European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 c the stars and stripes monday april 6, 1992 fire singes Galaxy by Hob Staggenborg staff writer Frankfurt Germany a the Frankfurt Galaxy did the Dejavu thing sunday. Like last year their season opener was not without hype. And like last year the Galaxy let Down their faithful. Elroy Harris scored twice to Lead the Birmingham fire to a 17-7 Conquest of the Galaxy in the world league. A substantial House of 33,857 fans the second highest total in team history yelled Sang and shouted As they Are known to do. Last seasons final regular season game Drew 51,653 fans. Tony Baker endeared himself to the locals by scoring from the 1 to Cut Birmingham a Lead to 14-7. That score was set up by three clutch passes from quarterback Mike Perez who hit Curtis Mayfield with a 19-yarder, and connected with Lew Barnes on a pair of passes to give Frankfurt a first and goal from the 5. Three plays later Baker scampered left from the 1 for the score. That was it for the Home team though As Phillip Doyle s 30-Yard Field goal in the fourth Quarter opened Birmingham a Lead to 17-7. The Frankfurt secondary got burned in the second Quarter when fire quarterback Mike Norseth unleashed a 50-Yard bomb to Willie Bouyer which set up Harris a 10-Yard score on a shovel pass that made it 7-0. Perez anchored a 50-Yard drive in the first Quarter but nil allocation kicker Robbie keen a 45-Yard attempt was blocked leaving Frankfurt with the nil on the Board. It was not a Good night to be Robbie keen. His second Quarter punt from the end zone was blocked by Simmie Carter. The Ball took a few Galaxy tumbles and rolled out to the Frankfurt 23. Birmingham a fire went out despite that prime scoring Chance As Norseth could t move the Ball. Then with Birmingham leading 17-7 with four minutes to go keen missed a 40-Yard attempt. World league Mcaa women. Sas Ken George Elroy Harris pulls away from Frankfurt a Lyneil Mayo on a 1-Yard to run sunday. In the opening half Birmingham capitalized after a fake punt yielded a first Down at the Frankfurt 19 with 1 20 left before intermission. Eddie Britton ran to the Galaxy 1 but was repelled by Cedric Stallworth and a gang of purple Frankfurt jerseys. Norseth s sneak on the next play fell Short. Nose tackle Garry Howe was flagged for encroachment but Harris score on the next play. Using a Quick snap Harris Juke off tackle and waltzed untouched into the end zone for the score to make it 14-0. In other world league games Barcelona 13, London 7 Barcelona Spain a linebacker Eric Naposki led a defense that forced eight turnovers and quarterback Scott Erney threw a touchdown pass on the first play from scrimmage As the Barcelona dragons downed the London monarchs saturday. A crowd of 19,337 sat through intermittent rain showers at month Pic stadium to watch the dragons 2-1 avenge last years 21-0 loss to London in the inaugural world bowl championship game and win their second in a Row. Sacramento 14, Montreal 7 Sacramento Calif. Relying on one of the leagues Best defences Sacramento Defeated Montreal on saturday keeping the surge the Only unbeaten team in the West division. San Antonio 9, by no 3 East Rutherford . Jim gallery kicked three second half Field goals after backup quarterback Mike Johnson got san Antonio going and the riders 2-1 posted a Victory Over wingless new York new Jersey on saturday. Lake Superior St. Rallies to title Albany . A Brian Rolston scored with 4 52 remaining saturday night to break a 3-3 tie and Jay Ness added an empty net goal As Lake Superior state Defeated Wisconsin 5-3 and won its second Mcaa division 1 hockey title in five years. The Soo lakers 30-9-4from the upper reaches of Northern Michigan fell Mcaa hockey behind 2-0 in the first period against the badgers 27-14-2 before staging a three goal rally and taking their first Lead Early in the third period. The comeback was against a Wisconsin team that killed All seven Michigan Power plays in eliminating the wolverines 4-2 in the semifinals. But the badgers took too Many penalties giving the lakers 11 Power plays and that was the difference despite a three goal performance by Wisconsin a Jason Zent. Trailing 2-0 entering the second period Lake Superior dominated the entire period out shooting Wisconsin 18-5 and tying the game. Cardinal Waku vie for title by United press International los Angeles a Whiting scored 28 Points to Lead a Stanford comeback saturday and the Cardinal survived the frantic final seven seconds to Down the Virginia Cavaliers 66-65 and set up a championship meeting against Western Kentucky in the Mcaa women a tournament. Western Kentucky used the 30-Point performance by Kim Penike to reach sundays title game with an 84-72 win Over Southwest Missouri state. Stanford put itself in position to win the Mcaa championship for the second time in three years while Virginia was again eliminated Short of the National title. The Cavaliers lost to Tennessee in last years championship game. The Cardinal rallied from an eight Point deficit and owned a one shot Lead with Stanford a Kaye Paye on the free throw line with 6.9 seconds to play. Paye missed the front end of a 1-and-1 free throw situation but there was no clean rebound and the Hall bounded around the sideline before Virginia could finally gain control. By the time the Cavaliers came up with the Ball time had expired. But the officials said Virginia had called time out with eight tenths of a second remaining. The Cavaliers however could not pull off a dramatic comeback with Dawn Staley throwing up a wild shot that would not go and would not have counted anyway since she released the Ball after time had run out. A i was hoping that it was Over a said Stanford coach Tara Vander veer referring to the time the officials put Bacic on the clock. A and then 1 thought a foul had been called and that they were going to go Down and make two free throws and take the game away from Staley led the Cavaliers with 19 As Virginia finished at 32-2. Stanford took a 29-3 record into the championship game. Penike helped the Western Kentucky lady toppers to a second half surge that put them in the championship game for the first time in the tournaments history. Tina Robbins paced the lady bears with 22 Points. Tonya Bau com added 17 As Southwest Missouri state finished its Campaign with at 31-3. The two teams combined for 57 was the pressure defense by both teams that caused the turnovers a Penike said. A both teams were extremely . Soccer team storms past China 5-0 Stanford Calif. A Eer teams vanishing offence a the . National Soe resurfaced in a big Way saturday. A when you re Able to execute like that you re going to Bury teams and that a basically what happened Loday a Eric Wynalda said after the americans 5-0 Victory Over China. Wynalda and Hugo Perez each had two goals to help pull the United states out of its offensive drought. Dominic Kinnear had the other goal for the Azicri cans who had been wingless in their last live games 0 4-1and Are 2-5-1 this year. The . Team managed just one goal in those five games All played on the Road Over a five week Span. A the last couple of games we Haven Theen As fortunate in front of the net a Wynalda said. Quot this week we concentrated a lot harder on our Janusz Michallik added two assists including an arching kick front the left Side that set up Kimu arts header four minutes into the second half. The five goals were the most scored by the . National team since a 5-1 Victory Over Jamaica in a. 13, 1988 world cup qualifying match and reprise the most lopsided win since the United states Canada 6-1 in Brooklyn . On nov. 6,1926. Goalie Tony Meola made four saves. 1 he game at Stanford stadium picked 12 Days a one of nine Sites for the 1994 world cup was the team s first stateside contest since the trips to be and South America Spain and Africa it Drew 31,8 it was the first meeting Between the . And c since 1977. The United states leads the series 3-0-1
