European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday february t2, 1988 the stare and stripes Page 23 backyard Gem won f enrich this school Billy Owens. Remember thai name. He s just a senior lit High school. Bui Neil Jcarrell be a freshman at Syracuse. A big freshman. The kind you la probably catch frequently on College basketball telecasts. How Hie count he ways 1. He s 6-foot-0. 2. He s rated one of the lop High school hoop sters in America. 3. He recently passed Cit Lobo now Nort Carolina s deadliest shooter As All Lime scorer at Carlisle High school in Pennsylvania. 4. He clinched that Honor with a free thro but could have done it with a Dunk Baseline jumper or top of the key three Pointer. As one Talent expert said on esp s Scholastic sports America show last week he could Domi Nate from five Owens will have Syracuse s Carrier dome Rockin to his score within to years. The student chant Lei s go. Orange will mis in let s go. la have the orangemen Back in the final four before he turns pro. Remember thai. Owens should t miss a beat much less a slam i front of the Syracuse throng. The dude in t shy. He plays to packed House throughout mid Pennsylvania. He did he same As a freshman on the Lobo state championship team of1985. And again As Carlisle repeated As stale Champ in 1986 and t17. Two tuesdays ago Carlisle tans jammed inc gym to Sec Owens break Lebo s school scoring record. The place was so airtight you could barely breathe. Owens towered Over his teammates. He hovered Over the opposing Cumberland Valley eagles. Then he went to work. Owens on the Allcy top. Bucky Fox Owens from the key. Owens outscoring Cumberland Valley 24-17 in the first half. Owens finishing with 30 Points in a 7 8-42 Breeze. Owens followed with outputs of 39 and 37 Point so boost Carlisle s record to 19-0. He averages 33 Points per game. Hol7 Owens has his town in such a sweat inc High school ticket office opens a , when i Ain t looking to sit he s going to have to if he look the sat the Way he Speaks. All of which is silly. If Owens wants to play basketball at Syracuse forget the sat. Forget this game of pushing athletes to hit the books. If they Don thave the Lime or inc desire to study let them stick Wilh lie program for which they were recruited sports. If Owens really desired to study he could pc shot for carlisle1 own Dickinson College. Now we re talking Academia. You want to enrol at Dickinson score 1,100 on the sat. Place in the lop fifth of your class. Then come up Wuh $15.800.for the first year. If you have the grades bul nol the Bucks you May land financial Aid. Let s say Owens shocked the basketball world an announced he would play at Dickinson a school of 2,000 students some of whom know the red devils play in Mcaa division Iii would Owens gel an athletic break no. So says Dickinson s admission department. So says Dickinson coach Gene Evans. No athletic scholarships. If you score High it better be on the that Evans sits in his office wailing for hoops lers to walk on. He and assistants Rick in land Bill Thornton recruit heavily. It s a Tough recruiting Road. They shool for talented High school players who a Aren t Good enough for name colleges and b re smart enough for Dick , 61, is a former Navy Man who played basketball to Dickinson in the tale 1940s and Coache Carlisle High to two decades Worth of winning sea sons. He look the Dickinson Job in 1978. His 1980and 82 teams reached the division Iii tournament. Over the Lui five seasons Evans has been frustrated. He says he needs that Good 6-6 Type of Guy to stir Dickinson out of its also ran doldrums. Hero Sid a couple of players like thai in the Pennsylva Nia Coal Region but they opted for belter financial Aid packages at Scranton. Evans says he loses other players who score 950-960 on the sat which in to i and they might be in the second fifth of their class but we can i admit if the red devils Are limping at 11-10, they re still the Best ticket in town. For one the tickets Are free. For two they play in a Slick Arena build just eight years ago. For three you can find great Seal since hardly anyone frequents the games. Last Fhi Dav on a night Owens filled Carlis Lehigh s gym. The red devils played 10 a sparse crowd at their Kline Sli ended the Dickinson game and loved in. Best seat in the House. Good College basketball. Crazy fraternity fans even without their cheerleaders who were some sorority Rush the red devils beat Leb anon Valley Bo-6s.i did t miss Billy Owens a bit. I la catch him the next few years when Syracuse is on the lube. Tim � and such Down Hillers Cool toward Calgary course.�,.-Lulu s Mikhiel Milr in through a mining run fur sunny i men s olympic downhill. By John Nelson Calgary Alberta a Down Hill racers and temperatures Wanned up wednesday for the iob8 Winter olym pics which Are Joist four Days away. It might Lake longer than the Down a liners to warm up to their new course. After his training run wednesday Peter Mueller of Switzerland who won 1 downhill Here last Winter before the first200 Yards of the course were changed called it More like a giant slalom. Even Canadian Rob Boyd a local favorite criticized the course. He said de signer Bernhard Russi a former Swiss downhill Champion redesigned the top to make in More twisting probably be cause he does t have to run Pirmin Zurbriggen the lop downhill Erin the world and two time world cup Champion was about the Only racer who liked the course. He had inc fastest train ing run of the Day. Confirming his statuses inc favorite when the men s downhill is run sunday. The first Day of mining was con ducted in comfortable temperatures in the mid-20s, a warm Chinook wind meteorological quirk for these parts had been building up for a Day and when i came roaring Over the Rockies from the West it warmed temperatures by Smuch As 20 degrees overnight. By mid morning it was still about 10below in town the Hoa Frost Drifting in the air like twinkling shards of Glass but temperatures already had risen to the 20s in the mountains. And ibb Chinook an Indian word mean ing Snow eater was headed East Wward Calgary where temperatures reached 5 de Grees by Mida Firemoon and were Cape died to reach freezing and stay then until sat urday s opening ceremonies. Thai would be of. But we would appreciate a real Chinook with blowing winds and very warm temperatures said Terry Bullick a spokesperson for the Calgary organizers. Last Winter a Ter olympics Chinook sent temperatures soaring into the sos during a bobsled meet and some of the Slidders competed in Short Chinook arrived just in time for the first of four Days of training for the downhill the first Alpine medal event of the games Zurbrugg in. The Over ill world cup Leader obviously was serious about Hii quest for a first olympic medal turning in a training time of 2 minutes 2.54 seconds Over the 3,441 Yard course which drops 955 Yard Down inc face of mount Allan. The first 200 Yards of the course were added for the games and this was the first time they had been raced lop is very difficult Zurbong gun said. La s bumpy and technical. It Svery difficult at the top but i enjoyed it. It s a Good a technical course would fit Zur Briggen s style. Ii would nol fit the style of a bigger stronger skier like Mueller who was fifth in 2 04.23,"the top i like bul it is Loo he said. The gales Are Loo much out of the course. It is like a giant slalom. I prefer a True said the course seemed slower lop american was Jeff Olson of Bozeman Mont who was 27th in2 08.45, Bill Johnson the american who made olympic history by winning the downhill Gold in Yugoslavia four years ago was left off this year s Lewis of Salisbury vt., finished 52nd and last among those who completed their runs with a Lime of 2 21.38. Lewis was named to the team despite having a broken Collarbone. I was a Little bit hesitant because twas my first ran in a downhill in a. Month Lewis said. "1 was l prepare for in beings rough on the top and i got thrown off course. The Collarbone u
