European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 7, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 21prep pickings fall sports activities diminishing til i i 1/ i a 1__ i _ f 1. F v it a Quot. 1-k in p a a 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, ten a vengeance seeking trip Back to Augsburg for a Battle with the a South Champion apaches 8-0who budged 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  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. 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. Quot 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 town  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 s Teri Duthie and Heidelberg a Jessica Cofferata in taking the title. Vilseck a Tracy wrinkle prevailed in the a South meet and patches Abby Bales took the a title. Hanau Santonio Pena turned in the Best boys Lime last week when he won the aaa meet in 16 48. Giessen a Seth Denny prevailed in the a in 17 21,  a Jason Kahn took the Northern regional title and Fulda a Jose Rivas prevailed in the Southern  a a prognostication was All 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 week s Small schools title game and the big schools semifinals and the nov. 23 big schools title game. Quot perfection Down the stretch would produce a 11337 253, not the Best Ever but certainly not the worst. Striving Lor that touch of perfection this week s reckoning reveals shape 26, Woodbridge 24 Augsburg 28, bad Kru Nach 22 Frankfurt 26, Lannu 22 Heidelberg 12, Kaiserslautern k Ramstein 14, Wurzburg 10 Pitburg 18, Mannheim 16 Niernberg 26, Giessen 22 Wiesbaden 28, Stuttgart 18 Frankfurt and Niernberg can Nail Down the aaa and a championships and Home Field 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 Niernberg. Which has lost Only to Frankfurt in a no conference game treks to Giessen. Victories by Hanau and Giessen create three Way ties Tor the title in both divisions. Frankfurt would share the accolades with Hanau and Wiesbaden Niernberg would be tied with Stuttgart and Giessen. Vicenza win less 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 35-2 1 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 last week. The game ended in a 16-16 tie and there was some discussion about playing the tiebreaker according to Vicenza coach Don Drakulic it. Quot tiebreakers Arentt authorized in regular season football in Italy but this Wasny to a regular season game and i wanted to hold a Pla Yoli Quot Drake itch said. Quot however Ken Aviano coach Ken Mcneely said no one said anything about a playoff beforehand he was t too eager to play and his principal Bob Bennett backed him up. I suggested that we let Italy superintendent of schools Don Dyvona 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 a shape s Bill Gibbons and Claxton fallen walk Oil with the tinal 1991 stars and stripes player of the week accolades. Gibbons rushed Lor 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 Lor defensive orchids As the spartans nailed Down their perfect regular season with an impressive 44-26 Victory Over is. The stir and so Ripe Carew returns to Angels As coach by the associated press Anaheim Calif. The California Angels who finished last in the Al West even with three 18-game winners moved to improve their offence tuesday by hiring Rod Carew As their hitting  a seven time Al batting Champion inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer finished his career with the Angels in 1985 and said he Felt bitterness toward the team. Carew Wasny to offered a contract in 1986 As the Angels decided to go with Wally Joyner at first base. Joyner filed for free Agency last week and might not return to the team next season. Quot there were hard feelings Quot Carew said. Quot i was bitter but 1  just keep on being that baseball Way. After a while being away i found myself enjoying doing other things. "1 went through a period when i left Here. You can to go on harbouring bitter feelings. Its a business. 1 wanted to get Back into the game but i did t want to for a few  also hired tuesday to work under manager Buck Rodgers were former Kansas City royals manager John Wathan and sex Montreal expos bullpen coach Ken Macha. Rodgers was expose manager son and hired by in the year. A a in a glad to he  Carew said. Quot this is going to be a new fired As the Early last scythe Angels Laic Challenge for  Wathan will serve As Rodgers third base coach. In other baseball developments tuesday Yankees sign reliever Howe new York reliever Steve Howe agreed to a one year $600,000 contract with the new York Yankees on tuesday. Howe a new Deal contains Large Bonus provisions. If he stays healthy and pitches regularly he could make As much As $2.3  More file for free Agency new York six players filed for free Agency tuesday to increase the total to 86. The six players filing tuesday were Boston second baseman Steve Lyons. Detroit outfielder Lloyd mos by Minnesota outfielder Dan Gladden Cincinnati outfielders carmelo Martinez and harm Winningham and Pittsburgh shortstop c Urtis Wilke  plans Winter league Honolulu if ail goes Well Hawaii will be enjoying professional baseball by this time next year. Robert Berg president of hawaiian Winter league inc. Said last week that the league will feature four teams composed of developing players from the United states and Japan. Maui Island will have two teams and Oahu Island and Hawaii Island will have one each Berg said. Apm Hull of fumes Rod Carew Quot. Glad to be backs