European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lakers rally  a bad a Best record by the associated press Denver a the los Angeles lakers thoughts were a thousand Miles away after a third Quarter lapse put them in jeopardy of losing to the Denver nuggets on sunday. Quot except for about three minutes in the third Quarter when we were dead in the water i thought our team played a great game a coach Pat Riley said after the lakers Defeated Denver 116-109. A this was a great Opportunity for us due to the fact the Detroit pistons lost and believe me that was in the Back of our  _ their sixth consecutive Victory gave the lakers a four game Lead in the Battle with the pistons for playoff Home court advantage that goes to the team with tuesday april 10, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 25nba Roundup the Best regular season record. Detroit fell to Cleveland 100-97 earlier sunday. Denver a fat lever had 31 Points and 11 rebounds James worthy led los Angeles with 28 Points. A in other games sunday Cavaliers 100, pistons 97 Richfield Ohio a John Williams scored a career High 33 Points and Mark Price Sank two free throws with 12.3 seconds left As Cleveland beat Detroit keeping the Cavaliers in sole Possession of the final Eastern conference playoff berth. The Victory was the Cavaliers first in the last eight games against Detroit which has lost six of its last nine Overall and five of six on the Road. Cleveland leads Atlanta by one game for the eighth playoff berth. Rockets 146, magic 123 Orlando Fla. A sleepy Floyd scored a season High 32 Points and Houston scorched Orlando for 78 first half Points to hand the magic their ninth consecutive loss. The Victory pulled the rockets one game behind Seattle in the race for the final playoff berth in the f Western conference. Hornets 110, warriors 109 Charlotte . A Kelly Tripucka a free throw with seven tenths of a second left gave Charlotte a one Point Victory Over Golden state As the hornets recorded the second year franchise s first three game winning Slcak. A Denver Center Joe Barry Carroll right finds his path to the Basket impeded by lakers James worthy on sunday. Armon Gilliam had 19 Points and 14 rebounds to Lead the hornets. Nets 102, heat 101 East Rutherford . A Sam Bowie scored 12 of his 15 Points in the fourth Quarter including the go ahead Basket and new Jersey held off a late Miami rally. It snapped a four game losing Streak for the nets 17-58 and was their second in 17 games. The loss was the fifth straight for Miami 17-59which has the worst record in the Aba. Pacers 99, kicks 97 Indianapolis a Chuck persons 17-footer with 1.5 seconds left lifted Indiana Over new York snap Mears repeats in cart opener pro Civ a 1. 9 Ping the pacers 10-game losing Streak against the kicks. Patrick Ewing paced the kicks with 30 Points. 12 rebounds and four blocked shots. Ditlef Schrumpf led Indiana with 22 Points. Trail blazers 112, spurs 105 land Ore. A Clyde Drexler had 26 Points and 12 rebounds As Portland overcame a 36-Point 19-rebound performance by David Robinson to beat san Antonio. The spurs were playing for the second time in As Many nights and were without Terry Cummings who sprained his right ankle saturday night in a Victory at Sacramento. Phoenix apr Rick Mears started 1990 the Way he ended 1989 a in the winners Circle. Mears took the Lead 70 laps into the race sunday i a3? away the de 10 repeat As Champion at cars at pit the son opening event for indy cars at Phoenix International raceway. On?heearart�p2red-,ast year by winnin6 final race Aeed 1f Suguna �?~f., aver and earned $7,000? Chevrolet powered pm see 90 72i56stemndvf h<�\35 1112 seconds was runner up Bobby is the Rdv of a a Beer a Quot rain ant Ira Wahaj it teammate on the Galles Draco 126  Wusi t ird Rahall a average Speed was  30 Mph and Unser averaged 126.090 Mph. Teamma0t� Preul was_f0vrtb> Mears Penske racing teammates Emerson Fittipaldi and Danny Sullivan were fifth and sixth respectively and Eddie Cheever the Only american on the formula one grand prix circuit last year placed seventh in his first indy car race since 1986. Mears won the pole and the race last year on the i mile Oval. He went on to capture four other poles two other races and $ 1,165,684, putting him second behind a Tripaldi in the Overall Points standings. Hitch63 picked up where he left after an owning Unser starting from the outside of the front Row got the jump on Mears at the Start beating him into the first turn and getting Mears to Back off. Unser gave up the Lead to Rahal who joined the Albuquerque based Galles organization to get a Chevy powered Lola t-9000, on the 27th Lap. On apr Mears dipped Low on a turn got inside Rahal and kept widening his Lead. Davey Allison posts narrow win urls tin t a. Martin i not fun c Pavey a1,Lson beat Mark meats 500 narc a t0.win the Valleydale Coeway. Lascar race at Bristol International rather Heom a the. Ead for the Only time on Lap 392 10 the nits Una pro a a a it Stop wide the leaders went pits under a caution Flag. Urn ish a Nap Martin ducked Low in the fourth Hun Derbi rid in Abr ast of Allison a the two Ford Erbil is sprinted toward the finish line. Won but  the naked Eye who had Atter a Ewing video tapes Lascar officials ruled for Allison. It was Allison a first Winston cup Victory since the Pepsi 400 at Daytona last season. He won $50,100. Martin was second. Ricky Rudd finished third followed by Terry Labonte and Rick Wilson. After taking the Lead Allison spent the rest of the race fighting off challenges first from Darrell Waltrip and then from Martin. Waltrip had led from Lap 220 until his pit Stop on Lap. 391 and returned to Chase Allison until a tire went bad and he was forced to make a pit Stop with just 27 laps left. Martin moved onto Allison a bumper where he stayed until his last Tum  takes . Cycle up Monterey Calif. Apr Wayne Rainey won the . International grand prix for motorcycles on sunday but the Victory was in doubt until Kevin Schwantz crashed while running a few feet behind. Rainey jumped his 500cc team Kenny Roberts Yamaha in front of Schwantz a Suzuki at the Start of the 35-Lap race but on the second Lap of the 2.2-mile Laguna Seca raceway australian Kevin Magee crashed his Suzuki hard in turn 6, stopping the race. Magee was taken to san Jose medical Center where he underwent surgery to relieve pressure on the brain. The race was restarted and this time Schwantz got the advantage. It took Rainey until Lap 5 to get by diving underneath Schwantz in tight turn 11 leading onto the Start finish straight. Ironically that a where Schwantz went Down on Lap 24, in a bid to take Back the Lead. The texan got up and tried to restart his Bike but finally gave it to a turn worker and walked off the track in obvious pain. He was taken to Monterey Community Hospital for examination of his left West. Finishing second 30.386 seconds Back was Michael Doohan of Australia on a rothmans Honda. Third was pier Francesco Chili of Italy on a factory Honda. 1 the Victory gave Rainey a perfect record for 1990, with victories in the first two races and 40 Points toward the series title