European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 30 the stars and stripes sports sunday january 24,1993 for victories Roswell . A Hobbs High school basketball coach Ralph Tasker tied a National record for victories Friday night when his eagles Defeated Roswell 61-51. The win was Tasker a 1,026th against 261 losses tying Leslie Gaudett a record set at Louisiana spine Prairie High Between 1937 and 1970. Quot it was tremendous a Tasker said. T done to think anybody has Ever Given More Effort than our kids did on defense Tasker 73, can gain sole Possession of the record with a Victory tuesday night at Clovis. Tasker a 1,026th Victory came in the same night that a Smatha High school coach Morgan Wootten became Only the fifth High school basketball coach to win 1,000 games. A Smatha reached the plateau with an 85-50 Victory Over Ireton at Alexandria a. On saturday Bill Krueger of Houston Clear Lake went for win no. 1,022 against Clear Creek. 2,500 pay final tribute to Iowa eager Indianola Iowa Apas highlights of his basketball career flashed across a video screen Chris Street was remembered As an outstanding player a caring person and a Loving brother. About 2,500 people crowded into the first Assembly of god Church Friday to pay their final respects to Street the uni varsity of Iowa Forward killed in a traffic Accident earlier in the week. His death touched an entire state As Well As those who played with and against him. Players and coaches from rival schools Minnesota Iowa state and Northwestern were among the mourners who filed past his casket in a hallway outside the Sanctuary. Quot i think the life of Christopher should be a Model for us a the Rev. David Bayne of Iowa City said. A a he a be the first to laugh at that. But those of you that have known him would probably Street a 6-foot-8 Junior was known for his emotional fist waving style of play. But he made friends easily and his outgoing personality made him popular with opposing players. The 1,000-seat Sanctuary was filled an hour before the 11 . Service. The crowd spilled Over into the hallways. Is win 8th in Row by the associated press san Antonio David Robinson had 25 Points and 18 rebounds against Detroit As the san Antonio spurs beat the pistons 123-109 Friday night to match a franchise record with its eighth consecutive Victory. The spurs also got 17 Points from Avery Johnson whose promotion to starting Point guard coincided with the Start of the winning Streak. San Antonio won eight in. A Row on four previous occasions most recently in december 1990. The pistons losers of five in a Row were led by Joe Dumars and Gerald Glass with 15 Points apiece. San Antonio 13-2 since John Lucas became coach dec. 18, has won by an average of 13 Points during the Streak. In other games Friday suns 122, capitals 115 Landover my. A Charles Barkley bounced Back from a suspension with 21 Points on 9-for-u shooting and Rookie Lichard Dumas scored 18 Points in the fourth Quarter lifting Phoenix past Washington. Dumas finished with 26 Points one Short of his career High As the suns snapped a two game losing Streak and won their 10th straight Over the bullets. Barkley was fined $10,000 and suspended for one game for jumping on the scorers table and cursing off cats in a game at new York on monday. After sitting out a game against Cleveland on wednesday he made his first eight shots against the bullets. Pervis Ellison scored 27 Points and Harvey Grant 25 for the bullets who have lost four straight. Kicks 109,76ers 91 Philadelphia Patrick Ewing a 34 Points John Starks 32 and new Yorkus customary tight listed defense carried the kicks Over Philadelphia. The kicks won for the third straight time and snapped the mixer so six game winning Streak at Home. Jeff Hornacek led Philadelphia with 23 Points. Rolando Blackman fouled out of the game in the fourth Quarter the first time the 6-6 kicks guard was disqualified in 900 regular season games. Blackman a regular season Streak of never fouling out ended 145 games Short of the Aba record of 1,045 by Wilt Chamberlain. Hawks 102, nets 91 Atlanta a Dominique Wilkins scored 18 of his 38 Points and made 7 of 8 shots in the final 12 36 As Atlanta beat new Jersey. Derrick Coleman scored 22 Points and Kenny Anderson 20 for new Jersey. Cookie Blaylock had 18 Points for the Hawks and Stacey Augmon scored 12 before leaving with a contusion of the lower Back in the third period. Augmon was taken to a Hospital for a rays. Heat 110, magic 104 Orlando Fla. A Glen Rice scored National basketball association Oliver Miller of Phoenix drives for the Basket against Washington a Pervis Ellison. 31 Points and Miami made 44 free throws eight of them in the final 1 03, As the heat stopped a four game losing Streak with a Victory Over Orlando. Rony Sci Katy Only 4 of 17 from the Field but 10 of 12 from the foul line hit a amp air of free throws to break a 102-102 tie. Ice followed with two foul shots and Seikaly who had 18 Points made two More for a 108-102 Lead. Hornets 105, bulls 97 Chicago a Charlotte used balanced scoring to win for the first Lime in franchise history at Chicago stadium beating the bulls behind 19 Points each from Dell Curry Alonzo mourning and Kendall Gill. Jazz 98, lakers 94 Salt Lake City a Karl Malone scored 27 Points including four clutch free throws in the final 1 41, leading Utah past los 118, warriors 114,2 of Oakland Calif. A Ricky Pierce scored 33 Points and combined with Gary Payton for 22 of Seattle a 27 in the two overtime periods against Golden state. Cavaliers 100, clippers 92 los Angeles Brad Daugherty had 28 Points and 15 rebounds As Cleveland held off los Angeles Down the stretch. Trail blazers 135, Kings 127 Portland Ore. Terry Porter and Cliff Robinson had 27 Points each against Sacramento As Portland established its season High scoring output. Mid America s Elliott nears career 3-Point Mark Olathe Kan. A Bill Elliott a uniform May soon be hanging in the basketball Hall of Fame but he attracted Little interest among recruiters a few years ago. Elliott a 6-too 1-2 senior guard at mid. America Nazarene is about to become the most prolific 3-Poinl shooter in col-�?�4 lege history. He hit three Long ones thursday night to boost his four year College total to 423, eight shy of the record set by Tony Smith of Pfeiffer last year at the naia tournament in Kansas City to. With 13 games left in the season Elliott appears certain to break the record. He has hit about 45 percent of his career 3-Point attempts at mid America 423 of 938he averaged 18.5 Points a game during his first three years and 22.6 Points so far this season. Elliott who wondered if head gel to play College Ball when he left Olathe South align school downplays his drive for the record. A i think that shot that Breaks the record will be Worth the same As All the others a three Points a he said. A i done to know what its going to be like. Ill probably just give everybody High fives and then go on with the a i had no idea what the record was until someone told me last year Quot Elliott said. A numbers were never that big a Deal. I just wanted to go out and get three or four 3-pointers a game and help us a mid America is a suburban Kansas City College with an enrolment of about 1,250. Elliott was Given the Chance to play As a freshman and has averaged 35 or 36 games a season. He a missed one game because of an injury. A i chose to come Here because 1 thought 1 could come in and play right away a Elliott said. �?o1 done to think 1 could be played As Many games As i have anywhere else. Breaking this record is a longevity Type coach Rocky Lamar said Elliott was the first freshman he Ever promised would play. A when i recruited him 1 told him we were recruiting him to shoot the three. Then i was hoping head develop the rest of his game. He a exceeded All expectations in that regard a Lamar said. He a developed so Well in fact that the Hall of Fame in Springfield mass., has already called. A when he Breaks the record we re going to Send the Ball his uniform and shoes a Lamar said
