European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday. April 25. 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 25 . Downs Turkey 81 -57 behind Green s 35 Points in Bubuc Syfox staff writer Mannheim. Germany the . Basketball team played on a hockey rink Friday night and put Turkey on ice. Playing defense that would make the canadians proud and Riding John Gwynn s 35 Points the Ameri cans won 81-57. The Triumph vaulted the United Stales. Minto the Albert Schweitzer tournament final against spam at 4 15 . Saturday at this same Eis station. The turks despite All of their drum banging fans slipped into the cold world of Consolation finalists. They la fight Abr third place with Germany a which lost 76-61 to Spain in Friday s earlier semifinal. The ., which had relied on its hot shooting to reach the semifinals this time Cut up Turkey with a knifing Man to Man. When the turks did get off a shot the Dale Davis led front line of americans were waiting for the re bound. The . Out rebounded the Turku 41-21, with Davis hauling Down 14. No second chances for Turkey. Fifty seven Points said . Coach Mccann of the Turkey total. Good. Our team goal was 60 Points or less. I told them if they held them to .60 or less we would be in the the coaches told us to Box out said Davis the 6 fool-9 georgian headed for Clemson. It was physical out Mccann praised Ryan Drew for his coverage of Turkey Point guard Umit aka. Akal clicked on Only two of seven shots zip for two in the second half for four Points. He was the key Mccann said of Drew the 6-3 Seattle area shooting guard signed with Cal who also contributed eight Points. He Nad inc Point guard and jumped All Over him. No doubt he was the outstanding player in our concept.1 no doubt who was the top player in the . Of sense Gwynn. For the fifth game in the americans unbeaten Streak this 6-fool guard from the washing Ion d.c., area led their scoring. This Lime Gwynn gunned in his top Basket production including Lour three pointers. He had 22 in the Aln sports television baseball Milwaukee Brewers it Baltimore orioles or new York Yankees at Cler Elind indians 7 . Saturday. Hockey nil playoffs smythe division finals Edmonton oilers in Winnipeg jets 1 30 . Sunday. Radio basketball Aba playoffs Denver nuggets at los Angeles lakers 9 Jop a saturday. Baseball Boston red sox at Texas rangers 2t3? an. Sunday. Finland upsets Sweden 4 1 Dale Davis Steve Gram first half and sparked the Blitz that gave the . A 38 29halftimetcad. They were playing off me so i look the outside shot said Gwynn who plans to announce his College when he lands Home sunday he s got the quickest release on his jump shot that i be ," said Mccann whose hot guard Man aged a three Point Comer shot in the second half while hardly looking at the Basket. There s no Way anybody can Slop it Gwynn turned Down the turkish fans Drums for Good Early in the second half. First Gwynn Shook Oil a blatant turkish hold and caught angry whistles from the turkish stands. He answered with a top of the key jumper. Moments later he nailed a three Pointer for a 54-33 . Lead with 15 41 left. The bucket capped a . Run of 14 straight Points. Included in the run was scan Green s vicious Dunk. In was the kind of slam that makes More noise than one of those turkish tambourines. It almost made up for a 3-for-12 shooting seven Point night Tor Green inc High saying Forward who Wilt play for North Carolina state next season. Sean Green had an olt night said Mccann but hell be Back besides Gwynn the Only other american in double figures was Steve Grant the future Vanderbilt com Moore with 11 Points. Volkan Aydin paced Turkey with 14 Points. And what about Spain which stands 4-2? the spaniards lost to the americans 114-92 wednesday but it was a two Point game until the final four minutes. It s Tough to beat a team twice said Mccann perhaps recalling 1983 when is yanks Cal Italy in the Early rounds but lost to the italians in the final. We have to recapture what we did in the last 3 and a half minutes it s Gonna be Tough agreed Gwynn. Spain is a physical bal club and they do have a revenge Factor to go Turkey s cent Renda swats us Sean Green i 8 shot. Soviets nip Canada in world hockey Duel Vienna Austria a balding canadians gave the soviet Union its toughest fight of the 52nd world hockey championships Friday losing 3-2 to a Long Range final session snapshot by the tournament s lop goal scorer Vladimir Kurtov. Finland which has never won it world championship medal earlier upset its scandinavian neighbor Sweden 4-1 to throw the race for places in this year s playoffs wide open. The soviets who had won their five previous games on a 41-8 tally found the canadians in no mood to give Way. Ai 9 23 of the firs session. Valeri Kirin Cinski netted on an assist by Al Xci cd Surov. Bui within ii seconds Dino Ceccarclli prodded the puck Home from close Range in a scramble in front of the soviet goal. The second period score ended the same after Sergei Makarov lop scorer at the last two world championships scored Ai 1 58 for the soviets Only for Kirk Muller to level in at 16 49. Canadian Captain Mike Foligno angled in a Shol from the right thai was blocked by inc soviet goal minder Evgeni Bolo Sheykin and Muller turned a de fender before slotting Home. The aggressive style of inc canadians continued to Knock the smooth flowing soviets off heir stride and Dirk Graham missed a Chance of firing Canada ahead when he pushed inc puck wide on a on on on with the goalie. The soviets also missed their chances but Kurtov showed the Way 10 goal by pulling his seventh of the Competition from two Yards inside inc Blue line. Although the match ended with no jostling with soviet players the game never flared into inc sort of violence that marred the Junior equivalent in Czecho Slovakia last january. Then both squads ended up fighting on the ice and inc tournament was abandoned leading to lengthy suspensions far inc players and coaches. Finland Riding a wave of unpopularity after sparking a Chain of events that led 10 West Germany s losing two matches 11 had won produced an inspirational performance with three strikes in inc final period against Sweden. Janne Ojanen scored two goals and Jarmo myllys produced a near perfect performance in goal. A close Range goal by Pekka Jarvela at 1 45 of the second period gave Finland a 1-0 Lead but the swedish Cam tied the score at 13 37 of the same session by Mikael Andersson after a scramble in front of the finns net Sweden pressed hard and created Sev eral Good scoring opportunities in the third period bul failed to score due mostly to the Brave and skilled no mind ing of myllys. At 1 20 of the lost period qua non scored his first goal on a breakaway when the finns played Sho handed and added another one at 15 09 Tram Point Blank Range. The last goal for Finland which has never won a medal us the world tournament and placed fourth at inc last one in Moscow was scored at i7 j4 by Teppo Numminen the result lied both the scandinavian teams with 8 Points in the standings and left the Competition for the four first Lucani that take part in the Metal rounds wide open
