European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 18 action m ivb.4 the stars and stripes thursday March 21 shave 76ers, keep Hopes alive Philadelphia up Joblove s three Point play with 58 seconds remaining in overtime gave Cincinnati a 131-130 Victory Over Philadelphia in a National basketball association game tuesday night and improved the royals chances for a playoff berth. Cincinnati moved into a tie with Detroit for fourth place in the Eastern division. Both teams played their final regular season games wednesday night wit Cincinnati travelling to new York and Detroit Visitin Boston. The fourth place Winner get the final playoff position. If the teams end up in a tie they will meet in a one game playoff Friday night at Detroit. Love s three Point play Gav Cincinnati a 131-127 Lead in the extra period. Wilt Chamberlai then made a free throw with 51 seconds left for Philadelphia and Bill Cunningham added two More with 28 seconds to go tomake it 131-130. Cincinnati then held onto Heball for the maximum 24 seconds without taking a shot. But Phila Delphia could t hit after being Given the Ball with three second left. The regulation game ended tied at 118-118 when Connie Dierking scored with four seconds left. Dierking finished with 41 Points to Lead the royals and tie his career High. Hal Greer was High for Philadelphia with 26 Points while Chamberlain added 22points, 27 rebounds and 19 assists. Chamberlain boosted his assist total to 690 and became the first Aba Center in history to Lead the league in this department. Chicago at san Diego. San Diego q action  Fluke Lombok Kmball me Len Kiley will los f t 10-02 Baylor t 6-9 20 Clark 1 4-5 6 counts t 2-2 16 a Nvard 11 8-9 30 of Orch 40-18 he Una 14-46 Imhuff 0 3-4 15 Mueller m e los Angeles Oft 0 17-19 36 5 s-8 186 0-0 10 a 3-312 2-2 26 4 0-0 870-31 1 1-2 Cincinnati g Lovo Lucus curl Noukay Robson Smith Elixt Ger Tresvant v a Sill ii 2-1 m 11 3-3 25 it 7-8 41 Greet 8 5-6 21 Jonea 3 5-5 11 Walker 1 0-1 2 much Rel 0 0-0 0 cunhm2 1-1 5 Jakson Green Philadelphia g f t 10 2-10 "23 3-1 9 10 6-8 26 00-008 2-2 18 4 3-3 119 5-fl 23 8 0-0 10 total. 40241109 total 4531-3712 san Diego 29292526109lot Angele 29283629121 fouled out none. Total fouls san Diego 26, los angelea27. Attendance 6,401. Seattle a the Seattle supersonics frittered away a 15-Point Lead tuesday night but recovered in time to end their first season in the National basketball association with a 122 104 Victory Over the chicag bulls. The sonics ran up a 35-20 Leadin the first 12 minutes. But in the second Quarter the bulls overpowered Seattle and Cut the margin to 58-54 at  hazzard and Tommy Kron pulled the sonics together in the second half and by the end of the third Quarter Seattle was in front 92-75. Chicago Seattle g f t g f t Booker 3 3-3 u Tucker 6 a-3 15 clings 4 3-5 11  6 1-2 14 Ashton 8 2-2 11 Rule 10 16 24 Robinsn 4 2-3 10 Huzzard 16 4-4 36 Erkson 3 1-3 7 Kron 9 3-3 21 Malme 5 0-1 10 Weiss 1 1-1 3 Barnes 3 4-6 10 Olsen 00-00 Sloan 3 4-4 10 Murry 1 1-1 3 skins 8 2-2 is  30-06spltzr 2 1-2 6  00-10 total 41 22-32 1tw total 52 18-20 122 Chic Noo 20342129104 Seattle 35233430122 fouled out none. Total fouls Chicago 17, Seattle 22.attendance 10,429. Irish t nits new York up Notredame building a 12-Polnt Lead Early in the second half overcame a Brilliant 35-Point performance by Larry Newbol tuesday night and spoiled Long Island University s storybook Success Story with a 62-80 Victory that moved it into the Liu to g Semi finals invitation ment. Of the basketball National Tournai the notre Dame Triumph sen the Irish into thursday night s semifinals against Dayton which nipped Fordham 61-60 in the opener As 8-10 Dan Obrovac converted six consecutive free throws in the final 2 48.st. Peter s a 100-70 upset Victor Over Duke will meet Kansas in the other Semi final , seeking to become the second Small College National Champion in a Row to win the nit fell behind from the game s outset and trailed 38-28 at halftime As Bob Arnzen and Bob Whitmore picked apart the blackbirds defense with 28points Between them in the first 20 minutes. The Irish increased their Lea to 12 Points with a Little Over a minute gone in the second halibut then gradually saw their margin dwindle away As new bold thrilled a crowd of 18,683 with some fantastic outside shooting that pushed the Black Birds into the Lead with 5 44remaining. Ion game of the year Lewis laughs off Urcla stall idea Irish los Angeles a coach Guy Lewis of the Houston Cou Gars laughed off any suggestion hat Urcla would stall against Lis basketball forces Friday am predicted a High scoring Battle. The no. 1-rated Houston and he Bruins who finished second in the associated press poll meet for the second time this year when they tangle in the National collegiate athletic association s championship Semi finals. When they played the firs time in Houston s Astrodome on Jan. 20, the cougars won 71-69 and have gone through their season undefeated. Urcla finished 25-1. All americas Elvin Hayes 2 1-2 total 5423-28131 total 542-35130 Cincinnati 3330243113131 Philadelphia 26342731 12130 ii uld out none. Total foul i Lii Ludelphia 23, Cluni lw.iti2ti. Attendance 4,901. Inglewood Calif. Up Elgin Baylor scored 35 Points to reach the 2,000-Point plateau Ina single season for the fifth time in his National basketball association career As he paced the los Angeles lakers to a121-109 Victory Over the san Diego rockets tuesday night. Baylor made his season total2,002 Points Only one Day after recovering from the flu. He also had 21 rebounds and 13 assists As the lakers closed the irregular season schedule with a 52-30 record for second place inthe Western division. Gail Goodrich subbing for the injured Jerry West contributed 2fi Points reeling off 14 in the third Quarter As the lakers overcame a one Point halftime deficit of 60-59. Goodrich s spree gave Losangeles a u2-83 Lead after three quarters. It was san Diego s 14thstraight loss and 31st defeat in their last 32 appearances. The Hockers finish their first Aba reason wednesday night against i or buy Lor goes up for shot ,. Reaches 2,01 0 Points 5th time Houston and Lew Alcindor of Cla averaged 37.7 and 26.2 Points respectively during the year and Hayes tallied 39 against the Bruins in , in an interview tues Day said he expected a Bette game this time explaining i think Urcla will score More Points and shoot better. Well shoot better and i really feel Well have a High scoring  Urcla coach John wooden Early in the week had said i really can t say whether we be better off running or stalling against Houston. I m Surprise nobody has stalled against them. Maybe that s the Best Way to play  asked if he d be surprised if Cla stalled Lewis chuckled then laughed and answered very  Lewis and coaches Dean Smith of North Carolina and Fred Taylor of Ohio state too part in an amplified Telephone conversation As part of the Southern California basketball writers meeting. Wooden at tended in person. Against Buckeye North Carolina plays Osu in Friday s opening semifinal in Tholos Angeles sports Arena. Wooden commented i Hope you three have a Fine stay in los Angeles and i Hope you Al go Home with at least one  Smith declared there is no Laner of our looking past an excellent Ohio state team Afine rebounding and shooting  of his own club the no.4 team in the a poll Smith said we be been playing goo basketball late in the year and laying our Best  termed himself More Han pleased to have reached he semifinals his team having won the big ten title in a playoffs i then Downing Kentucky 82-81 n the Midwest  picked up defensively late in the season. Our strongest suit was we shot pretty Well All season and played pretty Wellas a unit. When we lost some conference Gamos Midway inthe season the defense could to  asked How he planned to shackle Larry Miller the North Aroma Star who has a 22.7-Pointaverage Taylor answered i really Don t know. Well try to keep him from driving As much us  notre Dame however its composure and regained Lead for Good on a Arnzen with 4 20 left to m Basket by Whitmore if remaining boosted Dames Lead to 59-56 and a Basket by Newbold  built the Irish Slajs Back to three Points Mnewbold s spinning jump shot Len 1 10 remaining Cut the Ian Lead to one Point but a tarts by i1 Derrig wit a seconds to go proved to be to decisive Point. Liu had Iff Atwith four seconds left w Newbold s jumper from s 2"T missed the Mark and wore Dame emerged Victor Luuba Whitmore topped Thedith 33 Points and Arr Ksn 16. Luther Green was the second High scorer for Liu with 11 Points. The loss was Only the second of the season for Liu which won 22 games. The Only other loss was to St Peter a Obrovac who scored 30 Point against West Virginia last saturday night was bottled up by Fordham s aggressive Man to Man defense in the first half and was virtually useless when he picked up his third foul Early the stanza. He came to life however in the second half witli11 Points and put the flyers ahead to stay 57-56 by connecting on two free throws with 2 48  then froze the Ball for almost two minutes before Obrovac was fouled again and converted two More free throw with just 45 seconds left. Ford Harn however rallied on a30-foot jump shot by Frank Mclaughlin to draw within on Point with just 25 seconds remain ing. 61-58 Margi Obrovac then was fouled for the third successive time an converted two More free throws to give Dayton a 61-58 Lead with15 seconds showing on the clock. But Mclaughlin hit on another 30-footer with 13 seconds left and Fordham intercepted an in Bounds pass and called time out with four seconds  rams set up Mclaughlin for a final shot but it rimmed the Basket at the Buzzer. Fordham forcing the flyers to reset their offence time and again in the first half never trailed during the first 20 minutes and led by As much asinine Points at one is age. The rams went to the dressing room with a 33-28 halftime Edge As Only Dayton s Don May washable to penetrate their defense. May managed just three Fiel goals in the first half but collected 10 free throws for 16points. He finished the game with 28 Points to take game scoring honors. Dayton won the Kame at the free throw line in the second half As it connected on 15-for-ld.the flyers finished the same with 25 of 29 from the free throw  Langheld and a n led the hams scorers with in Points apiece. The loss was a cart Bizaki a. I on / / a Cambodia out of phenom Ponh c a m Nam up the t am Uhlian in eminent has ainu knifed that cambodian athletes will nil w to the Mexico City of Mim games this year. The intent Suid the decision was m. I Lake for internal reasons amino mention the South a n problem