European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 25,1990 the stars and stripes Page 21 prep Pickich s o Neal Waits for Hanson Foo a him Shaquille o Neal already is carving his Niche As a Marling freshman on the Louisiana state University basketball team. Next year when coach Dale Brown writes the starting lineup in the official so rebook for Ltd s opening game there probably will be two sex Dodds basketball stars on the court. O Neal an outstanding performer at Fulda As a soph Omore displayed his basketball skills last saturday for Brown s Bengal tigers when he stole the Thunder from leu s sensational guard Chris Jackson and was named his team s player of the game. O Neal was selected by lbs for his 17 Points. 15 rebounds and three blocked shots As leu smothered notre Dame 87-64 at the Loui Siana sup Rome in new Orleans. Mike Hanson a stars and stripes All Europe selectee from Torr Jon As a Junior will get his Opportunity at leu next year. This season he is sitting out his soph Omore year after transferring in from the University of Tennessee Martin following a sensational freshman year. He was on the end of the leu Bench in civilian clothes during last week s game. O Neal Only 6-6 As a Sophomore at Fulda but now 7 /. Averaged 18 Points and 12 rebounds in eight game for the Falcons in 1987 before departing for the Stales. He enjoyed outstanding Junior and senior campaigns at Cole High school in san Antonio and signed a letter of intent for leu. This year he has been averaging 12 Points and nine rebounds while enjoying the luxury of having another seven footer Stanley Roberts to team up with on the boards. Hanson averaged 24.4 Points a game hauled down113 rebounds and was credited with 69 assists in his Junior year at Torrejon. He transferred to University Heights High school in Hopkinsville ky., for his senior year and led the learn in scoring with a 22.6 average and had a 7.2-assists Mark. Hanson carved a Niche of his own at leu s Pete Maravich Assembly Center last year. Although Tennessee Martin is a Mcaa division ii school it takes on some of the big boys once in a while. Last year in played Al leu. And Hanson put on som kind of a show despite a 128-89 lambasting by the tigers. He hit on 12 of 21 shots in the second half including four 3-Pointcrs. In route to a Field House record 40 Points for a visiting player. The old record was 37, set by Mississippi s Dave Shepherd in 1975. Hanson went on to average 23.8 Points and 5.6 three Point baskets for Tennessee Martin. Larry Gahan Hanson s former coach at Torr Jon said that he has received several articles in which coach Brown has praised Hanson for his Sterling play Mike Ben Abrams Mike Hanson left and Shaquille o Neal got 28 Points in a recent scrimmage against o Neal Jackson and company. Gahan said that he chatted with Mike when he was Home Over Christmas vacation and that Mike said he s learning a lot playing with and against  player of the week accolades go to Gissen s Charles Breland and Heidelberg s Kirsten Keller. Breland a 6-5 Forward chalked up 21 Points 10 re Bounds and six blocked shots As the Goffins opened their a North Campaign with a 78-65 Conquest of Oscr Holz Friday. He followed that with a 25-Point, 12-Board performance in a 68-60 Triumph Over the Blackhawk on saturday. Keller had 46 Points a one game school record and17 rebounds in a key 73-61 Triumph Over rams Cin. Keller s previous High score for a single game was 24 against Stuttgart last year. The scoring spree gave Keller named for the second time this season a three year total of 749 Points and pulled her to within 13 Points of the Heidelberg career scoring recut. She also had 13 Points earlier in the week against league leading Wiesbaden possibly the Best girls team in Dodds this year. The lady Lions 6-3 Center hit 18 Points on 9-of-l i shooting in the first Quarter 15 in the second Quarter on 5-of-5 from the Field and five free throws and she fouled out with 1 57 left in the game with 20-of-24 from the Field and 6-of-l i from the  has been consistently  Heidel Berg coach Rich Bennett wrote this week. She averaged 7.8 Points a game As a Sophomore 13.2 last year and is averaging 20.8 in the aaa 19.2 Overall this  Keller worked diligently to improve her game last summer Bennett added saying that she had attended basketball Camps at Penn state Gettysburg College Andle sin Switzerland. She already has received a scholarship to american University in Washington. . The end of the Germany bin nor basketball Competition can t be too far away because Mike Mon Toya s Wiesbaden warriors can Clinch the girls aaa title Friday with a Victory Al Ramstein. A Heidelberg loss at Stuttgart and a Frankfurt defeat at kaisers Lautem. Wiesbaden takes an 8-0 conference record into the fray with four games remaining. Heidelberg and Ramstein arc both 5-3 and Frankfurt is 4-3. All other teams arc out of the title picture. A win gives Wiesbaden a share of the title  Ramstein boys Are 8-0, too but Frankfurt has lost Only one league game an 86-84 overtime thriller to the royals at Ramstein. They meet again at Frankfurt feb.2. Wiesbaden is 6-2, but has to beat Ramstein Friday to stay alive in the Pennant  Baum older girls can Clinch a share of the a Contrat title with a sweep at Gic Ssan this week. They arc4-0 in league play Gic Ssan is 1-1, but the other teams have lost at least two  s boys also have been impressive so far. They Lead the a with a 6-0 record. Mannheim is second with a 4-1 Mark its Lone loss coming Al Home at the hands of the  Livorno and is Gonella boys share the Italy Small schools Lead with 4-0  schedule showed four teams playing in spam this year but Only three teams were being reported. A Check with the do ids Mediterranean sports office revealed that american school of Madrid also is competing on league basis. The Rota boys and girls arc leading the race with 5-1 and 6-0 records respectively. The boys cause probably will be weakened considerably this week wit the departure for the slates of 6-2 i Forward Robert weeks whom Gahan Calls the outstanding performer in the league. The sure ind strip sports Calendar for Jan. 25-11 unless otherwise dated basketball the Continental sports conference women s championship will be decided Al Hahn a in a five team tournament that starts thursday and runs through sunday. Based on their regular season finish Ramstein Hahn Pitburg Spang Dahlum and  arc seeded in that order for the tournament which will be run in the same double elimination format As last week s Csc men s tourney. Ramstein and Hahn finished the regular season tied for first place bul the lady rams won a playoff game last saturday to earn the lop seed. P.m., men Al 3 . Augsburg Al Ansbach has been rescheduled for sat urday feb. 3 Wiir Burg at Schweinfurt shifted to March 18, and Heilbronn at Stuttgart was postponed with no Dale Sci yet. Berlin s Charl Oltenburg hosts Cologne Friday al7 30 . To Lead off the German Bunde Sliga s Basket Ball weekend. On saturday  plays at Bambara 6 .ludwigs Burg at i860 Hagen 7 .gold Star Hagen at Gic Ssan 7 30bayreuth at Langon 8 . And Ulm at la Verhusen 8 . Sch Abing of Munich Ansbach and tub Ingen Host second division games saturday night with Kro Bergand Offenbach at Home sunday afternoon. The tournament opens thursday with Owci , Span Dahlem Al i . Pitburg faces Hahn at 6 Flockey . And then Ramstein takes on the first game win no a i player at8 . In Friday the losers on thursday s first two games meet at 11 a.m., and that Winner plays the loser of thursday s third game at 6 . A winners bracket game follows at 8 . One game the losers bracket final is scheduled for saturday at 6 . The championship game will be played at 2 . Sunday followed Al 5 . By the if necessary contest. Both finalists Advance to the Safe championships feb. 8-11 at Pitburg a. Safes Small units championship will be held next week starting feb. I. At Raf Wal Fersfield. Eng land. Cilc Skirchen and Berlin seeded 1-2 from the Csc. Will be joined in thai turn mint by the top two Small unit teams from the uni cd kingdom and Mediterranean conferences in the four Day tournament. Vii corps will again have Only three men a women s doubleheaders sunday As refer Ger takes its toll. Bamburg plays at Munich and Goppinger at Neu Ulm in East conference matchup and Aschaffenbur is at Schwa Bisch a mind in the West. Women play at i the West German bund Liga offers an unusual thursday game this week with Berlin hosting Mann Heim Al 7 30 . The Friday night schedule has Rosenheim at Frankfurt Munich Al sch Wanningen Cologne at Landshut and Freiburg at league leading Dusseldorf All at 7 30 . On sunday. Frankfurt plays at Munich Schwyn Ningen at Mannheim. Berlin at Cologne Landshut Al Freiburg and Dusseldorf Al Kun Sunheim with most games Sel for 7 . Bowling an International four Man team tournament at the pizza bowl in shape. Belgium opens next wednesday and continues through feb. 4. Six games will be rolled in the team event followed by a singles final. Prize Money will be awarded to the top nine teams and 24 singles finalists. For More information Call 361-3596. Skiing the world cup men s circuit shifts to Val d is arc France this weekend for a two downhills on Fri Day and saturday plus a super giant slalom on sunday. One of the downhills and the super a were switched from win gun. Soil Erland. Due to Lack of Snow. Women s world cup races originally slated for the West Germany s a fronted engr is and Berch Lusga Den this weekend have been moved to Santa Catarina Italy where a downhill giant slalom and slalom Are scheduled for Friday saturday and sunday. Bobsledding ills Austria will be the site of a world cup and european championship four Man Competition saturday and sunday. Luge a world cup Competition is scheduled for k6 Nigbee. West Germany near . The Evanl was to Start wednesday and continue through sunday. Indoor Motocross the Aifiti round in the adar indoor Motocross Winter cup series will be held saturday at Kiel West Germany with practice beginning Al 5 . And racing Al 7 . In the Osl Seehale Kiel. The entrants incl Dean International Field of riders on 125cc cycles. Horse racing Ruhr area tracks continue to have the Only win Ter racing in West Germany. Cuss will be operating on saturday and Dortmund on sunday both starting around noon