European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 6, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 21 prep picking uk., Bennor sports programs slashed Spring will be a Little late this Vear for a a Little late this year Ford Odds Atlantic sports teams. Gramm Rudman the Law that demands balancing the . Government budget by 1991 and has forced drastic cuts that began saturday took care of that. Basically everything has been Cut in half said Bill Elstran sports coordinator of the entire District which embraces the United kingdom and most of the Ben enor schools monday. We have to save Money because of the Gramm Rudman cutbacks and the extracurricular program not Only sports but band chorus everything was hit very hard Elstran added. I disagree with the cutting so much into the extra curricular activities because the amount of savings in t proportionate to the loss to the kids. The system Dodds As a whole does t realize what a Good extracurricular program does for the kids. I really Don t think i know anyone in an important leadership role who was not outstanding in extracurricular activities not necessarily sports in High  on the sports Side the . Track Tennis and soccer schedules were moved Back three weeks. In addition the track meet has been reduced from two Days to one and the soccer schedule will be one game Only instead of the Home and Home Competition in the past. Gymnastics has t been affected As much losing Only on weekend of action according to Elstran. We reinstated gymnastics last year after several years of not having it on our program. There is quite a bit of interest again and we Are trying to rebuild the sport so we tried not to Cut that schedule too much Elstran said. Over in Belgium Lloyd Morrow the coordinator of Bennor sports encountered the same problem. We be been pretty much restricted by the cutback. We Cut the Competition in half. We did t want to eliminate anything entirely because of the possible Impact on the kids and the communities said Morrow. Reducing the program in half Means we will have Only three in conference site track meets and a one Day championship instead of the usual two Day meet. We probably won t be Able to take part in the Central european track meet or soccer playoffs but we rechecking for a clarification of those two  Morrow pointed out that the Central european track participation could be resolved by staging the meet at accent and letting the Germany schools come to the Bennor but added that we d have to take that up with Dodds Germany  he was working on the schedule revision and hoped to have it completed bythe end of the week. In yesterday s Story by Mary Hladky stars and stripes education writer Bob Van such chief of executive services for the Atlantic Region was quoted As saying we re trying to reduce expenditures without hurting our program. We re in the process of tightening our  if cutting out half the sports program and other extracurricular activities is tightening of belts and in t hurting the program i d really hate to see a major Cut. Hitting those programs right off the Bat indicates beyond a Shadow of a doubt the priorities they have in the eyes of the Dodds Atlantic administrators. Benabram regard for those activities because Only Dodds Atlan tic has axed them. Warren Van Zee and Helen Sentani who direct the sports programs in Spain and Italy respectively said their programs were intact As originally scheduled an that no problems were anticipated. Van Zee who works in the Mediterranean Headquarters in Madrid Spain said or. Bloom Dodds med director or. Jerald Bloom said that we would t be doing anything that was going to Impact on the Educa Tion program " i have written a couple of columns in the last month that did t exactly reflect positively on Jerry Bloom but on this Issue he is absolutely right. Dodds Germany coordinator Tom Leblanc said everything is still go for us in Germany for this Spring. Nothing has been  coaches in the . Showed restraint in select ing their All conference basketball teams naming Only five boys and six girls. Lakenheath placed two players Brian Neary and Carlos Hill on the boys squad which also included american school of London s Scott bail lie Croughton s James Mcedwards and Woodbridge Skeith Stewart. Three London performers Karyn and Kathy Cunningham and Keisha Swanson were named to the girls squad along with Asl s Felicia Santelli and Norah Vincent and Woodbridge s Wanda Williams. In Germany the aaa girls coaches needed 11 play ers to form their teams while the boys aaa and a voters went for 10-Piayer rosters. League and big school Champion Heidelberg led the aaa girls balloting with four selectee Tanya pos Lik Britta Kilpatrick Londa Andrews and Michelle Johnson. Kaiserslautern s Michelle Moyd and Laurie Hicks Ramstein s Darlene Ennis and Marie Thomas Stuttgart s Michelle King and Meredith dash and Frankfurt s Sherri Gaillard round out the cast. League Champion Ramstein placed three players on the aaa team. They were Travis Blue Jim Bellotte and David Ennis. Also chosen were Stuttgart s Robert Williams and Timothy Barnes Wiesbaden s James Kennedy and Stan Watley Frankfurt s Michael Felton Heidelberg s Bryan Knapp and Kaiserslautern s ton Dingwell. Steve Hutchinson Mike Brown and Mike Lusk were key performers As Wuerzburg won a laurels and the boys big school tournament. They won All conference recognition along with Mannheim s Dan Moler and Andre Green Nuernberg s Mike Rothwell and Jeff Cage Pitburg s Stacey Dillard Hanau s Bruce Goodhand we Bruecken s Steve Moore. Mannheim Hanau Nuernberg and Wuerzburg All put two players on the a girls squad. Representing Mannheim were Regina Nolan and Linda Maldonado Hanau had Gloria Wright and Stephanie Ross chosen to to it i  Nannc a Idonna Horn and Nikki Klein earned recognition for other Dodds administrators must have a higher Nuernberg and Twana Malone and Mary Ford were picked from Wuerzburg. Pitburg s Tonia Meadows and we Bruecken s Tressa Paul also were tabbed for the honors. Champion in Ciurlik placed three players on both the boys and girls All conference teams in Turkey this year. Boys chosen were Donnie Smith Derrick Munford and Mike Robinson girls so honoured included Rachel Babcock Marylyn Smith and Nikki Rodetis. Izmir s Tom Toney and Terence Holland and Ankara s Steve Campbell were the other boys chosen. Other girls selected were Ankara s Dawn Reed and Lynette Stone and Izmir s Michelle Beuber. An error occurred in the listing of the All tournament team following last week s Competition at Ankara. Reed was declared map instead of teammate Jackie sap Chuck. Torrejon boys and girls won both the conference and tournament championships in Spain and they dominated the All Star balloting on both fronts. The knights Mike Hanson Marcuz Worsham and Anthony Gaviola and Zaragoza s Mike Brown and John German were named to the boys All tournament squad. Torrejon s Diana Roberts map katrina hol Loway and Laura Cole Rota s Kerry Trayner and american school of Madrid s Wendell Nyhus were chosen on the girls squad. Conference Wise it was Hansen and Worsham Brown and . Aguirre of Zaragoza and Troy Holm quist of Rota leading the boys and Roberts teammates Karen Ludwig and Debbie Harshman Trayner and Zaragoza s Tania Koles Topping the girls. The selection of All these All conference teams should serve As a reminder for All coaches to submit their recommendations for stars and stripes All Europe recognition. To Date Only a handful of Germany Bennor nominations have reached the sports desk and those conferences finished play Long ago. I Hope the coaches just did t put it aside and say i la do it later and forgo tall about the selections. The in office deadline remember is March 18. The addresses Are stars and stripes sports dept., Postrach 11-1034, d6100 Darmstadt West Germany or stars and stripes sports department Apo 09211, local forces. The later it gets the More important use of the International address becomes. Wuerzburg s Mike Brown and Giessen s Tyrone Thomas who won All conference and All tournament recognition this season As their teams took the a and big schools and a Silver and Small schools titles respectively head the 12-Man cast selected to represent Dodds Germany in the fifth annual cadets basketball tournament at Cholet France March 29-31. Also chosen were Mannheim s Danny Moler Chris Hall and Travis Jackson Ramstein s Jim Bellotte and Denny towns Pitburg s Mike Tolbert Hahn s Ben ver done Heidelberg s Charles Newkirk Stuttgart s Steve Butler and Wiesbaden s Larry Stephens. The team which finished second last year will be coached by Tom Leblanc. He will be assisted by Heidel Berg s Wes Sisson and Wuerzburg s Steve Perkins. The stars and stripes Marsano Carter spearhead Rhein main ski March a i it inuit Crikt t l t j to by Klint Johnson assistant sports editor Garmisch Germany the Rhein main ski team took a Long stride toward its fifth straight Safe championship wednesday As Tim Marsano won the open division race and the rockets coach Steve Carter grabbed his second masters Cronin a Row. Rhein main led in team scoring with 207 Points followed by Wiesbaden with 169 and Sembach with 161. Wiesbaden senior Steve Benson and Hahn s Ginette Betke nabbed the other two slalom first places. But the hero of the Day and perhaps of the entire meet was Wiesbaden  Tain Mark Paxton a senior division racer. Unbelievably bad Luck pushed Paxton into the limelight. Rarely do racers overtake the previous starter in races at this level. It happened once in each run at nearly the same place wednesday. Both times the unlucky Over taker was Paxton. The Lindsey As dentist was awarded rerun both times. On the first run Paxton overtook Rickie Luc of no Yenich who had fallen. Paxton gallantly skied off the course to avoid hit Ting Luc. On the second run it was defending Champion and first run Leader Richard Baird of Ramstein who was in Paxton s Way. Baird had crashed Slid past three Gates and was climbing Back hoping to stay in the race. I could t believe Baird could be Block ing my path said Paxton. It caused me to take a Gate the wrong Way and then i hit pole with my face on the next  the Gate pole clipped Paxton in the Eye possibly scratching his eyeball. It also Cutis nose. He Lay on the course awhile while others climbed to his Aid. Then he got up and announced that he would take the rerun he was entitled to because of an impeding racer. Paxton clocked a respectable 56 seconds on his second rerun. He had a 52.82 on his first rerun and wound up with a sixth place in the 30-39-year division. My vision was a bit blurred on the Sec Ond rerun and i fell once said Paxton. Baird apologized to Paxton for not Clear ing the course. Paxton refusing to blame Baird explained he was thinking of Tea Points for a  Marsano earned his title with the Quick est open division times in both runs. He skied the 48-Gate first run in 49.95 for a .52 Lead Over Sembach s Jeff Johnson. On the 47-Gate second run Marsano nipped Johnson 44.89 to 44.95 for a 1 33.84 win Ning total. Johnson finished with a 1 34.42total. Alan Tollifson of Wiesbaden placed third with runs of 50.77 and 45.00 for a 1 35.77 total. De Gaines of Alconbury finished Strong fourth in 1 36.57. In tuesday s Safe giant slalom Tollifson Johnson and Marsano finished second third and fourth in that order be Hind John Yirrell of Sembach. Yirrell was third after wednesday s first run with a 50.88. But he caught a tip and missed Agate Early in the second heat. Marsano s championship came in his Sec Ond year of ski racing although he has Bee skiing for 10 years. The Springfield mass., native credits command support and coaching from his base Rhein main for a major share in his first Safe title. I was just a Mogul skier he said. The training i have gotten from coach carte has been outstanding. Johnson and Yirrell were both on the Safe team with me last month in Italy and i expected Tough Competition fro them on the second  the second run Champion however did not come from the open division. It came from senior Graham Smith of Sembach who blazed through a 44.10 Sec Ond run .79 faster than Marsano. Smith s torrid second heat propelled him from 10th place to second behind Benson in see ski on Page 22