European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 b the stars and stripes sports Friday november 13,1992 Mcdaniel Gamble spark celtics Over Charlotte 109-99 by the associated press Charlotte . Xavier Mcdaniel scored 25 Points and Reserve Kevin Gamble 23 wednesday night As the Boston celtics withstood Charlottes fourth Quarter charge for a 109-99 Victory. The hornets were led by Johnny Newman with 24 Points Kendall Gill with 23 and Larry Johnson with 15 Points and 15  Charlotte which trailed by As Many As 18 Points rallied after the celtics took an 86-73 Lead into the final Quarter. Gill scored 10 Points in the fourth period and Johnson a Layup with 6 45 left brought the hornets to 9589. They got no closer however As Bostons Reggie Lewis Dee Brown and Joe Kleine hit consecutive baskets for a 10189 Lead. In other games wednesday pacers 120,76ers 114 Indianapolis a Detluf Schrempf scored 22 of his 32 Points in the first half and Reggie Miller finished with 28 Points against Philadelphia lifting Indiana to its first Victory. The pacers trailed 71-65 at halftime despite the 22 Points by Schrempf who finished with 13 rebounds and also converted 16 of 17 free throws for the game. The 76crs still led 75-67 with 10 29 left in the third Quarter before Indiana scored 17 of the next 20 Points including seven by Miller who scored 19 in the second half. Philadelphia wingless in three games  catch up after trailing 84-78 with 6 31 left in the Quarter Jeff Hornacek led the mixers with 24  98, pistons 96, of Chicago a Michael Jordan a Buzzer beating Basket from seven feet behind the 3-Point line gave Chicago a Victory in overtime against Detroit. Joe Dumars 18-Footcr with 4.0 seconds left gave the pistons a 96-95 Lead. But after a timeout Scottie Pippen unbounded the Ball to Bill Cartwright and he passed to Jordan who finished with 37 Points when his 30-footer swished the net As time expired. Isiah Thomas led Detroit with 32 Points while Dumars scored 22. . Armstrong had 18 Points and Pippen 16. The Lead changed hands five times in the last 37 seconds of overtime. First Jordan a free throw gave the bulls a 9392 Lead but Orlando Woolridge made two free throws for a 94-93 Detroit Lead. Jordan converted two free throws with 11 seconds left putting the bulls Back in front before Dumars  101, Hawks 82 Houston a Vernon Maxwell scored 24 of his 30 Points in the second half and fuelled a late fourth Quarter surge leading Houston Over Atlanta. Maxwell scored seven Points during a 9-0 run that extended the rockets 83-77 Lead to 92-77. It was the first Victory of the season for Houston after two losses to Seattle in Japan. Hakeem Olajuwon had 26 Points and 17 rebounds and Rookie starter Robert Horry scored 14 Points for the rockets. The Hawks held to five Points in the final 6 39, were led by Dominique Wilkins with 21  124, Mavericks 116 Dallas a Blue Edwards led a third Quarter surge with 14 of his career High 31 Points lifting Milwaukee past wingless Dallas. Edwards converted five of six third Quarter shots As the Bucks won for the third time in four games. Derek Harper scored 21 Points for the Mavericks who have yet to win in three starts. Brian Howard finished with a career High 18 Points for Dallas and Eric Murdock scored 16 Points for Milwaukee. Dallas used a 10-4 fourth Quarter run capped by Doug Smiths Layup to Trail just 113-108 with 1 40 remaining. But Edwards Layup with 1 32 left started a burst Milwaukee Santhony Avent gets the inside track on the Mavericks Teny Davis in their Battle for a rebound in Dallas wednesday night that gave the Bucks a 120-111 margin. Clippers 109, Kings 101 los Angeles a Danny Manning had 21 Points 15 rebounds and nine assists As the los Angeles clippers won their first game of the season beating Sacramento 109-101 and handing the Kings their first loss. Mark Jackson added 19 Points and nine assists for the clippers who lost their first three games by a combined 10 Points a including a defeat at Sacramento on tuesday night on Randy Browne a last second jumper. The clippers took their biggest Lead 65-41, when Jackson converted a free throw after a technical foul against Wayne Causwell with 9 38 left in the third Quarter. 4 Reserve swing Man Walt Williams led Sacramento on a 14-6 run in the fourth period with eight of his 24 Points and Browne a two free throws narrowed the Gap to 97-84 with six minutes left. But the Kings got no closer than 107-101 on a 3-Point shot by Jim Les with 28 seconds to play. Tampa Bay ties for Lead by the associated press Tampa Fla the expansion Tampa Bay lightning climbed into a tie for first place in the Norris division As Chris Kontos scored twice in a 64 Victory Over the Detroit red wings on wednesday night the lightning improved to 8-8-2, Good for 18 Points and a share of the division Lead with Toronto which has played three fewer games. Tampa Bay has won three m a Row and is 4-0-1 in its last five games. Kontos who had previously never scored More than eight goals in a full season scored his 17th and 18th in Tampa Bay a 18th game leaving him behind Only Pittsburgh a Mario Lemieux who has 22, in the nil goal scoring race. In other games wednesday flames 4, whalers 3 Hartford Conn. A Sergei Makarov scored the tying and winning goals As As Calgary overcame a three goal deficit to beat Hartford extending the whalers wingless Streak to eight  7, Bruins z Buffalo . A Dave Andreychuk score National hockey league two of buffaloes five Power play goals As the sabres routed  7, senators 3 Ottawa a Andrei Kovalenko scored three times to Lead Quebec past Ottawa extending the senators wingless Streak to 15  8, devils 3 East Rutherford , Montreal won their eighth straight game and extended their unbeaten Streak to 12 As former new Jersey Captain Kirk Muller scored twice in a a rout of the devils. The 11-0-1 Streak is the longest for the canadians since a 15-game unbeaten run during the 1987-88 season but is Well Short of the club record of 28 230-5 set in 1977-78.capitals 7, rangers 4 new York a goaltender Jim Hrivnak redeemed himself after a near disastrous first period making 29 stops in the final 40 minutes As Washington rallied past struggling new  reportedly agrees with hornets Charlotte . A the Charlotte hornets have reached a contract agreement with Alonzo mourning ending a Long holdout by their no. 1 draft pick a newspaper reported on wednesday the Aba club and mourning agreed to a Multi year Deal the Charlotte observer reported quoting an Aba source close to the negotiations ending an impasse that kept the 6-foot-10 Georgetown Center out of the hornets exhibition schedule and the first three games of the regular season. Hornets president Spencer Stolpen expressed Hope that mourning soon would be in uniform but declined to confirm that an Accord had been reached a a we re very dose a a Stolpen said in a Telephone interview Early wednesday. He would not say whether a first year salary of $2.5 million cited in one report was accurate. A i wont even Tell you if that a close a he said. Mourning the no. 2 Overall pick in the College draft last june could join the team sometime this week. However the hornets must first reduce their payroll to fit mourning s first season Money under the a bad a $14 million per team salary Cap