European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday december 30, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 25 Falconette whip suns 73-62 to win Champagne meets a photo by Gui Schuelter Frankfurt s Donna Brayboy front and Aschaffenbur s Tammy Dorsery on floor. Wrestling for Ball As Yvonne Fleming watches Rhein main Christmas tournament by Tim Boivin staff writer Frank full after the pc instructions of the Frankfurt Champagne basketball tournament championship game Between Frankfurt and a Schaffenburg Sun Day the court technicians could t get the lights to warm up enough to Light up. It did t matter As the falconettes1 Bonni Cannon just shot them out again once they did Light up in leading Frankfurt to their second straight title with a 73-62 Victory Over the suns. Cannon did a Little free Lance lighting of her own the scoreboard kind As she tallied 25 Points to Lead four Falc Netles in double figures. When Cannon in in foul trouble in the second half the suns were exterminated in the form of Frankfurt guard it Liele a ups. Buggs engineered the fast break to keep the suns at s length As she tallied w. But it was can Bonni Cannon nun who bombed the suns Rise in the Crit ical Early going. A Schaffenburg led from the opening tip with its largest Lead being 12-6. Up until that Point Cannon s guns had been muzzled As she had t hit the Broad Side of the backboard much less the inside of the net. But Cannon s artillery works in streaks and after a Frankfurt time out she came out and lit the Falcon tics offensive fuse. Two set shots pulled Frankfurt within two Points then Cannon put three shots up from underneath before one would finally drop u tic the score. Next came a jumper from the Middle of the Lane and then a jumper from the Side. Bang bang a six Point a Schaffenburg Lead turned in to a four Point Falconette advantage on a 10-Point Cannon bombing run. But the mad bomber was t through cd. Buggs converted a free throw inert an non erred in a jumper for a seven Point Lead. After a Schallenburg s Tamim l ors Ery. Who finished with 24 in a losing Effort put in a Bank shot. Cannon fired Back with another round from the right Side to put the up by seven. The i Alcon Eltes out scored the suns 1v2 during Cannon s bombing run. The suns were a ule to come Back to Cut the deficit to four at halftime and tied the game four times in the Carl stages of the second half. Cannon was switched on defense to a guard posit Ion in 3-2 and then i he 1-2-2 because she started the second half with three fouls. She finally fouled out with 2 26 left but not before the damage was done the last lie was at 47. But i Ranu url wore Down the tired squad. However the suns were being bugged out a Buggs drives and fast Breaks Buggs had six Field goals in the second half with All of them coming from within 10 feet of the hoop off the . Frankfurt Well rested coming Mil of the winners bracket used its Bench Well play ing eight . Others in double figures for the 1 Alc Netles were Donna , with 12 and Karen Johnson with 1. The suns whose Only two Loes this season have been to Frankfurt used on six players despite having had to Pla Mannheim in the losers bracket game just prior to the championship game. Trie Only other bus file i Dorsery in double figures for Trie burned out suns was Cindy Lark with 19. Lark was named the tournament s most valuable player. A Schaffenburg 65. Mannheim 49 Lark had 22 Points with 14 coining in the second half As the suns blasted the lady Mustangs. This game was actually close with the score lied at 40 with � 17 left. But Lark started a 17 l suns Streak with six straight Points and the musings were never Able to recover from the 16-Point advantage Darlene Johnson had 13 to Lead the lady Mustangs while Yvonne Fleming had 12and Ixia cry 10 for the suns. Hanau a Essen remain undefeated Rhein main a Germany two v corps adversaries Hanau and Giessen find themselves sitting on top of the world Fol lowing the first two Days of the annual Rhein main Christmas tournament. The pre tourney touting figured the Hanau Frankfurt game in sunday s second round of the tournament would be the game. But no one bothered to Tell the Hanau people and the hornets blew the Falcons out of pills memorial gymnasium 105-90. Gic Ssan then smothered the Host rockets 92-80 As both teams remained unbeaten in the four Day double elimination tournament. Giessen and Hanau meet in. The 5 . Feature attraction monday following losing bracket games at 1 and 3 . The tournament continues through tues Day with the losers bracket final scheduled for 10 . And the title Battle at noon. An if necessary game would be held at 2 . Seven people bombed their Way into Dou ble figures As Hanau broke a 9-9 deadlock with a 10-1 Binge and then ran up 15 unanswered Points after Frankfurt had Cut its deficit to 30-22. Elmore planter had three three Point goals Wilbur Jordan added two and Warren Cherry notched one As the hornets dominated the action. The count read 55-30 at intermission and the hornets increased their advantage to 31 Points Midway in the second half when the reserves took Over. Jordan led a balanced attack with 18 Points. Planter followed with 15, Barton Wade and Gerald Davis followed with 12 apiece Richard Johnson rang up 11 and Robert Estes and Cherry had 10 each. Jackie Johnson did his Best to keep Frankfurt in the game scoring 13 of his game High 27 Points before intermission. Rick incr added 21 pm Inland Andre Hutchinson and James Ward scored 11 apiece in losing efforts. Giessen 92, Rhein Muin 80 the wolverines took a 14-4 Lead Early in the game but the rockets fought Back to make it 29-28 with 3 53 remaining in the first half. The two teams traded three baskets to make it 35-34, but Jerry Jones Conn cycled twice in the last 30 seconds to give Gic Ssan a 39-34 halftime Edge. Some More Basket trading featured the Start of the second half before Gic Ssan took control and opened up an la Point advantage with 13 43 remaining. The rockets got Back to within five twice later in the game but each time Giessen rebounded. Ricky Hooker scored three baskets after each Rhein main comeback. I be had 22 of his game High 30 Points after intermission. Randy Brooks and Jones backed up the Gic Ssan Star with 17 and 10 Points respectively. Mike Bowers paced the rockets with 22 Points Nino Mcvea had 20, including four three Point goals in the second half and Butch Watkins and Karl Ostrander tallied 10 apiece. In earlier losers bracket games sunday Lucr Burr 108, Wiesbaden �9 Tony Largent connected on 16 of 23 shots in route to a 35-Point game As the suns blew the Wiesbaden lag los out of the tournament. The score was tied at 4-4 before Weer Burg ran in nine straight Points. But wies Baden fought Back to take its Only Lead of the game Al 19-18 on Calvin Cook s jumper with 12 39 left in the first half. The suns with Largent hitting four straight baskets then zoomed to a 35-22 advantage and were never headed As they rolled to a 52-32 half inc Lead and Hen went up by 26 Midway through the second half. got 28-Point assistance from Aren a Johnson and 23-Puinl support from Ron Gurley. Cook almost matched s scoring wild j 33-Puint game but he did t get too much help from his teammates. John Mcc All scored 16 Points and Ricky Xander was the third Best t a la with on nine Darmstadt 124, main 1 1 1 the defending Champion demons bounced Back from a first round setback a hammering the Rall lers. Main aver aged 99 Points a game in its two appear ances in the tournament but the defenders gave up a total of 23h. Carl heard paced the demons with 2.1 Xii nos pins followed with 17 and Goodwin and Teddy Moore All chipped in wild 15. Johnny Williams and Gavin burkes both scored 19 fur main and Clenmore Hopkins followed with a do in
