European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bamberg tips Mainz in a a tilt Bamberg Germany player Man Ager Alex Holman hammered a bases loaded double in the fifth inning As the Bamberg braves Defeated the Mainz rang ers 5-3 saturday in the opening game of Thebes of three semifinal series or the Ger Man american league playoffs. Holman s hit scored the tying an winning runs. Right hander Allan Martel worked seven innings struck out 13 and yielded Lour hits. Holman pulled Martel for the possible use in Relief in sunday s second game. Trygve Myklebust hurled the final two innings. Martel s record is 5-1. Mike Yeagen suffered the loss As he went the distance allowing 10 hits fan Ning three and walking , Frank Merkt and Joe Leist tagged Yeagen for two hits each. All three of Mainz s runs were unearned. The rangers scored one in the second and two in the fourth. Besides it three runs in the fifth Bamberg had sin Gleton runs in the first and fourth  second and if necessary third games Are scheduled for sunday at Darmstadt s memory Field starting at . Mainz s Home games normally Are played at Wiesbaden a but since the european Little league tournament is being held on the rangers Field the a a series was switched to  Stuttgart saturday the Mannheim Klee Amigos belted the Stuttgart Toyota Blue sox 26-6 in the other semifinal series. Bermuda joins games Boycott Edinburgh Scotland a Ber Mudan athletes and officials packed their bags and prepared to leave saturday after being ordered to join the mass boy Cott of the Commonwealth games the final twist in a 48-hour on off Saga. The order to Bermuda to leave Edin Burgh came As a total Surprise to the team and games organizers. Only two Days ago the 13 athletes an officials from Britain s oldest Colony succeeded at the last minute in overturning a previous request by its National olym Pic committee to pull out of the games. Canada won the first of the rowing events but As in the swimming Competition on Friday Australia came storming Back winning three of the next five races to increase its Lead in the medals table. Going into the evening session of swim Ming finals Australia led the Overvad med als haul with 18, one ahead of England. Sunday july 27,1988 the stars and stripes Page 25 Sas photo by Oak Mior a s knit Neback 23 steals second As Spang s Bill Lindley leans for Catcher s wide throw. Orlando Rodriguez backs him up. Pm trots to position final Bobucky Folstaff writer Sembach a Germany ten pitch ing changes. Twenty nine Fielding changes. Monotonous game delays. Musical Chain try rocking chairs. When saturday s 3w-hour snooze Roo ended Rhein main had a 10-6 Vic tory Over Span Dahlem and a Wake up Call for sunday s final of the Continental sports conference baseball Posi Tion tournament. I was trying to get through today with Guys i usually Don t use said Rhein main manager Warren Stanley who made eight of those Mound changes and 24 of those defensive switches. I just wanted to stay in there for  when the rockets awake sunday they will have to play Sembach at 1 . The rockets must win twice to reach this week s Csc championship series with regular season titlist Ramstein and if they do that would be Rhein main s sixth straight trip to a Csc final. But beat Sembach twice the Tiger stand 2-0 in this double elimination position meet and beat the rockets 6-4 Fri Day. Spang manager Kyle Jones predicted a Sembach Triumph because Rhein main s Guys Are hurting for pitch  what pitchers of the seven Rhein main threw on the Mound two Chuck Perry and Kurt Lineback had air Force baseball never pitched in 1986, one Ralph Veras had totalled four innings this season and another Harry whittles had Trou ble. All these Guys have pitched batting practice and All think they can pitch said Stanley. Then when i Call on them they say met " Lineback was called on to pitch the seventh and final inning. With a Man on first with two outs he yielded a single and an error to Load the bases then got Tony Hurt to pop out. Suddenly Lineback had a save to add to his 3-for-3, three run five stolen base offensive performance. I was just thinking strike said line Back of his move from left Field. I did t want the crowd to get me Down. Ican throw strikes. I pitched when i was 12 years old and i know what it  Veras knows what pitching s  s the last rocket left trom the Safe champions of 1983, when he went 11-0. Since then his has dead ened from tendinitis. Yet a desperate Stanley gave the 32-year-old his first Start saturday. Rather than coming through on the Mound Veras lasted Ivi innings walked three and allowed three unearned runs he produced on offence. Skipping from Pitcher to second base Back to Pitcher Back to second to left Field Back to Sec Ond and finally to right Field Veras drove in two runs with a sacrifice Fly and a Home run. That Homer was Veras first in his fou years at Rhein main. I got a kick out of that Warre Stanley said of the Homer which gave Rhein main a two run Edge in the fifth inning. He could t come through on the Mound but he strokes the  Chad Sumner and David Jones also homered in Rhein main s nine hit at tack. Sumner s two run shot a wicked line drive Over the left Field Fence gave the rockets a 6-2 Lead. It came amid Sumner s flip Flop be tween third base and the Mound. Restarted at third relieved Veras in the Sec Ond returned to third in the third pitched again in the third and stayed at third in the fourth. Sumner s i i innings of one hit no run pitching gave him the Victory. His manager tried to switch him to the pitching Mound a third time in the fourth out Umpire Tom Villegas said no two pitching appearances in one game was the  then let Stanley drag out his argument for is minutes. With delays like that who needed rain now unable to pitch Sumner and Veras Stanley held Span Dahlem at Bay with Seldom used David Jones Perry and Marc Sherman. By the time Sherman left after the fifth inning Rhein main s Lead was Down to see pm on Page 26 United kingdom s Croad flips no hitter in la opener Wiesbaden a Germany it was a Pitcher s Day either at the plate or on the Mound As the Junior division Ages 11-12 of the euro Pean Little league tournament opened Here saturday. The United kingdom s James Croad threw a no hit no run game in the 11-0 Conquest of shape Belgium. Torrejon Defeated saudi Arabia 8-4 behind Denny who hit his bases cm1/eu11iu  " loaded Homer in the  s slam came in the fifth As Naples whipped Wiesbaden 10-3. In sunday s games Wiesbaden meets Brussels at 10 a.m., shape faces Naples at 12 30 . And Torre Jon plays . At 3 . Seven teams Are competing m the in other Barnes pitchers Mike seven Day round Robin tournament. Denny and Law Usawa hurled Victo the Winner of the tournament and Penny Ana Wavier Law ii ii Vances to Jolt a league championships at Williamsport pa., aug. 18 23. Jas uhf