European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 29, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 29 is Dav Didlo London s Mark Hopkins 34 Battles Croughton s Jack Henserling for a rebound. Croughton advances in Small units action Raf Alconbury England Croughton will represent the United kingdom in the Safe Small units basketball team at Torrejon Spain feb. 4-6. Croughton finished second in the , which concluded Friday with London Navy triumphing 113-97. Because Safe tournaments Are limited to air Force teams Croughton got the Chance to continue although it lost two of the four games it played in the double elimination tournament. London led by guard Chris Miller swept through the four team Field unscathed in three outings. The Nav team knew in Advance that it could it qualify for advancement but accepted Safe s invitation to participate in the . Eliminations. Miller who had 40 and 31 Points in the Navy s first two victories scored 33 in the title showdown. He got solid backup sup port As Cornell Small scored 24 Points Mark Hopkins recorded 22 and Grant goods added 21. Al Lewis led the Croughton attack with 25 Points. Terry Young followed with 20, Dave Covington tallied 17 and Jose Lopez and John Cheeseman notched 11 apiece. Both London and Navy Defeated Raf Molesworth to get to the title game Lon Don in a Winner s bracket game 102-56, Croughton in the loser s bracket finals 62-48. Molesworth finished 1-2 and Oslo was 0-2. Memminger won the Csc Small championships thursday. Croughton and Memminger will join two teams from the Mediterranean sports conference in the Safe meet. The round Robin Mac tournament continues through sunday. In Friday s Mac Competition Izmir shocked defending Safe Small units Champion Torrejon 100-73, and Iraklion overwhelmed Moron 81-47. Eric Culbertson paced Izmir with 27 Points and Ronnie Smith had 22, connecting on 16 of 17 from the free throw line. Torrejon s Best efforts came from Sam Davis and Gary Rucks. Each scored 16 Points and pulled Down 7 rebounds. Brian Pratt engineered Iraklion s Victory Over Moron with 18 Points and 13 boards. Guards Mike Hall and Andre Cameron abetted the win with 17 Points apiece. George Mckay scored 12 Points for Moron. Giessen grabs 2 victories Lead by the stars and stripes Giessen posted a pair of victories Over Brussels on the Road and the. Griffins moved past the brigands into first place in the division Iii North boys basketball race. The hard earned 64-60 and 68-62 triumphs raised Giessen s league record to 6-2 and dropped Brussels to 5 -3. In thursday s Battle James Oglesby and Joe Mccarter scored 14 Points apiece Willie Bailey added 13 and Tom Deickman hauled Down 11 rebounds to propel the Griffins to the win which was featured by a 24-Point fourth Quarter comeback. Keith voiles led Brussels with 27points and Woody Wolthuis added 12. Oglesby and Jason Scott chalked up 17 Points apiece As the Griffins prevailed again Friday morning. Deickman aided the cause with a 16-Point, 10-Board game. Wolthuis led Brussels with 19 Points . Coates had 13 and Kirk Xenos added 10. In other boys basketball a town 59, Heidelberg 57 Chris Jackson threw in a three Pointer with Only a second showing on the clock thursday night at Vogel Weh to give the boys basketball red raiders their division i. Boys Basket Ball Victory Over the Lions. Kaiserslautern 4-4 held the Lead Only once previously during the hard fought game and trailed by As Many As five Points in the last Quarter when it but scored Heidelberg 1.7 23-17. David Singleton paced the red raid ers to Victory with 16 Points Tony Ward followed with 15, Damon Franklin scored12 and Jackson s Trey pulled him into double figures. Ward and Franklin also had 8 boards apiece. Thad Sankey and Garnett Day matched Points and rebounds for the Lions with 17 Points and 9 boards apiece. Ramstein 55, Frankfurt 51 the royals trailed 16-14 at halftime but they outscored the eagles 31-25 in the last two periods to notch their third win in 8 outings and catch the eagles in the division i race. Donald dais and Matt Meehan scored15 Points apiece to spark the royals Vic tory. Dais also had 7 boards and 6  Markray was High for Frankfurt with 19 Points. Eagles Clinch tie by the stars and Stripe visiting Frankfurt outscored Ramstein 28-9 in the second and third period thursday night As the eagles clinched at least a tie for the division i girls Basket Ball championship. Frankfurt ran its perfect Campaign to 12-0 As it recorded its eighth conference Victory. Ramstein which has lost Only to Frank Furt fell to 6-2 in league warfare with Only two games remaining for each team. Melanie Hebebrand s 16-Point, 11-re-bound performance proved to be too much for the royals to handle. Carlow a Adams bolstered the Eagle cause with a13-Point night. Tammy Harris matched Hebebrand Point total and out rebounded the eagles Star by one but she got limited support from her teammates and her Effort Twain t enough to derail the Frankfurt championship charge. In other girls action Heidelberg 58, Kaiserslautern 43 Karen Clinton and Donna Jordan scored 26 of Heidelberg s 30 first Hal Points in a division 1 Home game against Kaiserslautern and the lady Lions went on to Post an easy win thursday. Clinton a 5-10 Sophomore in fro Texas enjoyed a 10-Pomt first Quarter in girls basketball route to a 23-Point performance Jordan who had 12 Points by intermission finished with 16 while chalking up 9 re Bounds 6 assists and 5 steals. Nurnberg 38, Patch 27 the visitors from Nurnberg were a Leto pull out the division ii East Victory despite outstanding bal hawking by the panthers Keoka Washington. Areka Holland scored 13 Points and Carmen Watson followed with 10 to Pace the eagles to Victory. Washington led the Patch defensive Effort with 10 steals. She also led the team with 11 Points. Tiffany Prioleau had 11rebounds in a losing Effort. Brussels sweeps Giessen the brigands ran their division ii North record to 6-2 by handing the grif fins 31-20 and 39-33 setbacks the latter in overtime. Kelli Buchanan scored 18 of the Brig ands 30 Points in thursday s win. She also had 14 steals and 8 rebounds and Mandy Compau had 9 rebounds. Nicolia Whitaker led Giessen with 9 Points Lindsey Gardner led the Way Friday with 18 Points. Urcla stays unbeaten by the associated press Urcla is Halfway Home on making it through its first week As the nation s no.1 team. The Bruins the Only unbeaten division team played As a top ranked team for the first time since 1983 thursday night and came away with a 69-65 Victory a Stanford. The Only other top 10 teams to play thursday night weren t As fortunate As the Bruins As Penn state beat no. 7 Pur due 71-68 and Cincinnati beat no. 8 Massachusetts 76-74. In other games involving ranked teams it was no. 12 Louisville 74, Virginia tech 63 no. 13 Arizona 98, Oregon 86 and no. 25 new Mexico state 60, san College basketball Jose state 59. Urcla 14-0, 7-0 Pac-10 had a 13-Point Lead in the second half but that was Down to 65-62 with 1 19 to play on two free throws by Breygin  Zidek scored on a tip in for the Bruins but Dion Cross was fouled while taking a 3-Pointer and made All the free throws to make it 67-65 with 22 seconds to play. Tyus Edney missed the front end of a1-and-l, but Stanford 10-5, 3-3 was unable to take advantage As Andy poppin missed a jumper. Edney got a second Chance with eight seconds left and he made both free throws to Seal the Victory