European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes sunday january 22,1989 a Lynnik leads jets by penguins by the associated press Winnipeg Manitoba Rookie Pat a Lynnik scored two goals and had three assists to Lead the Winnipeg jets to a 7-3 Victory Over the Pittsburgh penguins Fri Day night in a game in which Mario Lemieux became Only the second player in nil history to score 50 goals in fewer than 50games. His 50th goal came at 78 seconds of the first period of his 44th game. Wayne Gretzky also scored 50 goals in fewer than 50 games. His two assists gave him 638 Points moving him past Pitts nil Roundup Burgh assistant coach Rick Kehoe As the penguins All time leading scorer. Kehoe had 636 Points in 11 sea sons and 722 games. Lemieux in his fifth nil season was playing in his 336th game. The night however belonged to a Lynnik As the jets ended a five game Home losing Streak and won for Only the second time in their last eight games. Lin mate Thomas Steen had two goals and a pair of assists in the second period. Laurie Bosch Man and Dale Hawer Chuk scored the other jets goals Hawer Chukson the Power play. A Lynnik tied three jets team re cords. His five Points tied him with eight other jets for most Points in one game by a Rookie. His two goals and three assists in the second period matched the five Points Hawer Chuk scored in one period March 6, 1984, against the los Angeles Kings. He joined three other jets with three assist sin a period. Chris Dahlquist and Mark rec Chi scored the other goals for the penguins who Are wingless in their last four games. Lemieux thought he had scored another goal Midway through the second period when he broke in alone on Pokey Reddick and fired a hard shot that Reddick stopped. Lemieux argued the goalie had dragged the puck Back across the goal line. Reddick rebounding from a poor performance earlier in the week stopped Lemieux on a Point Blank shot later in the period bringing chants of Pokey Pokey from the crowd of 15,566. He had23 saves. Blackhawk 3, red wings 2 Detroit Dirk Graham scored As time ran out to give Chi Cago a Victory Over Detroit As goal tender Alain Chevrier turned aside 24 shots in his debut As a Black Hawk. Chevrier acquired thursday by the Blackhawk from Winnipeg blanked the red wings from the 1 24 Mark of the first period through the first six minutes of the final period. Flyers 1, oilers 1 Edmonton Alberta Edmonton s Charlie Huddy and Phil Adelphia s Rick Tocchet traded Early Power play goals As the Oil ers and flyers played to a tie. Devils 6, capitals 5, of Landover my. Kirk Muller scored his second goal of the game with 35 seconds remain ing in overtime lifting new Jersey Over Washington. Becker whips Canadian Shriver ousted by Lindqvist by Rick Warner Melbourne Australia a Boris Becker did a Good imitation of an other famous West German Tennis player saturday when he routed Canadian Chris Pridham in 70 minutes at the australian open. I can t remember playing a faster match than that Becker said following his 6-0, 6-1, 6-2 third round Victory. Feel almost like Steffi Becker is ranked fourth in the world 204 spots above Pridham and the Gap showed on Center court. Becker overpowered Pridham with his booming serve which produced 18 aces and 15 other a returnable blasts. When the two time Wimbledon Champion gothic first serve in he won 28 of 29 Points. The match was so one sided that fans gave Pridham mock applause when Hewon his first game. Maybe he was nervous because it was his first time on Center court Becke said trying to be charitable. I Don t think any grand slam matches Are easy. He reached the third round Here so he must have played Good in the other night match Catarina Lindqvist of Sweden rebounded from a horrible Start to beat fourth seeded Pam Shriver for the third time in the past four australian opens. Shriver saved six match Points before Lindqvist gained the 0-6, 6-4, 8-6 Victor with a forehand pass. I was in my own Little world in the first set Shriver said. Then i lost my Shriver a Friend and political supporter of George Bush was asked what the new . President would Tell her when she returns Home to Maryland. George would say that i should have stayed Home and gone to the inauguration. And i would agree she said. In other women s play second seeded Martina Navratilova and no. 5 Helena Sutkova moved into the fourth round with straight set victories. Australian open a Martina Navratilova Winner in 53 minutes Navratilova used just 53 minutes to beat Jana Novotna of Czechoslovakia 6 2, 6-2, and Sutkova ousted Australia Lisa o Neill 6-2, 6-1. Catherine Tangier of France pulled off the Only women s upset beating 10th seeded Mary Joe Fernandez of the United states 6-2, 6-3. Navratilova has won the australian open three times but this year she is a underdog to Graf. I m definitely not the Center of Atten Tion and that s Fine with me Navratilova said. The fact is i m no. 2. Steffi won everything in sight last Hana Mandrikova a two time Cham Pion Here saved three match Points be fore Downing Manon Bourgraf of the Netherlands 3-6, 6-3, 9-7. I Don t think you can get any closer to losing said Mandrikova who has rallied from a set Down in her first three matches. It s Good to win but i Don t know if i can walk tomorrow. I m in earlier men s action ninth seeded Miloslav Mecir of Czechoslovakia and no. 14 Jonas Svensson advanced to the fourth round with victories Over unseeded australians. Mecir downed 18-year-old Jason Stol Tenberg 6-2, 6-1, 6-3, and Svensson beat Wally Masur 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. Masur upset John Mcenroe at Wimbledon Las year. Former Mcaa Champion Mikael per Nyfors the 12th seed was beaten by hard serving dutchman Michiel schapers 6-7 4-77-5, 7-6 7-56-0. Perfors twisted his neck while diving for a shot in the third set tiebreaker and had to be massaged by a Trainer during changeovers. I could t move my neck the swede said. It got stiffer and stiffen Ramesh Krishnan of India who beat defending Champion Mats Wilander in the second round was eliminated by mexican Leonardo Lavalle 7-5, 6-4, 3-6,6-3. I m not going to try to explain it Krishnan said. That s the Way the game is. I just have to learn to play at a higher level All the yugoslavian teen Ager Goran Ivani Sevic ranked 300th in the world reached the fourth round with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-0 Vic tory Over Tom Nijssen of the nether lands. I was sure i was going to win today Ivanisevic 17, said. I m playing very Well and there s no pressure on it was the left handed Ivanisevic sixth consecutive Victory Here because he had to survive three qualifying matches to enter the main draw. Along the Way the 6-foot-4-Inch yugoslav with the big serve also showed he has a big temper. He received five Umpire warnings in three matches threw his Racket several times and once disgustedly it a Ball that struck a Ball girl. Also advancing to the round of 16 was South african Christo Van Rensburg who Defeated Australia s Mark Wood Forde 2-6, 6-2, 6-7, 6-4, 6-0. Pistons win Versace booted by the associated press Auburn Hills Mich. Like any Good Captain Dick Versace thought he should go Down with his ship. Instead he was tossed overboard Early Friday night. Versace was making his first appear Ance in Detroit since leaving his Job As a pistons assistant eight games ago to take Over the struggling Indiana pacers. He was ejected by referee Joe Crawford with 8 12 left in the second period Long be fore the pacers lost their fifth straight game 132-99, to the pistons. I m uncomfortable that it happened on National television Versace said. That won t happen again and you can take that to the Versace took his time getting off the court he needed help from assistants Mel Daniels and Dave Twardzik. His old Boss pistons coach Chuck Daly had seen that before. I remember when he was a High school coach. They had a hard time get Ting him out of the Georgetown gym Daly said. That goes Back 25 Bill Laimbeer s season High 27 Points and Adrian Dantley s 25 led the pistons to their third straight Victory. With the subs playing most of the fourth period Detroit led by As Many As 37 Points. Rik Smits had 19 to Lead the pacers while Wayman Tisdale added 18 off the Bench. Aba Roundup Versace denied trying to inject spirit in the visibly Flat pacers by getting kicked out. I Don t think right now with this Ball club i should have to resort to histrionics he said. Versace charged to mid court and went Chest to Chest with Crawford before being led from the court stomping loudly. Versace said he was doing nothing theatrical in a contrived sort of Indiana players apparently weren t impressed. Trailing 41-25 when Versace was booted they did t score for More than two minutes while the pistons built their Lead to 51-25. Laimbeer whose previous High was 23 on nov. 15 at Dallas hit 8 of 9 Field goals in the first half while leading Al scorers with 21 Points. It s Nice to shoot Good for a game said Laimbeer whose season average entering Friday night was 11.8 Points per game. The pistons shot 58.6 percent As a team to 42 percent for Indiana. Both teams had practice cancelled Friday. The crowd of 21,454, was the 18th consecutive sellout at the Palace of a Burn Hills. In other games Friday lakers 115, Mavericks 99 Inglewood Calif. Magic John son scored 30 Points to Lead the los an Geles lakers past Dallas. It was the lakers 17th Victory at Home this season without a loss. James worthy and Byron Scott scored 17 Points each for los Angeles. . Green had 12, Kareem Abdul Jabbar 11 and Mychal Thompson 10. Celtics 117,76ers 109 Boston Dennis Johnson made three Long jumpers Down the stretch and Boston withstood Philadelphia s fourth Quarter comeback beating the 76ers. Charles Barkley scored 30 Points for Philadelphia. Kevin Mchale scored 23for Boston. Jazz 98, Bucks 96. Salt Lake City Karl Malone s jumper with two seconds remaining gave Utah a Victory Over Milwaukee. Warriors 121, rockets 114 Oakland Calif. Mitch Rich mond s 3-Pointer triggered a 10-Point fourth Quarter run As Golden state won its seventh straight Matching its longest winning Streak in 14 years. Houston lost its fourth straight and dropped from a first place tie with Utah in the Midwest division. Sleepy Floyd scored 35 Points for the rockets and had 12 assists. Chris Mullin scored 26 Points Rich mond 23 and Rod Higgins 20 for the warriors
