The 2019-20 DODEA-Europe Division I boys basketball season got a lot more interesting over the weekend.

AFNORTH girls and Hohenfels girls emerge triumphant in first basketball action since Christmas break.

Boys basketball roundup

Black Forest, Kaiserslautern, Wiesbaden, Vilseck, Vicenza and Rota all go 1-1 during weekend action.

Girls basketball roundup

Three-time defending champion Stuttgart sweeps a pair from Ramstein to take command of Division I race.

Holiday spirit was in short supply Tuesday night at Ramstein High School as constant whistles and resulting free throws put everyone in a foul mood.

Six-time defending champions Panthers have four of the top six shooters to offset two from second-place Ansbach.

Raiders training for a shot to take down Stuttgart at season-ending championships.

Basketball roundup

A home-and-home set between Kaiserslautern and Ramstein on Tuesday is all that remains of the 2019 portion of the sports calendar.

The Stuttgart Panthers are competing as much against themselves as with any of their rivals in DODEA-Europe marksmanship.

The Stuttgart Panthers don’t have any current DODEA-Europe wrestling champions on their roster. But they almost certainly have some future champions.

Looking at the schedule ahead of the season, the opening-night boys basketball game between the Wiesbaden Warriors and Baumholder Bucs looked good on paper. The reality far surpassed that.

Competitors from large and small schools open the season at RAF Lakenheath in seven-team meet.

Vilseck boys and girls teams prove too much for smaller opponents in Friday and Saturday contests.

Boys basketball roundup

Black Forest makes early successful bid to join D-I elite by topping Stuttgart in a pair of close games.

Girls basketball roundup

Royals, Panthers among several teams that start of DODEA-Europe season perfect after Friday-Saturday sweeps.

Kaiserslautern splits season-opening doubleheader with SHAPE by erasing 13-0 deficit.

Cougar girls win season debut back in medium-school category, but boys fall to determined Falcons.

Boys basketball preview

The 2019-20 DODEA-Europe boys basketball season, starting this weekend and running through February’s European tournaments, already features fascinating storylines at the league, team and individual levels.

Girls basketball preview

DODEA-Europe’s summer realignment will have profound impacts on all three divisional championship races in the 2019-20 girls basketball season, which gets underway this weekend with a full slate of Friday and Saturday games.

Wrestling preview

There’s an old sports saying that a rivalry isn’t really a rivalry if the same team always wins.

A total of 32 junior and senior standouts from 16 schools across all three DODEA-Europe divisions were selected for the honor, including alternates.

Football AOY

Great football teams are built around players like Josh Olive.

Volleyball AOY

Stuttgart senior Karen Kosinski has long been among the most fearsome hitters in DODEA-Europe volleyball. But this season, she expanded her game to become a constant, unavoidable threat.

D-I football final

The Panthers were led by a core of seniors, many of whom have been with the program for three or four years.

D-I volleyball final

Ramstein knocks off previously unbeaten Stuttgart in five-set marathon.

D-II football final

Aviano scores touchdowns in each half and keeps Admirals scoreless in second half.

D-II volleyball final

Teams had split during the regular season, but Cougars avenge their only loss during the season in four sets.

D-III football final

Sentinels finish first season in Division III with perfect record after outlasting defending champions.

D-III volleyball final

After dropping the first set, the Sentinels found their groove, and rode a wave of momentum past the Jaguars 22-25, 25-12, 25-20, 26-24.

DODEA-Europe volleyball

Stuttgart will meet Ramstein, Naples takes on Vicenza and Spangdahlem plays Sigonella in Saturday's finals.

DODEA-Europe volleyball

Most top seeds remain in good position heading into Friday semifinals after first day of season-ending tournaments.

D-I championship

Either Stuttgart or Ramstein has won every DODEA-Europe Division I football title in the last five seasons. This season won’t be any different.

D-II championship

It’s been seven years since a DODEA-Europe football team has played for a championship on its home field. That streak ends Saturday.

D-III championship

Two of DODEA-Europe’s most accomplished programs will share the stage again on Saturday.

Stuttgart's Amar Tahirovic and Kaiserslautern's Avia Schmidt go unbeaten in tourney to retain titles they won as freshmen.

The defending champion Royals will return to next week's European championship game against the top-seeded Stuttgart Panthers.

Saints score first 17 points en route to a 24-10 victory over Wildcats and will host Rota in championship contest.

The victory wrapped up a 6-0 regular season for Spangdahlem in its first year playing six-man football.

The top-seeded Panthers advance to next week's European championship game against the defending champion Ramstein Royals.

Wesley Penta was the offensive star for Rota, rushing for 113 yards and three touchdowns.

With the win, the Cougars earn a second straight trip to the European title game.

Defending champions Aiva Schmitz and Amar Tahirovic will try to retain the titles they won last year as freshmen.

Anthony Willis led the victors with four touchdowns and 214 rushing yards, while Camron McDonald totaled 125 yards and three touchdowns.

A handful of upsets and near-upsets highlighted an otherwise routine opening day of the 2019 DODEA-Europe tennis championship tournaments, played Thursday at sites around Wiesbaden, Germany.

D-I semifinals

Saturday’s 2019 DODEA-Europe Division I football semifinals feature the same matchups as the 2018 edition. But the results could be a lot different.

D-II semifinals

This weekend’s 2019 DODEA-Europe Division II football semifinals would seem to have two clear favorites. But a closer look reveals that the outcomes might not be so obvious.

Europe cross country finals

Stuttgart junior McKinley Fielding took control of the girls race from the gun, running alone and finishing the course almost five seconds better than any other girls runner had before.

Saints go ahead with less than 3 minutes to play to hand Admirals first defeat of the season.

Kaiserslautern keeps Lakenheath winless on the season, less than two weeks before championships begin.

Tre Dotson tied the game with a 9-yard rushing touchdown and followed up with the game-winning two-point conversion run with 50 seconds to play.

Even with its No. 1 seed in the upcoming European semifinals already assured, the Panthers pounced immediately on their overmatched guests.

Ramstein will host Kaiserslautern next weekend in Division-I semifinal.

Naples will travel to Aviano next weekend for a semifinal game against the defending European champions.

There will be no defending champions to block the path at Saturday’s DODEA-Europe cross country championships.

The Spangdahlem Sentinels faced the first real challenge of their DODEA-Europe Division III volleyball season Saturday. The way they responded is a good sign for their chances in the upcoming European championship tournament.

The loser of Saturday’s football game between the SHAPE Spartans and Naples Wildcats will miss the playoffs. That makes the game itself a de facto playoff game.

Ramstein pulled ahead 20-14 at halftime and scored the only three points of the second half to earn the win.

Lakenheath's win in final seconds eliminates Wiesbaden from Division I race.

Stuttgart is assured of a first-place finish and home-field semifinal game on Oct. 26.

The victory kept the Saints (3-0, 3-1 overall) alive for the top seed in the DODEA-Europe Division-II playoffs and assured them of hosting one of the semifinal games on Oct. 26.

AFNORTH becomes first team to score more than seven points against Spangdahlem, but still loses by 32.

Defending champions score 27 unanswered points across the second and third quarters.

The decision left both teams at an even 2-2 on the season with two games yet to play apiece.

Clubhouse leaders held off their pursuers and became champions Thursday as the 2019 DODEA-Europe golf finals wrapped up at Rheinblick Golf Course.

The DODEA-Europe football season restarts this weekend, and with it the races for the 10 coveted spots in the 2019 postseason.

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The rain set in about halfway through Wednesday’s opening round of the 2019 DODEA-Europe good championship tournament, turning an already sluggish day on the links into a full-on slog. The golfers admitted that the conditions had a real impact on their games.

Ramstein ace Ben Todman is the favorite to claim the boys individual title. The junior averaged 48 points per meet over the fall, putting him six and a half points ahead of his nearest challenger.

Every weekday morning, before the janitors show up to clean the floors, the boys and girls teams dash through the school hallways to avoid heat-related injuries.

Vilseck's rousing defeat of Ramstein was the dramatic peak of the day’s four-match schedule.

The Lancers kept their playoff hopes alive by keeping the Falcons winless in division play with a 25-0 triumph.

Deon Montgomery led the Sentinels with 250 yards and five touchdowns on 13 carries.

The Admirals and Aviano Saints clinched spots in the four-team playoff with the result.

The win is the second straight for Vicenza, coming a week after an 18-6 defeat of Italian rival Naples.

Anthony McLean piled up 233 yards and three touchdowns to pace the Lions, while quarterback David Immel diversified the AFNORTH attack with 121 passing yards.

The win leaves the Panthers as the only unbeaten team in Division I entering the league-wide bye next weekend and the two remaining regular-season games to follow.

Running back Devin Jenkins scored two touchdowns in the first quarter, setting up the momentum for the rest of the game.

The win improves Kaiserslautern to 2-1 in divisional play, drawing the Raiders even with archrival Ramstein for the runner-up spot behind undefeated Stuttgart.

The 2019 DODEA-Europe Division I football regular season is already a third of the way over, and its six teams have sorted themselves into three clear tiers of contention.

The six-man game appears to be the wave of the future in DODEA-Europe football, and those on the front lines are embracing it.

The Saints took advantage of two early SHAPE turnovers to score touchdowns and never looked back in a 52-16 victory.

Annie Roundy and Matt Cavanaugh win girls, boys races for Lancers in three-team meet.

Running backs Josh Olive and Jordan McCullough each collected 70 rushing yards and two touchdown runs, while Trent Jackson added 40 rushing yards and a touchdown.

Tre Dotson hauled in three touchdown receptions, including a 60-yarder, and returned an interception 60 yards for another touchdown.

Quarterback Carl Norman competed eight of 12 pass attempts for 70 yards and a pair of touchdowns, both to Makani Stenger.

Vicenza opened the scoring midway through the first quarter on a 50-yard touchdown pass from Lucas Ridgley to Marquez Elam and later built an 18-0 lead on a 60-yard touchdown run by Zach Cohen.

Deon Montgomery visited the end zone six times as part of an impressive eight-carry, 266-yard performance

Wilbur Turgeon passes for 174 yards and three teammates top 100 yards rushing in Bucs' victory.

Hohenfels scored the only points of the second half to extend a 7-6 halftime lead into a victory.

Host Baumholder led 12-0 at halftime on a pair of first-quarter touchdowns by Wilbur Turgeon.

Ariana Coats of Naples ran the 5-kilometer course in 20 minutes and 38 seconds, shattering the former record of 21:50.

Hosts split two five-set matches with Vicenza and Sigonella and lose another four-set match to Cougars.

Aviano hosts American Overseas School of Rome and Rota for five weekend matches and everyone comes away with positives and plenty to work on.