European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 11, 1993 i sports the stars and stripes Page 29 s on a now around the Bend and Down the Hill we go Ashe Dodds Winter sports Sleigh ride continues. The Central european wrestling championship and the . Basketball and wrestling tournaments unfurl this week while the Germany Bennor Basket Ball teams play in qualifying tournaments for next week s big schools and Small schools basketball championships. Italy winds up regular season strife in preparation for next week s Cage and mat showdowns and tur key s tourneys arc still three weeks division wrestling team champions were decided last weekend and starting today a Heidelberg s Patton Barracks gymnasium the elite grapplers go after individual accolades in the Centra european championship minus big schools and smal schools team championship scored 208 Points to capture division i honors accent chalked up 267v to walk away with division ii accolades and Giessen dominated division i with 235v. Giessen took seven individual championships and accent and division i competitor Frankfurt each had five in their respective initial report had Ramstein finishing second to Wurzburg in division i but Heidelberg officials Dis covered an error in mathematics when checking the results and the Lions finished made a significant error Ramstein coach and tournament director Dave Izzo called to report tuesday. Heidelberg people rechecked the numbers and called to say they thought we had made a mis take. We checked out every match monday and they were right. Wiir Burg is still Champion with 208points, but Heidelberg is second with 196vi and we finished third with 190.", no official team Points will be calculated for the first time in the Central europeans. The top six wrestlers in each weight category in each tournament qualified for the be Competition which includes four 1992 champions and a 1991 Winner. Wurzburg s Stewart Keller Niernberg s Tim Waters Patch s Lydell Alexander and Ramstein s Josh Marullo captured titles a year ago. Frankfurt s Jon Buntin won championship two years ago but lost a semifinal bout last year and had to Settle for third but Marullo won championships in division strife last week the Ramstein grappler finishing Sec Ond to Bunton at 122 pounds. Keller and Waters took division i and ii laurels respectively at 129pounds, guaranteeing one non repeater. Waters triumphed at 119 and Keller prevailed at 125 in 1991.Alexander won at 145 last year but will be contend ing at 152 this s Cameron Hall finished second at 140 last year but won the division i title at 144 saturday accent s Mike Childs second at 152 last year took division ii 160-Pound honors last , which has completely dominated the . Mat realm since Bob Whelan came to town 11years ago will be gunning for its 10th straight . would Nave been spectacular if the lancers could have been incl dec in the Central european meet too. Both the Alconbury girls and Woodbridge boys will be gunning for their third straight . Basket Ball tournament championship but like the mud Ville nine discovered that Day the Outlook was Dis Mal this week because neither team has a Casey Totake which posted a perfect Campaign Las year when it hammered practically everyone has seen the shoe shift to the other foot this s repeat win last year was a shocker. The warriors were 3-7 in regular season warfare but they knocked off Champion american school of Lakenheath and runner up Lakenheath in the semifinals and finals respectively moving Veteran Gordy Albert to comment Woodbridge played the game it had to play to beat us. They had the Best discipline i be seen them display in a Long Long has his lancers Back in the favorite s role again this year. The Lakenheath girls also have Haa Good year and rate As title contenders. Division i and division u teams Battle for tournament berths at Ramstein and Baum older respectively this week with the top four boys and girls teams advancing to next week s big schools championships at Mannheim. The Kaiserslautern boys and Heidelberg girls have been top seeded in division i action with Wurz Burgand Frankfurt considered the top challengers. I he is and Patch girls and Hanau boys Are considered Germany Bennor wrestling champions class division i 1w a j. Bell Kaiserslautern 109 Sam Colby Frankfurt 115 John Neuhaus Ramstein 122 Jon Bunton Frankfurt 129 a. I a 136 Aaron Colby Frankfurt f44 a Erin Hall Ramstein 152 Jeremy David Heidelberg 160 Chris Khz Smiewec Frankfurt 168 Kevin Wallace Frankfurt 176 i vow St Teklin Heidelberg v 191 Jaime Garcia Kaiserslautern Hyp Rick Smith Wurzburg division ii Zack Rowland. Numberg Curtis Duenas Pitburg Phil Cormier accent Eric Mcfarland a Tumberg division Chris Heman Fez of Essen Steve Eger Giessen will Wiess is termote Kevin Varga accent Ron Brown Pitburg Lydell Alexander Patch Mike Chi to accent ? George Lane Pitburg Claxton fallen shape Joel Rodriguez accent Joel Rodriguez accent Jay Reyes. Brussels Chris Frischkorm. Giessen Bobby Walker Bamberg Robert Becker Fulda Paul bum Ham Oesterberg is. Edward Codina prep Pickin s Benabram Sparrow Cunningham the teams to beat in division Iii teams gather at Hahn and Berlin to determine the representatives in the Small Schnoo tournament also at Hahn feb. 18-20. The Bonn girls Are top heavy choices in the North Competition wit Host Hahn being accorded an outside Chance. However the boys Chase appears to wide Ope with Giessen and Bonn capable of giving top seeded Fulda a run for its Money. ._.Ansbach, Augsburg and Berlin Are the big three in the South boys Competition and Ansbach and Karls Ruhe the most highly regarded girls teams at Berlin. The top four boys and girls teams get to extend their season and make the journey to Small schools land at Hahn next week. Heidelberg won the division i girls title Las week by notching its second win of the year Over Frankfurt. However the eagles Aundria Sparrow gave the charges of Rich Bennett fits before the lady Lions puffed out the finally wore Down Aundria Sparrow held her scoreless in the fourth Quarter and won the game Bennett said monday. But she did everything in those first three Sparrow had a spectacular 34-Pomt game Mcloud ing a 16-Point third Quarter that featured three three Point baskets. Sparrow connected on 13 of 17 free throws during the title showdown game that would have created a tie for the conference championship had Frankfurt kind of performance against the defending Biz school champions who probably Are the bes team in Dodds right now earned the Frankfurt sensation the girls player of the week Sparrow was battling the lady Lions almost Ringlehan Dudly Bennett got a Superb team Effort a Donna Jordan scored 27 Points and hauled Down 16 rebounds Carolyn Kirsch chalked up 14 Points an grabbed 10 carols and Heidi Gill contributed 10 boards to the team Effort worthy of note was turned in by Pitburg. The charges of Denny Lemmon went into thelast week of regular season play a victorious. They closed with a pair of victories whipping Mannheim an previously unbeaten Patch. Christiana Braddix Kristina Lemmon Tracy Reiner and Latishia Barnes Al made important contributions during the big weekend. Down in Italy Brindisi s Kim Mastropietro enjoyed a spectacular weekend against Milan getting 21 Points 17 rebounds and 10 blocks Friday and 26points, 16 boards and 12 blocks the next Day All in vain As Milan also proved that Good teamwork can overcome individual achievements. About the Only Bright spot in bad sibling s Basket Ball picture this year Lias been the consistently Superb play of Martin Cunningham. Cunningham registered his fourth and fifth Over-30 performances of the Campaign last weekend with 34-and 32-Point efforts against Karlsruhe. He also had 13 boards As the Blitz won Fri Day s games and 10 boards in a losing Effort saturday. Those numbers make Cunningham who was on of the Star performers last year Wincn now closed Munich finished second to Oesterberg in the Small schools championship the boys player of the week. Fulda s Donnell Jackson and de Mcgee spa Kledas the Falcons clinched the division Iii North championship with a sweep at Hahn Jackson getting 40points in Friday s win Mcgee coming up with 34 the next turning in impressive showings included Giessen s Ladell Scott who had 63 Points in two Vic tories Over bad Kreuz Nach Ansbach s Gilbert Mil Layes Donnell Green and Charlie Bazemore who paced the cougars to a sweep of Berlin despite out standing performances by the bears tiran Pett usand Melvin Williamson and Hanau s Charmar Foster Cory Whitaker and Buck Booker among others. Simultaneous tryouts for the 1993 Alber Schweitzer and chateau Roux basketball tournaments will be conducted for Dodds basketball players March 5-7 at Frankfurt High school. Tournament aspirants who must have been Bornean. 1,1975, or later must report to Frankfurt High school no later than 4 . March 5.two Dodds students will be selected for the Al Bert Schweitzer tournament and will join 10 stateside selectee twelve will be chosen for the team that goes to basketball players can try out for both squads because there is no conflict of Date this Albert Schweitzer tournament is scheduled april 10-17 in Mannheim. The tournament at Cha Tea Roux takes place april 30-May 2. Mann Eira i Darry Andrew who has assisted i past Albert Schweitzer selections will make recommendations for the 1993 team to head coach Dic Mccann. Tom Leblanc will coach the Dodds All stars again this year. The 8ur and Sut pm
