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.

The evenly-matched game finally broke in one side’s favor late in the third quarter when Ramstein’s Makani Stenger scooped up a Lancer fumble and returned it 85 yards

Austin Deckinga amassed 243 yards and four touchdowns on just 13 carries to lead the Warrior attack.

Brennon Colvin produced 123 rushing yards and a touchdown to pace the Admirals offense.

Devin Jenkins totalled 340 rushing yards, Dustin Martin threw for 360 yards and Keoni Galindes made seven catches for 280 yards for Ansbach.

The Dragons scored 21 points in the first half and 24 more in the second in the thorough victory.

Stuttgart improves to 2-0 on season by downing Kaiserslautern 30-6 after both teams self destruct in first half.

D-I football preview

DODEA-Europe’s six Division I football teams begin their five-week race for the semifinals this weekend.

Volleyball preview

The effects of this summer’s DODEA-Europe realignment will be felt first on the volleyball court.

Cross country preview

The race is underway for the 2019 DODEA-Europe cross country championships.

There were plenty of highlights on both sides in Alconbury’s return to football after several years of not fielding a squad.

The Wildcats never gave up the lead in their 26–6 victory and punctuated it with a kickoff-return touchdown in the game’s final seconds.

Panthers take all but one boys spot in top 10 at meet in Vilseck and more than half of girls slots.

Special teams plays help Falcons overcome 7-0 deficit at halftime.

Baumholder scored 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to turn a narrow deficit into an exhilarating victory.

Deon Montgomery totaled 130 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Sentinels, a former Division II dynasty hoping to duplicate that success at the Division III level.

Wes Penta rushed 15 times for 88 yards and two touchdowns and threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to Gavin McDevitt.

Kaiserslautern quarterback Nelson Rivas tossed four passing touchdowns and Raiders score 24 straight points to top Wiesbaden.

The Panthers trailed by a touchdown at halftime but held the reigning champions to just seven second-half points.

Wiesbaden coach Steve Jewell announced plans to return this fall to the spread offense that fueled the Warriors’ string of championship-game appearances in recent years

D-II/D-III football preview

The two divisions housing DODEA-Europe’s 12 smaller schools have undergone some major rearranging since last season

Tennis preview

Stuttgart’s Amar Tahirovic and Kaiserslautern’s Aiva Schmitz, each of whom seized singles titles last year in straight-set finals triumphs, return this fall as sophomores.

After four years without a football team, the Alconbury Dragons are standing one up for the six-man league this year.

The Kaiserslautern Raiders made the most of their preseason, hosting three local German teams for tune-up games and tangling with Division I rivals Ramstein and Wiesbaden in a late-August scrimmage.

It’s rare for a DODEA-Europe football team to base its offense around the passing game. But the Stuttgart Panthers field a rare football program.

AFNORTH seeks return to D-III title game, while SHAPE and Brussels hope for better seasons than a year ago.

The Rota Admirals took a step back from the DODEA-Europe Division II football championship scene last fall. But they don’t intend to stay on the fringes for long.

The Hohenfels Tigers will enjoy almost twice as many players as last year, and they will be playing in a brand-new stadium this season.

There’s a learning curve involved in the transition from 11-man to six-man football. The Baumholder Bucs hope they’re approaching a straightaway in that process this season.

Following a perfect season last year, the Ansbach Cougars are looking to dominate the competition again.

For the first time in more than two decades, the Aviano Saints are looking to defend a title in football.

The Sentinels, among DODEA-Europe’s most accomplished and consistently successful football programs, are playing six-man football this fall.

Of the 43 players on their varsity and JV football teams, only 13 are returning players.

The Ramstein football machine is operating at high efficiency as another fall season approaches.

Jessica Jacobs and Ogden Andrew may have been Division III athletes in their senior years of high school, but their skills and accomplishments in their sports allowed them to outshine students in higher divisions to earn coveted DODEA-Europe’s Athlete of the Year awards this year.

In essence, the move consolidates Division I in the north of Europe and Division II in the south, with small Division III schools still widely scattered.

Seven Royal seniors across six different sports are bound for collegiate competition.

Boys track AOY

Markez Middlebrooks is at a basketball player at heart. But he may be remembered more at Wiesbaden for his athletic feats during the spring season.

Girls track AOY

The Stuttgart sophomore ran personal bests and smashed European records in the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs at this spring’s DODEA-Europe track and field championships.

Baseball AOY

For Wiesbaden baseball coach Steve Jewell, Warriors star Austin Deckinga merges a lot of positive qualities that don’t often exist within the same player.

Softball AOY

Vicenza junior Chenoa Gragg entered this season established as one of the most dominant pitchers and best all-around players in DODEA-Europe softball.

Boys soccer AOY

Alessandro Ianni would have left American Overseas School of Rome with a memorable, accomplished career regardless of what happened in his final DODEA-Europe match.

Girls soccer AOY

Erin Goodman certainly has the skills and statistics for individual stardom. But that’s not her priority.

DODEA-Europe Track - Day 2

One record was shattered on a day that saw a parade of returning and new champions take their places on the podium Saturday.

D-I baseball final

The Ramstein Royals edged the Stuttgart Panthers 5-4 Saturday at Ramstein Southside Fitness Center, reclaiming the DODEA-Europe Division I championship a year after their half-decade dynasty ended.

D-II baseball final

DODEA-Europe crowned a new Division II/III baseball champion Saturday, in more ways than one.

D-I softball final

The Wiesbaden Warriors wrote the final chapter of one of the most compelling underdog stories in DODEA-Europe history Saturday, beating the Ramstein Royals 9-5 in the 2019 DODEA-Europe Division I softball championship game and replacing a forgettable regular season with postseason triumph.

D-II/III softball

The Sigonella Jaguars seized the three-peat they sought on Saturday, routing the Rota Admirals 11-1 for their third consecutive DODEA-Europe Division II/III softball championship.

DODEA-Europe track - Day 1

Both Stuttgart sophomore McKinley Fielding and Ramstein senior Dashiell Rogers erased marks achieved by former athletes at their respective schools.

Baseball - Day 2

Ramstein will play Stuttgart and Aviano takes on Spangdahlem to decide two championships.

Softball - Day 2

The Stuttgart Panthers will face the Ramstein Royals and the Vicenza Cougars will battle the Wiesbaden Warriors in the semifinals Saturday at Landstuhl.

D-I boys final

The glass ceiling, cracked just a day prior, is now shattered.

D-I girls final

The Wiesbaden Warriors on Thursday made good on the lofty goal they set at the start of the season - to bring home the DODEA-Europe Division I girls’ soccer championship.

D-II boys final

American Overseas School of Rome has tasted the bitter side of the DODEA-Europe Division II boys soccer tournament in recent seasons. On Thursday, the Falcons tasted its sweetness.

D-II girls final

The first half of Thursday’s DODEA-Europe Division II girls’ soccer finals was scoreless for more than 30 minutes.

D-III boys final

The Ansbach Cougars are runners-up no longer. But they’re definitely still runners.

D-III girls final

It was a tale of two halves in the DODEA-Europe Division III girls soccer championship game Thursday between the defending champion Spangdahlem Sentinels and the Hohenfels Tigers.

Baseball/softball Day 1

The 2019 DODEA-Europe baseball tournaments started and finished their preliminary rounds Thursday in the Kaiserslautern Military Community. From now on, it’s win or go home.

D-I boys soccer semifinals

No. 1 seed Naples and third seed Ramstein survived rigorous semifinal tests on Wednesday to play their way into Thursday’s large-school final.

D-I girls soccer semifinals

While the Warriors spoke of feeling like the figurative Division I underdogs, the Wildcats, one of the smaller schools playing in Division I, might fit that role as well.

D-II boys soccer semifinals

A pair of gritty, low-scoring DODEA-Europe Division II boys soccer semifinals Wednesday set up what figures to be a similar matchup for the championship.

D-II girls semifinals

Playing Division I powerhouses Wiesbaden and Stuttgart during the regular season helped the Falcons prepare for Rota, a team that went 6-0 during the regular season.