European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Palm Heiller Lead flyers to nordic title by Klint Johnson assistant sports editor Kaltenbrunne Germany Wiesbaden broke Rhein main s stranglehold on Safe s ski team championships Here sunday As Steve Palm and Barbara Heiller boosted the flyers to the nordic title. Palm won the seniors division and clocked the fastest time of the Day for the 12-Kilometer race. Heiller took her second straight women s championship. Brian Gordan skiing for Ben Waters captured his second straight men s open race and Hans Gazecki of no Venich completed his second masters Over 40 years sweep with a second Victory. Rhein main was gunning for its third nordic Crown in a Row to add to the fifth straight Alpine title the rockets won last week. But Rhein main had to Settle for second place. It was close. Wiesbaden totalled 215 Points and Rhein main 203. Hahn was third with 115. No Venich representing a unit of Only 130, placed fourth with 70 Points. Gazecki closing out a six year Safe racing career in both nordic and Alpine paced the no Venich Effort with his third straight nordic combined title. Palm a seniors runner  in the sprint saturday was unbeatable in sunday s 12-Kilometer race. He zipped Over the 3-Lap course in 45 minutes 15.08 seconds to better Gordan s open division winning time by Over 2� seconds. Gordon clocked 47 49.32. Seniors runner  and third fastest Over the 12-k course was Ramstein s Dick Baird who won the 30-39 age bracket sprint on saturday. Baird compiled a 48 51.53 time sunday. I wished he was t starting right behind said Baird before the race. When he Palm passes me there is no Way i can catch  Palm overtook Baird Early in the second of three laps. It s More fun to be the Chaser than the Chasee he said. After passing Baird Palm had the open racers to Chase and he beat them All in time. He had no complaints about race conditions. There was no recreational traffic on the course like last year said the Minne Apolis native. Nobody fell in front of me. It was a fast course and fun to  Palm who turns 33 next week said he competed in the Safe Cross country last year but just barely. I had just arrived in Europe he said. I bought my equip ment one Day and was Down Here racing the  he finished third in this race last year behind Mike Minard of Hahn who placed behind Palm sunday. This year Palm had his skis in plenty of time for some pre Safe practice with teammate Tom study. Palm said he skated part of the course and did a lot of double Poling. I be never had a ski lesson he said and i Don t know anything about  monday March 10, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 25 s8.s photo by Dave Didio Hans Gazecki. Records masters sweep a running background helped Palm win. He jogs year round and was a Miler and 3-Miler in College at South Dakota state. Gordan who is stationed in Northern Germany but attached to Ben Waters won the open division nordic combined. Hahn s Claude Carter finished second and Rhein main s John Reuille was third. John Seibert of Hahn placed second in the open division 12-k race in 50 12.02. Carter was third in 50 49.06 and Reuille fourth in 52 58.30. Palm Baird and Minard were 1-2-3 in the seniors nordic combined standings. Gazecki won the masters division s 8-Kilometer race with a 36 15.04 time. Rhein main s Steve Slivinski was a Distant second in 39 33.19 but unchallenged by third Placer Paul oilman of Hahn 42 30.01. Heiller a nurse at Safe Hospital won the 8-k women s race in 43 24.77. The 5-foot-0 /2 Heiller raced in Cross country for Only the second time sunday. Her first race was saturday when she won the 2.6-Kilometer sprint. Sharon Antisdel of Rhein main was runner  again in 44 38.35 and Amy Wimmer of Wiesbaden placed third in 47 10.04. Heiller Antisdel and Wimmer were 1-2-3 in the nordic combined. Finn step7 latest thing in ski racing by Klint Johnson assistant sports editor Garmisch Germany skating or the finn step As Many people Call it is a technique that has revolutionized Cross country ski racing for the past two or three years. Pushing outward with one or both skis gives the racer far More Speed. The finn step is also known As the Ritonen tech Nique for Juri Ritonen who popularized the Man Euver. The finn step has been banned in Start finish sections of some world class races because it is dangerous the protruding skis making crashes More Likely. Skat ing also destroys a track. But there was no Rule against skating in the Usa eur and Safe nordic championships Here this season. Most of the better racers were doing it. And liking it. The technique Calls for revolutionary changes in equipment. The skis Are Shorter and the poles longer 10-15cm said Usa eur Champion Randy Sapp of Nuernberg. And the waxing is  on a fast track such As for the usar eur sprint Sapp said he used no Wax at All. Waxing for skating is More like for Al Pine skiing said Tim Fisk of Hanau who is the defending Usa eur Alpine combined Champion. You Wax for As fast a Glide As  Fisk is a testimony to what the technique can do for one s Speed. He skied Only diag onal in last year s nordic races and did not place in the top 15. This year he has a third. I worked out on roller skis during the summer to train for skating he said. It s obviously faster and you have to do it to stay with the Best racers. Physically Fisk says that skating puts More Strain on the upper body. Sapp who said he skated some at col lege races when he was at St. Lawrence u., says the Only time he does t use the new technique now is when going downhill. Skating Uphill is better because with the Shorter skis it s easier to herring Bone he said. We used to skate on the Corners Only when racing in High school and College St. Lawrence said Usa eur women s Champion Andrea Frenette of Nuernberg. But i really did t get into it until i got Over Here this  Brian Gordan of Ben Waters one of the few Safe skaters Here this weekend said because of the pushing off motion skating helps to carry you through the turns. But if the track is fast As it was Here this weekend i like stay in the  Inge Woerndle longtime arc tournament director who is retired but keeps an Active interest in ski racing said the finn step has made it difficult for nordic race organizers. There Are now skating races and non skating races said Woerndle. And of course the big races Are All for skaters which Means there is no one or two track course Only a wide Flat  the technique started in Finland where skiers on the Frozen lakes used one ski to push off and the other to Glide said Woerndle. Then it caught on with the Rac  the Kaltenbrunne Cross country area near Here like Many in Europe has separate recreational ski tracks for skating and non skating. Heilbronn Falls 99-97 to wolves by Dave Walczak staff writer Wuerzburg Germany you can t believe everything you hear in vi1 corps men s basketball especially after Wurz Burg s 99-97 Squeaker Over Heilbronn Sun Day. First the wolves said they took Heil Bronn for granted then played with their chests and tongues out to overcome a 46-40 halftime deficit. Then there was Myron Bell who insisted he was nervous. The 6-foot-4 Forward swished two free throws with 12 seconds left to break a 97-97 tie. The free throws snapped one deadlock Only to create another. The two Point ver dict left both teams with 7-3 Marks atop Vii corps Northern division standings. Reserve guard Erwin Christy s jumper with 21 seconds left set the stage for Bell. The 10-footer tied the game at 97, marking the fourth time the game was tied in the last half. Eugene Largent brought the Ball  the court and whipped a pass to Bell in the key. Christy charged in whacking Bell on the hand. I was open underneath said Bell. But give Largent some credit. That was a hell of an  Bell who describes himself As a 70 per cent free throw shooter needed no assist Ance at the line. I did t want to think. But you could say i was  still it was no time to relax. Heilbronn unbounded the Ball to John Rousey and the 6 foot guard from Philadelphia spun past a de fender at Hal court. Off balance he threw  a jumper from the top of the key with two seconds left but the shot banged off the Back of the rim and Wuerzburg held on. It was t a set play or anything said Rousey who finished with a game High 27 Points. I just wanted to get the Ball to our big Guys underneath or get off a Quick shot so they could get a rebound. It just did t go  Rousey s hot hand spurred the visitors in the first half. He scored 10 straight Points in one stretch to fuel a 16-7 spurt Early in the game. But he also picked  four fouls in the first 15 minutes. We changed things in the second half to go Down Low said winning coach Van Boyd. We knew they had a Bunch of Guys in foul trouble and we wanted to take advantage of  the strategy worked As Craig West Pat Rick Elmore and Isadore Stuart All fouled out forcing eagles coach Terry Taylor to go to his Bench. With Rousey on the Bench to open the second half the rattlers went on a 19-9 tear in the first 7 minutes. Arenza Johnson sparked the surge scoring eight Points in that Span. Rousey came Back into action at that Point and the eagles chipped away and retook the Lead at 87-86 on Stuart s follow shot with 3 45 left. Four Lead changes and three ties later Bell went to the line. Stuart scored 16 Points before fouling out. Christy had 14. Largent topped Wuerzburg with 25 Points. Johnson scored 18, Bell 13 and Ron Ald Gurley 12. They kept coming Back and coming Back said Taylor. They re the Type of team that takes advantage of you when you try to take a  Rousey echoed his coach s assessment. You can t shake them . You relax on defense and they take advantage. But i like playing teams like Wuerzburg. I gave 100 percent out  we went Down to Heilbronn earlier with Only six Guys and no coach and Only lost by two Points said Boyd so there was a lot of talk that we were going to walk All Over Heilbronn. But they proved they re a Good team