European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 c the stars and stripes tuesday february 4, 1992 Jordan proves worthy As bulls dispatch lakers from wire reports Inglewood Calif. When the los Angeles lakers switched James worthy to guard Michael Jordan it was the matchup the Chicago bulls wanted even if it meant embarrassing a fellow North carolinian. Jordan scored 14 of his 33 Points in the fourth Quarter sunday keying the bulls 103-97 Victory Over the lakers in the first meeting Between the two teams at the forum since last years Aba finals. A we tried to keep the Ball out of Jordan a hands a said worthy who scored 20 Points a i guarded him to give him a bigger look but it does no to seem to make any difference. A we All knew in the last six or seven minutes Michael would take  even with the taller worthy on him Jordan made seven of 11 shots in the final period. The bulls shot 65 percent in the Quarter. A the difference in the game was i was isolated against worthy in the fourth Quarter which we wanted to happen a Jordan said. A i would prefer to do some of those moves against someone else not a North carolinian. Worthy was unable to Stop Jordan. A a he a just a remarkable player a worthy said. A the Wasny to doing anything different against us than he a done the last six or seven  the lakers who had a four game winning Streak snapped were led by Sam Perkins and . Green with 25 Points each. For the bulls Scottie Pippen had 25 Points and 10 rebounds while Bill Cartwright had 17 Points. In other late games sunday Trail blazers 147, Kings 107 Portland Ore. Terry Porter Aba shot 8 for 8 As Portland scored 85 Points in the first half a one Short of the team record a and won its 12th straight Home game. Porter scored 21 Points 19 in the first half. Kevin Duckworth and Cliff Robinson had 18 Points each for Portland. Spud Webb scored 23 Points and Way Man Tisdale 20 for Sacramento. Heat 118, hornets 100 Miami a Glen Rice scored 28 Points a his seventh consecutive game with 20 or More a in Miami a Victory Over Charlotte. The hornets closed a 12-Point deficit to five in the third Quarter before the heat went on a 19-1 surge to build a 9269 Lead with 11 11 left in the game. With Kendal Gill scoring 14 of his 23 Points in the fourth Quarter Charlotte battled Back again closing to 103-95. But Miami responded with a 9-0 run for a 17-Point advantage with 2 10 remaining. Pacers 128, nuggets 122 Denver a Indiana won for Only the fifth time in 23 Road games As Chuck person scored 27 Points and Reggie Miller 22 against Denver leading six pacers in double figures. The nuggets led by Reggie Williams with 27 Points Chris Jackson with 26 and Greg Anderson with 22, made 56.6 percent of their shots. Bucks 122, supersonics 106 Milwaukee Dale Ellis scored 23 Points in his first game against Seattle since it traded him to the Bucks and Moses Malone had 22 Points and 13 rebounds. 8am Perkins Waits his Chance As Michael Jordan slides for a Loose Ball  s Essensa registers 5th shutout by United press International Winnipeg Manitoba a Bob Essensa entered the 1991-92 season with six shutouts in his three year career. Sunday he stopped 40 shots to notch his league leading fifth of the season guiding the Winnipeg jets to a 6-0 Triumph Over the san Jose Sharks. A at this Point in time i guess its special Quot Essensa said. A the Way the goaltenders have been playing around the league a the Patrick roys and Eddie Bel fours a i can to be Happy with just having five. I want to try and get six and seven if at All  Luciano Borsato scored twice and added two assists for the jets who took control with four first period goals. Essensa turned aside 13 shots in the first period and 17 More in the Thiis i �?o1 thought anytime you have a six goal Lead which has been very rare for us this season a Essensa said a you can to help but try to play defense. Sometimes its a negative the big Lead because they re always coming at you and creating  despite nut Shonting Winnipeg 40-31, the Sharks fell to 1-5 in their last six contests. The expansion club is 223-2 on the Road. Essensa who registered four shutouts last season blacked Philadelphia new Jersey and Edmonton in a one month Span Early in the season before Cooling off. He got Back at it again last tuesday shutting out Pittsburgh. San Jose had out shot the jets 6-0 when Borsato scored at 3 05 and 5 54, then set up John Leblanc a Power play goal at 9 03 of the first period. Before Borsato a outburst the jets were forced to kill off a penalty called just 56 seconds into the game and Essensa said he Felt that picked up the club. A we realize the penalty killing part of our game has not been very Good but i thought they did a great Job Quot he said. A they kept shots from the perimeter and allowed me to see the shots then we came Down and got Lemieux quits lacing pm up Pittsburgh up1 in an attempt to relieve his chronic Back problems Pittsburgh Penguin Center Mario Lemieux will have someone else tie his skates. Lemieux injured his Back while reaching Over to tie his skates three games ago. He played in the first period of that game against Winnipeg but sat out the last two periods. Lemieux missed the next two games and was expected to sit out monday nights game at the civic Arena with the Detroit red wings. Doctors told Lemieux sunday it would be better if someone else tied his skates and the Job was assigned to assistant equipment manager Tracy Luppe. Few Quick  Borsato Drew his second assist at 10 15 of the second period on Darrin Shannon a goal that gave Winnipeg a 6-Lead. Winnipeg defens Eman Phil Housley assisted on Borsato a first goal and scored his 19th goal on the Power play at 5 29 of the second period. Mike eagles had scored at 17 49 of the first period for a 4-0 Winnipeg Lead. Shannon and Pat a Lynnik collected two assists apiece. In other sunday games flyers 5, blues 1 Philadelphia a Kerry Huffman recorded a goal and two assists to help Philadelphia extend its unbeaten string to four games 3-0-1. The flyers have lost just once in their last 13 Home games 7-1-5. But to get Back into the Patrick division playoff race a the last place flyers Are 13 Points out of a playoff berth a Philadelphia will have to learn to win on the Road where it is 0-7-2 since dec. 21. The flyers visit new Jersey on tuesday and Quebec on saturday sandwiched around a Home game against Boston on thursday. League goal scoring Leader Brett Hull was held without a Point for the second straight Outing. St. Louis also Learned Center Ron Sutter will be sidelined approximately three weeks after suffering a knee injury saturday against  8, Nordques t Edmonton Alberta a Dave Manson scored twice and Joe Murphy Norm Maciver and Craig Simpson each collected a goal and two assists to extend Quebec a Road wingless Streak this season to 25 games. The oilers jumped to a 7-0 Lead in route to their 13th straight win Over the Nordques at Home dating to nov. 21, 1982. Quebec 0-5-20 on the Road was out shot 36-14.islanders 6, flames 3 Uniondale . A Derek King and Steve Thomas scored 52 seconds apart to snap a 3-3 third period tie. David Volek who signed a two year contract Extension sunday notched his second of the game and 10th of the year with 3 32 remaining. Michel Petit scored twice for the flames who lost for the fifth straight game