European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 17,1989 the stars and stripes Page 25 commentary Hahn coach likes lakers show too you want a lock you go to an expert. You go to a Guy  guaranteed a championship then produced one. You go to Mel Mungin  the Day he took Over the Hahn basketball team promised a Safe title. Last week Mungin s Hawks won it. Not just won it. Seized it. Went 26-2, including a 6-0 fast break through the Safe tournament. Zapped the Safe tourney Field by an average of 17.5 Points. All that by a Hawk team that had t won the air Force championship of Europe since 1976. And by a Hahn a infamous for playoff chokes in football despite its annual squawk of year of the Hawk. The football Hawks would do Well to recruit 6 foot-5 Mike Owens As a tight end 6-5 Ricky Walton As a hideout 6-8 Vern Bradshaw As a defensive end 6-1 Dobie Strong As a Strong safety and 5-8 Glen Hixenbaugh As a linebacker. Those were Hahn s hoops starters. Clutch starters. Especially Owens  was chosen the Safe tourney s most valuable player. With that kind of height Mungin knew he had a Winner. As coach of Hahn s women s team last year he saw the potential of the men. So he told the Guys in their first practice last september that they would win it All. Snickers no says Mungin. The Guys knew last year they were probably one Guy  that one Guy was Hixenbaugh. The South Bend ind., guard called the shots on the court in this legitimate year of the Hawk. And yet As Hixenbaugh displayed in an an to feature two weeks ago he can t dribble with his left hand. How could anyone have promised a Hahn title with Talent like we Brucken s Sonny listen rein car Bucky Fox Nate Tony Hicks hovering in Torrejon site of the Safe meet Mungin knew his Hawks would deliver on his Promise the moment they won the preseason tournament in Ramstein. As the season went on the coach says the More confident the Guys got. Every thing was More or less coming together by the time Safe came  not that Mungin 42, was another Bob Knight on the Bench. The Man s a civilian contractor from Beaufort s.c., with hardly any basketball experience. When he was t operating computers during his 20-year air Force career he was playing softball and baseball and a Little basketball. He admits his Forte is softball which is Why he also coaches Hahn s fast pitch team. Even with that Short basketball resume Mungin knew something about the game. About winning. About a championship. If Mungin can Call Safe on the Dot Why not Trust him with College basketball or the Aba Mark these Down. Mungin picks a final four of Georgetown Louisville Oklahoma and Indiana. He likes Georgetown Over of in the final. He predicts the Aba will relive its los Angeles new York finals of 1970, 72 and 73. This time he sees the Lake Swinning in six games. What if Mungin woke up As coach of the lakers what levers would he pull to assure a third straight championship he would Start by engineering trades. First for a shooting guard. A Rolando Blackman Type. Then for a backup Center. " Mychal Thompson s Good but they need a shot Blocker Mungin says. They need someone to take on a Strong inside player like Karl  someone like Dairy Dawkins. Of double d him self. If you wonder what happened to that dude he s a Back Back backup for Detroit. He s Young enough Mungin says of the 32-year-old, 6-11 for Mer 76er and net. Chocolate Thunder. He still has  whom to give up Orlando Woolridge. He s not acquainted with the system says Mungin. He would also offer Tony Campbell. With his new look lakers established How would Mungin coach them to the top he would push their defense. That s one thing that has deserted them this year he says. Teams Are pushing on them More than Ever. Their team defense is out to  offence Mungin would t tamper with it the Ball has to be in magic s  what to do against the kicks Mungin would worry about new York s double teams and traps. His answer give the Ball to magic Johnson. He would get the Ball to the proper people he says. As for dealing with Patrick Ewing he would Force him out and make him take the jump  could Mungin really out coach new York s Rick Pitino definitely says the Hahn Boss. In the real world Mel Mungin is staying at Hahn. He wants something the lakers accomplished last year two straight titles. No Safe team has done that since Wiesbaden in 1972 and 73. Then again if Mungin predicts it bet on Hahn. The stars and stripes Ouellette Arnone land on . Team compiled by Klint Johnson assistant sports editor skiing the air Force duo of Jim Ouellette of Wiesbaden and Pat Arnone of Sembach finished first and second in the giant slalom last week in the . Military Alpine trials at Stowe it. Ouellette s time of 2 minutes 5.60 local Roundup seconds included runs of 1 03.47 and 1 02.13, which was the Best of the trials. Arnone posted runs of 1 02.56 and 1 03.25 for a 2 05.81 total .21 behind his fellow Safe skier. Two Usa eur skiers Jeff Robins of Mainz and Steve Short of Nurnberg also qualified for the team. Robins clocked 2 07.21 for third place and Short 2 08.60 for fifth. The Navy s Doug Nordmeyer in fourth place and Toby Quick of the army National guard in sixth completed the six Man team. The alternates Are Chip Allen of the army National guard and Usa eur s Tho Seaborg of Karlstedt. Seaborg took eighth with a 2 10.07. Another Karlstedt skier Jim Krall placed ninth at 2 10.24. The . Team will enter the world military giant slalom championship March 2 at mount Mansfield ski area in Stowe. Military teams from 13 countries Are expected to participate. Baseball the German Ameri can league with a new sponsor the Tele 5 Cable to station will hold its organizational meeting for the 1989 sea son in Mannheim at noon sunday. Site of the meeting will be the Rhein Neckar Gas Statte next to the soccer stadium on Theodor Heuss anlage. Anyone wanting to get involved in the a a cameras better not blink while Tyson bruises brunos a Bucky Fox Wiesbaden s Jim Ouellette Best run of trials league May attend. Call Claus Helmig at 0621-412529 for More information. Boxing an invitational is scheduled for feb. 25 at the Casey fitness Center at . Darby Cavern in Furth West  and physicals will be from 10 . To noon with boxing starting at 6  will be individual first and Ond place trophies and team awards for first second and third. Admission for spectators will be $2. Point of Contact is Lee Mawby at 460-7115.bowling a King and Queen of the Hill tournament willbe held at Pattonville Bowling Center in Stuttgart March 12.two shifts will be bowled starting at noon and 2 . The top five Roll off at 5 . Men will be guaranteed $500 for first place based on 45 entries and women $ 150, based on seven entries. For More information Call 07141 85956 or ets 428-2378. By Rick Warner a sports writer Hob s rebout coverage of the Mike Tyson Frank Bruno fight is scheduled to last 28 minutes. The fight in t expected to last As Long. With Tyson you never know. It could be a two second fight said Ross Greenburg  will produce the feb. 25 telecast from Las vegas. But if that Hap pens it s our responsibility to show the two seconds in All its glory. The important thing in boxing in t How Long it lasts but How exciting it is. Remember Hagler Hearns it Only lasted 7 48, but it May have been the Best 7 48 in boxing  in his last fight Tyson knocked out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds. Many boxing experts think the undefeated heavyweight Champion will take even less time to beat Bruno  already has been knocked out by Tim Witherspoon and Bon Crusher Smith. I would t be shocked if that happened Greenburg said. The first time Bruno gets hit on the Chin it could be All Over. I saw film of Tyson training last week and he looked  although Many consider the fight a mismatch it May attract the biggest audience in Hob history because of the interest created by Tyson s publicized personal problems. He s now reaching soap opera fans As Well As boxing fans Greenburg said. Hob is paying Tyson $26 million for a seven fight package but the Cable network appears to be getting its Money s Worth. Four of the five highest rated original Hob programs have been Tyson fights. Everyone laughed at us when we signed the Deal but in retrospect Hob sports chief Seth Abraham looks like a Genius network spokesman Tony Fox said. The Tyson Bruno telecast will include a live interview with the Champion s former Trainer Kevin Rooney and a segment to Roundup showing How Tyson s views on various subjects have evolved Over the years. We use flashbacks from old inter views and compare them with answers he gave us in an interview last week Greenburg said. He talks about people like Don King Bill Cayton Kevin Roo Ney and Robin Givens. It gives you an idea of How Mike Tyson has changed and How he has t  promoters Are Billing sunday s Light heavyweight fight Between Michael Moorer and Frankie Swindell As a title bout. But Abc which is televising the fight is refusing to go along. The title designati9n comes from the world boxing organization the newest of the four International sanctioning groups. The  founded by disgruntled members of the world boxing association awarded its championship Belt to Moorer following his dec. 5 Victory Over Ramzi Hassan. However Abc boxing analyst Ferdie Pacheco says Moorer does t deserve to be called Champion. Last december he fights his first scheduled 10-round fight and the  decides to make it a world championship fight that s ridiculous Pacheco said. Abc will Bill the Moorer Swindell fight As a Good Light heavyweight bout which it should be. We certainly won t Bill it As a title fight. The proliferation of meaningless world titles has confused everybody and has degraded the definition of a Champi  an sports television pro basketball Cleveland at Atlanta 2 05 . Saturday radio pro basketball Boston at Phoenix 3 30 . Saturday