European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday february is 1988 the stars and stripes Page 25 comets rams gain final four hell Nikon a Greece the Camiso comets Hii some late free throws on saturday. The Chicksands fighting Chicks did t. And Iho allowed the Mediterranean sports conference comets to defeat the Chicks of the . 66-6 and Advance tothe final four of the Safe women s basketball championship As bracket till its with a 3-0 record. Ramstein playing in the tourney Sother bracket also advanced to the semifinals by stunning Torrejon 76-67 sat urday Chicksands dropped to 1-2 and led the Chicks with Only the Barest of Hope for a Slot in the championship round. And those Hopes were Cpl alive Asbon Twaler s pulled out an upset win Over re can main 57-55, leaving both teams lied with Chicksands Al 12. Bunt Waters to win by 10 Points to gain Entrance to sunday s 10 . Play off game against Chi Sands to decide the bracket s second Sciuti finalist. But the phantoms could Only milk out a two Point margin. Rhein main s Superior Point Differentia gave them the ticket to the playoff game which is to decide the second semifinal qualifier from the second olympic Pool style bracket. Comiso finished first in the first bracket and was to play Torr Jon Sun Day. In the first bracket. Rams Cin topple previously unbeaten tort Jori to earn in sunday s other semifinal against the Winner of the Chick Sand Rhein main playoff Torr Jon is the first bracket s second seed. In the tourney s Oiler bracket on sat air Force basketball Urdy Alconbury and Hahn ended round Robin play with identical 1-2 Marks As the Spart Nellei Vickie Haye Rhad a prayer Hook shot answered Al the Buzer for 69-68 Victory aver the lady Hawks. That was to be All the Miracle on sat urday for Alconbury which by reason of score differential is eliminated from final four Contention. Bea Walen 57, mule main 55 Pentwater a Jackie Brown canned 16first-half Point and Janet Nance hit 10 second half Points to Pace the phantoms Over the Rocle to the phantoms trailed 29-27 at the despite Brown s 16 Points. Bui Nance healed up in the second half unloading three 3-Poinlers and Hilling the front end of a a and a with seven seconds left to give the phantoms the two Point win. Bent Waters went up by As much As 10points with 4 00 to go 54-44, but Brown fouled out that left the Lane open for rockette . Anderson Anderson who suffered a bad Case of Frost bite in thrust half took her show inside scoring All her ii Points in the final 5w it was a ease of the sleeping giant Awakening Loo late. Brown finished with 24 for bunt a ters Charlene Williams chipped in 13 and Nance 10. Angie Mccullough rolled up 19 for the rockette and Lisa Robinson tallied 14. Ramstein 74, ton Jon 67 Rumstein s Cheryl trip null suffocated torrian guards Rhonda Holloway and Ophelia Toncy limiting the duo to combined sin Points while forcing he pair to cough up numerous turnovers a Ramstein improved its record to 2-1. Torr Jon was also at 2-1, but based onh cad to play Ramstein Redever the top seed from the bracket for sat urday s semifinal match. Ramstein s Tough defense which rotated around the 1-3-1 zone minimize the lethality of Torreon forwards Annie cousins and Stella Govan. Although cousins dropped in a game High 24points and Govan recorded 15, both were More or less hitting rather than designed buckets. The lady rams took a 17-16 Lea with 8 30 left in the lint half when Donna Navy canned two Charity losses. Then Trapnell went crazy. Trapnell nabbed four steal score four fast break layups sandwiched in a free throw and pitched out a break away pass to Lois Pierce As Ramstein ran to n 21-16 Lead and 35-31 halftime advantage. Trapnell finished with 19 Points Loleada a four pronged double figure attack. Nacy canned it Pierce 16 and Sharon Wallace is. Comiso 66, Cylc Sands 64 both teams played with final four motivation in a game which was lied most of the Way and 36-All at halftime Chicksands Belinda Chapman forge the game s last knot at 63 on a j ump shot with 1 18 to play but ran into a smaller hoop from there until the final Buzzer. Chapman missed the front end of conc and one with 37 seconds Lea and again at 34 seconds id play after the comets built a 65-63 Lead when Valise Mccroy hit both ends of her on and one Opportunity. Irene Harris gave the comets a three Point Lead with 20 seconds to play wit another free throw and Chapman s con version of a Charity attempt with 14 seconds to play was t enough. 11 was an unfortunate finish for Chap Man who As usual led All scorers this time with a 30-Point Effort. The other half of the Chicks scoring duo Dorothy Williams pumped in 21,Mccroy paced the winners with 21 Points As the comets inside Irio again dominated the scoring Lillie Patterson dropped in 20 and Sherry crumple added 17, alfcnbiiry69,iuhn68 Alconbury scored three Points in thelast four seconds to stun the lady with five players out 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 on and one but missed the second. The re bound came to Hayer who pivoted an launched a Hook shot from the paint for the Buzzer beating game Winner to was Mayer s fifth and sixth Points of the of Alston look scoring honors for the winners who led 38-36 at halftime and for most of the second half with 33 Points. Debbie King added 13. The lady Hawks five players i double figures As an Antic Krock Fulcd comeback Al the end was undone by the Miracle finish. Krack who ended the game with ii Points scored the last seven for Hahn. Her two free throws with 1 28 left Given the lady sat 67-65 Lead. Pacing Hahn was Kim Spruill with 16points. Robine Shuman added is Linda Santamoor 13 and Anne Burke 11. Ask Elba led army sports participation int John sorts editor Mannheim West Crmim basketball led Al sports and Usa eur lop red int any s major com mands in sports participation for fish a 1987. Those Fig pics we released by la. Col Javid , chief of the army sports program we tic Usa eur sports directors workshop which concluded Here Friday. Participation is the byword throughout the sports program according la Rogers. The Secretary of the army John o. Marsh or said Ina briefing i with him last Moth that he would like the army s sports program expanded to have every Soldier participating in a least one sport said Rogers. Thai s what our program is being geared to accomplish. The main place this participation will take place sat the unit the army been compiling numbers As it Sinfor its total participation goal on the int amur not surprisingly basketball leads a ipalion sports in the army program Al slow pitch softball ranking first outdoors and did Overall. According to Rogers the age counts each Day that one person both organized practice and comic Liri this docs not include self directed sports or spins held within a unit. Using this Vij Klick basketball a participation total of in fiscal 1187, which ended last sept. 30, slow pitch softball million. Flag football and volleyball followed in third an found places respectively Wilh 4 million and 2.6 Mil lion As team sports swept inc top four places. Bowling was the top individual oriented sport Wilh 1 .9million. Raqu Coball 1.6 million Power Liftig 1 ,2 Mil lion track and Field 1.1 million swimming 900,000 and soccer 600,000 rounded out the top 1 0. Tennis and Golf both High profile sports Only ill hand 12thm the army with Norson participation in Couball ranked 1 3thdespite inf clonal it is in the Usa eur pro Iii. Barira non Susareu report was 2 1st wit Omega the no her a Ajmer in maj win do � surprising14lh Shuty fast Pilch softball 20q.mffoxing 160,000cross Tahiry 140,000 Artmon Runny my 1 20,000 and Wocl Nejl 1 0,000ring the sports with Over 100,000 . Handball 30,000 rounded out the lop 20. Judo Tahan Dball and ice hockey were the other sports listed 22nd through 24th each with less than a thousand. Usa eur was far ahead of the other major com mands Wilh a grand total of 13,761,225 participation Days which includes players spectators and s total included nearly but million participants and slightly Over s million Spectator. The grand Tola for the Europe command was nearly double that of runner up eight army Eusa which is based in Korea. Eusa Hada total of 7,z32,s46, and was trailed by third place training and decline come Rado with 6,859,435, and the come for co Wilh 6,359.604, there s a big drop off to fifth a Taal systems come a Salsa Jib Parto West. Co with i id army come 410.794, West am 386,182.district Washington 97,812. Military r come 77,558. Intelligence an Security come 41,348 and Hospital services come 10,185 were the Otchis s grand Tola was broken Down into four categories military. 8,014,156, and civilian,472,967, for an athletes total of 8.487,144. Plus 5,007,519 spectators and 266,562 officials. Usage ruled in All but inc civilian category where 8th army totalled Over 800,000.the grand local 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 ils size advantage Over All . Rogers listed three reasons for usar ji1 5 lop rating. Keur places a very Strong emphasis on its juju id Rogers secondly it really goo people Runfol Yle program and thirdly there s Good publicity and to Mejjon for its sports through television radio and army lists a of 269,000 for for com 202,000 fort Cleur 130.000 for Radoc 32,000 for Hsc Andahl Kalfor sch army with the rest 15,000 or less. Milton captures pro bowlers Tournai nil left the difficult 4 m Ilton the Buik ha., capitalized antics oppo nent s Only bad shot to capture the title saturday in the Al 50,000 professional Bowler association Miller Lite classic. Millon Defeated Rookie Rick St cols Milf. Wichita kan., 233-221, to lockup. His fifth Aba Crown and the Winner s share. -d3"bclh bowlers slam a championship match . Milton snared in. In the 10th lol feel extremely fortunate. Ric couple of Bod Breaks i slay in the Mil Yah ids at rookies innings a Chance to beat Mil Ion by finishing with four strikes. He car ried the first strike in the ninth Frame but led a 10-pin on his first Ball in the10th Frame. Steel Smittner up spot. Milton became inc third Bowler in the seven Aba events this year to March through inc Field for his win. Marshall Holman and Mike Jasnau were the first opened the nationally televised championship round by knocking of left hander Brad a Natl of pcs Plains Iii., 275-215. Milton then slipped past 10-Lime Aba Weber Florissant. Mo., 23s in the or wifi second Southpaw of the pm to Horan jr., Santa Clara calif., 227-19i, Horan collected 58,500, weber$7.000, and Snell $6,000
