European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday january 17,1989 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports Pitt stuns sooner 99-91 by the associated press Pittsburgh maybe Pitt should stick with top five opponents. Just ask Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs. The panthers lost earlier this season to Siena and Duquesne and had lost three of their last four games before upsetting third ranked Oklahoma 99-91 on sunday. You saw the real Pitt team today Tubbs said. They played a physical game and they whipped us physically and emotionally. Every time we d get close they d make the big play and we d make the wrong Brian Shorter scored 37 Points and had 12 re Bounds and Rod Brookin had 24 Points As Pitt Over came cookie Blaylock s 37-Point performance for Oklahoma. Neither Shorter nor Brookin had Ever scored that Many Points in a College game. Oklahoma 13-2, had won 11 in a Row and the loss was the first for the sooner in the 12 games they have scored 90 or More Points. We were ready to play it s the most ready i be Ever seen Brian and Rod for a game Pitt guard Sean Miller said. I think we be shown that we Are capable of beating anybody. Or of losing to Pitt s Only victories in its last five games have been against then no. 2 Syracuse and Oklahoma which had t lost since losing to Michigan in the third Gam of the season. Brian is capable of dominating a lot of games the Way he played today Pitt coach Paul Evans said of Shorter a 6-foot-6 Sophomore who sat out last season because of proposition 48. That was the player i recruited. And Rod told me before the game that his Best game Ever was against Oklahoma last year and he Felt really Good coming into the Shorter had 22 first half Points As Pitt used a nine College basketball Duke Illinois remain 1-2 latest a poll on Page 22 Point run aided by a technical foul on Tubbs for a 55-49 halftime Lead. Pitt scored Only 57 Points in its last game a loss to no. 7 Georgetown on wednesday. Brookin who was 40 pounds overweight at the Start of the season scored 11 second half Points As Pitt 8-6, never let the running and gunning sooner get any closer than five Points after halftime. Brookin had scored in double figures Only three times previously this season. Oklahoma averaging 110.5 Points a game trailed by As Many As 12 but closed to 86-81 on Herman Henry s tap in with a Little less than five minutes left. But Pitt then scored seven straight Points four by Brookin and three by Shorter for a 93-81 Lead with2 30 to play. Shelter s previous career High was 29 Points against Toledo and Brookin who was averaging Only seven Points a game had 23 last season in Pitt s 86-83 loss at Oklahoma which had beaten Pitt the last two seasons. Oklahoma Riding Blaylock s outside shooting surged into an 18-8 Lead but Pitt beating Oklahoma at its own fast break game scored 23 of the next 30 Points for a 31-25 Lead Midway through the first half. With the sooner leading 25-22, Shorter made two free throws and Brookin one. Miller hit two free throws on the technical against Tubbs and Brookin Hita breakaway Jam after a steal. Blaylock who is averaging 21 Points and five steals Walsh will stay with 49ers Miami a coach Bill Walsh of the san Francisco 49ers acknowledged sunday that he has thought about stepping Down next season but said he will remain with the team no matter what he decides. I m going to remain with the 49ers, quite possibly in the same capacity Walsh said shortly after arriving with the team to prepare for sunday s super bowl against Cincin Nati. Tickets excitement scarce this time see Page 25 when you coach 30 years you have to look pretty seriously at your life and career. But there Are other times when you say i can t give it up. It s what i do " there have been a number of re ports that the 57-year-old Walsh who has won two super bowls since taking Over the team 10 years ago would step Down at the end of the season. The speculation intensified this year after reports of friction Between Walsh and team owner Edward de Bartolo or. Walsh said he would decide soon after the super bowl whether to stay As coach or move to an executive capacity. He was president of the team until that title was removed by de Bartolo after the 49ers were upset by Minnesota in last season s playoffs. We Haven t really talked specifically about what i will do Walsh said. We be decided not to get into that Type of thing until after we be finished our Bill Walsh May continue As head coach or move to an executive position with the team. A game had 26 first half Points. Stacey King had 26 Points and nine rebounds although his shooting Range was obviously affected by a broken left Index Finger. Oklahoma which made 16 of 24 free throws to Pitt s 30 of 42, has been held to less than 100 Points in its last three games after scoring More than 100 in nine straight games. In other games sunday Virginia 106, no. 8 North Carolina 83 Charlottesville a. Richard Morgan scored a career High 39 Points and Virginia trounced North Carolina in the Atlantic coast conference. Morgan a 6-foot-4 senior guard made a school re Cord 8 of 14 shots from 3-Point Range. Virginia broke a five game losing Streak and improved to 8-6 Overall and 1-2 in the acc while North Carolina slipped to14-3 and 1-1. It was the Cavaliers first Victory since coach Terry Holland was hospitalized Jan. 1 for stomach surgery. Holland who was released from the University of Vir Ginia medical Center earlier sunday visited the team before the game and went Home to watch the contest on television. North Carolina had won six straight games against Virginia and 13 of the last 14. The tar heels played the last 5 23 without Jeff Lebo who was leading North Carolina with 26 Points when he twisted his left ankle and had to leave the game. At that Point North Carolina trailed 87-76, but the tar heels did not score again until Hubert Davis 3 Point goal and free throw made it 96-79 with 1 30 left. Morgan who was 13-for-25 from the Field had the Best scoring game by a Virginia player at University Hall since Ralph Sampson had 40 against Ohio state in 1981. Morgan s previous career Best was 31 Points eight Days ago in a loss to Duke. After seven Lead changes and three ties in the open see College on Page 26 Jones wins Hope Golf in playoff Palm desert Calif. A Steve Jones Given life by Paul Azinger s lapse on the 90th Hole won his second consecutive tournament when he birdied the first extra Hole sunday in the Bob Hope classic. Jones a three stroke Winner in the tournament of champions that opened the 1989 pea tour season beat Azinger and masters Champion Sandy Lyle of Scotland in the sudden death playoff and became the first golfer since Gil Morgan in 1983 to win the first two tournaments of the season. Jones who moved into position with a Brilliant 63 saturday made up three strokes on the last three holes to tie Azinger and Lyle at 17-under-Par 343 in the five Day 90-Hole tournament. On the first playoff Hole the 14th at Bermuda dunes Azinger and Lyle each drove into the left rough while Jones was on the Fairway. Jones put his approach some four feet from the Flag. Azinger and Lyle were about 18 and 30 feet respectively and both missed their putts for Birdie. Jones then rapped his into the Back of the cup for the Birdie and the $180,000 first prize. After they d missed i Don t know How i Shook it in but i did. I can t be Lieve it. I won one tournament in five years and then open up Boom Boom said Jones who played the last 18 holes at Bermuda dunes in 3-under-Par 69. Lyle and Azinger also had closing 69s. The $180,000 first prize from the total purse of $1 million gave Jones $315,000 for the year More than he won in any of his previous five seasons. Jones said he was t even thinking see Golf on Page 26
