European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 10,1992 the stars and stripes c Page 25 blazers Down sonics pad Pacific Lead Aba Portland Ore. A most Aba players who draw their third foul with 4vi minutes left in the second Quarter get a Quick trip to the Bench. Not Clyde Drexler. Portland coach Rick Adelman kept Drexler in the game sunday night against Seattle and his Star guard ignited what turned out to the decisive outburst in a 109-97 Trail blazers Victory. A great coaching move a Drexler joked. A i think Rick made a great decision when he left me in. In a just glad i did no to let him  not hardly. When Portland outscored the sonics 19-7 Over the final 4 12 of the first half to take a 58-52 halftime Lead Drexler figured prominently in virtually every play. He had two 3-pointers, a steal a rebound Basket a behind the Back fast break pass to Jerome Kersey an assist to Buck Williams and two passes to players who were fouled beneath the blazers Basket. The Victory gave the blazers a Little breathing room Over Golden state in the tight Pacific division race As Portland embarks on a four game Road trip through the East. Coupled with Golden states one Point loss to the los Angeles clippers the Victory increased the blazers margin Over the warriors to iv2 games. The blazers have won four in a Row since their nationally televised 20-Point loss at Chicago March 1. Drexler topped the blazers with 23 Points. Cliff Robinson came off the Ench to score 21 Points including a career High 13 of 16 free throws against the foul plagued sonics. Kersey and Terry Porter added 17 Points apiece. Ricky Pierce scored 26 for Seattle but Only two in the final Quarter. A it is very difficult to beat a very Good team in their building without playing Well a sonics coach George Karl said. Seattle guard Gary Payton said the sonics can to beat Portland when they shoot i 38 percent. A fall that does is get them out on their fast break a he said. The sonics who had won eight of their revious 10, Are 14-8 since Karl took Over an. 23 after . Jones was fired. In other games sunday pistons 98, lakers 93 Inglewood Calif. A Joe Dumars scored 25 Points and Dennis Rodman pulled Down 20 rebounds to Lead the pistons. Former Laker Orlando Woolridge had 21 Points and Isiah Thomas added 16 Points for the pistons who won their fourth  112, bullets 98 Miami a Glen Rice scored 30 Points and grabbed 11 rebounds sunday to lift the heat. Grant Long had 21 Points and 7 rebounds and Brian Shaw had 10 Points 8 rebounds and 5 assists to help the heat who snapped a five game losing Streak. Pervis Ellison scored 24 Points and grabbed 13 rebounds to Lead the bullets who have lost seven of their last 10  111, magic 93 Orlando Fla. Kevin Gamble scored 18 Points and Larry Bird had 15 in his fourth game Back for the celtics. Boston undefeated since Bird returned from a Back injury snapped a five game losing Streak on the Road. Orlando has lost six  93, Mavericks 81 Dallas a David Robinson had 18 Points and 11 rebounds and Rod Strick and added 17 Points and 9 assists sparking the spurs. San Antonio which has won eight of its last 10 games held the Mavericks to 33 second half Points a 16 in the fourth  112, nuggets 88 Denver Karl Malone had 23 Points and 10 rebounds helping the jazz Romp. The jazz raced to a Lo-4 advantage on their Way to holding the nuggets to 12 first Quarter Points. After taking a 13-Point Lead into halftime Utah stretched e pistons Bill Laimbeer gets his pass by a leaping Terry Teagle of the lakers sunday. Its margin to 69-46 in the third Quarter and cruised to  97, warriors 96 los Angeles Danny Young Sank a pair of free throws with three seconds remaining giving the clippers the Triumph. Young drove the left Side of the Lane had his first shot blocked but grabbed the Ball out of the air and shot again. He Drew a foul from Tim Hardaway and the 84-Perccnt free throw shooter connected a on both foul  109, Kings 108 Sacramento Calif. Hakeem Olajuwon a Dunk off an Alley top pass with 3.3 seconds left lifted the rockets. Olajuwon had 25 Points and 14 rebounds. Otis Thorpe who fed Olajuwon for the game winning bucket had 21 Points and 17 rebounds. Vernon Maxwell made five 3-pointers in route to 19 Points. Chang wins champions cup Indian Wells Calif. A Michael Chang came from behind in the last two sets sunday to overcome an injured Andrei Chesnokov and win the champions cup Tennis tournament. Chang the no. 12 seed Defeated Chesnokov 6-3, 64, 7-5 to terminate the russians March past a string of seeded players. Included was a Victory saturday Over Michael Stich the reigning Wimbledon Champion. The Victory vaulted Chang from 15th to ninth in the association of Tennis professionals world rankings. He took Home $137,000 in earning his seventh career title. Chesnokov took the Lead in the final set despite a rib injury that forced him to take a three minute timeout to have his Chest taped during the first set. He said afterwards that he had injured a rib on his right Side while swimming on thursday. A i was afraid to breathe and move a he said. A i was thinking about defaulting. But this is  Chesnokov earned $72,380 and moved from 36th to 19th in the world rankings. Chang of Henderson nev., said he relaxed after Chesnokov appeared to be Hurt. A i tried to ease up and that was the wrong mentality a Chang said. Graf has no problem in Florida slims Michael Chang clawed Back to win the champions cup. Boca Raton Fla. Apr faced with no health problems no controversies and no Monica Seles Steffi Graf won her first tournament title of 1992. Graf mounting a charge at Seles to regain the no. 1 ranking she lost a year ago this week overcame a slow Start sunday to beat Conchita Martinez 3-6, 6-2, 6-0 in the Virginia slims of Florida. Martinez won a set from Graf for the first time in their six matches but the fourth seeded spaniard lost her fizz faster than the free Champagne served to the sellout crowd. Graf hitting the Ball deeper and harder than at the outset won 14 consecutive Points Early in the third set to pull away. A this is a Good Start for me because its Only the second time in be played this year a Graf said. A if you just keep practising All the time you done to really know where you  the second ranked Graf who missed the australian open because of measles last won a tournament in october. Her path to the title was made easier by the absence of Seles and the elimination of third ranked Gabriela Sabatini in a quarterfinal upset