European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 4, 198b the stars and stripes Page 21 prep Pickin s tourneys come a Little Early this year Rose Montag comes about if Early As Possi ble this year. Bui even that German carnival Day. Which heralds the end of Fasching and the beginning of Lent will be celebrated later than the end of the Winter sports Mason for Dodds Germany and run nor Small  players and All inc wrestlers in the to regions. By Rosin Romag feb. 15. The bin nor and Small schools basketball tournaments will be history. So will the Northern Southern. Western and Central regional and the Central european championships in wrestling. Terminating sports activities in what normally would be inc Middle of the season came about a couple of years ago when pc Christmas Competition was reinstated in the Germany bin nor territories. The whole season simply was advanced a couple of weeks. The . And Nlaly basketball programs and . Wrestling Competition also Ocean before Christmas this year but they Aren t ready to Termi Nate just cd. The Italy finals in both sports Ore scheduled for the week of feb. 18-10, the same Dat As the Germany big schools basketball tournament and the . Regular season runs a week longer i both sports. What would have improved the Spons program immensely in Germany and the Bennor would have been to extend inc comp Lilion by the time advanced keeping inc traditional Lale february Early March tournament formal. The basketball players would have Al least four More games and the wrestlers would have several More matches. They still would t Sec nearly As much Competition As Many High school athletes in the state who play up to 14 football games and 24 to 30 basketball games and have up to 10 weeks of wrestling Competition before the final whistles have been blown. Even a limited increase would provide More experience and As they say Espir Ienco is the Best Leach or. The Louincy Trail starts winding Down Friday wit the opening of the bin nor basketball tournament at shape and the first Day of the two Day Central regional wrestling eliminations Al accent. The Northern. Southern and Western regional Are All one Day affairs saturday Al Berlin Numberg and Halm respectively. The shape boys and Kahn girls won the by Tenor league titles to earn automatic berths in the Small schools Loum Ament net week at Hahn. The Boyl championship was the fifth straight for Steve Sher Rill s cagers and their sweep last week against Brus Sels ran their by Tenor conference winning Streak 10 35 games. The tournament will determine Bennor s second representative in the Small schools tournament. Should shape and or Hahn prevail in tournament strife the second place team in the tournament will Advance. Germany a Central and Germany a South qualify three teams apiece for the Small schools meet. The Gic Ssan boys and Fulda girls both undefeated a cent trial champions Are in the Loumey Field As arc the Ulm and Munich boys and Munich girls from a South but the other slots from both leagues Are still up for grabs going into final action this weekend. The other leagues All have at least two More weeks of action. The Wurzburg boys and Patch Girts have two game leads in a Competition and can clinic Huttt championship with sweeps this weekend. Avi Ano j boys have a three game Lead in Italy  saints arc Idle this week but a Milan overseas of Rome split would give them the title. Otherwise the championship pictures arc Cloudy Frankfurt owns the lock on this week s players of the week Joe Trovero tossed in 27 Points and grabbed nine boards against Ramstein and Ihnn came Back with an in Pool eight rebound performance As inc eagles handed Stuttgart its first aaa defeat to earn the accolades for the boys. Tina Harris registered 14 Points and 13 rebounds against Ramstein and then capped her superlative weekend with a 24-Poinl, 20-carom game against Stuttgart As the eagles moved half a game in front of the stallion and Wiesbaden in the aaa title Battle. Those numbers merited recognition for Harris As the top Girt. Brindisi s basketball teams have been Dis banded for the rest of the season. Principal Terry Emerson called monday to say the action had been taken because of a drinking problem hat arose on the return trip from is Gonella. The team stopped for a food and rest break on the return trip from is Gonella the kids had a set time to report Back to the bus. During the Stopover a heavy rainstorm came up and most of the kids sought Refuge in some bars Emerson said. Thai they had been drinking was discovered when hey came Back to the bus. We have a pledge Sheet retarding smoking drinking and drugs that All Brindisi athletes must sign Belory any sports season begins. All the stud Gnu had signed in. We suspended 12 boys and nine Girt Sand disbanded Bolh basketball teams he added. I apologize to the people at the other schools and especially to the people in Vincnza who will be con ducting the american schools in Italy basketball tournaments later this month for any disruptions this incident might cause Emerson said. It was unfortunate but some action had 10 be  Emerson said that the cheerleaders who Don t make Road trips except for the tournaments will be allowed logo to Vincnza to participate in the as1l Check lauding comp Lilion that always ii held in con Junction with the tournament. It s a shame that the Brindisi player must miss the rest of the basketball season and the tournament but sometimes people have to learn the lesson the hard Way. 1 commend Emerson for the action he has taken. The top four wrestlers in each weight category Al the four regional tournament this weekend will Advance id the Central european championship next week at rams Cin. Heidelberg s will Sandidge will put a 56-match Dodds winning skein on the line Al the Central regional Al accent beginning Friday. Sandidge neutered a defeat during the Christmas holidays when coach Phil Godbolt took the team Back to the . To participate in a 16-Tom tournament at fort that was a non Dodds sanctioned meet. So As it is in other sports it does t count against Sand Edge s Dodds record. That Central Region which is held Over two Days because of transportation requirements should be really competitive meet because of the Quality Field. In addition to Sandidge Heidelberg brings two other undefeated grapplers to Brun sum. They Ore 130-Poundcr John Goss and 1 52-Pouikkr acc Abc cram Bie accent has three Peri Ocelos of its own 1 89 Pounder Rick Crosby 135-Poundcr Sean Smith and 145-Poundcr Marin Perez. Crosby has recorded first round pins in All of his triumphs and Smith has an All pin record. Other undefeated wrestlers whose achievements have been reported by i hair coaches include Ramstein d Lance Koss Trio dust in Mead 171 arid heavyweight Chris Killcy Frankfurt s Eric Robertson 152 and Gic Ssan s Andre Bowen 112 and David Woolfolk 152. Last week s match Between Heidelberg and Ramstein was misreported. Heidelberg actually won giving inc Lions a share of the aaa title Wilh Ramstein. Numbers won tote a Crown  the same kind of Success As us cagers took its third consecutive a car Ileal diadem and Vilsick prevailed in a South so Riff. Accent captured its fifth straight Bennor championship. Rams sabers record easy victories byte Saunders staff writer b1tburg a Germany for a Ramstein rams men s basketball team member there s nothing worse than being called a lunch Boi. It Means you played like one. Sal on the shelf. In wednesday s first game of the Safe men s basketball championship. Ramstein s offence was More like chinese take out food just can t seem to get enough. The rams the Continental sports conference no. 2 team rolled up a 115 106 win Over the Mildenhall marauders the United kingdom s no. I learn to lip Lott he olympic Pool style tournament Santhony Mcphaul and denier Walker registered 27 Points apiece. Spang Shlom the Csc no. I team also grabbed an opening Day win Wilh a 98-bs score Over defending Champion and . No 2 team Alc Nhury. In late games Avi Ano was to play Lakenheath and Wiesbaden was paired against san Vito. Ramstein s nine Point win does t Tell the Story. The rams led by As much As 16 Points in the second half but watched Hie Lead trickle away in the closing minutes As Safe basketball the marauders used a zone press to soak up bad passes and inbound steals. Mcphaul provided the rams with plug to Stop the trickle driving the Lane for a Layup Wilh 40 to go in the game giving Tow rams a i my. Mild Hal lost the Ball on its next Possession and marauder guard Daryl Strickland compounded problems by hacking Ramstein s Renford Green. Green nailed two free throws to boost the score to 114-106, rams Cin Only had to hang on to the Ball to preserve the win. Mildenhall had to foul Walker inbound cd to Green. Green lipped it Back to Walker. Walker found Gregory Keller then Mildenhall i Ron Jones followed the scenario by fouling Keller Keller canned the free throw with two seconds on the clock for the nine Point spread. Ramstein s Walker and Mcphaul were the two keys to the versatile inside Oul Side offence. Walker who lit up the nets with four first half 3-pointers, worked his Way inside in the second half. He hit seven straight ram Points in a second half spree to offset a marauder charge including three tree throws a jumper and a Jam. He credited his Strong inside game to the lethal ram perimeter shooting that forced the Mildenhall de sense to spread out and cover Ibe oui tide threat. Mchoul who Buck eted two 3-Poinl Crisand nailed 12 of Ramstein s first 13 Points heated up the perimeter shooting for a different reason than to open up the inside game. Ramstein suffered similar problems holding on to the Lead in the lint half. After Mcphaul gave the rams a 13-4 Lead Milden Hills Carswell looped in a Hook shot and Williams hit iwo Field goals to tighten the score to 11-10 Wilh 16 00 showing on inc clock. Carswell s Basket was Bis second of the game. He hit his first bucket for a 2-0 Lead 2b into the game. I Mildenhall was to go anywhere Carswell had to hit. But Carswell who had a game highpoint Wilh 16 in the first half was the Only offence threat Mildenhall showed from its starting five. Mildenhall had no billions. Willie Stewart hit 23 Points for Ramstein Green had 20 and Keller had6 As the starting rams unit posted 103 Points. Besides cars ecu s 29 Points Mildenhall s offence was fuelled by Stock land Wilh 24, Kurt Uelman with 13 and Williams ii. Mildenhall i starting five produced 61 Overall  99, Alconbury 89 Michael Mccall was hot. The Center dumped in 21 firm half Points to Pace Csc no. I sabers to a so-44 half Lime Lead. The spartans managed to close the Gap several times in die second half but a balanced Saber offence took  canned 14 More Points Wallace North cull dropped in 10 of his 24 Point and Robert Anthony netted ii of his 20  Lewis paced the spartan of sense with 25 Point wait Elliot added 17. Radio College Buk Timu ill Ipolit Al Ohio . Friday