European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 22 a the stars and stripes thursday february 6, 1992spurs Stop blazers7 win Streak by the associated press san Antonio a Riding a six game winning Streak the Portland Trail blazers came to play some Ball in mister Robinson s neighbourhood. The san Antonio spurs Center swatted them Back to Oregon. David Robinson blocked a season High 11 shots scored 23 Points and pulled Down 14 rebounds a his seventh career triple dub la a As the spurs Defeated Portland 95-88 tuesday night. A anybody who did no to get excited about that game has to be dead a said spurs coach Bob Bass now 6-1 since taking Over for the fired Larry Brown. The spurs Trail blazers game was closer than the final score indicated. Trailing by three Points with the clock running Down Clyde Drexler attempted two 3-Point shots and missed both. He was called for a questionable offensive foul on the second attempt with 3.4 seconds left when spurs defender Sean Elliott tripped Over Drexler a leg As he a they said i kicked the Guy a Drexler said. A i was shooting a 3-Pointer and i tried to get my legs into the a livid Drexler was assessed two technical fouls and Sean Elliott made both foul shots. Terry Cummings added a Layup at the Buzzer to account for the seven Point margin of Victory. A i regret losing my control a Drexler said. A but i did no to like the Call and i let it go. There were three Tough Calls in a Row and that was the third strike for Portland shot a miserable 36.2 percent from the Field. Terry Porter was 5 of 23 and Drexler missed 22 of 32 shots. The blazers made Only four of their first 27 shots. Robinson blocked five shots in the first period and four in the fourth. The blazers led 84-78 with 4 01 remaining but made just one shot from the Field the rest of the game As san Antonio scored 17 of the final 21 Points. Rod Strickland scored 16, while Sean Elliott Terry Cummings and Willie Anderson added 14 apiece. San Antonio has now won five straight. In other games tuesday night clippers 97, Mavericks 80 los Angeles a Mack Calvin making his debut As interim head coach of the clippers led his team to a one sided Victory Over Dallas. Ken Norman had 19 Points and Ron Harper added 18 for the clippers who won consecutive games for the first time since dec. 15. The loss was the seventh straight for the Mavericks who have dropped 18 of 19.knlcks 122, heat 91 new York a Patrick Ewing scored nine of his 19 Points during a 23-6 second Quarter spurt and the kicks coasted to an easy win. The kicks 8-0 at Madison Square Garden against the heat in four years led just 39-37 with 6 41 left in the second period but held the heat to six free throws and 0-for-10 shooting for the remainder of the half. New York went into the locker room up 62-43. Ewing also had 13 rebounds and six blocked shots while Glen Rice scored 21 for 115, bullets 99 Charlotte . Johnny Newman paced a balanced Charlotte scoring attack with 19 Points As the hornets breezed past Washington to end a three game losing Streak. Seven hornets scored in double figures. Larry Johnson and Kendall Gill had 18 each. Washington lost for the ninth time in 10 games. Charlotte led through the entire second half As the bullets could get no closer than six. Washington Center Pervis Ellison made his first four shots but missed 10 of his last 15. He finished with 19 to Lead the bullets. Michael Adams named earlier in the Day to replace Larry Bird in the Allstar game had 16.Andreychuk leads sabres Over capitals by the associated press Buffalo . A Dave Andreychuk is on the Brink of breaking into the Buffalo sabres record Book. Andreychuk had a five Point game tuesday night a a goal and four assists a in leading the sabres to a 7-3 win Over the Washington capitals Andreychuk has scored at least a Point in the last 17 games one shy of tying the club Mark set in the 1971-72 season by Hall of Famor Gil Perreault. The latest Victory was buffaloes seventh straight game on Home ice without a loss and the sabres Are unbeaten in their last 11 outings 9-9-2. The game was tied 3-3 Midway through the third period when Buffalo tallied two goals in just 59 seconds. Randy Wood made it 4-3 when he blasted a 20-footer Over the left shoulder of goalie Mike list and Ken Sutton then powered Home a 30-Footcr. Pat Lafontaine a 30th goal of the season with just Over four minutes left in the game made it 6-3, and Rob Ray tallied with just 15-seconds left. In other games tuesday night devils 3, flyers 1 East Rutherford . For Chorske scored two goals to Back a 26-save performance by Chris Terreri and new Jersey continued Philadelphia a Road woes Bruins 3, jets 3 Winnipeg Manitoba a former Jet Brent Ashton scored with 3 28 left As Boston rallied from a three goal deficit to tie Winnipeg goals by Paul Macdermid Phil Housley and Fredrik Olausson gave Winnipeg a three goal advantage mid Stephane Richer of the devils is sent flying from a Check by Garry Galley of the flyers on tuesday night. Way though the second period but Bob Sweeney scored twice and Ashton got the tying goal As the Bruins stretched their unbeaten Streak to six 5, canadians 3 Vancouver British Columbia a Dan Murzyn and Sergio Somesso scored goals in a 24-second Span late in the third period As Vancouver rallied to defeat Montreal. Murzyn tied the game at 3-3 at 17 26 and Somesso added the game Winner at 17 50. Pavel Bure scored into an empty net at 19 35.islanders 2, Kings 1 Inglewood Calif. A Pierre Turgeon scored the game winning goal and goalie Mark Fitzpatrick turned away 33 shots As the new York islanders beat los Angeles to extend their unbeaten Streak to four games. Turgeon 30-foot slap shot for his 25th goal of the year at 3 10 of the final period snapped a 1-1 6, whalers 5 Daly City Calif. A Paul Fenton scored with 11 seconds remaining As san Jose Sharks extended Hartford skinless Steak to 12 games. Fenton finished off a 2-on-l break by pushing the winning goal past whalers goaltender Peter Sidorkiewicz. Hartford wasting a hat trick by John Cullen is 0-8-4 in its last 12 selected by Ohice As no. 2 pick new York a babe Laufenberg one of the a Fly a most travelled quarterbacks the last eight years decided to sign with the world league of american football because he wanted to play overseas. He ended up in Columbus Ohio. Laufenberg the quintessential third Stringer who Lias been Cut a dozen times by nil teams was taken by the expansion Ohio glory with the second Overall pick tuesday As the Olaf added More recognizable names for its second season. The first pick in the draft conducted by Telephone from Dallas was George Bethune an outside linebacker we Olaf draft spent 1989 and 1990 with the los Angeles rams. He was taken by the Sacramento surge who got the pick from Ohio by trading its first round pick and Center Curtis Wilson. All the players eligible had been signed by the league before the draft the three players after Laufenberg also had nil experience including defensive tackle Tracy Rocker Winner of the 1988 outland trophy As College footballs Best lineman. Rocker who started 16 games in his two seasons with the Washington redskins went to Orlando with the fifth pick. The third pick by Montreal was linebacker Emanuel King a first round pick by Cincinnati in the 1985 nil draft and later a los Angeles Raider. The fourth was defensive tackle Dick Chapura a former Chicago Bear the rest of the first round included offensive tackle Joe Banes taken by new York new Jersey offensive tackle David Douglas to Birmingham defensive tackle Michael Simmons to Frankfurt guard Brett Wiese to Barcelona cornerback Roland Smith to London and offensive tackle Ben Jefferson to Ohio which had two picks in each round. Among the other name players Takei were Clifford Charlton a former first round draft pick of Cleveland by Mon Treal in the second round Mike Norseth former Reserve quarterback for Cincinnat and Cleveland by Birmingham in Thi third Pete Mandley who spent sever years As a wide receiver with Detroit ant Kansas City by Montreal on the fifth ant of Brien Alston a former starting line Backer with Indianapolis by san Antonu on the eighth. Olaf teams will also chose from a its of up to four players most of them Iron developmental squads
