European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mcnair a he ism an test a Corn s playoff opponent 10-0-1 Youngs o vat 5fofe Parish Back in Garden Robert Parish a Long time Star with the Boston celtics backs towards the Basket wednesday night against celtic defenders Acie Earl and Dino Radja 40 in his first appearance at the Boston Garden As a member of the Charlotte hornets. See Aba games and separate Story on Parish on Page 46. Youngstown Ohio a Steve Mcnair s Heisman trophy chances will either end or shift into High gear Friday. The Alcorn state quarterback then Caa career Leader in passing and total yardage will test his skills against top ranked Youngstown state in the first round of the Mcaa i a playoffs. Today s game will open the 16-team i a playoffs. The National championship will be decided dec. 17 in huntingtonw.va., at Marshall University. Youngstown state 10-0-1 is the Toped with Marshall second. Those two teams have  in the final the last three years with Youngstown winning in 1991 and 1993, both times against Marshall and the thundering Herd beating you in the final in 1992. Mcnair and Alcorn state bring an 8-2 1 record into the game at Yslas Stam Baugh stadium. The game will be Tele Vised nationally by esp at noon est. We Are very excited about the Selec Tion. We had hoped it would be Alcor state said Youngstown coach Jim tres Sel who has led his team to the playoffs six straight years and seven of the last eight. ". A. Mcnair has been nursing a pulled hamstring this week but is expected to be ready to go against the penguins. The Youngtown state defense second in the country allowing nine Points pregame will give Mcnair perhaps the big Gest test of his career. We be been looking Forward to this game for a Long time Penguin defensive Back Lester Weaver said. Mcnair who has thrown for More than 500 Yards five times and accounted for More than 50 touchdowns this season is considered one of the top three or four Heisman trophy candidates. Thursday s scores Detroit 35, Buffalo 21 nil Texas 63, Baylor 35 College the stars and stripes november 25,1994 r Page 48 a Steve Mcnair. Toughest confrontation prep Winter Campaign Bybe Abrams prep sports editor the weather in t the Only thing that will be changing As Dodds moves into its Winter Campaign tuesday. The Germany Bennor basketball and wrestling formats have a new look too. Basketball will have a nine team East Ern regional and eight team Central and Western alignments wrestling is broken Down into three seven team regional of. The same names. High schools competing in the Eastern regional will be Ansbach Augsburg bad sibling Bamberg Hanau Niernberg Patch Vilseck and Wiir Burg. Representing the Central regional Are bad Kreuz Nach Frankfurt Giessen Hei Delberg Kaiserslautern Karlsruhe Mannheim and Wiesbaden. Vying for Western regional honors Are accent Baum older Pitburg Bonn Brussels International school of Brussels Ramstein and shape. Augsburg bad sibling bad Kreuz Nach and is will not Field wrestling teams this year. Geographic location and a balance of division i ii and Iii schools were the key factors in adapting the regional format according to Dodds Europe athletic coordinator Tom Lebianc. Ramstein and Kaiserslautern boys and girls launch the Winter sports program in tuesday basketball confrontations. The other Germany Bennor basketball teams swing into action dec. 2, and the wrestling squads go at it dec. 3. Italy basketball opens dec. 16-17, but the wrestlers Don t launch their season until the Jan. 13-14 weekend when All schools compete in a Jamboree at Ameri can overseas school of Rome. The . Basketball and wrestling teams have preseason jamborees dec. 10 at Alconbury and Lakenheath respect Lively and the grapplers stage a preseason tournament at London dec. 17, but no other activity is scheduled before Jan 6 when the cagers launch their Campaign. Germany Bennor and . Teams qualify for Central european wrestling and basketball championships scheduled for Kitzinger and Baum older respectively. Top four finishers in each weight class from each of the regional tournaments and the top two . Competitors in each weight class go to the  finals feb. 16 18 at Sicke Grund sport centrum in kit Zingen. The . Finals Are feb. 11 at Lakenheath. Ramstein captured the Central euro Pean wrestling championship last year getting individual championships from John Neuhaus Jeff Doucet Troy Taylor and . Wesley and a second place Fin ish from Josh Marullo As it chalked up176 Points. The four Day be basketball tournaments run feb. 21-24 at Baum older s Hall of champions. The top five teams in the final standings of each regional and the . Tournament Champion qualify for the tournament. Alconbury will stage the . Showdown feb. 17-18. Frankfurt which cruised to a Perfec Campaign last year is the defending girls Champion. Giessen a Small school Defeated previously unbeaten big school Wurzburg and won the boys title last year when the one tournament Central european format was first used. The . Returned to the boys tournament Field after a 24-year hiatus and the . Girls made their first appearance inthe tournament. The Italy basketball tournament takes place feb. 23-25 at Simonella and the wrestling finals Are feb. 24-25 at Aviano. 24685ct00050411