European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 17, 1986 stars and stripes Elmore lifts eagles past magicians by Tim Boivin staff writer Heilbronn Germany confusion May have reigned near the end of Heil Bronn s 115-101 mugging of Schweinfurt sunday but it was the eagles Patrick Al More who ruled the Roost for most of the game. Elmore did t miss a shot from the Field in the first half on his Way to pouring in 45 Points for the eagles who Are cooing in first place in the Northern division of Vii corps with a 9-3 Mark. The 6-foot, 6-Inch Elmore was hot All weekend scoring 40 Points saturday in a win Over Aschaffenbur that sealed the Northern division Crown for the eagles. Schweinfurt battling for the final play off spot in the Northern division fell to 7-5 in their regular season finale. The magicians now have to await the outcome of next weekend s games to see if they beat out Wuerzburg or Stuttgart for the last spot in the playoffs. Magicians coach Michael Deyoung Felt before the game that the trick to beating the eagles was playing both ends of the court. Ill come out with a zone Young said even though we have three defences we re going to throw at them. Just about every team is bigger than us but Well try to run under  while the magicians ran under control on offence they were out of control or More aptly out of sight and out of mind on defense. A zone defense won t Stop a fast break and 3-on-ls, and the Elmore led eagles taught the magicians that repeatedly in the first half. Most of Elmore s Points came off the eagles High flying fast break As they came Down to nest on a 61-38 halftime Lead. Included was one stretch Midway through the first half where the Center out of South Norwalk conn., personally outscored the entire magicians team 7-2. The eagles did t Perch in its halftime nest for Long As they went on to pad their Lead to 30 Early in the second half. However the magicians had a Little magic left in the person of guard Madison guess. In the magicians one Man guessing game the 6-footer filched and finessed his Way for 37 Points 24 in the second half comeback. Many of guess Points resulted from steals off the press. With five minutes remaining the magicians were Able to whittle Down the eagles Lead to just 11 Points. That s where the confusion made its grand Entrance. With a Chance to chop the Lead further Down to nine the magicians lost the Ball and the eagles came Dow court. A foul was called on the magicians Reggie touchtone and official scorer Lou Johnson signalled that touchtone had fouled out of the game. There was confusion Between the benches the officials and the scorers table Over whether the foul was on touchtone and whether touchtone had five fouls. All of Deyoung s berating of the officials Page 25 is photo by Tracy bake Heilbronn s Patrick Elmore puts the Ball up against Schweinfurt s Lawrence Ferrell. As Reggie Touchstone 25 and eagles Isadore Stewart watch went for naught As Touchstone departed with 16 Points. With touchtone out the magicians did t have the leaping ability inside to off set the triple towers front line of Elmore 6-6 Isadore Stewart and 6-9 Melvin Bess. Bess had 17 Points bashing the boards off the Bench and Stuart contributed 12. The eagles got 87 Points from their front line commandos. After touchtone s disconnection the eagles went Back up by 13. With less than two minutes left and the magicians giving a last ditch Effort Deyoung was hit with a technical for arguing with the officials on the court. When the refs called the to Schwein Furt s Stan Ware and Vincent Caldwell decided it was time to Cool off. They went to get a drink from the water cooler at the end of the court where the eagles Calvin Wilder was about to attempt the front end of his one and one prior to shooting the first technical. Two More techs were called on Ware and Caldwell. When Wilder was jeered by his own fans for missing the first two free throw attempts the eagles sent Elmore to the line to secure the Victory and he Sank two. Anybody on this team can score the quiet spoken Elmore said of his 85-Point weekend. The last couple of games i be been hitting the boards really Well keeping the Ball alive. When i got hot in the first half off the fast break i think it got Schweinfurt think ing too much about trying to slow us Down added Elmore. It took them out of their game Schweinfurt still has a lot of thinking to do if they make the Vii corps playoffs. The magicians played a Flat footed first half and waited until they were so far behind that they had to press. We be had a bad habit All year of sitting around and not getting Back on a Deyoung said. The Nice thing about the playoffs is it s All a Brand new ballgame everybody starting Over. If one team gets hot they can beat a Good  the magicians got hot in the second half As they outscored Heilbronn 63-54. But this is a 40-minute game and King Elmore ruled for the duration. . Military Ruggers playing in . By j. King Cruger . Bureau Arborfield England a Rugby Side drawn from All . Military services has arrived in England to kick off a 12-Day playing tour against British civilian and military teams. The players and accompanying officials 35 in number represent the . Army air Force Navy coast guard and marines. They were to play six games on the English tour according to a tour official Here at the Royal electrical mechanical engineers reme he where the team is billeted. Admission to the american team s remaining four matches is free. The schedule for upcoming . Matches wednesday Royal artillery at Lark Hill Northwest of Salisbury 2 . Thursday opponent to be announced at reme seven Miles South of Reading 2 . Friday reme team at reme he 2 . March 23 United services Royal Navy and Royal marines at United serv ices grounds on Burnaby Road in ports Mouth 2 30 . The . Team augmented by several . Air Force and army players stationed in England and Germany will end its tour on March 25. Darms Adf bounces of 96-94 win by Dave Walczak staff writer Baum older Germany things bounced Darmstadt s Way sunday especially the thing that counted most. That thing was the final shot a 9-foot jumper by Carl Beard that hit the Back of the rim bounced once twice twirled around the rim and fell through. That Basket gave the defending v corps champions a 96-94 Victory and v corps Western division title. The demons finished the regular Campaign at 9-3. Baum Holder stands 8-5. Darmstadt which fought Back from a 77-68 deficit Midway through the second half set the stage for Beard s Winner with a time consuming pass and break offence. The demons led 94-93 when Virgil o Neal Sank a running one hander with a minute left. But the bears tied the count six seconds later when Malcomb March hit one of two free throws. Darmstadt brought the Ball up court and weaved 30 seconds off the clock before Call ing its last timeout. When time resumed the demons finally got it into the 6-foot-4 Beard s hands. After the shot he sunk to his Knees. I wanted to put a Little an extra body English into it said Beard who finished with 22 Points. When i took the shot 1 thought it would go in. It did. The plan was to get the Ball into me with about 15 seconds left and let me go 1-on-l." the shot Sank the spirits of the Baum Holder faithful who packed Baum older s gymnasium. I like playing Here said Beard. They always fill this place. Not like Darmstadt. But that s what it s All about when you re a Community  Baum older s team had Only two seconds left to devise a counter to Beard s take your time but just go in bucket. The bears called a timeout and got the Ball past mid court to guard Greg Ransaw. But Ransaw who topped Baum older with 27 Points never got control As the Buzzer sounded. If Ransaw could have caught it cleanly i think he could have got off a Good shot said losing coach Gary Debruin. This was t the toughest loss of the year. When you lose by Only two Points to the defending v corps champions you can t be too disappointed. But we still have to prove we can beat  the bears trailed 51-49 after a Seesaw first half that featured nine ties and 11 Lead changes. Ransaw and George Valentine then fuelled a second half spurt that carried Baum older to a 77-68 Edge the biggest Lead of the game. Darmstadt pecked away behind o Neal who led All scorers with 31. Points and trailed 86-80 with 4 14 left. The demons then reeled off 11 unanswered Points helped in part by a technical foul of de Bruin that gave the demons two free throws and Possession. Trailing 91-86, Baum older tied it on a three Point play by Valentine and a jumper by Ransaw. Orlando Goodwin scored 17 Points for the demons and teammate Leroy Averay added 10. Ron Williams followed Ransaw in the Baum older scoring column with 14 Points. March finished with 13 and Valentine had 12. Austria s Vettori wins Oslo Norway a Ernst Vettori of Austria won the 90-meter ski jumping world cup event sunday winding up the 1986 Holme Kollen ski festival. Matti Nykanen of Finland finished second