European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 23, 1986 stars and stripes Page 25 Karlsruhe stuns Pir Masens men 91-81 by Dave Walczak staff writer Pir Masens Germany leave it to Karlsruhe to set its own Pace. Most teams playing away like to strike first then try to hold off the Home team before the crowd gets involved. Not the pacers. Karlsruhe s men s basketball team styled their own Tempo in route to a 91-81 upset Victory Over the roadrunners. Pir Masens had gone into the saturday contest with a 12-0 Mark and atop the 21st sup port come standings. Karlsruhe 5-6 going in resembled a team out of its depth in the first 4 35. Held scoreless the pacers watched As Pir Masens bombed away to the tune of is straight Points on six baskets three of them from three Point Range. Taking a Cue from their adversaries the pacers countered with a Long Range attack by guard Roosevelt Berry. He fired up three from the nether regions to spark an 18-5 surge that put Karlsruhe ahead 18 17 at the Midway Mark of the first half. Losing coach John Volkers had a feel ing Early that his roadrunners were in for a unaccustomed afternoon of losing. Those three Point shots were going in for us Early but they were not in the game plan he said. We were supposed to take the Ball in but we weren t doing  the exception to the Long Ball strategy for Pir Masens was Forward Steve Roedfr. He found enough room inside to score four baskets and his free throw accuracy gave him an 11-Point output for the half to Cdr s shooting also helped give his team a 45-33 Lead with a minute left until intermission. But Sam purell of Karlsruhe scored five straight Points to pull the Pac ers within 45-38 at halftime. Karlsruhe which lost by 30 Points at Home to Pir Masens earlier this season picked up the Pace to open the second half. A 12-Point unanswered spree gave the Eugun Grant coached Cam a 50-45 Lead with 16 minutes to play. Roedfr then rescued his team again. The 6-foot-4 Cincinnati native spurred a 16-3 spree with four baskets and two free throws.  11 01 left made it 62-48. Karlsruhe countered with a patient comeback fuelled by nifty work off the boards. The smaller pacers outre bounded Pir Masens 30-17 in the second half and 49-33 for the game. The rebounds enabled Karlsruhe to slowly catch up with easy hoops underneath. Reggie Peel held to four first half Points exploded for 17 in the second half. He connected on three underneath hoop to spark the pacers on a comeback Gallop. His jumper with seven minutes left put his team ahead 68-67. The Lead changed hands six times be fore Berry Roosevelt who led the winners with 22 Points drove in for two Points to give his team the Lead for Good at 81-79 with 1 50 left. Karlsruhe scaled the Victory from the free throw line Canning 10 of 10 free throws in the last 1 41, six by Carl Randall and four by Roosevelt. Primus cons which hit Only one of its lust 10 shots from the Field was led by Roedfr who scored 31 Points before fouling out with 2 50 left. Mclvin key finished with 17 Points and Michael Seawright 10 for Pirn sons. Roosevelt led Karlsruhe with 22 Points. Peel had 21 and Randall 18. We did t have a couple of players suited up but i m not taking anything away from Karlsruhe said Volkers. They played head and shoulders above the last time we played  All they needed was a change of Pace. Downhill in Sweden captured by Heinzer Are Sweden a Franz Heinzer picking up the Slack when the leading Swiss racer was sidelined in a spectacular fall charged to a on half second Victory sat urday in a world cup downhill ski race. Heinzer winning Only the second race of his six year career came to the fore when Peter Mueller Winner of Friday s downhill flew wildly off one of the Olympia track s 13 jumps and crashed. With Mueller Licking his wounds in the finish area the 23-year-old Heinzer lashed Down the 3.090-Mcter 2-mile course in i minute s5.74 seconds to overtake Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg the defending Overall Champion and the Leader in the standings this year. I had close to a perfect race said Heinzer whose previous world cup win came in 1983 at Val d Sere France. I heard about Mueller s fall and i tried to ski safely on that  Heinzer who had two second place finishes last year at Kitz Bushel and Wyngen the two major tests of downhill skiing said the Are Olympia track was one of his favourites. Kitz Bushel is the greatest of them All and i like the length of  Wengen. This track is not an autobahn where you re going for Speed. It has lots of bumps and difficult  Girardelli was timed in 1 56.25 in match ing the Best downhill performance of his  second place netted Girardelli 14 Points raising his season total to 241 As he took an Iron grip on his second straight Overall title. Mueller failed to score and remained second with 199 Points. Girardelli a gifted slalom specialist stood to make even More Points in sunday s slalom which is also part of a combined with saturday s downhill. Leading a Host of surprising names earn ing Points saturday was austrian youngster Armin Assinger who stunned the 8.000 plus crowd by placing third from the 31st starving position. His time of 1 56.38 was .30 second better than austrian teammate Leonhard Slock the 1980 olympic Down Hill Champ who is having the finest season of his career. Assinger competed Here last year Fin Ishing first and second in two european cup downhills. In fifth was another late starter Martin Bell of Britain who proved that his eighth place finish Friday was no Fluke. Bell was Only .02 second behind Stock hitting the timer in 1 56.70. The top North american finisher was Canada s Rob Boyd another .06 behind Bell. It was Boyd s Best finish Ever. It was a sour Day for the United states. Bill Johnson the 1984 olympic downhill Champion set off a Roar when he recorded the fastest time through the first intermediate clocking. But the Malibu calif., Resi Dent made several mistakes in the Middle portions of the course and finished in App holi Donn Hiller Franz Heinzer wins in Sweden saturday. Benefited from Peter Mueller s fall 1 57.71,19lh place. Doug Lewis of Salisbury vt., Bronze medallist in the 1985 world championships flew wildly off the same bump that claimed Mueller. Although Lewis managed to remain upright he went off the course and missed the next control Gate and was disqualified. He angrily slammed his ski pole into the Snow. Tiger Shaw of slow vt., a slalom and giant slalom specialist was 49lh in 2 01.70, Clearing the Way to earn combined paints should he score Well in sunday s slalom. Mike Brown of Vail colo., did not Start. West head coaching in la., but at Loyola by Tim Liotta los Angeles a Paul West head s modestly furnished office could be Long to any College basketball coach. Only the Walls arc a Giveaway. On one hangs a picture of Westhead with a Arcco Abdul Jabbar. Next to it is a photo of Westhead at the head of a class room full of los Angeles lakers. Then there s a plaque commemorating the 1979-80 National basketball association championship the lakers won under Westhead. Near the Joor hangs a framed poster promoting was Licad and the Chi Cago bulls of 1982-83. That s a pretty Heady memento collection. But that does t explain what a 46 year old shakespearean scholar and for Mer Aba employee is doing an a first year coach at Loyola Mary mount University. One of the reasons i fell this move was perfect for me was i thought this would be a school where i would gel a Chance to do some Quality coaching and yet keep in an enjoyable fun program was Thad said in a recent interview. I thought this set Ting would be Good for basketball and that there would be the possibility to build something  Loyola Mary mount on a Bluff Overlook ing the Pacific Ocean seems to be the perfect place for the easy going Weslh cad. And after five years was Thad still scratches his head when his tenure with los Angeles is mentioned. It began in 1979. Westhead left Phila Delphia la Salle College where he coached basketball and taught English to join Jack Mckinney who was named lakers coach. Mckinney had been was Licad s Mentor at la Salic. When Jack got the lakers head Job was Thad packed his bags and headed West to be his assistant. When Mckinney suffered serious injuries in a bicycle Accident Westhead stepped in As interim coach. The lakers never missed a beat. They went on to win 60 games the Pacific division title and beat the Philadelphia 76ers in the championship finals. The lakers rewarded Westhead with a four year contract but then fired him 11 games into 1981-82 season replacing him with Pat Riley. One cause is still widely thought to be lakers Star magic Johnson s request to be traded. Was Thad says that s not True. I do think it s unfortunate to think the cause had to do with magic Johnson he said. My relationship with magic for three years was a Good one. In was t like we had 75 arguments and this was the 76th. Like it was enough is enough. I think it was a Deci Sion reached by management. It certainly was t because we weren t  in june 1982, Westhead was Given a one year contract to coach the Chicago bulls. He was fired the following May. Westhead returned to the classics teaching English at Mary mount Palos Verdys College near his Home but he never strayed far from the court. I gave clinics in different parts of the world he said. I stayed Active internationally since i did t have a definite team to coach. I also did some scouting for a few Aba  Westhead look Over Al Loyola Mary mount last june replacing Jim Lynam another former philadelphian who left after two months to become assistant coach of the 76crs. So far so Good. The Lions started 6-0 in the West coast athletic conference 14-6 Overall. It s not Over yet was Licad said with a laugh. But we re playing Well right now. It in t the result of my recruiting that s for  Arn sports television College basketball Georgetown at Syracuse 10 . Sunday. Radio College basketball North Carolina at North Carolina state 7 . Sunday in Diana at Purdue 10 . Sunday