European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 05, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday aprils 1990 the stars and stripes Page 21 prep pickins track athletes impressive in openers it was a Beautiful Day for Dodds sports saturday.,. And some exciting things took place on the Cin Ders As the athletes took advantage of the warmth and s Danielle Larose would have broken the Dodds shot put record if the meet at Stuttgart had been an offi Cial in country conference championship or Central european finals event. She uncorked a 38-foot,i /2-Inch heave that surpassed by exactly 7% inches the Mark she established last year in the Germany a were some impressive Early season performances in other girls Field events too. Niernberg Starrekay Smith had a 34-10 /2 triple jump and a 5-2 High jump an Kaiserslautern s Dawn Cherrick matched Smith s High jump and re corded a career High 120-8 toss in the discus. Cherrick had 1989 s Best at 115-0. There was a report from Wood Bridge on a 13.94 upgraded to 14.0 for Honor Roll purposes time forthe 100-meter hurdles for Ameri can Community school s Jennie Bizziel. However a Check of the summaries revealed the same time for her in the 100 meters indicating that a mistake had been made in reporting the hurdles time. The Dodds record is 14.4. A 14.0 would have been some running. Some exciting races loom later in the season in the dashes if sat urday s times Are indicative. Tomika Mccollum of Pitburg turned in a 12.5 and Wei Brincken s Tiffany Rand Wiesbaden s Trina Lattany and Ramstein s Dichelle Bynum All had 12.8s to open the season. The Best Century times for the girls Las year was 12.3 by Hahn s Tanya Mckelvy and Livorno s Shanee Thompson. See Honor Roll on Page Bynum and Patch s Rosalind Williams turned in 26.3s and Mccollum had a 26.4 in winning 200 meter efforts and Lattany started off the year by Matching Bynum s 1989 title winning 59.8 Effort in her first 400-meter, Effort of 1990. Lattany and Bynum were in the thick of things All last year and the 1990 rivalry is expected to be just As intense. While exciting appears to be the key word in the girls dashes Losi appears to be the big word in the distance events. Bonn Sophomore Tracy Losi who won the 800,1,500 and 3,000 last year and also dominated last fall in Cross country was in a class by herself sat urday. Her 2 28.3 time in the 800 beat the next Best by 7.1 seconds her 5 03.1 in the 1,500 was 9.4seconds faster and her time of 11 03.3 was a whop Ben Abrams Deon Moyd Dichelle Bynum Ping 29.7 seconds faster than the next Best 3,000-meter time. The most impressive opening Day achievement on the boys front was the 6-6 High jump by bit Burg s Freddie King. Frankfurt s Mike Gray an Woodbridge s Harold Conley both hit 6-4. The Best height last year was 6-5. Wurzburg s Mark Daniels had two Good hurdles efforts turning in a15.2 in the 110 highs and a 39.6 in the 300 inter mediates. Fulda displayed Good Overall strength in Romp ing to Victory in the Wiesbaden pentagonal Las week. The Falcons racked up 104 / Points. Frank Furt was a Distant second with 85 and Wiesbaden which for years ruled the track and Field realm Wasa dismal last with 131/. Leon Winfrey won the 100, 200 and 400 Curti Claxton captured the 300 hurdles and triple jump turning in a Fine 43-6 Effort in the latter and the Falcons swept All three relay events. Wiesbaden did t have a single Winner. The International cadets tournament will have a definite stars and stripes All Europe team flavor this year. Eight first team players led by big schools player of the year icon Moyd of Ramstein and Small schools tourney map John Boyd of Brussels will be representing Dodds in the 12-team tournament at Cholet France april14-16. Others a selectee on the team in clude 1989 big schools player of the year Mike Kinder of Frankfurt Wurzburg s Doug Darrell Mannheim Dominic Vassar Augsburg s Jerry Bishop Wei Brincken s James Mcknight Berlin s Rinard Owens an Mannheim s Dominic Vassar. Karls Ruhe s Bobby Chapman Ramstein Roger Bacchieri Baum older s Andy Owens and Frankfurt s pc Mainc Avic round out the squad. Vassar Kinder Mcknight Bishop Renard Owens Andy Owens and Bac Chieri All return from the 1989 team that dropped a one Point decision to Greece in the championship game. Dodds Germany sports coordinator Tom Leblanc is the head coach and Wurzburg s Kevin Johnson and s Dick Dameron arc the assistant coaches. The All stars who have posted a 3-1 record against Ger Man clubs depart for France on Mon Day. Leblanc has lined up several prac Tice games against French clubs prior to the tournament. Darrell mood enjoyed Sev eral very Fine basketball seasons while he was at Hahn but he never could get a team into the Small schools finals. This year mood coached Wagner High school at Clark a in the Philippines and won the far East a big schools tournament at Yokota a in Japan posting a 6-0record in the round Robin tournament and Fin Ishing the year with a Glossy 30-2 record that included third place in the Asia Christmas classic a Seoul Korea the championship of the Issaa conference tournament at Makati and the far East title. Mood wrote Hahn s Tom Richards a note say ing this club was the Best i Ever had both in the states and at mood also added that he plans to try to come Back to West Germany when his two year tour in the Philippines is completed. The stars and stripes Navratilova Garrison Advance in straight sets by the associated press Hilton head Island . Martina Navratilova says she needs to win on Clay if she s going to wrest the no. 1 women s Tennis ranking from Steff Graf. But Navratilova who has t won a Clay court tournament in almost two years said she s making no pre actions about this week s family Circle tournament a which she is the top seed. I m not looking Down the Road too far. I be just got a get. and think about every match she said after defeating Halle Cioffi 6-2, 6-1 on tuesday in the second round of the event which the top seeded Navratilova has won three times. Third seeded Zina Garrison advanced with a 6-2, 6 Tennis Roundup match at the sea Pines Racquet club. Navratilova ranked no. 2 in the world said she played spot tily but Well enough. I had some problem with my serve and Volley Anas upset in Florida Over Beverly Bowes and fourth seeded con Martinez eliminated Camille Benjamin 7-6 7-2other seeded players winning tuesday included a Jaikia Zvereva Isabel Cueto Lelia Meskhi and Cathy h Erz Asio. Claudia Kohide Kilsch ousted ninth seeded Sandra Cecchini 6-3, 6-1. Navratilova needed Only 55 minutes to win her Orlando Fla. Scott Davis and Miguel nid beat opponents who were ailing and Jimmy Arias lost to an opponent who s healthy again. Arias seeded sixth was upset by John Ross 7-6 7 51-6, 6-3 tuesday in the first round of the $250,000prudential-Bache securities classic. Ross ranked no. 428, has played sparingly since hurting his right knee in july 1988. Davis seeded fourth won 4-6, 7-6 7-56-4 Over Thomas Hogstedt of Sweden who was fighting the flu. The unseeded Nido advanced when no. 7 Veli Palo Heimo retired because of dizziness and Chest pains. Other first round winners tuesday were Nicolas Pereira of Venezuela Mulivai Washington of Swartz Creek mich., Jimmy Brown of Largo Jason Stolton Berg of Australia Joey rive of West Palm Beach Fla., and Alex Hombuecher of Suisun Calif. Agassi Downs Mcenroe Landover my. Andre Agassi Defeated John Mcenroe 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 in an exhibition match tuesday before 10,135 at the capital Centre. Most of the proceeds went to the organization 2000-love, which is fighting to end world hunger by the end of the Century. Ivan Lendl the world s top ranked player was sup posed to play Agassi and Mcenroe was to play Tim Mayotte. But Lendl was forced to cancel because he has contracted Chicken pox. Agassi and Mcenroe played hard even though the match meant very Little. It was pretty intense for an exhibition Mcenroe said. You sense what the crowd wants joking or Tennis. I think tonight this crowd wanted despite the loss Mcenroe said he was pleased with his Effort. Considering i Haven t played that much i thought played pretty Well he said
