European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 13.1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary sweating Over Heidelberg Mannheim Heidelberg is. Mannheim. Is there a basketball rivalry Hal compares no. Did someone mention ? Urcla Nolde Dame Carolina Duke you can have pm. For big bloody bulging heart attack time give me Heidelberg Mannheim. Nothing gives me Chest pains like rooting for my Alma mater Heidelberg High against that dreaded school 15 minutes Down the autobahn Mannheim. Alas i la probably gel a stroke when the Lions and Bison play tonight at Heidelberg. My heroes enter the Battle 1-9. We re slow. We re Short. We re old six seniors. As my old Counselor said in Heidelberg s hallowed Halls Thun Day we make up for Lack of height with  no wonder we lost to Mannheim by 34 in the december opener. The Bison Are Quick. They re big. They re headed for the playoffs with a 6-4 record. As my old classmate Wayne Bardell said Heidelberg has As much of a Chance As we thought Mannheim had in 72." even that brings on depressing memories. Bardell played on the 72 Lions that entered the championship game unbeaten and in flustered. They had mauled Mannheim during the regular season. Yet the Bison won the final 53-49 to ruin Heidelberg s three year title run and ruin my life. I did t Alk to my Mother for Day. Fifteen years later Bardell plays the role of  a the army sports director in Mannheim. He referred that Heidelberg disaster at Mannheim last december and predicts another Bison Blowout. Come on Wayne no Chance not Heidelberg. They Don t have the personnel. No Way. They d have a butter Chance if they threw the Jav out Here he says. Whew. Good thing Bardell won t ref this one. Heidelberg coach was Sisson no doubt feels the same Way. He needs mighty Fine Home Cookin to pull the biggest upset of his career. The kind of Home Cookin that came five years ago when Heidelberg lured he 14-0 Bison onto its tiny court and won 54 53 on free throws in the dying seconds. Sisson hungers for Victory. I d love to beat Mannheim he said in his office. You could go 0 13, and if you beat Mannheim that would make your  especially Sisson s. The 42-year-old Wiscons Nile had steered Heidelberg o six straight playoff appear ances. Last fall he collected a team that included Only one returning varsity player. When 1 saw the Lions lose at Home to Wiesbaden Siison s Bunch looked painfully slow. The Only Guy with spark was Anthwaun Greene. Those turned out to be the Good old Days. On Jan. 2j, Sisson raised his voice while trying to get Heidel Berg s Drill learn off the court during it Point Home loss to Ramstein then came the ugly part. Horrified by Sisson s harmless act parents pressured him into a three game suspension. Even Sisson s rival Mannheim coach Bill Mil ten Zecy Calls the suspension an Over reaction on the Community s part. Milton Zecy would know. He coached at Heidel Berg 10 years before pulling his Benedict Arnold act in 1934. It was t easy the first year the 42-year-old  native admitted. To be 10 years in one place then to go to your archrival that s hard. But it s not hard at All anymore. All you have to do is win a few and lose a few and they become a part of  i sucked it up and visited Mannheim High for the first time thursday. There it was staring at me in the Ball the 1972 championship plaque that rightfully belongs to Heidelberg. A few players topped up. The biggest Lasandre the giant Green the 6-fool-b Junior who i Heidelberg for 24 Points Jast Lime. I told him the lion would kick his rear Friday. He laughed. I told him and his males Forward Chris Hall and guard Chris Nolan that this game Means everything to Heidelberg. They shrugged. Being both places said Mittenzwey the rivalry Only exists in Heidelberg la does t exist Here. The kids Don t get fired up for  but added the Mannheim coach i want to beat Heidelberg. I also want to destroy the myth that i m a Heidelberger. I m a  Sony to hear that. Lit 5u1i and 5lnpt Giessen boys win in Small schools Cage Munich girls upset by Berlin 37-35 Bybe Abrams prep sports editor Munich the Munich girls1 aspirations for a record fifth straight Dodd basketball championship went Down the Drain Here thursday night but Gic Ssan shopes for a second boys Crown in Only its second year of Competition remained in tact the Berlin bears shut Ott Laurie Oliver in the second half to take a 37-35 first round verdict in the Germany Beanor Small schools tournament. Giessen out lasted Vilseck in a run and gun shootout 907. Oliver scored 16 Points before inter Mission and Munich constructed a 10 Point advantage. But she made Only two free throws in she second half after Ber Lin coach Mike a Carmody shifted defensive strategy. I told Lisa Freeman that she had Oliver in the second half. Wherever Oliver went i wanted Lisa right there. Whenever Lisa needed help and it was t too often the other girls moved in and aided her immensely Dermody said. Feeling the pressure As time elapsed the Munich girls missed the front end of seven one and ones in the second half. The Mustangs made Only 3-of-l free throws during the game. Freeman in addition o her defensive wort in Oliver sparked the Berlin at tack with 14 Points. Tina Coteel added to to the winning Effort and Oliver was High for Munich. Ginn Bays 90, ans ice 67 the Giessen Ansbach tussle was go go go from the opening tip with both teams lipping up and Down the court firing on offence pressing most of the time on defense. Greg John in sparked Ginson to its 23rd straight Victory with 29 Points get Ting four baskets on Brilliant feeds from Tyrone Thor Oai. Meanwhile Thomas also found Lime to score 24 Points and steal the Ball five time. Giessen s three other starters were All in double figures Cedric hurls. Game winning Fig Reggie Mcneil Hilling 16, Chris Wil Liams 13 and Calvin Peterson 10. Damn stray displaying fantastic offensive Maneu vers against he Giessen press finished with 21 for Ansbach and Geol Pollack added 12. In earlier games the Bonn bad or Cugnach and shape girls All chalked up victories. Bonn got a 10-foot jumper from de id re Baca with 53 seconds left and then got a bit of help at the end when ans Bach s Maria Armstrong missed two free throws to eke out a 50-49 verdict Over the cougars. Bad or Cugnach survived a slow Start but got in gear late in the first half an tolled to a 71-94 decision Over Vilseck. The shape girls encountered no difficulty at All in conquering Fulda 45-36. F there was anything Hal could be called a Surprise in the Early action it was Munich s 66-59 win Over the bad Kirin act boys. The charges of Tom willed had to win their Lul three Garnet in regular season Competition even to make it to lie tournament whereas the bearcats had been considered one of the Bretou moment favourites. Shape outlasted Fulda which lost it Star to stateside rotation Only this week 60-51. Shaquille o Neal the Falcons 6-foot-6 Sophomore Center who had been averaging better than 20 Points and i5rebounds a game was the missing Lumi nary. Munich Boyi 66, bad Kreuz Znaco 59 the Mustangs Rode Scott Williams sizzling outside shooting to an 18-6 first Quarter Lead blew the advantage and then came Back from a 46-40 deficit to pull the game out of the fire. Williams 15-Fooler. Two free throws by Mike Wood and Andreas Ballard s rebound caught the Bear Kals. The teams traded baskets up 10 52-52,but Willis Holmes popped in a 12-footer from the Side and seconds later look a Beautiful pass from Williams for an easy Layup. The Mustangs never again trailed. Williams led the assault with 23 Points seven of his 11 baskets coming from far far away. Woods and Ballar finished with 10 Points apiece. Pat Gol Witter paced bad Kreuz Nach with 19 Points but was far off his game at he free throw line. He missed his last six attempts and had Only five Good ones in the whole game. Doug Edwards and Kenny Holden followed got Teer with hand 13, respectively. We played a pretty Good All around game willed said. Scott s hot hand from the outside helped immensely. Hope we can do the same against shape  shape boy 60, Fuld. Is Fulda despite the absence of o Neal never did fold completely although it never actually led. Shape built up a 7-Poinl advantage by the end of the tint period and fell Back to four on a couple of occasions. However when it looked Tike the Falconi might be toning an upset the Span ans always queued the surge. Our kids heard that the big kid from Fulda was t Here and i guess the thought that meant we were joing 10 win in a Breeze. If we play that kind of came against Munich we will be playing for All the marbles saturday afternoon shape coach Steve Sherrill said. We have to play much better in every facet of the game shooting passing re bounding if we Are going to gel another win in this  pal Wilson scoring is of his game High 21 Points in the last two quarters paced a three pronged spartan attack. Jim Mumford followed with 11 and Jeff Price and Andrea Pizzio hit 10 each. Corey fair paced the Falcons with 16and Ron Moore had to All five of his baskets coming from More than 20 feet. Eliahn boys 68, Vilseck 67 Cedric Harris a most valuable play Erin last week s by Tenor tournament at Hahn started like he hat similar aspirations Here. He won the game with an 18-footer with three seconds left to Cap a 28 Point performance. He did absolutely nothing in he first Quarter As the i Hawks fell behind 18 10, but he got into the swing of things to Lead the Start of a comeback in the Sec Ond Quarter with a 10-Point Effort. He followed up with 9-Poinl showings in each of the last two periods to give the Bennor its second representative in Fri Day s semifinals. The i Hawks went ahead 49-44 inthe Middle of the third period an har Ris s Layup. He Gol two More baskets and Tim Latiker added one for a 51-44 Lead but Vilseck stole the Ball twice and care Williams scored off to Cut the margin to 51-48 after three periods. The fourth period was a , buddy was that fourth Quarter Ever exciting said i Hawk coach Darrell mood following the win. We jut did t know until the very  vol suck look the Lead at 67-66 on Wil Liams driving Lay up then hams Sank his game clincher. Harris Gol 17-Point support from la see Munich on Page 25