European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday february 13, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 25 pm in Ciurlik Roll to easy wins writer Raf Ben Waters England the Rhein main rockette and the in Ciurlik lady braves won their opening games easily establishing themselves As the two teams to beat at this year s Safe women s basketball tournament. Six teams two each from the Continental Mediterranean and United kingdom sports conferences travelled to England for the four Day round Robin championship. The lady braves head coach Leslie Marion said atthe sunday afternoon Start of the Safe tourney that his is the team to beat. The Alconbury lady spartans the . S no. 2team, Learned that the hard Way by taking 103-63 beat ing from Marion s team in the second game of the tourney s opening Day. The Mac s top ranked lady braves took an Earl Lead in the first half of the second game. Forward Annie cousins led in Ciurlik with a 14-Pomt Effort. My women hit the floor said Marion. He likes to compare his team to the los Angeles lakers. We re a running team. We run and shoot run and the lady braves completely dominated the lady spartans most notably in the second half when they outscored the Alconbury women 57-33. Cousins finished the game with 26 Points. Guard Wanda Taylor had 27. The lady spartans were led by a 35-Point Effort Safe women s basketball from Veteran Forward Rainy Alston. Rhein main 71, hell Nikon 59 Rhein main took an easy win from the Mac s no. 2team, the lady olympians. Rockette coach Johnny Gardner said his women 22-0 in the regular season did not gear up for a big game against the weaker hell Nikon. We did t have the killer instinct Gardner said apologetically. Their his team s mental game was t there. We really did t run the rockette went into halftime with a 46-30 margin was put together partly on the seven Field goals from Center Gena Tucker and guard Angie Mccullough who had 8 Points. Hell Nikon s top scorers were Sonya Fehlinger with22 Points and april Harding with 20. Span Dahlem 75, Chicksands 72 Span Dahlem Center Cynthia Cummings pumped in20 Points in the second half to help the lady sabers rattle past the lady Chicks in the tourney s opening game. The lady Chicks the no. 2 . Team looked like they would strut to an easy win Over the Csc s runner up when they widened their 37-36 Lead to 44-36 Early in the second half. But with 8 13 left in the game the lady sabers pulled ahead at 56-55 and never trailed again. Cummings led the lady sabers scoring in the Sec Ond half hitting 11-12 from the Field including two 3 pointers. Alconbury 81, Span Dahlem 65 the lady sabers could apparently handle Only . Team sunday succumbing to the lady spartans late in the Day. In a lacklustre game the Alconbury women straight ened out the chinks in their Armor and registered their first win of the tournament against a tired Swandahl Esteam. The lady spartans had no trouble beating Spang Togo 1-1 on the Day even after coach Micheal Toliver told big guns Alston and guard Debbie King from the lineup for most of the second half. Forward Netra Kelly who went scoreless in the ear Lier game led Alconbury with 19 Points. King left the game with 18 Points. Carmen Yates led the lady sabers scoring with 20points. Cummings had 16. Marion said his lady braves got most of their experience this season playing most of their 18 regular sea son contests against intramural men s teams at incur Ligand that toughened them up. That really helped us a lot he said. What is it going to take to beat the favored and Csc Champion Rhein main rockette in the first game monday we re g9ing to press pm and fast break pm to death Marion said. They re going to play our game. We re going to run and Frankfurt men Edge Hanau 93-92 writer Frankfurt West Germany for Hanau to fulfil coach Mac Early s aspirations of taking Usa eur s men s basketball title the hornets Are going to have to empty their closets of a few skeletons the latest being the Frankfurt fal cons. Frankfurt handed Hanau a 93-92 set Back sunday to throw a Bone in the for Mer v corps East leading hornets spokes. The loss left Hanau walking their Bike with a 5-3 record a half game be Hind 6-3 Giessen which was Idle the weekend. Meanwhile Frankfurt is starting to pedal at 3-5 and according to guard Ronald Henry gaining Speed. By the time v corps playoffs com around Well be ready said Henry. The loss burst the Bubble of Hana coach Early who prior to the game was focusing in on grander visions rather than the task at hand. We Forsee taking Usa eur he v corps basketball said despite having the skeletons of losses to Mainz and Wil Flecken in his closet. We did t have full squads for those games. We had key players in the while Early dreamed Frankfurt Drewa direct Bead on reality. They came Here with the attitude that they would blow us away because we be been struggling said Henry who drove Home a game High 25 Points to spark the upset. We got real aggressive on defens and hustled for every Ball he said after the Falcons survived several late threats. The big threats ended with the Hor nets stinging themselves. With 04 left in the game and the score93-90 for the Falcons Hornet guard Jerry Phair had a Chance to knot the score after intercepting a pass and driving Down court. But instead of pulling up and popping a 3-Pointer, Phair drove the Lane and dropped in a 2-foot jumper for a 93-92score. Frankfurt Rode out the time to win. I thought we had one More timeout said Phair dejectedly. Hanau s Rodney Morgan had hit afield goal to close the Gap to 93-90 with 20 seconds remaining. The hornets had already stung them selves with 46 seconds left. Hanau s Timothy Spotville laced a 3-Pointer from the top of the key to bring Hanau to within two at 90-88. On the ensuing Frankfurt Possession Hanau Forward Rick Goedde hacked fal con Darrel Thomas who was in the actor shooting and All alone under his hoop. Thomas weathered the foul and plopped in a 2-foot bucket for a 92-88 Edge then converted the free throw for a 93-88cushion. Hanau had started the game on the right foot. The hornets scraped to a Short lived 8-2 Lead. Frankfurt chiselled away and took the control at 14-12 after Henry who had 18 first half Points roped three Stra Ightfield goals and added a free throw. The Falcons stayed a step ahead and forged a 42-40 Lead at halftime. George Smith canned two free throws to provide the difference. Hanau charged Back Early in the Sec Ond half and regained the advantage at 50-48 via a 6-foot jumper by Phair. Frankfurt came Back with five straight Points including a 3-Pointer by Jerry Allen and took Over the steering wheel. Frankfurt had five players score i double figures. David Durrett hit a team second Best of 19, Allen ripped the net for 18, George Smith finished with 17 and Thomas had 10. Hanau was paced by Phair and Reginald Sweatman who each had 16 Points. Tony Tyler had 13, and Goedde and Spotville finished with 10 Points apiece. An sports Radi College basketball Syracuse at Georgetown 1 30 . Tuesday. Nierlich takes second Gold a Austria s Rudi Nierlich. Wins slalom at Vail Vail Colo. A Austria s Rudolf Nierlich a virtual unknown outside of the world cup circuit won his second Gold medal capturing the men s slalom sunday in the final event of the world Alpine ski championships. Nierlich Winner of the giant slalom thursday Over took first run slalom Leader Armin Bittner of West Germany with a Quick second run Down a course wit extremely tight Gate placements. Nierlich 22, had an aggregate time of 2 minutes,2.85 seconds nearly a half second faster than Bittner s 2 03.29. Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg third after the first run maintained his position and won the Bronze medal in 2 03.65. Paul Accola of Switzerland was fourth in 2 03.80and Jonas Nilsson of Sweden fifth in 2 03.87. The treacherous second course felled seven of the first 10 skiers out of the Gate including longtime swed ish Star Ingemar Stenmark. The Tamer first run mean while knocked out five skiers from the first seed including Italy s Alberto Tomba and Switzerland s Pirmin Zurbriggen. Tomba the two time olympic Gold medallist who was making his final bid for a medal in these championships straddled a Gate about 10 seconds from the finish and fell. Zurbriggen fell Only five seconds into his run. Defend world ski championship ing world slalom Champion Frank Woerndl of West Ger Many Austria s Bernhard Gstrein and top american Hope Felix Mcgrath All missed Gates while descending asleep face toward the finish in the first run. Despite Mcgrath s exit two other americans herein Contention for top 15 finishes. Bob Ormsby of Tahoe City calif., stood Lith after the first run an Kyle Wieche of Farmington conn., was 14th. But both fell in their second runs. Nierlich Winner of two world cup races this season and three in his four year career on the circuit had the second fastest time in the second run of 1 05.28, Trail ing Only Nilsson s 1 05.07. Bittner who led Nierlich by just 25-hundredths of second heading into the second run lost time on the Steep pitch toward the finish that featured one particularly difficult Gate and was clocked in 1 05.97. His Gold medal was the third of the championship for the austrians who tied the powerful Swiss. Switz Erland finished first in total medals however with 11compared to Austria s six. Finishing sixth was Ole Christian Furuseth of nor Way in 2 05.18, followed by Paul Frommelt of Liechtenstein in 2 05.34
