Friday, May 14, 1976 THE STARS AND STRIPES * * * Page 25 Witch 10,000 AYA baseballers propping watches for start of league play Saturday HEIDELBERG, Germany — Some 10,- command qualifying tournaments con- ers, one team coach aed one assistant 000 youngsters — divided into Bantam, ducted la their respective geographic 4eam coach or manager. Sox win Junior and Senior age groups — are get- areas. Individuals will not be eligible to partic- ting ready for the 1976 USAREUR Ameri- Competition la the USAREUR diamond ipate IB the USAREUR championship (Continued from page 21) can Youth Activities baseball season chamiottships will feature douMe-elimina. tournaments unless they were members of ment, depending on your point of view. At which opens Saturday. Udtt play la each of the five divisions. the representative AY A team during regu- last report, she was Hying back to Boston. Regular-season play will culminate In Bantam (I to 12 years of age) and lar season play — or were members of the By plane. Not broom, command-wide playoffs which will be con- Junior (IS and under) groups are subdi- AYA intramural league from which the Elsewhere in the American League, ducted Aug. 10-14 at five sites. vided into A and B categories. Teams in AYA all-star team is formed. - '' New York edged Detroit 7-6, Kansas City V Corps, 1st S Brigade* VII category A are formed from USAREUR Players who were members of teams routed Minnesota 17*5, Baltimore topped Corps, Berlin Bri SETAF-NATQ. communities with Ml or more eligible which participated la any 1976 organized Milwaukee 84 and Texas blanked Call ror- SHAPE-AFCENT and the Seventh Army youths. All other communities participate baseballl prograrogram other than Ithat of the tiia" T-0. Chicago and Oakland were not Training Center will be eligible to eater to B competition. Senior-division play is USAREUR youth ativtties, win not be ell scheduiedtoplay. t *• " teams In the August playoffs, open to players If aad under. jlbl« for the championship playoffs. RoyaUl?,T*ittsS U.S. Air Force and Navy youth orgaal- Teams selected to compete la the USA- Sites for the Aug. l«-14 olayoffs wffl be In more strange AL doinfp, the Royals tattoas in Germany and Italy nay partkl- REUR chaina4oasalps may b* composed annonnctd by the U.S. Army Recreatkm hammered out a diilhtiQnNl.lt bits and pate to the USAREUR ywth bateball of all-star play ers from •«* AYA. Roatars Services Afeacy, Ewope officials at a took A 144 lead after three inninp. Tom program provided they compete ia Army will be limited to a maiimam <rf U play- future date. Poquette k^^..f >i|iMM^ Jm-4iMlii|t with a base*4oaded triple while George Starting pitcher Joe Bedter was racked up for eight hits and 10 run* ~ alt of them earned — in one disastrous Inning of toil. He walked three batters, but two of the men he retired went out on strikes. Yankees 7, tigers t The Tigers, who committed four errors, must have thought they were being witch- struck, too. Craig Nettles hit a two-run homer to cap a four-run first Inning for New York and Lou PinieUa touched off a three-run fourth wUh a solo Wast• Orioles 8, Brewers 6 Reggie Jackson hit his first homer as an Oriole, and it was a beauty/^-a grand slam in the sixth inningjbjj wiped out a $-2 deli- Oriole attack r^Jyle^texander pitched 71* 3 innings of two% relief of Ken Holtzman togetthewui, ^ > Jeff Rangers' leading RBI hitter wi "" ui tiie game's only run in the eight ig to give Bill Singer a shutout his former Califoniia teammate* out of^ two bases-loaded and beae- fitted from three double plays. <%*!, Frankfurt's Brenda Givens hita tape as she crosses the finish U»e 50-raetcr dash, lie? time of 6.7 was the best of the day ByMOEMHXEE 'g^writer Germany Le relay teams clipped mm sisters, Usa-Furman, mid of the WP-meter oM fid to get a USDESEA marll The 800 meters In Michigan Ted» as oSchoF ihe Year.