European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday March 5,1988 Missouri stuns no. 4 sooner do inc associated press Columbia. To. Derrick Chic Vovis preferred to go out like a lion. In inc final Home appearance of his College career thursday night Missouri s career scoring Leader had 35 Points and in rebounds As the tigers stopped no. 4 Oklahoma 93-90 in overtime. He was pretty Good very Good out standing Missouri coach Norm Stew College basketball Art said of i Ivous he s had so Many Good games Tor us he was the soon cry. Who overcame a it Point deficit to Force an 84-84 deadlock in regulation need to beat Nebraska at Home saturday to win inc regular season big eight conference title. Oklahoma s Moosic Blaylock mis cd a desperation 3-Pointcr at the Buzzer in regulation play in Send the game to Over time. With the loss the sooner fell to ii-1 in the league and 26-3 Overall. The tigers Rote a 7-6 and 18-8, Missouri freshman Doug Smith who jihad just two paints in the first half finished with 21, including a slam Dunk to break an bb-88 overtime tie. He said Chivous inspired his Effort. He motivates everybody Smith said. His hard play carries Over. He s just a great Guy to be Oklahoma has already secured the top seed in the conference tournament and remains hopeful of being one of the four no. I seeds in the Mcaa tournament. Missouri played great probably As Well As i be Ever seen them play okla homa coach Billy Tubbs said. "1 Dnn i think Well lose any National respect after this loss a game Ike this Speaks Well of Safe women lose to Sac Eye 4th place Dover fab Del. The Safe women fell to the strategic air come in thursday s action atthe air Force basketball championships and have now set their sights on placing fourth and play ing a spoiler role As inc tournament winds Down Safe had a Chance at achieving both goals by toppling unified come Friday. Uni com along with Sac and air training Romdall shared the lop spot with 5-1 air Force basketball records. A Safe Victory would Knock uni com out of the title picture and assure Safe fourth place in this eight team tournament thursday s third loss Fot Safe. 69-55 to Sac was decided at the foul line. Safe out scored Sac 3cm3 from the Field but Sac prevailed from the Char ily line going 26 for 42 compared to a Mere i for 9 for Safe. Veruschka Hallcy of in Ciurlik Turkey came off the Bench to Lead Safe in scoring and rebound ing. Holly contributed 4 Point Sand pulled in 11 rebounds Fred die Carter of Florenne. Belgium was the Only other eager in double figures with 10 Points. Uni com ceded out a 77-73victory Over previously unbeaten at thursday dropping the los ers from sole Possession of first place. Flea photo Derrick Chievous. 33 Points i8 rebounds the big after Smith s go ahead Basket mis Souri increased the Lead to 92-88 when devious made two free throws with 27seconds left. Blaylock made two free throws to pull the sooner within two Points and Lee Coward s free throw increased Missouri s Lead to three. Ricky Grace s Long 3 Point at tempi Al he Buzzer fell Short. Cince and Missouri s Greg Church Misico the front end of on and once inthe final 10 seconds. With seven seconds remaining. Mis Souri s Mike Sandbox he missed the first shot of a on and one and Oklahoma re bounded. Grace ran the Ball up coun and launched his desperation heave from 10 feet past mid court. Backing Chievous and Smith Sand Bolic scored 12 Points and Church added 10 for the tigers. Laccy King who fouled out in the overtime scored 23 Points for Oklahoma and Blaylock scored 19. Freshman Ter re acc Mullins tallied a season High 15 Points for the soon in who Are trying to win big eight football and basketball lilies in the same season for the first Lime in their history. In Olbur games thursday night Brighon Young 89, new Mexico 82 Provo Utah Michael Smith scored 24 Points and Jeff Chatma added is As no. 15 Brigham Young overcame an 11-Point deficit and beat new Mexico. Artoni 79, Washington is. 41 Tucson aril Anthony Cook scored 15 Points and Lute Olson won his 100th game at Arizona As the no. 3wildcats beat Washington stale. Olson is 291-143 As a College coach at Long Beach slate Iowa and Arizona. Heis 100-50 in five seasons at Arizona. Arizona. 27-2 and 15-1 in the Pacio led by no less than 26 throughout the second half and was twice up by 40. N. Carolina St. 74, Maryland 68 Raleigh . Charles shackle Ford scored 21 Points and sparked a Sec Ond half surge leading no. 16 Nort Carolina stale Over Maryland in the at lactic coast conference. Parikm Wisconsin 56 Madison wis. Troy Lewis scored is Points and Purdue held Wisconsin to 16first-half Points As the no. 1 boilermakers beat the Bawrs in the big , 25-3 and 14-1. Led 28-16 Al halftime and scored the first eight Points of the second half to open a 20-Poinl Lead. Lewis made consecutive 3-Pomters during the run and Melvin Mccants jumper from the Lane. Wisconsin 10-15 and 4-11, Cut the Lead to 40-23 before Purdue scored nine consecutive Points to Lead by 26 with i 1 46 remaining in the half. Wisconsin got no closer than 20 the my of the w y. Steve Scheffler tallied a career High is Points for Purdue Everette Stephens added 14 and Todd Mitchell 12. Danny Jones scored 20 Points for wis Consin and Trent Jackson 13. East Lansing. Mich. Roy mar ble scored 23 Points and . Armstrong added 20, leading no. Ii Iowa past Michigan slate in big ten play. The Victory improved the Hawk eyes to 21-7 Overall and 11-4 in the Confer ence. The spartans fell to 9-16 and 4-11. Iowa outscored the spartans 1r-1from the free throw line in route to a 96 42 Hal Flinte Lead. For the game. Iowa hit32 of 41 free throws. In the second half Michigan slate got no closer than 87-Bo on two fret throws by Kirk Manns with 4 30 left. Jeff Moe added 17 Points and Bill Jones i i for Iowa. Ken Rcd iced scored 17 for Michigan stale while George Papadakos and freshman Jesse Hall each had 13. Iowa held the spartans scoreless for Over three minutes Midway through the first Naif in taking a 19-10 Cadt the Hawk eyes then went on an 18-6 run Over the final 4 42 of the half to build their 14-Point halftime margin. Gibson angered by Oce leaves Field by the associated press outfielder Kirk Gibson angrily left Holman stadium and did t pay in Tholos Angeles dodgers exhibition game against the Shunichi dragons thursday after he was apparently victimized by practical joke. It would have been the first game in a dodger uniform for Gibson who signed a free agent contract for s4.5 million Over three years in Laic january after playing 10 years in the Detroit tigers organization. Somebody apparently put Eye Black used id shield players eyes from the Sun in Gibson s hat. When he discovered what had happened while on the Field noticing the Black substance on his fore head he got angry went to the club House got dressed and left according to reporters at the game. Gibson would t common other than saying he d discuss the incident dodgers manager Tom Lasorta. Nor Fred Claire the team s executive vice president would comment Claire did say Lasorda was to meet with Gibson before Friday s exhibition game against the Minnesota twins according to reporters nobody would admit to playing the prank. Gibson had been scheduled to Sun against the dragons a member of he japanese Central league training in Vero Beach. The dodgers won the game 14-0. I Don t know who did it teammate Pedro Guerrero said. I like to joke around and have a Good tinni1, but i Don play like that. I would t want somebody to do that to so sock v Willie Hernandez the american league s by Young award Winner in 1984, aping izod thursday to Detroit free press columnist Mitch Albom for dumping a bucket of ice water on the writer in the tigers Spring training club House. "1 talked with him Hernandez said. Baseball Roundup i feel pretty bad about it a lot of peo ple make mistakes. 1 believe i make Good the left handed Relief Pitcher doused Albom with inc bucket on wednesday saying he was spurred both by a column album wrote last april and by comments he was told Albom made on a Cable Tele vision program during the Winter. Hernandez who Laid he Felt Albom had turned Detroit fans Nga Inui him said he apologized on his own i apologized because of the water Hernandez said. I am a Man. .1 Don t want to make the thing worse. But Idon t want people to be smart , either. I Don t want people to put a Micro phone in my face and ask me certain questions. I Don t want to aggravate Hij thing More. You make one mistake an you can make the team also issued an apology through Dan Ewald the team s Media relations director. The Detroit tigers have advised Wil lie Hernandez thai his conduct with re Spect to columnist Mitch Albom was clearly inappropriate it said. The club does not condone such games Gerald Perry drove in a pair of runs and nine Atlanta pitchers allowed two hits thursday to Pace the braves to a 5-0 exhibition Victory Over the University of Georgia. Pam pos Lima. Professional baseball s Only female Umpire worked the game be Hind the plate. She has Umpire in triple a for several Yean and has done some major league exhibitions in the past Luis Rivera Fiad to his two runs batted in and a stolen base to cad Jackie Moore s magicians to a i-1 Victory Over Bobby Winkles twinkles in the Mon Treal expos first Infra squad game. Casey Candaele also had two hits and an rib while Jack Daughen had an rib Heaton was the winning Pic nor while John Hoover look the matters Benito Santiago who was inc my Rookie of the year last year on thurs Day signed � one year contract with Sandiego. Santiago 23, will be paid about5175,00 in 1988. He made 163,500 last year $1,000 More than the major league minimum while Balling .300 with 18 Home runs and 79 Bis. The new York Yankees signed Pitcher Lee Guetterman and Rookie outfielder Jay Buhner the last of their unsigned players. Ii Ullerman was 11-4 Wilb a 3.81 average for Seattle last season. The orioles signed second year pitch ers Eric Bell and John Habyan leaving four players still unsigned. Dell was id-13 with a 5.45 Era in 1987, starting 29 games the most by any Rookie last year. Habyan was a �-7 record with a 4,80era. The reds signed outfielder Kal Daniels and pitchers Rob Murphy and Jose Rijo. Daniels signed a 1185,000 contract. Murphy agreed to a si75,000 Deal Andrijov accepted a s127,500 pact. Daniels hit .314 with 26 Home runs in i of games last year despite missing about a month with a knee injury. Mur Phy a left handed reliever was 8-5 with a 3.04 earned Tun average while appear ing lit 87 games. Rijo was obtained in the Dave Parker Deal from Oakland where he was 2-7 with a 5.90 Era in 21 Gurnet. Medical matters Yankee left hander Dave Righetti was scratched from Friday s exhibition opener Nga Insl Atlanta by manager Billy mar tin because of fever and a bad cold. Rig Hytti was scheduled to follow starter Rick Rhodon. He will be replaced by left hander acc Gull Turman obtained in Iscoff season from Seattle. Right fielder Dave win Fjeld who has a fever and cold also did t work out
