European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 25, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 25 however they say it Ouellette s a Winner by Becky Fox staff writer Garmisch. West Germany if Jim ouch Lett were a baseball player he would step to the plate and hear. Woo woo the sportscasters would say they re not booing Ocull Clec. They re saying woo As in woo let. Which is How he pronounces his  ouch Lett is not a baseball player so he hears nothing of the kind. He s a skier. Skis Alpine events. Win them More impressively than any Mili tary skier in Europe. Ouch Lett will try to maintain his reputation in the giant slalom monday and slalom tuesday at the Safe ski championships. He will represent wies Baden where he s a sergeant in the air Force. Sergeant ski. Ouellette s Arena is the Mountain. Ser Geant ski and the slope. No fans. No wave wooing him on. And yet a touch of baseball will strike ouello Etc and his fellow airmen at the Safe meet. For one an announcer will blare out skiers names and times. The armed forces recreation Center broadcaster is no Harry Caray but at least hangers on can hear the electronic megaphone. For two ouch Lett will hear cheers. Aswill every skier. Not exactly from fans who really Are a handful of wives an girlfriends but from fellow racers. In one of the last bastions of sports Manship a ski race features racers Root ing for racers no matter How close they Are to snatching that Gold medal. For three the Sun promises to keep showering this bavarian town. It was so Radiant at last week s army meet you expected Ernie Banks to appear saying let s ski  Oullette played a Little baseball As a youngster. Even touched the football an tried Motocross. But skiing has always been Ouellette Slife. Or since he was 2. Ouellette s dad Louis of French Ca Nadian decent was a ski patrolman. He taught his wife Patricia How to ski the raised their three children on skis. They would pack into their car in Brunswick Maine on a Friday and head for sugar loaf Mountain about an hour away in Kingfield. Louis owned a Cabin there which meant skiing the whole weekend. While other kids grew up shooting hoops by the garage Jim was shooting Down slopes. Talk about second nature. Jim Ouel Lett has never known fear in skiing. As i get older i might get a Little More cautious said the 27-year-old. But there s no groomed terrain i worry about. Alyou can do is dive into it. Dive and  fear of the dreaded downhill Duel Citte who Hopes to race one somewhere in Europe next month said. I m looking Forward to it. I m looking for something with length and  fear of Speed skiing where the Rush reaches 130 Mph Ouellette said he has t experienced it but i d like to try  Ouellette picked up steam As a Junior skier. He was 16 and his brother Danny was 20, and suddenly Jim was posting faster times. It helped me Ouellette said. It made me Excel to ski As Well As i  Ouellette graduation from Brunswick High school in 1981. He joined the air Force a year later. First assignment sey Mour Johnson fab . Not exactly the Alps. Ouellette barely skied for four years. All services meet postponed Garmisch. West Germany is the All services ski championships have been postponed. Captains of the army and air Force teams agreed saturday to erase the All sen ices races scheduled for thursday and Friday. They said they might try to compete March 24 and 26 in Garmisch.  s Dieter Kratse Captain of the Safe team said his skiers will meet sunday and vote on whether to shoot for the new All services dates. He would then Check with Safe sports chief Dick Mullins since Safe is the Host team. The Safe ski championships ran monday and tuesday. Air Force and army skiers were Here saturday for an armed forces recreation Center giant slalom. Stuttgart s Frank White head of the army team said he has recruited about 30 skiers for an All services meet he said the postponement was called because 1 his team needs More time to organize after its Low turnout at last week s army meet and 2 he needs time to find a commercial sponsor since afr s race director Bernhard Bic Odorfer says he needs s2,000-plus in entry fees to run an All services  said interested army skiers May Call him at ets 421-4232/4116 or at Home 071s7-7996. Carl Cottrell Captain of the Mainz team is available for questions at 06131-463003. It kind of Hurt my skiing being off that  he said. It look me a while to get my Confidence  like two minutes. Soon after his 1986 Landing at Wiesbaden where he is As signed to the 1st combat communications group he joined a gang from Lind Scy As on a ski trip to Garmisch. One ski run and Jim ouch Lett was Back in his element. As soon As the races started he was winning. In 1987, Ouellette captured the Safe slalom and giant slalom plus theall services slalom. In 1988, he won the Safe giant Sla Lom and super a. He also captured the All services giant slalom. In 1989, Ouellette moved to a higher level. He entered qualifying for the . Military team for cism the Council of International military sports. Ouellette finished first in qualifying a Stowe vt., near the National guard s Camp Ethan Allen in Jericho. Second was his Safe rival Pat Arnone of Simbach. When the other countries military teams came to Stowe Ouellette was no longer King of mount Mansfield. He placed 33rd, with Arnone 32nd. Does that bother Ouellette i ski the Best i can he said. Some of those Guys have world cup experience. I m Happy to be in the Field with them. I would want to train with hem. If they re doing something Well i want tory it. That s what skiing is All about mimicry. What works for them try to incorporate those moves into your own  Ouellette returned to Stowe for this year s qualifying for the . Military team. He made the three Man squad with the Best times in the giant slalom. His time of 1 minute 10.42 seconds was the fastest run. His 2 21.32 was the quickest combined time for two runs. Dave Derwin an air Force Captain from the Pentagon finished at 2 22.20. Amone made the third Slot with a 2 22.81. The Lone woman Slot went to Melissa Campanile last year s usar eur Champion now stationed at fort Bliss Texas who clocked 2 39.76. The . Team will be in Seefeld aus Tria March 19-24 for the cism meet. Since returning from Vermont this month Ouellette has been training in Garmisch. He skied in the army meet last week As an unofficial entrant. In the slalom his 1 16.65 was 7 seconds faster than Champion Stephen Hughes of Stutt Gart. In the giant slalom Ouellette s1 39.30 was 3 seconds quicker than Stuttgart Winner Mica Imamura. He can carve a really smooth  marvelled Phillipsburg s Brad Mcclave. Amed Alist in both races. He carries his Speed really  Bernhard Bruckdorfer who has been running arc races 11 years says Theno. I military skier he has seen is Brian Skinner the perennial army Champion of the Early 1980s. Ouch Lett is definitely one of the Best skiers since i be been Here said Bruck Dorfer. He has style. If he had a Chance to ski More he would be better. He certainly belongs in the category of skin ner.1 Ouellette and Skinner raced saturday in an arc giant slalom. Oullette scorched the men s open division with a1 33.45, nearly 10 seconds faster than Todd Burneis Leroy Wurzburg. Skinner still racing at 35, placed Sec Ond in the men s seniors division for Ages 30 to 39. Wei Brincken s Graham Smith who won saturday s men s masters 40 and Over race is in his eighth year of Mili tary racing. His lop five i skiers go like this i. Jim Durtschi of Spang Dolc. 2. Ouellette. 3. A tie Between Brian Skinner John Skinner of Simbach and Span Dah 1cm, and Arnone. Jimmy Ouellette said Smith. Put him eight years ago give him Money and he d be on the National team today. John Skinner last year s Safe giant slalom Winner won t make this week s meet. Safe s sports office reports he is out of the air Force and living in the . Still Ouel Ette should face stiff com petition. Arnone will push him. So will a gang that helped Safe finish an impressive third in the recent British serv ices ski championships in Mcgee. France. Namely. Durtschi George curl by of arc Cham common. Colin Moffat of Alconbury. Tim Littlefield of Hahn and Guy Wothington of Rhein main. Torrejon s torrid two Mike Balfan Yand Scott Sander also raced in France. But Safe says they might miss this week s meet because of duty in Turkey. When the Safe meet ends what next for Ouellette he want to enter International races then pack his bags Fortis next assignment Peterson fab colo., due at the end of May. Sergeant ski. That s ski not baseball country out there. Nil Roundup rangers Zap Caps by the associated press Landover my. Goal tender Mike Richter s two assists were As indicative As anything else of the current state 01 the new York  know things arc going Well when that happens said Richcr who also stopped 30 of 33 shots and improved his record to 8-3-3as new York beat the Washington capitals 5-3 on Friday nig Jit to move Back into first place in the Patrick division Lead. In other games Friday night sabres 7, whalers 3 Buffalo . Pierre tur Geon and Christian Uuttu each scored twice As Buffalo downed Hartford and prevented the whal ers from clinching a playoff berth. Maple Leafs 6, oilers s Edmonton Vincent Damphousse had three goals including the game Winner As to Ronto rallied with three goals in the third period to beat Edmonton. Damphousse who also had a assist scored the tying goal on a Power play Early in the final period and put the Maple Leafs ahead with 3 12 left in the game. The Maple Leafs trailed 5-2midway through the second period but came Back with the help Ofa few Lucky bounces and great third period goal ending by Allan Buster. Bester made two terrific Glove saves Early in the final period including one on a breakaway by Peter Klima that would have put the oilers up by three goals. Klima had two goals for the Oil ers while Kevin Lowe Glenn an Derson and Craig Simpson had one apiece. . From Page 23 weren t too effective in their shooting. They attempted 64 shots and connected on Only 21. Brussels was a More conservative 17 for 42 from the Field. I made a mistake on my defensive strategy in the beginning Baum older coach Jack Dougan said. We used that style in the fourth Quarter in the North Ern regional finals last week and it worked. It did t work so Well today and playing catch up against Brussels is Tough position to be  joining Boyd on the boys All tournament team were teammate Bragg Augsburg s Jerry Bishop and Terry Austin bad Kreuz Nach s Tony Smith and Wilkes and Berlin s Renard Owens. Selected along with James and Bot Toms on the girls team were Baumholzer s Williams and Carrie Borstad Bam Borg s Janet Jackson and Katesha Williams and is s Molly Jonas. In saturday morning s third place games Bamberg girls 59, is 52 Katesha Wiliams sparked the Barons to Victory with a 19-Poini, 12-Reboundeffort. Jackson contributed 18 Points and Cherrie Williams added 13. Augsburg boys 41, Berlin 38 Jerry Bishop turned in spectacular performance As the apaches prevailed from the Start but had to survive a Berlin comeback attempt. He had 8 Points 14-boards, seven assists and seven blocked shots. Eric Collins added 10 Points to the win. Antwon Ferritt had 10 Points for Ber Lin