European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 14. 1938 the stars and stripes Page 25 commentary fans i ears sink with losing mets the mets misery reached the seventh inning when i looked for company ii was 4 . Thursday. Darkness draped the morning and new York s baseball season. The mets were about to go Blank against the right hand of Orel Hershiser. Time to Call my Berlin buddy. Frank this is horrible i said. It s not so Good at the  he said. No it was t. Not Only for our beloved mels. Bul also for Frank Schurmann. This 23-year-old Berliner became a mils fan in their loss wars of the mid 1970s, he called our sports office for scores through out the mets championship season of 1986. Now thai they were losing to the dodgers 6-0 in game 7 of the National league playoffs it was Good to hear a fellow fan. Even if what he said was More de pressing than the an to spots Between innings. I think it s Over said Frank. It was Over in inc second  so was Schurmann s Hope of going to the world series. As the mils continued to Fly out and strike out against Hershiser Frank could plan on throwing out hts pan am ticket to new York saturday. I called my relatives in new York at the Start of the third inning and said i m not coming said Schurmann. No Way. It s not like 86 when we came Back against the red sox. The red sox were losing every Lime  Schurmann had planned his March to new York even if he could t find a ticket into Shea stadium. Bucky Fox i would pc gone anyway to get the world series feeling in new York City nobody cares about base Ball Here he said from the walled City. Other people laugh at you when you get up at i in the morning to watch  Frank and 1 weren t laughing when Howard John son looked at a third strike to end the mils 6-0 loss. We weren t laughing when the dodgers celebrated on their Field and in their clubhouse As they looked Forward to facing Oakland in inc world series. Los Angeles ruined my mets Pennant Hopes and my world series prediction. On april i in this very space i predicted the mils would Bent the Yan Kees in six games. No fooling. If the Yankees could t make it at least the mils would Rescue that pick. No More. Actually those april fools forecasts turned out of. I correctly tabbed the mets and athletics Divi Sion winners but blew it picking inc reds and Yan Kees that s hitting .500. On the awards table 1 predicted maps for the mets Darryl Strawberry and the Yankees Dave win Flold. Strawberry tins a Chance Winfield does t. My by Youngs were Cincinnati s Danny Jackson and Oakland s Bob Welch. Jackson at 23-8, had a shot before Hershiser hurled his 59-inning shutout string. Welch s 17-9 can t compete with Frank Vio la s 24-7. The rest of my picks arc Nix. Jeff Treadway of inc reds and Jack Mcdowell of the while sox can for get winning Rookie of the year. So can Cincy s Pete Rose and the Yankees Billy Martin who for Man Ager of the year predictions Don t mean much unless you bet. Or you enter Todd Mayer s baseball contest. Mayer is an army first lieutenant stationed in bib Lingen. West Germany who goes bonkers Over Cincinnati. He ran an office Pool and asked for my predictions before the season started. The results arrived by mail last week. Mayer won the Gold medal. He correctly picked the mets red so and a a plus the next six teams by order in the american league West. Mayer s co worker John Green collected the Silver. You look the Bronze wrote Mayer. Remember i m still going with inc a s in seven Over the  not anymore. When the mils fell to l.a., Schur Mann predicted Oakland will dump the dodgers in six games. Will he watch this world series starting saturday Only on the weekends. Without the mils gelling up at 1 . Is Loo tiresome. Tom sure fend sep a Usa eur soccer players shoot for All army by Klint Johnson assistant sports editor soccer the All army soccer team trials which Start Friday at fort Eustis va., will have a distinct Hanau flavor. The Hanau hornets current usar eur champions will be represented by five players in the trials which run through nov. 5. A total of seven were selected from Germany and Usa eur. Marvin Andrade Walter Farrell James Henderson Oscar Najarro and Marshall Segar were picked from the Hanau team which swept through an unbeaten 17-0-4 season m winning the v corps and Usa eur titles. Farrell scored two goals and Navarro one in the hornets 4-0 Victory Over Hei local Roundup Del Borg in tournament finale last june. Majid Mosavat of Schweinfurt and Scott Washbum of a Schaffenburg were the other Usa eur players selected to the 27.Man trials squad. John Thomas of fort Sam Houston Texas was named head coach. He will be assisted by Johan Haraldsen of fort Campbell by. Those that make the ajl army team will play in the armed forces championships nov. 6-12 at Little Creek Nab a. Players that Are then selected to the armed forces squad will compete in the . Soccer federation select cup tournament nov. 23-27 at Orlando Fla. Basketball Robert Estes a for Ward from Karlsruhe West Germany was the Only Usa eur player on the 12-Man . Armed forces team which competed this week in inc Council of International military sports cts basketball Lourn Ament at Mcclellan fab Calif. Belgium France Egypt Italy Korea the Netherlands Pakistan Tanzania United Arab emirates and West Ger Many were also entered in the five Day c1sm tourney. The top gun men s invitational basketball tournament will be held oct. 21-23 at the Kreuzberg Cavern fitness Center in  the Field will include Usa eur Champion Stuttgart the defending top gun tournament champs from Mannheim plus Baum Holder bad or Chinach Pir Masens Wurzburg and . For More information Call Mario Garden at 494-7253 or Eric Hernandez at 486-3653. Golf the 21st annual falling Leafs open runs oct. 23 at the kit Zingen Golf course. Entry fee is 25 Marks. Con  pro at kit Zingen 09321-49 56 or tournament chairman Bob Knych at ets 350-7230. Swimming and diving the v corps swimming and diving championships Are being held at the Baumholzer Community Pool saturday and Sun Day. Registration is saturday from 1-2 . Competition starts saturday at 2 30 . And sunday at i . Boxing the v corps boxing championships arc scheduled for sat urday at bad Kreuz Nach. The weigh ins arc from 10 . To noon with bout Start ing at 7 . Sanders cowboys offence fest Husker defense by Tom Vint a staff writer Lincoln neb. It s no secret the loth ranked Oklahoma state cowboys have the lop scoring offence in the nation have the top rusher scorer and Ali purpose. Runner in Barry Sanders and the ninth Best Tola offence team in the nation. But that s just part of the Story according to Nebraska s offence and cow boy coaches. Nebraska split end Morgan Gregory says the unbeaten cowboys also have a defense ranked 86lh in the nation in Yards Given up and 59lh in scoring defense giving up nearly 23 Points per game. That just shows us we have an Opportunity to move the Ball this week and we re going to have to do that because evident ally they have an awful lot of Tal ent on offence Gregory said. Nebraska Al and ranked seventh hosts Oklahoma state 4-0, at memorial stadium on saturday. Scoring at a 50.3-Point-per-game Pace Oklahoma state s offence will lest Nebraska s defense ranked 17th nationally in total Yards but also will keep the no offence on is toes according to Gregory. Any timeout there we need to put up some Points and every time out we think a Down Day by Barry Sanders might brine Down the Oklahoma state cowboys. We ought to Al least get a held goal be said. Nebraska is no Slouch in doing that averaging 43.3 Points per game second in the nation. Gregory put a few of those on the Board himself with a 64-Yard pull return for a touchdown in last week s 63 10 whipping of Kansas. He s also caught two scoring passes this season. Last year the cowboys gave up 35 Points while being shut out by Nebraska. The unfortunate thing about thai is Osu in t As Good defensively this season according to coach Pat Jones. I Don t think we re nearly As Well equipped for that this year he said of slowing Down Nebraska. I Don t think we can expect them to slay out there All Day Long and us win it. First Downs will be important making first Downs and keeping our defensive unit Oft he  Gregory indicated Nebraska would like to do the same thing and has to concentrate on what it s doing particularly because Oklahoma slate leads the nation in turnover margin with an average of 4.25 per game. Their defense has been moved on but they be also have got a lot of Talent so we have to prevent thai turnovers from happening Gregory said. Something s going right for Ihm because they re Firul in the nation in  Gregory said concentration and Effort should t be problems for either team in this game. It s a very big  he said. I saw where we were favored by not a lot of paints seven bul i did t think it would be that big a Point spread. 1 know a lot of people around after the Urcla game that thought maybe we re nol As Good As we sometimes were in the past. This a big test for us to try to gel Back that respect we lost in the Urcla