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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, February 10, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 10, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 21shock. A a a a. A a a a a a a a a Barons Pitburg a Germany the veil of invincibility has been stripped from the Pitburg Barons. The Ramstein rams brought the Barons Down to Earth in the Continental sports conference basketball tournament by posting a stunning 72-65 upset Victory Here saturday. It was bit urge a first defeat after a 62-game winning Streak. That skein included a 36-0 Romp through regular season Csc tournament and Safe tournament strife last year and a 25-0 regular Csc tournament season slate this year and one Csc tournament this week. Pitburg coach George Price was philosophical about the upset. A a you can to go on the rest of your life without a loss. There a no sour grapes Here a Price said. A a we re not mad because we lost. A Ramstein played much better than we did today. They played Good defense and forced us to shoot Only 30 percent. They were the better team a he added. A a Price also said he did no to eel the pressure during the Long Streak. A not on me there Wasny to. My players and i knew it. Was going to end someday a he said. Robert Griffin scored 17 Points to spark the rams upset. Dennis Williams Derrick Smith and Bonnie Daye each contributed 11 Points to the Victory. For Pitburg Ralph Baltimore scored 30 and Kevin Blevins 16. The rams will meet the Winner of the Pitburg Hahn contest which was scheduled later saturday night in sundays Csc title game. All three clubs Advance to the to Safe championships also at bit Burg feb. 19-23. Hahn advanced by nipping Rhein main 82-80. Dobie Strong led the Hawks with 25 Points followed by Rick Walton a 16 and Ter Ranee Johnson a 15. The rockets who dropped out with their second loss got 24 Points from John Belk. Rhein main had stayed alive Fri a Exla it gift Ishien Quot Itous Ted und55jr 99-86. Howard Hall paced the rockets with 26 Points. Damon Mccann canned 23 for the flyers. Also Friday Hahn ousted we Brucken 96-70. Strong scored 27 for the Hawks. Skip Wilder hit 27 for the fallen warriors. A amps Davo Aldio Wiesbaden a Jerry Helton is taken Down by Brussels Matt Gill in the 13qcpound semifinals. Helton won this match to take third. Heidelberg Giessen accent capture team championships by Walt Morrissette staff writer Heidelberg Germany Heidelberg Giessen and accent dominated the Dodds Central european wrestling championships saturday. Berlins Lawrence Ervin Frankfurt a Ron Bunton Mannheim a Martique Dawson Ulm a Jim. Heim Giessen a Kevin Grissett and Heidelberg a Chris Foisy won in the lighter  wrestling Bill Nummy of Pitburg beat Cameron Hall of Ramstein for third place in the 112-Pound category and Wurzburg a Rick Williams beat Lorenzo Arjona Rajas of Stuttgart in the 103-Pound Consolation match. Dawson took the 119-Pound championship Over Kaiserslautern a Juan Garcia when Dawson slipped out of Garcia a in the heavier weight classes Heidl grasp and took control for a two Point re bergs Ethan Topping won his second Versal at 02 left in their match for a straight be title in the 189s and of thrilling 6-5 decision. Thomas Morch cad cents Scott Lenahan corralled the Indi of Wiesbaden beat Don Juan of Ulm for visual honors at 160 pounds. A third place. 1 Heidelberg won its sixth straight big in the 125s, Ulm sheim Kil Ostrof school team championship called aaa Early and  Dexter har this year by the Dodds officials with Jis to Mph Kotake the championship. Pat 179 Points Wiesbaden took sg�on4-witinj/est of Mannheim beat Thaddeus Hub Koss sets world Heeren Veen Netherlands a depending Champ Ion Johann Olav Koss of Norway set a new 5,000 meters world record saturday to take a commanding Lewid Halfway through the Speed skating world championships. Koss 22, finished the race in 6 minutes 41.73 seconds cutting 1.86 seconds off the 1987 record set by compatriot Geir Karlstadt. It intimidated his main challengers. Koss leads with 78.633 Points. Italian underdog Roberto Sighel surprised just about everybody with Strong showings in the 500 and 5,000 meters to take second Plave in the Overall standings with 79.174 127 and Ramstein a Jhin with 99 Gie it Isen won the a title with 100 Points Mannheim had 92, and Pitburg 54. Accent won the a title with 108. Points Ulm was second with 72.5, followed by Berlin 62, and Brussels 61.5. Heidelberg dropped two championship matches before Foisy outlasted Mannheim a Fred hutches in 9-4 in overtime in the 135s. A a in the 103s, berlins Ervin pinned Lei Delberg a Eric Quick at 1 49 in overtime to finish unbeaten at 13-0. In the 112-Pound final Frankfurt a Bunton and Heidelberg a Jim murrin were tied at 2-2 going into the final 30 furious seconds of their match. Murrin took a 3-2 Lead with an escape,.but Bun ton curled up Murrins shoulders and the Back of his neck to the mat to grab two. Points at 03, and time expired with Bunton getting the 4-3 decision. Murrin showed a lot of sportsmanship by hugging Bunton after the close decision. This was in. Stark contrast to the Bratt iness murrin showed at the 1990 be. A that was my biggest Victory of the tournament to see How much he has grown a Heidelberg coach Trent Blankenship said. A a that a More important to me than this trophy in a  Bard in the Consolation match. In the 130s, Grissett had a near pin on Ramstein a Brandon Hall at the final Buzzer but he settled for a 9-3 decision instead. Wiesbaden a Jerry Helton topped Bonn s Matt Gill in the Consolation. Foisy escaped Early trouble in his 135-Pound championship with hutches in. They went into overtime with a 4-4 tie and hutches in was visibly exhausted. Foisy won going away 9-4. Will Braman of Pitburg beat Hanau a Jon Vesely in the 135 Consolation final. The most courageous wrestler in the tournament was Scott Riese a 160-Pound wrestler from Giessen. He had injured his right knee last week in the regional a and he  straighten his right leg because of if. Yet he wrestled in the Central europeans anyway and he pinned Jim James of we Brucken at 5 15 for third place. A the was shooting for my leg the whole time a Riese said. A it was a Good match. We were both pretty tired in the end. I beat him with a move 1 Learned in prac. Tice.�?�. These Are the remaining results Quot. A 140�?marcus Morgan of Wiesbaden decision Ned Todd Berrios of Hanau 4-2 in the final. Mannheim a Joe c Ruz beat Hahn a Mike Loffelman 5-2 for third place. A 145�?lonnie ride Haugh of Ulm pinned Paul Northam of Wiesbaden at 5 01 in the final. Wille Hunter of Baum Holder beat Mike Pattillo of Heidelberg ,12-5 for third place. A 152�?jared Denniston of Wiesbaden beat von Grimes of Wurzburg 11-6 in the final. Luis ares of Frankfurt beat Joe Fiedler of Brussels for third place. A 160�?Scott Lenahan of accent pinned. Scan Miller of Munich at 3 24 in the final. Riese pinned James at 5 15 for third place. _ a 1___ of it Abr a Ham of accent pulled the major upset by beating Chris Finke of Heidelberg 11-9 in overtime in the final. A Finke got a couple of penalty Point for being too physical a Blankenship  once he got into overtime he lost it. Finke dominated the match physically but he lost to a smart kid from.  a a it in the 171 third place match Burgos Chris Brolle was Down 5-2 to Baa Kreuz Nacho a Derrick Thompson before he rallied for an 8-5 decision. A 189�?ethan Topping of Heidelberg successfully defended his Central european title by forcing Chad Nighbert of Frankfurt into medical default at 2 15. Munich a Matt Blake Defeated Lynn Schaub of Niernberg for third place. A Unla berlins Mike Cornier pinned an upset on Heidelberg a Mike Spoehr in fridays second round a then went on to flatten Niin bergs a Dean Schaub at 5 26 for the championship. A Schaub was ahead then he made a dumb move in the end and Cornier got on top of him. Cornier is so big that if you try to Roll him and you miss you re a Pancake. Cornier beat Spoehr and Schaub the same way.�?�. Spoehr pinned she in highs Nith of Frankfurt at 3 54 to take third place. Most valuable wrestler Lanahan also took the most pins in least Lime award w Ith four pins in 7 53  
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