European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday january 31, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 26 flyers Nab Safe tourney berth Pitburg a. Germany the Wiesbaden flyers earned third place in the Continental sports conference basketball championships and a ticket to the Safe tourney after knocking out Hahn and succumbing to ram Stem in saturday s action. Today s matchup Between Ramstein and Sang Dahlum will decide the Csc Champion and runner up As Well As the spots each will fill in the Safe tournament scheduled for feb. 3-7 Here. Air Force basketball Ramstein must beat the sabers in the i . Game and again in the if necessary contest at 4 30 . To take the lop 88, Wiesbaden 84 in this game for the Chance no All the marbles the flyers looked As if they d had their wings clipped. They trailed the rams by 16 Points at the intermission and could t Stop the deficit from spreading to 10 in the second half. Finally the flyers came around be Hind the scoring finesse of John Myrick who netted 16 of his is Points in the second half. But the rams had a scoring Ace or their own in Sammie Wallace Olio Cameo Luthc Bench to score 28, with incoming in the second half. Anthony Mcnaul dropped in 20 More Points far Ramstein. Wiesbaden managed to close the spread before the final Buzzer with four straight 3-Poinlcrs. Wiesbaden 78. La non 11 Wiesbaden look the lend Early closed the half Al 38-29 and never looked Back in it quest Tor a guaranteed spot in the Safe championships. Flyers Dyrell Reeves and Randy Orick us combined for 45 Points scoring 23 and 22, respectively. Huhn s scoring was led by Ike Johnson with 26 paints. Problem Between Brown Kansas still unresolved Lawrence Kan. A Kansas basketball coach Larry Brown believes his meeting earlier this week with the school s faculty Ese Cutic committee has calmed relations with faculty members Over his criticism of he Way the University deals with athletes who have academic problems. But drown at his weekly news conference thursday one Day after the Jay Hawks 7ms lass to Nebraska said the problem still has not been solved. "1 fell great about the meeting he said. The lost thing i wan cd any Wiy info l was that i wanted 10 make changes in the program. It went very Well and we both made our filings known. But. If we re going to take kids into this school who Don t have the background of the average Stu Dent then we have to take responsibility for Mak ing sure that he has the Chance la be successful. I m not asking for an Ensy Way out. I m Jusi asking them to be Brown also decried the path that his athletes must follow to get a degree from one of the univer sity s professional schools. He said he thought the requirements were unfair to the athletes who do not have the background of an average student at Kansas. You be got to maintain a 2.5 Grade Point average to even get into the school of engineering school of business or school of journalism he said. If they can t do that then they re thrown Back into he general Liberal arts College. When they gel there they be got to meet unbelievable requirements. You be got 16 hours of foreign Lan Guage. They be got to take two courses in Western civilization and several other courses. In some cases these kids have a did cull Lime meeting those require Brown caused the controversy two weeks ago when he raised the same objections one Day before Kansas 88-78 loss to lows slate the ineligibility of Jay Hawks Center Marvin Branch far the second semester sparked Brown s comments. Brown angered the Kansas faculty by saying if commented about How i really feel about the faculty this school there would be a lot More microphones in front of however Brown said thursday that his remarks were misrepresented and not fully reported. He said he tried of remedy that by meeting with the faculty com Mittee tuesday night. Evelyn swarm chairman of the faculty committee said thursday night of the meeting a was a pretty quiet very open Exchange Between the faculty and coach Brown. He relayed some of his concerns but no specific recommendations were made by either of us. 1 certainly feel it was better to have a fact to fact meeting to discuss this. One of the Points we made Clear to Couch Brown is that we As a faculty arc interested in All students not just an sports television pro football surer bowl pre Girage show 10 . Sunday super Bow Klc Kod special 11 45 . San Day super bowl Tuat Washington rat Sklivis w. Denier Bronco Midnight. Radio pro football super bowl 11 45 . Sun toy. World cup skiing Yugoslavia s Mateja sect aids to a world cup giant slalom Victor saturday it Kranska gun in her own country. Yugoslavia s Svet triumphs Kranska Gora Yugoslavia a Yugo Slavia s Matyja Svet won the last Ore olympic women s world cup giant slalom saturday ahead of Switzerland s Vreni Schneider. Sect 19, pleased the partisan crowd by winning in 2 minutes and 15,75 finished second in 1 17,41, and Austri an Anita Wachtor and Spain s Blanca for Nanci Ochoa were tied for third place with 2 17,82. Nobody shall Ever know what this result Means to me especially in View of Calgary said sect her Hopes buoyed to achieve a lop place in the Winter olympics m Canada. I was in a crisis throughout december and had lost Svet said. My advantage Here was the knowledge of the skiing Down the Vitrac Mountain with a Grace she has preserved from her childhood Ballet train ing Svet built a commanding 1.64 second first heat Lead and Cradvan tango never was in jeopardy. The event was in doubt when heavy snowfall set in one hour before the Start on the Coune soaked by rain that had fallen for some 36 hours. The Competition got under Way one hour late but the finish line had to be moved 60 feel Uphill away from dangerous patches of yellow grass. Maria Wall scr of Switzerland speaking for Sev eral other skiers protested to judges about poor visibility demanding cancellation of the event. She had finished Only 23rd in the first heat the Sun broke through the Clouds for the second heal attracting some 5,000 fans routine for Secl. Debbie Armstrong of Seattle the Best placed american in the first run fell As she negotiated one of the last of the 43 gales in the second heal. Catherine Quittel of France was fifth in 2 19.14, West German Christine Meier sixth in 2 19.19 and Ulrick Mair of Austria seventh in 2 19.74. Austrian men place 1-2-3-4 Schlad Ming Austria a Rudi Nierlich led a quartet of austrian to the lop places in a men s world cup giant slalom ski race saturday the last men s race before inc Winter olympics. Nierlich was timed in i minutes 45.54 seconds for the two runs. Hubert Strolz was second. 2 45.63. Helmut Mayer and Cuen Lucr Madr followed in 2 46.03 and 2 46,91, respectively. Switzerland s Pirmin Zurbriggen finished eighth one place ahead of Italy s Alberto Tomba. To main Tain his world cup Overall Toad which he gained with Friday downhill Victory. It was the first world cup Victory for inc 21 year old Nierlich he bad seconds in both the morning and afternoon runs on a course which dropped 396 meters and had 57 Gates. I individual limes were 1 19.68 and 1 25,b6, respectively. Mayer was the Leader Nufler the morning run with 1 i8.t9, while stroll led the second run in 1 25.70. Mayer was Only toil fastest in the second run. It was the first Lime the austrians had swept the first four places in a race since 1982 when Ham Cir Alicr led four austrians in a downhill race. Zurbiggen now has 219 Points while Tomba Hai 213 in the Overall standings. Tomba won three ear Lier giant slalom and has four slalom victories this year. Hans Pieren of Switzerland was the first non austrian saturday with a fifth place in 2 46.94. Markus was Cir of West Germany was sixth in 2 47.11 just ahead of another aurian Hani Enn in 2 47.38
