By Rusty Bryan
Published: November 17, 2011
Patch boys’ basketball coach Bill Lassetter has announced his school’s plan to conduct a 12-team pool-play followed by single-elimination boys’ basketball tournament Dec. 27-29.
In a Thursday newsletter, Lassetter said each team in the event, which is to be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, is guaranteed a minimum of four games. The same officials and scorekeepers who work regular-season high school games will work the event, which is sanctioned by DODDS-Europe, but not sponsored by the school system. Participating teams therefore will be responsible for their own transportation and lodging expenses. Free billeting will be available, however.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: November 16, 2011
Naples cross country coach Chip Noonan points out that Shannon Cuthbert, who led the Naples girls to the European Division II title in 2009, placed sixth to help the Naval Academy down Army 25-31 recently in a meet run over the USMA golf course in West Point, N.Y.
Cuthbert, according to the Naval Academy website, covered the six-kilometer course in 21:59.7 on Oct. 15 to place sixth overall and finish in Navy’s top five for the fifth time in five meets up to that point. It was the second time in 2011 that Cuthbert was named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: November 16, 2011
Hollie Salvo, who won the DODDS-Europe golf championship as a freshman in 2008 and as a sophomore the following year, has accepted an offer of a full scholarship to play college golf for The Citadel in Charleston, S.C.
Salvo, whose senior season at Grissom High School in Huntsville, Ala., is scheduled to begin in March, signed with The Citadel after a visit to the school, according to her former coach at Wiesbaden, Jim Campbell.
“When she went for the visit, she told me she was thinking, ‘Citadel – no way,’ ” Campbell said recently. “But after the visit, she came back ready to sign. She loved the place.”
Salvo, who finished second in Europe to Ramstein’s Elizabeth Ward as junior in 2010, has won four tournaments since moving to Alabama in July, according to Keith Cromartie of the Army Materiel Command in Huntsville.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: November 16, 2011
Basketball commissioner Tomas Villegas Jr. has announced the schedule for the final officials’ clinics to be held before the start of the high school season in December.
People wanting to officiate, or keep time or the scorebook, should plan to attend one of the sessions, Villegas said. All positions are paid.
First up is a clinic Saturday at the Patch Barracks gym in Stuttgart. It’s scheduled to run from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. For information, call Matt Gillard at German civilian 0179-139-1984.
On Sunday, another 9 a.m.-4 p.m. clinic is slated for the second floor of Bldg. 2874 at Pulaski Barracks in Kaiserslautern. Quenton Floyd, at German civ. 0176-2153-6135, or Lee Johnson, at 0173-803-8862, are the points of contact in K-town.
The final sessions are scheduled for the Grafenwoehr gym from 6-9 p.m. nightly from Nov. 29-Dec. 3. Charles Williams, at 0179-777-4129, has more info.
Information about the sessions also is available from Villegas at info@tomasvillegasjr.com or by phone at German civ. 0170-205-9462.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: November 1, 2011
European championships in football and girls' volleyball are on the line Saturday in Germany, and a third tournament, the boys' Mediterranean Regional volleyball championship, will decide that title the same day in Aviano.
There actually are three girls' volleyball tournaments going on Thursday-Saturday in Ramstein and Kaiserslautern. All of them, the round-robin Division I event and the pool-play with crossover semifinals in Divisions II and III, begin concurrently at 8:30 a.m. Thursday and run all day at Ramstein Southside gym, and the Vogelweh and Kaiserslautern High School gyms in K-town. The action continues at all three venues on Friday and concludes with the thrid-place and title games Saturday at Ramstein Southside.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: October 31, 2011
SCHWETZINGEN, Germany – The dominating victories by the Patch boys and girls Saturday in the European cross country championships sucked the oxygen out of the room for four teams which also returned home with first-place trophies. In case you missed it, Patch’s girls ran 1-2-3-4 overall to win the D-I team title 20-83 over runner-up Ramstein, and the Panther boys, who won in a sixth-runner tiebreaker over Ramstein in 2010, repeated as D-I champs by a shockingly large 38-68 margin over runner-up Kaiserslautern. So overwhelming were Patch’s twin triumphs that sweeps by the Naples boys and girls in D-II and the triumphs by the Ankara boys and Brussels girls in Division III got lost in the shuffle.
Perhaps the biggest surprise was the triumph of the Ankara boys, who didn’t even qualify a team for Europeans in 2010. Led by a 2-3-4 finish among D-III runners, the Trojans edged pre-race favorite Alconbury 28-33 for the small-schools crown. Nico Root, Jackson Sylvester and Karl-Hans Orav trailed just D-III individual titlist Jason Black of Sigonella among D-III runners to supplant the Brussels boys as small-schools European champions. Alconbury, led by Ben Nelson’s fifth-place finish among D-III runners, was second, and Black’s run led Sigonella to the D-III team bronze medal. Depleted by departures and graduation, Brussels did not qualify a boys' team in 2011.
By Stars and Stripes
Published: October 28, 2011
Stars and Stripes will have reporters or photographers at Saturday's DODDS-Europe tennis and cross country championships as well as the four football semifinal playoff games.
For those of you who can't attend but want to see the results, we've set up a file on the Europe sports page here where we'll post the scores after each quarter, final scores and individual winners as soon as possible.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: October 26, 2011
Sure, you’re busy.
Halloween’s coming Monday, and that means the temptation will be strong to spend the weekend bustling around getting ready for the all the All-Hallows activities. But if you decide to skip one of the four big high school sports events scheduled for Saturday, you’ll be omitting some delightful treats from your trick-or-treat bag.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: October 22, 2011
The Kaiserslautern Officials Association will hold its annual wrestling rules and certification clinic Oct. 29 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Officials wishing to call weekly high school tournaments and to prepare for Child and Youth Services matches can certify and learn of changes to the 2011-2012 rules at the clinic, which runs from 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
KOA referee and clinician Jason Ille will cover rules changes and referee techniques and complete registration of experienced high school referees and rookies. Among the changes for this season are completely revamped weight classes. For 2011-2012, a weight has been added at the top and all but three other classes have been changed.
The clinic will be held at the CYS sports classroom in Building 3701 (above the laundromat). Ille also will explain pay issues, cover referee uniform needs and begin scheduling referees for matches in early December. A second KOA wrestling clinic is planned in Bavaria on Nov. 19 for officials who can’t make the Landstuhl clinic.
Call Al Shaff at German civ. 06371-946084 or e-mail to al.shaff@yahoo.com. Callers from outside Germany must dropr the initial "0" after dialing country code 0049.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: October 18, 2011
The 2011 U.S. Forces-Europe soccer tournament opens the pool-play portion of the event at 9:30 a.m. Thursday on fields at the Mainz-Kastel 06 club, tourney director Tony Lee announced Tuesday.
Pool-play games, which continue on Friday and Saturday in the four-day event for community-level teams, will consist of 30-minute halves, Lee said. The third-place and championship games, scheduled for Sunday, will be regulation 90-minute games.
There is no separate women’s event this year, Lee said.
Mainz-Kastel 06 lies just north of the Mainz-Kastel Storage Depot, where the AAFES shopping area is located. GPS address is In Der Witz 10, Mainz-Kastel 55252.
