European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 30,1989 the stars and stripes Page 23 Anderson Sparks 76er win jazz defeat kicks 127-104 by the associated press East Rutherford . Ron Anderson scored eight of 25 Points Dur ing a 17-5 run at the Start of the fourth Quarter As the Philadelphia 76ers Over came the absence of Charles Barkley and Defeated the new Jersey nets 123-105saturday night. The Victory was the third straight and eighth in 11 games for the 76ers, who Learned earlier in the Day they would be without their leading scorer and re Bounder. Barkley suffered a sprained right ankle on Friday night in the final two minutes of a 113-112 win Over Golden state. The ankle was placed in a cast saturday and Barkley might return tuesday. The 76ers stayed close throughout sat urday s game never trailing by More than five Points before the fourth Quarter when the nets were 7-for-23 from Thefield. Against the nets the 76ers needed neither Barkley nor guard Maurice Cheeks who was sidelined earlier in the week. Roy Hinson had 21 Points and 11 re Bounds to Lead new Jersey. Jazz 127, kicks 104 Salt Lake City Karl Malone scored 17 of his 41 Points in the third Quarter leading Utah to an easy Victory Over the new York kicks who suffered their worst loss of the season. Malone matched the kicks scoring output in the third Quarter after new York led 60-59 at the half. The kicks previous largest defeat was a 139-119loss to Denver. Thud Bailey scored 23 Points for Utah and Darrell Griffith added 19. John Stockton had 18 assists for the jazz. Patrick Ewing scored 18 Points for the kicks who completed their Road trip with five losses in seven games. Johnny Newman s Dunk with 5 46 remaining in the third Quarter put new York on top 73-71. Utah then went on a 21-4 run to end the Quarter and the jazz scored the first six Points of the fourth Quarter to Lead 98-77. Warriors 114, pacers 112 Indianapolis minute Bol hit a 21-foot jumper with 35 seconds to g9, breaking the game s Lith tie and Chris Mullin scored 31 Points As Golden state Aba Roundup beat Indiana. The Lead changed hands 26 times be fore the warriors snapped their three game losing skein which followed an eight game winning Streak. Winston Garland and Mitch Rich mond scored four Points apiece for Golden state around a pair of jumpers by John Long giving the warriors a 110 105 advantage with 3 50 to play. Long who had six of his 19 Points in the final 5 24, tied the game for the final time at 110 with 1 21 left setting the stage for Bol s jumper. Herb Williams led the pacers with 22points. Rockets 96, spurs 91 san Antonio Eric sleepy Floyd scored 22 Points and Akeem Ola Juwon had 20 Points and 17 rebounds As the Midwest division leading Houston rockets held off a late rally to beat Sanantonio. Houston leading by As Many As 20 Points in the first half let the Lead slip away in the third Quarter but managed to hold off a second half rally by the spurs. San Antonio was led by Vernon Max Well with 23 Points and Greg Anderso with 21. Leading 92-91 with 1 09 left the rockets pulled away on two free throws by Otis Thorpe. After the spurs Jay Vin cent was whistled for an offensive foul Olajuwon grabbed a rebound and san the final bucket. Floyd had four 3-pointers and the rockets out shot the spurs 87 percent to 64 percent from the free throw line. Nuggets 142, suns 138 Denver fat lever scored 32 Points and Michael Adams added 28 As Denver held on for a Victory Over Phoe Nix snapping the suns four game win Ning Streak. Phoenix did not Lead after the Middle of the first Quarter in the Battle Between two of the Aba s highest scoring teams. But the suns never gave Denver breath ing room Down the stretch. Five times in the last period the suns pulled within one Point but the nuggets turned Back every Challenge. Alex English who had 26 Points for the nuggets hit a jump shot with 12 seconds to go for a 141-138 Lead. Phoenix had the game s High scorer in Tom Chambers who had 23 of his 39 Points in the third Quarter. Eddie John son and Armon Gilliam each scored 21 Points for the suns and Kevin Johnson added 20. Trail blazers 110, Hawks 94 Portland Ore. Clyde Drexler had 31 Points and 12 rebounds while Kiki Vandeweghe and Kevin Duckworth scored important baskets in the fourth Quarter leading Portland Over Atlanta snapping a five game losing Streak by the Trail blazers. The Trail blazers who lost their four previous games at Home outscored at Lanta 18-8 Early in the fourth period Tak ing a 92-82 Lead after the Hawks tied the score 74-74. Vandeweghe had five of his 13 fourth Quarter Points during the spurt and Duckworth added six. Vandeweghe and Duckworth both finished with 16 Points. Dominique Wilkins led Atlanta with 30 Points and helped the Hawks grab a 48-46 Lead with 17 first half Points. Moses Malone added 21 Points for at Lanta. With the game tied 52-52 Early in the third period the Trail blazers scored 17 of the next 26 Points including 10 by Drexler who had 15 in the Quarter. The Hawks closed the Gap 74-71 at the end of the period and then tied it in the first minute of the fourth Quarter before port land pulled away. The Hawks got no closer than seven Points after Portland took its 92-82 Lead. Two free throws by Wilkins made it 98 91 with 3 16 left but the Trail blazers scored the next six Points to Clinch the Victory. Bucks 105, clippers 84 los Angeles Jay Humphries scored a season High 24 Points and Terry Cummings added 21 As Milwaukee handed the los Angeles clippers their 14th straight loss. Reserve Forward Fred Roberts added a season High 16 Points for the Bucks who never trailed in route to their sixth straight win Over the clippers and fourth consecutive Victory Overall. Quintin Dailey scored 28 Points for 76ers Hersey Hawkins. Scores against nets the clippers who have dropped three straight since Don Casey replaced Gene Shue As head coach on Jan. 19. Los Angeles trimmed a 15-Point Defi Cit late in the third Quarter to 79-71 on Reggie Williams 20-footer with 10 37 left in the game. But Milwaukee responded with a 14-2 run to extend its Lead to 93-73 with 5 45 left and the clippers never got closer than 16 after that. Los Angeles trailing by As Many As 15 Points in the second Quarter reduced a seven Point halftime deficit to 51-48 just 50 seconds into the third period on consecutive laying by Dailey. But despite Dailey s 14 Points in the Quarter that was As close As los Angeles came As Cummings and Humphries led the Bucks on a 22-10 run that put them ahead 75 60 with 2 a minutes left in the Quarter. The Bucks opened the game with 13 straight Points and held the clippers to Only one Field goal in the first seven min utes of their first Home game with Casey at the Helm. The los Angeles offence picked up in the second Quarter however reeling off seven straight Points and outscoring Milwaukee 16-8 Over the final 4 /2 minutes of the half to Cut the Marg into 51-44. Huber wins 3,000 84 olympic Champ 3rd Johnson City Tenn. A olympian Vicki Huber of Villanova beat 1984 Gold medallist Maricich Pica of Romania saturday night to win the 3,000-meter run in the Kodak invitational indoor track and Field meet. I had no plan going in said Huber who won in a time of 8 minutes and 54.48 seconds five seconds off Brenda Webb s meet record of 8 49.90 set last year. I was prepared to follow. I wanted to  Huber who finished sixth in the 3,000 at Seoul held fourth place for most of the first mile behind Pica Lisa Breid ing of Kentucky and Joan Nesbit of North Carolina. She moved into the Lead when Pica s Pace slowed and widened her Lead to win by 15 seconds Over Breid ing. Pica faded to third. Pica appeared weak and fatigued after the race. She was unhappy with her time of 9 11.61. Pica has t run Well this indoor season finishing fourth in an 800 at Ottawa and second in a 1,000 at Sherbrooke Quebec. Doina Melinte who holds the Roma Nian mile record set a meet record in the women s 800, winning in 2 00.29, nine seconds better than the previous Mark. Lewis wins 57th straight Houston a Carl Lewis won his 57th straight Long jump Competition saturday night with a leap of 26 feet 9 inches in the Houston chronicle indoor games. Lewis the world record Holder at 28 10 /4, beat Houston Junior Leroy Burrell who jumped 26-6 /4. Burrell was a Surprise Winner of the men s 55 meters with a time of 6.09 seconds in a Field that included world re Cord Holder Lee Mcrae and 200-meters olympic Gold medal Winner Joe de Loach who finished third. / the games also featured an appear Ance by Gold medal Winner Jackie Joyner Kersee who won the women s 55-meter hurdles in 7.46 seconds. Randy Barnes olympic Silver med Alist in the shot put won his specially with 70-2 /2. The winning Effort by the former Texas am Star was far off his . Record of 74-6. Kevin Robinzine who won an olympic Gold medal As part of the 1,600-meter relay team finished third in the 400, an event that Mark Rowe won in 47.86 seconds. Other winners were Jim Howard of the Mazda track club in the High jump with 7-5 3/4 and Brian Abshire of athletics West who clocked 4 03.55 in the mile. In women s Competition Dale Devers of the world class track club won the 55 meters in 6.74 seconds Sandra Farmer Patrick won the 400 in 55.06, and Essie Washington won the 800 in 2 04.91. Lendl from Page 21 utes Lendl fought Back from 0-40 to hold serve in the opening game of the second set then raced to a 5-1 Lead. Mecir bidding for his first grand slam title broke Back at love to make it 5-2 but could t hold his serve in the next game and lost the set. Lendl took control of the third set with a 3-0 Lead. Mecir won the next two games but then Lendl shrugged off a time violation warning for serving slowly and won the last three games for the title. Lendl received $140,000 for winning his seventh grand slam title. Mecir earned $70,000. Earlier Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver scored their seventh straight australian open doubles Victory. Navratilova and Shriver the top seeds shrugged off a dropped first set to beat Jill Hetherington of Canada and american Patty Fendick 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. The winners have now recorded 20 grand slam Victo Ries since combining As a team. For Navratilova 32, it was her 51st grand slam title. She has won 29 in Dou Bles Competition