European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes Friday june 20, 1980 m is Ulm Vii England s Kevin Mcegan docs an acro Batic Back kick As Spain s Antonio Olmo watches in consternation. The wednesday night game in the european putting some English on the Ball soccer title playoffs was won by eng land 2-1, in the Naples stadium. The european soccer championship will be decided sunday night when Germany s squad takes on Belgium in Rome. Italy and Czechoslovakia lighting for third place hours Are to meet saturday in Naples. _ a photo Eckersley s 2-week rest paying off continued from Page 21 better said Lynn who has eight rib in the last three games. Everything is going Well for the icam. The pitching is getting belter and that s the most important thing. And the Guys who weren t hitting earlier arc starting to come around. Things Are looking up. In other american league games Blue jays s-3, while sox 4-1 Ernie Whin belted his first Homer of the season and John Mayberry extended hit hitting Streak to 17 games with an rib single in he Nightcap. In the first game. Rick Bosetti blasted a two run Homer in the seventh inning to lift the Blue jays. Yankees 5, Angels 0 Craig Nettles and Bobby Brown slammed Home runs to Back the six hit pitching of Ron oui dry 7-3, helping new York to its sixth straight Victory. The Yankees also improved their record to 40 21, lops in the majors. Ringers 8, Brewers i Al Oliver drove in four runs. Bud har Crlson hit his first Homer in three years and Doc Medich pitched a six hitter to propel Texas. Harrelson s Homer was his seventh in a 14-year career. Orioles 3, a s 2 Pinch hitter Lenn Sakata singled in Eddie Murray with one out in the ninth in Ning to help the orioles Down Oakland. Mike Flanagan went the distance to Regis Ter his seventh win in 12 decisions. Royals 10, indians 2 Jamie quirk and Amos Otis combined Tor five rib in support of Larry Gura s ninth Victory. Gura. 9-2, scattered seven hits in winning his sixth straight game and tying Tommy John of the new York Yan Kees for the most wins by an american leaguer. Aztecs Edge fury 2-1 for third straight re i Tzan Hal Rufin Sliu a  in _ a i. By Loga Hobo Dpi sports writer los Angeles aztecs coach Rinus Michols does t like his team playing on astroturf but he did t mind his team winning on it. This was not a Good game tonight but when you win on the Road it s always a Good result said Michels after Luis Fer Nando scored an unassisted goal in the first half wednesday night to lift the aztecs to a 2-1 Victory Over the Philadelphia fury that extended los Angeles winning Streak to three games. It s hard to play Good soccer on a sur face like this Michols said. The Ball does a lot of bouncing. The results Are different from what we re accustomed to playing at Home on grass. It s just impossible to build up your moves on  although it s obvious Michols does t approve of the artificial surface he s not about to forfeit matches. After one or two passes the Ball goes out of Bounds he continued. So tonight we had to adapt to the circumstances and play a different game a game of Long passes and trying to find the people up front to create chances. Last year we were having trouble win Ning on astroturf. Now we be won two games playing on it. However this sur face is not very Good for promoting Quality soccer. You need players of great skill to play on  Fernando booted the deciding goal his 1 Ullh goal of the season from 30 Yards out Nail Roundup into the right Corner of the net 27 15 into he game. Goalie Bob Rigby had no Chance to Clear the shot. This surface is a great equalizer said Rigby. With the exception of one game we have had a lot of close games on it this season. On the first goal one of our de fenders got behind the play and gave 1.a. An Opportunity. On the second goal i was caught Oul of  los Angeles tied it at 8 42 on a goal by Leo Van Veen who beat Rigby from close up after taking a pass from Bob Sibbald. My goal was scored after a Phila Delphia player tried to save the Ball by touring it with his hands but he was t called for handling the Ball Van Veen explained. I made an angled shot into  Philadelphia took a 1-0 Lead at 3 36 when fran o Brien took a pass from Joe Kokovich and sent the Ball past goalie Al Fredo Aneilo from 18 Yards out for his third goal of the season. In other matches Detroit downed dal Las 5-1, it. Lauderdale blanked san Jose 4-0, California walloped san Diego 5-1, Seattle edged Houston 3-2 and Vancouver trimmed Edmonton 1-0. Express 5, Tornado i Don Nardillo opened the scoring at the 25-second Mark and set up three other goals and Sam dates scored twice to Lead Detroit. Nardillo intercepted a goal kick by Dallas incl minder Alex Stepney and bucs take double header from braves continued from Page 21 notched his 14th save. Astros 3, cardinals 0 Enos Cabell and Cesar Codeno each drove in a run and knuckle Bailer Joe Nickroo pitched a six hitter to Lead hous ton to its i Ith straight Home Victory. Nick to 7-5, earned his second shutout of the season with his sixth Complete game. Jim 1-4, was the victim of the astros i2lh Victory in their last 14 games. Phillies 5, padre i Keith Moreland s two run Pinch hit double highlighted a four run ninth giving Steve Carllon his major league leading 12th Victory. Carlton struck out nine to raise Hii season total o 127 in 124 innings and he lowered his Era to 1.74. Bob Shir Ley. 5-3, look the loss. Pete Rose collected his 2,535th career single placing him third on the All Lime list. Giants 8. Mels s Jack Clark had four hits three runs scored and one rib. New York made four errors two each by Frank Tacras and Jose Moreno and four wild pitches three by starter Ray Burris. 4-6. John Montc Fuscco 35. Was the Winner and Greg Minton recorded his fourth save. Floated a soft shot Over Stepney i head for the quickest goal in express history. Strikers 4, earthquakes 0 Gard Mueller scored two goals and recently acquired dutch goalkeeper Jan Vanbeveren recorded a shutout to Pace fort Laud Crdal. The Victory improved the strikers record to 11-6 As they regained first place from Tampa Bay in the Ameri can conference East Van Bevern i2, a former dutch International Star signed with fort Laud Crdal Only tuesday and had to turn Back Only nine san Jose shots. Surf 5, sockets 1 Laurie Abrahams scored three goals and Jim Emch added t Coal and two assists to Power California. Hindi scored the game Winner at 33 51 with an assist from Mark Lindsay and Abrahams made it 3-1 at 60 05 with his second goal assisted by Craig Allen. Sounders 3, Hurricane 2 right fullback John Ryan scored two goals and Cen Terback Bruce Rioch blocked a shot from the goal line in the last minute of play to lift Seattle. Ryn opened the coring in the 36th minute of play on i converted penalty kick after Seattle i Roger Davies had been tripped in the penalty Box by Eduardo Marasco. Ryan scored his second goal at 79 04, beating Sikinger lowly the left Post. Whitecaps i Drillen 0 Steve Kember s second goal of the sea ton at 19 08 of the opening half was the game s Only score in Vancouver Victory. Whitecaps goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar had a relatively easy time in recording hit fifth shutout