European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 03, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. January 3, 1995 sports the stars and stripes Page 29 saturday in the nil dolphins conquer chiefs dolphins Dan Marino. Out duels pc s Joe Montana by Steven wine Miami a Dan Marino out played Joe Montana on saturday and it Only required a nearly perfect passing performance. In a shootout Between two of the game s greatest quarterbacks Marino threw for two touchdowns and the Miami dolphins capitalized on two late turnovers to beat Kansas City 27-17 in the opening round of the nil playoffs. Acc East Champion Miami 11-6 will play at acc West Champion san Diego 11-5 next sunday. The chargers had first round Bye. Kansas City the lowest seed in the acc playoffs finished 9-8. The first Montana Marino matchup since the 1985 super bowl lived up to its considerable hype. Marino completed 22 of 29 passes for 257 Yards and had four passes 1-Yard touchdown throw to Ronnie Williams tied the game at 17-Ali, and his7-Yard scoring lob to Irving Fryar made it 24-17. The 38-year-old Montana playing i perhaps his final game was nearly As Good. He hit 26 of 37 passes for 314 Yard Sand two touchdowns but Miami shut out the chiefs in the second half. Pete Stoyanovich s second 40-Yard Field goal gave Miami a 2717 Lead going into the final period and two turnovers doomed Kansas City s comeback bid. First Montana drove the chiefs to the Miami 5, but his pass to Eric Martin was intercepted by cornerback . break delighted coach Don Shula once again coaching from a sideline Scooter because of recent leg surgery. Miami punted and Kansas City again began to drive. But safety Michael Stew Art stripped the Ball from Marcus Allen following a 9-Yard run giving the dolphins Possession at their 34 with just Ivi minutes left a penalty against Kansas City s Der Rick Thomas for illegal hands to the face negated a third Down incompletion by Marino allowing Miami to keep the bal until the final two minutes. The dolphins ranked no. 1 in thenal in total offence scored on each of their first four possessions but trailed Formost of the opening half. Miami took its first Lead 24-17, by scoring on the opening drive of the third Quarter. On third and goal at the 7, Marino anticipated Kansas City s All out Blitz and lofted a completion to Fryar in the end zone. Packers bottle up Sanders Lions by Arnie Stapleton Green Bay wis. A it was the worst performance of Barry Sanders six year nil career and even the Green Bay packers could t believe , the nil s leading rusher this season carried 13 times for minus-1 Yard saturday As the Detroit Lions were beaten by the packers 16-12 in an opening round pfc playoff game it s inconceivable to hold him Yards Green Bay defensive end Reggie White said. He does things that no other Back i Don t know if you can play Barr Sanders any better than our defense played him today Green Bay coach Mike Holmgren said. Sanders gave credit to the packers pursuing defense for his negative performance. They did a Good of pursuing he said. When we tried to go outside they were there. They did a Good of fight ing off the blocks and closing up the holes. We be had a couple of games like that. We re fortunate they re few and far Sterling Sharpe s absence impaired the packers it was not nearly a damaging As Sanders missing running game Hurt their pro bowl receiver out with a career threatening neck injury the packers stopped Sanders who had gained 1,883 Yards this season. Sanders uncharacteristic performance was the major reason Detroit 9-8 was knocked out of the playoffs by Green Bay 10-7 for the second straight s hard to believe Barry Sanders could Ever be held to negative yardage Lions quarterback Dave Krieg said. We re learning Little by Little the Hardway that when Barry Sanders is not hav ing the Day you expect him to have it shard for this team to win Detroit coach Wayne Fontes said. Overall Detroit was held to minus-4yards on the ground the lowest Ever by an nil team in the playoffs. The pre Vious Low was 7 Yards Rushing by new England against Chicago in 1986. Brett Favre was 23-for-38 for 262 Yards with no interceptions for Green Bay. 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