European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 7, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 21 prep Pickin Small sports activities diminishing the Light at the end of the Dodds fall sports Tunnel is in sight. Volleyball and Cross country play their Swan songs saturday and football is in its preliminary countdown. Saturdays football spotlight focuses on the Small schools semifinals. The schedule sends a North Champion shape across the English Channel to take on . Regular season co Champion playoff Winner Woodbridge and a Central Kingpin bad Kreuz Nach 7-1 on a vengeance seeking trip Back to Augsburg for a Battle with the a South Champion apaches 8-0who nudged the bearcats 30-26 Way Back on opening Day. The semifinal winners Are scheduled to clash for the 1991 championship nov. 9 at the bad Kreuz Nach Augsburg victors Field but if Woodbridge beats shape Augsburg and bad Kreuz Nach officials whichever team wins have agreed to go to England for the title showdown. This arrangement came about because although shape is the a North Champion the school is in Dodds Atlantic territory and its winning created a situation whereby Dodds Atlantic would incur the expense of two Channel Crossings for football an additional expense that Dodds Atlantic officials feel would be prohibitive. Woodbridge was deprived of an Opportunity to play in the 1990 eliminations after winning the . Regular season title and playoffs because of a budget uncertainties created by Congress a Dodds Atlantic athletic coordinator de Watson said at that time. A new Small schools Champion is assured because three time Winner Fulda was unable to defend its league championship. Fulda won the a South title last year and beat Berlin and Baum older in the playoffs. The Falcons competed in a North this season and dropped league verdicts to Baum older shape and osterholz after stretching their winning skein to 17 games. Quot a a a the . Will join the Small schools volleyball tournament Field for the first time Friday and saturday at Hahn creating an eight team meet comprised of the Winner and runner up from the Ben enor , a North and a South conference tournaments. 1 Alconbury and Woodbridge represent the . Shape and Hahn carry the Bennor colors osterholz and Baum older qualified from a North and Vilseck and Ansbach advanced from a South. A it really is great to have the two . Teams in the tournament this year a Hahn coach and tournament director Tom Richards said monday. A it makes it a better tournament with eight teams involved. That Way you done to have to worry about byes and Odd  the tournament will be a two Pool Cross Pool event with the teams in each Pool vying in round Robin Competition and the two top teams in each Pool meeting in the semifinal third place and championship games. The semifinal tussles pit Pool a Winner against Ben Abra Msall Europe picks All Dodds football teams except the Germany aaa and a squads have finished regular season Competition. Coaches of those teams should be working on their nominations for the 1991 stars and stripes All Europe selections. The in office deadline is nov. 15. Aaa and a teams finish regular season play saturday so those coaches will have to act quickly to make the deadline. The Best bet is to Send the letters of nomination along with head shots via International mail to All Europe sports dept., the stars and stripes Post Fach 11 1437,6100 Darmstadt 11, Germany. Pool b runner up and vice versa. Shape 14-0alconbury 11-0baum older 12-2 and Ansbach 104 have been assigned to Pool a osterholz 13-1vilseck 9-5hahn 10-4 and Woodbridge 7-5 make up the Pool b Field. It appears on paper at least that the better teams except for osterholz have been stacked in Pool a. Those four teams have an aggregate record of 47-6 the Pool b teams have a 39-15 Mark. There will be no big schools tournament this year because no school volunteered to stage the Competition according to Dodds Germany athletic coordinator Tom Leblanc. A a a Bonne a Tracey Losi established herself As the girls individual favorite for saturdays Central european Cross country championships at Giessen by winning her 22nd straight meet and her 27th in 29 races in last weeks Northern regional in the sizzling time of 21 01. She seeks her third straight be title. Kaiserslautern a emmy Vialpando turned in her career Effort in the aaa meet at Heidelberg shocking Ramstein a Teri Duthie and Heidelberg a Jessica Cafferata in taking the title. Vilsick a a Tracy wrinkle prevailed in the a South meet and patches Abby Bates took the a title. Hanau Santonio Pena turned in the Best boys time last week when he won the aaa meet in 16 48. Giessen a Seth Denny prevailed in the a in 17 21,  a Jason Kahne took the Northern regional title and Fulda a Jose Rivas prevailed in the Southern  a a prognostication was Al right last week 123, bringing the season record to 101-37, a .732 Mark. Only 12 games remain a this weeks Small schools semifinals and six regular season big schools games next weeks Small schools title game and the big schools semifinals and the nov. 23 big schools title game. Perfection Down the stretch would produce a 11337 .753. Not the Best Ever but certainly not the worst. Striving for that touch of perfection this weeks reckoning reveals shape 26, Woodbridge 24 Augsburg 28, bad Kreuz Nach 22 Frankfurt 26, Nanak 22 Heidelberg 12, Kaiserslautern 8 Ramstein 14, Wurzburg 10 Pitburg 18, Mannheim 16 Nurnberg 26, Giessen 22 Wiesbaden 28, Stuttgart 18 Frankfurt and Nurnberg can Nail Down the aaa and a championships and Home fiend advantage for the big schools semifinals respectively with perfect league records by winning saturday. Frankfurt will be at Hanau gunning for a perfect regular season Nurnberg which has lost Only to Frankfurt in a no conference game treks to Giessen. Victories by Hanau and Giessen create three Way ties for the title in both divisions. Frankfurt would share the accolades with Hanau and Wiesbaden Nurnberg would be tied with Stuttgart and Giessen. Vicenza wingless in regular season strife posted its second straight Victory saturday to win the american schools in Italy playoff championship. The cougars toppled previously undefeated Aviano 22-16 in overtime. Vicenza showed improvement As the season progressed. It lost to Aviano 35-20 and 25-20 and to Naples 33-7 and 30-13, before reversing things two weeks ago with a 20-13 Victory at Naples and prevailing against Aviano Iasi week. The game ended in a 16-16 tie and there was some discussion about playing the tiebreaker according to Vicenza coach Don Drakulich. A tiebreakers Arentt authorized in regular season football in Italy but this Wasny to a regular season game and i wanted to hold a playoff Quot Drakulich said. Quot however Ken Aviano coach Ken Mcneely said a no one said anything about a playoff  lie Wasny to too eager to play and his principal Bob Bennett backed him up. I suggested that we let Italy superintendent of schools Don Devon a who was present decide the Issue and he told us to playoff the tie. We did and we won. We came from worst to first in the same  a a shapes Bill Gibbons and Claxton fallen walk off with the final 1991 stars and stripes player of the week accolades. Gibbons rushed for 218 Yards and scored four touchdowns one on an 85-Yard Kickoff return to win recognition on offence and fallen registered eight solos and six assists and came up with a key interception for defensive orchids As the spartans nailed Down their perfect regular season with an impressive 44-26 Victory Over i so. The Star and strip Galaxy lists new tryout dates by Rob Staggenborg staff writer Frankfurt Germany a Given the world league of american footballs new lease on life the Frankfurt Galaxy has rescheduled two open player tryout sessions for potential roster slots for the upcoming 1992 Spring season the team announced wednesday. The first tryout session will be held on nov. 24 in Frankfort s Sindlinger Section at the sport anlage Viktoria Sindlinger. Registration is at 9 . And the tryout sessions will follow. Fast month the nil owners who Are the financial backers for the year old league agreed to let the fledgling league proceed As planned for 1992. In september. The owners said the league operation May be suspended for the 1992 season Citi spi ing huge financial losses by each of the leagues 10 teams. The Galaxy Germany a first professional american football team did not produce a profit general manager Oliver Luck said but it did better financially than the other teams. More than 55,000 fans flocked to Wald stadium in Frankfurt to watch the Galaxy a final Home game. The team has processed More than 15,000 season ticket orders for the 1992 season. Military football players in Europe May see some familiar faces at the tryouts. According to the Galaxy More than 60 air Force and army football players have sent resumes to the Galaxy office thus far. Terry Maki the line backing head coach of the Safe Champion Rhein main rockets and a former air Force Academy standout Heads the list. Maki is joined by rocket mate Guy Hunter a 6-9, 300-Pound Interior lineman. Other players include wide receiver Derek Allen the diminutive speedster from Ramstein and Armand Dotsey the Fleet footed receiver from the now defunct Lindsey flyers. Frank Goetz who led the Continental sports conference in kicking last year whup with the Spang Dahlem sabers will also try out. Players interested in trying out should submit a resume through the German mail listing their credentials and references and also include a return address on the1 German Economy. Resumes listing Apo addresses cannot be processed by the Galaxy which is a private organization and unable to use the military postal system. The resumes should be sent to the Frankfurt Galaxy attention Marshall Happer Escher Heimer land Strasse 526, 6000 Frankfurt 50. Players will be tested and timed in the 40-Yard dash the 20-Yard dash and will be drilled in the specialized positions quarterbacks kickers punters and will be tested with specialized agility drills with Cones. Last season the Galaxy 7-3 carried four operation discovery players one of whom was wide receiver Keith Craig an army sergeant and a former Lindsey player. Though Craig played sparingly he was paid $20,000, the Olaf base salary for wide receivers. One other tryout will be held in Nurnberg on december 1. Tryouts in Disseldorf and Berlin Are planned but arrangements Haven to been completed yet. The team expects a combined tryout of about 150-175 players for four operation discovery spots