European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 09, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 34 the stars and stripes sports monday August 9,1993 sprinters furnish the fireworks. /.-. . Forces track Bamberg Germany. Olympic hopeful Dino Napier captured two Gold medals and a Silver to Lead the pack theat . Forces track and Field meet Sun things weren t easy for the armed forces 100-meter record Holder. He was pressed All the Way by Giessen s Rickey Smith in sunday s 100, beaten by Smith in the 200 later and had to come fro behind to win the 400 in race of the Day pitted Napier against Friend and former training part Ner John Register a Soldier stained at Pitburg a Germany in the 400 s Napier recently Back from competing in the . Olympic festival in san Antonio and Register had split victories in four races Over the last sever Al years during previous assignments. I know How he runs Register usually starts slowly the first 200 me s strategy was to build a substantial Lead out of the blocks and he quickly pulled away from his Friend. I thought i had lost him but i took peek at about five meters from the Fin ish and saw his shoe and i knew i did thave enough he was fast finishing Napier nipped Reg ister at the tape and won in 47.68. Regis Ter clocked 47.90. But the runners remain As close a their finish times. We re so close and competitive that Itin t like a race. It s More like training to Gether Napier who had earlier Edge Giessen s Ricky Smith in the 100 meters got his revenge less than an hour after Napier s 400 win however when beheld Napier off in the 200. I knew he was tired so i tried to stay relaxed Smith said. "1 Felt i could take it did clocking 21.84 to Napier s 21.93.the result was a reversal of the pair s dash through the 100, when Napier registered 10.83 to Smith s 10.94. Both times were Well off Napier s military record of10.28. The eyelash loss did t Hurt Napier with the voters. They named him the meet s outstanding male athlete in the open category Over Register who nevertheless ended up Matching his Friend wit two golds 110 High and 400 intermediate hurdles and his 400 Silver. . Forces High jump Champion Janice Grove of Pir Masens clears a personal Best meet winning 5 feet inches saturday. Ramstein s Zack Pullins got the out standing athlete trophy in the sub Mas ters 28-34 years division on the strength of Gold medals in the 100, 400 and As the Lead off Man on Rhein main Swinning 400 relay team. The outstanding men s masters athlete was Wiesbaden s Virgilio Wright who collected a Gold at 800 meters and Abronze in the 400. The outstanding female athlete was Dawn Adams whose personal Gold Rush encompassed the 100, 200, 100 Low hurdles and the 400 relay for powerful Wurzburg. Rattler athletes amassed 231of the army s unofficial total of 1,055. Sunday s unofficial results had the air Force second with 555 Points with its Continental sports conference athletes contributing 332 Points and those from the . Adding 223. The Navy unofficially had 19 Point from Lone comp Cipior Dan Jones a Mas ters division distance runner from Navy-. Official team results Are expected today. Wurzburg tops Region Iii Wiir Burg s men and women eme Gedas champions sunday As the army s re Gion Iii softball playoffs concluded. In the men s event at Ansbach the rattlers erased a 1-0 deficit to Schwein Furt on map Sylverster Curry s sol Home run in the second and overcame 2 1 deficit with a four run sixth to Stop the magicians 5-3. Schweinfurt which eliminated regular season King Niernberg 9-7 in sunday losers bracket finale will join Wurzburg in the dec tourney at Kaiserslautern aug. 21-22. In Wurzburg the Home standing lady rattlers struck for seven runs in the first inning and held on to Down Ansbach 9-8 and earn the right to Host the dec women s tournament aug. 21-22. Ansbach also earned a berth in the dec event. Is Jim Derheim Bamberg s Dino Napier $27 leads Giessen s Rickey Smith Center and Schwein Furt s Roderick Dixon to the tape in a 200-meter semifinal race on saturday. Morcelia just misses world 3,000 record in Monaco Monte Carlo Monaco a Noureddine Morcelia of Algeria missed the world record in the 3,000 meters Byless than one half second saturday at the herculis grand prix meet. Morcelia was timed in 7 minutes 29.24seconds, just off the world Mark of 7 28.96 set by Kenya s Moses year. It was the second Best performance Ever in the event. Morcelia the world re Cord Holder in the 1,500, ran the second fastest 1,500 year in 3 29.20. The meet was the last grand prix event before the world track and Fiel championships at Stuttgart Germany starting aug. 14. Samuel Matte of Zambia the 1991world Champion beat olympic Gold med Alist Kevin Young for the second time i four Days in the 400 hurdles. Matte overtook Young in the final stretch to win in 47.94. Young was second in 48.10, with Winthrop Graham of Jamaica third at 48.17. Jon Drummond beat former world re Cord Holder Leroy Burrell in the 100 in 10.05. Burtell was runner up in 10.12. Burrell had beaten olympic Champion Linford Christie of Britain and world re Cord Holder Carl Lewis last wednesday. Morcelia May bypass the world championships if he is not paid prize Money preferring to seek lucrative paydays another meets for chasing world records. I still Haven t closed the door mor Celi said. "1 have time before Stuttgart and i will reflect on the Morcelia s manager Amar Brahma has said he will not put Morcelia in the world championships because of the Money dispute. Morcelia said he might have bettered the world record if he had t been alone Over the last 1,100 meters. The first Kilometre was too fast 2 27.28. If i had someone with me at the end i would have had the record he said. But i am still Young. I am just 23.". Drummond finished fourth in the .trials for the world championships and made the relay team. But be might also run in the 100 at the championships be cause Dennis Mitchell the trials runner up is injured and questionable for the meet
