European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 b the stars and stripes sports wednesday december 16, 1992 wolverines Breeze past Cleveland St. Seton Hall romps scion Halls Terry a Cher who finished with 27-Points, loses Ball As he is fouled while surrounded by St. Peters Luis a Rosa Lef Tcharles Clemons rear and Scott we Eden. By United press International Ann Arbor Mich. A it did no to take Long for Michigan to assert its dominance Over the Cleveland state. Michigan ran off the games first 12 Points and when the Vikings finally did score it was former Wolverine Sam Mitchell who broke the drought. Juwan Howard and Chris Webber each scored 21 Points monday night to help sixth ranked Michigan club Cleveland state 88-56 for its third straight Victory. Webber also grabbed nine rebounds to help the wolverines to a 51-24 Edge on the boards. Anthony Reed led the Vikings 1-1 with 15 Points and Mitchell a Transfer from Michigan playing his first game for Cleveland state added 14. Michigan a Jimmy King scored 12 Points All but two in the first half. The wolverines improved to 4-1. Howard and Webber had Only 10 Points Between them in the first half but the wolverines still managed a 37-23 Lead by shooting 55 percent from the Field to Cleveland states 36 percent. Howard scored 10 Points during an 188 run that pushed Michigan a Lead to 55-College basketball 32 with 12 11 left in the game. The wolverines Lead eventually reached 33 Points with less than a minute remaining. In the Only other game involving a ranked team seventh ranked Seton Hall pounded St. Peters 88-54. In other monday games Minnesota knocked off Texas san Antonio 93-75, Wisconsin routed Charleston Southern 101-72 and Indiana state edged Evansville 58-55.Seton Hall 88, St. Peters 54 East Rutherford . A Terry Deere scored 27 Points and Seton Hall ran off the first nine Points of the second half to break the game open. Seton Hall 7-1 led 37-27 at halftime then outscored the peacocks 51-27 in the second half. The pirates overcame a 2219 deficit by outscoring St. Peters 18-5 in the final seven minutes of the first half. Jerry Walker added 15 Points for Seton Hall which shot 69 percent from the Field in the second half and 57 percent for the game Onyango Mcrriman had 15 Points to Lead St. Peters. The peacocks 3-2 shot just 35 percent from the Field. Flu Ridden Ewing rallies kicks to win Over nuggets new York apr like Patrick Ewing their thu Ridden Center the new York kicks came alive in the second half monday night. Ewing who was hampered by the flu and a fever and Sal most of the first half with Early foul trouble matched his season Low with 11 Points while playing against fellow Georgetown Alum diem by Muttoni to who scored 15 and had 10 rebounds but after a sluggish first half the kicks woke up in the third Quarter and beat Denver 106-89, the nuggets fifth straight loss. Ewing said Mutombo a presence was the Only reason he did no to take the night off. A a that a Why 1 played Quot said Ewing of the Friendly rivalry Between him and mul mho. A i should have just gone Home to sleep. But we got the win and that a what  Charles Smith scored 23 Points and John Starks and Rolando Blackman each added 17 to Lead new York which has won nine of its last 12 games. Blackman averaging eight Points per game notched a season High. Herb Williams who spelled Ewing much of the night added 10. The kicks improved to 11-1 at Home the Best in the Aba Denver was 0 for 5 on its Road trip and hosts Portland on wednesday. Chris Jackson led Denver with 26 Points while Reggie Williams added 14. Like Ewing the kicks struggled in the first half but perked up after intermission. Quot in the second half we picked up die Energy level Quot new York coach Pat Riley said. A for some reason we did not have the Energy level in the first half. It was sort of like watching paint dry. When we did pick up the Energy level things began to happen for  Ewing and Mutombo were held to two and four Points respectively in the first two quarters As new York took a 44-39 halftime Lead. But both came alive in the third Quarter. New York took its first 10-Point Lead 61-51, with 4 43 left in the third Quarter. It came on a three Point play by Ewing and capped an 11-6 run that featured seven straight Points by Ewing who had nine in the Quarter. Mutombo meanwhile scored 10 in the period but the nuggets could pull no closer than eight. New York led 76-63 after three quarters. Flames Vernon Blanks wings Detroit apr Mike Vernon made 33 saves for his fifth career shutout As the Calgary flames beat the slumping Detroit red wings 3-0 in monday night s Only nil game. Vernon a last shutout was also against Detroit on Jan. 5, 1991 in Calgary. Detroit Hadnot been shut out since feb. 16, 1991, a Span of 133 games. The flames Are 4-1-2 in their last seven games All with Vernon in goal. Detroit is just 2-7-1 in its last 10 games. Calgary opened the scoring on a 2-on-l break with the unlikely duo of Ronnie Stern and Craig Berube. The two enforcers combined for just six Points in 49 games but Stern Slid the puck through defens Eman Mark Howe a legs and Reube tapped it under Vincent Riendeau for his second goal of the season at 14 54 of the opening period. Detroit dominated the second period out shooting the flames 12-5, but Vernon made several outstanding saves and Sergei Fedorov hit the goal Post at 6 20. The third period got off to a bad Start for the red wings As Dino Ceccarclli got a High sticking major and a game misconduct after just six seconds for cutting Gary suters nose. With 1 44 left in the penalty Gary Roberts beat Riendeau from the Edge of the crease for his 19th goal. Sergei Makarov nearly made it 3-0 with 13 minutes left but his shot at an open net hit the Post. With 37.5 seconds left Stern picked up a Loose puck and scored into the empty net for his second  32 years Cal finally returns to a hoop poll by the associated press the new kid on the top 25 Block could be around for awhile. California joined the poll monday As no. 25, the Golden bears first appearance in the rankings in 32 years. That followed consecutive seasons which saw them win the National championship in 1959 and lose to Ohio state in the championship game the next year. In the interim there have been just 10 winning seasons and Only one Mcaa berth. That Sall ancient history with the arrival of freshman sensation Jason Kidd a local product from the Bay area who has brought a High level of excitement and a National ranking to the Berkeley Campus. A i was concerned with the preseason rankings Quot coach Lou Campanelli said monday referring to one magazines no. 9 rating for California 3-0. A i think the kids have handled it All pretty Well. I told them and 1 will again that we Haven to earned anything wait until after the season. Then you la see where you  Campanelli who has four winning seasons in his six years at California has an All freshmen backcourt with the 6-foot-4 Kidd and 6-2 Jerrod Haase. Up front there a senior Brian Hendrick the son of former major leaguer George Hendrick who is recovering from a major knee injury and sophomores Alfred Grigsby and Lamond Murray the Cousin of former Urcla Star Tracy Murray. The top eight teams in the poll held their spots from last week. Duke 4-0 was again no. 1 with 38 first place votes and 1,598 Points 16 More than Kansas 5-0which got the 27 other no. 1 votes. The rest of the top ten was Kentucky Indiana North Carolina Michigan Seton Hall Iowa Oklahoma which jumped from a tie for 11th, and Florida state. Georgetown which was tied with Oklahoma stayed atop the second ten and was followed by Arkansas Urcla Syracuse Arizona Purdue Georgia tech Tulane Cincinnati and Nebraska. I he final five was Louisville univ Michigan state t Vonnee Picut and California. Louisville 1-2 fell from ninth after losing both its games last week to to Vanderbilt and Kentucky the latter a 20-Point Home loss. Connecticut 3-1 returned to the rankings after a one week absence