European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 8,1987 the stars and stripes Page 25 . Seeks 4th straight at shape byte Saunders stuff in Rilver the . Team lays its siring of three straight Shai e interns Rajil basketball tournament championships on the line tuesday when it inks on the Netherlands in the first game of the 27th annual Competition. In All seven countries Are represented in the olym Pic Pool style tournament. Daly Spain and Germany make up the a bracket. The United kingdom bet Guim the Netherlands and the . Fill the b bracket. Top two teams in each bracket following round Robin play tuesday wednesday and thursday will advanced of semifinal action Friday. Winners of the Semi play in saturday s final a position where the . Team has made its presence Felt. The . Team has grabbed 10 of the past 12 lilies losing in 1981 and 1983 to Italy. This year the . Cam is banking on new face Sand a Man accustomed to stringing victories to Lake Home a fourth straight title. Bob a Boll former Ramstein rams and lady rams coach look Over the leading role on Short notice after Tilburg s George Price bowed out for Persona reasons. Despite having Only a week to Sand Down the rough edges Abbott feels confident he . Team won t be a disappointment. We still Don t have everything Down Pat but i satisfied where we re at said a Boll who said the Only problem in the line up is a Lack of height our biggest Guy is fi-Foat-7 and we re looking a warns like the italians to have players 6-foot-10. Well have to get the Ball Down court before they get Dow court. Well have to run said Abbott. We re pulling things  putting hings together has been he . Team Strong suit since 1975. The . Team has won 10 of inc last 12 tournaments including its current three straight titles. Italy took the other two titles. In 1981 Italy broke a siring of six straight , wins. The .came Back in 1982, then Jalaly rebounded in 1983, the three year Streak by the . Team does t intimidate a Boll. Stringing victories is something he knows about. At Ramstein he took the men s team tothe Continental sports conference finals from 1980 through the 1986 season. The lady rams won the Csc and Safe crowns in the 1977-78 season then went on to win three More in a Row. Past . Shape victories were sparked by old hats at the tourney. In 1984, Herman Harris canned a 3-Pointcr with 28 seconds Eft in the championship game to scratch out the title against rival Italy 85-84. In 1985, Harris resumed and along with John Bailey supplied the offensive fireworks to overtake Italy 106 85. Bailey came Back in 1986 to team with Robert Esles and Benton Wade for a third straight title. It was sols Phol v oui left Uertz , shape tournament coach Bob Abbott. ,. Well have to run Wade s fourth year As a /.s. Team member. This year the names Are new. And although height May be a problem Abbott feels confident about the Money makers the outside shooters. I m relying on Evans Warren Evans of Mann Hei Watkins Butch Watkins of Rhein main. Thompson Morris Thompson of Myrtle Beach . And Burks Kevin Burks of Lucr Surg to give us out Side shooting. By outside i mean anything including the 3-Poinlcrs," said Abbott. Evans 6- Bol-4thomp son 6-4 and Burk 6-2 Are guards. Watkins at 6-1, is a Forward. Abbott s big Man is 68 Douglas Lea of  Speas of shape jives Abbott the Only other legitimate big Man at 6-7. Both play the Post position. Overall the average team height is 6-3. Other members of the team Are guards Anth Nysmith of Rota Spain and Allen Gray of Aviano a Italy forwards include Butch Martin of so Steiberg the Netherlands Curtis Jeffries of Rhein main Byro Beard of Bamburg and Troy Russell of Wiesbaden. With the exception of the front line i m satisfied with the team. Not to put Down the front line they have Good Talent they just Lack he Lgth  Abbott. Tie cited quickness As a positive asst to the Offens which he said is a pressure  in a pressure offence we Don l look for an individual. We move the Ball around and keep i he pressure on. A shot will open  he also keys his offence on the transition game. We re looking to get a lot of Points off our transition game. The key to this is our fast break which worked Welt against Dij Lingen Abbott said. Dil Lingen. A German team was one of four exhibition games inc . Team played to work out the bugs. Abbott spent the final week of training trying to hone the pressure offence and polish outside shooting by play info exhibition games. The . Also played bit Burg and Spang Dahlum base teams and a belgian team in Luxembourg. Wins Over Tilburg and Spang Lahlum were by comfortable margins while the Luxembourg learn proved tougher. Trying to get these Guys to mesh is a difficult thing to do said Ahbol recalling his first three games. When adrenaline gels running they revert into what they be been doing before Strep tall our outside shooting was t Good. But it s there and i m sure it will come  against dil Lingen outside shooting again was t there but the transition game was and helped . Team to a 20-Poinl win. Despite our Lack of height our players were getting the rebounds they weren t gelling pushed out said Abbott who relies on rebounds to set up the fast break. Defensively Abbott plans to change almost Ever time the opponent comes Down court. When opponents come Down floor they la have to adjust to what we re doing instead of setting up he said. Defensive setups include two types of zone an two types of Man to Man. The . Learn should have Lime to Iron out any offensive and defensive wrinkles before going up against traditionally Tough Competition. The schedule has the . Team facing the Netherlands tuesday at 3p.m. And inc United kingdom wednesday at 7 . Before going up against Belgium thursday no 9 . In inc final game of Pool style play. I m very satisfied with the Way the schedule has been set up. But we May find the Netherlands to be inc hardest team we play he said. Winning is what Abbott is All about. He plans to be around to Cash in some big chips. I expert to be in the championship game said a Boll i m confident that who it s payday Well  Elway punt helps Broncos subdue pats Denver a Well known As a double threat with his powerful Arm and dangerous scrambling ability John Elway has added yet a third dimension to his sparkling re Penoi re. The Denver Broncos quarterback who rebounded from an Oul of sync first half with a pair of second half touchdown passes surprised new England with a Pun that pinned the patriots Al their own 5-Yard line with six minutes left two plays later comeback Mark Haynes resumed an interception for an insurance score As the Bron cos prcvailt31-20sunday. It put them in a Hole and gave our de sense the Opportunity to Stop them deep Broncos coach Dan Reeves said of Elway s 31-Yard kick on fourth Down. John shows me something new every  on fourth and the acc from the new eng land 36, Elway lined up in Shotgun forma Tion As if to go for a first Down. Instead showing perfect Quick kick technique he punted the Ball and in was downed at the 5. New England suffered five of its six turn overs in the second half. The Broncos capital need on two turnovers deep in Patriot territory for a pair of third Quarter scores to pull even at 17-17. And after a new England Field goal Elway took the Broncos 74 Yards in six plays hit Ling Mark Jackson on a 2-Yard to pass any in the final period. After Quay s kick Haynes picked off atom Ramsey pass in the Nghil Flat and ran in Back 14 Yards for an insurance score. The Victory Denver s fourth in a Row moved the Broncos into first place in the acc West and at 8-3-1, gave them inc bes record in the conference. The patriots who built their Early Lead on Reggie Dupard s 10-Yard run Ramsey s 4 Yard pass to Tony Collins and a ton Franklin Field goal fell to 5-7. Denver turnovers contributed to new England s 17-3 Edge at  Winder s second Fimble of the opening period was recovered by Papirio linebacker de Williams and the pats needed to March Only 42 Yards for the game s first score. Dupard swept the left Side for his first n Al score. Following a Rich Karlis Field goal. New England went 80 Yards in eight plays High lighted by Dupard s 49-Yard run around right end the Ramsey to Ccllins to pan made ill 4-3 with 1 13 left in he half fifty seconds later Elway s off Lac Mari pass was intercepted by comeback Rod Mcswain who resumed it 17 Yards to the Denver 29. Franklin convened a Field goal just before time expired. The patriots resumed the turnover Favoron the first play from scrimmage in the third Quarter. Irving Fryar fumbled a Handoff and Denver linebacker Jim Ryan recovered at the is. Four plays later Tony Boddie plunged 1 Yard for the to. With 8 50 left in the period linebacker Karl Mecklenburg intercepted and ran it Back 16 Yards to the new England 19. It Way s 7-Yard pass to Akk Massie produced a 17-17 tie. Bengals nip chiefs on Breech s Fig in overtime Cincinnati a mired in a sea son of frustration kicker Jim Breech Fig ured there was Only one thing to do Sun Day with the game on the line in overtime. He prayed and then he kicked his third Field goal of the game a 32-yarder with j 16 left in the extra period to atone for an earlier Block and give the Cincinnati bengals a 30-27 Victory Over the Kansas City chiefs. The bengals last minute miseries were in mind As Well As his own failures As he lined up the winning kick against team that had already blocked one. We be been snakebite Breech said. I was thankful i got the  Bengal regulars have lost four games inthe closing i nulls and Breech has been a Central figure. The new York jets blocked one of his kicks and returned in for a Odwith less than two minutes to play a week ago to beat Cincinnati. With the bengals 4-8, leading the chiefs. 2-10, by four in the fourth Quarter sunday he had another kick blocked by Bill Maas. Kevin Ross scooped it up and returned in 65 Yards to give the chiefs their first Lead. But Boomer Esiason rallied the Beng als to a go ahead score Nick Lowery tied the game with a Field goal As time expired an the bengals drove 79 Yards in overtime to give Breech another Chance. Arn sports radio pro basketball Milwaukee Bucks it Indian purer 1 Jojn. Wednesday