European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday january 20. 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page-33 Milwaukee s Eric Murdock gets the Ball and draws a foul from Detroit s Isiah Thomas in tuesday night s game won by Bucks 123-91. Parish celtics fight Back by the associated press embarrassment does t begin at 40 for Robert Parish. The Aba s oldest player held scoreless by Houston and Hakeem Olajuwon at Boston Garden last week re Tim he sponged with 19 Bounds tuesday night helping the visiting celtics beat the Houston rockets 95-83. Nobody likes to go scoreless it really made me mad Parish said. It put a Dent in my Pride. Any time you go scoreless you take it personally but i can t take it personally with Hakeem because our offence in t built around me like it is around him. I can t shoot the Ball any the win gave the celtics their first two game winning Streak since dec. 1-3, when they Defeated Washington and Portland. The defeat left Houston with its first three game losing Streak of the season this is the Way we played Early in the season with a lot of Energy said coach Chris Ford who saw Boston go 8-21 after a 6-2 Start. I thought Robert would re Spond As he has responded to every Chal Lenge throughout his career. He had out standing numbers against a Guy who May be the league Olajuwon outscored Parish 37-0 in Houston s 94-84 Victory last week. On tuesday Olajuwon led the rockets with10 Points and 12 rebounds and otis28 Thorpe added 19 Points and 14 re Bounds while Dee Brown paced the cel tics with 23 Points. Houston is 6-7 since starting the sea son with a 22-1 record. The rockets were 24-0 this season when holding opponents under 100 Points but they now have lost two in Row despite giving up fewer than 100.in other games tuesday Superson los 103, lakers 88 Seattle improved to 28-5 Overall and 17-1 at Home both Aba bests despite losing All but six Points of a 22-Point Lead against visiting los Angeles. The sonics led 78-56 after three quarters before the lakers used a 21-5 burst to close to 83-77 with 5 32 left. Seattle built the advantage to 90-82 be fore Kendall Gill who led the sonics with 19 Points scored on a Dunk and two free throws for a 94-82 margin. The sonics coasted the rest of the Way handing los Angeles its fourth straight loss. Bucks 123, pistons 91 Milwaukee won the Battle of Central division losing streaks snapping a six game skid and handing Detroit its 14th consecutive loss. The pistons tied the clubs single sea son record losing Streak set in 1980. Their longest losing skid is 21 games the last 14 of the 1979-80 season and the first seven of 1980-81. Jon Barry scored a career High 21 Points for the Bucks who won for just the fourth time in 18 Home games. Allan Houston started for the injured Joe do Mars and led Detroit with 19 Points. Barry whose previous career Best was 20 Points against Cleveland on dec. 23, ignited a 22-2 fourth Quarter run with two 3-pointers and a breakaway Layup that gave Milwaukee a 106-78 Lead with 5 10 remaining. Suns 113, Mavericks 103 Green scored nine of his 19 Points in a 5 a minute Span late in the game including a three Point play with 1 38 left that sealed a Victory for Phoenix Over visiting Dallas. Green made it 110-98 with his Layup and free throw sending the Mavericks to their 10th straight defeat and 33rd in 35 games this season. Clippers 126, heat 124 los Angeles and Miami combined for an Aba record 23 3-Point baskets but the clippers were far More accurate than the heat. Mark Aguirre scored 23 Points and made six of seven 3-Point shots for the visiting clippers who made 11 of 15 at tempts. Trail blazers 104, nuggets 103 of Clifford Robinson s season High 32 Points and Rod Strickland s two free throws with 29 seconds left in overtime lifted Portland to its fourth straight Victory at Denver. The Only Points in the first three min utes of the extra period came on Bryant Stith s 19-footer Tor the nuggets As the blazers missed their first six shots. A cheer rangers win 4-1 by the associated press Brett Hull was right where he wanted to be and it could he said that Mike Richter had the St. Louis blues All Star right Wing exactly where he wanted him. On the first one 1 had him beat but i could t lift it Hull said marvelling at a fellow All Star whose play in goal helped the new York rangers to a 4-1 Victory tuesday night. The second time i thought i shot the puck Between his pads and i think it caught his toe As he went Down. That s the reason he s winning All those games saves like a told Richter made 25 of out Duelcy fellow All Star goaltender Curtis Joseph As the rangers struck for three first period goals. Alexander Karpovtsev Sergei nem chinos and Kevin Lowe scored in the opening period against Joseph who entered the game tied with Richter and Toronto s Felix Potvin for most wins in the league 21 the Victory gave the rangers league leading Marks of 30 Victo Ries and 63 Points. The rangers Are now 15-2-3 in their last 20 games on Home ice and 26-7-3 in their last 36 games Overall. In other games tuesday Nordques 6, penguins 3 Iain Fraser and Andrei Kovalenko scored 1 02 apart in the third period capping Quebec s rally from a two goal deficit As the apr piques ended a six game losing Streak. Visiting Pittsburgh came in unbeaten in six games 4-0-2but lost its fourth this season in a Many games against Quebec. Senators 4, oilers 3, of at Ottawa Sylvain Turgon scored at 1 23 of overtime on a perfect pass from Rookie Alexei Yashin As Ottawa ended a 13-Gamc wingless Streak. Turgeon snapped a shot from close Range to beat oilers goalie Bill Ranford after Yashin bulled around a defender and Back handed a pass from behind the net. Maple Leafs 3, mighty ducks 3 Dmitri Mironov saved hosting Toronto from embarrassment scoring with 2 24 remaining in the third period to Salvage the tie. Stars 5, Kings 3 third period goals by Trent Kujatt and Mike Mcphee blunted two rallies by visiting los Angeles and Dallas snapped a three game losing Streak. R _. Team Usa skates to 8-6 Victory Over Canada Calgary Alberta a Jeff Lazaro had a goal and two assists to Pace team Usa to a hard fought 8-6 exhibition hockey Victory Over team Canada on tues Day night. David Roberts Matt Martin Todd Marchant Brett Hauer Jim Campbell Craig Johnson and Mark Beau fait scored the other goals for the . Team which improved to 7-1-1 against the canadians. Nil Veteran Chris Kontos scored twice for Canada which also got scores from Brian Savage Trevor Sim Todd Warriner and Chris Therien. The scoring began Early in the first period when goaltender Corey Hirsch made a save on Roberts Only to see Kontos Knock the rebound into his own goal. Referee Cliff stauble handed out 17 penalties and ejected Fabian Joseph of Canada and John Lilley of the . For fighting in the rough and Tumble first period which took More than an hour to play. American goaltender Mike Dunham made 32 saves and collected his third assist of the season on mar chant s goal in the first period. Hirsch stopped 23 shots for Canada. Team Usa improved its Overall record to 35-15-5, while Canada is 25-21-3
