European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse 1981 the stars and stripes Page 25 pickins by Ben Abrams the Simonella boys basketball team won a game last Friday night the thrilling 6462 Victory Over Naples was the first in the five year history of Simonella High school and it ended the longest losing string Ever in Dodds basketball 55 things were ecstatic Here Friday athletic director Chuck Weber said the base went absolutely no one Here at the school is absolutely certain How Many straight losses the team but everyone knows its been a Long a Check with Jim the Livorno and who was athletic director and basketball sponsor at Simonella the first three school and Don Vicenza assistant principal who has helped coordinate the Italy schedules Over the determined 55 As the exact in its first Simonella played Only six regular season games and two tournament games since then the jaguars suffered through three 14game seasons and had dropped their first five this season before notching their first Ever this is fantastic Lee Jim Seeke and i helped get the sports program going at Simonella and we suffered through some Long and for the Simonella boys to beat Naples for their first Ever win makes it better we came close in the second year Down there when we forced Naples into but we just get a its really Seeke is still at Simonella and he has enjoyed some Fine wrestling campaigns and the school has played some pretty Good eight Man football under his its great that the basketball players finally made prep pickins offers congratulations to the Jaguar while Simonella was breaking into the Victory Wei Bruecken girls continued to Roll on their merry taking two easy verdicts from Berlin to stretch their skein to 19 the trojans have 10 regular season games remaining this if they win All of those and repeat As Germany class b the charges of Tom Nilsson will match the girls consecutive game winning Streak of 32 set by Bonn last the seasons Over and the basketball season has terminated for the Ansbach coach Ezra Rice reported that our girls team simply was not meeting the objectives of our sports program and since it is not mandatory that we keep a team at any i recommended to the principal that we terminate the girls team for the rest of the season and he some wont agree with the others history will be the Best judge of our the other Germany division North teams on the Ansbach schedule will be awarded forfeits Over Ansbach to determine the official seeding for the Germany class b finals at that eases somewhat the tournament but there Are still a total of 11 boys and 10 girls teams in the Germany North and South and the tourney format Calls for an eight team two teams have to be eliminated to achieve the a format has been established to pare the Field to the eight according to Tom Dodds North the top three teams in each division automatically qualify for the the other two clubs will be the two with the next Best won loss regardless of the league in class top eight teams go to the if ties they will be determined by head Ohead results at last if ties still by tossing a All teams should play tournaments prep pickins especially Here in Dodds where the schedule is very that All teams should get a crack at tournament Competition and offers the following suggestion let the fourth and fifth teams in each division in class b and the eighth and ninth teams in class a meet in a preliminary it May be too late to change things this but could be a possible future three new schools in 198182 things probably will change somewhat by next year because of the proposed addition of three new High schools Oesterberg and Alconbury in the Dodds Atlantic Region and Ulm in Dodds Germany Alconbury has been mentioned frequently in the past for upgrading to High school status its now a lot Grade but it appears to be a certainty this time if those or any Are on the 198182 Dodds it is sincerely hoped that something is being done now to guarantee that the athletes will have the proper equipment for Competition when the time guess what Baum older is going to have a tournament after after losing the Opportunity to Host the class b basketball tournament and running into billeting problems that apparently doomed efforts for the bucs to stage the Germany wrestling the Baum older military Community came through again and the mat showdown will be at Smith Barracks gymnasium principal John Davis one of the brigades Here has been consolidating its troops and we got a phone Call the other Day informing us that there would be enough billeting available March 67 for us to take the Here at the High really appreciate the tremendous Community support weve been getting and were certainly pleased to be Able to hold the said great experience for youngsters one of the biggest wrestling tournaments of the year takes place this weekend at american school of its the High school invitational involving All the varsity and Jayvee performers from the five More than 125 matches have been according to Tom mat Mentor at upper this annual meet has developed into a really big bigger than the championships because everybody gets to Sanders sometimes there really int that much difference Between a varsity wrestler and the Jav Man in the same weve had some exciting wrest offs at upper Heyford each week to determine our team for that its great experience for the younger wrestlers and it certainly helps improve the Overall the Livorno wrestlers have a special guest this in addition to regular foes Brindisi and the Lions Are playing Host to a team from the american school of they called and asked us if they could come and we were glad to have them join and Lee Lola t600 a new sport racing car the new Ftp Lola to be driven by Daytona Winner Brian Redman for the bulk of the 1981 is shown in an artists the prototype is under construction at designer Eric Broad Leys Lola factory in Redman will drive the car for a new american team Cooke Woods Redman awaits arrival of t600 by Randy Barnett s s Auto racing columnist Veteran sports car Driver Brian red who teamed with americans Bobby Rahal and Bob Garretson to win last weekends 24 hours of Daytona endurance is awaiting the new Ftp Lola t600 for the bulk of his 1981 the English who now makes his Home in Lake near Lola car importers in Highland will continue in the Dayton winning porsche Turbo for the Early part of the season until the new Lola is race the new Lola sport racing the first Coupe from the Huntingdon based British constructor since the famous t70 of the late features dynamic looking Bodywork which incorporates the formula 1 Type ground effects the body shape developed during six months of wind Tunnel the styling of the cars rear is especially striking in its approach to aerodynamic designed by Britain Eric the new Lola Coupe will be entered in both International endurance races and Ameri can it Road in the the and vent of the Lola Coupe Marks the forma Tion of a major new racing team headed by businessmen Ralph Cooke and Roy this is the team that will employ Redman in the in addition to competing for the new american Redman also will do the initial testing of the Lola the testing to be done on the new american team to be called Cooke Woods racing will enter Lola t600 cars in the classic endurance races such As the 24 hours of be and Shorter including the 1msa Camel it Cooke Woods has no definite plans at the moment for a foray into the Acca Canam in Britain Driver Guyed wards plans to run an open version of the car in All european rounds of the world championship for including be Lola sports cars have Long been famous in the Lolas thoroughly Domi Nant in Canam racing for Many years the Lola Carl Haas of Highland and his partner Jim Hall of have won four straight Canam with Frenchman Patrick Tam Bay capturing two the belgian Jacky icky winning and cur rent world driving Champion Alan Jones of Australia winning the initial production Ftp Lola t600 cars will use Chevrolet v8 or v6 or but the t600 has been designed to take a wide variety of engines including turbocharged Driver safety has been a major consideration in Broadley design of the with the cockpit having a full Roll Side Cru Shable reinforced Footwall and aluminium honeycomb firewalls to act As a survival cell in the event of a major commenting on the new the Cooke Woods racing team said in a recent press release that the Lola t600 will give competitors an Anglo american alternative to the currently dominant porsche Turbo cars from Queens rip Mainz 4935 Germany Wail til next the old Brooklyn dodger Battle seems to fit efforts to reschedule the Mainz Hanau mens v corps basketball while Danaus Queens were clubbing the Mainz Thunder bids 4935 Here their counterparts were Busy with military postponing the mens tilt a fourth the Queens quickly jumped out to a 146 first Quarter Lead in the makeup Mainz missed several scoring and the Hanau zone defense shut off the thunderbird inside game and pushed them away from their favorite shooting by halftime the Queens ballooned to a 2812 Mainz came Back to outscore Hanau 23 21 Over the final two Long after the contest was out of no one scored in double figures for the but Nita Matthews had nine Darlene Denise Hender son and Mona Crowder turned in eight Point Crowder also pulled Down five Rita Holiday led the thunderbird with 14 newcomer Perry added including a 7of9 performance from the free throw line and grabbed seven rebounds despite suffering a broken Finger against Giessen two weeks the Victory boosts Danaus second half record to the thunderbird dropped to
