European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday february 2. 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 25 Csc grabs 5 titles in rousing finish to Safe wrestling byte Saunders suit writer Sembach a Germany if you blinked during sunday s Safe Greco roman wrestling final you mined something. Shoulders were hitting the Mal quicker than a hungry Lumberjack s flapjacks flipping onto b Grill. When the slamming ended the Continental sport conference had claimed five Greco titles. Combined with five freestyle firsts the Csc raised in tournament Lake to 10 golds. Mediterranean sports conference wrestlers captured three Greco and three freestyle titles for six Overall golds and the United King Dom look one of each. Although Csc was the dominant team in the tourney it was a Small wrestler from Mac who turned Heads Dan Wrasman voted the outstanding wrestler by tournament officials. Wrasman attracted a lot of attention at the time he spent on the mat or maybe for the time his opponents spent on it. The wrestler pinned tour freestyle opponents in in sin min utes in route to that title. In Greco he put Down four opponents in 2 07 for his second title. It has taken me four years to gel Back to wrestling because of a tour at Ellsworth air Force base in South Dakota said Wrasman the base had no wrestling team i had a big desire to wrestle when i came to Europe. Winning makes me want to wrestle unfortunately far Wrasman his chances to continue wrestling hinge on an upcoming pcs. I received an assign ment to Malstrom fab Mont. I m sup posed to leave May 4, but i be requested to stay in Europe. I la have o wait and he said. Waller Little. 1 zs.5-Pounder, Laid claim of Csc first Greco roman Gold with pins Over a scars Jeff Berthiaume in 1 52 and Joe Cavallucci in 39. Her Thi Auma took the Silver by flattening Cavallucci in 2 26. Cavallucci came in third. A powerful Shawn Olivier tossed . 5 Kevin Bacot around the Mal in a 136,6-Pouncj showdown shortly into the second period Olivier an Exeter . Native was declared Winner by Superior decision after building a 12-Pomt Lead at 13-1. Csc Ron Reynolds finished Sec Ond and Bacot third. Olivier noted that he is More Success Ful in Greco than freestyle because legs can t be grabbed. Of like Greco wrestling. It eliminates the major weakness i have in freestyle which if people grabbing my legs Oli vier said when people grab my legs they can use them against me. It makes me feel uncomfortable. In Greco i can concentrate on the upper part of my after gelling tossed around by Andre Lecoura . In the 149,5-Pound free style Brian Daly avenged himself with a 4 39 pin Over Lecours and 5 38 flattening of Ron Gober Esq for a Greco Gold. Gober in turn pinned Lecours in 1 57 for the Stiver. Lecours settled for the Bronze. Bobby Deleon successfully defended his 163-Pound title by recording five pins Deleon defended his freestyle title saturday. I was pretty confident said de Leon i had a lot to lose. I put two titles on the line and i feel i deserved the Deleon pinned runner up Manny car Elfio in 2 33 to Clinch first Carillio put - s David Falls to the mat in 3 40 to claim second. Falls finished third a War was waged in the 198-Pound class Between Csc s buddy whorral and . S George Nichols defending Champion. Nichols won the full six min Ute bout 23-14, then with minimal Rusl had wrestle and beat teammate Charles Battle for first place in v corps West Sis photo by out sell Mew bomb of a Leon pin Csc Idun Nile Manny card to sunday to win the impound title Brown Field in order to keep his title. The struggle with Whorrall though had its effects. Brownfield floored Nich ols in 1 30, putting a lid on the defending Champion s Hopes of rescuing the title from Whorrall whore full who wan the title because of Nichols loss watched the match and commented he was tired. If i d had to wrestle Brownfield after our match i Don t know what would be happened. Nichols has All my the Gold was Whorrall s second of the tourney. Nichols who was defending freestyle and Greco Champ settled for his second Silver and Brownfield bagged the Bronze. Mac relied on two of its bigger men la supplement Wrasman s earlier Gold. Scon Fredrickson who recorded the Jonir Namoni s quickest pin in six seconds picked up five pins in quest of his second Gold in the 180-Pound class. Fredrickson slopped Csc s Troy Wirtz in 4 48 and . S Richard Wilford in 46, leaving the two us second and third places respectively. I wrestled a Loi belter than 1 thought 1 would the Champ said Wertz sur prised me he was pretty Tough Bui to Fredrickson Tough Irea Lincul is what began his wrestling career. I had older Brothers who wrestled and they used to use me for a practice Dummy. I started wrestling when 1 was in first Grade because of them. By the time i was a Junior in High school they would t get on a Mal with me he said. David Marchand Mac s unlimited class wrestler never had to break a sweat in his incomes Ted run to the freestyle title in Greco however Csc s Roger Wendland moved up into the unlimited class from the 210 class hoping to put a Cork on mar band s Victory Champagne no Cork no sweat. Marchand recorded a pin in 42 to take his second title. Wendland earned his Silver. Taking the . S sole Greco Gold was 220-Pounder Scott Nickerson who Deci signed freestyle Champ Shawn Fernandez 12-6. Csc s Fernandez grabbed second place with d Quick pin Over Mac s Dan Rumfalo in 19. Russell leads eagles past demons 110-98 byte Boivin Staft writer Wiesbaden a Germany Wiesbaden Forward Troy Russell said he was Only taking what Darmstadt was giving and the demons charitable be rows that they Are kept right on giving until it hurl. It hurl enough for the demons to lose to the eagles 110-98 saturday in the Battle for. First place in v corps Western Region. And Russell was the cause of most of the demons pains notching his second 34-Poim game in a Row after missing several games due to military training. Russell a big Apple native found the demons front line defense was Ripe for picking and picked it apart time and again As Wiesbaden forged a 60-47 first half advantage. Russell was seven of nine from the Field while scoring 16 Points in the first half All of his Field goals coming on drives that ended with shots in the Lane against the demons depleted front line. After my first two or three shots 1 noticed thai 1 could take it to the Middle so i decided to keep doing it until i got called for an offensive foul Russell said. Russell never was called far an offensive foul and much of that was due to Darmstadt s failure to gel a Man in the Lane to Slop his drives. We need to put a Man in the Middle to Lake the charge when he starts driving like thai Reserve for army basketball Ward Larry Pitts said after the game. Bui that Wun t the Case sunday As Darmstadt Cen Ter Orlando Goodwin got his share three of dunks off fast Breaks but was a nonentity throughout the game under the boards on defense sure their big Man Goodwin is going to slam on the fast break against us said eagles Forward Carl Turner who finished with 2s Points Bui Hal Means he s not fighting for the rebounds against us on our offensive end. We re getting two or three baskets for the one he s scoring off the fast break. Well take thai and take it they did along with anything else that happened to glance off the offensive boards. Turner punctuated his claim that the eagles owned the offensive boards at the Halo me Buzzer. Albert Glover s shot bounced off the rim twice before Turner skied to Dunk it barely of the rim on thir second Bounce. That woke up the Eagle Faith fun who had quietly perched in the stands throughout the i Lisl half. Ron Moulcy was the Only thing the demons had going for them in the first half scoring 16 Points and at one time making seven of eight shots. But that changed after the half. We decided to put a Man on him to make him drive Russell said because when he Gol set he killed us. We wan led to keep him they did and Moulcy accounted for Only six Points in the second half. The closest the demons could come was 75-66 with 13 31 left on a Jesse Rozier steal for a Layup. For Mobley and his mates the game was a culmination of a lot of things going wrong Al one time even though Darmstadt Forward Ricky Hooker put Forth his usual Sterling Effort with 23 Points. Eric Gilkey our rebounding Forward went on leave and Ethan Byrd a Reserve swing Man is on emergency leave Mobley said. We Haven t had a Good practice in a week when All that happens every body s put of sync. It s difficult to come in against a competitive team like Wiesbaden and expect to the War of attrition is one Wiesbaden faced throughout the year but it still stands 7-1. First in the West two games ahead of Darmstadt. Wiesbaden coach Gene Sulton has been Able to accomplish that because of the balanced scoring he gets on the court. Sunday he also Gol 19 Points oui of fail Eddie Hall and 17 from John Mccall. They were there a Good team Moulcy lit 30 play ing his Swan song in army Ball said. They re coming log Lucr for the Streich run. I Hope we can do the same
