European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 34 the stars and stripes sports Friday. Jufy3q. 1993 local notes Ramstein runner plans 450-k test by sue Harper staff writer Kam Stcin s Stan hard Sty will be the Only american competing in Japan s peace run aug. 6-8. The three year old 281.25-mile peace run which starts at Hiroshima and ends at Nagasaki was created to Foci is attention on worldwide problems and sufferings. But Hardesty will focus on the run certainly won t be comfortable since i Only have two Days to run the 450-Kilometerdistance and i won t be Able to Stop to rest. There will be people beside me to give food and water but if i want to make it i can t Stop said hard Sty who runs Standard marathons to train for his big runs. The peace run committee invited Hardesty one of roughly 25 super marathoners worldwide to participate in the run. He was one of 10 run ners invited and four who Are comp Teing. Hard Sty who says he Only runs in the name of Community programs picked Kaiserslautern s havens Aya As a program needing always choose base related projects since i know they need help and besides running an the military have become my life he said. Havens Aya members will be collecting pledges of 10 cents a Kilometre or donations on behalf of the peace lot of people might be handing Over $45 to havens. Hard Sty a retired air Force master sergeant working As a civilian at Ramstein a says distance does t scare him. He ran eight super marathons last year. In my View distance is relative whether it be two Miles or 200 Miles. As Long As you Are conditioned you can do anything and if you find a balance Between your mind and body and no View a super Marathon As a Competition you can ,makeit." Here and there. The Karlsruhe military Community i sponsoring an invitational track and Field meet saturday at the Schu centrum sports Field Nearn Turcut Cavern. Entry fee for three individual events and on relay is $10. Registration is Between 8 and 10 ., with the meet starting at 11 Call 376-6457 or 376-6162. The Road to the aug. 22 army Europe women s softball championships in Wurzburg and men s event in Kaiserslautern begins aug. 7for All of the army leagues. In the bavarian league the top five women steams plus Berlin will Battle in Wurzburg and the top four men s teams will play at Ansbach. The top three Hessen Pfalz and Frontier Mentren t sure whether the championships will be held in Fulda or in Wil Flecken. Frontier s regu Lar season top team hogs the tourney. The Hessen Pfalz women s top three Tea Sand the Frontier s top three compete for an dec berth in Baum older but where the bavarian league and the Hessen Pfalz men wrap it up aug. 8, the Hessen Pfalz Frontier women s tour Ney does t end until aug. 9. The 21st Talcom women s and men s championships go for two weekends. The championship games Are scheduled for aug. 15. Where to go. Golf dec at Wiesbaden aug. 2-6 Ruksc championships at Lake Heath aug. 5-8 Mac championships at Aviano aug. 5-8 Csc championship sat Ramstein aug. 2-5. Track and distance running dec track and Field in Bamberg aug 7-8.aec half Marathon and Fulda Marathon Fulda aug. 29. Basketball team Neca from the lithuanian first division will be playing Community teams Over the week end. The lithuanians play at Lan Stuhl tonight 7 Miessau tomorrow 2 Kaiserslautern on sunday Kleber Cavern at 2 . And at Hanau on monday Fliege Horst Cavern at 7 . There is no admission charge. Baseball for 3-f/me by sue Harper staff writer he asked me mom when i Goto the states could i get a Driver s licence he had More to say and just thought of boy Here it comes. Girls dating and All of he said then i could drive to the batting Cage whenever want " Connie Eiff said laughing at How everything in her 15-year-old,son s life comes after baseball. Brandon diffs Jove for baseball has carried him to All three Little league world series. He s been tothe 1990 Little league world series in Williamsport pa., for 8-12-year-Olds the 1991 Junior league world series in Michigan for 13-year-Olds, and the 1992 senior league world series for 14-15-year-Olds in Kissimmee Fla. It s a distinction he shares Only with Kaiserslautern military Community teammates Trevor Playford a Daaron Cornell. Eiff who has always worn no. 7in Honor of Mickey Mantle the Best All around baseball player eve won t being going this year since his Kmic senior team was beaten two weeks ago. But the Kmic big league team the level above his did win a trip to the states and was considering Tak Ingham on As an alternate. The idea did t sit Well with Eif smother. They should really get someone from that age group she said implying that her son already a Veter an of three series should let some one else have a other two members of the three time series club Playford and Cornett Are in the states. But Eiff who has baseball to thank Fortis first visit to the states since he was three wants to go where he can play baseball year round and be with his Best in the near future the Kmic Pitcher will be leaving. Germany to attend Niceville Fla., High school. He and Trevor have a plan. The two sophomores plan to be varsity starters on the baseball team maybe basketball but definitely mean starter i Don t want to sit on the Bench or anything like that says the left hander who was interviewed on esp during his last series trip. Starting on the school team is the first step toward the youths ultimate goal to play major league sa3 Suh a Brandon Eiff. Serial series baseball. Five years ago Eiff did t eve want to be on the team. He said he would sometimes watch baseball on television but it was t something the 5-foot-ll, 135-Pounder eve considered. But peer pressure got him int Little league and his first coach Burt Dykes and his second coach Gary Murrillo who taught him the fun and fundamentals of baseball kept him there. Brandon has managed to. Get coaches who gave him what he needed at that time diffs father Arthur said. I have always had the bes coaches around Eiff said. Coach Murrillo thought i was an athlete or something. He coached me in foot Ball i Don t like football but Iguess he saw me As an athlete. He made me a baseball player. I Little league you your Money and play. Coaches Don t really have time to work one on one with you but Murrillo Murrillo s former assistant Jim Playford. Father of Trevor followed gift up to the next age group. Brandon said he rates his playing in his first year average. Playford who is More intense and serious about baseball than Murrillo was not satisfied with average. I was getting base hits and wanted me to get doubles and triples he would put me atthe plate and throw As hard As he could made me use a Quick Batto get More Power and hit the Ball longer. When or. Playford yell sat you it just Means he cares and he loves now on a scale of 1-10, Eiff say she s about an eight. Baseball has also impacted Ever member of diffs family. When Eiff started playing his Mother frantically tried to get from her Job As a video store District manager in charge of 18 stores to his games and practices. Her son baseball became More and More important. He loved the game and his Mother wanted to. Support him and let him do what he loved. He perspective changed. Part of it is Well you get older and other things become More important. I have a Tot of respect for women who can do both work and family but i just could has Given me gobs of fun and it was just time to give some thing Back so i quit she said laughing with a triumphant older brother Justin Wilson a Junior math major with a 3.85 average at the University of Auburn at Montgomery ala., won t on television. He won t watch sports on television but hell watch me Eiff says with just a Smidgen of non sports minded brother carries a newspaper clipping in his Wallet that features Eiff coming in to pull Kmic from behind and pitch them to a win. Eiff got the same son of feeling his brother s adoration gives him when after a Tiger White sox game in Boston he got the Auto graph of Tiger Catcher Mickey Tettleton just before Tettleton drove away in his car. Tettleton looked up and a whiffs Little league world series played in the Little league world series he ," Eiff said. I was never privileged to play inthe world series Tettleton said. That made me feel special Eif said. But not As special the impressionist As knowing Eiff is his older Broth ers hero. Kmic saudi Roll into semis Thompson Yango toss 1-hitters Vogel Weh Germany Well armed Kaiserslautern military Community and saudi Arabia cruised into today s semifinals of the european Little league tournament on a pair of Complete game one hit shutouts thursday. Kmic got a 12-strikeout one hitter from Lando Thompson who went the 6-inning distance in blanking Israel 5-0 in thursday s first game and then watched saudi s Alex Yango duplicate that feat with a 12-strike out one hit 4-0 whitewashing of Germany. Kmic 5, Israel 0 Thompson was in command All the Way walking jus four Battery and receiving All the hitting support he needed from fellow Mounds Man Scott Mcclanahan who passed his time at first base with a pair of Solo european Little league homers in a 3-for 3 Day. Right fielder Ken Rogers drove in a run with a 2-for-2 Outing and Vince Petty was 2 for 3 for the winners who play Slovenia at 1 30 . Today at the Vogelle housing area Complex. Saudi Arabia 4, Germany 0 Ted Stripling 2 for 3 with a double on the afternoon staked Yango to All the runs he would need with a two run single in the lop of the first inning. Yaugo came out and surrendered a Lead off single to Jeremy Sutherland and then shut the door walking eight in route to the win which earned saudi a semifinal Date against Belgium at 10
