Baumholder's Ryan Edwards looks for daylight as he rushes for a 1st quarter gain against Mannheim. Mannheim defeated Baumholder, 36-0, in Baumholder on Friday night. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

Baumholder's Ryan Edwards looks for daylight as he rushes for a 1st quarter gain against Mannheim. Mannheim defeated Baumholder, 36-0, in Baumholder on Friday night. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

Baumholder's James Milledge, left, gets tripped-up by Mannheim's Calvin Baisden after a big gain in Friday night's game in Baumholder. Mannheim beat the Buccaneers, 36-0. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

Mannheim's Aaron Garrison tries to get out of the grasp of Baumholder's James Milledge on a run down the sidelines in the second half of the Friday night game in Baumholder. Garrison scored on the next play and the Bison went on to win, 36-0. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

Mannheim's Aaron Garrison, right, out races Baumholder's J'Mil Wilson to the end zone in Mannheim's 36-0 win over the Buccaneers in Baumholder on Friday night. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

Mannheim's Chance Bullard, left, slips out of the grasp of Baumholder's Pablo Martinez in first- quarter action at Baumholder on Friday night. Mannheim won the game, 36-0. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

Baumholder's Ben McDaniels, left, and Mannheim defender LaJuarren Burks go up for a pass that neither pulled down in a Division II night game in Baumholder on Friday. Mannheim won the game, 36-0. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)

BAUMHOLDER, Germany – The third quarter proved the charm Friday night as the Mannheim Bison downed the Baumholder Buccaneers 36-0 in a Division II-North football game.The loss was the first of the season for Baumholder (2-1), forced to play without injured quarterback Prince Owusu, a three-sport All-European. It’s unlikely, however, that even the speedy and elusive Owusu could have forestalled the havoc the Mannheim defense wreaked in the decisive third quarter.The Bison (2-1 thanks to a forfeit, but 3-0 on the field) recovered two Baumholder fumbles, forced a third and limited the Bucs to minus-seven yards of offense during the quarter.“It’s all about wanting it,” middle linebacker Sean Knight said about the Bison’s 19-0 run during the period. “We wanted it more.”Knight admitted that Mannheim’s task on Friday eased when a back injury sidelined Owusu.“I was a little relieved when I heard he wouldn’t play,” Knight said, “but one player doesn’t determine the outcome of a game.”In Mannheim’s case, running backs Aaron Garrison, Calvin Baisden and Chance Bullard and quarterback Adam Cornelius, along with that lights-out defense, did. Garrison, a sophomore who’ll play his junior year in Florida, ran the ball 21 times for 146 yards and two touchdowns.Baisden, the starting quarterback until the Bison acquired Cornelius when Mannheim’s cross country team folded, averaged seven yards on each of his four rushes, one of which carried into the end zone, and caught nine passes from Cornelius for 142 yards and two more touchdowns.Is it more fun to catch TD passes than throw them?“I like them either way,” Baisden grinned. “Whatever it takes to help us win.”Bullard rushed eight times for 72 yards, most in the late going in relief of Garrison.All the offensive stars, except for Cornelius (nine-of-11 for 142 yards passing and two TDs), also stood tall on the Mannheim defense, which seemed to get stronger as the game wore on.“We play iron-man football,” Knight said. “We’re the best-conditioned team in Europe.” The stifling defense provided some much-needed breathing room for Mannheim, which had its 28-8 on-field victory at SHAPE on Sept. 18 revoked for inadvertent use of an ineligible player. The Bison led just 8-0 at the half, registering a safety when Baumholder pitched the ball out of bounds in its own end zone in the first quarter, and Garrison’s 38-yard cutback run to pay dirt in the second.The Bison also found themselves staggering from some Baumholder body blows.“They really hit hard,” Mannheim coach Franck Macias said. “We weren’t expecting them to hit like that. We had to take a timeout in the first quarter because we were reeling.”Garrison said the team needed to be reminded of its status as the final one in the history of Mannheim High School, which is to shutter its doors forever in June, to clear the cobwebs.“I mention it every time we need to play better,” the 5-7, 145-pound Garrison said. “(Going out on top), that’s our main focus.”bryanr@estripes.osd.mil