European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 6, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 25 Csc All stars nip a a in 9th Sembach a Germany perfect. The strategy was perfect. But the execution was t. And strategy in t Worth anything i the execution in t carried out. German american baseball league manager Claus Helmig found that out Friday when Catcher Eric Rivera straddled Home plate on a Force play with the bases loaded in the ninth. When Rivera could t get his foot on the plate in time Helmig s strategy went Down the tubes and the Continental sports conference escaped with a 9-8 Victory Over Helmig s a a squad in the first Ever All Star game Between the two leagues. Csc was Down 8-7 going into the Bot Tom of the ninth and scored its two runs without the Benefit of a hit. Rivera the Only Catcher on the a a team had a rough ninth inning. Rivera had a throwing error and two passed balls in the ninth to go along with the missed play at the plate. Csc s Orlando Rodriguez set the strange finish in motion when Mike Yeager walked him leading off the Bot Tom of the ninth. Yeager was replaced by Scottie Benjamin. Rodriguez went to second when Rivera made a wild throw trying to pick him off first. Benjamin then walked Bob Letky. Rodriguez came around to score and Letky went to third when Rivera was charged with passed balls on two consecutive pitches while Bill Draper was Bat Ting. This is where the perfect strategy and terrible execution came into play. Hel Mig had Benjamin walk Draper and Clint Marvin to Load the bases and set up either a Force out at Home or better yet a double play. The strategy was perfect Csc Man Ager Mike Stevenson said. The execution just was t  Csc Pitcher Chad Sumner who got . Adds 9 medals in games swimming Moscow a Chris o Neil and John i chill won their events saturday As  states swimmers captured nine More medals including a third for Angel Myers at the Goodwill games. The Day s Competition gave the . Swimmers a total of 25 medals including six Gold in two Days. The Success of the americans was beyond expectations since the . Kept its Best swimmers at Home to prepare for next month s world championships at Madrid Spain while the soviet Union is using its top swimmers. The soviets also collected nine medals saturday including two golds for a total of 20 medals with seven of them Gold. O Neil a fifth year senior at Texas am led a 1-2 . Finish in the men s 100-meter Butterfly clocking 54.23 seconds with Ken Flaherty his Southwest conference rival from the University of Texas second in 54.88. Wichel a Sophomore at Stanford won the men s 200-meter freestyle in 1 50.17, with Paul Robinson a freshman at the University of Florida third in 1 51.00. Myers Winner of two golds on Friday in the women s 50-meter freestyle and 400-meter freestyle relay earned her third medal by finishing third in the 100 meter Butterfly. It was an event in which she was not scheduled to compete because she did not qualify for the . Team but when a Lane opened up in this All finals Competition she was Given the spot. Soviets swept the first three places in the two races in which they won on sat urday the men s 200-meter Back stroke and the men s 100-meter breast stroke. World record Holder Igor to Anniky captured the backstroke in 1 58.77, just Over his world Mark of 1 58.14, set last year and Dmitri Volkov took the breaststroke in 1 03.69. The Day s other winners All in women s events were Tanja Bogomolova of Bulgaria in the 100 breaststroke in 1 10.21. Bine Sci gang of East Germany in the 100 Butterfly in 1 00.36, Kyrstin Kielgas of East Germany in the 200 freestyle in 2 01.91, and Aneta Para Stoiu of Romania in the 200 backstroke in 2 11.69. The . Women s basketball team led by University of Southern California Star Cheryl Miller downed Yugoslavia 72-53. In other action held prior to the offi Cial opening of the games later saturday in Lenin stadium Nadezhda Gumerove led a soviet sweep of the first five places in the women s Marathon while the games organizing committee Over ruled a . Protest Over one of Friday s swimming events. And Tass the official soviet news Agency criticized . Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger for putting artificial barriers in the Way of athletes with a ban on military personnel competing in the games. The prohibition kept 11 members of the boxing team including a coach and a Penta mete from coming to Moscow see sports wire on Page 27. The United states Fielding a women s basketball team that is preparing for the world championships scheduled for Moscow in August led from the Start against Yugoslavia and built up a 34-28 Lead in the first half. The americans combined a Tough pressing defense with a fast breaking at tack and pulled away in the second half. Miller who helped the United states win the Gold medal at the 1984 summer olympics led the americans with 19 Points. Katrina Mcclain of the univer sity of Georgia added 11, despite missing much of the game after suffering a first half leg injury. This was not one of our Best games said Miller. But for the first match of the tournament this is not bad. I think the win was next up and he hit a High chopper at third baseman Dave Howard. Howard wheeled and his throw Home beat Letky to the plate. Rivera never touched the plate Letky was Safe and Csc was safely Home with the Victory. Everybody was saying on the Bench after the game that Rivera is the Best Catcher in our league Helmig said. He played four years of College Ball has an excellent  is solid defensively and can hit. He feels terrible about what happened but these things  Helmig also had substitution problems and thinks the 82-degree heat May have had something to do with Rivera s prob lems in the ninth. I wanted to bring Ansbach s Jim Fra Zier so i could have two catchers Hal Mig said but he could t make it. I did t have anybody on the Bench that could spell Rivera so he had to go All the Way. He would t say that the heat was bothering him anyway. I m sure he lost some concentration out there. It s a rough Way to lose a game the a a All stars came Back from a 7-2 deficit after seven innings to take the Lead with a four run eighth and two run ninth. The key hits in the eighth inning were a two run Homer to left by Rivera and a two run double by Terry Jordon. The ninth inning rally was highlighted by two rib singles one by Benjamin and one by Ray Hunt. Csc scored three times in the seventh to take the 7-2 Lead. Alex Clark reached on a Fielding error by Howard then stole second and was walked to third. Clint Harris drove in Clark with a sacrifice Fly to deep left. Bully Beacon then reached on a Ball that went through second baseman Peter Jackson s legs for an error. Rodriguez singled and Letky walked to Load the bases. Draper drove Rodriguez Home with a single to right Clark was the spark plug for Csc at the plate. He went f-for-5, with a two run Home run to left in the fifth scored three times and stole two bases. Appt Tott Cheryl Miller left steals from Yugoslavia s Bojana Miloshevich in Goodwill game opener saturday in Moscow. Miller Ted the is. Team to 72-53 Victory. This is a very talented team but it needs Little  each time we got up to a 10 or 12 Point Lead the yugoslav team started playing belter so we were very nervous said . Coach Kay Yow. Yugoslav coach Trajan Vasojevic had nothing but compliments for the Ameri cans. They Are playing like in the 21st Cen Tury he said. On sunday the United states faces Brazil. The american clash with the co favorite soviet squad is scheduled for thursday. In the women s Marathon Gumerove 37, took the Lead late in the race after Early pacesetter Yekaterina Chromenko a faltered. Gumerove finished the 26 mile 385-Yard endurance test in 2 hours 33 minutes 35 seconds 34 ahead of Senna captures pole for French Gale caste let France up Ayrton Senna of Brazil saturday took the pole position for sunday s French grand prix Auto race As his Best Lap time on the shortened Paul Ricard circuit stood through a second Day of timed practice. Senna driving a Lotus posted a Lap of 1 minute 06.526 seconds in the first timed practice Friday on the 3.8-Kilome Ter 2.26-mile track. Britain s Nigel Mansell in a Williams Honda took the second spot on the front line with a time of 1 06.755. Brazilian Nelson Piquet s Williams Honda will line up in the second Row alongside Frenchman Rene Arnoux s Ligier. French world Champion Alain Prost s Mclaren and italian Michele Albreto s Ferrari make up the third raw on the 26 car Grid. Runner up Irina Bogachov. Khz Menkova who had More than a three minute Lead at the Halfway Point wound up fifth behind Gumerove Bogachov Tatyana Gridneva and Irin Petrova. Katy Schilly Laetsch of Syracuse,n.y., was the first american finisher placing sixth. Maureen Custy of Denver was seventh. Laetsch was timed in 2 36 22 and Custy in 2 37 43. The games organizing committee saturday disallowed a protest by .swimming officials concerning Friday s men s 50-meter sprint. John Sauerland of Shaker Heights Ohio won the race in 21.13 seconds. But . Officials protested contending that the Start was too fast and said they Felt americans could have finished 1-2-3 in Stead of 1-6-7-8. Television Tennis Wimbledon men s final Ivan Lendl is. Boris Becker 3 . Sunday. General a Btry weekend sports Salute 1 Tea. Monday Goodwill games up Date 5 . Monday. 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