European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday March 30, 1989 the stars and stripes Paga 17 of if rr7-. I sports juniors top All Europe list Wiesbaden $ Holtham eagles Kinder named players of the year p sports editor if size mobility and defensive skills arc prime requisites Tor Good basketball teams the 19&9 stars and stripes All Europe squads certainly 11 the Bill. The girls team averages 5-Lvt with Hie Lal Lisl player. Heidelberg s Kirsten Keller standing in at 6-2 and the Small est Brussels Masquida James measuring Wiesbaden s Rob Harris at 6-b, is the big Man on the boys squad which aver age 6-2vi. Mannheim s Corey Jenkins Isth smallest at 5-9. Two girls american school in Lon Don s Laccy Mccaffrie and Wiesbaden s Keri Hillham repeat from the 1988team. Shape s Andrea Pizzulo and Stuttgart s Ron Thomas arc repeaters on the boys squad. Mccaffrie returns As a Forward and Holtham repeats As a guard on the girls team. Joining Mccaffree at Forward arc Heidelberg s Cindy s Sandy Kwitnicki and Mannheim s Kim Len Tard i. Holly am compatriots at guard Are Asl s Danicia Burm Ankara s Jacki Stapchuk and James Keller goes at Cen Ter along with accent s Megan Bacr Mart. I Jalo was named to the Forward position for the third straight year. His upfront team males arc Frankfurt s Mike Kinder rams Cin s Dalon Bynum and Karlsruhe s Damon Johnson. Harris. And Alconbury s Marcus Davis get when to at Center and in Ciurlik s Gary Evans shape s Jimmy Parker and Mann Heinzs Chris Nolan join Thomas in the backcourt. Juniors Holtham and Kinder Are the. Girt stars and Stripe players of the year Rosucci tevely. If these teams were to take the court they would be handled by stars and stripes coaches of the year Janis read of Vilsick and Bill Snyder of Frankfurt. My Cafter Kwitnieski and Burza were the key As Asl Colin cd its and tournament domination by running its do Dos record winning string up 79games by taking both championships macs Force 5-s averaged 19,1 paints a game on the strength of 64 percent Field goal accuracy while pulling Down 7,3 rebounds 2,8 assists and 4,2 steals a game. Kwilin Iusti 5-9 popped in m Points and 4,7 assists a game for the eagles but coached Ladd said her real value was on defense where she hauled Down 7.2 re Bounds and came up with 7.0 steals , Burza Alia came through with 14points a Battle. She also was credited with 6.s steals and 7.3 assists a game. Cabe and Keller also Cri top notch performers on an undefeated learn. Cab 5-11 came the states and gave coach Rich Bennett a Power Forward 10 go with his 6-2 Pivot she led Heidel Berg s balanced attack with 14 Points 12boards and four steals a game. Keller had 13 Points ii rebounds and three blocked shots a game As the lady Lions won the aaa league title and dig schools tournament. Keller was a he Roine in the championship game Victory Over Wiesbaden u a hard a Transfer from Frankfurt Ted Mannheim to the a league i ilk with 12.7 Points 9.d rebounds .5,-j steals and 4.0 assists a game and coach Hurt Blank said she was the girl on our Tea who made All the others play better. Her passing rebounding Ball handling an shooting skills were Rock Hillham capped another Fine year by being big schools tournament most valuable player. She led Wiesbaden q Witt in a whisker of upsetting Heidelberg in the championship game. Hillham s value increased immensely after her. Twin sister Tara was injured and she had to assume More responsibility. The Holtham Andom gave Wiesbaden one of the Best backcourt in Dodds. Kari averaged 15 Points is rebound Sand. Five steals a game As the warriors tied for second in Germany aaa arid finished second in the big schools Kari Holtham really did a great Job for us Wiesbaden coach Mike Montoya said. After Tara ,1 All the pres sure fell on Kari and she came through with a Superb performance All year. She almost won the tournament for us Stapchuk and Barman were the mainstays at Ankara and accent respectively. Stapchuk averaged 17.3 Points 7,5 steals and 6.1 assists a game and was the key play maker and defensive performer for coach Armin bit s club which featured two fresh Man and one Sophomore starter Lite Hockham Stapchuk won tournament map recognition for the second straight year Barman sparked the Lions to a co championship with Brussels in the acne player of the year Keri Holly Fri. Handled All the pressure nor and also led the brigands to the Small schools championship. She blocked so shots during the. Campaign while averaging 19. Points and 15 re Bounds per game. James was one of the most promising freshman to come a Long in a Long time she averaged Points a game. She also was credited with 120 steals a 6.6 average As the brigands split their opening weekend series with accent and went on to share the league title. Kinder won the mv1 accolades As he led Frankfurt to its first big schools basketball championship in 27 years. The eagles finished third in league play a game behind co champions wies Baden and Ramsten As Kinder averaged21,8 Points twice scoring 34 Points in a game and nine rebounds per Outing. He also was credited with three steals and 3.6 assists a game Mike turned. In a career year for us Snyder said. He scored Well and he re bounded Well but the most important thing about him was the leadership resupplied. He was map in the tournament and he really deserved that Honor tic got us the Pizzulo was an outstanding All around player in leading shape to the Ben Norand Small schools championship. His scoring average was Down slightly from previous years to l6.s point5 a game. However,.his other contributions were Many As he supplied great leadership. He had 3.2.assists,.3.0.steals and. 9.2 boards a game often seeing Little More than a half s action because the spartan generally were Well in control of things. Bynum was a key performer Assam slain shared first place Den in Germany aaa chalking up a 22 1 Points per game average while haul ing Down 19 l re bound his Best games came in Back-16-Baek performances against Kaiser Lautem 37poinls, 29 boards and Stuttgart 35 Points 25 rebounds. Johnson was the standout perform Ron a mediocre Karlsruhe team. He was thu second Best scorer in Dodo with a24.0 average and had one 35-Point game player of the year Mike Kinder. Got us the championship and two 30-nointers. He also averaged 1 $.8 rebounds a game. Harris led All Dodds scorers this year wit i a 29.4 average on 66.4 percent Field goal shooting. He ills connected on76 Percy no of his free throws hauled Down 16.0 rebounds and was credited with 3.8 blocked shots a game three times he was named stars and Stripe player of the week. Davis was a key performer As Alton Bury sailed through . Was Ort and tournament warfare Csc Alicd and finished the season Riding a 25-game win Ning string. Harris captured map accolades for his tourney play. He averaged 21.2 Points 10.6 boards and four blocks an assists during the year. Evans a 6-0 speedster was the spark plug who made in Ciurlik Click. He averaged 17.j Points a game while play ing a Naif or less each game because the Yodjas most of the time were too Strong for the other Turkey opponents. His Forte however was his defensive play. He averaged Only three steals a game Buthe. Harassed the enemy into Many turn overs with his pressing tenacity. Parker was or. Dashal a he usually Drew the opponent s toughest player and averaged 4.6 Scals and 4.3 defensive rebounds a game and still contributed 14.1 Points a game As a Point guard Mannheim to a perfect regular season Campaign including two close victories Over shape which did t lose any other games in non con Ference action. He averaged 9.2 Points 8.1 it cals 7,0 assists and three boards a game As he provided leadership for the predominately Sophomore starting lineup for Mann Heim. I be had a couple of other All Europe performers in she past and Chris rates right up there with them coach Dairy Andrew wrote. He is the one player i could t afford to lose this Jar he was really a steadying influence on the three sophomores who played most of the Lime for Thomas was Stuttgart s player deluxe. He started Sonly because of a see All Europe on Page 21 " r i " a a
