European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                22 the stars and stripes 1985 Rice leads charge Over Italy by Ben Abrams prep sports editor Germany the Alberi Schweitzer basketball team Learned one thing Here wednesday night of can never completely count the italians out of a Ball fortunately for coach Dick Mccann and his the lesson came before intermission and the americans regrouped and then rolled to a 9271 Triumph in the first game of Cross bracket play that leads to the quarterfinals of the 13th tournament being played Here at Benjamin Franklin Village sports Arena and the Carl diem the now meets another team which is still undefeated after four games at x tonight at the Bov sports the yugoslavs overwhelmed Bulgaria 11170 in an earlier game at Bof the top two teams from this group will Advance to the semifinals at Carl diem Halle Friday the americans held a 1716 advantage they went on a spree that apparently was going to blow the italians completely out of the in four minutes and 27 Reserve Anthony Sherrod scored three Chuckie Brown added two baskets and a free game hero Glen Rise came through with two slam dunks and a soft Layup and the fans in the gym began shouting All the it appeared that would be the but which was walloped by the in an Early 1983 tournament but then came Back to whip the Ameri cans in the title didst exactly fall Over and play dead Mario Francisco Georgio Marcos Minelli and Palmieri again All had baskets and the italians converted on nine of 10 free throws to get Back into while All this was going the Ameri cans managed Only two free throws by Marty Hensley and eventually left the court at intermission with Only a 3837 i knew the italians were a door die 1 found that out two years Mccann i think the kids might have eased up a Little and the italians came at really came at we were Able to hang onto the Lead until halftime and i was Able to make a few adjustments that paid off for us in the second it was still Toucan do for the first of the second Italy forged into the Lead at but two baskets by one a crowd leasing put the Back into the Lead to the americans finally began to take control again when Chuckie Brown gave them an eight Point 6153 Lead with a very Ansbach win playoff openers Germany Otis Weir scored 24 Points in the first half As Augsburg crusaders rolled to a12898 Blowout of the Bamberg Barons wednesday in the first game of the Best of three mens Vii corps basketball championship in the women opener at Ansbach appearing in their first Vii corps title clobbered the rattlers a 65 led the crusaders to a 6846 halftime Lead and the Barons never but Weir want the Only crusader who Hurt guard Ernest Thompson scored 20 in the first half and Larry a 64 Forward and for Mer Allamy tossed in for the Weir led All scorers with Warren finished with Thompson Robert White 11 and Mark Lewis 10 for the Dwayne Turner led Bamberg with 23 Wilburn Lloyd Johnson and Troy Allen each scored 16 and Jose Sandoval followed with Ansbach women Wuerzburg 61 Germany ans bachs Angels put on a full court press in the second half to blow out the rattlers in the first game of their bestow three women Vii corps championship Wuerzburg stayed close in the first trailing Only 2928 at Intermix Diane Huron led Ansbach with 24 Joyce Fisher followed with Vicky Nilles and Pat Rakers each scored Julie Williams topped Wuerzburg with 18 Tracy ran jello added 15 and Anita Jonas weekly to Star Center soft Layup on which the crowd was anticipating another a Parade All american from dunked on the front end of a fast Sherrod popped in one from the Side and Brown hit a 15footer to make the margin 7057 and the americans were never a 67 Forward and the Only one of the 10 Albert Schweitzer performers brought Over from the who has not indicated a College led All scorers with 28 11 regular baskets and one three Pointer from about 28 feet he got 19point support from Chuck in 15 from Richard Morgan and 10 from Zeno led the italians with 17 Eduardo Milesi followed with Minelli chipped in with 12 and Palmieri finished with the americans were plagued by foul trouble Morgan and Chuckie Brown All had four and the fans began to boo when Mccann brought in Dodds performer Rick Ullian turned in a steady game and earned Praise from Mccann he made some mistakes in the first couple of but Hes a Gutsy Type of player and i Felt perfectly confident going to him when i had said we had a Lead and he handled the Ball quite Well for photo by Terry Baker Glen Rice 28point performance Kaiserslautern nips nor deutschland Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern Center Tony Gray scored six of his teams last nine Points wednesday As the panthers beat the nor deutschland port City players 7471 to take a 10 Lead in the Besto three 21st support come mens basketball title a 6foot4 put the panthers up for Good at 6563 on a bucket with remaining before a Home crowd at Kleber the game was close throughout the Sec Ond half As no More than three Points Sepa rated the it didst Start out that As Kaiserslautern a Vance Jackson hit five jumpers in a stretch that saw the panthers take a 176 Lead with left in the first but the players came David Sal Leys bucket tied it at then a Greg Fuller two Pointer gave Nord deutschland a 3836 Lead at Nord deutschland guard Nate hobbled by an ankle injury suffered in a meeting Between the two teams during the postseason returned to guide the players in the Kaiserslautern beat Nord deutschland in the tournament title game to Force the championship Jackson topped Kaiserslautern with 17 Gray finished with Greg Daw Charles James Baldwin and Falon prude finished with eight Points each for the codons 16 Points led the who were without 67 player coach Sam Greg Fuller had 15 Points and Joe Rodgers the series switches to Bremerhaven radio City gym on Carl Schurz Cavern for the second game at 1 the if necessary game is scheduled for 1 Sun also at radio City Home of the regular season Sid Cage coach resigns after payoffs a Southern Illinois University basketball coach Allen Van Winkle resigned four Days after it was disclosed that one of his assist ants was aware of under the table payments to the Salukis Star Dean special assistant in charge of intercollegiate athletics at the announced the resignation at a news conference tuesday that Van Winkle did not stuck said he had no evidence that Van Winkle was involved in the payments and said the coach resigned for personal the action came four Days after the Resig nation of Stafford an assistant coach who admitted he knew about weekly payments made by a University Booster to 6foot11 Center Kenny Carbondale chiropractor Roy White told University officials last thursday he agreed to the payments in the summer of when Perry transferred from the University of White also contended Van Winkle was involved in the arrange but stuck said an internal investigation launched after Whites disclosure showed no wrongdoing by the i have not uncovered any evidence to corroborate an allegation that Allen Van Winkle was involved in any payments to he from was recruited by Stephenson when he was an assistant coach at and transferred to Southern Illinois a year after Stephenson switched perrys said saturday that Stephenson had taken him to meet White during a visit to the Carbondale Campus three years but he said that neither Stephenson nor his younger brother were there when he worked qut the Deal with who agreed to pro vide Kenny Perry a week and a rent free Mobile Home in return for Odd Perry sat out the 198283 season because of Mcaa rules regarding Transfer but was named the 198384 Missouri Val Ley conference newcomer of the this his final year of he averaged Points and rebounds per game As the Salukis finished the season with a 1414 record Overall and 610 in the Confer Van moved to Southern Illi Nois in 1981 after three years at Jackson Community College in he com piled a 4962 record with the Salukis 25 in the past two when i came we had the longest losing Streak in the Van Winkle i believe Ive taken this program As far As i can take Ive coached at All Levels in College Bas and Ive made a lot of friends who know Ive always done things the right in sure there Are other opportunities out there for