European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes b Page 21prep Pickin Smat men launch Winter tourneys its that time again the Trail leading to Dodds Winter sports championships starts winding this week when the Ger Many Bennor wrestlers take to the Mats at Wiesbaden Ramstein Giessen and Augsburg for regional Competition. Joining Host Wiesbaden in the Northern regional Are Frankfurt Hanau Berlin osterholz bad Kreuz Nach is and Oesterberg. Mannheim Pitburg Wei Brincken Hahn shape Brussels and Bonn have been assigned along with the Host royals to Ramstein a Western regional. Heidelberg Kaiserslautern Giessen accent Baum older Karlsruhe Fulda and Bamberg will be seeking championships at the Central regional at Giessen and Augsburg will entertain Stuttgart Wurzburg Niernberg Patch Ansbach Munich and vase cd at the Southern regional. The top four wrestlers in each weight category in each of the regional qualify for the Central europeans which will be staged again by Heidelberg next weekend. The fifth place wrestler in each category also will advances to Heidelberg but Only As an alternate in Case other wrestlers fail to make weight or become ill to guarantee full weight brackets according to Heidelberg Mentor and tourney director Trent Blankenship. Regular season Competition conclude do last week with perennial Powers accent and Heidelberg coming through again. Accent captured its eighth straight Bennor title and ran its record to 83 straight victories Over class a Competition. Heidelberg won the aaa title for the seventh straight year Giessen captured a laurels Ansbach prevailed in a South and osterholz took the a North Crown. Heidelberg which has compiled an 88-2 dual meet record Over the last five years takes a 16-0 record into the Central regional As it begins its quest for a record seventh straight Central european big schools title to match its aaa string. A we should do quite Well in the regional a Blankenship said monday in appraising his team. A i think Jimmy murrin 130jeremy Davis 135josh Black 140mike Pattillo 145anthony Aguirre 189 and Regan Leighton heavyweight have excellent chances of winning championships and the rest of our team should be challenging for titles. A Brian Roehl Drew with Giessen a Jason Villanueva at 103 in the first match of the year and both have done very Well since. So i look for a showdown Between those two in that bracket too a Blankenship added. Some of the other outstanding wrestlers seeking Ben Abrams Central european berths in this weeks qualifying meets include berlins Larry Erving 103 and Mike Cormier heavyweight Giessen a Terry Blethen 119 and Scott Riese 160wiesbaden a Tom  redhead 130jerry Helton 135marcus Morgan 152 and Yared Denniston 171mannheim Scharles Salas 112pat Vest 130 and David Dano 140of cent a Phillip Cormier 112brandon Hopkins 135 and Joe Abraham 171ramstein a Chon Watson 125 and Cameron Hall 135brussels Matt Gill 140 and Joe Fiedler 160patches George Helmick 135 and Nairn bergs a Tim Waters 119 and Dean Schaub heavyweight. A a a while their wrestling Brethren Are trekking Down the tournament Trail the . Basketball ers and the Germany Bennor Small schools cagers will be winding up their regular season activity in preparation for their tournament Competition next week. The Asl boys and Alconbury girls Are setting the . Pace. Alconbury has a Friday Home game against Croughton and a saturday tussle at Laken Heath Asl finishes at London and Croughton. The Bonn girls clinched the Bennor championship last week with a sweep at shape and they can wrap up a perfect 10-0 conference Campaign by taking a pair at Home from Oesterberg. The Oesterberg girls 5-3 and tied with is for third in league play Are enjoying one of their better seasons. The Oesterberg boys Are enjoying their Best year Ever a they take a 7-1 record to Bonn and share the league Lead with shape which finishes its regular season strife with Home and Home games against is 5-3. The Berlin girls have clinched a share of the a South Crown with an 8-0 record. They close at Munich which can tie for the championship by knocking off Berlin twice. The Bamberg boys 7-1 hold a two game Lead Over Berlin and have clinched a piece of the title going into weekend action. The osterholz boys 7-1 Lead bad Kreuz Nach 62 and the osterholz and Baum older girls both 7-1, Are deadlocked for the a North Lead going into the last regular season games. Bad Kreuz Nach finishes at Fulda osterholz treks to Karlsruhe and Baum older has a Home and Home set against Hahn. All the teams in those three conference will participate in tournament warfare but there Are Only two qualifying tournaments. So All six Bennor teams and a North a Baum older Hahn and osterholz have been assigned to the Northern regional at Hahn next week. The six a South squads will be joined by a North a bad Kreuz Nach Fulda and Karlsruhe in the Southern regional at Vilsick. Both tournaments run feb. 13-15. The top four team from each regional qualify for the Small schools championships at Baum older feb. 20-22. The aaa a and Italy schools Are in regular season Competition this week and next. A a a a berlins Cindy Makil and Frankfurt s entire team share the girls player of the week accolades this time around. Makil had a quadruple and a triple double As the bears whipped Ansbach twice. Friday she was credited with 16 Points 14 rebounds 13 steals and 10 assists her saturday numbers included 16 Points 12 boards and 10 steals. Karen Snyder a Frankfurt girls turned in their Best game of the year As they prime for the defense of their big schools Crown whipping Heidelberg handily to avenge a lopsided beating they absorbed at the hands of the lady Lions earlier in the year. Enez Brown had 17 Points 12 boards and four steals aun Drca Sparrow had 15 Points four steals and six assists and Karlowa Adams enjoyed a 15-Point, 5-steal game As the eagles moved into the aaa Lead. The boys laurels go to Jaydee Blice of osterholz who scored 22 and 20 Points As the Blackhawk took Over the league Lead by sweeping previously undefeated Fulda. A a a some sad news. Colleen Hipp one of the two athletes killed when the bus carrying the notre Dame swimmers Home from a meet at Northwestern crashed recently was a former member of the Heidelberg sea Lions of the european forces swim league. Colleen attended Heidelberg elementary school through the fifth Grade and competed for the sea Lions in the 10-and-under age category. Her brother Tom was a stars and stripes All Europe basketball performer at Heidelberg High school in 1983 and 1984. Colleen was an outstanding swimmer at St. Joseph Academy in St. Louis earning a scholarship to notre Dame. Her parents Gerald and Ann Hipp have established a scholarship in her memory. Contributions can be sent to the Colleen Hipp memorial scholarship fund % St. Joseph Academy 2307 s. Lind Berg blvd St. Louis mo., 63131. The Sura and str Pragerman olympians toning Down nationalism by Steve Wilstein Albertville France apr gloating is verboten for German athletes and discouraged among their compatriots even if they do mount up the most medals at the Winter olympics. For athletes from the newly Independent Baltic republics and the breakaway states of Yugoslavia though their Mere appearance in these games is a source of Pride and any medals won will inspire celebrations. The reasons for Germany a unusual reticence Are simple politics and economics. In the year of european Unity at a time when republics Are busting Loose All Over the former Eastern bloc a unified Germany does no to want to rekindle old fears by being seen As a superpower in sports or any other sphere. The formidable German Speed skating team dominated by former East German athletes arrived tuesday after warnings by the new head of Germany a National olympic committee. No noisy celebrations no overt nationalism. No talk about the fatherland the demise of communism or anything else that does no to have to do with sports. The safest conversation was the weather. A foot of Snow fell in some areas with predictions of perhaps another foot falling through thursday. It was the first major snowfall since a december blizzard and officials worried about a traffic Nightmare. The Snow prevented French prime minister Edith Cresson from addressing the 98th session of the International olympic committee in Cour Chevel. She had planned to come in by helicopter but the conditions  permit it. At that meeting Ioc president Juan Antonio Sam ranch raised the possibility of staging future Winter olympics in More than one country. A we Are envisaging the Post ability of holding these future games in several regions or even in More than one country a but with one City Given Overall  he said. A this would help to lighten the Burden of organizing events requiring very heavy infrastructures in difficult climatic and geological  the Albertville organizers had opened up a new possibilities by staging the games Over an area covering 13 Sites and 650 Square Miles Sam ranch said. A in choosing the Savoy town and the whole Tare Taise Valley behind it the Ioc knew what it was letting itself a and the organizers a in for a he said. A after entrusting the organization of the games to major cities like Sarajevo 1984 and Calgary 1989it was time to try a return to the very heart of  German athletes and coaches from both sides of the country seem to be coming into these games with a minimum of tension and a maximum of Confidence. In 1988, the East germans won 25 medals second Only to the soviet unions 29. West Germany won eight medals. A East Germany and West Germany put together will be much better than either one was four years ago a said Meinhard Nehmer a Winner of three golds and a Bronze in bobsled for East Germany in 1976 and 1980 and now a coach for the . Team. A there Are Little problems Between East and West All the time a he said. A the East coaches think they have the most experience. The West coaches think they have the most experience. But they re working together doing what a Best for the  the biggest controversy was the nomination of biathlon coach Frank Ulrich a former East German. Ulrich originally was left off the team because of suspicion that he conducted massive doping programs while still a coach for the East germans. But a three member panel later cleared Ulrich and he was put in the team. Jutta Mueller Katarina witty a former coach also is not on the team because her Only student did not qualify. But Many other skating officials did not hide their glee when her skater was eliminated. Mueller was an East German communist part member since 1946. The new unified team representing five republics of the former soviet Union will still be Strong and could press Germany for the Lead in medals. The yugoslavian team which won three medals in 1988, is now broken into three parts a Croatia Slovenia and Yugoslavia a and they re All struggling