European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes thursday january 12,1989 Aba from Page 17 Mcaa convention a three Point play on a driving Layup. John Battle s 15-foot jumper from the right Side with 1 14 left Cut the Lead to one before Jordan hit his two free throws. It was Only the third loss in 18 Home games for the Hawks who have lost three of their last four Overall. Wilkins led the Hawks with 28 Points. Kings 106, lakers 97 Sacramento Calif. Los an a Clos lost its eighth straight Road game tying a club record As la Salle Thomp son had 23 Points and 11 rebounds to Lead Sacramento. The last time the lakers lost eight consecutive Road games was 13 years ago. Thompson also had a season High four blocks for the Kings. Kenny Smith had 19 Points and 14 assists while Harold Pressley scored 17 for Sacramento. Magic Johnson and James worthy each had 22 Points for the division Lead ing lakers. Johnson had 12 assists. It was the Kings fifth straight Home win but Only their second Victory against the lakers in the two teams last 31 meet Ings. Bullets 120, nuggets 117 Landover my. John Williams s flashy Layup with 18 seconds remaining and Jeff Malone s two free throws 13 seconds later gave Washington a Victory Over Denver. Washington which snapped a two game losing Streak trailed 117-116 when Williams put in a double pump left handed Layup. After Alex English who led the nuggets with 28 Points missed a jumper Malone was fouled on the re bound and Sank both free throws. Denver s last second try at a tie by Wal Ter Davis was blocked by Charles a. Jones who had a career High 16 rebounds. Bernard King led the bullets with 33points. Jazz 92, heat 88 Miami Jim Farmer and Mark Eaton each hit two free throws in the final 25 seconds As Utah withstood Miami comeback. Miami rallied from a 55-32 deficit Early in the second half to tie the game at 88 with 1 35 left before Farmer and Eaton hit their game winning free throws. Karl Malone scored 29 Points to Lead the jazz. Two Miami players had career High totals Rookie Rony Seikaly with 30 Points and six year Veteran Jon Sund Vold with 28. Trail blazers 125, sonics 109 Portland Steve Johnson came off the Bench to score a season High 27 Points and trigger a second half surge that lifted Portland Over Seattle snapping the sonics five game winning Streak. Johnson hit 13 of 17 Field goal at tempts and grabbed nine rebounds As the blazers won their 12th in a Row at Home. Clyde Drexler led the Portland scoring with 29 Points. Kiki Vandeweghe scored 21, his highest total since coming off the injured list five games ago. Michael Cage scored a season High 24 Points and grabbed 15 rebounds to Lead Seattle. Derrick Mckey added 19 and Dale Ellis had 17, but was Only 8 of 24 from the Field. Colleges choose status quo Bymark Hyman the Baltimore Sun san Francisco the folks who run America s major collegiate athletic programs cast a resounding vote tuesday for the status quo at the 83rd National collegiate athletic association convention. They voted Down a proposal to withhold athletic scholarships in the freshman year for students who do not meet proposition 48 admissions Stan Dards. They voted against extending a fourth year of athletic eligibility to proposition 48 athletes who do Well in school after their freshman year. They turned thumbs Down to a proposal that would have required ath letes to reach a minimum 2.0 Grade Point average by their Junior years to preserve their athletic eligibility. And on a proposal to allow division i a schools to add a 12th football game in a foreign country to their schedules once every four years they voted yes during a morning session adjourned for lunch had a change of heart and during the afternoon meeting Defeated the proposal handily. Not that the Day completely lacked action. Division i delegates did approve legislation to modify the dates when standardized test scores of High school students can be reported to col lege athletic departments. This was pleasant news for mid year High school graduates and foreign Stu dents who Are expected to Benefit. Its passage however did not qualify tuesday As a landmark Day in the his tory of College athletics. Tuesday s exercise in inaction was not totally unexpected. Compared with previous Mcaa meetings at which the delegates have instituted the so called death penalty for sports programs that Are chronic violators of recruiting rules and considered proposals to re Duce coaching staffs travel budgets and other athletic department expenses the Agenda for this week s convention seemed relatively pedestrian. On tuesday s division i Agenda the proposals that attracted most interest were the possible addition of a 12th football game and the contemplated Fine tuning of rules affecting students who enter College under proposition 48. The football proposal was the brain child of Arkansas officials who sup ported the plan As a relatively simple Way to raise Money quickly. But the plan was opposed by coaches who feared overworking their players. So an amendment was proposed by Rutgers to allow the 12th game once in four years in a foreign country. In supporting the 12th-game legis lation Maryland s acting president or. William Kirwan said i think it could be used As a Post educational experience for students to go to a foreign country. If they limit it to once every four years we will avoid any significant abuse of our  at a morning voting session the proposal passed. Three hours later a motion to re consider the proposal was made and the motion was reversed. University of Houston athletic director Rudy Davalos who spoke in opposition to the 12th-game plan said he feared that there would be More schools seeking games overseas than opportunities to play them with the few slots going to powerful schools with the widest name recognition. Right now universities have an Opportunity to play in foreign countries using one of their 11 games Davalos said. If you want to sacrifice a Home game and the Revenue from it you have that option  Gretzky Kings beat oilers by the associated press Inglewood Calif. Wayne Gretzky had four assists including the pass on Mike Kru Shelyski s goal at 2 20 of overtime tuesday night leading the los Angeles Kings past Edmonton 5-4, their first Victory Over the oilers since trading for Gretzky. The Kings Are 1-2 against Edmonton since the aug. 9 Trade which brought Kru Shelyski to los Angeles along with Gretzky and Marty Mcsorley. John Tonelli stole a Clearing pass be Hind the oilers crease and flipped it to Gretzky. He directed it to Kru Shelyski who was in front of goaltender Bill ran Ford. Kru Shelyski beat him from 5 feet out for his 11 the goal. Glenn Anderson tied it for Edmonton with 2 16 left in the third period after Mcsorley had Given the Kings a 4-3 Lead at 13 09. Gretzky who has not scored against his former team assisted on the Kings first three goals including two by Bernie Nich Olls. Gretzky got his third assist on a Short handed goal by Nicholls at 4 27 of the Sec Ond that put los Angeles ahead 3-1. That goal Nicholls second of the night and 40th of the year was a team record 13th Short handed score breaking the Mark set in 1980-81. With Edmonton trailing 3-1, Jari Kerri scored at 1 50 and 8 58 of the third to tie it. Mark Messier gave Edmonton the Lead at 4 12 of the first. Nicholls 25-foot slap nil Roundup shot off Gretzky s pass tied it at 9 24. Sylvain Couturier put los Angeles ahead 2-1 at 11 11 when a Long slap shot by defens Eman Doug Grossman glanced off his skate past Ranford. In other games tuesday penguins 5, islanders 3 Pittsburgh Mario Lemieux scored three goals his fifth hat trick of the season and Paul Coffey had four assists leading Pittsburgh past the new York Island ers. Randy Cunney Worth who scored two goals for Pitts Burgh broke a 1-1 tie at 2 48 of the second period witha 45-foot shot past Kelly Hrudney. Cunneyworth scored again at 3 20 of the third period As his shot from outside the Blue line got through Hrudney s pads. Lemieux got his 45th of the season and second of the game on a Power play at 5 56 of the third. He completed his 17th career hat trick by scoring into a empty net with 15 seconds left. Flyers 3, North stars 2 Philadelphia Derrick Smith and Rich Tocchet scored 47 seconds apart in the third period to lift Phila Delphia past Minnesota. Smith returning after a two game absence because of a hip Pointer scored the game winning goal while sprawled in the crease. He pushed the puck into the open net at 7 22 of the third period. Capitals 4, Nordques 4 Quebec Kevin Hatcher and Dave Christian scored third period goals As Washington rebounded from a two goal deficit to tie Quebec. Hatcher got his 1 oth of the year on a scramble in the Goalmouth at 10 03 of the third period. Christian scored the tying goal his 19th, from the left Circle with 5 35 remaining in the third. Mike Ridley and Mike Gartner scored the other goals for Washington. Michel Goulet Marc Fortier Peter Stastny and Trevor Stienburg scored for Quebec which had its wingless Streak extended to seven games. Whalers 2, jets 1 Winnipeg Manitoba Kevin Dineen had a goal and an assist and Scott Young scored leading Hartford past Winnipeg the whalers fourth Victory i five games. Dineen scored his 22nd goal of the sea son at 6 52 of the second period snapping a 1-1 tie. Ron Francis shot from close Range while he was being pulled Down and Dineen poked in the rebound. Thomas Steen gave Winnipeg the Lead on the Power play at 1 44 of the second period with Brian Lawton off for interference. Just 19 seconds into the penalty Steen deflected in a shot from the Point. Hammonds leads a. Tech rout of Georgia St. From press dispatches Atlanta Tom Hammonds scored a career High 40 Points As 19th-ranked Georgia tech Over whelmed Intra City rival Georgia state 121-86 tuesday night. Hammonds coming off Back to Back 30-Point games had 19 Points in the first half and scored his 40th on two free throws with 6 16 remaining to give the yellow jackets a 102-64 Lead. They led by As Many As 41 Points in running their record to 10-2. Georgia state fell to 6-6. The Crimson panthers were led by James Andrews with 29 Points and Lanard Copeland who scored 20. Georgia state held its last Lead when Michael Carr s College basketball Baseline jumper put them up 18-17 with 11 31 remain ing in the first half. Tech then took control with a 22-4 burst with Ham monds scoring 12 of those Points. The yellow jackets surged to a 54-36 halftime Lead and held their biggest margin 105-64, with 5 29 remaining. David Whitmore added 15 Points and Brian Olive Rand Anthony Sherrod scored 13 apiece for tech. St. John s 71, Connecticut 63 new York the St. John s redmen 9-4 Over All 2-2 in the big East opened an 11-Point first half Lead and got a Strong second half Start on the Way to Victory Over the Connecticut huskies before a sellout crowd at alumni Hall. The loss Conn s second straight dropped the huskies to 9-3 Overall and 1-2 in the league. With games coming up against Seton Hall Syracuse and Georgetown with Only Syracuse at Home the huskies face an Uphill climb in league Competition. Connecticut has lost 17 straight to the redmen. The huskies have never won in alumni Hall. Cliff Robinson Connecticut s leading scorer fouled out with 5 29 left in the game. Robinson led Ucon with 22 Points. Jayson Williams led St. John s with 18 Points