European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday decembers 1908 the stars and stripes Page 21 prep pickins a Essen 5 wins from Dodds record can the go Essen boys break the Dodds basketball consecutive win record that Early season question might be answered a Early As Friday when the Tempo of the Dodds win Ter sports program picks up with a 12-Gamc Basket Ball Safe Friday a 16-game Cage program on sat urday and a ill match wrestling program on saturday. When the Gissen boys open at Pitburg in non conference strife Friday they will be putting their 42-game winning Streak the third longest boys skein in Dodds history on the line. Only Vicenza 46 and Aviano 45 have won More consecutive games. So the Griffins have to get by the Barons twice on the Road this week and osterholz twice at Home Jan.6-7 10 match Vicenza s Mark. If they arc successful against those teams they will have an Opportunity of setting the record at Home against Mannheim Jan. Pics san under the guidance of Charlie told has won the Small schools basketball tournament every year in its three year history As a High school com piling a glittering 49-2 Mark Mclong the Way Toth is gone and so arc most of the Griffins who compiled the Glossy record. Told is now coach ing the Gic Ssan team in the German league. Things got underway on the dodos Winter sports scene last week when the . Basketball teams made  debuts and the . Wrestlers staged their annual pre season take Down tournament. This week s basketball Chart finds tour ital games three by Tenor games and five non league games on tap Friday. The Italy and Bennor teams have re matches saturday and the non conference Chart jumps to nine games. The Germany aaa Spain and Turkey schools wait until after the holi Days before swinging into action. Aviano takes a modest 17-game winning string into its 1988 debut at Milan fonday. Unlike Gic Ssan the saints have quite a bit of Talent returning and probably will be Able 10 extend their winning ways Ibra while. Aviano with All its stars gone opened against Vicenza after compiling its 45-Gnme skein and the cougars who had several Veteran returnees Success fully protected their record by taking the opening game decisively. Vicenza also won the next Nigel in much better contested game. The basketball season is a Long one stretching until March 11, when the Turkey championships will be staged at in Ciurlik. The first tournaments on the Agenda this year will be the Northern and Southern regional feb. 16-18 and the Italy tournaments feb. 17-18. The Northern and Southern regional will in clude the 19 Small schools in Germany and the Ben enor. Establishing the regional format gives every school in Dodds Germany and the Bennor at least one tournament game. Accent bad Kreuz Nach Bonn Brussels gics sen Hahn osterholz shape and Oesterberg will compete in the Northern regional. Ansbach Augsburg Bamburg Baum older Berlin Fulda Karls Ruhe Munich Ulm and vils Edc comprise he South Ern regional setup. The top tour teams from each regional will Advance to the Small schools championship feb. 23-25. The big schools tournament also is scheduled feb. 23-25. It will be staged at Mannheim with All 13 teams eight from aaa and five from a competing in a new single elimination no Consolation bracket tournament that gives every school the Opportunity of competing under tournament conditions. I have always thought that Consolation Type tournaments were not too Good. It just seemed strange that a team which lost it first game and would Beable to finish no higher than fifth should Lake Home a trophy while another team generally went Home empty handed for losing a third place game. Italy also will be staging big schools and Small schools tournaments that wit embrace All teams this year. The big schools tournament Wilt be at Aviano the Small schools at Livorno Aviano Naples notre Dame Mary mount overseas of Rome and Vicenza arc the big schools Brindisi Comiso Livorno Milan and Sig Onelia Are the Small schools. The . Tournament is scheduled March 2-4 Al american school of London the Spain event March 3-4 Al Rota. Germany Ben enok wrestlers will establish their certified weights for the season in saturday s matches. Once a wrestler has been certified he can not wrestle below the established weight for the rest of the season whenever a boy wrestles two weight classes above his certified weight he automatically will move up a class and cannot revert to Hilt former weight. The wrestlers will be competing under High school federation rules again this year. There Are 13 weight classifications and there will be no longer a growth allowance. The weight divisions Are 103. 112,119, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 152, 160, 171. 189 and unlimited. The Southern regional team championship Tro Phy has been renamed he Robert e. Knutson me Morial award in memory of the former Vilseck High school coach who died suddenly of n heart attack oct. 30, Nulson dedicated 22 years of his life to the Dodds program. He coached m Stuttgart Naples and Bahrain before moving to Vilseck. In addition to wrestling Knutson coached Tennis Golf soccer and track and Field. The Southern regional which Vilseck will stage this year also in Honor of Knutson is one of four regional that will establish the Field for he Central european championships feb. 17-18. Other Sites for the feb. 1 i regional Are Central at Hanau Northern at Wiesbaden and Western at Ramstein. The Italy championships arc feb. J7-ib at Naples. The . Finals Lake place feb. 25 at Alconbury. Spain s finals Are March 3-4 Al Zaragoza and the Turkey championships take place March 10-11 Al in Ciurlik. As usual the stars and stripes wants to give As Complete coverage As possible to the Winter sports programs. We  on All the basketball games and wrestling matches. On wrestling we want team scores All the matches from an individual weight before advancing to the next weight and any outstanding achievements. In basketball we want the team score score by quarters the lop three scorers on each team and any noteworthy achieve ments. First names of All people As usual Are a must it is the responsibility of the Home coach to obtain All first names. It lakes less than two minutes to put All first names in a basketball so rebook or on a weight bracket list in wrestling. Results of All athletic events must be reported the same Day the Competition is held. We will not take any sunday or monday Calls for events staged on saturday. Til. Surend by rep t baseball from Page 17 with the 39-year-old third baseman. Schmidt s agent Arthur Rosenberg said the signing of the one year Deal for guaranteed $500,000 would be announced wednesday. Schmidt can make another s 1.3 million in bonuses if he stays healthy and plays regularly. The Phillies had announced sunday that they reached agreement with Schmidt but a last minute Snag developed. Three free agents decided on tues Day to return to their former clubs. Bil Buckner re signed with Kansas City for 1400,000, Jim Dwyer re signed with Minnesota for $200,000 and Garry Tern pc Lon re signed with san diced for 1500,000, for one year. Tom pc Lou took a pay Cut of about s650,. On the Trade front the new York acts talks with Atlanta about Dale Mur Phy stalled but More negotiating is scheduled. Among the acts who interest the braves Are Lori Dykstra Howard John son and Keith Miller the met also met with the los an Gele dodgers again and talked about new York second baseman Wally Back Man. New York wants reliever Ricky Morton. Minnesota and the new York Yankee reached a dead end on a Trade for Yan Kees outfielder Dave Winfield so the Yankees then began discussing a Trade that would Send Winfield to the Chicago cubs with another player for Pitcher 3weden bounces u. S. F r o m f e d e r qty 6 n cd p Nolan Ryan. Lakes s3 million Deal Rick Sutcliffe and shortstop Shawn Dunston. The Baltimore orioles made a $70 million Deal when an agreement was reached to sell the team to former vice presidential candidate Sargent Shriver team president Larry Tuccino and Pri vate investor Eli Jacobs. The orioles were sold by mrs. Agnes Williams widow of the late Edward Ben Nett Williams. Jacobs will be the principal shareholder with Tuccino Shyer an Robert Shriver or. Also having shares. Melbourne Australia a Maria Strandlund and Catarina Lindqvist sparked unheralded Sweden to an upset 2-1 Victory Over a depleted United Stales team wednesday to Cam a spot in the quarterfinals of the federation cup women s team Tennis tournament. Strand fund 19, Defeated Patty find ick 6-2, 76 7-3 in the opening singles and Lindqvist then downed Lon Mcneil 6-4, 7-5 to give the unseeded swedes Vic tory Over the second seeded americans. This is the Best result for swedish women s Tennis for a Long time strand Liin said ,. Denmark Upsel seventh seeded Argen Lina 2-1 to also Progress to the last eight along with the top seeded soviet Union third seeded defending Champion West Germany fourth seeded Czechoslovakia fifth seeded Spain sixth seeded austra Lia and eighth seeded Canada. The United slates team whose Mem Bers had complained about being seeded behind the soviets was eliminated be fore the quarterfinals for the  in the 26-year history of the tournament. The americans have wan the cup a re Cord 12 limes. Strandlund 19, who Only joined he women s professional tour five months ago and is making her federation cup debut was too Strong for two time Mcaa Champion Fendick. Lindqvist ranked 42nd in the world to Mcneil s 13th, passed the aggressive