European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday december 5. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 sports 1985 year of the Griffins Toth Beasley Skelton tops Sall Europe team b bin Abrams prep sports editor this was the year of the Griffins coach of the year offensive player of the year and defensive player of the year. The selection of ii Essen s Charlie Toth Chris Beasley and Don Sia Lton to those honoured positions highlights he 17th Edi Tion of the stars and stripes All Europe football team. Toth in his first sear of coaching varsity football guided Wiessen in its first season As a Dodds High school to an 8-1 record which included the Germany a Silver and Germany a championships. The Griffins lost to International school of Brussels in the Small schools championship. Toth s chores were alleviated by the presence of running Back Beasley one of six players named to the team on both offence and defense and Middle linebacker Skillon. Beasley 5-8, 160, senior ran for 1,320 Yards and caught eight passes for another 115 Yards. He scored 78 Points. Skillon 5-6. 145, Junior was credited with 45 Solo tackles and 76 assists. He also had 12 sacks two of which resulted in safeties and recovered u Fumble. Joining Beasley As two team performers Are Kaiserslautern s Tony Dingwell end and linebacker Augsburg s Scott Berta guard and nose guard and Brian Taylor quarterback and defensive Backfield Lakenheath s Richard Mcgowan Izard and tackle and Wiesbaden s Pete i nig Center and tackle. Taylor teammate Rick Montgomery and Heidelberg s Mike Are the Only repeaters fron l�84. Taylor repeats at quarterback. Mom Imery at defensive end and Lisowski at offensive guard s brother malt also was selected senior running Back Chris Beasley. More tha i 1,400 Yards at nose guard. Selected ends with Dingwall were Hanau s Bruce g a Khz shape s Bruce Jennings and Nuernberg s Junior Passi. Wiesbaden s Dwight Means. Vicin a s Scott Lewis s Bob Morse and Mannheim s Mike Kelly get the nod at tackle. Wiesbaden s Vince Bohner rounds out the guard cast. Wies Baden s Pete Honnig and Lucr Burg s Wayne Knight arc the centers. Taylor shares quarterback honors with shape s Joe Matthews. Teammate Mike Harris we Bruecken s Steve Moore. Wiesbaden s Derrick Jackson Vicen a s ii Essen coach Charlie told. First year Success Andre Davis and s Eric Barcla join Beasley in the Backfield. The placekicker is Augsburg s Dave Strebeck. At defensive end with Montgomery Are Lucr Burg s old Weatherington. Bruecken s Ivey Goolsby and Kaiserslautern s Mike Deming. Alex von Hoeken of is and Heidelberg s David Tomblin join Honnig and Mcgowan at tackle. Joining Skelton and Dingwell at line Backer Are Wiesbaden s Ivan Cush Berry. We Bruecken s Chuck Porche. Hanau s Tony Morton and International school of Brussels Rob Gordon. Junior linebacker Don Skillon led Giessen s defense in the defensive Backfield with Beasley and Taylor Are Kaiserslautern s Mosley is s Matt Palma Heidelberg s . Leighton and Lakin Heath s Reggie James. The punter is Mannheim s Danny Moler who averaged 3 .4 Ards a kick. The team features big lines and Small. Fleet backs. The offensive tin averages 211 pounds from tackle to tackle and the defensive tackles and nose guards Are two pounds heavier. The offensive Backfield carries a 164-Pound average and the defensive backs average out at 155. Offensive ends go at i 76. Defensive ends see All Europe on Page 21 yugoslav dumps Mcenroe 66th-rated Slobodan i Oji Nolc keeps Mcenroe from a slam in 85 Melbourne. Australia Slobodan Zivojinovic of Yugoslavia whipped second seeded John Mcenroe 2-6, 6-3. 1-6. 6-4, 6-0 in the quarterfinals wednesday of the australian open. The 22-year-old West German based powerhouse Defeated Mcenroe in one of the biggest upsets in the Tennis tournament s history. Zivojinovic is ranked 66th in the world and was unseeded. Mcenroe 26, was bidding to win the australian open for the first time. The new yorker s defeat Means he has failed to win a grand slam title this year. It ended his Hopes of overhauling Ivan Lindl for the world s no. I ranking at the end of the year. Mcenroe s serve and delicate touch held no mysteries for Zivojinovic who blasted his Way to Victory. The giant yugoslav served immaculately in the final two sets. He treated Mcenroe s serve with disdain Defus ing it regularly with blockbusting returns. Zivojinovic Defeated reigning australian open Champi on Mats Wilander in the first round at Wimbledon earlier this year. His Victory Over Mcenroe underlined his Affinity for grass courts. Mcenroe earned the ire of the capacity 10,000 Center court crowd by storming angrily from the court after his defeat. He did not wait to leave the court with the Winner As is customary. In the fifth game of the final set he shouted to Rivoji Novic you Are going to pay for this. 1 mean Mcenroe who was fined twice in the tourney was booed and jeered by the fans at the end. The american who pouted his Way through the match appeared to have trouble with his timing in the final two sets but did not seem troubled by a Bandage on his left thigh. Zivojinovic who is Wimbledon Champion Boris Becker s doubles partner had never reached the semifinals of a grand slam title. Last year he earned $17,601 from Tennis. He will earn s24.903 for making the aussie semifinals. Earlier in the Day top seeded Ivan Lindl of a ech Oslo Varia moved into the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-7. 6-2 Triumph Over unseeded South african Christo Stycyn. Lindl the . Open Champion bidding to win the australian open title for the first Lime was Given a code of conduct violation for Ball abuse in the third Sci he bounced his Racquet angrily on a couple of occasions. Steyn ranked 170th in the world often kept Lendl. The world s no. 1, off balance. Lindl needed 2 hours. 23 min utes to win the match which set up a meeting with englishman John Lloyd in the quarterfinals. The Lindl Victory completed the quarterfinal lineup. Besides . Michiel schapers of the nether lands plays Stefan Edburg of Sweden and Wilander of Sweden meets Johan Kriek of the United states. Wilander was scheduled to play wednesday with the other two quarterfinals scheduled thursday. Lloyd who slumped to 387th in the world three years ago. Is undergoing a Renaissance. He linked up with australian coach Bob Brett and fit Ness conditioner Stan Nicholes three years ago reached the quarterfinals of the open last year and is playing with Power and Confidence. He Defeated seventh seeded swede Joakim Nystrom in the round of 16 and is looking Forward to challenging Lendl. "1 went to Stan three years ago and rebuilt my the 31-year-old British Davis cup player said. I was amazed to find that 13 and 14-year-old girls were physically stronger than i was. Three years ago 1 could t have served like i did in the fifth set against Nystrom. I just would t have had the
