European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes tuesday september 5, 1978 set a p mar whips Heidelberg twice in of win Usa eur fast pitch Crown a Augsburg Germany Riding the pitching of Ponce Vasquez and Lloyd Hunt the setae All stars coming through the loser s bracket swept a pair of games from Heidelberg Here monday to win the Usa eur Community conference fast pitch softball championship. Vasquez scattered five hits in the first game for a 3-1 Triumph to Force an if Neces sary game. In the deciding contest Hunt Al Lowed four safeties As setae put away Hei Delberg 5-1.in perfect sunny softball weather a capacity crowd watched the champs avenge an earlier 10-0 loss to Heidelberg the Only setae defeat in the nine team double elimination tourney. Setae which finished with a 4-1 record also had victories Over Hanau 1-0, and Mannheim 6-5. Heidelberg finished with a 3-2 record. It was a runner up this season in the 21st sup port come to 1977 Usa eur Champion errors contributed to its downfall in the title game As setae scored four runs in the fourth inning on two hits and three errors. James Miller s two run double highlighted the inning. Ken Warren s two run single and Tom Willard s run scoring double accounted for setae s runs in the first game. In the final game setae the Home team collected five hits off losing Pitcher Bobby Rundles. The All stars took a 1-0 Lead in the second inning As Warren singled moved to third on Mike Lundy s sin Gle and scored on Rich Castro s sacrifice Fly the first out of the inning. Rundles got out of the Frame by stranding runners at second and led off setae s big fourth Frame by reaching first on shortstop Alex Peral tra s error. He moved to third when third baseman Ron Harrell kicked John Vigna s showed he was a hitting Pitcher by singling Home Lundy. Then Miller powered a double to score Hunt and Vigna. Miller Durham Danforth Kelley heading staff for Safe s basketball clinic Wiesbaden Veteran coaches Hugh Durham and Roy Danforth and official Dale Kelley will conduct the annual us afe basketball clinics at Wiesbaden sept. 11-12 and at Mildenhall sept. 14-15, Safe sports Branch officials have announced. Durham takes Over the coaching duties at the University of Georgia this year after 12 years As head coach at Florida state where he compiled a 231-95 record. Perfection and Challenge Are two important words in Durham s vocabulary and they Are reflected in the Success he has enjoyed on the basketball court and in Pri vate life. I strive for perfection and from within myself and look for this attitude to carry Over to everyone associated with the pro Gram Durham says. I want my teams to play hard and play enjoy coaching because of the Chal Lenge that exists. Getting the most out of the abilities of a different group of men each year is a Challenge to me Durham was an outstanding guard for the seminoles in his College Days. He scored 1,387 Points in three years ranking him sixth on the All time Florida state scoring Parade. Danforth built Syracuse Back up to the glory Days the Orange used to enjoy then last year moved on to Tulane. His first year at Syracuse was a losing year but after that it was strictly winning basketball. His first year at Tulane was also a losing one but Green wave fans Are hoping his Start will be a prelude to continued improvement As it was at Syracuse. Danforth s Syracuse teams compiled a 148-71 record Over his eight year tenure and his last six teams made it to either the Mcaa or nit championships. Danforth was a basketball Star at sum Merville la., High school and he played his College Ball at Southern Mississippi. He Eschborn bests bad k in up tourney finals Eschborn Germany Host Esch born Defeated bad Kreuz Nach twice Here monday 5-1 in the title game to Winthe 2nd annual Eschborn invitational fast pitch softball tournament. John ill eras slugged a two run Homer in the first inning to stake winning Pitcher Joe Chuhaloff to All the runs he hurled a three hitter struck out seven and walked went through the tournament unbeaten winning four times to Best the 14-team Bobby Cox who was named the tournament s most valuable player yielded 12 hits including a run scoring triple by Mike Radford in the seventh inning. Earlier in the Day Eschborn sent bad Kreuz Nach into the loser s bracket with a 5-3 defeat. We Brucken ousted Wiesbaden 4-1 but dropped a 6-4 verdict to bad Kreuz Nach in the loser s bracket finals. Began his coaching at Southern Mississippi As an aide moved to Pearl River Junior College and then went to Syracuse As freshman coach. His Orange Frosh teams had a 56-8 record and he was named head basketball coach in 1966."my game is running and sometimes pressing Danforth said As he ran Syra Cuse Back into National prominence. I Don t like 51-50 scores. I like teams that score and entertain. I had one team at Syracuse that averaged 99 Points a game. That s my kind of Kelley is president elect of both the Southeastern conference basketball officials association and the Ohio Valley basketball officials association. He also works in the Meto seven Sunbelt and Gulf South was the Sec representative in the Mcaa playoffs the last two years working the finals last year at St. Louis. Roy Danforth. Likes running game Hugh Durham. Perfection Challenge american track stars entered in meet at Frankfurt tonight Frankfurt is the Frankfurt sports club Eintracht Frankfurt will hold an International track and Field meet Here at the Wald station tuesday starting at 6 . American runners Steve Williams Steve Riddick James King Edwin Moses Dick Buerkle and Jan Merrill Are expected to be among the International competitors according to Gerd Obermiller of Eintracht Frankfurt. He said other americans expected Are shot Putter Al Feuerbach and Long jumper Arnie Robinson both olympians. Two events expected to highlight the meet will be the 100-meter dash and the Frankfurt mile an unusual distance for metric Europe. Competing in the 100 meters will be Riddick Williams Don Quarry of Jamaica and Hasley Crawford of Trinidad. Among those competing in the mile will be Steve Ovett of England Thomas Wessing Hage of West Germany Josef Plachy of Czechoslovakia Buerkle and Kenya s Henry Rono of Washington state University according to Obermiller. Rono currently holds world records in the 10,000 meters 5,000 meters 3,000 meters and steeplechase. Tickets will Range from 20 Marks for top seats Down to 6 Marks for standing locations Obermiller said. The longest women s race will be 1,500 meters and the longest men s race will be 3,000. Thompson is Calif Champ Salinas Calif. Up Doug Thomp son Laguna Niguel Calif., Sank a 10-Footbirdie putt on the fifth extra Hole to defeat Robert Meyer Sacramento Calif., and Winthe California Junior Golf championship. Thompson 16, finished in a three Way treat 217 after regulation play with Meyer and Tracy Nakazaki los Angeles who dropped out after two playoff holes. Stole third and came Home on the play when Peralta covering third on the play let the throw from the Catcher get by him. Heidelberg broke the scoring ice when David Pugh led off the fifth inning with a Home run to left Center. Hunt then gave up a hit to Tom Plank and walked Rundles but got out of the Frame by getting the next three batters on flouts. Hunt fanned four and Rundles three. In the first game setae jumped on los ing Pitcher Bobby Williams for two runs in the first inning. After Miller opened with a walk Gil Peterson bunted and Catcher Cornelius Stewart hobbled the Ball with both runners Safe. Willard s Fly to right moved the runners to second and third. Then Warren singled to left scoring both Miller and Peterson. Setae made it 3-0 in the fifth when Miller reached first on another Stewart error. After Peterson sacrificed him to second Miller scored on Willard s double. In the fourth inning setae loaded the bases with no outs but reliever Rundles who started the inning got out of the Frame when Willard was forced at Home on an at tempted squeeze Castro struck out and Vigna grounded out. Heidelberg finally scored in the sixth when Mike Foster doubled took third on Harrell s Fly to right Field and scored on Pugh s sacrifice Fly to right. Vasquez struck out three but his mates committed three errors. Williams struck out one and allowed one hit Over three innings. Rundles fanned one and yielded four hits in four innings. Graham snares Graf Golf Crown with 204 total Grafe Wohr Germany Chuck Graham increasing his Lead every Day won the Grafe Wohr Golf club Champion ship monday with a three Over Par 67-68 69204. Graham the club manager led by Only one stroke after the first of three rounds increased his Edge to five after two Days and wound up with a nine shot Edge for the 54 holes Over the 5,145-Yard, Par 67 layout. Finishing second was Neil Hicks with 69 71-73213. Jim Isham easily won the first flight with a closing 70 for 224 Les Layne fired an 80 for 249 and second flight honors Over Roger Stafford who had an 81 big Art Stephens posted an 81 for third fight laurels Bob Beightol won the fourth flight Paul Johnson the fifth flight and Jim Glenn the sixth flight. Pat Smith won the women s flight by 76 shots. The final round was highlighted by John Mullins double Eagle on the 495-Yard, Par five fourth Hole where he knocked his three Iron shot into the cup. That helped him Post a closing 78 for fifth place in the Champion ship flight. The top finishers championship flight Chuck Graham 67-68-69204 Nell Hicks 69-71-73213 John Lesher 72-75-75222 Fred Hanson 68-79-77224 John Mullins 74-75-78227 first flight Jim Isham 76-78-70 224 a Ron Wamsley 77-80-80237 Vern Koerselman 75-77-85237 second flight Les Layne 87-82-80249 Roger Stafford 80-89-81250 third flight Art Stephens 92-8-81261 Bill Sylvester 91-88-90269 fourth flight Bob Beightol 102-84-83269 Cal Brown 86-101-85272 fifth flight Paul Johnson 93-111-98302 Jim Jones 105-98-103306 sixth flight Al Glenn 109-106-101316 Cliff Brown 110-103-104317 women s Flightpath Smith 93-84-86-263 Carol Davis 121-111-107339 a won sudden death playoff
