European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday March 9, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 25 Neu Ulm trims Bamberg 103-94 writer Neu Ulm Germany like most cams the Bamberg Barons thought if they could Stop Neu Jim s Star guard Charles Nasli they could Stop the Hawks sunday. Right who they needed to Stop was the res of the Hawks. Ecu Ulm got 30 Points from Elijah Caldwell 25 from Reserve guard Daryl Quick and a surprising 18 from Center Marvin Ford to Post a 103-94 Victory Over the Barons. Nash has been the leading scorer Forney Ulm this season but he suffered his worst game of the year against the Barons. Nash shot 3 of 19 from the Field before fouling out with 2 05 left having scored just nine Points. Michael Bryant who fuelled a late Bamberg comeback that fell Short said the Barons won the Battle against Nash Only to lose the War against the key to winning against Neu Ulm usually is to Stop Nash we did that audit backfired. Their other Guys who Don t score that much killed us Bryant As in Kaboom Caldwell brought the House Down witha Jordan Esquo Dunk but it was the play of Ford especially on the boards that pleased Neu Ulm coach Bill Hawkins. Hawkins the former All army player who coached the Hawks to a 10-2 first place finish in Vii corps Southern Divi Sion this year did t even expect Ford to earn a spot on the the beginning of the year i was t even sure Ford would make the team. Wanted him because of his size 6-foot 6but he was t in shape he was slow Palm triumphs again in Safe nordic meet Kaltenbrunne Germany the seniors proved that saturday s showing in the Safe nordic ski championships was not a Fluke Here sunday. The top men s senior competitor turned in better times than the open division leaders again sunday As the Safe championships wound up with the 2.5-Kilometer spent and the 10-kilo-meter relay. Each of the top three seniors Ages 30-39 turned in a better time than the men s open Winner. And the leading masters skier had a clocking that would have placed second in the open s Steve Palm who won saturday s 12-Kilometer distance race showed that he can sprint too. Turning in a 9-minute, 35.66-second clocking to easily dominate the 2.5-km race. He came Back later to erase a minute deficit in the 10-Kilometer relay and pro vide Anchor Suzy Wolf a 48-second advantage which she maintained As Wiesbaden no. I took first place in that outpaced Ben Waters Brian Gor Don by almost nine seconds in taking the sprint title and Bonn s Richard Baird was third some 48 seconds behind. Gordon who skied for Ben Waters but is stationed in Ahlhorn Germany hit the tape in9 44.56. Baird came Home in 10 23.52. Torrejon s Bill moms captured the open Crown with a 10 52.78 time and Ramstein s Brooks Booker turned in an11 11.47 to win the masters race. That time was almost 17 seconds better than runner up Frank Kratzer of Hahn in the open race. Kratzer finished in 11 28.07.third place in the open went to Benwa ters Mark Ladin in 1 39.79.wolf turned in a 15 54.59 race to beat out High Wycombe s Bethnie Zialkowski in the women s event Nie Zialkowski finished in 16 45.40. Theother women were far behind. Palm was racing in his third Safe meet. In 1986, he won the seniors Dis Tance race and finished second in the sprint. This year he was in a class by himself. He was raised in Minnesota and was a distance runner at South Dakota state. Bill Muhr who finished third in the masters spent and Paul Cackovich skied the first two legs on the relay but they fell behind All stars Baird and Booker in the relay to set the stage forthe Palm comeback heroics. Wolf retained the Lead and the Tea finished in 50 51.62. Nie Zialkowski and Morris had the last two legs for the Sec Ond place All Star team that was formed so that everyone would have an Opportunity 19 compete in the relay. Considering the circumstances under which they have been training Morris and Ledin fared quite Well in the championships. Morris was on skis a total of four times this year All in Alpine saturday he had t been on Cross country skis since he graduated fro fort Lewis College in Colorado seven years was the Only returning open skier. He finished seventh a year ago an improved his time from 13 04.62 to 11 39.79 As he moved up to third. He s marathoner and. Gets his distance train ing by staying in shape for that , his skiing training comes on roller skis at Hyde Park in is a triathlete and represented the air Force in Hawaii in 1985, Fin Ishing sixth among the military competitors. He also races bicycles and com petes in the triathlon with a German became a member of the Wiesbaden team by Accident. She was Cross country skiing by herself in the Wiesbaden area when Palm on one of his prac Tice runs discovered her and recruited her on the spot. The three races at Gar Misch were her first venture into competitive skiing. But Hawkins has a cure for s called suicide sprints. Coach also had us run them before we shot free throws in practice and after if we missed them Ford said with sigh sunday. But the Only sighing besides for came from the Bamberg fans that made the trip sunday hoping for an went away empty handed just like the Barons did at the foul game was decided at the Charity Stripe where the Hawks made 33 of 43while the Barons could hit Only 16 of 32. Caldwell was particularly Sharp hitting14 of 16 to go along with 8-of-l i shoot ing from the Charity Stripe snap shooting came in Handy when a crucial error by Bamberg s Pirmin Zurbriggen. Winning Aspen race coach Kevin Mcc Cyr provided the turn ing Point in the game in the first half. Neu Ulm ran off an 11-0 Streak to take its first Lead of the game 31-22. With 6 30 left. Al Whitfield came Back to Putin a shot from the Low Post for the Barons to Cut the deficit to Neu Ulm s next trip Down court Bamberg s Jasper Martin was called underneath for fouling Caldwell. Mcc Cvar vehemently questioned the Call More to inspire his team than to get the Call re versed and was whistled for a two shot technical. Caldwell calmly Sank All four free throws to Start a 9-0 Streak that the gave the Hawks their biggest advantage of the game 40-24.when Quick had three chances to score from Down Low right before the half remade the last one count at the Buzzer for a 53-37 Neu Ulm Lead. Zurbriggen nabs season downhill title Aspen Goto. Up Pirmin Zur Briggen of Switzerland won his fifth downhill race of the season saturday an added the world cup downhill title to the Overall cup championship he won week earlier in Japan. Zurbriggen was the 15th racer out of the starting Gate saturday but a rapidly deteriorating course did not keep him from leading a Swiss sweep of the top three spots in the s winning time of i min Ute 47.29scconds through the two Mil course was .05 of a second faster than his teammate Daniel Mahrer. Switzerland a Karl Alpiger was third in 1 48.04. World downhill Champion Peter Muel Ler of Switzerland the Only racer with a Chance to catch Zurbriggen in the world cup standings skied wide to the right of a Gate and was Mair of Italy was fourth in 1 48.57 Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg fifth in 1 48.58 Anton St incr of Austria sixth with 1 48.92 Helmut to Felchner of Austria seventh in 1 48.98 Franz he incr of Switzerland eighth in 1 49.01 american Doug Lewis ninth in 1 49.13 and Felix Belczyk of Canada 10th in 1 49.17. Canadian wins nordic race Falun Sweden a Pierre Harvey of Canada made the ski race of his life to win his country s first Ever world cup Victory in Cross country skiing in the 30 Kilometre event of the swedish ski games Here saturday. Harvey achieved an impressive Victory Over a Strong Field europeans winning by More than a one minute margin Over runner up Alxey pro Koropov of the so Viet Union and Torgny Mogren of swe Den. Italy s Piero Vanzetta placed fourth. Harvey who won in 1 hour 17 min utes 46.5 seconds said this is the bes Trace of my career. I fell super Good All through the race. I dreamed of this All my life. I would have been satisfied to place among the top saturday s event was raced in free style. Pro Koropov was clocked at 1 18.53. Mogren finished in 1 19.09 and Vanzetta in 1 19.17 in a close finish among the three closest to the Canadian. Mogren now has the Lead in us world cup standings. Tyson from Page 21 Adverse situation. He chose not to mix it with the unbeaten 20-year-old,who was making his first wac defense. Smith s Best punch May have been that right to the jaw in the final seconds of the final round. It rocked Tyson but Tyson came Back with a left Hook. The Short Blocky Tyson did not have the style tomake a boxing match out of it and Smith chose not to turn it into a slugging match. The pattern of the fight was set in the first , who had to go the distance for Only the third time in 31 pro fights tried to feint to get inside handwork the body and head. But when he got inside the 6 foot-4 Smith would tie him , who is listed at 5-11 i but appears a couple of inches Shorter was unable to unleash the clusters of punches that had marked his Rise to boxing stardom. When Smith was t tying him up Smith would Circle away much to the displeasure of the crowd. Some of the Best action came after the first round Ell. The two men exchanged words and Tyson shoved a Glove in Smith s did it again in the second As Well. Smith was Cut Over the left Eye in that round but it never bothered him. The two men also exchanged blows after two other rounds. Possibly the Best round of the fight was the seventh. Smith landed a Good left and right to the head Ai the Ell. Earlier Smith had landed a left Hook and caught Tyson with a Good right uppercut. Tyson landed several Abs and a couple of Good rights. Adding to the one sided decision was the fact that referee Mills Lane deducted one Point from Smith in both the second and eighth rounds for was a 7-1 favorite and much of the Money Bel was on the fight not going the , who weighed 233, won the Aba title with a shocking first round knockout of Tim Witherspoon Las dec. 12 at new York. Tyson. 219. Won the wac litle with a second round knockout of Trevor Burbick her last november. Tyson s purse was $1.5 million while Smith got $1million. It was referee Lane who earned his Money
