European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rockets take it Aba final by Howard Ulman Houston a Hakeem Olajuwon lived up to his map Billing and the Houston rockets won their first championship and gave the City its first major league title beating new York 90-84 wednesday night in game 7 of the Aba finals. Olajuwon was Brilliant a 25 Points 10 rebounds and seven assists a and capped his own triple Crown with his first Aba championship and a unanimous series most valuable player selection to add to his regular Scatori map trophy. As he had All series Olajuwon won the Battle of centers with Patrick Ewing 10 years after Ewing a Georgetown team  Houston squad for the Mcaa Crown. Ewing Fin is Ned with 17 Points and 11 rebounds. And with the title still up for grabs Down the stretch the rockets stopped a Knick team that had the leagues Best defense holding them to three Field goals Over the final 6 48. They also ended the a Nicks quest to make their City the Only one to win Aba and nil titles in the same year. The rangers ended their 54-year Stanley cup drought eight Days earlier in another seven game series. Quot Houston you be wanted it for so Long. You be finally got it a Houston coach Rudy Tomjanovich said As he accepted the championship trophy. The kicks were As close As 78-75 when Olajuwon hit a Short jumper. Ewing missed a Baseline jumper and Vernon Maxwell part of the much maligned Houston backcourt nailed a 3-Pointer with 1 48 left for an eight Point Lead. When the Ball went through Tomjanovich stood with his arms raised in front of the Bench and Maxwell fell to the floor near mid court and was mobbed by his teammates As the kicks called a timeout. A i just shot the shot with a lot of Confidence and knocked Down a big shot a said Maxwell who finished with 21 Points. It still can to believe that we won the championship a Olajuwon said. New Yorkus John Starks who was nearly the hero in game 6 when his 3-Point attempt could have Given the kicks the title was 2-for-18 from the Field including 0-for-ll from 3-Point Range. He finished with eight Points half of what he had in dominating the fourth Quarter of game 6. This was the first finals since the 24-second shot clock was installed in 1954 that neither team reached 100 Points in any game. Anthony Mason gets an Elbow As Lake pm Olajuwon gets two Points in title game. The stars and stripes ports Page 36 Carlsen topples Edberg Wimbledon England f a Stefan Edberg became the third former Champion knocked out in the Early rounds of Wimbledon losing in five sets thursday to 113th-ranked Kenneth Carlsen of Denmark. Defending Champion Steffi Graf and 1991 Champion Michael Stich the no. 2 seed both lost in the first round. Edberg won the first set in a tiebreaker before darkness halted play late wednesday and scraped through another tiebreaker in the second set thursday. But he could produce Only two aces to 14 for Carlsen and the Dane rallied strongly for a 6-7 8-66-7 8-66-2, 6-4, 6-4 Victory the biggest of his career. Edberg went Down bravely saving five match Points to hold the ninth game of the last set before Carlsen served out the match at love. Arantha Sanchez Vicario and Jana Novotna two of the favourites after grass ouster easily won second round matches thursday. Sanchez Vicario the no. 2 seed Defeated i43rd-ranked Maria Jose Gaidano of Argentina 6-2, 6-1. Novotna the no. 5 seed and tearful loser to Graf in last years final routed Wiltrud Probst of Germany also by 6-2,6-1. In a matchup of two of the most surprising first round winners Bryan Shelton battled past moroccan Karim Alami 6-3,7-5,1-6,6-7 9-76-2. Big upset brings out american flags by the associated Tress draped in american flags the players saluted the crowd. The fans chanting Quot us a us a a a  let them leave the Field. World cup Insp Placid could this really be a soccer game iring memories of 19s0 and Lake the . Team struck a mighty blow for itself and its sport in a land where soccer has few roots and Little history. The americans stunned Colombia 2-1 in the world cup on wednesday arid moved to the Edge of advancing to the second round for the first time. Quot if we done to get the respect of the world now i done to know How we re going to do it a . Forward Roy Wegerle said see world cup standings on Page 33 after the Victory Over one of the Pictour Diament favourites. _ a a when we got out on the Field saw All those american flags at the Rose bowl think it really pumped everybody up a midfielder John Harkes said. A i think when we played Mexico Here recently there were about 10 american flags in the whole place. Today there must have been 55,000�?� by the end of the game there might have been thousands More soccer fans in the United states. In the other game wednesday at the Pontiac Silver dome Switzerland romped Over Romania 4-1, putting it in Range to Advance. Many of the 93,194 fans came to Pasadena calif., expecting a South american party and left celebrating the skills and spirit of the Host team. The americans took a to Lead when Andres Escobar knocked Harkess crossing pass into his own net at 35 minutes. Ernie Stewart got the second goal in the 52nd minute off a feed by Tab Ramos. Quot this was probably the most important goal i have scored in my life and it is great a Stewart said. Adolfo Valencia got colombians goal in the 90th minute. But at 0-2, it has Little Chance of advancing to the second round. Quot today the death certificate of Colombia was written a said coach Francisco Maturana whose team was playing under the Shadow of a death threat against midfielder Gabriel Gomez. Quot now we Only need somebody to sign  the americans meanwhile Are in great shape for advancing for the first time. They have four Points off the Victory and a tie against Switzerland. Only a one sided loss against Romania on sunday would prevent the . Team from moving on. Quot its very important that we done to look ahead a . Coach Bora Milutinovic said. Quot its very important to think about what we have  Gomez was dropped from the lineup after receiving a death threat by fax at the team s hotel in Fullerton calif., threatening to blow up Gomez a House in Colombia