European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes monday february 5,1990 Robinson hits for 33 As spurs defeat bulls by he associated press san Antonio David Robin son had 33 Points and a season High 21 rebounds to offset 44 Points from Chicago s Michael Jordan in a 112-111 san Antonio Victory saturday night. A free throw by Maurice Cheeks gave the spurs a 111-105 Lead with 15.4 seconds left. The bulls Craig Hodges responded with a three Pointer at the 7.2 second Mark making the score 111-108. Robinson then hit one of two free throws with 3.2 seconds left to Seal the Victory for spurs coach Larry Brown who recorded his 500th professional win. Brown s career record is 500-343. With 229 wins coming inthe american basketball association. The spurs Victory was their 19th straight at Home giving them a league Best 20-1 record at Home. San Antonio s Willie Anderson and Terry Cummings scored 18 Points apiece and Anderson had 10 assists. The bulls Scollie pippin had 22. Robinson of played Chicago Cen Ter Bill Cartwight. Who fouled out Midway through the fourth period with two poin s and three rebounds in 19 minutes. The spurs shot 56.2 percent from the Field connecting on 41 of 73 Field goals. Robinson made 10 of 17 Field goals and 13 of 16 free throws in 41 min utes. Jordan who played 46 minutes was 17 of 32 from the Field and eight for eight from the line. In other games saturday kicks 112, pacers 98 new York Patrick Ewing scored 38 Points including 17 in the fourth Quarter and the first seven of a lib racking 9-0 run that lifted new York Over Indiana. The kicks. 19-2 at Home this sea son look a half game Lead Over Sec Ond place Philadelphia in the Atlantic division. The pacers lost their fifth consecutive game Overall their ninth straight on the Road and their 10th in a Row to the kicks who Indiana last beat on feb. 16. 1988. Pistons 105, Cavaliers 100 Richfield. Ohio Isiah Thom As playing wish five fouls scored seven of Detroit s final nine Points As the pistons beat Cleveland for their sixth straight Victory. The Cavaliers who had a three game winning Streak end have lost their last six games against Detroit. Cleveland rallied from a 16-Poinlsccondquartcr deficit to get within two Points several times in the fourth Quarter the last Lime at 98-96 on a pair of free throws by John Williams with 2 55 left. Thomas however hit a three Pointer then swatted the Ball away from Larry Nance and was fouled on the resulting Possession. He made Aba Roundup both free throws for a 103-96 Lead with 2 01 logo. Joe Dumars and Thomas each scored 19 Points for Detroit. Mark Price had 25 and Nance 24 for the Cavaliers. Suns 130, rockets 105 Phoenix Jeff Hornacek scored 20 of his season High 30 Points in a lopsided first half As Phoenix beat Houston for its i Ith consecutive Victory at Home. The suns made 78 percent of their Field goals in the first Quarter 18 of 23 and 74 percent in the half 31 of 42 in route to a season High 77 Points and a 30-Point Lead at intermission. Hornacek made 13 of his 16 Field goal attempts to better his previous season High of 28 Points. His career High is 32. Houston which lost its fifth game in a Row on the Road was led by Otis Thorpe s 19 Point. Akem Olajuwon averaging 23 Points was held to 12. Super sonics 94, bullets 92 Landover my. Derrick Mckey beat Washington with a 17-Ibotcr at the Buzzer giving Seattle its second straight Road Victory. Mckay finished with 17 Points for the sonics who had dropped 12 c9n so Cutie Road games before beating Indiana by one Point on Friday night. Nate Mcmillan inbound cd the Ball to Mckay with 4.2 seconds left. Mckey swung around the top of the key and shot Over Washington s Mark Alarie with less than a second remain ing. The Buzzer sounded As the Ball dropped through the net. Xavier Mcdaniel led Seattle with 29 Points. Bernard King paced the bullets with 25. Clippers 113, magic 110 Orlando. Fla. Danny Man Ning and Charles Smith each scored 23points As the los Angeles clippers front line picked up the Slack for their injury depleted backcourt to beat or  Benjamin added 22 Points for the clippers who broke a six game Road losing Streak. Los Angeles played without Start ing guards Gary Grant and Ron Harper. Grant broke his left leg in Friday s loss at Miami and Harper was lost for the season last month with a knee injury. Reggie Theus hit a three Point shot with 17 seconds remaining to make the score 112-110, but after the clippers David Rivers made one free throw or Lando s Otis Smith was Short with a last second three Point try that would have forced an overtime. Trail blazers 131, Mavericks 100 Portland Ore. Buck Wil Liams matched his season High with 24 Points and grabbed 11 rebounds while Jerome Kersey added 23 Points As Portland Defeated Dallas for its 1 Ith straight Victory at Home. Lemieux scores but Leafs win by the associated press Toronto Mario la Mioux extended his Point scoring Streak to 42 games with a goal and an assist but that was the Only highlight for the Pittsburgh penguins in an 8-4 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs saturday night. Lemieux was shadowed throughout the game and had Only one Good scoring Opportunity until Early in the third period. The Maple Leafs were killing a pen Alty when Paul cof Fly spotted Lemieux alone to the left of goalie Jeff Reese. Lemieux took Coffey s pass and ripped a wrist shot Over Reese s Glove 51 seconds into the period. La Mioux s 40th goal kept him in the Chase of Wayne Gretzky s Point scoring Streak of 51 games. Toronto had an easy time of it until the final period taking a 5-1 Lead into the third. Vince Damphousse led the Maple Leafs attack with a pair of goals and four Points. Al Lafranc and Gills Thibau Cau each had a goal and two assists. Dave Reid Lou France Schatti Brian Curran and Dan Marois also scored. John Cullen Bob Erry and Rob Brown added goals for Pittsburgh. Lafranc opened the scoring with a Short handed goal at 5 19 of the first period. His first shot hit the Post behind Frank Pic Trangelo in the penguins net. Laurale put in a rebound for his 13th goal. Cullen tied it with 50 seconds left in the opening period whipping a shot under Reese. Toronto buried the penguins with four goals in the second period. France Schatti put the Leafs ahead 15seconds after the period started. Damp Housse made it 3-1 at 10 04 and Reid scored Toronto s second Short handed goal of the night at 12 39. Damphousse made it 5-1 at 15 02. Pict Anglo did t look Sharp on any of the goals. Pittsburgh had a two Man advantage for 40 seconds late in the second period and it was obvious the penguins were intent on helping la Mioux close in on Gretzky. The efforts paid off in the third with Toronto Captain Rob Ramage looking on from the Penally Box where he was serving an interference minor. After la Mioux made it 5-2, Thibau Cau gave Toronto a four goal Lead for a second time. But Erry who scored at6 18. And Brown with a goal at 7 31, narrowed the Gap to 6-4. Curran snapped the life out of the penguins rally with his second goal of the season at 9 02. Marois made it 8-4 at 15 04. In other games saturday flyers 7, North stars 6 Philadelphia Mike Bullard s goal with nine seconds remaining in overtime gave Philadelphia its Victory nil Roundup Over  took a Cross ice pass from Rick Tocchet and sent a shot Over the Glove hand of Minnesota goaltender Jon Casey. The Victory was Philadelphia s third straight. Rangers 2. Bruins 1 Boston Brian Mullen s goal 3 59 into the third period gave the Ranger their second Victory in three weeks at Anston  lifted a pass out from Kelly Kisio Over goaltender Reggie a Mclin As a penalty was about to be assessed against the Bruins Greg Hawgood who had knocked Mullen Down. Cam Neely gave the Bruins a 1-0 Lead 13 seconds into the second period with his 38th goal of the season but Carey Wilson tied the game with a Power play goal at 2 25.the rangers arc 5-1-3 in their last nine games. Whalers 5, Nordques 1 Quebec five whalers scored in the first two periods As Hartford hande Quebec its sixth straight loss and spoiled Maurice Filion s return As general Man  verb cock Todd Krygier Ray per Raro Dave Tippelt and Mike Tomolak All scored in the opening 40 minutes when the whalers Ous hot Quebec 28-8. Michel Gould s goal Early in the third period ended goaltender Peter Sidorkiewicz s bid for his first shutout of the season. Filion the Nordques pm for 13 years until 1987, was hired on an interim basis on Friday after Martin Madden was fired. The Nordques 9-37-6 record is by far the worst in the nil. Blues 4, red wings 2 St. Louis Brett Hull scored his nil leading 48th and 49th goals As St. Louis Defeated Detroit extending its unbeaten Streak to six games. Rick Meagher had two assists for the blues who arc 4-0-2 since the All Star break. Detroit had won its previous three  was the 12th multiple goal game this season for Hull who has a 16-Gamcpoint-scoring Streak. He is one goal away from joining his father Hall of Famor Bobby Hull As the first father and son to score 50 goals in a season. Canadians 1, sabres 0 Montreal Stephane Richer s 32nd goal ended a tie at 15 48 of the second period and goaltender Patrick Roy made 30 saves in earning his second shutout of the season As Montreal edged  loss prevented the sabres from moving ahead of Boston into first place in the Adams division. The third place canadians moved within five Points of the top spot. Kings 4. Flames 3 los Angeles Bob Kudelski scored two goals including the game Winner with 3 59 left sparking los an Geles to a come from behind Victory Over  overtime Iii Iucci in u vivid in v.uibui/. Weder triumphs in bobsled championships ,.,. Or i i /. No. . Weir Nunn Nunn. Pud i a Iii v s in 89 i ii list and his Victory sunday was until Usi ast Mically . Switzerland a Guslav Weder drove his Switzerland i to new track records to win the world two Man bobsled championships on sunday holding off an East German Challenge. The 28-year-old a Cdr teamed with brakeman Bruno Gerber. Clocked an aggregate 4 minutes 19.90 seconds for the four runs Down the twisting 1,585 meter mile Long course the Only natural track on the International circuit. The East German pair of Harald Ciudaj and Axel Jang were 0.4 behind in second place. Wolfgang Hoppe. East Germany s 1989 Lillis and Winner of two olympic Gold medals in 1984, was third with Bogdan Musiol at the brakes trailing the winners by .68. Weder known for combining an explosive Start with precision steering set the Pace in the opener with a new track record of 1 04.80. After saturday s first two heats he already led his closest rival by .25 second an almost comfortable mar Gin which he kept widening on sunday. In the fourth he posted a new record Over the 50 meter push Start that can be decisive. I Victor enthusiastically greeted by Cowbell swinging fans lining the finish. The Swiss have been unbeaten since 1977 on their Home run which has to be built every year. The top non european finishers were Canada s Greg Hayden Luck and Patrick Jakcson in seventh place 1.54 behind. Canada ii with Chris Lori and Kenneth lab Lanc were tenth at 2.52. Usa 1, with Pilot Brian Shimer and brakeman Chris Coltman finished 12th, also on a Swiss sled. Shimer made his debut in the world title races. Matt Roy and Mike Mazi on Usa ii were 15th