European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 stars and stripes wednesday february 19, 1986aviano women gain finals by Dave Diehl . Bureau Raf Wethersfield England when this year s Safe women s basketball championships began saturday few people even pondered the thought or a Mediterranean sports conference am getting past Day 3 or the five Day tournament. But not Only Are the Aviano eaglet is past the third Day they will face off wednesday in the final against the heavily favored Ramstein lady rams. Aviano made it to the final after beating the upper Scyford women 52-44 in the first semifinal game tues Day. In the other semifinal game Ramstein pummelled Continental sports conference rival Hahn 68-38. The Lightf team tourney began saturday. Teams from the Mcdile Rancan United kingdom and Continental sports conferences shared two championship divisions. After the end of the first three Clys. Ramstein and Aviano led division a Hahn and upper Heyford topped division b. The Alconbury women of Sparta and the bin Walers lady phantoms were eliminated in the division b Mon Day. The division b hell Nikon olympians went 0-3 in the tourney. Rhein main shared the other division b Slot. Aviano placed first in its division above Ramstein after beating the rams 30-44 in the third Day of round Robin play. That was the rams Only loss of the championship und they must turn around to keep from suffering another defeat like the one last year in the final against wies Baden. They lost to the flyers 55-48. Safe basketball Aviano 52, upper Heyford 44 Deb Bischak heard the laughs when her team showed up on the court to practice for this tournament. No one thought Aviano had a shot at the Safe title. Nobody has taken us seriously Eagle cute Bischak pointed out. Who would have thought even after a 67-53 loss to Alconbury on the opening Day that they had any Busi Ness in this championship tournament did Ben Waters perhaps not. Aviano beat it by three. How about Ramstein the eaglet is also sent the top Csc team to the showers. The . S no. I sky Queens were the last team to take it on the Chin. We Are always the underdog Bischak said. That s what makes us play so  but it was a game weary Scyford team that the bag Lettes beat tuesday. This was the third game for the sky Queens in 24 hours. How Many times can you go to the Well before it runs dry asked sky Queen coach Howell Harris. Even he looked tired. Aviano simply outplayed bedraggled upper Heyford. Fourteen Heyford personal fouls in the second half gave the Eagle Les 14 of their 24 second half Points. Aviano managed to hold sky Queens Captain Renela Toupalik to her lowest scoring game of the championship with 6 Points. Bischak led the Aviano with with 16 Points. Team mate Susie Lewis had 13. This is the second year in a Row that the upper hey Ford team was sent packing in the championship semifinal. It lost last year to Wiesbaden which went on to win the tournament. Ramstein 68, Hahn 38 it looked More like a warm up for the final then that of a semifinal match when the lady rams outplayed Csc rival Hahn to qualify for wednesday s final. It was simple according to Ramstein Captain Bev Turman we played them before we know their  got out of our game plan said lady Hawk coach Rick Aldridge. Becky Wallace led the Ramstein rout with 16 Points. There never seemed to be any Hope for the Hahn team from the Lime it fell behind during a game opening spurt that produced 9-0 Ramstein Lead less than five minutes into the game. Ramstein set it Back 38-18 by the half. Forward Kim Pruitt led the Hahn offence with 18 Points. Upper Heyford 68, re can main 47 in tuesday s first game. Upper Heyford was the last team to earn a spot in the semifinal playoffs by eliminating the Rhein main Rock cites. The two teams were 2-1 after the final Day of round Robin play which necessitated a tie breaker game on tuesday morning of the semifinal playoffs. Recta Toupalik keyed the Heyford Victory with 21 Rhein main s Jennifer Anderson had a game High 24 Points. Coetzee hits apartheid at London arrival London a South Africa s for Mer world boxing association heavyweight Champion Gerrie Coetzee flew into London on monday in Advance of next month s Aba final eliminator against Frank Bruno of Britain and again denounced his coun try s controversial system of apartheid. The 30-year-old White South african an outspoken critic of Pretoria s racial policies arrived with a Black sparring partner two weeks ahead of the March 4 confrontation with Bruno the european Champion at London s Wembley Arena. Apartheid is an ugly thing. People should join hands stand work fight and live together said Coetzee. Anti apartheid campaigners in Britain and abroad Are pressurizing Bruno a Black fighter to change his mind and Are lobbying authorities Here to Call off the bout some even warning that it could endanger next summer s Commonwealth games in Edinburgh. But Coetzee charged the protesters were being counterproductive. By stopping people competing against each other you Are separating them. You Are in fact preaching apartheid said the South african. I have spoken out Many times against apartheid and cannot do anything More. Apartheid should not exist. That is Why they Are trying now to get rid of it. They Are doing their Best  Coetzee who won the world title when he knocked out Michael Dokes in 1983, lost it to Greg Page in his first defense the follow ing year. Now the Aba s official no. 1 contender he has taken on most of the world s leading heavyweights and has lost Only four of 35 fights Bruno 24, is one of the hardest punchers in the heavyweight division and has lost Only one of 28 fights. All but one of his opponents have been stopped. Bruno is Good hungry and really wants to get the taste in his Mouth of being num Ber one. But 1 think we Are going to take him. He still needs a bit More experience the soft spoken Coetzee told a news Confer ence. The fight a 10,000 sellout is the biggest heavyweight attraction to be staged in Brit Ain for 20 years. I think Bruno s manager and promoter see me As a shortcut toward a world title fight. I think they be made a mistake said Coetzee. But if Bruno beats me hell deserve a shot and you can be certain hell take the world title sometime along his  Coetzee whose wife and three children will be coming Over from South Africa for the fight denied British newspaper report that he had trained poorly and that he Wai Only in it for the Money. The amount of training i be done for this fight is As great As for any previous serious  it will not be too easy to gel As close again to another world title shot and we Don t want to Peak too Early he said. I Don t want to leave the fight Back in the  he said he was not bothered that Bruno ranked no. 6 by the rival world boxing Council was six years younger. Heavyweights mature and. Peak be tween the Ages of 30 and 33," Coetzee declared. Plendl Connors Advance in Lipton tourney Boca Raton Fla. Up Ivan lend struggled before overcoming Jimmy Arias monday and Jimmy con nors survived a third set tiebreaker against Thierry Tulane to reach the quarterfinals or the $1.8 million Lipton International players championships. Lendl ranked no. I in the world wasted a 5-3 second set Lead and squandered six match Points before putting away Arias 6-1, 7-5, in a grueling 74 minute second set played in 82-degree heat and High humidity. Connors breezed 6-1 in the opening set and grabbed a 5-2 Lead in the second. But Tulane won five straight games to take the set before yielding in the tiebreaker As Connors triumphed 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 7-3 in two hours and 11 minutes. In other fourth round matches. No. 5 Stefan Edberg ousted Marty Davis 6-2, 6-3 no. 6 Yannick Noah downed Jan Gunnarsson 6-1, 7-6 7-2 no. 10 Joa Kim Nystrom bested Pablo Arraya 6-4,6 4 and Guy forget Defeated Michael Robertson 6-3,6-4. In the Only women s singles match of the Day Terry Phelps outlasted Diane Balestras 7-6 7-16-2, to reach the quarterfinals. Lendl although pushed to four break Points on his first two service games won the first set handily and appeared poised for a rout. But Arias who has been ranked As High As no. 5 in the world and is currently no. 21 on the computer adjusted in the second set hitting the Ball deeper on Lendl and creating extra top spin on his forehand strokes. Lendl broke Arias in the third and seventh games of the second set to assume a 5-3 Lead. Arias recorded his second break1 in the i oth game to knot the match at 5-, but Arias lost his serve in the i lib game and dropped the match when he sent a backhand into the net. Tut Asne no. 24 in the world broke Connors no. 4 in the rankings in the eighth game of the third set and led 6-5 before the Connors forced the tiebreaker Tulane served up an Ace to assume a 3-2 Lead in the tiebreaker but Connors stormed Back to win the next five Points and the match. Itt of Aba from Page 21 two exchanged words after exchanging elbows and Mcdaniel took a swing at Willis. Both benches cleared and the game was delayed for about 10 minutes. Jack Sikma finished with 20 Points for Seattle. Cliff Levingston paced Atlanta with 16 Points. Pacers 124, bulls 110 Indianapolis Herb Williams and Ron Anderson scored 22 Points apiece to Power Indiana Over Chicago. Steve Stipanovich added 20 Points for Indiana 19-35, while Vern Fleming Lic a the team record with 17 assists. George Gervin s 23 Points paced the bulls. Pistons 117, jazz 96 Pontiac Mich. Isiah Thomas scored 31 Points and Kelly Tripucka added 30 to Lead Detroit Over Utah. Adrian Dantley led Utah with 21 Points. Suns 108, celtics 101 Phoenix Ariz. Mike Sanders scored All of his 14 Points in the fourth Quarter and Walter Davis added 20 As Phoenix beat Boston for the first time in four years. Larry Bird led the celtics with 24 Points including 18 in the first Quarter. Dennis Johnson also had 24. Rockets 116, warriors 110 Oakland Calif. Ralph Sampson starting at Center for the first time in two years scored 25 Points to Lead Houston rockets Over Golden state. Sampson moved from Forward to Center because of the knee injury suffered by Akcam Olajuwon on saturday night. Ola Juwon an All Star performer win miss at least two weeks. Bullets 96, clippers 94 Yaj los Angeles Reserve Forward Kevin Mckenna scored a career High 25 Points 15 of them on three Point goals and Rookie Center minute Bol blocked 10 shots to Pace Washington Over los an Geles. Mckenna in his second 10-Day con tract with the bullets hit five of nine three Point attempts to tie Houston s Lucas for the league High in one game this season