European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 31,1991 the stars and stripes b Page 21prep Pickin apaches warriors await playoff foes Augsburg and woodbr1dge Are in the Small schools semifinals for sure and shape International school of Brussels and bad Kreuz Nach Are one win away from a semifinals berth in the Small schools playoffs too. Undefeated Augsburg clinched the a South title Piapot game Champion last week. Whom the apaches and warriors play will be determined in games at bad Kreuz Nach on Friday and is on saturday Augsburg entertaining the a Cen trial representative and Woodbridge entertaining the a North Winner. Bad Kreuz Nach goes into its Friday night Home game against Hahn leading a Central with a 5-0 record Hahn is 41 and Munich is 4-1. If bad Kreuz Nach wins it goes to Augsburg nov. 9 if Hahn prevails and Munich beats accent at Home a three Way tie will be created and an a beat by beat cd beat a Triangle will be formed and the a North representative will have to be determined by a Point system. A bad Kreuz Nach nipped Munich 13-12 and Munich nudged Hahn 14-11 m games played so far. So As of this instance Munich stands at plus-2, bad Kreuz Nach is plus-1 and Hahn is minus-3 that Means Hahn must beat bad Kreuz Nach by six Points to qualify for the postseason. Shape is 7-0, but the spartans also find themselves in a must win situation when they invade is. The raiders lost their first a North game to Fulda but they have won their last three and a Victory Over shape gives them a 4-1 league record a tie for the title and a nov. 9 trip to Woodbridge. Shape of course goes to Woodbridge if it wins. Frankfurt the third Germany Bennor team still undefeated can Clinch a share of the aaa championship saturday with a Victory at Wurzburg but the eagles big schools playoff status cannot be finalized until their regular season ending game at Hanau nov. 9 because a Wiesbaden win this week and a Hanau Triumph Over Frankfurt would create a three Way deadlock and one of those round the Hom playoff situations. The a representatives in the big schools realm probably wont be decided until the Nimberg at Giessen showdown nov. 9. Both teams will probably make the playoffs but that game will determine the playoff pairings. Italy will Crown its first 11-Man football playoff Champion in five years saturday when undefeated regular season Champion Aviano plays Host to Vicenza. The previously a victorious cougars pulled off the upset of the Italy league season when they conquered Naples at Naples. They had dropped 33-7 and 30-13 verdicts to the wildcats earlier this year but Vicenza prevailed 20-13 when the chips were on the table. Aviano posted a 35-20 Victory Over Vicenza in their first confrontation but the saints were hard pressed before taking a 25-20 decision in their next  a a when Bonne a Tracey Losi hits the Trail saturday in the Northern regional Cross country qualifying meet for next weeks Central european championships she will be gunning for her 22nd straight Victory and her 27th Triumph in 29 meets. The Bonn sensation lost her first meet As a freshman prevailed in All other meets that year except Theben Abrams be race in which she finished second and Hasni to caught anyone a dust since. The top 20 boys and girls and the top three teams in the Northern and Southern regional qualify for the Central europeans at Giessen nov.9. Giessen also is staging the a championships which will qualify the three top teams and 25 top individuals this saturday. The aaa championships Are scheduled for Heidelberg and the top 30 runners and three teams go on to Giessen. Conference volleyball championships also Are on this weeks Agenda a aaa at Ramstein a at Giessen a North at Karlsruhe a South at Vilseck and Bennor at Bonn. The Small schools tournament takes place at Hahn nov. 8-9. As of now Alconbury which won the . Championship last week will join the the winners and runners up from a North a South and Bennor to Complete the Field at Hahn. The aaa a picture is muddled at Best. The top four teams from each tournament Are supposed to Advance to a big schools tournament but As of tuesday there was no site for such a meet. Dodds Germany athletic coordinator Tom Leb Lane said tuesday that the tournament will not be held if no school volunteers to play the Host role. There seems to be a feeling among the coaches especially the aaa coaches in be been told that winning the conference tournament is More important than being big schools Champion. That a a strange philosophy. Its like saying winning the Sec basketball tournament is More important than taking the Mcaa final four. Come now a a a Bamberg has been forced to abandon football for the rest of the year because too Many injuries have created a shortage of players. The Barons did no to make the scheduled trip to Berlin last week and also have forfeited this week s Home game against Karlsruhe. A we did no to have very Many players in the beginning and when the injuries began to pile up we got to the Point where we did no to have enough players to hold a practice a coach Mike Giacchino said monday. A i hated to forfeit those games but we did no to have any  Giacchino had to pull his team off the Field in the third Quarter against Augsburg three weeks ago because it was injury depleted. The Barons played ans Bach the next week because it was Bamberg a Homecoming. Bamberg was supposed to be berlins Homecoming opponent saturday. Fortunately Berlin Mentor Mike Ellis was Able to arrange a game against the Berlin adlers a German High school aged aggregation and Homecoming festivities included a football game. Berlins Terrance Hazelwood had a big Day a he scored touchdowns on a 22-Yard run a 50-Yard pass reception and a 62-Yard punt return and kicked a 22-Yard Field goal and a Pat. Normally those would be figures meriting player of the week consideration but it was a pickup game and does no to count in the reckoning. It is however  a a a it is Seldom indeed that a player on the losing team can win player of the week recognition a 1 wrote last week. Would you believe a a Seldom is two weeks in a Row Frankfurt eked out a 27-26 verdict Over Wiesbaden on a 64-Yard pass from Chad Nighbert to Webster Langhorne with 36 seconds remaining saturday in one of the finest High school games in be seen in a Long Long time. The crucial aaa showdown matched two Well coached Well disciplined teams and Wiesbaden a Duba Flowers put on some kind of a show for the 1,200 or so fans on hand for the titanic Battle. The 5-6, 160-Pound Warrior halfback scored on sorties covering 29, 31 and 20 Yards and set up the warriors other to with a 56-Yard scamper in route to a 32-carry, 298-Yard performance. He also completed a halfback option pass and caught a pass. Those figures Are Good enough for offensive player laurels. There were a lot of Points scored in that Frankfurt Wiesbaden game but there also was some vicious tackling and All around great defense displayed by both sides. Frankfurt a Stellar performers included Nighbert Langhorne Joe Evans John Castenada Sidney la Mora David Irey Travis Brown Matt Uhart and John Iosefo. Flowers had his share of the tackles and a key interception. Other warriors who crunched so Well included Greg Thomas Tobias Slater Daniel Avitua Luis Romero John Williams and Alex Gonzalez. It was the kind of a game that produces a Host of outstanding plays and players. So the defensive player of the week comes in Masse from both squads a and includes some More players from the losing  a a picking was pretty Good last week 13-4. That raises the season Mark to 89-34, .723. This is the last big week on the Agenda As the Small schools end their campaigns. Things look like Frankfort 22, Wiir Burg 6 Heidelberg 16, Ramstein 12 Wiesbaden 28, Kaiserslautern 20 Niernberg 20, Pitburg 12 Stuttgart 16, Giessen 12 Munich 22, accent 16 bad Kreuz Nach 20, Hahn 16 Brussels 12, Bonn 16 baumholderl6,  12 Fulda 24, osterholz 20 shape 25, is 21 Augsburg 28, Ansbach 16 Berlin 27, Vilseck 21 Hanau 29, Patch 12 Aviano 26, Vicenza 21 you notice there Arentt very Many big margin picks in that group. There Are quite a few games that can go either Way what with All the championships at stake. Tow Stara and Stropa capitals hand penguins record tying loss by the associated press Pittsburgh a Dale Hunter scored on a two Man and _. _ _ _ Vantage to key Washington a three goal second period and Don Beaupre shut out Pittsburgh in his first Start of the season As the capitals embarrassed the Stanley cup Champion penguins 8-0 tuesday night. The eight goal margin of defeat Don Beaupre tied the penguins worst at Home in their 25-year history and was their worst Ever shutout loss at Home. Their Only other eight goal losses at Home were 9-1 to Buffalo on april 5, 1980, and Montreal on oct. 23,1976. Playing at full strength for the first time this season the penguins lost their third in a Row and Are 0-4-1 in their last five games. Beaupre who was 1-1-1 at Baltimore on a conditioning assignment stopped 26 shots for his sixth shutout in the last two seasons. He led the nil and set a capitals record with five shutouts last season. In other games tuesday rangers 3, North stars 2 new York a Doug weight scored with 7 18 left As the rangers continued their recent domination of the North stars. Weights breakaway goal snapped a 2-2 tie As the rangers extended their unbeaten Streak against the North stars to six 4-0-2. Mark Messier who had scored in All 11 games since joining the rangers was held without a  8, Sharks 4 Uniondale . Benoit Hogue a first goal of the season at 2 43 of the third period snapped a 4-4 tie and sparked the islanders to their first win in seven games. Hogue one of six players acquired in a pair of trades last Friday tapped in the rebound of Rich Pilones slap shot from the left Point As the islanders extended the Sharks losing Streak to 10 games. San Jose 1-12-0 has lost All eight of its Road games including four on its current Eastern  7, jets 2 Quebec a Owen Nolan the leagues top goal scorer raised his output to 13 with Nis second three goal performance of the season As the Nordques ended a nine game wingless string. The Nordques had managed Only one tie in their nine games since beating Hartford in their season opener on oct. 5.canucks 4, devils 3 Vancouver British Columbia Geoff Courtnell reunited on a line with Trevor Linden celebrated by scoring twice to Lead Vancouver Over new Jersey