European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday decembers 1990 the stars and stripes Page 21 Dodds there a Little rest for the weary. Fall sports terminated in Dodds Only a Short while ago and the Winter sports program already is moving at a rapid Pace. Many of the volleyball and football players Cross country runners and golfers Are Back out on the basketball courts and wrestling Mats representing their schools. Quot wrestling hit the Germany Bennor scene with a flourish last saturday along with a smattering of . And Spain basketball games. The Germany aaa and a basketball teams made their debuts tuesday evening. The other Ger Mariy Bennor basketball teams Start their campaigns Friday night and action continues on both mat and hoops fronts next week before the schools break for the Christmas holidays. The . Pre Christmas activity extends through dec. 19. Dodds Germany Bennor basketball fans will notice a few modifications of the rules this year. The teams will go to the one and one on the fifth foul As they have in the past. They also will shoot the one and one on the next two fouls but on the eighth foul and thereafter two shots will be awarded instead of the one and on also if a player is fouled in the act of shooting on a 3-Point attempt and misses three free throws will be awarded instead of the previous two. Those changes which reflect similar changes in the Mcaa rules which Dodds Germany and Bennor follow make Good sense to me. Awarding the two free throws should curtail intentional fouling in the first Case. In the second a player should have the Opportunity to score the number of Points the shot would have been Worth had he not been fouled and had his her shot been Good. The Germany Bennor schools have two different formats for tournament Competition again this year. The 14 big schools aaa and a teams will compete in boys and girls single elimination tournaments prep Pickin seen Abrams at Mannheim feb. 20-23. The 19 Small schools will compete in two qualifying regional North at Hahn South at Vilseck feb. 1416 for both boys and girls with the top four squads from each advancing to the Small schools tournament at Baum older feb. 21-23. While the Mcaa Rule Book is the Bible for basketball wrestlers get their official guidance from the High school federation Rule Book. The main change is that there no longer is a growth allowance. The weights adopted by the coaches Are 103 pounds minimum 88112 minimum 97119, 125,130, 135,140,145, 152, 160, 171,189 and unlimited minimum 188. All weights must be certified during the dec. 15 meets. After certification no wrestler can drop Down a weight. A wrestler can go up in weight but if he wrestles at a weight two classes heavier he will be re certified one classification  a a a a. The Heidelberg volleyball team started the 90s off like it played throughout most of the 80s a on a highly successful plane. Rich Bennett a lady Lions chalked up a 26-2 record in route to the aaa regular season conference and tournament titles and the big schools tournament championship. The league championship was the lady Lions third straight and their seventh in the 1980s and they won the aaa and big schools titles for the fourth time also taking the latter the past three years. A a v. A \. A a a a after a mediocre 9-7 1980 Campaign Heidelberg went on to compile a Glossy 184-41 record during the decade including perfect campaigns in 1981 19-0 and 1988 30-0. Bennett a 11-year record stands at 210-43. A a a. A the 100 Points the lady Lions picked up for winning the conference title and the 100. They earned in Tennis pushed Heidelberg into a commanding Lead for the aaa girls All sports trophy following fall Competition. Heidelberg has 297 Points 40 More than runner up Wiesbaden. Ramstein and Wiesbaden share the boys Lead with 335 Points apiece. The Hanau girls 270 and Niernberg boys 320 arc setting the a Pace. Baum older a boys 282 and girls 290 Are on top in a North. The Berlin girls who finished first in volleyball Cross country and Tennis in a North actually scored More Points than Baum older getting the maximum 100 in each sport. However Berlin has been switched to a South for the balance of the school year and its 300 Points arc being counted in that division. The Munich girls would have been leading a South with 290. Augsburg 280 is setting the boys Pace. The Ulm and Berlin schedules were switched for the balance of the year because the duty train no longer operates and the autobahn route from Berlin to Southern Germany was More direct and More economical Dodds Germany officials reasoned. The Fulda reckoning is strange too the girls have been classified in a North in All sports. The boys however won the a South football championship and whipped a North runner up Berlin and a North Champion Baum older to win their third straight Small schools title. The Fulda harriers and Tennis players were in a North for Al sports trophy compilation. / a a a a / v a v. Flip flopping schools hither and Yon in mid year hardly seems to be a Good method for determining True All sports trophy winners. A. The Star and strip a a a. A a aim series. A amps Walt of resets Baum older a Clyde Harp. To ties it at 72-72 . Rallies past France  staff writer shape Belgium a Jay Mclean of bad Kreuz Nach banked in a 10-footer As time expired wednesday night to give the muted states a gut wrenching 74-72 Tri engr ape tourney Mph Over France in the shape International military basketball tournament when Mclean scored off Bonnie a Aye a 11th assist of the game the . See shape on Page 23 . A a staff writer. \ a a a. Shape Belgium a last season when Pitburg won the Safe title and Niernberg won the army european championship military basketball fans were left with the unanswered question which Community has the Best basketball team in Europe that might not happen this season. The 1990-91 Safe and age menus champions will meet in. A Best of three championship series april 5-7 a if corps Vii corps and 21st Talcom can Crown their age Champion by the end of March a a a a. A a it a going to be bigger than the Safe football championship a Safe sports representative Tom Burkett said wednesday Rooming during the. . Team practice at shape High school the 2-0 . Team beat France 0-2 74-72 in the shape International military basketball tournament wednesday night Greece beat France 81-5 x in the late game tuesday and the tourney picked up wednesday afternoon with Belgium 2-0 Downing Germany 0-2 83-66, and Greece 2 0 ripping the . 0-2 135-55. In another Safe dec first an would televise the second game a because that might be the championship game a Burkett said. Burkett added a the series will be played after everything. Well be finished with our Csc Safe and All air Force Camps and the army will be finished with their playoffs. Now  have something else to shoot for besides the Safe and Usa eur championships. A i can see thing getting very big. When we had the armed forces championships at Pitburg we had to sit people on the floor it was so packed. For the first time Well have Community against Community for the bragging rights for All of Europe a _ Burkett said the driving forces that made the series happen were the Safe commander Gen. Robert c. Oaks the Safe vice commander it. Gem Clif Ford h. Reps or. And u safes director of personnel col. Harry Mcmillin. Burkett called Oaks and Rees a the two most sports minded generals in the air Force and they happen to be in Europe a a a corporate sponsorship will play a major role Nike provided shoes for the . Shape team and Bike donated medical equipment. Both firms will help sponsor the Safe dec championship series Burkett said. Usa eur dropped theater level championships in october 1989, and v corps Vii corps and 21st Talcom picked up where Usa eur left off with it the dec. A. A a �?o1 told Jim Brown usage urn a sports chief that All be had to do is provide his menus team the dec Cham Well do the rest a said Burkett. A then he agreed to handle the women a Champt on ship and Well provide our  but its not quite a done Deal a a a corps and 21st Talcom would have to agree to modify their schedules a Brown said in a Telephone interview from his Heidelberg office. A they wanted a series in late april Early May. I told them that would be difficult because the air Force wraps up in february. A a in like to see the secs wrapped up by the last weekend in March so we could take a week off and play the series the week after easter they Are hyping the men s series but i done to want to leave the women out. So i think we should have  a v. Also up in the air is whether Vii corps will participate in t he dec a h h o us h. Vii corps Headquarters left the sports office Quot behind most of its Soldier athletes including the bulk of the defending dec Champion Niernberg knights a deployed to saudi Arabia. Burkett said i he serie so it i take place while the . European come supports operation desert shield. A a they be tapped everybody who is going to go to the Gulf and most of them Are Down in Vii corps a Burkett said a a a corps and 21st Talcom Are still having their seasons. It could be a Factor but at this Point i done to see it As a Factor a. The series plans have been in the works since August when Safe hosted Usa eur game officials in a joint basketball clinic. Transportation arrangements were also discussed then Burkett said a a -. Should Pitburg fail to repeat or should another Continental sports conference team not win the Safe menus title Safe will Fly in its Champion from the . Or the med and base the players at a Csc base perhaps Sembach or Ramstein for the series. A it would be too expensive to Fly the teams Back and Forth to the . Or the med but we can provide transportation support for a championship series Here in Germany a Burkett said. A we want this to. Be the biggest sporting event Between the services. As the draw Down continues we have to work together for survival Over Here i Hope this will generate army air Force championships in other sports As Well like softball and  Tim