European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 25 setae Heidelberg men take positional titles by Bob Dillier staff writer Heidelberg Heidelberg cel tics used experience and a lot of Flack sunday to shoot Down the Berlin bears in a 7269 overtime title game of the usar eur mens positional basketball Tournai later the setae Al stars of coach Herschell Harvell claimed the women positional title by racing to a 6760 verdict Over Heidelberg in the i necessary Heidelberg advances to a Besto three Usa eur mens semifinal series against Vii corps Winner the series begins wednesday in Augsburg and switches saturday to Heidelberg to Mack Setas women play Host to Mann Heims Mustangs of the 21st support come wednesday in their Besto three semifinal saturday the series shifts to mannheims Benjamin Franklin Village sports in the mens 6foot7 Center James Flack scored 25 came Down with key rebounds in the second half and overtime and intercepted a pass with 17 seconds left in overtime to preserve Hei de bergs Flack put the celtics ahead to stay at hitting a running Baseline jumper with left in but the title came Down to the free throw line with 48 seconds Heidelberg 34yearold sixth Terry took aim with his celtics up just his first free throw hit the front bounced to the Back and dropped the second swished through for a 6965 celtics Berlin want As 14 seconds later 67 bears Center Glen Jack son stuffed Home a rare Roderick Riley miss to Cut the deficit to just Heidelberg Leonard Harrison hit a free throw to put the celtics up then Flack intercepted an errant bears pass and Heidelberg ran the clock Down to 10 Berlin was forced to foul and Leroy Evans hit a pair of free throws for a 7267 Riley ended the game with a behind tieback lob at the i hate close said its Good for fans but the Bottom line is we weve taken the first that first step was a Long time Berlin came out of the Gates quickly pulling away to a 3932 halftime Lead the largest of either team in the a 63 was mismatched on the 60 Evans and took him Down Low for 18 first half but the celtics blitzed to open the Sec Ond half As Pledger hit from then dished off to Harrison for Flack came Back to hit from the Circle and Heidelberg had pulled to within 3938 in just 90 nine minutes Pledger out fought berlins 66 Stanley for an offensive rebound and was his free throw gave Heidelberg its second Lead of the 5049 with Flack blocked a Robert Izzard shot and the celtics looked in position to but the Romp slowed to a crawl As the bears let the celtics flacks two free throws put Heidelberg up 6159 with but Riley tied it again on a stuff 13 seconds Berlin had a Chance to win it in Regula Tion after Pledger missed from eight feet out with six seconds bears guard Raymond Shelley re bounded and Berlin called the bears burned up those seconds i bounding the Ball and getting it to where they called time with the clock at the Buzzer haunt Riley got the Ball and whirled for a 30 footer that banked in off the but was ruled too late to we diagrammed that said cel tics coach Luther Jefferson of pledges late we wanted to work it inside to Pledger or to let Evans shoot from normally hed make that As in saturdays Jeffersons team was Content to let Riley shoot and concen trate on shutting out his teammates with a variety of zone we worked hard on Jefferson but we didst anticipate Riley hurting us As much As he their big Guys didst Hurt us As much As we thought they Riley scored 30 for the Shelly was the Only other Berlin player in double scoring four celtics were in double Evans followed Flack with 14 Pledger and guard Leo Mclnnis each had Flack had nine rebounds and Pledger eight for the Jackson finished with 11 for both teams shot Heidelberg made 26 of 52 from the Berlin 30 of setae women Heidelberg 60 with no one on the roster Over setae was forced into a running the tactic didst work Early As Heidel Berg broke open a Sloppy first half to go up 3024 at setae had 15 first half Heidelberg the Al stars refused to and came Back to take the Lead for Good at 4241 on a Sheila Hurst free throw with another Hurst free throw and jumpers from lera Fincher and Liz Broussard put setae up 4741 with Heidelberg closed to within 4945 on a Janet Stuckey rebound and driving but after that Heidelberg ran out of the celtics get Back quickly enough on defense As setae picked up wide open buckets from trailing Heidelberg threw on a press and closed to within 5955 with left on an Annette Pittman but photo by Didio celtics James Flack 25 key rebounds setae scored often enough to keep the celtics at four Al stars scored in double led by Broussards Fincher had Hurst 12 and Joann Holmes Hurst also corralled 17 rebounds for 11 in the final 20 Heidelberg also had four in double Fig led by Mary Edwards with 15 before she fouled out with Stuckey and Pittman each hit for 13 and Gail Caldwell scored which brought Only eight play ers to the finished shooting 26 of 69 from the Heidelberg hit 24 of setae had 27 Heidelberg weve got to work on some things be fore the said we need a Little More discipline in the were going to use the same thing against Well go with Harvell said at least two More players should join the Al stars for the semifinal series against Ansbach win Bremerhaven Kaiserslautern captured the 21st support come mens basketball title by beating nor deutschland 8375 the panthers won the three game play off 21 and advanced to the Usa eur semifinals against v corps Champion the Besto three semis Start at wednesday at then move to Darmstadt at 2 sat Tony Gray fired in 24 Points and grabbed 12 rebounds to Lead town while Greg Dawson had is Points and Charles Copper David Salley scored 22 Points for Nord deutschland and Greg Fuller bad 20 and Willie Copeland Kaiserslautern rushed to a 4334 Lead by halftime and increased it to 5845 with that when the port City players made their last a Salley Dunk Cut Nord deutschland deficit to 6056 with and the players stayed four Back Over the next five they got no closer As nor deutschland guards Joe Rogers and Nate Coxon find the Range Over towns big who scored 15 Points in the players Victory managed just 6 and who scored 14 nit for Only Augsburg whips Bamberg Germany Ernest Thompson poured in 41 Points to Pace Augsburg Over Bamberg 140108 sunday the Vii corps mens basketball Cham the crusaders swept the Besto three series in two games to Advance to the Usa eur semifinals against Heidel starting at wednesday at the series will then move to Heidelberg at 2 a 6foot3 scored 19 Points in a first half that saw Augsburg vault ahead Otis the crusaders 64 also tallied 19 in the first half and finished the game with Larry Warren followed with Ray Middleton 15 and Mark Lewis Wilburn Fitzpatrick led the Barons with 30 Dewayne Turner contributed 19 and Lloyd Johnson Ansbach women sweep Wuerzburg Germany Joyce fish ers 21 Points fired Ansbach Over Wuerz for the Vii corps women title sunday As Ansbach took the series 2 the Angels led 4729 at halftime and were coasting in the late going when Sud Denly the lady rattlers Anita Angela Scott and Patricia Morris combined for 10 straight Points that Cut Ansbach Lead to 7267 with 54 seconds Ansbach held on for coach Kevin can who takes his Angels into the usar eur semifinals at Frankfurt at that Besto three series moves to Ansbach at 2 Vickie Nilles scored 16 Points for ans Diana Huron added 14 despite sit Ting out much of the second half with foul Scott paced Wuerzburg with 21 Tracy Raniello added 11 and Morris Ahmed captures world cup Marathon Japan a Djibouti Salah sprinting ahead in the last 500 won the mens race of the first world cup Marathon sunday and came within four seconds of the world finished in 2 8 min 9 seconds six seconds ahead of japans Takeyuki who beat the japanese record of Ahmed and who ran Side by Side until the final around the stadium now hold the second and third Best Marathon times in the after Britain Steve in 63degree temperatures and under Cloudy skies that finally broke into a cold the top runners kept up a Pace seconds faster than the world record Pace until the final it want so said a beaming a who won the Fukuoka International Marathon four months Djama also of finished third in a total of 236 runners from 48 countries ran the Kilometres Miles from the Hiroshima prefectural track and Field stadium past the cites peace three Miles beyond the recently annexed suburb of Itsu Kaichi and then Back most of the Djibouti also won the team with Robles and Charmarie a who finished seventh in achieving a combined time of Japan was second with and Ethiopia third with who knocked almost four min utes off his previous Best time of had not been mentioned As a top contender in this he mentioned that he had won a Cross country run in Portu this year and a Marathon in in i first thought i could win at about 35 he it was then that Ahmed and Nakayama pulled decisively ahead of the other top including tanzanian Juma East German Michael Heilmann and take Shi Soh of
