European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 32 the stars and stripes sports sunday january 23,1994 sonics need rally to nip Aba celtics guard dec Brown looks for help As pressure is applied by the warriors Chris Mullin left and Avery Johnson during Boston s 124-116 Home Victory Friday night. By the associated press in the Aba s ultimate clash of Good is. Bad things did t go As expected. The Seattle supersonics went to dal Las with the Aba s Best Overall record and Best Road Mavericks had the worst Overall record a season Long Home Victory drought covering 18 games an 11-game Overall losing Streak and a Confidence level lower than their .056 winning percentage. So what did the sonics think when they found themselves Down by 14 Points in the third Quarter Friday night i Don t think they were worried Mavericks Forward Jamal Mashburn said after Seattle came Back for a 91-87 Victory their 30th in 35 games. Mashburn s comment was indicative of the Mavericks Low self esteem. But that s to be expected by now from a team that has hit Rock Bottom with 93 losses in 106games Over the last two seasons. We did t take care of the Ball at the end said the mavs Jimmy Jackson who led the team with 29 Points. We were a disaster Seattle coach George Karl said. Ill give my starters a few More games but if it does t clean it self up there will be some in other games Friday night bulls 96, pacers 95 at Chicago Reggie Miller got caught celebrating 0.8 seconds too Early. Miller bowed to the crowd after his jumper gave the pacers a 95-93 Lead but the game was t Over. Toni Kukoc caught a Cross court pass from Scottie Pippen and banked in a jumper from 25 feet away for the Victory. It was Chicago s 16th straight win at Home. Kukoc wound up with 19 Points. Celtics 124, warriors 116 at Boston the celtics opened a 19 Point Lead in the third Quarter and Golden state got no closer than three the rest of the Way. It was the fourth straight win for Boston while the warriors had their five game win Streak ended. Robert Parish 18 Points 14 re bound sat 40 the oldest player in the league dominated 21-year-old Chris Webber 18 Points three rebounds five foul the Aba s youngest player. It s the worst game i be seen web Ber play in a Long time Golden state coach Don Nelson said. You just can t turn it on and off in this league. Someone like Parish will teach pistons 118, heat 98 at Miami the pistons finally ended their o-for-1994 indignity. Joe Dumars scored 35 Points on 14 for-22 shooting and Terry Mills had 34 on 14-for-17 shooting As Detroit ended a 14 game losing Streak and got its first Victory since dec. 18. Cavaliers 106, clippers 90 at Inglewood calif., the clippers Bor rowed the lakers Home court because their regular court the . Sports Arena was damaged in monday s earthquake. Brad Daugherty had 21 Points and 18 rebounds and Mark Price scored 26 Points for the cars. Danny Manning led los Angeles with 21. Nets 113, Hawks 111, at Atlanta Kenny Anderson hit a 12 footer with 1.3 seconds left in overtime giving the Hawks their second straight Home defeat and dropping them into a virtual tie with Chicago for first place in the Central division. Derrick Coleman led the nets with 30 Points and 11 rebounds. Anderson had 24 Points. Dominique Wilkins scored 30 Points and Kevin Willis had 27 Points and 21 rebounds for the Hawks. Trail blazers 111, lakers 93 at Portland Clifford Robinson scored 23 Points and Clyde Drexler had 11 Points in 29 minutes after missing 13 games with an ankle sprain. I was pretty Rusty out there because i could t hang on to the Ball said Drexler whose ankle was secured with a Brace. Bucks 113, hornets 110 at Milwaukee Vin Baker Eric Mur Dock and Frank Brickowski had 20 Points each As the Bucks became the first sub .500 team to beat Charlotte this season. Charlotte closed to 100-99, but Mil Waukee scored the next nine Points. Jazz 112, Kings 83 at Salt Lake City Karl Malone had 20 Points and Tyrone Corbin and Jeff Malone had 18 each As Utah won its third straight. In a by the associated press Vivian Stringer remains one win Short of a coaching Milestone and Iowa probably fell one game Short of no. .1. A Lisa Furlin scored 18 Points and Bridget Porter 16 As Indiana beat no. 2 Iowa 82-58 Friday night dropping the Hawk eyes from the unbeaten ranks. The defeat also probably will keep Iowa from moving up to no. 1 in next week s rankings an Opportunity it had after Tennessee was beaten by re not a no. 1 team. I said that at the begin Ning Stringer said after her team was unable to pro vide coaching Victory no. 500."it s disgusting and embarrassing the Way we played. We deserved to lose. We just did not play to win in other games involving ranked teams it was no. 6 Colorado 81, Nebraska 55 no. 8 Kansas 85, Oklahoma 78 no. 10 Stanford 92, California 75 no. 13 Purdue 68, Minnesota 58 and no. 18 Ohio St. 81, Michigan 61. Indiana coach Jim Izard said he told his players i they wanted National attention this was their Chance. When we hit the first bucket in the second half we knew we would Indiana 11-2, 2-2 big ten led 28-25 at halftime and got a Quick Start when Kim Hooper opened the second half with a Basket. Iowa 11-1, 4-1 big ten built a 17-9 Lead after 9tt minutes but the hoosiers dominated thereafter. Cathy Marx led the Hawk eyes with 20 Points. In other games Friday night no. 6 Colorado 81, Nebraska 55 at Boulder colo., Decelle Thomas scored 18 Points women s College basketball for Colorado 14-2, 3-1 big eight which extended its Home winning Streak to 20 games. The buffaloes went into the intermission with a 45 23 Lead and coasted from there. Jamillah Lang scored 17 Points Erin Scholz had 12 and Lauri Weathers 10 for Colorado. Nebraska 9-9,1 4 was led by Emily Thompson with 12 Points and Lis Brenden with 11. No. 8 Kansas 85, Oklahoma 78 at Lawrence kan., Angela Aycock scored 24 Points and Charisse Sampson had 20 Points and 11 rebounds As Kansas 14-1, 5-0 big eight moved into sole posses Sion of first place in the big eight. The Jav Hawks led 39-35 at the half but Oklahoma 10-4, 3-1 pulled ahead 44-41 Early in the second half behind Angie Guffy who finished with 17 Points and 10 rebounds. But Guffy collided with Etta Maytubby and was forced out of the game with a mild concussion with 14 34 left. Maytubby led Oklahoma with 28 Points including five 3-Point shots. The Jay Hawks won the game at the line hitting 26 of 32 free throws to 12 of 19 for the sooner. No. 10 Stanford 92, California 75 at Berkeley calif., Christy Hedgpeth scored 26 Points and Anita Kaplan contributed 18 Points for the Cardinal 11-3, 4-1 Pac-10. Cal 7-8, 1-4 led until Kate Paye hit a 3-Pointer with to no. 2 Iowa 7 46 left in the half to tie it 22-22. After two Lead changes Cal led 40-35 at halftime. Stanford pulled away after halftime helped by a 26-6 run that put the game out of reach. Kelley Tatum scored 22 Points for Cal and Kerri Barrett had 18 Points and eight rebounds. The crowd of 3,628 was the second largest for a women s game in Harmon Arena. The largest was 4,208, also against Stanford. No. 13 Purdue 68, Minnesota 58 at West Lafayette ind., Leslie Johnson scored 20. Points for the boilermakers 13-3, 4-1 big ten who led 42-40 with 11 54 to play when Johnson scored two Quick baskets. Minnesota s Crystal Flint made a free throw before Purdue s Melina Griffin hit a Short jumper and a 3 Pointer and Tonya Kirk made an 8-foot jumper. Nikki Coates scored for Minnesota 8-5,1-3 to make it 53-43 before Purdue responded with Kirk s Baske tand Jennifer Jacoby s 3-Pointer to make it 58-43 with three minutes remaining. Carol Ann Shudlick led Minnesota with 16 Pearson added 14. No. 18 Ohio St. 81, Michigan 61 at Ann Arbor mich., Katie Smith scored 24 Point for Ohio state 10-4, 3-1 big ten which opened the second half with a 13-4 spurt to Lead 45-39. Michigan 3-11,0-5 never threatened Kiefer and Amy Johnson had 13 Points each for Michigan and Johnson had six assists and seven re Bounds. F r \
