European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 29, 1987 the stars and stripes Pago 21 prep pickings 3 Fec rms assured of a tourney slots the Germany a boys held for the big Schooie basketball tournament feb. 19-21 at Mann Heim has been virtually finalized the lop four learns in the league standing automatically qualify for the tournament. Defending Champion and league leading Wuerzburg Hanau Stid Nuernberg Are already in. Fourth place Owci Bruecken stands in inc Entrance Way. If the top three learns lose the rest of their games which they can t because of games against each other no one would have More than in losses. Win leu Baum older and Patch have dropped six games already and Tilburg has a 1-7 record. Owci Bruecken 4-2 needs two wins to go Forward. The picture in other aaa and. A races in t that dear As or now but the Ramsten boys and defend ing tournament and league Champion Heidelberg and the Mannheim girls in aaa and the Hanau and Wuerzburg girl in a would have to collapse completely to be pushed out of Contention. None of the tour teams has lost More than one game so the pres sure has to come from below. The Giessen and bad Kreuz Nach boys and  girls Are the class of the Germany league. They Alt own 6-0 records and everyone else has lost at least twice. The boys title will be decided next weekend when the Goffins and a carats clash in Homeland Home Battles feb. 6 at bad Kreuz Nach and the next Day at Giessen. Giessen has a Home game Friday against Fulda but the Griffins stopped the Falcons in a tuesday game and should be favored to win again. Fulda and osterholz have things Cut out for the this weekend. Following its game at Giessen Friday Fulda will travel to Oster Tilor on saturday and play makeup double header sunday. Osterholz mean while will entertain Karlsruhe Friday and saturday before the sunday makeups. Those games can go a1 Long Way toward clarifying the boys Small schools tournament picture. The lop three teams from a Central and a South join the Bennor representatives in thai tournament and Fulda currently stands third with a 2-3 record Karls Ruhe a half game bark at 1-4 and Oslo Sholz at pm. We can Stilt make the playoffs Fulda coach Ford. Mcmurtry said wednesday. But that schedule this weekend could be a killer. We have to sweep osterholz this weekend and Karlsruhe Ocul weekend to be positive. A win Over Giessen Friday certainly would help the  the a South picture finds Augsburg Vilsick an Bamberg sitting pretty Good in the boys Competition and Munich Ansback and Augsburg currently Pac ing the girls. Ansbach tightened the girls race considerably last Friday when it ended Munich s 17 game winning string. Make Taylor eligible for retirement Al this time. Actually i had inc required time last year but had to wait until november because i was too  Taylor quipped tuesday. I could have been done on my birthday but i told school officials thai 1 would finish out the  Taylor came into the department of defense de Pendents schools the latest of Many names system Al toying in Taiwan in1958. Since then he has taught and coached bus-1ketball, wrestling track i and Field baseball and Cross country in Japan Yokohama newfound Iland Argenti Acuba i Guantanamo Bay Turl key Kara Muryd and i Germany Stuttgart and Ifor the last 11 care i Baum older. The Kara-1 Murset stint was Between i the two Germany assign-1ments. It was in Taiwan that Terry Taylor varsity sports for Girts was introduced. Toying was a new school when i went there and i was instructed to Start a sports program. So 1 Wen with basketball and tick because they were the easiest to install in a new program. I organized teams for the boys and then the girls wanted a program Loo. So we had girls learns in both sports. We played basketball games and ran track against . Military and taiwanese teams. The next year Tinian another american military school and Morrison Academy an american missionary institution fielded girls teams in those sports. So i guess you can say we had the first High school girls varsity teams in the overseas system Taylor added. Girls in the . Were competing in track and Field under a program London s Taylor Lewis organized in the Early 1970s. Girls basketball was elevated to varsity status throughout Dodds in 1975 another sports were incorporated into the program the following year. The Man who coached what probably were the first girls teams in the military High school sports program Calls it a Day Friday. Baum older s Terry Taylor completes More than 28 years in the system when the first semester ends following the end of classes that Day. Those years plus a tour in the air Force combined with his age it has been a pretty satisfying experience Over the is ibis coaching and teaching in Dodds. I have. I some wonderful people and i be been Able 10 Domany things and Sec Many places. It has been u Good life he added. Taylor is a charter member of the comp Lascom 4teachers association an organization that gels to Gether often Over school holidays for All kinds of ventures basketball tournaments skiing rafting and just enjoying life in general. A segment of the group bought a two Decker Brit ish bus several years ago and refurbished it into a luxurious travel camper Replete with Bath Beds Kitchen the works. It is used practically every sum Mer for special Tours and some of them have Bee fantastic ventures. Taylor s immediate plans Call for a visit to Salt Lake cily to see his first grandson who will be two weeks old saturday. Then he will return to Baum Holder for the rest of the school year. His wife Marilyn also is in the Dodds system but she in l eligible for retirement just yet. So Terry will be biding his Lime to see what Marilyn s Situa Tion is before i make any definite  a sad message comes from former Dodds football basketball and wrestling coach Joe Steffen. Curt Price passed away on new year s Day. Price was a former basketball official and coach in Dodds. He officiated basketball tournament for Dodds in 1970, 1971 and 1972 then went on to coach at Kaiserslautern High school where he enjoyed considerable Success. He was acclaimed stars and stripes basketball coach of the year in 1975 when his red raiders toppled Blue division Champion Wiesbaden in he title game of the Jthn us Desea class a tournament after tying Stuttgart for second a game behind the warriors in regular season strife. His next two teams finished second to Wiesbaden in the class album Ament. Price went to Dodds Pacific in 1980, where he coached basketball and served As assistant principal at Zama Japan High school for five years. Last year Price was named director of recreation serv ices Al Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines. Performances by two girls and two boys stood out in the reckoning for this week s is player of the week honors last Friday and they share that recognition. Ansbach s Tanya Goodman turned in the Best showing of her career by chalking up 29 Points As the cougars terminated Munich s 17-game winning Streak handing the Mustangs Only their third defeat in inc last 62 games. The other most notable Effort by a girl last week was turned in by Mannheim s Regina Nolan. He sensational statistics showed 26 Points in rebounds five assists and seven steals in a one sided aaa Triumph Over Frankfurt. Then on tuesday against Karen Laitem Nolan came through Wilh 23 Points eight assists and 10 steals. One of the boys earning player of the week recognition is a repeater of last week Mannheim s Andre Green on Friday he had 28 Points 17 rebounds and nine blocks on tuesday Green enjoyed a 23-Point,, eight Block five Dunk game against Kaiserslautern. Gites in s Tyrone Thomas shares the spotlight with Green. He had 15 Points against osterholz Fri Day he turned in a 22-Poinl, nine rebound he s onlys-foot-6five steal and seven assist Effort against he Blackhawk saturday and then came Back for a 34-Point, eight rebound two steal game against Fulda on tuesday. Evert cutting Back schedule unsure How Long Shell play new York a Chris Evert Lloyd says she will sharply reduce the number of Tennis tournaments she will play after 1987. Before whenever people would ask me How Long i would continue to play i always said i la play another two years because 1 really did t know the 32-year-old even said before leaving for Japan fora series of exhibitions. Now 1 would be very very surprised if i play past this year. The work is very hard now. It lakes me longer to get warmed up longer to recover from a Lough  Evert said she will continue to com Pete in the grand slam tournaments Wimbledon and the French . And australian opens and other selected events inducing the International play ers championships. In 1986, Evert was limited to 12 tournaments because of a knee injury. In 1988, she plans to play even less. My problem in my Tennis is getting burned out Al this stage. When i have bad losses a lot of the reason is because i Don l feel fresh she said. Evert said age also is a Factor not just the fact that she s 32 but that her strongest opponents with the exception of 30-year-old Martina Navratilova Are the younger players on the Lour. Looking ahead to this year. I know it going to be a Lough year the fort Lauder Dale fla., native said. There s harm Mandrikova age 2-�17-year-old Steffi Graf 21-year-old Helena Sutkova. I got by last year Evert said. This year i have to be physically stronger and mentally  Chris Evert Lloyd work gelling harder too much Snow zaps women s combined slalom crans Montana Switzerland a Snow and poor visibility Force postponement of the women s combined downhill Al the Alpine ski world championships wednesday. The race will be made up Friday As part of a combined downhill double header. Organizers said the women s combined downhill would be run following the men s combined downhill meaning that both combined championships will be decided on the same Day. The women s combined slalom runs will remain Al their originally scheduled times thursday organizers said. Men s downhill combined raining also snowed out wednesday was tentatively reset for thursday morning with women s downhill combined training Setfor Friday before the men s race