European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes thursday november 20.1986 Patrick will head secondary plan Barons face Chicksands in Safe Grid final by Bucko Fox staff writer if Pitburg can t pressure Chicksands quarterback Herb Poirot in saturday s Safe final the Barons Hope their secondary plan works. Namely Richard Patrick. Patrick a 5-11, 165-Pound Cor Norback. Is playing like a  in these air farce football playoffs. His Job in the Continental sports con Ference semifinals was to cover Ramstein flanker . Toomer. All Toomer had done was catch 28 passes Tor a league High 626 Yards 22.4 average and ii touchdowns. With Patrick hounding him Toome caught nothing As Ramstein lost to bit Burg 21-16. Patrick s Job in the Csc final was to Slick to harm Danker . Baker. Baker had joined Toomer on the All Star firs team because of his 35 receptions and seven touchdowns. With Patrick pasted to him bake caught zilch and harm lost to Pitburg 14 9, he s like a ferret after a fish raves Wilbure coach Ernie Treubig. He s fast and he s aggressive. The hardest part of coach ing pal Rick is controlling him. But i have a lot of Confidence in  Patrick s bait in saturday s noon clash at Raf Chicksands England will be either spirit end Ron Denard or flanker Randy Rouse. Mcnard. A speedster from Detroit caught passes of 40 and 24 Yards from Poirot to set up both Chicks touchdowns in their 13-0 Triumph Over upper hey Ford in the . Sports conference title game. Rouse a Possession receiver from Baton Rouge la., caught 28 passes in the regular season Good for second in the league. Hell still catch his passes said Poirot of Rouse. I Don t know if i la shul him Down completely said Patrick. But i la con Barons lose 27.24 in that classic game Al Ramstein. "1 did it. I nil him aside the head on the sideline and they won he game Patrick recalls. I Don t really Lite him anyway because of All the publicity he gels. You know How that goes while Toomer and the ram won an other Safe title in 1985, Patrick languished on the Barons special teams. He finally landed a starting Job this year. In game 1, he got burned by bake for a touchdown As Hahn beat Pitburg 14-6. By playoff time Patrick stopped that stuff. Although Toomer and Baker said the were still getting open in the playoffs Hahn quarterback Mark Van Winkle admitted that Patrick did As Good a Job As anyone All year. At limes he jammed Baker. I was looking for him Baker to break and he Patrick would Jam  comparing Toomer and Baker pal Rick said Toomer wanted to run inside on the Post pattern. Baker was just the opposite. It was a Little harder covering Baker he d try to confuse me. But i knew he liked the outside so i stuck with him outside. Remember when Baker burned me in the first game this was the  Treubig might give Patrick what he Calls the Green fight again for this Bas a to by l pm own l Tilburg j Richard Patrick left tops Hahn s . A Law la in last week s Csc final. Tain him. I m looking Forward to  Patrick 24, has been trying to contain receivers since playing at Fremont High in Oakland through 1981. He graduate to Laney Junior College in Oakland and played under defensive Back coach Norm Thompson the former Colt and Cardinal comeback. Thompson taught Patrick the bump and run. He said you be got to Challenge the receiver if you want to be effective said Patrick. You can t be  after nearly two seasons there Patrick joined the air Force. He landed at bit Burg in 1984, in time to head slap Toomer for a personal foul that helped the port Fly Danny Estes. Poirot says the Best comeback he faced was Alconbury s Fred  stayed underneath in the Chicks 14-0 Victory. Chicksands running Back chop schambers figures his team s passing can beat Patrick Loo. Bump and run said  belter not bump and run this game or Rouse will leave him. Denard will leave him. Patrick will have to buy a new Jock. Who does he think he is Lester Hayes he s from Oakland right seems Patrick s exploits Are making news across the English Channel. Clemens from Page 17 same season Don Newcombe of the Brook Lyn dodgers in 1956, Sandy Koufax of the los Angeles dodgers in 1963, Bob Gibson of the so Louis Cardinal and Mclain of he tigers both in 1968. Rollie fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers in 1981 and Willie Hernandez of the tigers in 1984. Fingers and Hernandez were relievers. I be got a lot of work to do to get ready for next year said Gem ens who added thai he had something else to look Forward to before Spring training be coming a father. The baby is due i seven to 10 Days he Aid. After pitching the red sox to the pen Nant with Ai least four Days rest Between starts Clemens tired in the  pitched three times with just three Days rest in the seven game playoff with California Wilh a la record including Avic Iory in the seventh game. He was 0-0 in two starts in the world series won by the new York Meu in seven games. However in i first Start in game 2, won by Boston he allowed Only four bit Sand one earned run in seven innings but did not figure in the decision. He left game 6 Wilh Boston ahead 3-2 and just six outs away from winning the series bul the mets came Back to win 6-5, in id innings tying the series then won the final game. There were several outstanding pitchers in the league this year but Only one Roger Clemens Boston manager John Mcnamara said. Mattingly had another outstanding season As the Yankees finished second inthe Al East. He batted .352, runner up to Boston s Wade Boggs .357, set a Newyork record with 238 hits had 31 Hom ers and drove in 113 runs. Rice became the first Boston player Mohave four 200-hit seasons As he balled .324 with 20 homers and 110 Bis. Those Fig ures compared with .315, 46 homers and 139 when he was map in 1978. The Yea the red sox lost the division title in a sin Gle game playoff with the Yankees. Rice admitted recently Trail his figures this year hardly compared with those in1978 and predicted that Clemens would be voted map i think Roger Clemens is going to win it Rice said monday. Tit be glad for him but i think the map should be Given to a player who goes out there an performs Well every  Mattingly said tuesday that the prize should have gone to a player who is on the Field every Day not to a Pitcher. I know he is valuable haltingly said of Clemens. Bul it s hard for me to conceive thai a Guy who it in 33 or 34 games can be at valuable. As an every Day Guy who is out there 162  the Yankee first baseman played Winall 162 games in 1986, missing Only six inning All season As new York finished second to the american league Champi on red sox in the Al East trailing the top three in the map voting were George Belt of Toronto 125 Points Joe bar Finkl also of Toronto. 107 Kirby pucker of Minnesota. 105, and Boggy 87. Navratilova Shriver win in slims openers new York up Martina Navratilova swept the final eight games and stretched her winning Streak to so matches tuesday night with a 6-3, 6-0 Victory Over Catarina Lindqvist in the opening round of the ii million Virginia slims championships. Advancing along with Navratilova were third seed Hana Mandl Kava and no. 5 Pam Shriver who will face each other in the quarterfinals. Maa Dikova registered five service Breaks in beating Terry Phelps 6-2, 6-4, and Shriver won the last six games from Raffaella regg Ifor a 6-3,6-1 decision. Navratilova the top seed and defend ing Champion has a match record of 86 3 this year and has not lost since drop Ping the French open final to Chris Evert Lloyd Early in june. Navratilova who next meets Bettin Bunge looked impressive though she said later she was bothered by a hip flex or problem on her left Side. Although Navratilova never was Trou bled the match was not without Contro Versy As Lindqvist appeared to get two bad Calls in the second set. In the second game a Ball from Navratilova seem to be Long which would have enabled Lindqvist to hold serve. But there was no Call and Navratilova reached Deuce with a backhand lob. With Navratilova serving in the next game site was awarded an Ace on the final Point even though she herself Ges tured it was wide. Regardless Navratilova was in com plete control once she achieved the tint break of the match to go ahead 3-2. The top seed ended the first set Wilh another break in the ninth game Wilh a backhand Volley. Mandrikova was breezing along at 4-1in the second set when Phelps startled her Wilh a pair of service Breaks to setback to 4-4. But Mandrikova retaliated with a break in the ninth game Lien held at is closing out the match with an Ace. Despite the score of the opening match Shriver had to struggle in tie first set twice dropping her service. Even after Shriver broke for the third Lime logo up 5-3, Reggi twice had break Point in the ninth game before Shriver dosed Oldie set will a service Winner. Reggi Winner of a tournament in puerto Rico last sunday thai earned her entry m thai season ending championship held serve to open the second let but the 20-year-old italian ranked no. 27 in the world was unable to win another game