European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes Friday january 26,1990 a Burg shooting for one More title by Walt Morrissette staff writer Pitburg a. West Germany what a difference a year and two Point guards can make on a conference. Hahn cruised through the 1989 Safe tournament at Torr Ion with relative Case. With Glen Hixinbaugh at the Point he found guards doric Strong and Rick Walton for their outside shots. . Johnson on the open floor for a slam or Center Mike Owens for his High percent age shots underneath or any one of the above on the fast break. The Hawks had that chemistry and Hixinbaugh was the Straw that stirred the drink. Owci Bruckn was the Csc s other representative at Torr Jon. On the strength of 6-6 Tony Hicks. But when Hixinbaugh and Hicks rotated Back to the u.s., the effect on their teams was dramatic. Owci Brincken fell into the second division. Hahn still has the nucleus from its championship team but the Hawks did t Click together Well this year. Enter the newly crowned Csc champions the Tilburg Barons 27-0. They took the Csc title from Hahn 101-92 sunday with the big help of two faces new to Safe Forward Ralph Balti More and Point guard Kyle James. Baltimore pumped in 23 Points three More than his season s average and James scored 13 and dished out 8 assists. Kelvin Blevins. The off guard also scored 23 and Guy Lynch scored 20 including the game winning free throws in the closing minutes. Add a new Point guard James and 20 Points a game Baltimore to Pitburg and you gel a first place team. Take away Hahn s Point guard and. Let s put it this Way. Hahn was 13-3 in the Csc regular season with two losses to Tilburg and a loss to Rhein main. The Hawks lost twice More to the Barons in the tournament. The Barons also look a preseason decision. That adds up to 0-5. With an almost certain sixth or even a seventh meeting coming up during inc Safe championships feb. 8-11 at Raf Benl Waters England. We be still got the  Hahn coach Mel Mungin said. Bui anybody Here Al Tilburg can Tell you if we still had Hixinbaugh. We let . Run the Point tonight saturday night against Rhein Mai but it takes away from his Overall game. By air Force basketball him running the Point it restricts his open court  Johnson responded Wilh 10 assists and 17 Points As the Hawks blew open a close game in the second half and beat the rockets 104-85. Johnson followed that up with 10 Points and 6 assists in Sun Day s final. As Hahn and Owci Bruckn suffered. Pitburg blossomed with the addition of Baltimore and James to go with three returning starters lunch Blevins and Jubal Brown. We were 9 and 1 Al the Christmas break last year Tilburg swing Man Lynch said. But we changed Point guards and in messed everything up. This year with Baltimore and James at the Point we re Cookin. We know our roles and we re playing within our  among their roles was to shoot the lights out in sunday s game. The Barons shot 71 percent from the floor in the first half hitting 22 of 31 shots including 5 of 6 from three Point territory. Barons coach George Price explained after the game that his team runs Pat terns to set up shots for his players from their favorite spots. That s exactly what happened. Lynch hit five straight 15-10-18-foot jumpers in the half while shooting from either the left or right Baseline. Baltimore hit five in a Row from around the foul line before missing his last attempt of the half. Brown Sank 5 out of 8 from in the paint. Blevins likes to shoot from the wings. Usually the left Wing. He hit 6 of 8, with a three Pointer and a free throw in the Sec Ond half Good for 14 of his 23 Points. The Barons finished 36 of 62 from the floor for 58 percent. Hahn shot a respectable 52 percent but the Barons Sank 16 of 20 free throws in the second half while Hahn did t go to the line not once in the second half. After winning 27 straight games in 1989-90 against Csc foes the Barons arc eagerly awaiting the Safe championships. I m looking Forward to playing some fresh  Lynch said. Baselines Zwic Brucken s Che Ryl Trapnell was a finalist for the armed forces woman athlete of the year but the honors went to Stacey cagenello of fort Carson colo., the guard from la Fayette College who guided army to its is Watt Morri serb Barons Forward Ralph Baltimore. 23 Points in Csc final eighth straight inter Scricc title. Trapnell was in Washington for the touchdown club s annual Timmie awards banquet last Friday in which several Amateur athletes were honoured. They included Heisman trophy Winner Andre Ware of the University of hous ton and the Man and woman armed forces athletes of the year. She was to rejoin inc warriors in Lime for inc Csc tournament which started thursday at Hahn. Trapnell carried the top scoring average into the event at 19.99 Points per game. Because the Pitburg lady Barons lost Vanessa Bunn s 23.7 Points a game when she rotated Back to the states the pressure will fall on Gabrielle Baltin Roc to replace at least part of Benn s scoring Load. Mrs. Ralph Baltimore is the league s fifth leading scorer this season with a 16.7 average. She has been under a different kind of pressure on the Job. She works in Billet ing at the Baron inn which was named Safe s Best billeting facility. The staff of the Baron inn had worked 14 straight Days painting cleaning and preparing for this week s department of air Force inspectors Baltimore said. They will de cide if the Baron inn is the Best billeting facility in the air Force spartans spank hoosiers by the associated press Bloomington ind. Kirk Manns scored 25 Points and Michigan stale beat no. 12 Indiana 75-57 wednesday night making the spartans the Winni Gesl visit ing team Ever at Assembly Hall. Michigan state won for the sixth time at Assembly Hall where Indiana is 229 31 Overall and 134-25 in big ten play. The spartans 15-3. 4-1 overcame an 8-0 deficit by scoring eight straight Points during a 29-11 surge that put them ahead to stay. Indiana 13-3, 3-3 College basketball trailed 29-19 after Mann s 3-Pointcr with 4 14 left in the half and was Down 35-27 at halftime. Georgia 94, no. 16 leu 92. Of Baton Rouge la. Shaun Golden s steal set up Marshall Wilsons three Point play with 44 seconds left in Over time and Georgia look advantage of no. 16 leu s poor foul shooting to win de spite 45 Points by Chris Jackson. Oklahoma 107, Iowa state 96 Norman okla. Damon Patter son and Skeeter Henry sparked a late 10 3 run that finally gave ninth ranked Oklahoma control of the game. No. 20 Connecticut 99, cent. Conn. 77 Storrs. Conn. The Way connect icel coach Jim Calhoun was talking no one would Ever knt. His team had just won its sixth straight game and was about to move into a gleaming. $28.5 million basketball dome. Calhoun had few Good things to say after no. 20 Connecticut 16-3, 5-2 coasted to a Victory Over Central Connecticut in the huskies final game Al their aging Leaky roofed Field House. My contral lations to  Cal Houn said. We were fortunate we had enough players to beat a Young Basket Ball  no. 8 Duke 85, n. Carolina St. 82, of Durham . Phil Henderson scored 25 Points and no. 8 Duke made its first three shots in overtime holding off North Carolina state in the Atlantic coast conference. No. 15 St. John s 83, Providence 75 Providence . Boo Harvey started an 8-0 run with two free throws with 4 40 left and hit 10 of 12 foul shots in the final five minutes to Lead 15th ranked St. John s to a big East Victory Over Providence. Magic paces lakers to 500th win for Riley  c car Len Luis loft by the associated press Indianapolis magic Johnson scored 26 of his 32 Points in the second half and pal Riley clinched his High la All Star coaching berth with his 500th Victory wednesday night 120-111 Over the Indiana pacers. Riley became the i4lh coach in Aba history to win 500 games and he did it faster than any other coach in 684 games. Don Nelson of Golden stale achieved his 500th win in 817 games. Riley will coach the Wesl for the eighth Lime in nine years when it meets the East in the All Star game feb. Ii Al Miami. Indiana shot Over 60 percent from the Field for three quarters and rallied from a nine Point deficit to Lead 89 88 after three periods on a follow shot at the Buzzer by Reggie Miller who led inc pacers with 27 Points. Celtics 116, heat 95 Boston Robert Parish and Kevin Mchale scored nine Points each in inc decisive second period As Boston rolled to Victory Over Miami. The heal took a 27-26 Lead Early in the second Quarter but was outscored 34-18 As the celtics charged to a 60-45 halftime adv anlage. Aba round Parish scored 23 Points and Larry Bird 20 As the celtics won for the fourth time in five starts. 76crs 125, magic 103 Philadelphia Charles Barkley had 27 Points and 16 rebounds As Philadelphia overwhelmed Orlando for its sixth straight Victory. Olis Smith had 33 Points and 16 rebounds both Ca reer highs for Orlando which led 8-7 before Phila Delphia scored 13 straight Points to Start a 25-8 run that gave the 76crs a 32-16 Lead Wilh 4 14 left in the first Quarter. Hawks 103, Cavaliers 86 Atlanta John Long helped Atlanta open a 19 Point Lead by scoring 10 of his 19 Points in inc first period and the Hawks coasted to a 103-86 Victory Over Cleveland extending the Cavaliers losing Streak to five games. The Hawks winning their second straight Alicr a six game losing Streak never trailed after building a 6 0 Lead on two baskets by Long and another by Alexan Der Volkov who scored eight Points As the Hawks built a 31-12 Lead Al the end of the first Quarter. Spurs 106, clippers 98 san Antonio Terry Cummings scored 31 Points and David Robinson added 24, leading san Antonio to a record tying 17lh Slraight Home court Victory. The spurs who also won 17 straight at him Sfair Arena during the 1980-81 season arc 27-11, six More victories than All of last season. They climbed Back into a lie with Utah for the mid Cal division Lead. Danny Manning paced inc clippers with a career High 31 Points. Charles Smith and Ken Norman each hit 24. Kings 129, warriors 99 Sacramento Calif. Vinny Del negro scored a season High 27 Points As Sacramento Defeated Golden state the Kings second straight Victory by 30 or More Points. It was the eighth largest Victory margin in the Iran Chis s Kansas City Sacramento Era Daling Back to the 1971-72 season Bucks 119, supersonics 112 Seattle Jack Sikma fired in 23 Points against his old team and Ricky Pierce scored 27 As Milwaukee crept to three games behind Detroit in the Central division. Seattle fell 11 i games of Fth Pace in the Pacific