European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. December 29, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 21" prep Pickin s 88 was Good year for Dodds boys Chris Kelley for the most part. 1988 was a Good year on the Bays sports front in Dodds Wilh Many peo ple etching their names on the logs for successful endeavours. Those big names included Chris Killcy Charlies old Calvin Peterson Chris Williams Gene aug Jar Steve Butler Ron Thomas Mike brawn Jason Biko Jay Wilson scan Smith. Corey Jenkins Keith Craw Ford John Elk Ken Mcneely will Sandidge Jason Maples scan Bradshaw Lance Koss Lavauhn Allen Konrad Peters Alex Mckindra and Mike Meyer. Floyd Leighton Eric Zefer and Mike Ghent and the list goes on and on. Ramstein s Kelley was an All Europe performer in football in 1937 and excelled in both wrestling and soccer and those achievement were enough for him to get the panel s solid backing As the 1988 Stan and stripes athlete of the year. Toth Peterson Wiliams Kugler Butler Thomas Brown Crawford Elk and my Necly were among the Basket baft luminaries Sandidge Maples Bradshaw and Koss earned most of their accolades on the mat Beko Wilson Smith Jenkins and Allen were some of the outstand ing performers in track and Field Peters Mckindra and Meyer excelled in Tennis and Leighlon a Cir and Ghent earned their accolades on the Gridiron. While the coaches and performers listed were accomplishing outstanding achievements in the Aren Asand on the Fields of Endeavor the year was marked by a couple off-1 lie Field negative aspects. The aaa coaches attempted to control the Sis All Europe football selections by limiting their recommendations to All conference selections and the a coaches evidently decided  players should be limited to either the offence or the defense when making their All conference picks also adversely affect Ingall Europe possibilities. The other negative Factor was the order from Dodds Washington tinder pressure from Barbara Spyridon Pope Deputy assistant Secretary of defens for family support education and safety to Grant varsity letters to High school aged members of the european forces swim league for non High schoo Competition and the Extension several months later of that program to include youth activity baseball and softball also non school activities but the Good outweighed the bad conclusively Asport by sport review shows basketball Gic Ssan s Toth who had become the first Man to win Sas coach of the year recognition two years Ina Row in 1987, made it three straight by guiding the Griffins to their third straight Small schools championship that extended their winning Streak to 42 games just four Short of the Dodds record held by Vincnza. The Griffins beat Steve Sherrill s unbeaten shape learn which was led by Andreas Pizzato for the second straight year Peterson who was map in the Small schools tournament and a prime candidate for Sis player of the year and Williams were key performers in those achievements. The winning Streak and Giessen s re Cord Selling aspirations came to an end in the 19ss-89 season opener at Pitburg Early in december. Kugler handled the coaching duties and Butler and Thomas were the key performers As Stuttgart pre vented Brown and his wll Ryburg teammates from Matching Giessen s achievement and capturing three straight titles in big schools tourney strife. Although the stallions stopped inc wolves Brown won a precognition. And also was declared the stars and stripes player of the year. -. Man Coly whose  teams once ran up 45 straight victories had another perfect Campaign i winning the Italy regular season and tournament titles. Tourney map Crawford and Elk were double figure scorers and Rebo unders As the saints posted a 17-0 record. They opened this Campaign with a pair of victories to finish 19ss with 19 in a Row. Andre Richardson a 5-fi. Guard with deadly out Side accuracy won the map award by Leadin Torre Jon to the Spain championship with a 2 Point seven steal six assist performance against american school of Madrid Woody Hodges Deon William Sand will Whiten won All tournament recognition by leading Ankara to the Turkey championship with a44-39 Triumph Over Fen Liseski despite the atomics Eric Zeler Charlie Toth map performance. Peterson Pivalo Crawford Williams Brown and Thomas were named to the stars and stripes All Europe team along with Owci Brincken s Steve Dun can Mannheim s Andre Green Ramstein s David Ennis and Wurzburg s Kenny Cummings wrestling Sandidge was the big name on the Mats he finished a three year 69-0 Dodds performance by winning the Central european 125-Pound title and leading Heidelberg to the team Crown. Fulda s Jason Maples 135shape s Sean Bradshaw 140 and Ramstein s Lance Ross 160 also won repeat championships in Central european Competition Koss achievement giving him a 35-0 two year record. Kcal Ley Wen undefeated in route to the unlimited title. A Reburg s . Werner a newcomer to Dodds look the 112-Pound title winning in inc process the outstanding wrestler and most pins in quickest time awards. He had four Falls in 5 21. Other Central european champions were Wiesbaden s Jamic Ruff car 103frankfurt s Jim Reutze 119eric Robertson 1s2 and Warren Curry 171heidelberg s John Goss 130 and Ron George 189 and Mario Perez 145 of Small schools Champion a cent elsewhere on the Mats it was Naples taking the big schools Crown. Overseas of Rome prevailing in the Small schools Competition and Livorno s Adam Yon is winning outstanding wrestler and most pins in the fastest Lime recognition in Italy s championships Torr Jon taking the Spain title with Zaragoza s Craig Page and Andrew Weir winning the outstanding Ana pin awards respectively and Izmir triumphing in Turkey despite the sweep by Ankara s Alan Saran of the special awards. Track and Field it was the Bucsi Ever year for Dodds pole vault cars. Four different people Wilson Smith Munich s Jason Petras and Tilburg s Vince Kelley cleared or approached 13-3, the previous Dodds record in. Regular season Competition. Wilson was up Over 13-9and Smith had hit 13-4 before regional eliminations but records can be established Only in regional in country championships or the Central europeans then Smith went 13-6 in the Behan or regional to erase the record set in 1977 by Frankfurt s Bob Slen son. His snark lasted one wreck. Wilson first broke Smith s record with a 13-9 leap Early in the Central europeans. He came Back and cleared 14 feet for the new record when the height was measured to verify the record it turned out to be 14 feel one fourth Inch. Beko might have had a couple a shots at records if he had any Competition. He won the 1,500 Mitera by eight seconds and the 3,000 by a whopping 21 As 1988 was one of those rare years when a flock Osgood distance runners were non existent in Dodds two other athletes were multiple champions. Mann Heim s Corey Jenkins won the High hurdles in 14.9 Sis of set mint wh1 sir Didge top dominates action and the Long jump with a 23-1 Effort. Allen look the triple jump for the third straight year going 48-5 in the Central european championship. Crawford scintilla Ted in track and Field Loo win Ning the 400, 300-meter hurdles Long jump and triple jump in the Italy championship. His efforts were in vain because Vicenza look the team tide Craig Hartley won inc 100, 200 and High jump and Richardson won the Long and triple jumps to Pace Torr Jon to the Spain Crown. Soccer Berlin pulled one of the big upsets in recent prep soccer history when it beat shape in the semifinals of the Small schools playoff. The bears led by map Alex Burke then Defeated habit for the championship. Heidelberg beat Ramstein 3-1 in overtime to win its second straight big schools title and stretch its winning skein to is straight Brian and Kevin Hall and Joe Ockert scored for Ibe Lions and athlete of the year Kelley recorded both of Ramstein i goals. Italy split its soccer tournament into big and Small schools for the first time notre Dame Defeated overseas to win the former and Brindisi prevailed Over Livorno in inc other tournament. Rota Defeated Tomion White for the Spain title and Izmir prevailed in Turkey. Cross country Heidelberg s Steve Stephens turned in his Best Effort of the year to win the Central european meet i record setting time of 15 41 Over inc rugged five Kilometre course at Munich other outstanding per formers included Wei Brincken s Paul Woods and Thomas Clarke Frankfurt s kit Corbett who beat step Hanson once in regular season and in the aaa meet Hahn s Tyler Peterson. Vusick s Tony wrinkles and shape s Joachim Rombaut. Malt Troyanek beat out teammate Mike Hod i to Pace Aviano to the Italy title Gavan Mechan paced Asl to the . Crown and in Ciurlik s Jerry Mccomb took individual laurels in the Turkey meet the Lear honors going to Izmir. Heidelberg s Tim Kaplan turned in two straight82s Over the Tough Berlin course to win the Germany championship and Pace the Lions to the team title. Defending Champion Gary Glenn of ram Sicin had tint round 81, but slipped 10 89 the second Day. Football the football team added even More to he Heidel Berg Success Story of 1988. Leighton guided an Zeier passed the Lions to their first perfect season since 1970. The aaa league champions repealed an earlier Victory orc league Runn nip Wurmb Ujjin the big schools tide game to go 9-0, leaving the Lions the. See preps on Page 22