European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday december 7, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 Wade eyes shape As Start of countdown by Tim Dolvin staff writer  Roun Dball Road is winding up for Benton Wade Al the shape basketball tournament thai lips off tuesday bul in has t come to a dead end yet. Wade the Only Center on the . Team joined the army for a different reason from that of most other soldiers. The d-foot-8. 215 Pounder specialist 4 enlisted to play basketball. Now As he rounds out his military service he wants to gel the game 0111 of his system. Roun Dball Road started Al Mercer University where Wade played for two years. Then it was on to London where Wade played in an English professional league. From there the Road went Back to the Stales where he played with Wyoming of the Continental basketball association. Wade got hurl in the Cua badly twisting a knee Luil look a Long time to heal. So much for the Cuba hello today s army. He had l gotten rid of the hoop Star s hoopla yet and when he looked Al places where he could still play a lot of Ball he ended up at an Aimy Recruiter s office. So he joined up. As he said so i could keep playing Ball. Thai s  Bui now Wade is almost oui of Field goals Oul of free throws Oul of slam dunks and out of the army where he s been working in the administration Field. He Only has 13 months left and wants to go to Atlanta and attend Spillman University. He s nol going Back to school to play basketball but to finish studying on a degree for physical education and recreation. Then he Hopes to Hook up with a Job in the recreation Field overseas where he says he has received a lot of positive feedback on Job opportunities. Wade s wife Theresa is also an army athlete an All army volleyball player. They met at it. Stewart ga., got married and Ihrcke months later Wade was on his Way to South Korea to be stationed while his wife stayed Al it. St Warl. But the separation did t last Long As Wade was Able to gel Back to the states. Before he left it. Stewart he had made the All army learn and do spill going to South Korea came Back logo to the incr service championships and then to the concil  do sports militia re or cism. Games. From there the Road kept winding on when lie received an invite to the shape tryouts and made the learn. No dead end in sight yet. Wade is one of two returners from last year s team that took the shape. Lilc and he s Able to help the of her Guys by letting them know what to expect both on Center Benlon Wade. Gelling basketball out of his system and off the court. Shape is much More prestigious than the cism games even though less teams participate at shape Wade claims. The players on the different teams make it More prestigious because everybody hangs out together and you gel to know each Otner much More than a i cism. The people we met on the Pictour Narnel Road trip through Germany trance Anu Belgium All treat you right. Then there s the players from the other teams. I could t believe How Nice the players from the other teams were. That s Why 1 came Back one last time. This is the kind of thing i like to be a part of both As a basketball player and a  but Trie opposing players on the court make it a differ ent Story. International basketball is a rough game much rougher than the game the Sci d merchants of the . Are used to.  Fly All game Long bodies end up sprawled All Over the Lane and action is non mop As learns Are allowed to in butt rid the Ball As soon is by so Sion is determined. No referee holding the Ball until both teams gel set. The italians and americans have a in had a few Skir mishes that ended up in fisticuffs near the end of ume tight games. All thai Means a team needs some physical Guys with stamina and Wade says the . Has it this year. They average 6-5, 207 pounds. Last year we Wun the tournament on heart  Wade said. The other learns were bigger and stronger than us but we wanted the trophy much More. The  was there and we won on pure determination. This year we re bigger and stronger especially in the backcourt and Al  Wade who is stationed with teammate run Orr in South Korea does t think the . Team will be Able to steamroll Down its own Road to the title. He expects trouble from everybody and anybody in the tournament. Italy Belgium and Greece have played us Tough in the past either Al shape or Al cism but especially the italians. Last year the italians played As Well As the . We Only beat them on a three Point play. 85-k4. They be developed their Ball real Well. They had two 7-Footcrs that helped them win Al cism. We can t let them push us around Wade said. As for the ., Wade does t think complacency As the defending champs will be a problem. It s not the same team we had Here last year so the Guys should be hungry for the title. If we play our offence and defense the Way we re supposed to Well  if that happens Roun Dball Road will come to a v for Wade a v for Victory. And Wade will go out a win Ner the Way he wants. Ripoffs wide is the brother of Barton Wade. Who plays Center for v corps Hannu hornets. The hornets took second Price in Lasi week s Berlin invitational to Baum older. The . Plays in the opening game of the shape tournament agn Insl Belgium tuesday at 7 . The inst of the . Schedule with All games at the shape gymnasium looks like this wednesday 3  the Netherlands thursday 7 ., l Rance Friday 3  Germany saturday 9 ., Italy Trevino leads in Sun City by 1 Sun City South Africa a american Lee Trevino fired his second successive 3-Undcr-Par 69 Friday to Lake a one stroke Lead Halfway through the Sun City million Dollar Golf Challenge. Trevino shot five birdies and dropped two shots for a total of 138 As he edged ahead of . Player of the year Lanny Wadams and . Masters Champion Bernhard Lan Ger of Germany. Wadkins shot a 69 and Langer 70 to end the second round at 139 in the 10-Man Competition with a first prize of �300,000 at the Sun City resort Complex in the Black Homeland of . British open Champion Sandy Lyle 70, and american Mark o Meara 71. Were bracketed two strokes Back in fourth place at 141, while Taiwan s . Chen improved eight shots to a 67 and was alone in sixth place at 142. Sivc balls Stvros of Spain the Winner in both the past two years again struggled to manage a Par 72 and was at 145 with South Africa s Denis Watson who shot a 70, at 145. Australian David Graham had a 74 for 146, while . Pea Champion Hubert Green was at the Back of the Field on 150 with a 74. Trevino battled with Wadkins and Lang Crall Day for the Lead. Birdies at the 15th and 17th put Trevino two strokes Clear but he dropped a shot at the final Hole when he Cut his tee shot too much into trouble in the rough. Wadkins had five birdies but dropped Ihrck Shols and missed a string of other Birdie chances with errant putts. Langer said he hit a lot of bad  shots and was never in a position to attack the Flag but said his Short game saved him. In the $125,000 women s Competition introduced this year american Patti Rizzo held the Lead with a second round 71 for a 143 total followed by country woman Muf Fin Spencer Devlin who shot a 69 for 144. American Kathy ,70. And South Afri Ca s Angela Alison. 76. Were next on 154 and american Barb Thomas with a 76, was last at 157. Ross decides to remain at Maryland College Park my. Up1 Bobby Ross who rebuilt Maryland football into National prominence agreed in principle thursday to a guaranteed contract for at least four years to remain As head coach at the allanic coast conference school. Ross said he was offered inc vacant head coaching Post at the University of Minnesota after meeting with Minnesota officials tuesday in Minneapolis. Bui he said he declined the offer Al 6 30 . Thursday. "1 feel very Happy i feel very Comfort Able and i feel very excited Ross told reporters at a crowded news conference. 1 do like it Here and 1 do like the  when 1 got Down to the Bottom line it was simply hey we be won. We re Grad Ealing players. We re succeeding. Were doing it within the nits. We re winning " Ross said. Why change Ross 48, was the head coach at the Citadel for five years and an assistant coach with the Kansas City chiefs for four years before Tak ing the Maryland coaching Job in 1982. He has compiled a four year log of 34-14 since inheriting a 4-6-1 program at Mary land including three straight acc titles and four straight appearances in bowl games. The terrapins no. 19 in the nation Are 8-3 and play Syracuse dec. 21 in the Cher by bowl at Pontiac Mich. Ross has chalked up a remarkable record against conference foes. His 6-0 log this season  his career acc record to 21 -1. Maryland Allelic director Dick Dull said Ross will sign the new contract in a Mailer of Days. While contract specifics were not revealed Dull said there is no escape clause. What Bobby did t mention is he was satisfied with the salary he had last year $78,000, plus $60,000 from to and radio. He will be getting a salary increase but not because he has requested  in the past Ross has pushed for in Provci cols to 50,000-scat Byrd stadium and lowered admission standards for some incoming players. Dull will propose next week to the University s Board of Reg cols an $8-9 million expansion plan for the stadium including adding a proximally 5,000 scats and Light ing. Rain delays australian play Melbourne Australia 1 a Mats Wilander App canal on his Way to his third successive australian open Tennis final Friday when Melbourne s fickle skies opened up again. The 21-year-old swedish Star led unseeded yugoslav Slobodan Zivojinovic 7-5,6-1,0-1 when the rain that has been so much a feature of the two week $1.5 million grass court event again began to fall. Wilander aiming to become Only the third Man to win three successive australian open lilies completely outplayed his giant opponent in the first two sets. The rain however set in for the Day. And the match was postponed until saturday along with the second semifinal Between top Sec did Ivan Lindl of Czechoslovakia and fifth seeded Stefan Edburg of Sweden. Also slated for saturday is the women s singles final Between defending Champion Chris Evert Lloyd and Sec Ond seeded Martina Navratilova. An sports television College football army. Navy x . Saturday Southern methodist Al Oklahoma i . Sunday. Radio College football army is. Nay 8 30 . Saturday