European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes tuesday january. 1966 86-po/nf half hits blazers Over warriors from press dispatches Portland Ore. The Golden slate warriors Learned that once the Portland Trail blazers gel started they can be hard to Stop. Portland rallied from a nine Point deficit Early in the third period to Aba Roundup score � team record 86 Points in the second half and beat Golden slate 136-120 in an Aba game sunday night. The blazers connected on 71 per cent of their shots from the Field in the second half in fashioning consecutive 43-Point quarters. Their Effort broke the team record of 84 Points in a half set against the los Angeles lakers on March 9, 1980. I thought our second half was very very Good Portland coach Jack Ramsay said after his team trailed 56-50 at halftime and shot Only 41 percent in the first two Peri ods. Guard Jim Paxson who scored 25 Points sparked the rally that lifted Portland to a 93-83 Lead when the third Quarter ended. Kiki Vandeweghe who led port land with 26 Points scored 16 in the final period and Clyde Drexler who finished with 21, had 17 in last Quarter. Purvis Short led All scorers with 36 Points for Golden state. Joe Barry Carroll had 21 Points. In sunday s other games lakers 118, bullets 88 Inglewood Calif. Rookie . Green scored a season High 20 Points and Earvin magic Johnson had 18 Points and 17 assists As los Angeles Defeated Washington. Suns supersonics Seattle Phoenix was Lead ing 35-24 Early in the first Quarter when water from a Leaky roof made Thi court unplayable. The game was to be replayed monday night. Chicago Routs North stars to take Morris division Lead front press dispatches Chicago Steve Larmor and Denis Savard scored 60 seconds apart Early in thu final period sunday night to move the Chicago Black Hawks into sole Possession or first place in the National hockey league s Norris division with a 6-2 rout of the Minnesota North stars. In winning for the fifth consecutive time and for the ninth Lime in its last 10 games Chicago took Over the division Lead for the first Lime this season. The Hawks had been tied with St. Louis which was Idle sunday. The loss ended a five game winning Slcak for Minnesota. Larmor scored his 14th goal of the sea son at the 4 13 Mark of the final period to break a 2-2 tic. Exactly one minute elapsed before Savard stole a pass at his own Blue line and beat Minnesota goalie Don Beaupre for his second goal of the contest. Wayne Presley and Keith Brown also scored for Chicago. Troy Murray opened the scoring for Chicago on a Power play and Savard deflected a shot by Keith Brown to give the Hawks a 2-0 Edge. But penalties to Doug Wilson and Brown late in the first period gave Minne Sota a two Man advantage and the North stars Cut Chicago s Lead in half when Scott Bjugstad nailed a i0-Footcr. Dino Ciccarelli deflected a slap shot by Kent Nillson to tic the score for the North stars on a second period Power play. In other games sunday oilers 6, flames 3 Edmonton Alberta Marty Mcsorley scored on Edmonton s first shot of the game and Wayne Gretzky figured in three first period goals for the oilers who handed the Calgary flames a club record i oth straight loss. Edmonton 29-7-4, is now the Only team in the Smythy division with a winning record. Arc Luzky scored his 28th goal and set up Power play goals by Charlie Huddy and Glenn Anderson playing his first game after an eight game suspension. Raimo Summann scored for Edmonton in the second period and Craig Mactavish scored is minutes into the third. Nil Roundup Larmor Ratard Eddie Beers Lanny Mcdonald and Hakan Loob scored for the flames. Kings 3, sabres 2 Buffalo . Second period goals by Craig Redmond Dean Kennedy and Phil Sykes lifted los Angeles Over Buffalo. The Kings who beat Toronto 6-4 sat urday have won the first two games of a five game Road trip. The sabres whose goals were scored by Lindy Ruff and Mike Foligno lost their second in a Row and their first at Home in the last six games. The sabres got the first period s Only goal late in the period when John Tucker s pass found Ruff at the Edge of the crease and he stuffed the puck behind Kings Goa lie Bob Janecyk. Los Angeles rallied with three second period goals before the sabres closed out the scoring with a goal that came with 12 seconds left in the second period. Red wings 6, Maple Leafs 5 Toronto Petr Klima scored the winning goal at 13 59 of the third period and had three assists As Detroit held on to Edge Toronto. Tom Fergus and Peter Ihnacak had scored 22 seconds apart Early in the third period to lift Toronto into a 5-5 lie. But Klima broke the deadlock when he swept around the Toronto defense on the left Side and beat goalie Don Edwards with a High shot. Klima s goal gave recently appointed Detroit coach Brad Park his first Victory behind the wings Bench. Park who took 2 shutouts an upset a comeback Over the team after Harry Neal was fired now has a i-2-1 record. The win was Only Detroit s second in its last 15 games. Joe Kocur had two goals and John Ogrodnick Steve Yzerman and Bob pc Bart also scored for the red wings. Jets 4, canucks 0 Winnipeg. Manitoba Daniel Bouchard recorded his 26th National hockey league shutout and shabby defensive play haunted Vancouver As Winnipeg skated to Victory. Bouchard had Little trouble handling 20 shots in his first shutout since the 1983-84 season when he played for Quebec. The jets were handed the puck numer Ous times and built a 3-0 Lead in the first period. The Winnipeg goals were scored by Doug Small. Scott Arnica Ron Wilson and Brian Mullen. The canucks who have lost their last four games did Little to protect goaltender Richard Bro cur who made 26 saves nordic us 5, rangers 4 new York nor Mand Roch Forl and left Wing Michel Goulut started a run of five straight goals by scoring less than two minutes apart As Quebec Hung on to beat new York. John Anderson got his i Ith goal at 1 03 of the second period. . Sauve s lot goal at 2 19, was the last shot at new York goalie John Van Biesbrouck. The goals came on the first two shots of the second period. Van Biesbrouck gave Way to Glen Han Ion who allowed David Shaw s third goal on a Power play at 12 49. Rochfort got his fourth goal of the sea son with new York s Mark Osborne off for Cross checking at 8 34 of the first period. Wilf paiement and Brent Ashton assisted on the goal which came on 40-foot screen shot. Goulut got his 30th goal of the year just 1 50 later with Jimmy Mann and Dale Hunter assisting. The rangers who managed just five shots at Clint Malarchuk in the first period finally got on the Board in the third period with goals by Tom Laidlaw at 4 01, Steve Patrick at 7 18, Kelly Miller at 11 59 and Bob Brooke at 18 41. Nil s final 4 scored big in surprises by Hal Bock a sports writer two shutouts one giant sized upset and one dramatic comeback. The National football league s version of the final four games that is not teams provided some outstanding individual and team performances Over the weekend. Miami 24, Cleveland 21 Cleveland s Over achievers had Miami reeling in the Orange bowl heat As the Browns twin 1,000-Yard runners Kevin Mack and Earnest byner drove the Ball right up the gut of the Dolphin defense. It should be noted Here that the current Miami defenders Are hardly the killer bees they once were and the Browns Well planned ground attack exposed the dolphins Achilles Heel. It was 14-3 Cleveland at the half and when it grew to 21-3, Chalk players All Over the country were choking. Fortunately for them the dolphins did t methodically Miami battled Back. Dan Marino find Mark duper and Mark Clayton but Tony Naihan was available catching 10 passes for 101 Yards. Miami scored the winning touchdown with a Shade under two minutes to play and then watched the frenzied Browns simply run out of time at the end. Cleve land gets a Nice try and a mental note to beware this team next season when it is a year older and Wiser in the ways of the two minute Drill. Los Angeles rams 20, Dallas 0 that s 0 As in Zero. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Zippo. A shutout. Never before had this happened in a playoff game to America s former team. But then a lot of things happened this year to the cowboys that had never happened to them before. Like Chicago 44, dallas0. It was to Dallas credit that it won the pfc East Crown despite its inconsistency. It could not however overcome the consistency of la s Eric Dickerson who ran for 248 Yards More than any Man had Ever gained in any playoff game before. Dickerson gobbled up the ground in huge chunks putting on a one Man show. Meanwhile the cowboys proved most co operative with six turnovers. It was As if the could t believe what Dickerson was doing to them and kept giving the Ball Back to him to see if he could do it again. He could and he did. Chicago 21, new York giants 0 this game escaped the giants fast when a gust of wind blew the Ball away from punter scan Landeta s foot and the mis Cue resulted in an Early touchdown for the bears. A gust of wind Why then giant fans might wonder could t the wind blow place kicker Eric Schubert s Chip shot 20 Yard Field goal through the uprights in Stead of of f one of the poles wind or not this game belonged to the Chicago defense. The bears sacked Phil Bimms six times. Richard Dent spent much of his afternoon visiting with the giant quarterback. Meaningful dialogue not to mention completions is difficult for quarterbacks operating from the prone to the gears stuffed Joe Morris allowing him just 32 Yards. That however rep resented the total ground game for new York which managed one first Down Rush ing and rushed right out of the playoffs. New England 27, los Angeles raiders 20oops. Fulton Walker fumbled a punt and new England scored a touchdown Sammy scale fumbled a Kickoff and new England scored another touchdown. This is called Giveaway football and the charitable raiders played it to the Hill gift wrapping the game for the opportunistic patriots. The raiders even wasted a couple of timeouts Early and so did t have them available when they needed them at the end. And when Scapegoat Marc Wilson s last Hope fourth Down pass sailed past the hands of two different . Receivers i ther of whom could have caught it the raiders were finished. The pats thus became the Token Long shots the Only underdogs to make it to the conference championship games the Only Road team to win this weekend. It s Nice that they made it. Every playoff Ball needs Cinderella. Norwegian skater wins Zinzell West Germany a nor Way s Bjorg Eva Jensen won the world cup qualifying 3,000-meter race at a Speed skating meet in this West German Alpine town. Of
