European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 a a a the stars and stripes Friday March 9, t990tomba returns to Victory . Norway up a Italy a double olympic Gold medallist Alberto Tomba clocked the fastest times on both runs thursday to score his ninth career slalom win and prove he a Back at the Summit of the world up after suffering an injury. Tomba completing two runs for just the second time since recovering from a fractured Collarbone sustained in a super giant slalom in Val do Serc in december won under the Sun in Central Norway with an aggregate time of 1 minute 46.19 seconds. Austrian Michael Tritscher placed second on 1 47.38, ahead of swede Jonas Nilsson with 1 47.49. Quot i dedicate this win to the girls of Italy a and my Mamma a the charismatic Tomba said. A after All it is women a Day at Home  the Triumph came More than three months after the 23-year-old racer last won a slalom. Austrian Thomas Sta Gassinger finished fourth on 1 47.56 through 62 and 66 Gates on the Cilo course. Fifth was teammate Bernhard Gstrein in 1 47.72. Ahead of Japan a Tetsuya Okabe 1 47.81 and american Tiger Shaw whose seventh place was his bust Over slalom result. Norway s hero. Ole Christian Furu Seth managed eighth one place better than runaway season Points Leader Pir min Zurbriggen. The Swiss who retires on March 31 with a record equating four world cup Overall titles Heads the table at an unreachable 319 Points. Furuseth is second at 228. West German Armin Bittner who wrapped up the season slalom Crown last weekend failed to finish the second run after standing second behind Tomba. A Alberto Tomba captures thursdays slalom in 1 46.19 for his first Victory in More than three months. Michael Tritscher took  from Page 21 Portland which led All the Way against the slower celtics. The blazers 130 Points Are the most Boston has Given up this season. The celtics were led by Larry Bird with 22 Points and Reggie Lewis with 20. Kevin Duckworth added 18 Points and Jerome Kersey 16 for the blazers. Suns 113, bullets 111 Landover my. A Kevin Johnson rebounded his own miss and scored with 2.7 seconds left giving Phoenix its third straight Victory. Tom Chambers scored 44 Points 32 in the second half to Lead the suns. Johnson tallied 25 Points and had 14 assists for the suns who swept the bullets for the second consecutive season. Bernard King led Washington with 34 Points and Jeff Malone had 25. On the game winning play Johnson drove past Darrell Walker and through the Lane. His initial shot was blocked by Charles Jones but he put in the rebound to give Phoenix the Lead. Washington had one last Chance to score but Steve Colter a 30-Footcr bounced off the rim at the Buzzer. Clippers 119, nets 115 East Rutherford . A Charles Smith scored 22 Points and Tom Garrick 14 of his 15 in the second half As los Angeles rallied from a 15-Point third Quarter deficit. The clippers took the Lead for Good with a 15-3 run Early in the fourth Quarter. Benoit Benjamin had 21 Points Ken Norman had 20 Points and 13 rebounds and Danny Manning had 18 Points for the clippers. Purvis Short led new Jersey with 25 Points. Chris Morris had 21 and Sam Bowie had 20 Points and 11 rebounds for the nets. Heat 122, magic 105 Miami a Scott Haffner scored 10 Points with five Long Range jumpers in the first 5 08 of the fourth Quarter defusing an Orlando rally and leading Miami in a Battle of expansion teams. After the heats Rory Sparrow hit a foul line jumper As the third Quarter ended Haffner hit two 20-footers to launch a 13-2 run that put Miami ahead 94-82 with 10 07 remaining. Orlando paced by Reggie Theus with 31 Points could not Cut the margin below 10 the rest of the Way. Rony Seikaly led Miami with 31 Points and 21 rebounds As the heat owned the boards. They out rebounded the magic 57-34. Nuggets 86, Timber wolves 73 Minneapolis a Danny Schayes scored 24 Points and Denver tied a franchise record for fewest Points allowed As the nuggets beat Minnesota. The nuggets whose 112.7 Points allowed is the third worst in the Aba held Minnesota a the leagues lowest scoring team with a 95.3-Point average a to jul percent shooting. The nuggets 1>u when opponents score under 100 Points held the Seattle supersonics to 73 Points on oct. 31, 1985. Denver averaging a league High 11 Points had its lowest scoring output in season but still had enough to win fourth straight game. The win was t 599th in coach Doug Moe a career. Pooh Richardson had 19 Points an Tony Campbell 18 for Minnesota out each missed 14 shots. North stars hand Blackhawk 5th straight loss by the associated press Bloomington Minn. A Brian Bellows Power play goal snapped a tic Midway through the third period wednesday night As the Minnesota North stars beat Chicago 5-4, the Black Hawks fifth straight loss. The loss Chicago a fourth in As Many visits Here this season prevented the Blackhawk from moving into a first place tie with St. Louis in the Norris division. With the Blackhawk shorthanded because of a Bench penalty for too Many men on the ice Bellows lifted a rebound Over newly acquired  Greg Millen at 8 52 for his career High 43rd goal. Denis Savard playing in his first game after missing 17 with a broken Finger had a goal and an assist leaving him two Points shy of 1,000 for his  Roundup jets 6, Nordques 3 Winnipeg Manitoba a Dale Hawer Chuk had a goal and two assists As Winnipeg clinched a berth in the smythe division playoffs. Edmonton and Calgary have already clinched spots in the smythe division with one playoff berth remaining. Flames 6, penguins 3 Calgary Alberta a Joe Mullen scored two goals As Calgary moved Back into first place in the smythe division with a Victory Over Pittsburgh. Rick Wamsley lost his bid for his second straight shutout with 8 34 remaining in the game on a goal by Chris Dahlquist. It was the first goal allowed b Wamsley in 134 minutes 45 seconds. The Victory Calgary a fifth in six games gave flames 81 Points one More than Edmonton m race for first place in the smythe division. Canadians 5, Kings 2russ Inglewood Calif. A Stephane Richer and Courtnell scored two goals each to Lead Muniru los Angeles which regained coach Tom Wens lost a defens Eman. Jmc Webster was behind the Bench for the or. Since feb. 3. He was sidelined by an inner ear p that was corrected by surgery on feb. 20. Before the game the Kings announced Senseman Barry Beck left the team by . Jun Beck was attempting a comeback from a Shonio