European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday january 23,1987 the stars and stripes Page 21 commentary Schweinfurt cagers on a magic ride the Schweinfurt magicians hey Callie Selve. These magicians have been turning Vii corps on in car Schweinfurt seemingly appeared out of thin air like Well magic to Lake first place in the North division with a 4-0 record. They look tougher than any team i be seen in army Ball this season Tough enough to Shin Down the Keif broncs Danaus Darmstadt is and a towns or army bait. Heilbronn coach Vikki Dixon very Well could have been Singi Grandy Newman s Short people after he High flying eagles were outlasted by this undersized squad of overachievers from Schweinfurt last sunday. The final was Schweinfurt 100, Heilbronn 99, a narrow one Point Victory. But the Munchkin magicians win was a lot bigger than the final margin. In the big Man s game the Little Guy Hung Tough. Schweinfurt has accomplished this with a front line that usually stands a steady 6-2,6-2,6-2 along the base line. Against the eagles with a 6-7, 6-6,6-5 front the magicians should t have had it Chance. Faced with this kind of disc Ilori psychology Dixon has an answer to that. "1 remember John Thompson at the Mcaa finals after Georgetown lost to Villanova the fiery Heil Bronn head Soricho said. When somebody painted out hat Villanova was t even supposed to be there Thompson said Well somebody forgot to Tell Villa Nova that same goes for sen the magicians were Down 17-4 sunday before thebans had a Chance to warm their seats Ai Hail Brinn s . They were on their Way to facing a id Point halftime deficit. That was before Madison Avenue guess and Herman Nelll esome nellies took Over. Nettles and guess both you guessed it 6-2, had 29 Points apiece and the magicians outscored Heilbronn 1441 in one stretch in the second half As they downed the eagles. The architect of Sclove injun s Renaissance of the runts is . Castillo in his first year As coach of the magicians. Schwerin fun sports director Frank Lupac Chin picked Castillo from eight applicants. A lot of these Guys Are just interested in basking inthe glory Lupacckino Sard tuesday. ". Seemed Uke he was the most level headed of the eight. He s ded Tim Boi Viri stun Ware hid 15 sunday in Schnel Furt s win scaled and interested in working with the program interested enough to hit up the sergeant majors and first sergeants in Schweinfurt to release his ballplayers from their soldiering commitments to get in Yfi-4 hours of practice a night. Interested enough to let his players know he s interested in their basketball skill Only if they re Good soldiers. But not interested in what other teams think of Schweinfurt. Heilbronn Forward Dave Rylander said. Not taking anything away from Schweinfurt they did play Well against us in the second half sunday. But if replay together 1 Don t think they can slay with us. We relaxed in the second half against them and we Don plan on relaxing against anybody else. We be played Stuttgart three tunes and each game was close so i d have to say they were our rain Castillo in t impressed by what he has seen in the army leagues this year. He wears the Rodney danger Field no resp Cal Collar Rylander and others pin on him. I think the toughest team we be played this year has been Amburg out of 7th army training come. We went to Stuttgart with just seven players Only two sum ers and beat them. We went in to Heilbronn and heat them Afler being Down by 20," Castillo pointed out. Things will get worse for Schweinfurt s opponents. The magicians should get better Schweinfurt has two returnees from last year nellies and Stan Ware another 6-2 Forward who had 1 i Points against the bag pcs. Castillo looks for John butt an non Cal to Good less 6-s, 230-Pound Center to Tan soon and 6-5vi Power Forward Anthony Douglas to be Back in the lineup Cit week. Backup Center Arthur Reed. 6-6, 210, did t make the Heilbronn game. All thai help May be enough to put the magicians Over the top. Says Nettles we won without them. I suppose we can win with Castillo has been winning with two starters and what Are Normal .1 his reserves. The magician s head wizard could have used mirrors in this trick. It May not Lake the magic of a 14-0 Streak for the magicians to win next time. Bull is an awesome defensive ballplayer one of the strangest army players i be seen. Douglas is As Good As anybody we be got. Well be Able to match up with the eagles and i Don t think Heilbronn or slut Garl will give us too much Competition once we get our full commitment of players Castillo said. That full commitment has paid off for the magicians with wins. We re so Strong i honestly know i can go 14 deep. You can Only suit 12 players for a game so Guys Don t miss practice because they know they la lose a Job Castillo said. Castillo does t think the magicians have u i corps title up their sleeve just yet but he thinks they re Well on the Way. A will take a Little bit of Luck. We be got a Good record but i still Don t think we have done anything yet Castillo said. Nothing except stomp the stuffing out of their two toughest competitors on the Road in the Northern division. That does t take Luck. That takes Talent. Down Cna 80-74 in Csc positional Sembach secures final Safe berth Sembach a Germany the Sembach tigers mauled the Camp new Amsterdam wolfhounds 80-74 in the final match of the Continental sport conference position basketball tournament Friday to qualify for the Safe air Force basketball tourney slated for feb. 7-11 at gun Law ters England. Sembach started the game with a 9-0shopping spree sparked when Mike Ward Hil four of his game High 22 Points. The wolfhounds Only Glimmer of Hope in the first half came As Larry Osborne Hil 1 to Field goals and Daryl Brown added a bucket to bring Cna within five Points at 32-27 with 3 13 left before tiebreak. The tigers roared to life to Lake a 40-29 Midway Lead. Camp new Amsterdam coming off a double overtime Victory against Tilburg 85-si thursday night showed a bit of fatigue throughout the game but sem Bach coach Robert Brown said fatigue was t a Factor. We concentrated on the outside shot this game. Last game we had the outside but did t take it said Brown. We had the Altitude that we were going to come out and win the game and i Don t think fatigue had anything to do with the Sembach s stingy defense took Over in the second half with Chris Rose snatch ing four steals and Ward and de Jones hoisting three apiece. Sembach Rode an 1 a Point Lead until Cna tightened the game to 77-70 when Horace Fau Lleroy nailed three 3-Poini-Era in the final three minutes. Fauntle Ray s opportunities came As Sembach Seffense tried to work the clock Down by employing a time killing stall. In addition to Ward s 22, Sembach s offence was powered by Zach Bowma with 19 and Rob Martin and Kenny Johnson who added 16 Points each. Fauntleroy paced Cna with 15 Point while Sieve Pringle Hil 14 and Ted Rice and Larry Osome netted 12 apiece. Sembach round put Csc entries in he Safe tourney joining league Champ Ramstein and position Winner Wei Bruecken. In thursday s late game cna85,b to bums 2ot Mel Miles Hil a clutch 3-Poinl play and lopped the winners with 21 Points Ted Rice and Steve Pringle added 12 each. Dar Ryl Brown hit 11 and Glenn Taylor and Larry Osborne scored 10 apiece. Tony Everett scored 28 Points and Juba Brown 25 for the Barons. Iraklion stays undefeated in Small units tourney Iraklion As Greece the Host ing Iraklion minotaur remained undefeated boosting their Mark to 3-0 in the Safe Small units basketball championship by defeating Wethersfield Friday. Iraklion improved its undefeated re Cord with an impressive 90-73 Victory Over the raiders. Geilenkirche bettered its tourney slats to 3-1 with an 89-70 comeback Over Hillingdon and a 79-74 Triumph Over Memminger Izmir now stands at 2-1 after Downing Memminger 100-91 in a Hie game. Wethersfield is 1-2, Memminger 1-3 and Hillingdon brings up the rear at 0-3. I Rajic a 90, welders fired 73 the min Laurs totally dominated this game led by Ron Jones All around play with 22 Points seven rebounds and three assists. Bib Burke added 18 Points and dealt out four assists. Iraklion Ted Al the half 49-34. Despite efforts by Wethers old s tandem of Doug Lindsey and Terry acc Wilson who scored 16 and 15, respectively the Mino Laurs Kepi their distance. Cellen Kirchen 89, gluing Don 70 the Trio of Terrence Hoiden. Greg Stamps and Kevin Light led the panthers to a comeback win from a 36-30 halftime deficit. In idol Ted the scoring with 28 Points. Sumps added 21 plus 15 rebounds and Light another 20 Points plus eight re Bounds and two assists. Hillingdon s Bobby Carter was the game s High scorer with 32. While Hank Ramey added 22, Geilenkirche 79, Memminger 74 Geilenkirche moved ahead after a tied game at half to take its second Victory of the Day. Geilenkirche Michael Thornton led the panthers scoring with 24 Points. Stamps contributed 21 and Strong armed 15 boards. The chargers Charles Nash Allied 26 in a losing Effort while Dwayne Bell added 14
