European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 25 Augsburg beats Kaiserslautern forces third game for Usa eur title by Bob Dillier staff writer Germany Augsburg big game Hunters bagged a big trophy saturday the Kaiserslautern pan now coach George Jacobs crusaders of Vii corps want an even bigger one Usa eur mens basketball championship Augsburg 8377 Victory Over the 21st support come panthers evened the army mens title series at now the season boils Down to the i necessary game at 2 Sun Day in Kaiserslautern Kleber Augsburg used a 23 zone defense to Cut off inside passing lanes to the panthers 6 foot4 Center Tony Gray and 63 team mate Falon in the series opener wednesday in Gray scored 34 prude 12 along with seven re Bounds and a blocked sunday Augsburg clogged the Middle with 64 Otis 64 Larry Warren and 63 Earnest Gray responded with 21 Points and eight prude finished with 12 one rebound and a we went into the zone and gave them the outside said whenever Gray had the he had to turn and there was a Man on Weir did a Good Job on so did Augsburg took charge four minutes into the game when guard Ray Middleton hit a fast break bucket to put the crusaders up two Kaiserslautern turnovers and a Warren jumper from the Corner later and Augsburg led that tamed the hostile Kaiserslautern leather lungs fell silent As did the numerous air which previously made the gym sound like a Navy Augsburg went up 3722 on a fast break bucket by Reserve Robert White with left before but the panthers closed with a Kaiserslautern trailed Only 4334 at after the Augsburg threatened to blow the panthers off their Home going up 6149 with 11 minutes again the panthers refused to after switching to a Mantovan Vance Jackson put in a and hit a fast Dennis Turner tipped in a Jackson miss and the panthers were within 6155 with we started Rushing and turning the Ball said normally we like teams to play us after a 6foot Augsburg guard Ray Middleton rebounded a Warren miss and 58 guard Michael Smith intercepted a Kaiserslautern turned on the afterburners and zoomed in for a fast Weir then hit a jumper from the Corner and the crusaders were up Kaiserslautern closed to 7871 with but by then the panthers were and the crusaders we rent missing from the free throw Augsburg Deadeye hit 25 of 29 free Kaiserslautern was Good on just 11 Smith connected on seven of eight free throws in the last three minutes As the crusaders let him break presses and run the spread the coach stresses free defense and said free throws Are said a its like giving a baby after making one Small run Early in the second the Panther took themselves out of the instead of passing and moving without the Kaiserslautern started firing up Long Range bombs that consistently missed the the key was stopping Gray and said we stayed in the 23 zone and they had nobody to shoot from Jacobs said the crusaders went to the zone because they got into Early foul trouble in the series but Augsburg still picked up valuable we saw in the first game that their guards didst take too Many said they came Down 3onl and passed Kaiserslautern guard James Baldwin scored 16 mostly on fast Breaks or but Point guard Anthony Patter son finished with just Augsburg Smith 16 Points and Middleton 11 ran Jacobs three Forward of sense and sagged on defense to choke off the passing lanes Thompson led five crusaders in Diuble figures with Weir followed Smith with Warren finished ahead of Middleton with Baldwin and prude were the Only panthers in double Augsburg hit 29 of 66 from the Kaiserslautern 33 of the guards were shooting said usually we rely on the big our Bench Doest look but everybody can play two we had to reach Down inside and pull it Jacobs tomorrow Well have to reach into our hearts and see whats were taking the championship ban Ner Back to photo by red grand Augsburg Larry Warren 45 strips the Ball from towns Trenton Blount crusaders forced panthers into 19 turnovers photo by red grand towns Greg Dawson drives saturday beats Augsburg Mark Lewis decisions Mannheim women 6564 Frankfurt retains Usa eur Cage title Frankfurt the Frankfurt Falco netted Are still sitting atop the Usa eur women basketball coach Mike Boyds v corps champions successfully defended their 1984 usar eur championship Here before a standing Roo Only Falcons nest crowd by outlast ing a stubborn Mannheim entry 6564 to Complete a two game sweep of the 1985 championship it was very Rongji for a Boyd but weve been in tight positions and i knew we would win the Usa eur championship in i knew As far Back As last september that we were the Best team in Usa eur and we would win were 1 in and i have to say that Mannheim is the second est team in they Are an excellent basketball Boyd the lady Mustangs battled the ing champions Down to the bitter end before in they had a Chance to win and Force the third game in the bestow three scheduled with seven seconds Mannheim unbounded the and shantay wards 15foot jump shot at the Buzzer chromed off the Back of the the game was a tight one All the Frankfurt held a 3634 halftime but Tane Cotton put Mannheim ahead 45 43 with a Short shot from the Side with remaining and the lady Mustangs held the Lead for the next 11 minutes As the two teams traded Lisa Oakley finally knotted the count for Frankfurt at 61 61 on a jumper with then Michelle Buggs stole the Ball and drove in for a Layup that gave Frankfurt the Lead for Sarangi Chambers hit the front end of a 11 to get Mannheim Back to within a however she missed the second and Adriene grabbed the Buggage Drew a foul with 28 seconds remaining and calmly canned the two free throws to give Frankfurt a three Point Mannheim came Back Dow court and got a Basket from Robin Frankfurt turned the Ball Over to set the stage for wards Las ditch Oakley and Vickie Johnson led Frankfurt with 13 Points apiece and Donna Bray boy came through with Oakley also was credited with 19 rebounds and Buggage pulled Down 13 Smith and Chambers tallied 14 Points apiece for Mannheim and Vikki Suggs came through with Chambers snared 12 rebounds and Suggs had the sweep gave Frankfurt a 251 record against military teams this the Falco netted lost Only to dropping the second game of the Besto three v corps Mannheim went 160 in 21st support come regular season play and wound up with a 253 record Finland raps in hockey Czechoslovakia a Hannu Jarvenpaa scored three Power play goals Friday night As Finland upset the United states 83 in the world hockey the team already had qualified for the medal round starting sunday with the unbeaten soviet Czechoslovakia and so the result could Only affect the order of the who finished the prelim Inary round with four one tie and two led 32 Early in the second but the finns then scored six unanswered goals for their second tourney Corey Mark Johnson and Daniel Dorian scored for the it was the fourth goal of the tournament for the Only member of the 1980 olympic Champi on team playing if the americans finish in a three Way tie with Czechoslovakia and they will have to Start against the soviets on the soviets trounced the 111 in the first game of the preliminary round last they were to play Czechoslovakia and Canada was to take on Sweden in the two last games on every Day is a new we were badly beaten by the but then came Back to win four straight said american coach Dave television pro basketball Aba Phila Delphia 76ers at Milwaukee 7 sunday Detroit pistons at Boston celtics following first radio pro basketball Aba playoffs teams to be 6 baseball san Diego padres at los Angeles 9