European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 22,1989 the stars and stripes Page 25 Arizona banking on another Sean Rooks key to wildcats future  writer Limburg West Germany if you think the Arizona wildcats Are Ripe for ripping next year with the loss of All everything scan Elliott Elliott and shot blocking terror Anthony Cook you May get looked. Scan Rooks plans to have something to say. He did saturday when the wild cats beat West Germany in the Heinz Wolle Halle. With 25 seconds left and the score tied at 89-89, Rooks muscled in a rebound Between West Germany s Hasni Gnad and Michael jacket. That gave Arizona the Victory 91-89. The West germans spent the first hair driving Down the Lane on the Sophomore Forward or picking him off with screens. Coach Lute Olson responded by Yelling at Rooks last year s sixth Man whom he expects to fill Cook s shot blocking shoes on the defensive end of the floor. Olson benched Rooks put him Back in yelled some More then benched Rooks again. Yoyo City was not the Type of thing the other Sean Elliott had to Deal with too often. And this Sean had to Deal with a Heinz Wolfe Halle court with out air conditioning thai was More like a Sauna with the temperature in the 80s outside. Scan has asthma very bad and he has a tendency when he starts out in a Strug Gle to let up a Little bit Olson said. He s learning that if hell push himself he can push through that problem. There s no question he can be a real Fine player for  he certainly was Fine in the second half saturday. West Germany s Michael jacket drives the Lane Bam Rooks slams the Ball Back in his face. Jacket s team mate Henning Harnisch tries to go Baseline on Rooks whap the Ball and Harnisch arc sent flying. Wildcat Harvey Mason gets a flying body slam Sandwich from two germans and who is there pointing a Finger in Arizona loses rematch Stuttgart West Germany Ste fan Back scored is Points to Lead the West German National to an 85-83 Victory Over Arizona sunday earning the germans a split in their two game series with the wildcats. West Germany was ahead 45-37 at halftime. West Germany Center Sven Meyer s Chest none other than scan Rooks. After putting in his rebound for what would eventually be the winning Points. Rooks clogged up the Middle on the other end of the floor. The germans leery of driving against him after seeing the Ball shoved Back in their faces so Many times tried a jump shot instead. It missed and Rooks wrapped his Hooks around the rebound to scat the win. It will be a matter of if we can get Rooks to play with the intensity he needs to play with Olson said. If he comes along that will give us two 6-11 Guys in Side. He will also give us strength and Power inside that we Haven t had be  intensity was not a problem in the Sec Ond half saturday. And then there s that other 6-11 Guy Olson referred to Brian Williams a Transfer from Maryland who was the Atlantic coast conference freshman of the year in 1988. Brian Williams i think will be one of the Best players in the country next year already As a Sophomore Olson said. He s 6-11, he s 235 pounds he runs the floor. He beats our guards in sprints. Just a tremendous  Williams averaged 12.5 Points and 6.0 rebounds a game for the terrapins in 1988, then sat out last season after trans Ferring to Arizona. Rooks thinks the addition of Williams will help take the heat off him. There s not going to be any pressure on me Rooks said. We be got another 6-11 Guy who is very very Good in Brian Williams. We just have to pull together As a team. Everybody is going to have Topick up the Slack for Sean and  pressure on these Young cats is what Olson hoped for on this Lour. So far the heat has t burned his Cool cats. The great thing from our standpoint was we get to Sec How they la react when the pressure s on Olson said. In France in the first game it was a close game until there were about seven or eight minutes left and then we pulled out and won by Loor ii. In the second game we were Down by 12 or 15 Points brought it Back to three and just missed an interception that could have tied it with 20 seconds left. So they be been very very competitive when the game was on the line. That s a Nice sign for  not bad for a Bunch of role players and Seldom used freshman from last sea son s Pac-10 powerhouse. Balanced scoring was a pleasant Surprise saturday with Jud Buechler leading the Way with 20, Rooks getting 18, Brian David add ing 13, Wayne Womack 12, and Ron Curry and Mason 10 apiece. And the wildcats made the winning run with Buechler and Matt Muhlebach who Olson says arc his two Best play ers watching from splinters Villa be cause of foul trouble. It was a Chance for a lot of Guys who were in the shadows last year because of a and scan Curry said. The balanced scoring is definitely going to have to be a part of our game next  this gives us a Chance to Sec what some of the younger players can do who did not have a Chance to play for us a whole lot this year Olson said. Four of the eight kids we had were freshman this last year. Curry played very Little to Mack played very Little. Matt thick played but not in pressure situations at the end of the  Rooks seemed to enjoy the pressure and the banging the most. Eve though he got in Meyer s face after Mason went Down Rooks downplayed the scuffle. It was t illegal Rooks said. When 6-11 scan Rooks is out of Elliott s Shadow. And part of Arizona s new wave a lot of fouls Aren t being called there s pushing going talking and a thing like that just sets it off. It helps us to play More physical be cause Germany was a very physical team and the refs let it become a very physical game and you have to adjust. I think we adjusted very  Mancini outlasts Agassi in Italy final Rome a Alberto Mancini overcame a penalty Call on a key Point and fought off a match Point in the fourth set to outlast andr Agassi in the final of the italian open men s Tennis championship sunday. The Argentine seeded 11 the downed the second seeded american 6-3,4-6,2-6,7-6 7-26-1. After winning the first set Mancini had difficulty when the 19-year-old Agassi slowed Down the game with Moon balls Long lofted shots to counter the Argentine s forehand drives. Agassi swept Back and took the next two sets. In the fourth set Agassi scored what appeared to be the decisive break against Mancini when the Umpire called a Racket abuse penalty against the Argentine for tossing his Racket. Mancini had received an earlier warning for receiving coaching from the stands so the Sec Ond Call Cost him the Point and loss of service. Serving for the match Agassi went up 40-30, one Point away from Victory. But he netted a Mancini forehand to fall to Deuce and the Argentine eventually broke serve. Mancini won the tic Brcak 7-2 with the help of a number of unforced errors by Agassi. Agassi then seemed to run out of steam. Man Cini broke him three times in the fifth set clinching the title on a deep forehand drive that left Agassi Flat footed at the Baseline. Mancini won $179,200, while Agassi earned $89,000. Giessen hands giants 1 St loss Frankfurt West Germany the Giessen Brewers exploded for seven runs in the second inning sunday and took advantage of eight Frankfurt errors to hand the giants their first loss of the season 11-8. John Ambriz led off the Frankfurt first with a Homer fora Short lived 1-0 Lead. But Giessen sent 12 batters to the plate against starter and loser Bill Mullican 0-1 in the big second inning. The Brewers did t get any hits off Mullican. But they chased Mullican with one out in the inning whence walked three and his mates committed two errors to bring in reliever David Jones. Jones gave up a two run double to Ray Pabon. A run scoring single to Norberto Solo and a sacrifice Fly to Allen Hammett. The seventh run came in on the giants third error of the inning. Lewis Winningham pitched 6 / innings for the win. He gave up six hits six walks and fanned five. Giessen improved to 2-3 Frankfurt fell to 3-1. In other a a games sunday Loci Labronn 7-11, a l or 6-4 Augsburg Heilbronn right handers John Martin and Steven Mundl combined for 24 strikeouts in route going efforts As the masons swept Augsburg for their first a a victories of the season. Martin fanned 13, walked five and scattered six hits in the opener which the masons won in the seventh inning on Rob Ortiz s rib double. Martin opened the winning rally by reaching first on a throwing error. Jeff Melc Nycz forced Martin and stole second before scoring on Ortiz second double. Augsburg s big blow was de Wilson s two run Pinch hit Home run in the fourth inning. Barry Clark was the losing Pitcher in the opener although he yielded Only three hits. Clark Fann cd four a baseball and walked five. Mundl struck out 11 and walked seven. The Only hits he allowed were by Brian Lee. Reyes Guilli Arma paced the masons seven hit at tack with a single double and triple olt Vince Spur lock who went the distance for Augsburg. Spurlock struck out nine walked two and hit two batters. Heilbronn ballooned its record to 2-3. While Augsburg suffered its sixth loss. Stull part 12-13, bad to Fol 7-2 bad Tolz West Germany the undefeated Stuttgart Blue sox were Down to their last out in the first game before exploding for five runs for the win. The first place Blue sox dominated the second game completely As they improved to 6-0, while the twins fell to 0-4. With the score 7-7 and two out in the top of the seventh Wally Shankovich walked and stole second. Jake Williams singled him Home. After Williams stole second Buel Bohannon singled in Williams. After Bohannon stole second. Henry Wood grounded to shortstop Jim Thompson. Bohannon raced toward Home without stopping and scored when Catcher Eric Smith dropped Thompson s throw to the plate. Claus Herman walked stole second and scored the last run on an error. Stuttgart s Greg Brown had a two run single in the third and an rib single in the sixth. The twins managed Only three hits off Lee Noel. Wai Dormar Ramirez led the bad Tolz offence with a two run single in the sixth and an rib double in the first. Shankovich s two run double was the Blue sox key chitin the Nightcap