European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday october 12, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 25 Sembach rated 2nd if Csc ties exist by Bucky Fox staff writer now that the Continental sports conference has ils playoff learns set the . Sports conference can sweat it pm. Rams Cin and Sembach clinched postseason spots lust week joining Rhein main and Span Dahlem in the Csc four team playoff formal. Rhein main s 7-0 record guarantees its Home Field advantage throughout the Csc playoffs. The rockets will play Host to the first semifinal nov. 5. Who will play where nov. 67 Good question. The three also rans could finish in a tic for second place. So thursday the three coaches Ramstein s Larry bold in Spang Dahlum s Dave Lockwood and sem backs Ken fears Mcl Al Csc Headquarters in Sembach and Drew for Sce dings in Case of that tic. Fears Drew number two Lockwood three and Boldin tour thai Means if there s a three Way tic Ramstein will visit Rhein main Hen Spang Dahlum will drive to Sembach the next Day. The winners will play m the Csc final nov. 12. All playoffs Start at noon. The Csc Champion will Fly to England on nov. 18 for the Safe title game two Days later. What about Safe s other league with two weeks left in the . S regular season nothing is Pat. In the National division upper Heyford owns he Besl record in Safe at 8-0. The sky Kings can Clinch the division Lilly by winning sunday at arc Cham common. If Heyford loses its threat comes from Alconbury 6-1, which would be one game out. The spar tans play Hollo the sky Kings oct. 30. In the american division the suspense could tighten sunday when Mildenhall drives the 10 minutes to Lakeah Cash. The marauders stand 5-3, one game be Hind the defending . Champion eagles 6-2, Lakin Halh would Clinch the division Crown with a Victory. A Mildenhall Victory would deadlock the top until the following week s regular season end. Is that the Only thing in Lakeah Cash coach Jimmy Barber s Outlook we want to win big. Decisively. It s bragging rights to the commissary said Barber whose base shares its food Market with Mildenhall. You could Call it the commissary what about slopping Mildenhall s ground game Fea Turing league Leader Todd Jackson with 889 Yards i always Stop thai said Barber a lop linebacker at Western Kentucky in the Early 1970s. I slopped bit Burg s Freddie Miller last year in the Safe championship game. No one sustains a drive and scores on me with the running Barber is equally confident of winning another . Title with another Quarter we d have beaten upper Heyford two weeks ago and Well beat them for the . Championship right Here Csc player of the week Tony Phillips of Ramstein. The running Back produced the Csc a rest commodity in 1988 big yardage when he churned out 149 Yards on 32 carries in the rams 13-9 Victory Over Hahn. Phillips scored a 32-Yard touch Down As Ramstein clinched a playoff berth Tor the seventh straight season. Top 10 i upper Heyford 2, Rhein main 3,Alconbury 4, Ramstein 5, Lakin health 6, Span Dah 1cm 7, Sembach 8, Mildenhall 9, Hahn 10, bin Law when the four Csc playoff coaches Mel thursday they picked one officiating Crew for the semis and final. The winners referee Tom Villigas of Tilburg Umpire Albert Holmes of Hahn. Linesman James Stratton of Ternbach line judge Harold Speed of Lindsey Field judge Don Yukl of Rhein main and Hunter Hopson of Hahn. Predictions last week 7-1 season 49-14, .778 Sembach 5-2 to Hamsun 5-1 saturday rams Cin must win this to Clinch the second seed m inc Csc playoffs. Thai would give the rams Homefield for me semifinals against Spang Dahlem. If sem Bach wins go to the tiebreaker drawing. You realize How Long it has been since Sembach beat Ramstein the tigers have lost 11 straight to the rams since winning 9-0 on sell. 12,1981, at Sembach the tigers Haven t won Al Ramstein since a 27-0 Victory on aug. 30,1980. The Streak continues. Ramstein by 7. Hahn 3-4 at Zwell Brocken 2-5 saturday with out tailback Charlie Harris who quit Owci Brocken can forget about beating one of the meanest defences in Safe. Hahn by 16. Tilburg 2-5 at Spang Dahlum 5-2 saturday the Eifel Keg. What is this football in Paris no. La s foot Ball for supremacy of the Eiful plateau in Germany. It did t mean much last year. Span Dahlem won the Keg but lost the next week in the playoffs to Tilburg. That prompted Tilburg flanker Dwayne Harp to say that Keg. We never drank Oai of it the hapless Barons could use a drink after the Way sem Bach battered them 41-14 last week. Span Dahlem s Point pile up should buy by thurs even with Tony Bynum moving from quarterback to running Back in the sabers musical Backfield. by 48. Rhein main 7-0 Al Lindsay 2-5 sunday Rhein main is confident and deep is Desper ate and hurting. Sound Tike a setting for an upset then you pick it. Rhein main by 27. Alconbury 6-2 at Fairford 1-7 saturday Alconbury feels helpless. Even if the spartans repeal their 46-0 strafing of Fairford in week 2, they could be playing for nothing. If upper Heyford wins sunday Alconbury can t make the playoffs. Which is too bad says Ukon health s Barber Alconbury is probably the Besl team Over there the National division Alcon Bury by 39. Chicksands 1-7 a Ben Waters 3-5 saturday these teams played for a division championship just two years ago. Seems like decades. Bunt Waters by 22. Upper hey lord 8-0 at Greenham common 2-6 sunday does Greenham have a Chance at upset Ting Heyford for he second straight year thus giving Alconbury a playoff shot Lakin Heath s Barber again Heyford can be beat by anybody. I think Green Ham common could upset them. Then Alconbury will beat them for the Sake of playoff suspense. Greenham by 3. Mildenhall 5-3 it Lakon Heath 6-2 sunday Lakenheath boasts a top heavy coaching staff. The eagles head coach Jimmy Barber owns a . Title from 1987. Their assistant offensive coach Jack Keuper won the . Title when he was head coach at Ben Waters in 1984. Their offensive coordinator Jim Kelly won . Crowns As Lakin Halh s head coach in 1979 and 80. The title Trio is headed for another title in 1983. Lakin Halh by 9. Dodgers come Home to rousing greeting los Angeles a the world Champion los Angeles dodgers greeted by some 1,000 boisterous fans returned Home Early Friday amid shouts of we re no 1" and banners supporting manager Tommy Lasorda for president. The fans and about three dozen re porters and photographers met the dodgers Al los Angeles International Airport at 12 45 ., a Little More than four hours after the team clinched the 1988 world series title by defeating the Oakland athletics 5-2 in Oakland. We wanted to bring the championship Back to the greatest fans in the world Lasorda standing through the Sunroof of a stretch limousine told the cheering fans outside an Airport Termi Nal. Pitcher Orel Hershiser the series most valuable player and the Winner of thursday night s deciding game was briefly mobbed by hundreds of fans when he ventured outside a fenced in area outside the United airlines Termi Nal. It was t like Bruce Al a Rock Tim Crescent said of the Welcome afforded the dodgers Star Pitcher. People did t want to gel a piece of him. Everybody just wanted to congratulate is this the Way magic Johnson got greeted when he beat Boston Hershiser asked of previous welcomes afforded Johnson and the defending world Cham Pion los Angeles lakers basketball team. I m never going to find my ride Home joked dodgers second baseman Sieve san As he surveyed the crowd. One fan held up a sign that pro claimed Lasorda for president Hershiser for vice for the team to come this far is a dream come True said Hershiser who won games 2 and 5 of the series. 1 know the whole City is behind us. There s a great love affair with an i can t believe All of this is happen ing. I think my wife is going to shake me and say it s time to to to Spring train ing Lasorda said. Give the due to the players. Our players wanted it a lot More than Oakland did. We showed them we can play i think it s great that la won the series said arc Scenti 26, of los an Geles. Here s a team that Al the Start of the season no one thought would finish better than fourth and then they won the world Rose bowl expected to Bloom again on Abc by Rick Warner a sports writer the Rose bowl which was willing on Abc May Bloom again on ditched the game after 37 years because it was a financial Drain. Abc stepped in and signed a ,$100 million contract that could pay an immediate dividend a game with National championship implications. The Rose bowl has t featured a no. I team since 1980, when top ranked Ohio state was beaten by no. 3 Southern Cal 17-16. But it could happen this year if Urcla or Southern Cal remain undefeated. That would add clout to abcs Jan. 2 lineup which also includes the Cirrus and sugar bowls. It s shaping up As a great Day for us,1 said Dennis Swanson president of Abc sports after losing $3 million on last year s game Abc sought to reduce the s23.7 million it had agreed to pay correction the prediction for the Norn Tefft flt Mannheim Germany a football game was inadvertently omitted bom Ben Abranz prep Kiin s column thursday. The prediction is a Traberg 20, Mannheim 16. For the 1989 and 1990 games. When Rose bowl officials walked. Abc gave them permission to talk to other networks. That led to Iho Deal with Abc which agreed to pay More than Iii million a year for football s oldest bowl. Although the Rose was a Thorn in abcs financial Side Swanson feels the bowl is a perfect Climax to abcs regu Lar season coverage of the Pac-10 and big ten. We be got Urcla us on nov. 19 and Noire Damn us the following week he lot television writers. You could t ask for a belter Swanson was joined by Dennis Levin abcs senior vice president for sports production Good Mornin America co Host Joan Lunden and baseball commen Tator Tim Mccarver. Lunden and Jim Mckay will Host abcs coverage of the Rose Parade while Mccarver will provide special reports. Abcs Jan. 2 Bow triple header opens with the Cit rus at 1 30 . Est continues Wilh the Rose at s and winds up with the sugar Al 8 30. The Cirrus will compete with he Cotton on lbs and uie Hall of Fame on Abc while the Rose will go head to head against the fiesta on Abc. At night it will be the sugar against the Orange on Abc during a question and answer session Swanson talked about the olympics and the new baseball con tract thai will be negotiated this year. Abc did t bid Lor the broadcast rights to the 1992 Winter olympics in Albertville France because in of acc cd to the contract language and the bidding pro Cess. Lbs got the rights for i2 million. _ abcs failure to bid strained its once cozy relation ship with the International olympic committee but Swanson said the network will seek the to Enghu to the 1992 summer games in Barcelona if the Circum stances Are Swanson said Abc also would like to continue televising major league baseball but Only if the network can make a profit Abc has lost millions on ils Sis year ss75 million contract which expires after the 1989 season. We want to keep baseball but it s got 10 make financial sense Swanson said. Am sports television College football Urcla at Arona 10 30 pm. Saturday Indiana to Michigan 1 College football Arkansas m Houston 6 pin. Sat urday Oklahoma a Colorado 1 Sunday
