European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 3,1988 the stars and stripes Page 21 prep Pickin s Dodds a title gome tops action the Light Al the end of the Tunnel of Dodds fall sports is just around inc next Bend this week end is inc last big one on the 1988 Agenda. The Atlantic Region championship game tops an i i game football program and Cross country and volleyball come to a skidding Hall with the staging of the Central european harrier meet and in Bigand Small schools setting and spiking tournaments respectively. Woodbridge plays Host to Hahn in the second annual Atlantic Region showdown. Woodbridge is making its second straight appearance and Hahn is competing in its first Ever Post season football game. Woodbridge lost to is last year 12-8. Two Ger Many a a Central a South Italy and Spain foot Ball games miso Are scheduled saturday. After this week Only two regular season Italy games and the big and Small schools football semifinals and finals will remain. Woodbridge is one of Only three 11-Man football teams in Dodds with a perfect record. The other two Are Heidelberg and Mannheim. Hahn Bas Only a tie with accent a verdict it avenged in the Ben enor 1 showdown game standing Between it and perfection. Woodbudge and Heidelberg Are both 7 0-0 Hahn is �-0-1 and Mannheim goes after its seventh win saturday in a Homecoming game against Pitburg. The Only other perfect team in Dodds is Aviano which clinched he Italy a Man title last week with a Victory Over Vicenza White. Playoff pairings for next week s big schools semifinals Are set. Germany aaa Champion Heidelberg will play Host to a runner up Nurnberg in one big school semifinal and a Champion Mannheim will entertain aaa runner up Wurzburg in he other things arc still pending on the Small school from. Berlin Fulda and defending Champion Gies sen share the a Central Lead with Berlin invading Baum older and Fulda playing Host to Giessen sat urday. Augsburg and Ansbach Bave the top two a South berths clinched. So the apaches will Host the a Central runner up and he cougars will Ravel to the a cimral Champion s Field for the other so mini Nal game. Championship games in both divisions will be nov. 19, with the teams showing the Best season records playing at Home. Last year Ramstein Beatum burp to win the big schools Crown for the Sec Ond straight time last year and Giessen conquered Munich Lor the second straight Lime in the Small schools finale in 1987. The Bubble had 10 burst. Last week teams that had t lost and teams that had t won changed their pattern and old prep suffered through the worst picking week of the Campaign going 14-8. The percentage took a battering but i am still Over .800 for the year with 121 right picks 29 humongous upsets and three ties an accuracy Mark that comes to .807. The Ham Woodbridge playoff throws a curve off inc Bat. Both teams have enjoyed highly successful campaigns and the game on paper at least shapes up As a rugged Battle. But because Woodbridge is at Home and because the warriors have two 1988 play off games under i hair belts the Edge goes to them 25 elsewhere i like Mannheim 10, Pitburg 16 Nurnberg 28,  18 Ber tit 2s, Baum older 18 Fulda 33, Giessen 6 Ansbach 17, Bomberg is Augsburg 20, vat Sefc 6 Savuno 32, Vicenza Gold 74 Vicenza while 40, Naples Green 12 Rota 32, Zire Goza 24 tone Jon White 24, Torrejon red 20 Wiesbaden s Jason Beko is gone. So a new boys Champion is assured saturday when the Central european Cross country championship unfold in the Beautiful a Erlacher Forst in Munich saturday. Shape s Candace Bairy is Back to defend her title but her chances Are considered slim because the Competition this year is really keen. Barry finished second in last week s bin nor meet As Bonn s Tracy Losi turned in a course record 20 47 clocking at of cent. Prime contenders for Biko s vacated Crown appear to be  s Paul Woods Frankfurt s kit Corbeh Vilseck i Tony wrinkle and perhaps Hahn s Tyler Peterson. Woods turned in the Best time in last week s re Ginals a 16 37 at Numberg in the Germany a Competition but Corby to bettered the Heidelberg course record Woods set earlier this year by 21 seconds with a 17 26 time in the aaa. Wrinkle won the Germany a meet at Giessen in 17 29. Peterson had a 17 59 time Al accent which also set a course re Cord. ,.in addition to Losi Barry s most serious challengers arc expected to be Munich s Christine Manuel Stuttgart s Juli Cyrus and Frankfurt International school s Jennifer Lynhart. Manuel had the Best time last week a 20 34 at Gic Ssan Cyrus set a Heidelberg record of 21 07 and Lenhart won in 21 to All the Germany Bennor competitors run 5,000 meters but no two courses arc alike because of tic variations in terrain. So comparisons Are difficult to make. Zweir Ticken s boys and shape s girls turned in the Besl team Elt Orts last week the boys winning with Only 19 Points and the girls with 20. Zweibruck Engol a second from Thomas Clark third and Firth from Kerry and Kevin Mazingo and an eighth from John Woods. Trojans also finished ugh 15th, 17thand 18th. Andrea Neary 4thlaura Dales St. Tara Short 7lh and Teresa Bishop 9th followed Barry in the shape Parade. Heidelberg Gic Ssan and accent joined Zweir Tocken As boys team winners and Stuttgart Zweir Ilcken and Ansbach won the other girls titles. The volleyball Competition will be Al Hei Delberg and Hahn Friday and saturday with both meets using the olympic Pool formal. Representing inc aaa in the big schools meet will be Heidelberg Hannu Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. The a counterparts Are Mannheim nor Neie Patch and Frank Furt International school. A hew Champion is assured because we Brocken did t make it this year. Munich the defending Champion also is missing on the Small schools front. Giessen and Berlin rep resent Germany a Central Bennor entries Are Bonn and accent and a South competitors in clude Vilseck and Ansbach. Riisci1a Kourou the Central european Junior division All around Champion last Spring won the Baden Wurtemburg state 12-16 age category elite division gymnastics All around championship last week and will go after her second straight German National championship nov. 16-18 at Singon. Shell warm up for the nationals this weekend by competing on he . Team in a 16-Tcam International Medico cup gymnastics meet Al arc Gunz aus Tria. " Shilo Dreu a former Central european gymnastics Champion left the Dodds system in her senior year logo to school in Omaha. She qualified for the Nebraska state championships but strained a thigh muscle during her floor exercise warm  and did t fare too Well. This year she made the football cheer leading squad at the University of Nebraska. Some More sad news. Bob Knutson a Veteran Dodds teacher and coach died suddenly of a heart attack sunday night. 4knutson has been the wrestling coach at Vilseck High school since the school was granted High school status in 1983. He also coached soccer Anil Tennis assisted in track and Field and served As athletic director at Vilseck. Previously Knutson coached and taught Al Slutt Gart Bahrain and Naples during his 22-year Dodd tenure. Bob Nulson not Only was an outstanding coach he was n valuable asset to Vii suck High school and the Vilseck Community High school principal and Zacharias said wednesday. He was a very positive Guy who really cared about kids and worked hard All the time to make things better for everyone his widow Marilynn family and All his friends have my sincere condolences. Off year for Paterno by Mike Preston of the Baltimore Sun College Park. My. These May no be the Best of times for Penn state but Maryland coach Joe Krivak in t necessarily feeling comfortable about playing the Kittany Lions saturday. Penn slate 4-4 is having an off year by its standards but it is still Penn state Home of Joe Paterno factory of Lineback ers and National champions two of thelast seven years., and there s also the Streak of 23straight Kittany Lions victories against Maryland since 1961,yes Krivak still is worried about pen state. I be coached against Penn state for 18,20 years now and i played four year against them there never seems to be a bad Penn slate team Krivak said tuts Day Al his weekly news conference. They re not going to make a mistake and give the game to us. You Don t try to trick them. You Don t try to out finesse them. We re going to have to line up in the pits and beat Ihen. In my Estima Tion they Are still a Good football team one we have to be concerned with and play our Best game against. But if one. Looks beyond the usual coach s Praise for an opponent this maybe the year for Maryland to beat Penn slate because the tips have a lot i their  tips 5-3 Overall 4-1 Atlantic coast conference Are in Contention for a bowl game. Penn stale for the first Lime in a while in t shuffling through bowl invitations. In the last two games Maryland finally has shown it can score Wilh 34against Duke and 41 against North Caro Lina. The terns Are averaging 175 Yards Rushing and 184 passing. Maryland is relatively Bellhy Bur Penn state is without its Best running Back in Blair Thomas knee injury out Tor inc season quarterback Tom Bill dislocated knee Cap out for another Vorry week and possibly defensive Back Brian Chizmar knee questionable. Plus Maryland players say they retired of hearing about the Streak. Yeah people Are always saying we choked or we Don t have the same intensity As Penn state said Maryland out Side linebacker Karl Edwards. Bui the coaches seem More intense this week and they seem so precise in everything they Are doing. Everybody has a feeling thai we can beat  the Middle of he week you Wilt see a difference in Altitude among our players Edwards said. Everybody knows this is the game. Every year we say we re going to Deal Penn stale but i believe we re going 10 do ii this  Maryland has done some sir anon things Over the years to help extend is losing string against the Villany Lions. For example in 1984, Penn stale won 25-24, because an unorganized Maryland team could t get its Field goal unison the Field. In i985, Maryland was picked by sport Magazine As the preseason no. I. Meanwhile Perm state was coming off a 6-5 year and still rebuilding. They met in the first game of the year. Final score pennslale20, Maryland in. In i986, Maryland quarterback Dan Henning s pass to wide receiver James milling on an attempted two Point con version was incomplete on the game last play. Final score Penn stale 17, Maryland is. Maryland senior guard John Rugg from Mill run pa., said he would like to beat Penn state because he wants to o out As a Winner. A this Maryland team is much differ ent compared with the last two Rugg said we have a belter attitude and a great work ethic. 1 Enow some people Are ured of hearing about the Streak. 1 came into a winning program and i want to go out As a Winner. We have a lot of Guys on this team from Pennsylvania t think Well be fired