European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports Urcla wins nit final 6562 from press dispatches new York Reggie Millers Long Range Sharp shooting keyed a 195 scoring burst Early in the second half and Urcla held on to defeat Indiana 6562 Friday night for its first National invitation tournament Miller scored eight of his 18 Points As the Bruins wiped out a 3531 deficit and moved into a 5040 Lead with nine minutes the pacific10 team seemed to have matters in hand late in the second half before the hoosiers made a spirited comeback to close the Gap to 6260 on Steve Alfords Long jumper with 22 seconds but then Miller scored the clinching Points for Urcla on a breakaway Basket with 15 seconds giving the Bruins a 6460 Nigel Miguel tied Miller for game High scoring honors with 18 including a couple of key foul shots in the final two minutes that kept the Bruins in Montel Hatcher added 14 Points to the balanced Urcla the game was a Heady defensive Strug Gle from Start to with Duclas Mantovan press causing some difficult celtics t ties for the but the teams were never More than six Points apart in the first half and were tied at 29 at Intermix scoring nine of his Tea High 16 Points in the first was the main Rea son that Indiana stayed in the led by Alfords three Indiana moved from an 86 deficit into an 1812 Lead with left in the first Stew Robinson also had two baskets in the 124 burst that put the hoosiers in that was the most Points that separated the teams in the first the tournaments most valuable capped the first half scoring for Urcla with a Basket at the 43second tying the the hoosiers outscored Urcla 62 at the Start of the second half before the Bruins started their decisive scoring it still want a cinch for Urcla As Indiana kept battling Back with Center Uwe blab contributing key Points and blab finished with 11 Points and 12 rebounds before fouling out late in the the after grabbing their 5040 held leads of nine Points three the last at 6152 with a Little More up win skein to 10 from press dispatches Boston Larry Bird scored 13 of his game High 24 Points in the fourth Quarter to help the Boston celtics survive a furious Philadelphia spurt and beat the 76ers 112108 Friday the Victory was Bostons 10th tying its longest winning Streak of the sea Philadelphia played without Julius who had an ankle and lost for the fourth time in six in opening a six game Atlantic division Lead Over second place the celtics held Large leads most of the including a 6244 halftime a six Point surge put Boston ahead 165 less than five minutes into the and a nine Point run made the score Boston led by As Many As 23 Points until Philadelphia began charging Back Midway through the final a 91 rally Cut Bostons Lead to 10194 with with the score Andrew Toney hit a jumper for the first of Philadelphia seven consecutive a Short jumper from the left by George who had a season High 21 trimmed the celtics Edge to 107105 with 48 seconds to Bird then hit two free but a  by Johnson Drew the 76ers to within 109108 with 15 seconds but Philadelphia was forced to foul and Scott Wedman Sank two free throws with eight seconds the 76ers last Chance died when John son missed a three Point Fiel goal at tempt with three seconds left and Bird Sank a foul shot with two seconds to Moses Malone led Philadelphia with 22 Points and became the 16th player in Aba history to grab Charles Barkley added 18 for the for Kevin Mchale and Dennis Johnson had 22 Points each and Danny Ainge added in other games Friday bullets nets 98 Charles starting his first Aba finished with 13 including nine in the third Quarto push Washington past new Aba Roundup Washington defense held new Jersey to just 27percent shooting in the third the Victory moved the bullets into third place in the Atlantic the Victory snapped a three game bul let losing rockets warriors 116 Houston Ralph Sampson scored 26 Points and Reserve Forward Robert Reid added 10 in the fourth to Lead reids fourth Quarter rally helped the rockets fend off a Golden state comeback after the warriors trailed 6656 at Floyd Johnson and Mickey Johnson led a second half spurt by Golden the game was tied at 9595 with the ran off the next eight Points to Blunt the warriors leading 10395 with to Houston improved to 4230 and took a two game Lead Over the Dallas Mavericks in the fight for second place in the mid West Golden which fell to the worst record in the was led by Floyd with 19 and Larry Smith with lakers Mavericks 115 magic John son scored 23 Points and dished out 13 assists to Lead los Angeles Over Kareem Abduljabba dumped in 22 Points and pulled Down eight and Reserve Bob Mcadoo scored 22 Points for the Byron Scott added 20 Points for los Dallas Forward Mark Aguirre led All scorers with 28 Points and guard Rolando Blackman poured in 21 for the Johnson broke the lakers record for season which he set last he has 885 jazz spurs 109 Salt Lake City Adrian Dantley scored 27 13 of them in the third and Darrell Griffith added 22 As Utah downed san the Victory moved the jazz into a fourth place tie with the spurs in the mid West both teams Are than a minute to then the hoosiers made it they scored six straight four by Kreigh to pull within 6158 with 32 seconds Hatcher hit a foul shot at the 31 second Mark to make it 62 58 before a olympic team hit his 16th Point to bring Indiana within the hoosiers forced a but Urcla retrieved the Ball again and breaking free at got his game clinching uncontested Brad the hero of wednesday nights semifinal Victory Over then capped the games scoring with a foul shot with one second left and the who have won 10 Mcaa clinched their first nit title in their first the Victory was the 12th in the last 13 games for which finished the hoosiers closed their season at Indiana placed Alford and blab on the Al tournament along with Duclas Anthony Richardson of Tennes see and Billy Thompson of in fridays Consolation game Tennessee Louisville 84 Sophomore Forward Anthony Richard son scored 30 Points and keyed a game deciding burst Early in the second half As Tennessee overpowered Louisville loss snapped a Streak of 13 consecutive 20win seasons for cardinals coach Denny whose team finished the season at the led 5341 at halftime on Richardson 16 with Tennessee leading Richardson sup plied six Points in the vols 174 surge that carried them to a 3820 their biggest margin of the in the second half Tennessee opened with a 2213 run As it built a 21point advantage at with seven minutes Louis Ville launched a comeback running off six straight Points and trimming Tennes sees Lead to freshman Herbert Crook scored four Points to Lead the quickly regained its composure and scoring touch and held Louisville at Bay the rest of the for Ron Jones scored 16 Points and Fred Jenkins Billy Thompson scored 27 Points to Pace Jeff Hall had a photo Bostons Danny Ainge grabs a rebound 76ers Bobby Jones comes up empty handed san Antonios Mike Mitchell led All scorers with 38 Artis Gilmore added 17 Points and 11 rebounds for the losers and Johnny Moore finished with for the Fred Roberts scored 13 Points in 12 minutes playing time off the Thurl Bailey and Rickey Green added 12 Mark Eaton scored 11 took Down 13 rebounds and blocked seven shots to Aid the jazz Dan ties 27 Points included 13 of 13 from the foul Trail blazers supersonics 99 Seattle Center Mychal Thomp son scored 22 Points and grabbed 15 re Bounds and three other Portland players scored 20 or More Points in the Trail Blaz ers rout of Portland won its fourth improving its record to Seattle dropped its fifth slipping to 30 Seattle also has lost three straight at All by at least 25 Portland took control soon after the opening snapping an Early 55 As the blazers ran off seven straight five by Kiki who led All scorers with