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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 05, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday june 5, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 25 Solomon Borg win to reach semifinals of the French open High school sports compete ton has terminated for this school Yar an the Only thing remaining is the selection of the Stan & stripes athletes of us year. They will be determined saturday when the panel consisting of Augsburg s John Middleton osterholz s Debra Basinger Wiesbaden s Tom Lebianc Wuerzburg s mar Lene Verny and prep pickins convenes at is. As in previous years the roster includes a cast of outstanding performers and the committee anticipates a Tough Job before the final selections Are determine Hanau established two firsts last year with the selection of Barry Dorsey and Karen  was the first athlete Ever chosen Tor the second straight year and the Dorsey Blake coup marked the tint time that the boy and girl athletes of the year Ime from the same school. Both have been graduated so there is no Chance of rep Titi this Tim around. Following Are thumbnail sketches alphabetically by school of the 1979-80 nominees Baum older Ron Arnold. Fine football player very Good in basketball set track & Field discus  Edna Garrett. Fine basketball player All tournament volleyball  Cleta  football and basketball Topnotch track & Field performer.b1tburg Sheldon Stoke. Blue division All conference football basketball player very Fine track & Field  Cherie Drew. All tournament in volleyball All conference basketball player Fine Tennis  Matt Wester Worstman. Is All Europe in football on both offence and defense very Fine basketball player outstanding in  Lania Larenz. Benelux All conference All tournament map volleyball player All conference All tournament second teams Sall Europe basketball Meltc Frankfurt Mark my. Fine football player Germany and european 167 Pound wrestling Champion with 24-0 record Strong performer in track &  Miry Bradach. Strong competitor in Cross country All conference All tournament and is All Europe performer in basketball Good Tennis  Dan Weathersby. Two Way performer in football very Fine wrestler out standing in track &  a Billie Morrison. Strong in volleyball Benelux All conference and All tournament basketball player very Good Tennis player. Hanau Johnny Sellers. Fine football player Strong in basketball very Fine per former in track & Field with several school  Dina Mcdaniel. Very Fine volleyball player All conference basketball performer Strong in the weights in track & Field. Heidelberg Erie Evans. All conferences Sall Europe in football outstand ing wrestler Strong track & Field performer. Heidelberg Nancy flab Good in volleyball All conferences Sall Europe in Izmir Mike Martin. Four sport Star. All conference in football and soccer undefeated in wrestling Fine Tennis player. Izmir Cheryl Mclnnis. All conference All tournament in volleyball All conference and is All Europe in basketball Strong track & Field  Boris Byrd. Very Fine football and basketball player Strong Kaiserslautern Donna Moss. Very Good basketball player outstanding in London John Strickland. Record setting performer in Cross country and distance ruler Uljon Paula Phillips. All conference volleyball player All conference and is All Europe basketball performer Good in track & Field. _,.mannheim Pat Boston. All conference basketball player outstanding in track & Field especially in Long and triple jumps in which she holds Dodds  Chris Shelly. Fine football player Strong in basketball and very Fine Paris a Harold Solomon wriggled put of tight Corners wednesday and hit his Way into the semifinals of the French open Tennis , the Little Baseline Battler came from behind twice to defeat Guillermo Vilasoa Argentina 1-6,6-4.7-6,7-5. Bjorn Borg defending Champion and favorite for the first prize of $53,000, Defeated Corrado a Razzetli of Italy 6-0,6-3,6-3and looked at limes Lita a Superman. Nobody can beat him on Clay unless Borg is sick Barazzetti said after the  three americans Are thinking of it. Solomon plays Borg in one semifinal theother semifinal is Between Jimmy Connors and Vitas  last american to win the men s Crown Here on the slow clan of Roland Gar Ros stadium was Tony Trabert in 1955. Solomon is thus one of Only two Ameri cans who have reached the final in that time. That was in 1976, when he lost to Italy s Andriano Zanatta. Solomon s patience coolness under pics sure and exploitation or the Stow surface got him out of trouble More than once in his four hour Duel with Vilas. In the third set he served at 4-5 and Hada set Point against him. He saved it with an Ace and went on to take 11 Points in a Row for a 6-5  came Back to level at 6-5, but in the tiebreaker Solomon hit two Fine backhand passes and raced away to Lead 4-1. He held the Lead and won the tiebreaker 7-3.the turning Point in the fourth set came after a strange incident in the fifth game when Solomon was Given a Point but Vila claimed the Ball had burst. The Umpire changed his mind and ordered the Point replayed but the 18,000 fans yelled and whistled and held up play Tor several min utes. Vilas finally tossed the Point away by deliberately hitting two serves into the Bot Tom of the net and went on to lose his service and Trail 2-3. Vilas broke Back at 4-4, but Solomon backhand won him another break at 6-5 and he held his service for the match. Rainbows Only unbeaten left Hawaii mauls Miami Omaha. Neb. A Collin Tanabe drove in five runs with a Homer and a Dou ble and freshman left hander Bryan Duquette baffled Miami s hitlers As Hawaii upset the top ranked hurricanes 9-3 in the College world series tuesday night. The rainbows 60-16, arc the Only unbeaten team left in the double eliminations cries. The three other teams still alive Miami Arizona and California each have one loss. Wednesday night s games matched Cali fornia against Miami in an elimination game and Hawaii against Arizona. A Hawaii loses would give it a Bye to the final the two winners would meet thursday forthe right to meet the rainbows. A Hawaii Victory would Force wednesday s other win Ner to beat the rainbows twice in order to win the title. Hawaii took a 1-0 Lead in the first a run scoring single by Jay Erdahl. I. Hawaii s big four run second inn of. Had recce singled in a run and Tan be gave the rainbows a 5-0 Lead with three run Homer Over the Center Field Fence. Fliege Horst site of drag race Hanau Germany the Hanau Auto racing association Kara will stage its third drag race of the year sunday at theft hegerhorst army Airfield Wilh an entry of More than 30 cars expected according to Jerry Lackey president of Kara. Adrianne Jones. All tournament volleyball performer All Confer ence All tournament in basketball Good High jumper shot Putter in track &  Vickie Buford. Outstanding performer in volleyball a 1-conference All tournament and map in Benelux and second teams Sall Europe in basketball record setting performer in track &  Andre nailing. Two Way All conference performer in football All con Ference All tournament second teams Sall Europe in basketball Strong track & fic Torrejon Marisa Quintanilla. Outstanding volleyball player All conference and Spain tournament map in basketball Good Long distance runner in track &  Collins. All conference. Is All Europe football player Good football player All conference All tournament Skio ail soccer . All tournament in volleyball All conference All Tournai " Pion ship Italy doubles team in Tennis., All conferences Sall Europe football performer. I. Very Fine in track & Field., Dwayne Dexter. All conferences Sall Europe performer in Nothan starter on basketball team Good performer in track &  Nihon. Map in Germany class b volleyball Tournai Menil  
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