European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 7. 1flb7 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary if $ time for a shoot out at the Rock Hanau Baum older drop the gloves put up the Dukes. This  of flee Usa eur basketball season. Baum older the growling junkyard bears of carps Ait going to try id Chew up Hanau t Hulk hornets saturday. If you want a basketball game with Community Pride intense rivalry and colourful to put it mildly coaches the bears and hornets can usually provident All Ai they will when they meet in Baum older s Hall of champions. Whether you re a women s fan or men a these games arc not for the weak of heart in watching the Twilight zone gets your ticker overloaded Don l bother tuning up to tune in this set fight zone. It s sure to be up and. Down nip and tuck in and out Overand under. Hanau s men Are 8-1 lied for first with surprising Frankfurt in v corps Eastern Region. Baum older s men Are 9-3, Good enough for two games behind Eddie Sulton s Tough Wiesbaden squad in uie West. They meet in the 3 . Game. As for the women shocking Hanau has Given Frank furl s Falla nottes a Tough race with the teams dead locked in first place in the East at 9-2. Baum older women 7-5, claim first in the West but just by a half. Game whisker Over Wiesbaden. 6-5. They meet before the men All . To make it More interesting As if there were a need Frankfurt will Host Wiesbaden in men s and women games Friday night. That makes the Hanau Baumholzer head on collisions even More damaging to the Fatali ties that fait of the Rock saturday. The Rock in Case you Are unaware is what the troop Scall the Hilltop enclave that is Baum older it Symbol izes the Barren eerie isolation of serving the us army Way out in the Sticks of Baum older. Let me left you about playing on the Rock Tim Bovim Clint Wims the women s coach said. There arc Only two kinds of sports that Mailer in Europe Csc football and Baum older basketball. Everything else  Fred Clark the bears men s coach agrees. I came Here two years ago and heard about the Hanau Baum older rivalry in the Stales. Roderick Roach Hanau i men s coach and i Are very com Petil ivc but this is something that has been going on for years before i came to the  the Rock is also what the winners of these games Are going to end up being. It s going to Lake Slingshot from Andre the giant to catapult them out of the Way come playoff time. Saving the Best for last that s whal happening in All of the Usa eur commands this year. In addition to those v corps matchup 21stsupport come and Vii corps have games this weekend that could affect the playoffs. In the 21st, Thomas Benson lakes his soul him division first place Mannheim Mustangs with War ring Warren Evans and lean Peter Allyn a into Parma sons at 3 . Saturday to face the 9-4 roadrunner. In the women s matchup at 1 ., Mannheim puts its 12-0 Mark up against third place 9-4 Parma sons. In Vii corps Bamberg travels to Neu Ulroy to Lake on the Hawks in a men s matchup at 3 .  Hawks Are 9-2 and in first place in the Southern division. The Barons ans in second two games Back at 7-4, but those games have nothing on the tradition that is Hanau Baum older playing in the Hall of champions is a filling setting for these perpetual prizefighter. Don t worry about a Crown being on hand. Up on the Rock we Don l make the fans come to the games said Clark. The Vlaum Holder Poel Lau reate we sell $400 to j500 Worth of tickets for Frierson they love their  Clark says the players pay Back thai support with the Way they carry themselves. "1 Tell my players first they have to be a Good Soldier then they have to have Good character. They can l Embarrass them selves because when they do they Embarrass the  and when the hornets walk into the Hall of champions. Clark and Wims say it will be War. Baum older does t fear anybody Clark said. We be gone to Mannheim and beaten  be taken on a town Well go to Schweinfurt March 14. It will not be said thai Baum older fears anybody. Respect them yes. Fear  this is the pit said Wims who will be missing his two Best players and still is idling to get out the Rush and put on the War paint. When they come into the Hall of champions they be walked into inc Bear pit we May have lost three games on the Road recently but we Haven t lost in our gym yet i t s a Long Road to the Rock for the hornets but if either Hanau quinies loses the trip Home will be even longer. Wims and Clark arc More than willing la map of  Way.  College from Page 21 makes it easier later coach Don Chan by said. It helped our Confidence to get off so Good. We did a Good Job of coming out balanced. We weren t emotionally High but we were mentally  i hit my first shot and that helped my Confidence Evans said. Our press seemed to bother them and we got off to a Good  Evans played 39 m i nuts and Only had one turnover. In the Sec at Atlanta Anthony Wil in and Oliver Brown scored 16 Points each As Ltd took command Early. The tigers 19-13, advanced to a Friday night quarterfinal Battle against conference runner up Florida. The Tigen forced is turnovers and made 11 steals. I thought we played pretty aggressive defense and got our hands on a lot of balls and caused a lot of turnovers which turned the game around Brown said. In the first ver Pacific to postseason tournament. Arizona stale whipped Washington slate 76-60, and Oregon edged Southern California 51-49. The Sun devils were to face top seeded Cla the Host team Friday afternoon. In regular season games involving ranked teams. No. 6 Iowa routed North Western 103-76 and 20th-raled notre Dame beat Miami fta., 65-49. Tournaments elsewhere in tournament play thurs Day night. Cleveland stale one of the land oils in the 1986 Mcaa festival beat Eastern Illinois 60-53 in the mid continent opening round at Spring Field mo., where Illinois Chicago wis Consin Green Bay and Southwest mis Souri also won. Boston Coll i Downe Connecticut 61-59 in inc opener of the big Easl event at new York. Weber stale stunned Montana state 106-101, Idaho edged Montana 63-62, Idaho tale had a 78-77 win Over Boise state and Nevada Reno was a 82-80 Winner Over Host Northern Arizona in the big sky. Northeastern beat Siena 89-79 Sid Boston University took Niagara 84-8i in the Recac North Atlantic semifinals mid american first round contests were won by Eastern Michigan Kent slate and Bowling . Bethune Cookman North Caro Lina at and South Carolina slate advanced in the mean Grambling South Ern Texas Southern and Jackson stale won in the Swap. Georgia soul him Houston Baptist Mercer and Arkansas Little Rock won in the trans America. Texas Elpaso Brigham Young new Mexico and Wyoming won in the  Mcfadden scored 23 Points As Cleveland slate overcame a 14-Point deficit to defeat Eastern Illinois. The Vikings trailed 33-25 at halftime and were Down 41-27 before they roared Back outscoring the panthers 26-12 in a 12-Minulc spurt to lie the score at s3.mcfadden and Clinton Monsey scored 10 Points each during the  Little Rock which also made an Impact on last year s tournament by upending notre Dame sur Vived with a 62-60 Victory in the open ing round of the trans America Tome when Texas san Antonio s Frank Hampton missed a three Point shot at the Buzzer. Top seeded Valr 22-8,won the regular season talc Crown. Senior Eddie Powell hit six three Point cars As he scored 22 Points All in the first half but Curtis Kidd who had been the trojans top scorer missed All nine of his shots from the Field before fouling  big sky festivities in flags Alt aril., were wild with two one Point games and the no. 8 seed Weber stale upending no. I Montana stale. Harry Wiilis scored 23 Points and Wall tyler22 As the wildcats built a 19-Point Lead. Regular season Iowa s Kevin Gamble scored 21 Points and Reserve guard Jeff  connected for five three Point Field goals at North Western. The Hawk eyes made nine three pointers and won their 13th conference game against just four losses. It was Iowa s 26th win Overall and the 100th coaching Victory for Iowa s Tom Davis who is in his first year at Iowa City. Warriors defeat rockets 105-96 from prom dispatches Oakland Calif. Joe Bany car Roll scored 31 Points thursday night to Pace the Golden state warriors to a 105 96 Victory Over the Houston rockets. Carroll hit 14 of 24 shots from Thefield and three of four free throws. His counterpart Houston Center of seem Ola Suwon collected 24 Points and eight re Bounds but fouled out in the fourth Quarter. The warriors never trailed jump ing to a 15-6 Lead in the first four min utes. Golden state held a 58-49 half time Lead and both teams scored 47 Points in the Sec Ond half 26 in the third Quarter cml land 21 in the fourth each. After the Strong Golden slate Start the closest the rockets Drew was one Point 46-4s, mid Way through the second Quarter. Eric Floyd added 20 Points for Golden stale and Larry Smith contributed 15points and 12 rebounds. Chris Mullin and Purvis Short each chipped in 12 Points. In other Gomes thursday Nugget 12t, spurs 104 Denver Alex English scored 43 Points shooting 18 of 22 from the Field 10 Lead Denver Over san Antonio. Lafayette lever finished with 20 Points and Mark Alarie added 17. David Greenwood and Alvin Robertson scored in Points each for the spurs. San Antonio shot 38 percent in the first Quarter bul trailed Only 27-26 on the strength of Greenwood and Anthony Jones who finished the period with 7 Points each. Denver built a 6-Point Lead at the half Aba Roant Lup with English Hilling 12 of 13 from the Field and 2 of 2 free throws. The nuggets broke from a 7-Poinl Lead in the fourth Quarter building a 16-Poinl margin mid Way through the period and cruising to the Victory. Suns 126. Cavaliers 102 Phoenix am Alvan Adam scored 23 Points to help Phoenix break a seven game losing Streak. Interim coach Dick Van Arsate posted his first Victory As the suns sen Cleveland to its sixth straight loss. Adams who went 10 for 13 from inc floor was backed by Larry Nance with 20 Points 10 rebounds and 6  Davis added 19 Points Mike Sanders 17 and Jay Humphries 16 Points and 11 assist. Rookie Ron Harper Ted the Cavaliers with 27 Points followed by Mark Price with 16 and Brad Daugherty and Mark West with is each. Phoenix broke to a 28-8 Lead in the first 8 i minutes when the Cavaliers were hampered by eight turnovers and poor shooting. The suns led 36-19 after one Quarter. Harper led a Cleveland surge late in the first half scoring 8 straight Points and closing the Gap to 54-40. Two Layup by fellow Rookie Daugherty followed putting the Cavaliers within 54-44. How Ever Cleveland trailed 62-31 at halftime. Super sonic 127. Trail blazers 111 Seattle Dale Ellis scored 38 Points and stole two passes in the last minute 10 Lead Seattle Over Portland. With Seattle leading 123-122, Ellis picked off a pass and drove the length of the court for u Layup. Kiki Vandeweghe scored a season High 48 Points Tor the blazers and Clyde Drexler added 20. Portland played with out three key injured players