Bucs sophomore Chandler Pigge named 2018-19 Stars and Stripes boys basketball Athlete of the Year.

Kaiserslautern senior Le'Jhanique Brown named 2018-19 girls basketball Athlete of the Year.

D-I boys final

Ramstein won its fifth consecutive DODEA-Europe Division I boys basketball championship Saturday, defeating the archrival Kaiserslautern Raiders for the second year in a row in a 48-39 comeback victory.

D-I girls final

After playing even with rival Ramstein through three and a half quarters, the Panthers owned the last few minutes in a 27-24 victory – their third straight championship.

D-II boys final

The Falcons won their third consecutive Division II boys hoops title Saturday, pulling ahead late in the fourth quarter to outlast the upstart Bahrain Falcons.

The noise in the Clay Kaserne Fitness Center Saturday morning was deafening - and championship basketball was still hours away.

D-II girls final

Third-seeded Falcons only score 20 points, but it's enough to down AFNORTH for first title in awhile.

D-III boys final

The second-seeded Bucs defiantly defended their European title turf, outlasting the top-seeded Cougars 70-65 in a thrilling small-school championship game.

D-III girls final

It takes a lot to get to the finals of a DODEA-Europe championship basketball game.

D-I boys semifinals

Kaiserslautern advanced with a 44-36 defeat of Stuttgart, while the Royals ousted hometown Wiesbaden by a score of 64-44.

D-I girls semifinals

Royals hold off Naples for chance to meet two-time defending champion Panthers in Saturday's season finale.

D-II boys semifinals

It'll be battle of Falcons after Bahrain routs Marymount to reach final for the first time.

D-II girls semifinals

Germany-based Falcons won't be in finals for the first time in six years, while Italy-based Falcons make it for first time.

D-III boys semifinals

Baumholder almost doubles Brussels in one semifinal and Ansbach mercy rules Spangdahlem in the other.

D-III girls semifinals

Sentinels will try to end Jaguars' stranglehold on the championship in their first year in the lower division.

DODEA-Europe boys basketball - Day 2

Marymount is biggest surprise in D-II final four, while Bahrain, Stuttgart and Brussels stage mild upsets to reach semifinals.

DODEA-Europe girls basketball - Day 2

Defending champions Stuttgart, Black Forest Academy and Sigonella all still alive in quests to retain titles.

DODEA-Europe boys basketball - Day 1

Stuttgart stages minor upset on a day where most favored seeds played like it.

DODEA-Europe girls basketball - Day 1

Stuttgart, Sigonella, Brussels move on, while other top seeds impressive in first day of action.

While the rest of Division I chases Ramstein, the Royals themselves are chasing history.

Girls basketball preview

Contenders will be hard-pressed to unseat the Stuttgart Panthers, Black Forest Academy Falcons and Sigonella Jaguars.

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Rota, the only Division II team represented in the finals, claimed that division’s team title. Sigonella cruised to the Division III title with two champions and three finalists.

A slow start for the Lakenheath girls basketball team led to a loss Saturday, but the Lakenheath boys changed their game in time for a win against visiting Alconbury.

Wiesbaden-based team earns 3-2 victory over Bayern Rangers in final game of three-day event for hockey enthusiasts.

Europe wrestling - Day 1

Competitors battle to stay alive or earn top qualifying spots for Saturday's final matches.

The Royals saw 28 wrestlers included in the final brackets for the two-day European championship meet, while the five-time defending champion Panthers checked in with 22.

After an impressive run to the 2018 DODEA-Europe Division I girls basketball championship game, the Naples Wildcats won’t be sneaking up on anyone at the upcoming 2019 tournament.

The Alpine Classic Hockey Tournament will be held at the same hockey rink used in the 1936 Olympic Games in Garmisch.

Royal boys complete undefeated regular season with second win over rival Wiesbaden.

For the most part, coaches and wrestlers had a pretty good idea who the top wrestler in each of the 14 weight brackets was going into the Southern Section Qualifier on Saturday.

Basketball roundup

With a few notable exceptions, the penultimate weekend of the 2018-19 DODEA-Europe basketball regular season was marked by sweeps and blowouts as contenders rounded into postseason form.

Stuttgart rallies to force overtime and hand Kaiserslautern girls first defeat of season.

Ramstein Royals, chasing a fifth consecutive European boys championship, have conquered every opponent in a path in building a 10-0 divisional and 11-0 overall record.

Sectional qualifying meets Saturday at Brussels, Stuttgart and Vicenza will determine the bulk of the field for the European championship meet.

European marksmanship finals

The more things change, the more they stay the same in DODEA-Europe marksmanship.

The Ramstein boys beat the Raiders 65-49, while the Kaiserslautern girls handled the Royals 37-33.

Wrestlers well aware of the bigger picture of the European wrestling season were able to repeatedly narrow their focus to the opponent across the mat, producing a day’s full of competitive, hard-fought matches.

The SHAPE Spartans girls and boys basketball teams earned two close victories Saturday after a late game comeback and a fourth-quarter nail biter in their respective games with the host Spangdahlem Sentinels.

Boys basketball roundup

Royals hold off Vilseck to stay atop Division I, while Cougars earn a couple of easy victories over Hohenfels to stay perfect in Division III.

Girls basketball roundup

Stuttgart, Ramstein, AFNORTH, Alconbury, Naples all win twice to sweep outmatched foes during weekend.

Wildcat girls win sixth straight game, while Saints boys remain unbeaten in Italy.

This weekend brings a set of three regular-season finale meets, headlined by a massive nine-school gathering at Kaiserslautern that includes all of last season’s top-five finishers in the Division I team points race.

Wiesbaden hosts a championship meet Saturday that is both the first championship event of the DODEA-Europe calendar year and the final chapter of a fascinating marksmanship season.

Ansbach is undefeated entering February, joining Division I dynasty Ramstein as the last two remaining unbeaten teams in DODEA-Europe boys basketball.

The Kaiserslautern Raiders earned a key DODEA-Europe Division I basketball sweep over the Wiesbaden Warriors on Tuesday evening, picking up a 38-18 girls victory at home and a 59-49 boys win on the road.

Lakenheath girls hold Baumholder counterparts without a field goal, while boys take advantage of foul trouble to split weekend series.

Boys basketball roundup

Wiesbaden has won eight straight games overall, including six Division I contests, entering a Tuesday evening showdown with divisional rival Kaiserslautern.

Girls basketball roundup

AFNORTH, Naples, Sigonella go unbeaten during weekend matchups with just about a month left until championships.

An All-Europe selection as a sophomore and a junior, Le’Jhanique Brown has long been established among the DODEA-Europe girls basketball elite.

The Royals and Panthers will meet in both boys and girls basketball this weekend, giving each school a chance to both further their own unbeaten start and spoil that of their rival.

Cougars and Falcons split four games in first visit by DODEA-Europe school to Middle East during school year.

Boys basketball roundup

Vilseck pulled back to .500 in Division I play entering the toughest portion of its schedule.

Girls basketball roundup

Once-beaten Royals pound Baumholder and Lakenheath, while Wildcats have too much firepower for Marymount.

The Raider boys fought off Lakenheath surges in the first and fourth quarters after a far less dramatic 37-17 triumph for the Raider girls.

Tyrese Harris, a senior and guard for Wiesbaden, scored 23 points, including a buzzer beating three-pointer at the end of the third quarter.

DODEA-Europe has increasingly worked to incorporate geographically remote schools, including Spain-based Rota, into regular-season schedules in recent years.

Baumholder, a tiny southwestern German school, visits comparably huge neighbors Ramstein and Kaiserslautern this weekend. A week later, they’ll head to England for Friday and Saturday games against another Division I school, Lakenheath.

AOSR recorded two double-digit wins over tough Division I squad Naples last weekend, improving its overall record to 4-0.

Three schools don't make the trip to Northern Italy, but newcomers to DODEA wrestling cause a stir among those who do.

Isabelle Ploechinger dominated the day’s competition with a score of 284 points, and her team totaled 1,106 points to best the second-place hosts.

Boys basketball roundup

Raiders take two games from Black Forest, while Royals stay unbeaten with sweep of Vicenza.

Girls basketball roundup

Weather has an impact on schedule, but most teams return to action from winter break with at least one game during the weekend.

Return to action includes full slate of events in boys and girls basketball, wrestling and marksmanship, and marks the beginning of the regular season’s stretch run to the fast-approaching European championships.

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.