Dragons avenge narrow losses to Lions on Friday with nail-biting victories.

Basketball roundup

Ansbach, Aviano and Vicenza boys are perfect so far as are Kaiserslautern and Sigonella girls.

Vicenza edges Vilseck and Naples tops Stuttgart in latest round of close games involving teams that want to contend for large-school championship.

Ramstein boys outscore Kaiserslautern 20-2 in final period to improve to 2-0 on the season.

Senior produces very tangible stats and highlights to pair with the cliched intangibles of the hard-nosed, floor-burned glue guy.

Five-time defending champs win their meet - but not by much - and Kaiserslautern scores more points in winning other meet during first week.

Seniors Naser Eaves and Gabe Fraley lead the way as the four-time Division I champions open regular season with a gritty 67-61 victory.

Lakenheath hosts one of three season-opening meets in season that will run through Feb. 15-16.

Tigers top AFNORTH and Brussels in Saturday double-header to grab early Division III favorite honors.

Basketball roundup

Stuttgart, Black Forest Academy and Sigonella all win both of their opening-weekend games in dominating fashion.

Ramstein, a strong contender for the DODEA-Europe Division I girls title almost every year, made a pretty strong opening statement with a 63-21 victory.

Basketball previews

The 2018-19 DODEA-Europe basketball regular season begins Friday with a busy slate that includes an epic Division I road trip and an opening-weekend gathering of four of the organization’s smallest schools.

Wrestling/marksmanship preview

Both of the Stuttgart Panthers’ winter sports dynasties are at risk as the DODEA-Europe season opens this weekend. One’s just at a little more risk than the other.

Football AOY

It’s not uncommon for a DODEA-Europe athlete to play iron-man football. It’s uncommon to play it as well as Ramstein Royals senior Bailey Holland.

Volleyball AOY

Geneva Barriger became a star in DODEA-Europe volleyball by not really worrying about becoming a star.

Game features not only DODEA students, but total of 73 players from schools all over Europe including local nationals from Denmark, England, France and Spain.

All-Star volleyball

The convergence of so many of DODEA-Europe’s best produced a level of skill at least as high as any of the season-defining playoff matches that preceded it.

D-I football final

The Ramstein Royals won their second DODEA-Europe Division I football championship in the last three seasons Saturday, surviving a furious upset bid from the Lakenheath Lancers to earn a 30-12 win.

D-II football final

The Saints asserted themselves in the third quarter to quickly grow a narrow 14-6 halftime lead to blowout proportions against Naples.

D-III football final

A year after not fielding a team, Cougars cap a perfect debut in six-man football with 63-0 win over AFNORTH.

D-I volleyball championship

The Stuttgart Panthers regained their position on top DODEA-Europe Division I volleyball, handily beating the Ramstein Royals in three sets in Saturday’s championship match.

D-II volleyball championship

The Marymount Royals capped a dominant season with an emotional victory in the DODEA-Europe Division II volleyball finals, ousting the Black Forest Academy Falcons in four sets to win the championship Saturday.

D-III volleyball championship

With a lock on the title the last three years and the No. 1 seed at Europeans this year, the Jaguars were the team to beat.

D-I volleyball semifinals

Stuttgart, Ramstein sweep into finals after each go through regular season and season-ending tournament without a loss.

D-II volleyball semifinals

Marymount bounces back from dismal Thursday to reach final game, while Black Forest continues strong tourney run.

D-III volleyball semifinals

Upstart Brigands will try to stop Jaguars from winning fourth straight title in Saturday season finale.

Europe volleyball - Day 1

Three teams clinch spots in Friday semifinals while plenty of others are still alive for spots in quarterfinals earlier in the day.

Three games Saturday at Kaiserslautern, Germany, will determine top teams for 2018 in three divisions.

The 2018 DODEA-Europe volleyball championship tournament plays out Thursday through Saturday at Kaiserslautern, Germany, featuring 23 teams competing for three divisional championships.

Europe cross country finals

Ramstein senior sets course record, St. John's sophomore moves up a spot from last year as both win first championships.

Europe tennis finals

Freshmen take both singles titles, upending two-time defending champion and last year's runner-up in the process.

Royals defeat Raiders for third time this season to advance back to championship game they lost a year ago to Stuttgart.

Cougars finish season at 4-2 by keeping defending champions out of the end zone.

The Lancers will play the Ramstein Royals in pursuit of their first Division I football title Nov. 3 at Kaiserslautern High School.

The Wildcats will face the Aviano Saints in the European title game Nov. 3 at Kaiserslautern High School.

Ansbach and AFNORTH will face off for the title Nov. 3 at Kaiserslautern High School.

Europe tennis finals

In boys singles action, defending champion takes on unbeaten freshman, while girls runner-up faces another ninth-grader in finals.

Europe tennis finals

No. 1 seeds win three matches, but could face sterner challenges from talented freshmen as tournament progresses.

Division I Warriors will play in Division II Admirals' homecoming game after Spartans can't field enough players.

Cross country preview

Handful of contenders for boys and girls races have been posting top times on disparate courses around Europe and now face each other on common ground.

Lakenheath won the teams’ Sept. 22 meeting 28-25, a home-field win that ultimately served as the difference in the standings between the second-place Lancers and third-place Panthers.

Vicenza owns an 11-2 overall record entering the final weekend of the DODEA-Europe regular season and hasn’t lost a match in over a month.

Stuttgart took first place in the European military boxing championships Saturday, defending its title as the top team in Europe.

The teams will meet again Saturday at Ramstein in a Division I semifinal game, with the winner advancing to the Nov. 3 European championship game.

Lancers defeat Wiesbaden for second time this season and will host one D-I semifinal next weekend.

The defending champion Panthers will travel to England next weekend to face the second-seeded Lakenheath Lancers.

Saints fall from ranks of unbeaten but have already clinched a spot in D-II championship game.

Cougars stay unbeaten as undermanned Bucs can't keep pace with relentless attack.

The final weekend of the 2018 DODEA-Europe Division I football regular season is a rather anticlimactic one.

This Saturday holds the last meets of the regular season; a week later, the organization’s top runners will compete for the European championship. Success at that latter meet is the ultimate goal; the race before it can present as many problems as opportunities.

Cougars score 57 points in opening half to finish off Brussels in wide-open six-man game.

Hollie Myers wins girls race and Matthew Cavanaugh takes boys race during Homecoming week.

The win is Stuttgart’s second in a row and brings the reigning champs back to even after it started the conference season on a two-game losing streak.

The win improves the Lancers to 3-1 in conference play entering their regular-season finale next weekend at Wiesbaden.

Wiesbaden stuck with the undefeated Royals for a half, entering the locker room locked in a 7-7 tie through two quarters.

Aviano blasted the visiting Vicenza Cougars 40-6, moving to within one win of a second straight undefeated regular season. Naples topped Rota 35-28 to stay a game behind.

Win keeps Lions in line for a spot in the inaugural DODEA-Europe six-man football championship game.

Bryan Cortese finished with a two-day total of 90 points under the tournament’s Stableford scoring system, 27 points ahead of runner-up George Stephan of Kaiserslautern. Phoebe Shin totaled 74 points on the tournament, 16 points ahead of Royals teammate Lauren Sutherland.

Only three weeks remain until the Super Six slate of divisional championship games scheduled for Nov. 3 at Kaiserslautern High School.

Wiesbaden's Bryan Cortese and Ramstein's Phoebe Shin hold substantial leads at the halfway point of the 2018 DODEA-Europe golf championship meet after dominating the event's first round Wednesday at Rheinblick Golf Course.

He carried 12 times for 226 yards and four touchdowns, returned three kickoffs for touchdowns totaling 230 yards and returned an interception 55 yards for another touchdown.

The two storied programs, authors of Europe’s last two large-school dynasties in the sport, enter October with the last two undefeated records in Division I. But they won't see each other until the tournament.

Fields of 18 boys and four girls set to compete for vacant DODEA-Europe individual golf crowns.

Events scheduled for this weekend would have been at risk had the government failed to pass a spending bill by Oct. 1. Though President Donald Trump signed a spending bill a few days ahead of that deadline, the idle weekend has been locked into the schedule for weeks.

Spangdahlem will drop to Division III in all sports but football starting with this fall's DODEA-Europe championship events.

Kaiserslautern is in second place with two games to play before four-team playoffs begin.

Teams that have met three times in the past two years might meet again - for title - if Saturday's highly competitive game is indicator.

Ramstein narrowly tops Kaiserslautern in boys cross country event and defeats Raiders by larger margin in girls race.

Warriors win individual honors in boys and girls graces, but Stuttgart sweeps team events.

Nice weather helps competitors from seven schools finish with strong times on course beside Italian lake.

Royals hand previously unbeaten Lancers 40-0 defeat to stay perfect on the season.

The win improves Stuttgart to 1-2 in the race for a DODEA-Europe Division I playoff berth and the opportunity to defend its 2017 European championship.

Spangdahlem, which entered the game on a two-game season-opening losing streak, built a 16-0 halftime lead on a pair of touchdowns and two-point conversions from running back Deon Montgomery.

Ansbach’s Ogden Andrew turned in the finest performance to date of the six-man football division’s debut season with an epic eight-touchdown afternoon.

The European golf championship meet, the first finals event of the 2018-19 DODEA-Europe school year, is scheduled for Oct. 10-11 at Rheinblick.

There were two notable omissions when DODEA-Europe relaunched Division III football this fall.

After years in the defensive secondary, Kellan Clark is approaching mastery of the complicated art of the position.

The lost game on Sept. 8 could have a major impact on the Division II postseason race.

It wasn’t until the score was 30-0 that the Tigers scored their first of two touchdowns.

Alconbury hopes that a schedule full of higher Division opponents will better prepare it for the DODEA European Division III championship this year.

The thrilling win came a week after Lakenheath rattled off 30 unanswered points after halftime to stun Kaiserslautern.

Vilseck leads through much of game before late Royals rally.

The outcome was in doubt only briefly as Aviano scored 24 points in the first quarter and 32 more in the second.

Ashton Jeanty scored all four touchdowns for Naples, teaming with Marcus Arriola for a combined 388 rushing yards.

Troy Erwin rushed for 156 yards, Tahze Vaughn collected 123 rushing yards and Kimouri Vaughn added 82 yards on the ground for the Brigands.

With the victory, Kaiserslautern matched the win total it produced in 2017 and improved to 1-1 in the race for a Division I semifinal spot.

The senior has stepped in seamlessly under center for the Ramstein varsity after an extended apprenticeship on the school’s JV team.

A loss to Ramstein put the Panthers in a 0-1 hole in the short five-week playoff race, evoking some unpleasant recent history for the program; Stuttgart missed the postseason the year after winning its breakthrough 2015 title.

The game was all but lost. The host Kaiserslautern Raiders had just scored another touchdown, this one building their lead to 31-9 minutes before halftime. As the Lakenheath Lancers received the ensuing kickoff, coach Gabe Feletar was looking for answers in the paper he held that showed his team’s so-far ineffective offensive plays.

Vilseck senior Cecelia Jackson recorded 13 digs, 10 kills and five service aces in the Falcons' 25-15, 25-17, 21-25, 27-25 defeat of Black Forest Academy on Saturday.

The rematch of last year’s Division I championship game turned into a romp for the host Ramstein Royals, who routed the Panthers 41-19 to earn a measure of revenge for Stuttgart’s 2017 title win.

Division I Vilseck won the first two sets fairly easily in a 25-15, 25-17, 21-25, 27-25 victory. But Division II Black Forest Academy, which also sports the Falcons as mascots, rallied in the third.

Kaiserslautern scored 24 second-quarter points and enjoyed a 31-9 lead late in the second quarter.