European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday August 14, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 25 Poirier Tate vie for singles Crown Garmisch West Germany the 21st support command s Scott Poirier and the 26th support group s George Tate both 1987 All army team Mem Bers won straight set matches Here saturday to gain men s open singles finals in in the Usa eur Tennis championships. Poirier stopped 21st teammate David Warren 6-1,6-1 and Tate conquered Setas Todd Copley 6-2, 6 Poirier took a 3-0 Lead in the first but Warren held his serve in the next game for his Only win in the set. The second set was close for a while but Poirier moved from a 2-1 Lead to take the next four games an the set. My game really fell in place today Poirier said Felt great physically and i was Able to concentrate in tensely. I was definitely pleased with my Tate had a tougher time with Copley. Copley narrowed his first set deficit to 3-2 with Anace but Tate closed out the set with three straight games and went on to win the first five games of the second set before Copley finally took broke the Streak. However Tate closed things out in the next game. Usa eur Tennis Vii corps Champion Dennis Kirstein who took the1986 Usa eur title and Junior Smith of the 21st support command advanced to the Junior veterans showdown Battle by whipping the 21st s Tulensa Tulensa 6-4, 6-4 and Don Mot Mger also of the 21st, 1-6, 7-6 7-46-2, respectively. Tulensa took the first game but Kirstein got in gear and took the next three. Each player held his serve until Kirstein served for the set and won 6-4. Kirstein took a 3-0 Lead on Tulensa in the second set. Tulensa rebounded with two straight games. Then just As in the first set they traded games until Kirstein won 6-4. He was hitting better ground strokes but i was receiving stronger Kirstein said after the match. In the end my serve and Volley Type game held Smith and Rotzinger staged a hard fought two hour match the longest of the Day before Smith finally prevailed. Rotzinger cruised to a 3-0 Lead and was never threatened in the first set. However Smith tightened up his game after falling behind 2-0 in the Marathon second set. Smith came Back to take three straight games. Mot Zinger tied Smith 6-6 to Force the tiebreaker where Smith prevailed 7-4. In the third set Smith beat a tired Rotzinger by winning the last four games to run away from a 2-2 tie. Tulensa and Rotzinger will play Kirstein and her Bert Bruse for the or. Vets doubles title. The top two women s seeds won in straight sets Coset up their championship match. V corps Winner top seeded Sara Anne Keeley blew out teammate re Nette Davis 6-0, 6-1 and Esther Holladay of Vii corps shut out v corps Angela Buch Elleder 6-0, 6-0. In men s seniors action v corps teammates Josephean and Wayne Downhour will face off for the championship. Egan Defeated the 21st s Fred Burnley 6-0, 6-0 in a40-minute match where Egan displayed his Superior Baseline play. Downhour advanced to the final with a6-3, 6-0 win Over the 21st s James Hickman. The Egan Downhower combo shoots for its third straight doubles title sunday when they take on Burn Ley and Hickman. Rockets score Early conquer flyers 17-6 Bobucky Folstaff writer Rhein main a West Germany the Rhein main rockets turned the Heaton Early in their 17-6 exhibition football Victory Over Lindsey saturday. Under a sweltering Sun the rockets took the opening Kickoff 57 Yards for Gary Wallace s 26-Yard Field goal. Then on the flyers first snap quarterback Tommy Thomas was sacked fora 9-Yard loss by nose guard Mike Drew. That set the Tempo said a sweat drenched Drew. I could t believe they came out in the Shotgun but i got my sack and it fired the team up. I tried Topick him Thomas up and body slam Thomas is one of the Continental sports conference s biggest quarterbacks at 6-foot-2, 200 pounds. No problem for Drew a Safe Power lifting Champion who Bench presses 501 pounds. Drew and the rest of Rhein main Strong dudes made Lindsey sweat for Yards. The flyers finished with minus 21on the ground and tried to compensate with 147 in the air. The flyers Lone score came on Thom As 3-Yard pass to flanker Keith Craig with 1 13 left. Craig lived up to his smooth nickname by breezing through Rhein main s secondary for seven catches Worth 71 Yards. Craig and defensive end Greg Sargent gave the flyers their biggest lift As they count Down to their aug. 27 opener at Home against Pitburg. Sargent an army player from sout Carolina sacked Rhein main s Quarter backs three times despite playing free safety in the fourth Quarter. When we get our timing Down Well be Good to go he said. Well be ready for la be on the rockets Are setting their clock for aug. 28 when they play Host to sem Bach. Whether they let Tony Smith Ortor Hill wind their offence is the ques Tion. Smith passed for a 26-Yard touch Down to de Mero. Hill hit a 37-Yard to to . Johnson. Asked that question Rhein Mai coach Warren Stanley replied both have to play but not necessarily at quarterback. Tor Hill is a Good quarterback but he can give you some defensive backhand wide Stanley praised Drew and linebackers Ira Washington and Jay Gregson on defense that registered five sacks. Lindsey coach Gary Covingto chalked this game up to doing a lot of crazy stuff today. When you do that crazy things will happen. We re not going to do anything we did today during the regular season. We re going to win in the regular is Ken George Lindsey s de Greg Sargent wrestles Rhein main s Tor Hill to the ground. Swedes to get radio education at nil game by Stephan Nasstrom Goteborg Sweden a som people suggest that sunday s nil pre Miere on the european continent will look like a convention for electronics. Radio receivers Are common sight inthe stands in America but the preseason game Between the Minnesota Viking Sand the Chicago bears will also turn into one of the biggest mass education rallies in football. Most of the 52,000 fans who Are expected to pack Ullevig stadium Don t know much about the game they re going to see. Some understand the basics maybe but certainly not the finer Points. Enter Volvo the swedish automaker giant and main sponsor of the Ameri can football we re going to sell mini radio receivers for about 20 Kroner $3 apiece All Over the stadium says Volvo spokes Man Phil Sifferman. Be very useful. The fans can pick up the play by play and explanations about the game in swedish from a local radio Patrik Itzel a spokesman from Radi City says it s the biggest Challenge in the station s history. We re going to explain a sport that most people Don t have the slightest idea about he said. Mike Forbes an american who i coaching the local Goteborg giants foot Ball team will be the color Man. The station will broadcast 10 hours on sunday including the tailgate party from an area adjacent to the stadium where a least 20 hospitality tents Are located. In addition former Kansas Cit chiefs placekicker Jan Stenerud from Norway will be on the . System throughout the game along with a swed ish expert to explain the game for thebans. They look like hearing aids and will Alfred Anderson the Vikings running Back who ranked second on the team onrushing last season with 319 Yards on 68 attempts likes the idea with the min radio receivers. I be never heard about that before he said. It s interesting As they re watching us play they can have it interpreted in a Way so they understand it in Sweden. Of course they know everything about what s going on in the states. But we thought they would be cheering an hollering for everything we did Here even if we fumbled the Ball laugh Danderson. The 27-year-old native from Waco Texas now playing his fifth year for the Vikings after starring for Baylor in col lege Ball is enjoying every moment i Sweden. Being Here is really one of the biggest thrills of my career he said. I never thought that american football would Goto foreign countries. It s a great experience for us but playing in the super bowl would be even better of course. It s every player s dream to play inthe super bowl he said. Hopefully if things work out and we stay free from injuries we should be but the bears Minnesota s pfc Cen trial division rivals will be a Tough Obsta Cle. We re playing them now two More times in the regular season games and there s a possibility that we might play them in the pfc championship game. So that s four times in one year Ander son concluded. An sports television Golf championship 10 . Sun Day. Radio baseball san Francisco at los an Geles 10
