European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pags26 Thi stars and stripes saturday. February 20,1988 lakers beat rockets 111 -96 by the associated Pitts Houston Byron Scott had 27 Points and magic Johnson 26 As the los Angeles Lake beat Houston .119-96 thursday night for i hair seventh straight Victory. The lakers ill 13 of i hair first 16 shots from the floor to take a 41-21 Lead Al Ilic end of the first Quarter As Schand Johnson combined for 20 Points in the Quarter. Houston shooting just 35 percent Tram the held in the tint Naif rallied to pull within 62-51 at halftime. Houston s Akcam Olajuwon scored 20points and got 20 rebounds but the rockets Gol no closer than seven Points after he opening period. The rockets Cut the lakers Lead to 68-61 with 9 25 to go in the third Quarter. Dut the lakers behind Scott an James Wonky who had 17 Points stretched the Lead to 88-12 entering the fourth period. Scott scored 11 Points and Johnson 10 in the first Quarter. In other Aba games thursday Piston 108, supersonics 95 pont1ac. Mich. Vinnie Johnson scored 16 of his 27 Points in the second Quarter As Detroit beat Seattle for its sixth straight Victory and a half game Lead Over Idle Atlanta in the Aba s in trial division. Johnson who made 7 of 10 shots in the second Quarter scored the Piston first eight Points of the period and had hand in their final Cunt of the finl half As Detroit took a 54-43 Lead. The supersonics narrowed the deficit to 65-61 before Johnson a former sonic who tied his Wason scoring High scored four Points in a 9-0 spurt As Detroit built a 74 61 Lead with 1 37 led in the third Quarter. No Roundup App no Elm ill Johnson. 27 for pistons the supersonics who have lost nine of their last 10 games got no closer than 11 Points in the final minute of Legame. Tom Chambers who scored 19 Points in Thi first half led Seattle with 24. Dale Ellis added 20, Isiah Thomas scored 15 Points for Detroit. Knlcksl08, new York Gerald Wilkins scored 18 of his season High 39 Points in the fourth Quarter including the game winning Basket with 1 12 left As new York Defeated Sacramento for us ninth straight Victory at Home Sacramento. Trailing 104-98 with 2 36 left lied the game at the 1 30 Mark onto free throws by Olis Thorpe who led the Kings with 30 Points and 17 re Bounds. Wilkins. Whose previous High this sea son was 29 Points then drove the base line for the go ahead Points. Patrick Ewing blocked a Shol by de Pinckney with three seconds left forcing 24-second violation and Wilkins closed out the Victory with iwo free throws with iwo seconds remaining. Reggie Theus scored 20 Points in the game Tor the Kings while Sidney Green had in Points and Mark Jackson 14 assists for inc kicks. Pacers 88, cd a 83 Indianapolis Steve Stipano victim drove around Brad Daugherty for the go ahead Basket with ii left an the pacers held the Cavaliers scoreless the rest of the Way As Indiana beat Cleve land for its sixth consecutive Victory. After a timeout with 54 seconds remaining Cleveland s Ron Harper missed a shot that Indiana rebounded. Indiana s vim Fleming Ihen missed iwo Shott hut came up with a steal and was fouled with 10 seconds to go. Fleming made one free throw and Afler Cleveland s Mark Price missed a 3 Point attempt John Long pulled Down he rebound for Indiana. He was fouled with four seconds left and made both free throws to close inc scoring. Blues get Post Kings climb Back Over .500 by the associated puss St. Lou a Tony Mckency broke a 3-3 tic late in the second period and the St. Louis blues went on to a 7-4 Victory Over the los Angeles Kings thursday night. Gino Cavallini had a goal and two assists As the blues moved Back Over the .500 Mark at 27-25-5, Good for second place in the Morris division. Doug Gilmour earned his third As Sist of the night by setting up Mckig nay s i9lh goal a Backhander that eluded Kings  Glenn Healy at i a. Brian Binning made it 5-3 with the blues third Power play goal of the game at 2 23 of the third period on a rising slap hot from the Point Philly pcs deflection of in Fox s slap Shol Cut the Lead to 5-4, but Cavallini i unassisted goal with 7 45 to go gave inc blues some insurance before Rick Meagher scored into an empty net with sit seconds left. Brian Suiter gave the blues a 1-0 Leadon the Power play at 9 12of the opening period when he converted a Clift Ron Ning pass from behind the net. Foi tied the score Ai 1-1 with a Sla shul that deflected off blues Goa lie Rick Warmley s leg into the net Al 15 02. Taylor beat Wamsley 12 seconds later to give the Kings a 2-1 Lead before Paul Cavallini made in 2 2atli 29. Mark Hunter scored on a Power play at 7 09 of the second period beating heal to the Glove Side off setup from Gilmour. But Bemie nit tolls worked the puck free from a pileup in front of the net and scored Rihl Roundup at 1 3 50 to tie the game Al 3-3.in the Only other game thursday Philadelphia Ilkka Sinisa la s goal with 23 seconds remaining in regulation time gave Philadelphia a tic with the new York islanders. Sinisalo picked up a Loose puck and stuffed it Between the skates of goal tender Kelly Radey with goalie Ron Hextall on the Bench in favor of an extra attacker capping a comeback from a 3 1  a scoreless first period the slanders Greg Gilbert scored his fourth goal in two games when he flipped the puck into an open net at 3 21 of the second period. A Cental came out to Stop Pat Lafon lain s slap Shol and could not gel Back Intima 10 Stop Gilbert s Sharp angled drive on the rebound. Philadelphia Rick Tocchet tie the game at &08 with a Power play goal beating Hrudney to the Slick Side from 10 feel out the slanders went ahead 2-1 when Lafontaine took a pass from Gilbert and beat Hextall High to the Glove Side from  Launcr gave the islanders a 3-1 Lead when he stole the puck from de pc Neman Gordie Roberts deep in the flycn1 zone and beat Hitau with a Short wrist Shol Al 7 00 of the final  Howe had two assists for inc flyers giving him 400 for his nil career the pacers tied i hair club record for consecutive Home victories Al eight. Chuck person came off the Bench to score a game High 22 Points for Indiana. Fleming and Long added i i apiece. Daugherty topped five cars in double figures with 19 and added 14 rebounds. Mark West was not with 14 Points. Spurs 112, Sam 114 Phoenix Ariz. Alvin Robertson scored 3 1 Points Johnny dark it added 27 and the two triggered it decisive 13 fourth Quarter run at san Antonio snapped a five game losing Streak with a Victory Over Phoenix. The spurs Down 94-91 entering inc fourth period and 104-101 with 5 48 remaining in inc game look a 114-104 Lead with their 73 unanswered Points. Dawkins had five Points in the spurt while Robertson scored six capping Therun on a Baseline jumper with 3 25 left. Phoenix closed to 1 17-112 on two 3 Point goals by Walter Davis the last with 1 02 to  scaly Frank Brickowski. Mike Mitchell and Robertson All Sank free throws in inc final 4 1 seconds to Seal san Antonio s fourth Road Victory i 2 games this season. Mitchell finished with a season High 26 Points and Brickowski 22. Phoenix loss its third straight game 15th in the last 17 and sixth in the past seven Home games despite 26 Points from Jay Humphries. Davis had 21 Points Larry Nance 19. Rookie Armon Gilliam 17 and Eddie Johnson 16 for the suns who led 2i-24 after inc first Quarter and 58-56 Al half time. Phoenix was oils cored 31-20 in the final period As the suns made just 32 percent of heir Field goals 8 offs. Flames struggling on Long Road trip by Chris Daiil new York a Trie Calgary flames were told to hit the Road on  and not to come Home again until March 1.the flames were banished to the Long nil Road trip to their Saddlesom could be used by olympic hockey players and figure skaters so while Calgary is enjoying the big Gest party in its history the flames make their weary Way from City to cily. We Gol a Little Bil of the excitement before we left Forward Joey Mullen said wednesday night. Ii would have been Nice to be there but Well Nellle for to like everybody  Mullen and his Leam match have been living out of suitcases for their trip of 28 Days and roughly 10,000 Miles. We Wear a lot of polyester and in and god for dry cleaners. Coach Terry Crisp said making Light of the situation before wednesday night s game with the new York Range which the flames lost 5-3. But through the seventh game of the 11-game journey Calgary s play had been anything but a laughing matter. They May be racking up Points on their frequent flier plans on he Road Ftp which has taken them to Winnipeg de troit los Angeles Philadelphia Washington and new York so far but Points in the nil standings have been much More difficult to come by. The flames have Jusi two wins in seven games since they left Home Calgary had the Best record in the nil and a five Point Lead Over the Sec Ond place Edmonton oilers in me smythe division when they began inc trip. The Lead has been Cut to three Points in i hair first 53 games the flames Al Lowed 3.6 goals per game. They had Al Lowed an average or 5.6 goals a game through the first six games on the Road trip including a 9-0 drubbing Al Inci first Slop in Winnipeg and a 9-3 toss to the new York islanders tuesday night. Homesickness Jet lag restaurant food the flames Are making no such sex Vou always look Back and ask yourself questions like b it the length of die Road trip  Mike Vemon said. Bui that s Only when you re  would have lost t y the same score at Home do Genteman Brad Mccrimmon said after the loss to the is Landers. I Don t think we played very Well. Thai was the biggest  night later some of the flames showed what May be the Iru esl sign of their weariness. They seemed almost pleated about the loss to the rangers the last place team in the Patrick division. We dominated tonight hockey game but they got some bounces ver non said. We deserve a couple of  worked hard tonight Mullen added. We just did t gel we Breaks. It t Good that we started working. Not like last night the islanders loss. We jul have Lokeel it up and Well Start  Crisp and Vernon tried to reason thai they re Betler off playing on the Road during the olympics. Irs a Blessing in disguise Cusp Laid. We were gelling distracted at Home. With people asking for tickets. Actually we prefer to play on the Road because there s lets pressure ver non , relic Fis now in sight