European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 2, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 25commentary military skiing in �?T90 May wind up  skiers raced last week. Air Force skiers raced this week. Maybe the Twain shall meet. They probably Shan t. It All depends on whether the  s racers show Strong enough organization to warrant Safe hosting an All services meet March 24 and 26 in Gar Misch. At the moment a a it a shaky Quot said a Safe steam Captain. Dieter Krause. What is Safe looking for an  team with some sort of approval from Headquarters in Heidelberg. That will never happen not with Usa eur having killed its championships last fall. So no matter How Many  skiers sign up an All services meet looks out of service for 1990. Unless something drastic takes place. Like the Mahre Brothers joining the . Which is too bad. Skiing was the Only sport that yearly featured  is. Air Force in Europe. It did t happen in basketball. Or boxing. Or wrestling. Only skiing. Then again maybe military skiers can use a break. They have weathered a crazy a inter of Sahara Sun one week Manila Monsoon the next. They should have received weather reports instead of medals. I la stick to headline awards for last week s  meet and this week s Safe ski championships both held in Garmisch fit to wind a to the armed forces recreation Center course setting Crew for keeping tuesday s Safe giant slalom on course. Wicked gusts threatened to gut the is. The wind managed to to an electronic timer but the Crew revived it. Trees fell. A Fence flew away. Recreational skiers fled the Mountain. In the Eye of the storm Bernhard Bruck Bucky Fox Dorfert a arc Crew somehow reset the Gates. Secretary of ski a to Krause for convincing Bruckdorfer to keep racing. Bruckdorfer with an Eye on those flying Trees advised Krause to abort. The Safe ski Boss argued to keep racing. Only a Strong personality like Krause s could have withstood the Force of Bruckdorfer. Blowing in the wind a to James Hall of Sembach. Amid tuesdays Gale word was radioed to the finish line that Hall had been blown into the Woods. Then suddenly Hall appeared. He finished for 13th place in the seniors division. Wild Warrior a to Sean of Hearen of Wei Nicken. On monday of Hearen crashed through the Safe slalom finish with skis and poles following his body. And this was before the winds came. Champion of intelligence a to Karen White of Stuttgart. She won the  a women a open giant slalom then had the guts to Tell the truth about  sports. Usa eur says one of the reasons it killed its championships was to push company level sports. White a Captain who commands a military intelligence company at Stuttgart a  Airfield said the so called on duty sports shift a has no to happened. Its a logistical Nightmare. How can you have on duty sports when you re in the Field six months out of the year in a waiting for it to  the Way from san Jose a to Tim Sweeney of Nimberg. The native of san Jose Calif., won the  a seniors slalom. The major agrees with White Usa eur talk about shifting its weight behind unit level sports is a myth. Lonely at the top a to Lori Bond of Stuttgart. In a reflection of what usage urn a october knife Job did Bond was the Only woman in the  a slalom. At least she finished. Drive Mem wild a to Hertz for providing a Bow for the weekend to a Safe a combined winners Sembach spat Amone Hahn a Tim Littlefield upper hey Fords Rauli Karjalainen and Zweig Rick end a Ellen Berggren. Skiing with dollars a Hertz Michelob and or Pepper poured in a combined $5,000 to prop up the Safe meet. At amp to alone wired the  meet with $4,000. On the air Force Side menus open giant slalom Champion Amone is contracted to ski with k2s, and Wei Brucken a masters is Champ Graham Smith receives free Erbacher skis. There a Gold in them thar Hills. Woe Luck a to Jim Ouellette of Wiesbaden. On monday sergeant ski had to Dodge a fallen recreation skier he missed the Safe slalom title by half a second. On tuesday Ouellette lost a pole and lost the is Crown by half a second. Face Job a to Jim Durtschi of Span Dahlem. If Ouellette thought he had it bad look at Durtschi. He a the one with the Black Eye and scabs dotting his face. The culprit was a swinging Gate in the Safe slalom. Durtschi still won the bloody race. Between blood and wind its time for something Mellow. Anyone for kick boxing the stars and stripes no Snow Vii corps ski meet hits skids compiled by Walt morr1ssette staff writer skiing a Vii corps has had to cancel its 1990 ski championships after postponing them once. The Vii corps Alpine and nordic meet which was scheduled for March 5-9 at  was scrapped because of inadequate Snow at the arc resort. Originally the Vii corps meet was scheduled for feb. 5-9, but postponed for Lack of Snow. A three . Military skiers will compete in the 12th Swiss officers ski championships at a stand Switzerland. Mainz s Michael Petring is representing he  Oberammergau a Dieter Krause the air Force and Oslo a Walter Wasowski the Navy. The meet starts saturday with a 14-Kilomctcr Cross country race. A giant slalom is scheduled for sunday. Bowling a a Usa eur level tournament sponsored by the european Bowling executives association will be held March 9-11 at the Lee Barracks bowl i no Center in Mainz. Top bowlers from All of usage urn a major commands have been invited to compete in the three Day meet. Baseball a two German Ameri can teams a the Mainz rangers and Mannheim Klee Amigos a will hold tryouts at 2 . Saturday. The rangers tryouts will be on san Flora Field near Lee Barracks. Contact Angel Vasquez at 06135-2038 for More information. The Amigos will stage their tryouts on Woods memorial Field at Benjamin Franklin Village in Mannheim. Martin Helmig at 0621-412529 is the Amigos Contact. A the n urn Berg pirates of the a a league will sign up players at Darby Cavern gym in Firth at 6 . Friday. A team Usa a Kaiserslautern based Amateur baseball team that Tours Europe each season will be holding tryouts March 10-11 at the Miessau  depot local Roundup softball Field near Ramstein. Tryouts will Start at 11 . Each Day. Team Usas 1990 schedule june 2-4 in Zupich near Cologne june 23-24 in Geneva july 14-15 in Leiden Holland aug. 3-5 in Brno Czechoslovakia sept. 21-23 in Kuenen Holland and a tournament in october with dates to be announced in Settimo Italy. Team Usa also plans to play the German olympic team in Berlin on a Date to be announced. Call Susie Banfield at 0632-18670 in Wei Nicken for More information or team president Sergio Barrientos at 06371-51187 or 57445 near Ramstein. Team coach George Bowen can be reached at ets 494-6064. Softball a officials of the Safe Security police tournament Are already looking for teams to compete in their annual menus slow pitch Competition May 12-13, at Ramstein a and Kapaun As. The meet is open to intramural level teams from All services. Entry fee is $160 per team. The Point of Contact is Dan Oakley at 480-7348. Swimming a the european forces swim league championships Are set for sunday at the olympic Pool in Munich. The event features 440 swimmers on 18 teams. They will be competing for the top three team trophies and individual medals for first through sixth places in the following events freestyle individual Medley backstroke breaststroke and Butterfly. The team events Are the Medley relay and the freestyle relay. Another trophy will be awarded to the boy and girl who collects the most Overall Points in each of four age groups 10-and-under, 11-12,13-14, and 15-19. The younger swimmers up through 14 years of age will swim 100-meter events and the 15-19-year-Olds will swim 200-meter events. The tentative schedule has warmups a amps Bucky Fox Oberammergau a Dieter Krause. Skiing in Swiss meet in the water beginning at 7 30 ., with opening ceremonies at 9 . And the first race beginning about 9 30. The awards and closing ceremonies should begin Between 3-4 . The top teams coming into the event Are the shape seals the Lahr beavers the Kaiserslautern Kingfish and the Stuttgart piranhas. Admission is free. From any autobahn leading to Munich get on the Mittler ring heading toward the North Side of town and follow the Olympia Park signs. Soccer a the 1990 Usa eur coaches and officials clinic is set for March 13-17 at Merrell Barracks in Nimberg. Registration will be held from 8 30 to 9 . March 13 at the no club. The $25 clinic fee will be collected at registration. For More information Contact Ken Polk at ets 379-6007 or 7818.usafe men win again at worldwide Travis fab Calif. A bit urge a Ralph Baltimore scored 21 Points to Lead Safe to a 96-86 Victory Over Pacific air forces wednesday at the air Force worldwide menus basketball tournament. The Victory left Safe and Pac tied for first place with 3-1 records in the eight team round Robin tournament. In other games wednesday military Airlift come 3-2 Defeated air Force systems come 88-76 and lost to air Force logistics come 2-2 79-67 air training come 2-3 Defeated strategic air come 2-3 92-72 after beating systems come 104-85, and unified come beat at 106-105. Also in double figures for Safe wednesday were Bonnie Daye of Benwa ters with 18 Points and Mike Owens of Hahn and Lionel Miller of Lakenheath with 16 each. Safe was scheduled to play Falc at 11 . Post thursday and then take on Aasc at 7 . The tournament ends Friday with a 3 . Championship  Hoard headed for draft Ann Arbor Mich. Apr Michigan tailback Leroy Hoard whose Rose bowl heroics two years ago helped make him a big name to Wolverine football fans will forego his final year of College eligibility and enter the nil draft. Hoard qualifies since the nil announced it would accept juniors into the april 22-23 draft. Michigan coach Gary Moeller said he disagreed with hoards move. A however this is his option year and he must make the decision. We wish him the very  As a Sophomore Hoard was the most valuable player in the Rose bowl and rushed for 752 Yards that season. Last season he rushed for 832 Yards. He scored 19 touchdowns