European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Islanders Down devils in overtime from press dispatches East Rutherford. . Mike Bossy scored the winning goal in overtime after tying the game Early in the third period As the new York islanders Over came a two goal deficit to Edge the new Jersey devils 3-2 sunday in a National hockey league game. The win extended the islanders unbeaten Streak to seven games their longest of nil Roundup the season at 6-0-1. Their winning Streak of four games is also their longest of the season. The devils who have dropped their last eight games at Home for their longest los ing Streak since moving to the Mead lowlands four years ago saw their wingless Streak extended to 0-8-1, also their longest of the season. Bossy s game winning goal his 38th of the season came on a 40-foot slap shot at 3 28 of the overtime period. The devils jumped in front at 6 07 of the first period when Joe Cirella took a 60-foot Point shot which deflected off Peter Mcnab and Mel Bridgman who got credit for his 1 6th goal. Paul Gagne extended the devils Lead to 2-0 at 10 30 of the second period when he converted a. Two on one breakaway with Greg Adams who fed him a pass across the Slot Gagne fired a 1 5-footer past goal tender Billy Smith s Glove and into the net for his 16th goal of the season. In other Gurnet sunday sabres 5, Nordt Lotf 3 Buffalo . Mike Foligno scored twice1 and had two assists to Lead Buffalo Over Quebec. Dave Andreychuk Don lever and Paul Cyr Abo scored for the sabres who Are now 8-0-1 in their last nine Home games against Quebec. Brutus 3, penguins 1 Boston Charlie simmer scored his first goal in six games with 7 10 remaining to lift Boston Over Pittsburgh. Simmer scored his 19th goal of the sea son on a 10-foot shot after taking a pass from Ken Linseman improving Boston s Home record to 1 9-3-4. With their fifth Victory in six games the third place Bruins closed to within one Point of the runner up Quebec Nordques in the Adams division at the annual break for the All Star game tuesday in Hartford. Jets 6, Kings 3 Winnipeg Manitoba Paul Mac lean scored the winning goal Early in the third period As Winnipeg Defeated los  Victory moved Winnipeg 17-32-5, into a Fourtly Jece tie with Vancouver in the smythe division and avenged a 9-6 beating by the Kings on saturday. Capitals 5, whalers 4 Hartford Conn. Defens Eman Larry Murphy scored the game Winner with 1 15 regaining and Forward Bobby Carpenter scored two goals to spark a the period rally As Hartford. Tuesday february 4, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 23 goal s Washington  took a pass from Craig laugh. Lin an scored on Backhander As Washington stunned the whalers with five goals on i shots inthe final period to erase a 4 0 Lead.mvteletft4.bi.ekh.wta3 Chicago Veteran right Wungluck Vaive broke. 2-2 Sec Pend tie a a 17-foot goal and Rookie Steve Thomas nailed a Thiro period insurance tally to us Toronto Over Chicago. The Black Shawta scored a a jus seconds left on a five footer by Eddie olo Mun a Banner Holbert wins at Daytona broken throttle stops Foyt Daytona Beach Fla. Up in a startling reversal of last year s race Al Holbert s porsche 962 team capitalized on a broken throttle Spring suffered by . Foyt s porsche with just an hour and 50 minutes remaining sunday and won the 24 hours of Daytona by nearly Lap. Foyt shooting for his third Victory Here in the last four years had his porsche 962 in front by six laps before persistent mechanical problems helped Holbert s team take the Lead after 661 laps. Holbert drove for More than nine hours to Register his first 24 hour Victoe e. Foyt s team finished in second ahead of Jim Busby of lagunacalif., in another porsche 962, a Ford Mustang headed by 1976 olympic decathlon Champion Bruce Jenner easily Ted be to division until an Oil leak with Only 40 minutes remain ing helped Lanny Hester s Mustang take the top to spot and fourth place Overall. Jenner s group placed no. Soverall. In last year s race Holbert s team appeared in command until electrical problems in the final two hours Short circuited his porsche and sparked Foyt of Houston to a 17-Iap Triumph. It was quite a team Effort said Holbert who tied the late Peter Gregg s All time Camel it Victory Mark with his 41st career Victory. You saw some wonderful repairs made and that stems from the seasoning of my  Foyt arriving with Indianapolis 500 Winner Danny Sullivan and indy Rookie of the year Arie Wuyek Dak of Holland took the Lead from Busby s group on Lap 558 in the 19th hour. On the 653rd Lap Sullivan pulled in for a pit Stop and it took nearly 10 minutes for the Crew to repair damaged throttle Spring As hol Bert s porsche whizzed by repeatedly. With his once comfortable Lead reduced to a minute Foyt replaced Sullivan behind the wheel Bat the porsche mad return Vuithi to the pit on the next two laps and Holbert polled ahead with 90 minutes left in the first major american sports car Nee of 1986. Holbert of War Angton. Pa., raced with England s Derek Ell and Al Unser or. Of Albuquerque n.m., and they were 35 hips behind at 6 Al Holbert takes Check ered Flag. After driving for More than nine hours to earn his first 24 hours win ., after 470 laps of the 712-Lap race. The Triumph was Worth $45,000 to the Holbert team which travelled a record 2,534.72 Miles at a record average Speed of 105.484 Raph. Frank Rubino s group captured the Camel lights division with a Mazda Argo. Amos Johnson s Mazda rx-7 won the Gnu class. We Learned last year that this is Avery hard race said Unser. We Learned you can be ahead for much of the Way and still end up second like . Found out this  Foyt who won this event hut year and in 1983, finished second to South african Sarel Van Der Merwe in 1984. Vandermerwe who switched from a porsche to a Corvette this year was scratched fro the race when a vibration problem was discovered in warmups saturday. Porsche have won the last 10 24 hours of Daytona races and the top five finishers last year All drove porsche. A Mustang driven by Bill Elliott Kyle Petty Ricky Rudd and Ken Schroder was retired at 12 30  Sunday when Rudd hit a Wall while avoiding a spinning car. The car was in seventh place Overall and second in the to division when the suspension  broke through the Block and Oil pan. The car just ran great when i was Init said Elliott who won More than $2 million in 1985. The biggest problem i was having was All the traffic ,. And it s even worse at night because you can Tsee As u ahead to find out what s going on. We just needed a Tittle More Luck i  Jabbar gets 40 Points in losing cause kicks defeat lakers 103-96 Inglewood Calif. Ken Bannis Ter scored 18 Points and the new York kicks survived a 40-Point performance by Kareem Abdul Sabbar to defeat the los Angeles lakers 103-96 sunday night the kicks who have won three of their last four games slowed the game s Tempo with a pressure defense and tied the game at58 on a rebound by Eddie Lee i finds. A Wilkens breakaway Basket gave them 60-58 Lead with 632 left in the third Quarter. They never trailed after that the kicks fended off a number of Laker runs through the final Quarter but never allowed the defending Aba champs nearer than four Points. The lakers got within 100-96 on a sky Hook by Abdul Jabbar with 22 seconds to play but the kicks Rory Sparrow made three free throws the last with four seconds left to ice the  other Aba games no Roundup Ducs 114, supersonic. 101 Boston Scott Wedman and Den Nis Johnson sparked a decisive third period charge As Boston rallied from a 21 Point deficit to defeat Seattle. In improving their Home record to 21-1, the celtics rolled to their 11th consecutive Victory their longest Streak since winning 13 in a Row in january 1981. Wedman filling in for the injured Kevin Mchale for the fifth game in a Row suffered a Cut lip in the second period then returned to key a 31-14 third Quarter that moved Boston ahead 82-77. ,jaxz97 Dallas Mark Aguirre made a three Point play and Sam Perkins followed with two free throws with four seconds left As Dallas rallied for a Victory Over Utah. Aguirre fouled As he made a driving Ayup with 34 seconds to go added a free throw to put the Mavericks ahead 98-95. After Karl Malone scored to bring the jazz to within 98-97 with 16 seconds remaining Perkins was fouled and made both of his free throws and Utah s Ricky Green missed a three Point shot with one second left. Pacers 131, bulb 106 Indianapolis Vern Fleming scored 27 Points and Steve Stipanovich had 16 of his 24 in the first half As Indiana owned Chicago. The pacers winning their third straight game for the first time since mid january of last year took the Lead for Good at 15-i4ona Stipanovich jumper with 7 02 left in the first period. Indiana took command with a 9-1 spurt As Chicago went More then three min utes without a Field goal. A George Gervin Basket left Chicago trailing 17-16 with 6 21left in the opening Quarter