European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes sunday february 14,1983 hoops led army sports participation by Kint Johnson assistant spoils editor Mannheim Wisl Germany basketball leads All sports and Usa eur topped inc army s major commands in snorts participation for fiscal ear 1997. Those figures were released by i. Col. David r. Rogers chief of the army sports program Foo win inc Usa eur sports directors workshop which was concluded Here Friday.  is the byword throughout the  army sports program according to Roger. The Secretary of the army John o. Marsti j a said in a briefing i had with him last month that he would like inc army s sports program expanded to have every Soldier participating in 41 least one sport said Rogers Tinl s what our program is being geared of accomplish. The main place this participation will Lake place is at the unit  tie army has been compiling numbers As it strives for its total participation goal on the intramural level. Not surprisingly basketball leads list of 24 participation sports in the army program with slow Pilch softball ranking first outdoors and second Overall. According to Rogers the army counts eath Day that one person participates including both organized practice and Competition. This docs not include self Dir cried sports of spoils held within a unit. Using this yardstick basketball had a participation local of 10.3 million in fiscal 1987, which i ended last sept. 3 1. Slow pitch softball had 8.8 million. Flag football and volleyball followed in third and fourth places respectively with 4 million and 2.6 Mil lion As team sports swept inc lop four places. Bowling was the top individual oriented sport with1,9 million. Raqu Coball 1.6 million Power lifting l,2 million track and Field  million swimming 900,000 and soccer 600,000 rounded out the top 0. Tennis and Golf both High profile sports profession ally ranked Only Lith and i2lh in the army with500,000 and 400,000 person participation Days respectively. Tackle football ranked 13th worldwide 220,000 despite the fact thai it is nearly Nonnis ent in the Usa eur program. Baseball a non Usa eur sport was 21 is with just 20,000. The other rankings give lae Kwon do a surprising 14th place 210.000followed by fail pitch softball 200,000boning 160,000. Cross country 140,000 Marathon Runny my 120,000 and wrestling 110,000among inc sports with Over 100,000 participant Days handball 30,000 rounded out the top 20. Judo learn handball and in hockey were he Oiler sports listed 22nd through 24th each with less than a thousand. Usa eur was far ahead of inc other major com pants and slightly Over 5 million spectators. The grand local far the Europe command was nearly double that of runner up eight army bus which is based in Korea. Eusa had a Loriol of 7,232,5 16, and was trailed by third place training and decline come Rado with 6,859,415, and inc  fees come for co with 6,359.604. There s a big drop off 10  information systems come us Dis Western come West come with Headquarters in Hawaii and army mate Riel come am. Us disc Toland 410,794, West com 401,663 and am 386,182. Military District Washington 97,812. Military traffic management come 77,5sb. Intelligence and Security come 41,348 and Hospital service come 10,185 were inc others listed. Usa eur s grand total was broken Down into four categories military 8,014,196, and civilian. 472,967, for an athlete total of 8,487,144, plus 5,007,519 spectators and 266,562 officials Usa eur led in All but inc civilian category where 8th army Lota cd Over 800,000. The grand total for the entire army in by 87 was 35,638,352, including nearly 22 million military participants and Over 11 million spectators. In addition to its size advantage Over All except for co Rogers listed three reasons for usar eur s top rating. Usa eur places a very Strong emphasis on its program said Rogers secondly ii has really Good people running the program and thirdly there s Good publicity and promotion for its sports through television radio and print  the army lists a military population of 269,000 for for com 202,000 for Usa eur 130,000 for Radoc 32.000 for Hsc and 27,000 for 8lh army with inc rest 15,000 or less. Comets rams gain women s final four h Ellen Ikon a Greece the Comiso Cornels hit some Laic free throws on saturday. The Chicksands fighting Chicks didn1. And that allowed the Mediterranean sports conference Cornels to defeat inc Chicks of the . 66-64 and Advance to the final four of the Safe women basketball championship As Brackel till Isle with a 3-0 record. Rams Cin playing in the Louincy Sother Brackel also advanced to the semifinals by stunning Torrejon 76-67. Chicksands dropped to 1-2 and left the Chicks with Only inc bares of Hopes for u Slot in the championship round. And thaw Hopes were kept alive As Benl Waler s pulled out an upset win of Verkhlin main 57-55. Leaving both teams tied with Chicksands at 1-2. Bunt Waters had to win by 10 paints to gain Entrance 10 sunday s 10 . Play off game against Chicksands to decide the bracket s Sond semifinalist. Bui the phantoms could Only milk out a two Point margin. Rhein main s Supe rior Point differential gave them the tick Al to the playoff game which is to decide the second semifinal qualifier from the second olympic Pool style bracket. Com so finished first in the first bracket and Safe basketball Wili play Torrejon Al 2 . Sunday. In the first bracket rams Cin topple previously unbeaten Torr Jon la earn top cd in sunday s 4 . Semifinal against the Winner of the Chick Sand Klein main playoff. In inc Lourcy s other bracket on Sal urday Alconbury and Hahn ended round Robin play with identical 1-2marks As the spartan tics Vickie Haycra tilt a lir of shot at the Buzzer for 69-68 Victory Over the lady Hawks. That was 10 be Alt the miracles on sat urday for Alconbury which by reason of score differential is eliminated from final four Contention. Kim Stern 76, Torr Jon 67 Ramstein 9 Cheryl Trapnell suffocated Torreon guards Rhonda Holloway and Ophelia Toncy limiting the duo to a combined six Points while forcing the pair to cough up numerous turnovers As rams Cin improved in record to 2-1. Tom Jon was also at 2-1, but based on had to cad play Ramstein retrieved the top seed from the Brackel for sat urday s semifinal match. Annie cousins dropped in a game High 24 Points for Torreon. And Stella Govan recorded 15. The lady rams look n 17.is Lead with 8 3d left in the first half when Donna Nacy canned two Charity losses. Then Tropnell went crazy. Trapnell robbed four steals scored four fast break layups sandwiched in a free throw and pitched Oul a break away pan to Lois Pierce As Ramstein ran to a 21 16 Lead and 38-31 halftime advantage. Trapnell finished with 19points. Nacy canned 17, Pierce 16 and Sharon Wal lace 15. Comiso 66, Check iinds 64 Chicksands Belinda Chapman forged he game s last tic at 63 on a jump shot Wajih 1 18 to play but ran into a smaller hoop from there until inc final Buzzer. Alconbury Hahn 68 Alconbury scored three Point in thelast four seconds to stun the lady Hawks. The spartan Lucs with five play ers Oul on fouls were Down 68-66 with when Rhonda Phillips rebounded a missed free throw and was fouled. Phillips made the front end of the pc and one but missed the second. The re bound came to Haycra who pivoted and launched a Hook shot from inc paint for the Buzzer beating game Winner la was1 liter s fifth and sixth Points of the of  Alston look scoring honors for the winners who led 38-36 Al halftime and for mini of the second half with 33 Points. Debbie King added 13. The lady Hawks had five players i double figures As an Angle Krock fucked comeback at the end was undone by the Miracle finish. Crock who ended the game with 11 Points scored inc last seven for Hahn. Her two free throws with 1 28 left had Given the lady Hawks a 67-65 Lead. Pacing Hahn was Kim Spruill with 16 Points. Robine Shuman added 15, Linda Santamoor 13 and Anne Burke 11. Ben Twatt 57, a Bolo Vuin is bin Waier t Jackie Brown canned 16 first half Points and Janet Nance hit 10second-half Point to Pace the phantoms Over the  phantoms trailed 29-27 Al inc half despite Brown s is Point. But Nance heated up in the second half unloading three 3-Poinlers and Hilling the front endow a 1-and-l with seven seconds left to give the phantoms inc two Point win. Brown finished with 24 for  Mccullough rolled up 19 for the rockette and Lisa Robinson Allied 14. Fulda from Page 25 was t doing any better. The half ended with Hahn leading 19-11. Fulda had made Only five of 24 shots. The i Hawks finished the half with nine of 26. The poor shooting continued through out the contest. Fut a made Only 8 of 36 in inc second half and Hahn connected on 6 of a. Mann did t gel As Many shots because the Falcons caused seven turnovers. In the fourth Quarter Fulda Gol a lot of extra shots because the Johnsons were in foul rouble. Char Lonc picked up her fourth with 4 2-i remaining and car Lee n had three so they could t Pound the boards in their customary fashion. Skikum meanwhile took advantage of the Opportunity and shot practically Al will. She made three baskets and three free throws in inc comeback although she needed 12 Shols. She wound up with 17 Points for inc Day and cart Home followed with id As the undefeated Falcons registered their Isih Victory. Hahn got 14 Points from Charlene Johnson and 12 from Bondi. Killum won most valuable player recognition for her performance in the Fulda comeback Victory. Others named to the All tournament team include car icon Johnson Charlca Johnson and Bondi of Hahn shape s Johanna Andre and Shannon Sheryll and ans Bach s Maria Armstrong. N a boys semifinal Friday night shape 77, Karlsruhe 65 Karlsruhe out shot shape 20-7from the Field bul the spartans connected on 21 of 27 free throws the knig lits made Only 5 of 13. Andrea Pizzato went l2-for-l2 from inc line and finished with 26 Points to Lead a shape s attack. Jimmy Parker followed with 19, Carvis Toler added a dozen and Andrew Dodd chipped in another 10 for the spartan. Freshman Damon Johnson led Karls Ruhe with 30 Points. In the girls third place game shape 44, Munich j5 the spartans opened b 10-Poinl Lead by halftime and maintained their superiority the rest of the Way. In the boys third place game Kab niness Ulm so the Knight reduced a nine Point deficit to two with an seven Point Binge in the last half of the second Quarter lost Point Back in the net eight minutes and then duplicated the second Quarter finish with a game ending winning spree. In the girls fifth place game Amboh 49, Berlin 34 the final score was a Little misleading although the cougars were in command most of the Lime. They held Only a 32-16 Edge going into the final Quarter but turned in a 17-8 Effort to Widen the Gap. Lori Razark scored seven of her game High 17 Points Down the stretch. Kim smiles Cam through Wilt 12, and Maria Armstrong added another 10, Kara Tal Boi lopped Berlin with 1j markers. In the boys fifth place game Munich 67, Anu both 49 the Mustangs led from the outset Mike barks paced the assault with 21 Points and Willis Holmes and Sieve Bright chalked up a dozen each. A a baseball meet set Mannheim Germany a Oer nun american baseball league meeting n Sci for id Al to. Sunday at Mannheim howl Rhein Neckar stadium. Team representatives players and other interested people Are invited. For More information Contact Klaus Helmig Al Mannheim civilian 062 m1-2529