European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars  sunday december 4,1988 n. Carolina beats Arizona by the associated press Charlotte . Scott Williams sparked a late run with eight of his 17 Points As loth ranked North Carolina fought its Way to a 79-72 Victory Over no 11 Ari Ona Friday night in the first round or the tournament of champions. No. 8 Missouri look a 91-74 double Oyer time Victory Over 17ih-Rnnkid Temple in the opening game Sel Ling up saturday s championship game Between the tigers and the tar heels. Temple and Arizona will play in the third place game in the tournament. Nine Days ago Missouri Defeated North Carolina 91-81 in the semifinals of the big Apple nit. Williams started his run after Ron Curry scored on a jumper to give Arizona a 63-62 Lead with 4 32 left Williams retaliated with a Layup at 4 10, hit a Short Hook at 3 40 and added a Hook in the Lane with 3 03 remaining to give North Carolina a 68-63  wildcats Cut the deficit to 68-65 on two free College basketball throws by Matt Muehlebach with 2 52 left. But Kevin Madden hit a jumper from the left Baseline and Wil Liams ended his run with a Layup with 2 05 to play stretching North Carolina s Lead to 72-65. Arizona which played the final 4vi minutes without scan Elliot got a 3-Poinl Basket from Ken Lofton to gel within 74-70. The wildcats look a timeout after that Basket but failed to answer the Buzzer in time to begin play and Jeff Lebo went in for an unmolested Layup to Seal the Victory. Tight defences and poor shooting kept both team from making any sort of run for the tint 16 minutes. Arizona opened a 20-16 Lead with 5 13 left before hair time after Lofton s steal and Layup. North Carolina made a run in the final two minutest gain a 28-24 halftime Lead. Jeff Denny hit a pair of 3-Point shots to give North Carolina a 2622 Lead and Pete Chilcutt got a Layup with 57 seconds left to stretch the Lead to 28-22. Chilcutt scored 16 Points and Madden 11 for Nort Carolina 5-1. Elliott scored 16 Points for Arizona.  scored 14, Curry had 11 and Harvey Mason 10 for the wildcats. Michigan 102, grumbling 62 Ann Arbor Mich. Glen Rice scored 23 Point Sand rum Al Robinson scored 19 Friday night to Lead no. 2 Michigan to a 102-62 Victory Over Grambling. Rice s 3-Poinl Basket gave Michigan the Lead for Good 15-13, with 11 04 left in the first half. The wolverines 40, increased i hair Lead to 44-29 by halftime and the tigers 0-3, could get no closer. Terry Mills added 14 Points and five blocked shot for Michigan. Claude Newell scored 17 Points and Andrew Glover 10 for grumbling. Winnipeg defeats canucks by the associated press Winnipeg Manitoba Dou Small Ray Nufeld and Dave elicit each had two goals Friday night As the Winnipeg jets downed the Van-couvercanucks6-3. Ella to a def Ensman who had 13goals last season scored his Lola of the season on a second period Power Tay and added an empty nil Roundup Nel goal with five seconds left Inich game As the jets climbed to within three Points of the fourth place canucks. The jets have played Only 22games, seven  the canucks. Pct i Skripko Trevor Linden and Paul Rinhart scored for the canucks who dropped their second in a Row after having a six game unbeaten Streak snapped by the Edmonton oilers on wednesday night. In other games Friday night flames 7, oilers 4 Edmonton Alberta Joe Mullen and Lanny Mcdonald scored in the first two minutes of inc second period sparking Cal Gary Over Edmonton. The flames now 9-0-1 in Ihei last 10 games and 6-0 in their last six on the Road broke a 2-2 tie on Mullen s Backhander past Grant Fuhr 53 seconds into the second period and outscored inc oilers 4 2 in inc Middle period despite playing shorthanded for 10 min utes. Mcdonald made it 4-2 just 64 seconds after Mullen s goal scor ing the 492nd of his career and sending Fuhr to the Bench in  whalers 6, sabres 1buffalo, . Kevin Dineen scored two goals and added a assist As Hartford routed Buffalo. Hartford broke a i-1 tie Midway through the second period on Paul Macdermid s goal then made it 3-i on Dave Tippett s goal with 1 23. Jct in the  then sparked a three goal third period that put the game  stole the puck from Buffalo de fens Man Doug Bodger at the sabres Blue line skated in and beat goaltender Daren Puppa with a High shot for a Short handed goal at 4 28. Ron Francis and Sylvam Turgeo added late goals for Hartford. Pistons win up record to 12-3 by the associated pres Landover my. Adrian Dantley scored 28 Points and finnic Johnson had nine in the fourth Quarter Friday night As the Detroit pistons held off second half comeback bid and Defeated the Washington bullets 120-114.the pistons with the Aba s Best re Cord at 12-3, threatened to break the game open in the firs half. Detroit which never trailed led by is Points inthe first Quarter and had a 62-39 advantage tale in the first  won de spite 37 Points by Washington s Ber Nard King including 21 in the third period As washing Dan Leyton which trailed 61-41 at halftime Cut the deficit to 8 7-80. The bullets closed he Gap to 94-90 with 8 37 remaining but inc Piston scored five consecutive Points to begin a 10-2 run that put them in front 104-92.Washington closed the Gap to 112-108 on a 3-Point shot by King with 56 seconds left. Bill Laimbeer made two free throws to give the pistons a six Poi Niedge and Dennis Rodman added anole error Nakeith 115-108.King hit twice from the line to make it 115-110, then got two More to make il116-112 with 31 seconds left before Dan Llcy iced in with four free throws in the final 30 seconds his Only Points of the fourth period Detroit shot 72 percent from the Field in inc tint half while the bullets mad fewer than one third of their shots. No Piston missed More than two shots in the first half while Only John Williams 2 for-3 shot better than so percent for the bullets. But Washington improved to 67 percent in the third Quarter White the Aba Roundup pistons made Only 10 or 21 shots in the period. Jeff Malone scored 27 Points and Dar Rell Walker 17 for the bullets. Isiah Thomas had 22 Points and Joe dumars21 for the pistons. In other games Friday night lakers 113, jazz 92inglewoop, Calif. Byron Scott scored nine of his 32 Points during a 15-2 run that opened the third Quarter As the lakers beat Utah. It was the first meeting Between the teams since the lakers Cal the jazz i seven games to win inc Western Confer ence semifinals last Spring in route to their second straight Aba title.  154, clippers 104seattle Dale Ellis and Xavier Mcdaniel scored 27 Points each and Derric Mckey scored 25 As Seattle Sci a team scor ing record and beat the  polynice s Layup and free throw with 45 seconds remaining broke the previous Seattle record of 151 Sci against Phoenix on april 2,1987.the so Point margin of defeat was the worst in clippers history surpassing 46-Point losses to the lakers in 1979 and the Denver nuggets in 1987, nuggets 119, warriors 101denver Lafayette lever had 29 Points 10 rebounds and nine assists a Denver continued its domination of Golden state. The nuggets leading the Midwest division have won 11 straight games and17 of their last 18 against Golden state in Denver. Trait Blum 105, heat 1d2 Miami Clyde Drexler scored 36 Points and the Portland Trail blazers came from behind in the final two min utes for a i os-102 Victory Friday that dropped the heat s record to 0-13. The heat which Ted at half Tomc forthe first Lime this season is two losses from tying the Aba record for the worst Start in a season. Suns 110, rockets 95phoenix Tom Chambers scored 21 of his season High 36 Points in the second half and Kevin Johnson had seven of his is in a decisive 61-Secondspan of inc third period As Phoenix Cal Houston. Ca Villers 112, celtics 84richfield, Ohio Ron Harper scored 23 Points and Brad Daugherty matched his career High with 17 re Bounds As Cleveland off to la Best Startin 12 years beat Boston. The winning margin equalled Cleve land s largest Ever against the celtics. The Cavaliers also beat Boston by 28points in March 1977. To ,. The Cavaliers 10-3 Start is their bes since they went 11-2 in 1976-77. Kicks 104, Mavericks 101 Dallas Trent Tucker s Layup with 46 seconds to play capped comeback that gave new York a Victory Over Dallas. Dallas held a 101-97 Lead with 1 35 to play on Bill win Englon s  103, nets 92 East Rutherford no. Terry Cummings had 18 of his 32 Points in the third Quarter and Milwaukee scored 16of the first 21 Points of the fourth period to defeat new Jersey  pro football new Orleans it Minne Sota 10 pin.  pro Footfall Phoenix at new York a tint 7 . Sunday new York jets at Kansas City 10 pm sunday Pittsburg at Houston 2 �.ju. Monday. Shape hoop tourney begins sunday by Walt Morrissette staff write shape Belgium the 10-Tcam shape International military tournament begins Here sunday with the , All stars playing their opener against Canada at 2 30 . The . Learn will compete in group with West Germany Spain Turkey and Canada.  ". Defending Champion Italy nether lands Belgium Crete and Britain Are in group  a. Group Competition with four games daily will be played sunday . Game limes Are noon 2 30 ., 6 30 . And 9 . Each Day. Each team will play every other Cam in its group once for a Totaj of four  two teams with the Best records in each group Advance to the  s lineup has Belgium is. The Netherlands at noon followed by . Is Canada,1 Spain is. Turkey and Greece is Briliant the . Has the Early game against Turkey on monday followed by Greece is. The Netherlands West Germany is. Canada and Italy is. Britian on tuesday night the . Plays West. Germany in the last game of the evening at 9 . The first three games arc Greece is Belgium Canada is Spain and Italy is the Netherlands. Wednesday is the . Team s Day  scheduled games Are Spain West Germany Greece Italy Belgium Uritia nand Canada Turkey the . Will Lead off thursday s line up with the noon game against Spain followed by the Turkey West Germany the Netherlands Britian and Italy Bel Gium  saturday s semifinals the second place learn in group b will play the first place team in group a at 6 30 . The runner up group a team faces the first place group b team at 9 . On sunday dec 10, saturday s losers will play for third place at 6 30 ., and the championship contest will tip offal 9p.m. All games will be played in the Mai gym at shape. The . Team composed of usar eur and Safe players has been Tun ing up with games against local teams i Germany and Luxembourg. Italy edged the ., 76-74, in Las year s championship game