitched a two hitter and walked Only one in hurling town past setae and into the championship Rodriguez could have easily had a shut Bustier team males committed eight errors in three consecutive innings As the rangers pushed across All four of their unearned a total of ii errors were made in inc 55 minute game one at the quickest Eon tests played in the three Day event giving both learns ample Opportunity to Salt away a town peppered setae Pilcher Wanda Hedgepath Tor three straight hits in the first inning to take a 14 Sharon Lucas opened with a double and then look third on avers base hit Shelton followed with another hit to score the rangers came Back in the second inning to lie the game at m when Jerry a Frich reached first base on a fielders she then scored when towns High fielder Thclma Sanders displayed hedge paths Fly which went for a two Bose error the Camp Darby team look advantage of four More town errors and added one base hit to push across three runs in the fourth fora 1llead bounced Back in the Bottom half on Rodriguez two run scoring town got a few Breaks thai setae that enjoyed earlier in the game in lha fifth inning As it seemed some of the Hanger women attended a Lale movie saturday Nigel and ate buttered pop Cam but forgot to Wash their jumped on Hedgepath for four hits and then took advantage of three errors to score four including the winning ii was Only a sensational diving catch by rangers Haicl Luxford in to Cal held Hal Kepi town from scoring More As they had the bases the rangers ended the tournament with a 22 with Hedgepath suffering her second Slaught setback on the Hedgepath gave up 12 two walks and three earned avers paced kaisers Lautem with while Lucas and while had two hits including one double m h4 i 1 m Itti Mart Tel Rod Tigue w the stars and stripes Page 25 apples topple lobsters in it fat playoffs Boston api King and Virella Wade edged Martina Navratilova an Creer Stevens m to Lead the new York apples to a 2921 Victory overt a Boston lobby cars saturday night in world team Tennis Boston trailed throughout the evening As Stavro Talova and Stevens bowed to lung and Wade at Boston University Waller brawn Arena King than Defeated sin Gles lobster Tony Roche beat Sandy Maver but Mayer teamed with Ray Ruffels for a 61 Victory Over Roche and Mike Estop in mens doubles to take the the next match in the Besto Furce series was scheduled Tor new York Over rent paces friars to overtime win Over Phoenix a Mona guar rant took part in two winning combinations saturday neg he As san Diego slopped Phoe Nix 2926 in double overtime in the world team Tennis Western division Champion san Diego now leads the Belo Luiree series the series was to con Lune monday in san currant teamed with Kerry held o defeat Karl stolen Shaw and Chris Evert 62 in women she then Learned Ullh Rod Laver to defeat floss Case and Shaw 7 5 in mixed Cliff Drysdale slipped past Bush Walts in singles play while Evert slopped Case and Walts took a 51 tiebreaker to win the mens singles 76 Over Laver and Reynolds wins to Golf Southern up co medals a Cathy Reynolds of Defeated 1s77 Amateur Champion Beth i after 36 Boles saturday to claim the 47lb annual woman trans National Golf the 20yearold a member of the Finman University Golf team led the entire Way in the morning round Over the we Yarcy mid Pines club finishing i up after 18 pulled even to the 21st and put together a string of three Bir Dies to go 3 up after 33 the match Hung in the balance until the 30th Hole when Daniels missed a Chance to pull even when a Long Birdie putt tipped the but did not Reynolds finished the 38 holes at one while Daniels was one the women transnational Golf association also elected jul ircle Jones of As the new Trade Rodrigo i w l Flop or j 11 id i 1 111 Lemur Ltd from Page 24j after we had signed we talked and concluded a Thomas wan asked if Reynolds would report to Tampa Bay and lie said Hedoesit its up in the the attorney said Wen if the contract is the buccaneers could not enforce in since they were undisclosed he said the rams have a reputation of going slow on any deals and would not have effected Trade with Tampa Bay on such Short notice after Reynolds signed the con was a 1 draft Choice in 1s70 out 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