European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 7, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 25stanford Hemmers Western by. By Wendy e. Lane los Angeles a Stanford a women won their second Mcaa title in three years sunday with one Veteran and one new fresh face. Junior Center Val Whiting had 17 Points and 13 rebounds and freshman Forward Rachel Hemmer had 18 Points and is rebounds As the Cardinal Defeated Western Kentucky 78-62. One Day after scoring 28 Points in a 6665 semifinal Victory Over Virginia the 6-foot-3 Whiting got her second championship ring. But she  have done it without Hemmer who regrouped after an edgy semifinal performance in which she shot one of five and got just three rebounds before fouling out. �?o1 played pretty tight yesterday a Hemmer said. A after the game the coaches took me aside and said i had to play better than that. A they wanted me to rebound More so that a what i concentrated on. That a probably one of the easiest ways to get Back into a  Hemmer scored 10 of the cardinals first 18 Points and finished the first period with 12. She and Chris Macmurdo controlled the boards combining for 17 rebounds. Playing on consecutive Days proved advantageous to the Well conditioned Stanford team which trains with Cardinal track coach Brooks Johnson. Forcing a fast Tempo Stanford ran up and Down the court for almost the entire 40 minutes wearing Down the lady toppers. A the transition game helped us and the Tempo helped us a said Stanford avs Staley wins Naismith los Angeles a Dawn Staley Virginia a 5-foot-5 guard with the pinpoint passes and Quick shot won the Naismith award on sunday As College basketball Stop women a player for the second year in a Row. Staley a senior from Philadelphia led her team to the final four three straight years. Ranked no. 1 for almost the entire season the Cavaliers had a 32-1 season before losing to eventual Champion Stanford 66-65 in the Mcaa semifinals. She averaged 14.3 Points 5.5 rebounds and 6.2 assists this year and led her team in assists 27 times steals 26 times and scoring seven times. Staley holds the Mcaa career steals record and is the top women a scorer in Virginia history. Dawn Staley. Steals Leader coach Tara Vanderveer whose team was playing in its third straight final four. A a in a glad people got to see us play the Way we like to play an up Tempo  Stanford a Victory margin matched the second largest Ever in a women a Mcaa championship game achieved on two other occasions. The Cardinal 30-3 beat the lady toppers 27-8playing in their first Ever championship without making a Basket in the final 9 59. After the Cardinal took its biggest Lead 65-44, with 10 01 to play Western Kentucky capitalized on turnovers and climbed into Contention with a 15-3 surge. The lady toppers Cut the Lead to nine on Kim Pehlke s fourth 3-Pointer of the Day and Trina Wilson a free throw with 2 23 left to play. The Cardinal made 13 of 17 free throws after making its final Basket. Pehlke finished with 16 Points and Liesa Lang added 18 Points and 12 rebounds. Pehlke a 5-foot-7 guard who led the lady toppers in scoring this season never expected to be playing in the championship game after her team started the season 4-4. A it was a dream come True to get Here a she said. A i Felt confident throughout the game that wed win. When we started fouling with about 1 30 left is when i knew wed lost.�?�. Junior Point guard Molly Goodenbour a member of Stanford a 1990 championship team was named the tournaments outstanding player with Whiting and Hemmer making the All tourney team along with Pehlke and Virginia a Dawn Staley. Goodenbour had 28 Points and 12 assists in the final four making four it y 3-pointers in the semifinals. Vanderveer credits Goodenbour who took Over after Sonja Henning graduated last year with helping transform a team that was suppose eco to be rebuilding into Pacific-10 champions then National champions. A the Point guard has to be the quarterback of our team a the coach said. A we tailored our game to fit Molly. She has to get the Ball and to. She i move the Ball quickly up the  Kes leading 37-27 at the half Stanford quickly padded its Lead making it 59-35 on a three free throws by Christy Hedgpeth with 13 20 to play. She scored 10 joints during the spurt and finished with warriors cede game first place to blazers by the associated press Oakland Calif. The Golden state warriors have conceded the top spot in the Western conference to the Portland Trail blazers. By losing 130-122 to the Trail blazers on sunday night in the first game of a Home and Home series Between the two teams with the conferences Best records Golden state fell three games behind. A the race for the top spot is Over a Warrior coach Don Nelson said. A a we re shooting for the second spot  Clyde Drexler scored 34 Points and Terry Porter added 31 to Lead the Trail blazers who evened their season series with the warriors at 2-2. If the blazers win tuesday night they would gain a tiebreaker Edge Over Golden state by winning the season series. Chris Mullen led the warriors with 37 Points. In other games sunday Cavaliers 97, kicks 93 Richfield Ohio Brad Daugherty scored 22 Points including two clinching free throws after Larry Nance a Block preserved a late two Point Lead. New Yorkus magic number for clinching the Atlantic division title Over Boston remained at four. Cleveland which has won four straight Overall and 12 straight at Home has a magic number of three Over new York for clinching Home court advantage through the second round of the  97, Bucks 96 Milwaukee a Ron Harper scored the go ahead Basket with 1 19 left As the los Angeles clippers overcame a 16-Point deficit and handed Milwaukee its eighth straight loss. The Victory guarantees that the clippers 41-32 will Post their first non losing season since 1978-79, when the san Diego clippers went 43-39.nba  93, jazz 91 Minneapolis Reserve Tony Campbell scored 22 Points and Minnesota made eight free throws in the final minute to win its third straight game. Nets 128, pacers 120 Indianapolis Drazen Petrovic scored 38 Points As new Jersey Defeated Indiana and moved up to seventh place in the Eastern conference playoff race. Derrick Coleman had 22 Points and 10 rebounds for the nets while cookie Blaylock added 21 Points and 14 assists. New Jersey has won four straight games moving past Atlanta in the play on Hunt with a 35-39 record. Spurs 90, nuggets 87 Denver a Terry Cummings scored 24 Points As san Antonio handed Denver its seventh straight loss. Lakers 109, suns 104 Inglewood Calif. Vlade Divac had 30 Points and 13 rebounds As the lakers tightened their grip on a playoff spot. Terry Teagle added 18 of his 22 Points in the second half for los Angeles. Their sixth win in eight games increased the lakers Lead Over Idle Houston to 1 i games for the eighth and final Western conference playoff spot. Pistons 104, heat 80 Auburn Hills Mich. Bill Laim Beer scored 17 of his 19 Points in the second Quarter As Detroit broke out of an offensive slump. Kings 103, Mavericks 89 Sacramento Calif. Lionel Simmons scored 23 Points and tied a career High with 19 rebounds As Sacramento handed the Dallas Mavericks their 24th straight Road loss. Wayman Tisdale rear swats away a shot by Rodney Mccray fronted by Anthony Bonner