European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 nil Roundup the stars and stripes Buffalo blasts Pittsburgh but Lemieux saves Streak by the associated press Buffalo. . Pittsburgh s Mario Lemieux tied the nil s Sec Ond longest consecutive game Point scoring Streak but the penguins were trounced by the Buffalo sabres 7-2 sunday As Rick Vaive scored twice and added an assist. A third period goal by Lemieux gave him at least one Point in each of his last 39 games tying a Streak set by Wayne Gretzky in 1985-86. Gretzky holds the record at 51 games. But by the Lime la Mioux scored on the Power play at 10 41, the sabres had amassed a 6-1 Lead. After recording Only one shot on net in the game s first 50 minutes. La Mioux finally lied the record with a Backhander past Buffalo goalie Daren Pup Paat 10 41. Otherwise the penguins Star did t look Sharp. On several occasions he attempted to pass to teammates but the passes instead ended up directly on Sabre Sticks. La Mioux. Whose plus minus ratio was minus-13 at the Start of the game was on the ice for five of Buffalo s goals although the first came on a Sabre Power play. Vaive s goals his 20th and 21 is of the season give him at least 20 goals in each of his 11 nil seasons. Buffalo s other goals came from Doug Bodger. Ray Sheppard. Benoit Hogue. Pierre Turgon and Uwe Krupp. While Dave Andreychuk and Mike Ramsey each had two assists. Mark Rocchi scored Pittsburgh s first goal. In other nil games sunday islanders 4, devils 4 Uniondale. . Patrik Sundstrom scored his second goal of the game with 3 32 remaining to give new Jersey a tic with the new York Island ers and keep the two teams tied for the Patrick division Lead. Doug Brown s 35-foot slap shot from the lop of the Slot hit Sundstrom and deflected past Mark Fitzpatrick to give the devils the tic. Both teams now have 53 Points though the devils have Buffalo s Uwe Krupp 4 lies up Pittsburgh s Mario la Mioux on sunday. Played one fewer game. The islanders the hottest team in the nil Over the past two months Are 10-2-1 in their last 13 games and 19-5 2 in their last 26. The lie broke their nine game Home winning Streak. The tic gave the devils a 2-38-5 life time record in the Nassau coliseum since the franchise joined the nil As the Kansas City scouts in 1974. Pat Lafon lain put the islanders and 4-3 at 16 46 of the second period with his 43rd of the season. Capitals 7, flyers 2 , my. Geoff court Nail had three goals and Rookie goalie Jim Hrivnak won his second consecutive Start leading Washington past Philadelphia. Kelly Miller had two goals As the Caps avoided falling into the Patrick division cellar. Washington is now three Points ahead of Philadelphia which is 1-8-4 in its last 12 games. Mchale Sparks celtics past suns Boston a Kevin Mchale. Hit Ting just the second three Point Field goal of his career ignited a 16-2 run at the end of the first period and the Boston celtics went on to beat the Phoenix suns 126-118 in the Only National basketball association game played sunday. Larry Bird scored 22 Points. Mchale 21. Robert Parish 17 and Reggie Lewis 16 As the celtics handed Phoenix a second consecutive loss after the suns set a club record with a 10-Gamc winning Streak the suns led 35-27 when Mchale. A 10-year Veteran surprised them by hit Ting his three Pointer from 23 feet. Mchale added two More baskets As the celtics charged to a 43-37 Lead in the Early minutes of the second period. Boston widened the margin to 10 Points let Phoenix close within two. Then settled for a 63-59 Lead at halftime. Getting plenty of help from the Bench. The celtics stretched the Lead to As much As 11 Points in the third period then played Tough defense in holding off Pho enix challenges the rest of the Way. The suns Tom Chambers led All scorers with 40 Points. Kevin Johnson added 28 and Jeff Hornack 18. The Victory was Boston s ninth on the last 10 super bowl sundays. Overall the celtics arc 12-8 when they play just be fore the nil championship game. Devils rally by jackets by the associated press Durham . Sophomore Brian Davis scored 16 Points sunday four fewer than he had All season and no. 8 Duke rallied for an 88-86 Victory Over no. 13 Georgia tech. Davis scored nine of the Blue devils final 12 Points including the last five. Duke s Triumph came despite 36 Points by tech s Dennis Scott who got 15 of them on three pointers. Duke 16-3, 6-1 won its fourth straight and 13th of 14 and the Blue College basketball Foft gome Mem time they woke 110 two y6ars pfc avg me limit of the devils remained in first place in the Atlan tic coast conference. Georgia tech 12-4. 2-4 lost its third straight and fourth of six after starting the season 10-0. In other noteworthy games sunday no. 16 leu 107, no. 5 univ 105 Baton Rouge. La. Chris Jack son opened up the Middle with Long Range shooting and Shaquille o Neal took advantage to score nine Points in five minutes and Lead Louisiana state Over Nevada Las vegas. Leu trailed 76-70 with 12 24 left when coach Dale Brown went to a three guard lineup. O Neal got two Field goals from under Neath to Cut the deficit to two Points. Then Jackson and Maurice Williamson hit three three pointers As leu look the Lead for Good at 82-79 with 8 20 left. Jackson finished with 35 Points. Williamson with 26, and o Neal with 17. Anderson Hunt led univ scoring with 31. Six coming on three Point goals in his team s final two possessions. Larry Johnson had 27 Points and Davis Butler had 22 for univ. Univ Cut a 9-Point deficit to just two Points. 101-99, As leu s Randy Duvall Missal the front end in two straight one and-6fc�. But Duvall went to the line for his third time in 43 seconds and hit both shots to make it 103-99 with 25 seconds  the first half leu trailed 27-13 at the 11 37 Mark but oils cored univ 45 22 through the remainder of the period. Jackson had 21 Points in that surge. No. 21 Minnesota 108, no. 12 Indiana 89 Minneapolis Kevin Lynch scored 9 of his 17 Points during a 32-9 first half run sunday and Minnesota beat Indiana for the first time in 16 meetings. Minnesota 14-4 Overall and 5-3 in the big ten last Defeated the hoosiers in 1982, including nine straight losses since 1980, at Williams Arena. The gophers who topped 100 Points for the first time in a conference game since 1977 and the first time against Indiana since 1963, have won 25 of their last 26 Home games. That Lone loss came last year against Indiana. The hoosiers 13-4 and 3-4 have lost three of four including its last two by an average margin of 18" Points. It was the hoosiers most decisive loss in their 78 year old series with Minnesota since a 79-60 defeat in 1977. The gophers who out shot Indiana 53 39 percent in the Fust half led 52-35 at intermission and kept going after the break. They hit their first six shots including two 3-pointers by Willie Burton to stretch the Lead to 71 -46. Burton led six gophers All seniors and juniors in double figures with 22 Points running his career total to 1,497, moving past Tommy Davis into fourth place on the All Lime Minnesota scoring. Calbert Chaney scored 24 for the hoosiers. Who play almost exclusively freshmen and sophomores