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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes sunday november 17, 1985 Heyford trips Torrejon in semifinal by Bucky Fox staff writer Rai i per Kyford. England the upper Heyford sky Kings found a new was to win. You could Call it winning ugly. After All. The sky Kings and their victims the Torrejon raiders were drenched in rain in mud. Upper Heyford called it winning smugly. There was quarterback Jeff Gaddy. With his sky Kings losing by a Point scrambling an 1 winging a seemingly Hope less pass with 3 53 left. There was tight end Woody Jones leaping at the goal line to snare them Yard Hail Mary touch Down. There was upper Scyford a 19-13 win Ner Over Torrejon in this Safe semifinal our Guys did t want to play until the fourth  said Scyford coach Jim Ousley. This was just like the Alconbury game. The Guys Rise and dip to the level of  indeed the sky Kings wailed until the dying minutes saturday just like they wailed All season. They started the year 0 2. They won eight straight to tie Alcon Bury for the american division title of the . Sports conference. They scored with no Lime left to beat Alconbury for the right to represent the . In the Safe semifinal. Then cum saturday. Losing 13-6 Early in the fourth Quarter Gaddy awoke with two to passes to Jones to beat Torrejon. Suddenly upper Heyford has won 10 straight games and has vaulted into the Safe title game next sunday at rams inn. This is Heyford s fourth trip to the final in the last five years. Jum its suddenly. Torrejon has tripped air Force football Over the semifinal for the fourth straight year. An Inch a year said a distraught raiders coach Jim Kirksey. Whose raid ers gave the Mediterranean sports con Ference in finest showing. Maybe in an other year Well win it. We got some respect. We Don t regret  said Ousley Torrejon probably gave us our Best Ball game of the year if not for Jones jumping ability Torre Jon might have Given inc Mac its first Victory in eight Safe semifinal appear ances. The sky Kings behind 13-12 with four minutes left faced a second and 9 at the Torrejon 34. When Caddy let Loose his Rainbow three raiders waited to intercept it. Instead the 6-foot-4 Jones Oul jumped them All. Carrying 5-9 safety Stanley Lindsay into the end zone. It was a Lucky play very Lucky Gaddy said while his teammates celebrated their Triumph. Woody was open but i Hung it up too Long. It was All Woody  he spotted me cutting Over the mid dle said Jones a 33-year old texan who has played six years of air Force football. With the condition of the Field Jeff was t Able to Plant his feet and gel off a Good pass. Then when the Ball came 35 Lindsay was trying to catch it. He was beside me. I went up and took it away from  said Kirksey it was a busted play. There s no Way a defense can defend that. They had Good timing. We just mistimed it. It could Nave fell this Way or that  the touchdown pass was Gaddy s third of the Day. He completed 13 of 25 passes for 164 Yards. His speedy counterpart Runny Washington completed 12 of 29 for an identical 164 Yards for Torrejon. That quarterback s Arm was phenomenal said Ousley. Thanks to Washington s Arm the raid ers took a 7-0 Lead in the first Quarter. He came out firing on seven of the raiders first 14 plays. He clicked on a 28 Yard touchdown to Mark Mickic who caught the Bullet at inc i and dived into the end zone. Heyford Cut the Lead to 7-6 with 1 29 left in the half. Two Caddy passes pushed Heyford to the Torrejon 14. On third Down he gunned a bulls Eye Between two defenders into the arms of split end William Cook for the to. Torrejon took its first drive of the Sec Ond half 53 Yards to the Scyford 6. . Preciado s 24-Yard Field Golf booted Tor Cjon ahead 10-6 with 8 20 left in the Quarter. Preciado came through again with a 29 Yard Field goal and a 13-6 Torrejon Lead at the 13 03 Mark of the fourth period. Washington keyed the drive with a 30 Yard pass to flanker Don Taylor and a 7 Yard scramble just before the Field goal. That Washington Taylor Aerial which came on the last play of the third Quarter gave Torrejon its last first Down. Over the last 15 minutes the sky Kings led by linemen Mike Miller and safety Caddy held the raiders to 15 Yards. Greg Fontaine who rotates to the states monday sparked Heyford s comeback with an interception. It gave the sky Kings Possession at Torr Jon s 31 with 9 48 left. Tailback William Lindsay who led All rushers with 66 Yards forged Scyford s March to the 8. On third Down Gaddy hit Jones deep in the end zone. Trailing 13-12 with 6 13 left Ousley us Polo by Cut  sky Kings of Jeff Giddy. Flips winning Tupasi shunned a potentially tying kick and went for two Points. Gaddy passed to Cook but Lindsay batted it away. We weren t going for the in that late Ousley said. We were concerned with their kicker. With his Strong leg they could win it easily in  two minutes later Gaddy found Jones on the end of his Rainbow and Heyford found Victory. All year we be been  Laid Gaddy. And when we needed it we got wooden s Specter still haunts Urcla coaches los Angeles a the Specter of John wooden lives quite comfortably in its own Little Section of coach Walt hazzard office at Urcla. When i sit Here at my desk i m looking directly at the John wooden Corner Haz Zard said referring to the pictures on the Wall. One shows the retired coach with hazzard and last season s team which went 21-12 after a 3-6 Stan and captured the National invitation tournament  m not afraid of he Shadow of John  perhaps it s because of that nit title. The Victory May have been the first Tell ing sign of the Bruins resurgence As a basketball Power since 1980, heir last appear Ance in the Mcaa final four. And hazzard 43. Will try to take the team Astep closer to recapturing past glories As he begins his second season As coach. Winning the nit was great. It was something that we needed for our program our credibility. We played John wooden basketball with a Walt hazzard Jack Hirsch flair he said. Hazzard and Jack Hirsch were Theocla co captains in the 1963-64 season when the Bruins went 30-0 and won their first Mcaa title. Hirsch is now hazzard s no. 1 assistant. We were 18-6 in 1985. Of the six losses five were either one Point losses or overtime losses including a four overtime loss to Southern Cal said hazzard the school s fifth coach since wooden stepped Down in1975 after 27 years. None of the previous four Gene bar Tow Gary Cunningham Larry Brown and Larry Farmer lasted More than three years. All were moderately successful Barlow and Brown went to the final four but none was Able to really gel the Bruins Back in the Winner s Circle. In 1983-84, Farmer s final season a claws Only 17-11 and failed to earn a berth in either the Mcaa tournament or n it. That record May have been acceptable at some schools but not at Urcla where wooden led the Bruins to 10 Mcaa tournament championships in 12  hazzard took the Job he told the alumni Don t expect me to match  he promised instead that the Tea would be fundamentally sound in Good condition and Well play As a team on doth ends of the court for 40  hazzard was prepared for last year slow Start. I knew it was going to be Tough he said. "1 never got discouraged. I knew we d be Good. I foresaw it. We never stopped Hting. 1 always saw the Light at the end f the  and he stayed in touch with  still talk to him often. He s made Tele phone Calls to help us in recruiting Haz Zard said. I like the Way our program is developing. Our game plan for the future Here is on the right  the Bruins open the 1985-86 season at North Carolina on nov. 24. Their top play ers figure to be Forward Reggie Miller the nit s most valuable player last Spring and guard Montpl Hatcher. North Carolina at North Carolina is Tough place to open the season hazzard Laid. We Nave an eight game winning Streak which i be been told is the longest in the coun try right now. We d love to keep it going. It going to be difficult but Well be  his goals for this season Are simple i d like to win the first game Agai Ulusc which is Here he said. We lost two games to them last year. And i d like to Winthe Pacific-10 title. When we say we want to do something we know it s not going to be easy i i going to take a lot of hard work. 3ul we re going to give it our Best shot. We re still Urcla hazzard  we walk into a building we re still someone to beat. Fans Haven t  Haven t forgotten. They la never  a a Romeo quits formula one Rome a Alfa Romeo Italy s second largest automaker announced Friday thai it is withdraw ing from formula one racing and that it will not enter any car in the1986 world championship. Alfa Romeo is the second leading automaker to dissolve its formula one team. Renault previously quil. An Alfa Romeo official said How Ever that the company might Supply its new Turbo charged engine to other teams beginning in 1987. A. Tech Rolls Over Wake Forest Atlanta a Georgia tech run Ning backs Cory Collier and Malcolm King each scored two touchdowns saturday Ashe yellow jackets pounded out a 41-10 Atlantic coast conference Victory overtake Forest. Tech. 7-2-1 Overall and 5-1 in the acc led by Only 17-10 at the half in the Region ally televised contest before exploding inthe second half behind Collier. King and quarterback John Dewberry. Meanwhile tech s defense smothered the Demon Dea cons in the second half allowing them only15 Yards in the third period. Tailback Collier who rushed for 114 Yards on 21 carries scored on a 2-Yard Runin the second Quarter and added a 4-Yard to catch from Dewberry in the final period. Fullback King who had 67 Yards in 10carries, blasted Over from 4 Yards out in the second period and broke Loose for a 13-Yard to run in the third. David Bell added Field goals of 27 and 32yards for the yellow jackets. Third team tailback Charles Mack scored on a 7-Yardrun in the fourth Quarter As tech scored twice in the first two minutes of the quart Wake Forest 4-7 and 1-6 in the league scored first on Topper demons 5-Yard Runin the opening Quarter and added a 28-Yard Field goal from Doug tiling As time ran outta intermission. An sports television pro football Cincinnati Bengal at los Angeles raiders 10 . Sunday. Radio pro football Chicago bean it Ulm Las cowboys. 7 . Sunday new England patriots at Seattle sea Hawks 10 pm sunday  
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