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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, August 17, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Third time s a Charm for Coopersmith Garmisch Germany Roy Coopersmith. Sieger hangers Wayne Downhour and Jacqueline Borge walked off with the individual championships Here sunday As the Usa eur Tennis tournament came Loa conclusion. Coonc Smith conquered Robert Beckvall 7-5,6-3 in an All Vii corps Bailie to win the men s open title hangers of the 26th support up prevailed overt Ulens Tulensa 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in the 35-44-year-Olds Junior monday August 17, 1987 the stars and stripes i Page 25 Usa eur Tennis veterans bracket Downhour conquered v corps teammate Joe Egan 6-0, 6- in the seniors 45 and Over Lilly match and Borge another Vii corps competitor breezed by Jodi Thompson of the 11st support come 6-1,6-2 in the women s showdown. Cooper Smith rot his second championship trophy when he and Julius Pool combined to beat 21st sup port come s Kevin Groom and Joel Seltzer in the open doubles. Downhour and Borge also won doubles medals Downhour and Egan combining to Vii corps Jasper Harris and Thomas Marris Etic 6-3, 6-4 in the seniors and Borge learning up with Dawn Levey to beat 21st support come s Tracy Brudvig and Sarea Anne ice Ley in the women s finale. In the Junior vets doubles the combo of Jercy Jack son and John Geraci prevailed Over Herbert Brush and Angel Cruz in an auth corps Battle 6-3,7-6 7-5. Bob played some of the Best Tennis i be Ever seen him play Coopersmith said following his Triumph Over Beckvall Alia his finals opponent in the Vii corps championship. I was a Little Flat but i came up with a big play when i really needed in. With the score 1-1 in the first set he hit a Good forehand Down the Side but i made an outright dive for in and made a spectacular Back hand save. That stunned him and he netted a relatively easy hot. The rest of the first set was a rugged Battle with both of us Hilling some Good shots before finally won. I ran off a string of five straight games in the second set but in took me six match Points Boon i finally  this was the third straight year Coopersmith reached the Usa eur singles title match but it marked Hii first Victory. However he qualified for the All army trials for the sixth straight time. He won the interservice no. 3 championship last year. Downhour appears to have Egan s number. His seniors Victory gave him a two year sweep Over Egan in the Frankfurt Community v corp and Usa eur tournament finals. "1 think i played As Welt today against Joe As i Ever have Downhour said. My serves were Strong and accurate and i feel my volleying was As Good As it has been All  Borge said she won her title by playing it smart after her usually Strong service game faltered. Normally my serve is the big thing but today i did t Hil it right. So i changed strategy and played a thinking Type game going to Back court and relying on a Strong rallying for my  joining Coop Eramiah on the Usa eur contingent going to the All army training Camp at fort Eustis va., Are Beckvall other open competitors George tale of the 26th support up and Levander Kelly of Vii corps Hartgen Tulensa Borge and Thompson. 84s it wed by Milf tue a font s Titt Gart s Mark Thomas beats the lag of c Lessen second baseman Hector cont Don on a steal attempt Sun Jay Giessen completes sweep to claim its first a a Crown Darmstadt Germany the Giessen Brewers own the German american baseball league championship and the right to meet the Rammin rams the Csc champions in the european world series. The Brewers scored four times in the first inning and rolled loan 8-2 Conquest of the Stuttgart Blue sox sweeping the bust of the acc series. The Brewers who posted a 13-7 regular season re Cord while finishing second to Mannheim in the Northern division posted four straight victories to win the playoff championship. They lost their first playoff game to Southern Divi Sion Champion Bamburg. But bounced Back to take the next two games. So Ulgart eliminated defending Cham Pion Mannheim by sweeping a pair last weekend. Jeff Ilams started the Brewers rolling with a double. He moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on a sacrifice Fly. Stuttgart Pitcher Matt Weir then hit Moses clerk and de nuegent moved clerk to third with a hit and run single. Mark Porter singled Home clerk nuegent slopping at second. A wild pitch advanced both batters and Hector Conception singled them Home. Brian Gutierrez doubled and scored on clerk s sin Gle to make in 5-0 in the second inning and three walks and nuegent s Hil brought in another run in the Gies sen fourth. Conception s single a walk an error and clerk s single accounted for Giessen s last two runs in the fifth. Meanwhile Bobby Oglesby was tossing Goose eggs at the Blue sox. He held them hit less for the first three inning and had a two hitter going into the sixth when Stuttgart scored an unearned run. In came on Mark Thomas double and a throwing error. Stuttgart got its other run in the next inning on a Wal k and singles by Jim Frazier and Wei r. This is a very satisfying win manager Henry a. Velez said these it Ayers had to overcome a lot of obstacles to win the championship. We had to self sup port the program until the Gissner brewery came to our support and a lot of times we could t practice because softball teams were using the Field. But we had an outstanding Leader in Jerry Brilton. He is a very disciplined player and the rest of the team followed his example Velez added. This was Velez first year As a baseball manager but he has enjoyed managerial Success on the softball Diamond. His 1965 7th army training come team reached the Usa eur finals and his 1986 Giessen team reached in the v corps finals. The Best of three series against rams Cin begins sat urday at vog Chweh Giessen will play its Home games in Maul if three games arc necessary in the european series. Our baseball Field is being used for a German american test this week and in won t be in Good enough condition to stage a championship playoff by next week. Mainz has a new Field and is a very Good baseball Community. So we arranged to play there next week Velez said. Wuerzburg squads Advance Wuerzburg s men and women each won double headers against Stuttgart on sunday to come out of the losers brackets and Clinch Vii corps berths in this weekend s Usa eur slow pitch of Bill tournaments. The men s victories came by 6-2and 4-3 scores in Stuttgart. Playing in Wuerzburg. The lady rattlers took a i-3 verdict from the Stuttgart stallions in the opener to Force the if necessary game in the double elimination tournament. They then scored three runs in the first in Ning of the Nightcap and finally prevailed 4-3. Wuerzburg broke a 3-3 lie in the sixth inning of the opener with a two run rally. A walk Vanessa Dorsey t single and Dianne Huron s double did he damage. Huron and Lila True had two hits each for the victors. Glo Ria Fenwick had two for Stuttgart. Singles by Dorsey True and Huron and an error produced the 3-0 Lead in the first inning of the second game. But it took a single by True and a Huron triple in the top of the sixth to give Lucr burb the winning run As Stuttgart tallied in the Bottom of the inning. 26th men setae women win Grafe Woehr Germany left fielder Robert Cushionberry clubbed a three run Homer to snap a la tie sunday and move the 2fith support group into this weekend s Usa eur men s Ilow pitch softball tournament in Bau Hoider. Ciaio Berry s blast enabled the 16ih to hang on to defeat the Host 7 h army train ing come 4-3 in the if necessary game of the double elimination positional tourney. Earlier sunday inc 7th at had struck for five first inning runs and five More in the next two innings on their Way to a 14-9 Victory Over the previously undefeated 26th. The 26th fared less Well in women s play sunday As the the Heidelberg women at tempting to come through the losers bracket lost their final game id setae 7-5. Karen Han s two run Homer in the seventh inning provided the winning margin for setae. The 26lh women forced sunday s Sec Ond game by Riding the Hilling of Mary Boardwine Gloria Sims and Joyce Ander son to a 8-i Victory. The Victory moves setae into this weekend s women s Toumey in Mannheim. An sports radio baseball Seattle at Minnesota . Tuesday  
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