European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday november 6, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Pago 35 Avia Noby the stars and stripes Aviano Italy the Aviano saints wish they could play one More game. They wot ind up their 1994 Competition by taking their second straight american schools in Italy football championship beating Vicenza 45-23, to Complete a perfect 5-0 Campaign. Only three teams compete in the Asil and All three go into playoff status with no. 3 playing at no. 2 in the semifinals and the regular season Champion taking on the Winner in the title show Down. Vicenza gained the right to face Aviano by beating Naples last week. Aviano Mentor Kenny Mcneely said he wished his saints could have been a Leto compete in the playoffs involving the . Teams. I know they have some Good teams up there Mcneely said following sat urday s Victory. I Don t know whether we could have beaten any of those teams but we feel we would have been representative. And it would have been great red owner denies claim Cincinnati a Cincinnat reds owner Marge Schott said meeting with no president Leonard Colema about the possibility of moving the team was t a scare tactic to get concessions from the s not a matter of threatening or anything Schott said by Telephone fro her suburban Cincinnati Home. Hamilton county commissioner Guy Guckenberger thought differently. He Isco chairing with mayor Roxanne quails a regional task Force of Ohio Kentucky and Indiana government and business leaders working on keeping the reds an the nil s Cincinnati bengals from Leav ing the City. The task Force plans to make recommendations by Spring 1995."my guess would be that it s being used As leverage in an Effort to provoke the negotiations Guckenberger said. It May be a reality Check for us. Schott would not say if she has an deadline for a possible move of the reds baseball s oldest professional team. She said the City has made substantial efforts to keep the bengals from relocating but Little Effort to satisfy her de mands for the cannot Deal with one team and not another she said. I Hope i Don thave to leave Cincinnati but if i do so be -. Guckenberger said he quails Cit manager John Shirey and other City and county representatives have met with Schott in efforts to Settle her demands for improvement of riverfront stadium where the reds and bengals Are tenants. A Italy Champ High school football to have had the Opportunity to the saints scored Early and were never in trouble. A quarterback Gordon Everett rolled out on a 17-Yard keeper to Cap a 56-Yard drive which featured 18-Yard and 21 Yard gains by Omar Clinton for the first to and Paul Vigil s 3-Yard run and tra vis James conversion pass to Tim Mace made it 14-0 by the end of the first Quarter. Vicenza scored Early in the second Quarter to Cut its deficit. Zeffrie Lucia no s 32-Yard Kickoff return ignited the cougars drive and Brian Pittman concluded it with a 15-Yard sortie. Luciano twice kept the drive in motion with 4th Down gains. But lightning struck twice and Aviano was in Complete command by intermission. Channin Willis broke Over tackle for a 56-Yajpd to Jaunt and after the saints Hekt Vicenza on Downs and regained pos session Willis set up a 15-Yard Everett to Mace scoring Aerial with a 24-Yard sweep around left end the saints added two third period touchdowns to the winning cause. De Borromeo scored on a 28-Yard pass from James and Kris Lathrop plunged in from the 1 on a score that was set up by mar Cus Bowie s 39-Yard punt return. Aviano had to punt Only once and it was blocked. Asnard mils turned in the blocked kick and Anthonine Corpening tallied from the two. Corpening also got Vicenza s last touchdown this one on a 6-Yard run. Aviano s last score was sandwiched be tween the Corpening tallies. It came on a15-Yard pass from third string quarterback Matt Guastaferro to Robbie Hendrix. Aviano paced by Willis 113-Yards in Only 4 carries chalked up 322 Yards Rush ing. Clinton picked up 56 in 9 totes and Vigil had 43 in 8. Pittman paced Vicenza which gained Only 94 Yards on the ground and 54 through the air with 73 Yards on 10carries. Willis and Clinton keyed the Aviano defense with 13 solos and two sacks be tween them. Bowie and Mace also impressed on defense. Jeremy Grover was a defensive standout in defeat chalking up 9 Solo tackles. Luciano was in on 8. In saturday s Only other High school football game Lakenheath red 20, Alconbury 14 Raf Lakenheath England Lakenheath red came from a 14-0 third Quarter deficit to beat Alconbury on the Strong running of Adrian Hunlen who scored three touchdowns and rushed for 148 Yards in the second half. Lancer Bruce Chambliss scored the conversion. Thomas Cine scored for the dragon when we recovered a Lakenheath Fumble in the end zone. Taylor can play defense too 5as Michael Abrami Troy Taylor the Premier runner this year As Ramstein went in Jones lion on helmet in Friday s big schools title game 28-3defeated with a 9-0 record hauls Down Heidelberg s Jason Victory. Capriati will end hiatus this Philadelphia a Jennifer Capriati returning to pro Tennis after a 14-month hiatus will play a first round match against sixth seeded Anke Huber next week in the $750,000 Virginia slims of Philadelphia. Huber 19, of Germany Defeated mar Tina Navratilova and Mary Pierce last month on the Way to winning the porsche grand prix in Germany. Other first round matches will pit first seeded Conchita Martinez against Natha lie Tauz iat fifth seeded Natalia Zvereva against Meredith Mcgrath seventh seeded Amy Frazier against Chanda Rubin and eighth seeded Amanda Coetz or against Meilen to. Pierce seeded second third seeded Lindsay Davenport and fourth seeded Gabriela Sabatini will face winners of qualifying matches. The Winner of the tournament will col Lect $150,000. Play starts monday at the Pennsylvania convention Center and continues through nov. 13. Capriati accepted one of two wild card invitations to the tournament a tuneup to the Virginia slims championships in new York. After turning professional in 1989, Capriati became the youngest player to reach the semifinals of the French open. She won her first tournament the same year and won the Gold medal in women s singles in the 1992 olympics in Barcelona Spain. Capriati has spent much of the last 14 months trying to overcome problems that she said stemmed from Early stardom. Her opening match Marks her first event on the tour since the 1993 . Open. She was eliminated in the first round of that tournament and left the tour burned out with Tennis and frustrated with injuries. In december she was accused of steal ing a $15 ring from a department store while shopping with a Friend. She later said she inadvertently walked away from the store and received a citation. Last May she was charged with pos Sessing a Small amount of marijuana in a Motel room. Two of her companions a 17-year-old runaway girl and a 20-year old Man were charged with carrying crack cocaine and heroin. V Capriati had hoped to return to the tour at the european indoors tournament at Zurich Switzerland in septem Ber. But she withdrew after injuring Groin muscle shortly before the event. Her agent Barbara Perry who also is the tournament director described Capriati As fit now and ready to
