European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 26 the stars and stripes saturday March 19,19bb Conn glad to get Victory Over . By the associated press Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun says his huskies were fortunate to escape with a first round Victory Over West Virginia in a National inv ipalion tournament game thursday night. Once we got into overtime our lids knew we had dodged the Bullet. I Houghl we were going to win ii Calhoun said after Connecticut ousted Host West Vir Ginia 62-57. Calhoun readily admitted the game was far from a classic. The Gumc had a Lough time finding its flow he nit basketball said thai s How i would describe it instead of calling in an ugly pc liking came of the Bench to nil four free throws with less than a min ulc left in the extra period to Clinch inc game for Connecticut. In other games in was Georgia s3, Georgia slate 4b Louisiana tech 66, Arkansas Little Rock 56 Evansville 6, Utah 55 Boston College 73. Sienna 65 Houston 69. Fordham 61, and new Mexico 86, pc Erdinc 75. Santa Clara visited Oregon in a Laic game. First round play continued with seven games Friday night. It will be Illinois state at Cleveland slate ten Nessee 31 Middle Tennessee state Long Beach stale at Stanford. Virginia Commonwealth Al Marshall North East Louisiana at Arkansas state. Clemson a Southern Mississippi and new Orleans at Colorado slate. Ohio stale advanced wednesday night with an 85 73 Victor 1 Over old Dominion. Connecticut s King i both ends of a on and one with 57 seconds left for a 60-54 Lead. He hit two More from the line 10 seconds later to account for his game Tola of four Points and put to game out of reach. Connecticut s tale George Hii a 6-foot jumper with six seconds left in regulation to make it 90-50 and Send the game into overtime. George led Connecticut fi.4. With 15 Points. Mur Ray Williams had 13 and Cliff Robinson and Phil Gamble each added 12. Stive Burger led West Virginia which finished in 14, win 21 Points. Chris Brooks added 14 and heroic Brooks 10 for . Georgia 53, Georgia Southern 48 Athens a. Toncy grabbed a key re bound with 25 seconds remaining then Sank iwo free throws to Lead Georgia which overcame a seven Point half Lime deficit. The bulldogs 20-15, look command by scoring 16 straight Points in the second half thanks to a full court press that forced nine Georgia Southern turnovers Willie Anderson scored ii Points for Georgia while Mack had 14. Jeff Sanders scored 18 Points for Georgia Southern which finished at 24-7. Loni Siuw tech 66. Rock 56 Little Rock Ark. Randy White scored 28 Points and pulled Down 19 rebounds to Lead Louisiana tech 22-b, which took command by holding Valr scoreless for 514 minutes in the second half. Byron Newton finished with 14 Points and Brett Guillory 12 for tech. Johnnie Bell led the trojans who finished 24-7, with 20 Points including 16 in the first half. James Dawn added i2 for Valr. Houston 69, Fordham 61 Houston Rolando of Corcira scored 17 Points and Ricky Brown had i assists for Houston which Oulu red Fordham 19-7 to Lake control late in the first Hull Richard Hollis added 14 Points for the cougars 18-12. Tom Parrotta led Fordham 18-15, with in Points and Joe Palerno added 12. Despite hitting �5 percent of in Shols in the first half 11 of 7fordham trailed 38-31 at Samime. Evansville 66. Utah 55 Evansville ind. Marty Simmons had 29 Points to Lead Evansville which Ted nearly All the Way in just is second postseason appearance since moving into division 1 in 1977. Scott Haffner added 13 Points 11 from the free throw Tine As the aces improved to 217. Gale Gondrezick led Utah which finished 19-11, Jib 1j Points. The Ulics got As close As 40-37 in the second half on a 3-Point Basket by Gondrezick with i2 is remaining. Boston College 73, Siena 65 Chestnut Hill mass. Sieve Benton scored 21 Points and pulled Down 10 rebounds to Lead Boston College. Bobby Francis scored 13 Poi nos for do. 16-13, and Dana harms added id in the Finisi half Benlon scared eight paints in Job seconds during a 13-Point he run that gave the eagles a 14-8 Lead. They were never headed. Rick Williams led Siena 23-6, with 23 Points. New Mexico 86, Pepperdine 75 Albuquerque . Hunter Orceno 25 Points and 7-foot-1 freshman Center Luc Longley s hot second half shooting paced new Mexico. With new Mexico nursing a 63-60 Lead with seven minutes left Longley. Who finished with 12 Points hit two free throws added a driving slam and closed with a lip in Basket. Forward Charlie Thomas who had five slam dunks added 20 Points for new Mexico 21-13. Pc Perdine which finished 18-13, was led by Tom Lewis with 28 Points and 10 rebounds. Reserve Dexter Howard added 20 Points with 16 of them in the first half. Denver ends Blazer skein by the associated press Denver Michael Adams hit a 3-Point shot in the third Quarter to set an Aba record and made an other with 43 seconds left in overtime thursday night that gave the Denver nuggets a 116-115 Victory Over Portland and snapped the Trail blazers nine game winnings rack. Adams who matched Portland s Jerome Kersey for Aba Roundup scoring honors with 29 Points was Only 2 of 10 from 3 Point Range bul broke the record of 23 consecutive games with at least one 3-Pointer set earlier this season by Boston s Danny Ainge. The 5-Fooi-to Adams also had a career High seven rebounds and six assists. Kevin Duckwoth and Terry Porter added 18 Points apiece for Portland. Kersey had a game High 17 re. Bounds Alex English added 23 Points and Blair Ras Mussen 17 for the nuggets who have won j1 in a Row from Portland in Denver. Pann 99, bullets 95 Indianapolis Venn Fleming scored nine of his 22 Points in the final period including the go ahead Basket with 48 seconds to play and three free throws in the final 12 seconds As Indiana overcame a 15-Poinl second half deficit. Jef Matone scored 31 Points and John Williams 26 for Washington pistons 101, Cavaliers 99 Richfield Ohio Adrian Dantley scored 20 Points and i narc Johnson added 12 of his 16 in the final period thursday night As the Detroit pistons Defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers. In was the fifth consecutive Victory for Detroit and left the pistons just i i games behind the Boston celtics for the Besl record in the Aba s Eastern conference. Brad Dougherty led the Cavaliers with 21 Points. Rockets 115, sup sonic 106 Houston Reserve guards Allen leave and Purvis Short scored 18 and 11 Points respectively in the fourth Quarter thursday night to break open a close game and Lead the Houston rockets to a Victory Over the Seattle supersonics. Cavell led All scorers with 25 Points while hous ton s Akeen Olajuwon and Seattle s Tom Chambers each had 24. Olajuwon suffered an Elbow injury and Sal out the final 8 53 of the first period but he returned Al the Mart of the second Quarter and scored 10 of inc Rock is first 12 Points. Chambers scored seven Points in the last 4 16 of the Quarter and the supersonic look a 56-53 halftime Lead. Olajuwon and Joe Barry Carroll combined for 14 third Quarter Points As the Rockel moved in front 81-79. The Victory lifted the rockets within four games of first place Dallas in the Midwest division. Flames1 Rookie gets 51st goal to beat Bruins by tilt associated Porcu Boston Joe in Ouwendyk s tie breaking goal at 8 21 of the Hinl period led the Calgary flames to a 7-5 Vic tory Over the Boston Bruins thursday night. The flames sensational Rookie scored his 51st goal 10 break a is tie and give Calgary the bc3l record in the league by a paint Over the Idle Montreal canadians. Joey Mullen clinched the Victory for Calgary with an empty net coat with 12 seconds left. Wurm Juji former . Olympian Craig Jan icy had iwo goals he fifth and sixth of his seven game nil career for the Bruins. Nmitiques4, devils 3 East Rutherford . Michel you let and Gacilan Duchesne scored 23 second apart to up a four goal second period that Peter Stastny ignited with two tallies Ai the Quebec nordic us Defeated the new Jersey do vile the Victory was the Nordques third straight nil Roundup and fifth in six games putting them three Points ahead of Hartford in the Battle for the final play off berth in the Adams division. Quebec which has eight regular season games left has 63 Points but the whalers Nave a game in hand. The game was just As crucial for the devils who now have just eight games left to earn the final playoff berth in the Patrick division. Six i place new Jersey is iwo Points behind pins Burgh and three in Back q Che new York rang ers and both those teams have played one game fewer. Bluck Lukl 4, flyers 3, of Philadelphia Denis Layard scored 37 seconds into overtime and goalie Bob Mason turned stay 45 shots to give the Chicago Black Hawks a Victory Over Philadelphia and their first win at the spectrum in five years. Savard scored his 42nd goal of the season when he pushed a Loose puck Between goalie Ron Hextall s pads in the crease. The flyers Lukka Sinisalo had tied the game on a Power play when he beat Mason on a re bound from the Slot Al 8 59 of the final period. Chicago has won All three games against the flyers this season. The last Lime the Biack Tiarks won at the spectrum was March 8,1983, North stars a blues 2 St. Louis defens Eman Moe Maniha scored with 7 51 left in the third period giving the Minnesota North sum a tie thursday night with the is. Louis blues. The result enabled the Detroit red wings to Clinch the Nonis division championship and the Chicago stack Hawk who beat Philadelphia to move iwo Points behind St. Louis in heir Bailie for second place in the Morris. Both Chi Cago and the blues have eight regular season games left. Is. Louis Captain Brian Sutler became the Sec Ond blues player to score 300 career goals snap Ping a 1-1 lie on Riek Meagher s nifty Ait isl with 6 ii remaining in the second period. But Maniha scored to produce the final tie after picking up a Loose puck j Psi inside the Blue line in the St. Louis zone. Manilla s shot hit a blues defens Eman in the crease before going be tween the pads of St. Louis goaltender Greg Mil in for his seventh goal of the year
