European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 14.1987 the stars and stripes Page 25 Italy nips . For shape title last second Layup just misses  Hitler shape Belgium Italy snapped he United Stales three year winning Nii Catt in the shape International basketball tournament by clinging to a 76-74 Victory in saturday night s championship game. A last second Layup by rho in main s Butch Watkins rolled around inc rim but failed to go in hitting the floor As Lime ran out. Watkins had stolen the Ball from Italy s pc Scrico Casarin with 8 seconds left dribbled Down court ducked under ital Ian Anglo Gilardi and shovelled the Ball up. But the Roll was t there Italy held a id Point Lead throughout the game but watched in slip away As the americans went on a 19-5 scoring spree Mainz s Kevin Burks started the comeback with a 3-Point hoop with 6 00 left to play. Mannheim s Warren Evans nailed a jumper a minute later bringing he score to 71-60, Ihnn Italy s Mario Boni netted a 3-Point bomb. Evans charged Back with a 3-poinlcr.then Burks pulled in two steals and converted them to Points As the score Light ened to 74-67, Anthony Smith of Rota Spain Buck eted a 3-Pointer from the Topor the key with 2 40 left and Italy s an Oclo Gilardi Sank a free throw fora 75-70 game. Walkins skied for a Dunk on the re bound of a missed shot and Evans convened Jonathan Speas missed 3-Point Flach Seguso Bow to czechs in doubles final London a Milostan Mccier and Tomas Smid of Czecho Slovakia upset Wimbledon Cham pions Ken Flach and Robert Segu so of the United states 6-4, 7-5, 6 7,6-3 sunday to win the 200,000 masters doubles Tennis title. Tie czechoslovak Dun clinched their fifth title of the year in convincing style dismantling the Ameri cans game to pick up the first prize of j72.qoo. Flach and Seguso earned $36,000. On the Way to the final. Mecir and Smid were undefeated twice beating defending champions Ste fan de org and Anders Jarryd Italy s Tomba wins 3rd straight ski race la Villa Italy a Alberto Tomba Italy s newest ski wonder on sunday scored his third world cup Triumph in As Many races by taking a men s giant slalom in he resort of Val Badia Tomba who turns 21 on saturday edged Young austrian Rudolf Nierlich and the Swiss duo of Joel Gaspor and Hans Pierce. Fastest in the first heat. Tomba had the second Best Lime in the second run for a winning aggregate of 2 minutes 32.34 seconds. Nierlich had his Best Ever giant slalom finish in second place. Gaspor and pie Ren shared third. Felix Mcgrath of Norwich vt., a Sec Ond group starter at no. 37, skied his Best giant slalom race finishing eighth shot into a Layup with 38 seconds to go cutting Italy s Lead to 75-74, with Lime running out Burks fouled Italy mass is Ferrs Iuorio when Sank one of two free throws to go ahead 76-74. Italy was allowed to inbound the Ball because Burks foul was ruled intentional. Then came Walkins shot at heroics which fell victim to a bad Roll Italy established Llic Pace Early in the game using the size and strength of for wards 6-fool-10 Luca Vici Neni and 6 foot-9 Angela Gilardi to shut Down the americans offensive lanes. Guard Mario Boni and Gilardi provided Italy with offensive guns hitting 11 and 10 first half Points respectively. Evans paced the americans with 6 Points in the first half which saw the . Trailing by As much As 17. At the break the score stood 39-25, a tribute to the defences something . Coach Bob Abbott said Italy did t have. Before the game. Abbot said of inc italians defense i Don t think Italy has a Tough de sense. They have two mountains stand ing underneath Gilardi and Vicinelli that s what they got and that s All they needed. Abbott hoped to attack Italy inside by plugging away at the two big men we re Gonna go straight at them said Abbott. They did till in was t working. We did go at the big Guys said a Bott after the game. We just weren t hitting buckets. They played Good de sense. We got the shots we needed they just did t  in was t until Italy jumped out to an in Point Lead with 7 10 in the second half that the americans caught fire and baskets started to fall. Evans carried the offence getting 3 of his 19 Points in the second Nat. Burk plugged in 9 of his 11 and Wiesbaden s Troy Russell hit 8 of his 11 in the second half. Watkins was the Only other Ameri can hitting double figures. He had 19. Italy turned away from the big Guys in inc second half opting for the Fang Ball shooting of Federico Casarin who had 15 Points and 19 Overall. Fouls caused the americans problems in both halves As the italians Sank nine first half Charity asses and canned 13 in the final half. The . Had Only three Points via the Charity Stripe All in the first period. In a pc game rap session Abbott said to i he . Players. We can Lake this game. It s up to you. They wanted the title bad for two years. I d like to Send them Home  they did t. In Oiler games saturday Belgium beat Spain 94-67 for third place and the Netherlands downed Germany 88-81 in Over time for nth. Two americans and two italians were named to the tournament All Star squad Evans and Walkins were the . Choices. Gilardi and Stefano Teso were named from Italy. Others picked were Belgium s Ronnie Bayer who was also named tourney most valuable player and Spain s Oscar Alocco. A by Lead  Butch w Tkins of Rhein main. Almost a hero 44 Points 31 in 2nd half Jordan leads bulls past rockets by the Assoc Ted press Chicago Michael Jordan scored 31 of his 44 Points in the second half including in in the final Quarter As the Chicago bulls downed the Houston rockets 112-103 in an National Basket Ball association game , who scored the bulls last 10 Points added nine assists five steals and five blocked shots As the bulls improved their record to 14-6, beat in the Aba. Charles Oakley added 19 Points and 14 rebounds for Chicago in addition to limit ing Houston s Ralph Sampson to one Point in the final Quarter. Sampson traded to Golden stole saturday night was playing his final game for , who had 13 first half Points matched that total in the third period. Nine came in a 13-5 spurt that put the bulls ahead 72-62. Chicago hit 10 of its first 1 2 shots in the third period. In other Aba games saturday Philadelphia Jay Vincent scored a season High 33 Points As Denver built a 19-Poinl Lead and then held off Philadelphia Charles Berkley led the 76ers with 28 Points and Cliff Robinson added 25, while Maurice Cheeks had 18 Points and a season High 16  Victory gave the nuggets 12-7. Sole Possession of second place in in Midwest division one half game behind Idle Dallas. The loss snapped the 76ers three game winning Streak. Pistons in Kukk 96 Pontiac Mich. Adrian Dantley scored 25 Points to Lead Detroit to ils sixth straight Victory a fight marred decision Over new York. Detroit guard Isaiah Thomas and new York Forward Sydney Green a former Piston were ejected for fighting with no Roundup 11 22 left in the third Quarter and de troit leading 61-52. Thomas scored nine Points before he was ejected. Green had two Points. Joe Guntars had 21 Points for  Ewing led the kicks with 21. Bullets 112, neb 107 East Rutherford . Ber Nard King scored 32 Points As washing ton pulled away in the second half to hand new Jersey its 11th consecutive  Jersey led 51-45 Lato in the Sec Ond half but the bullets went on a 12-5 surge that boosted them into a s7-56 halftime Lead. Washigton then scored eight of the first 11 Points of the second half to open a 65-59 advantage. In the fourth Quarter Washington had a 15-0 spun to open ils biggest Lead of the game at 113-87. Otis Birdsong led the nets with 21 Points and Mike Gminski added 17, spars 129, sons to san Antonio Texas Alvin Robertson scored 30 Points and the san an Tonio Bench went on an 18-5 second half run that stretched the Lead to 24 As the spurs Defeated Phoenix. San Antonio controlled the game throughout leading at the end of each Quarter including a 68-65 halftime Edge. Larry Nance paced Phoenix with 34 Points. Trail blazers 108, pacer 101indianapolis Clvde Droxler scored 28 Points and Portland held off a tote Indiana  led 103-94 when Scott Skiles 3-Pointer Cut the margin to six with 47 seconds remaining Bieve Stipanovic made a Lay in for the pacers Between a pair of free throws by Portland s Terry Porter making the score 105-99. Mem Fleming then scored culling the differ ence to four Points with 17 seconds left but Indiana could not score again. Portland made 32 of 43 free throws compared Wii i 13 of 15 for Indiana. Chuck person and Fleming led Indiana with 18 Points  127, warriors 93 Salt Lake City Mel Turpin scored a season High 22 Points and Karl Malone had 19 Points and 12 rebounds to Lead ulan Over Golden Szalc. Immediately after the game the warriors announced they had traded Center Joe Barry Carroll and guard sleepy Floyd to the Houston rockets for Sampson and guard Steve Harris. Terry Teagle paced Golden state with 22 Points. Larry Smith the team s Lead ing rebound or sprained his left knee in the first half and did not  scored seven Points and Floyd eight in their final game with Golden state. Supersonics 116, clippers 95 Seattle Xavier Mcdaniel scored a season High 35 Points and pulled Down 14 rebounds As Seattle Defeated the los Angeles clippers. The clippers pulled to 98-94 on Ben Jamin Benoit s three Point play Wilh 4 01 left in the game. Bui note Mcmillan scored on a Lay up to begin an is-1 Seattle spurt to put the game away. Rookie Reggie Williams led the clip pers Wilh a season High 34 Points while Dale Ellis had 23 for Seattle. Atn sports radio pro football Chicago bears at us Francisco 49r&, 3 Lin. Tuesday