Lakenheath

Lakenheath's Philip Severance, bottom, wrestles against Weisbaden's Jack Rohling, top, at the Lakenheath season opening competition held Saturday at RAF Lakenheath. <br>Christopher Dennis/Stars and Stripes

Wrestlers begin the long grind to season-ending finals

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

Boys basketball roundup

Big-school powers off to perfect starts

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

Girls basketball roundup

Ramstein, Stuttgart pick up where they left off

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

Stuttgart's McKinley Fielding tries to pin Ramstein's Andres Hart in an exciting 106-pound championship match at the DODEA-Europe wrestling finals last season.Fielding will be returning this season and try to become the first female champion in DODEA-Europe history.
<br>MICHAEL ABRAMS/STARS AND STRIPES

Wrestling preview

Stuttgart, Ramstein renew rivalry on the mat

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

Bahrain's Tasneem Abdkhair shoots against Aviano's Keyona Williams in a Division II game at the DODEA-Europe championships last season.
<br>MICHAEL ABRAMS/STARS AND STRIPES

Girls basketball preview

Panthers look strong again in a revamped alignment

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.

Baumholder's Chandler Pigge goes up for a lay-up during the Division III basketball championship game between Baumholder and Ansbach at Clay Kaserne Fitness Center, Germany, Feb. 23, 2019. Baumholder won the game 70-65.
<br>Brian Ferguson/Stars and Stripes

Boys basketball preview

Baumholder's Piggé, Royal dynasty headline boys play

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.

Vilseck's Kayla Silva slams the ball over the net past the Ramstein defense of Tamiya Bruce and Isabella Coddington in a Division I semifinal at the DODEA-Europe volleyball finals in Ramstein, Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. Ramstein won 25-21, 25-20, 25-20 and will face Stuttgart in Saturday's final.<br>MICHAEL ABRAMS/STARS AND STRIPES

DODEA-Europe volleyball

Finalists are pretty much teams that have been there before

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

Lakenheath school info

Location: Lakenheath, U.K.
Mascot: Lancers
Colors: Navy, scarlet and white
School enrollment: 430
Website: http://www.lake-hs.eu.dodea.edu/

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