The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 23

Take time C9 Comics CIO Television Cl 1 Thursday February 18 T988 Preki and Zungul biggest All-Stars Pair combine for five goals in rout other chance he said ask too Hinton thought he'd leave the issue up to fate knew it was going to be a close race for MVP why when the East went to a sixth attacker I left Branko Segota Preki and Zungul in there together a line I never would have used figured I would let the game settle who would By that tinie of course the game was over The West had fault a 7-3 lead and East Coach Gordon Jago had pulled bis keeper with 2:34 left Preki got the third goal to complete his hat trick and Zungul added the last one at 14:34 East Coach Gordon Jago said (the West) gave great affort early We made three mistakes early and it cost us three goals Dowler made some great saves later some out of this world saves or it might have been closer Asked about the sixth-attacker tactic Jago said pulled him for Please see MISL C6 vie Kai Haaskivi Fernando Clavijo all these players thought I deserved it tonight I thought I played very well especially in the first half of the game In the second half I have very good luck played very good game He deserved the MVP too" Preki had mixed feelings about beating Zungul out of th4 award they should give two of them one to me and one to Stevie That was my game I scored three games and the team won Maybe it was Zungul who was ignored on one golden opportunity by Preki who was on a break with him and Segota laughed about it afterward should have better passed the ball I would have gotten the MVP he said chuckling nothing unusual for me been chasing this thing for so many years looks like it is written for me to be second in the MVP always runner-up in MVP That's Asked if he thought get an By John Lawroneo Tha Newt Tribune West Coach Alan Hinton promised his team would attack in the Major Indoor Soccer League's ninth annual All-Star Game But nobody expected them to flatten the East with a first-quarter four-goal punch But that's happened Wednesday night before 17251 at the Tacoma Dome the second largest crowd in All-Star history and the result was a 9-2 victory the most lodsided in All-Star history The game had a big Tacoma connection Preki scored a hat trick for the West and Steve Zungul had two goals and an assist But in those stats was a trace of pathos: Zungul for the eighth time was nudged this time by Preki for the Most Valuable Player Award the only award that has eluded him though his career can I said Preki whose two goals early helped power the Sunday punch feels nice You play with Branko Segota Ste Trade-fodder Lucas helps topple Sonics Bickerstaff said do that by himself The Sonics had a lot to do with They did indeed The Sonics (26-24) shot just 375 percent from the field as All-Star forward Xavier McDaniel continued to struggle making just three of 14 shots The whole team has fallen into a funk That was apparent at the outset They fell behind by 16 midway through the second period This game appeared over as the Sonics starters sat on the bench in a cloud of melancholia think that was a complete exercise in Bickerstaff said shot over tbs basket under the basket and into the stands You Please see Sonics C12 By Mike Kahn The News Tribune MILWAUKEE The impromptu meeting at center court brought grins from both men just said Milwaukee Bucks guard John Lucas said did he That was it That was Wednesday morning between brief practices when pleasantries were exchanged between Lucas and Seattle SuperSonics Coach Bernie Bickerstaff Nine days ago Lucas might have been traded to the Sonics were it not for a salary cap problem that nullified a deal for Sam Vincent Wednesday night Lucas proved why the Sonics need him as he scored eight of his 10 points and Preki celebrates after he scores the second of his three goals Jm OironTh Nrwi Trifeuna Miracle? No dice: Soviets beat USA Boz-like antics slide into Games dished out three of his assists during the fourth quarter to lead the Bucks to a 115-93 victory over the Sonics before 11052 in the Mecca It was the Sonics' eighth loss in nine outings second time in three games they were held below 100 points and it was their lowest point total of the season obviously wanted to play well because you never know what will happen Lucas said can tell they are a team that is lacking confidence and leadership I can add another The play of Lucas and his cunning were apparent for the Bucks (25-22) But when asked to comment on the effect of Lucas' presence on the floor Bickerstaff bristled stung to lose not because of Bart Wright at Calgary fair Look still the same rules for almost everybody and besides if those other countries want extra guys let their TV networks cough up the 309 million Anyhow Wednesday morning there was Willie Gault entertaining a phalanx of reporters on his motivations for being here and why no tears should be shed for anyone be might bump off the team Please see Wright C7 By Bart Wright Tha News Tribune CALGARY Alberta This is not the place for miracles on ice The United States hockey team reversed its pattern this week by falling behind early then rushing back in the third period against the Soviet Union Wednesday night at the Saddledome but the result was the same as it had been two days earlier against Czechoslovakia: a 7-5 defeat The team that came to the Winter Olympics dreaming of a repeat of the 1980 miracle gold-medal effort at Lake Placid NY had those hopes all but eliminated by the relentless measured attack of the Soviet Union The defeat virtually eliminated any chance for the United States to win a gold medal and diminished its opportunity to gain entry to the six-team medal round To reach the medal round Team USA must beat Norway Friday and then defeat West Germany by at least two goals Sunday Additionally West Germany must lose in the interim to either A LGARY Alberta You can travel to the ends of the earth surround yourself with athletes from places like Budapest Helsinki and Oslo and educate yourself in all the technical aspects of 5000-meter speed skating Go anywhere you wish get as far away from mainstream American sports as possible it matter Somewhere you'll run into another Brian Bosworth story It happened Wednesday at a press conference for the United States bobsledders The subject came up innocently enough considering Chicago Bears wide receiver Willie Gault has been the focus of controversy since being accepted as a member of the bobsled traveling team as it were He hasn't made the final cut yet and probably but because of his presence the International Olympic Committee wu somehow persuaded to allow the American team to carry 13 bobsled aspirants The rest of the competing nations are still allowed the Olympic maximum 12 which seems only THE BIG EVENT: Spend skater Dan Jansen who fel final bid for a medal today in the IOOOfnetara pm Alpine skiing: women's downfall Ice faockeyiTrance vs Poland Ice hockey: Switzerland ve Sweden Spead skating: 1000m Ice hockey: Canada vs Finland Figure skating Men's short I program v- y-w Iiao-Mldnlght Olympic overview the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia The United States played its most exciting period thus far in the Olympics when it chopped away at a 6-2 Please see Hockey C7 Igor Stelnov of the Soviet Union sends Team Corey Miller to the ice in the 7-5 victory Good days will happen at Golden Gloves Anyhow this is a civic institution and a prime raiser of funds for the TAC a community-spirited bunch which donates all of its surplus cash to good athletic-oriented causes Special honorees this time around are Ernie and Frank Ruffo an amiable set of 77- and 75-year-old brothers who have been a part of the Tacoma sports scene since they played side by side on the journeyman success as a pro upset four-time Tacoma Gloves champ Ernie Ivery in the 147-pound prelims At that time nobody had yet won five titles here Colbert went on to take the welter crown and Fraser Scott who later fought Nino Benvenuti for the world middleweight championship was the 156-pound king But it just the Golden Gloves results which ranght my eye as I scurried through the history book Lyndon Johnson was in the White House and trying to finance a war in Vietnam He proposed a 81861 billion budget for the whole country and was lamenting that it would produce a $198 billion deficit Seattle voters on their third try passed a domed stadium bond issue valued at $40 million That lured major-league baseball to the Puget Sound country and created the Kingdome The SuperSonics were in their maiden season and playing a handful to games in Tacoma They Anally won one too before 3181 at the UPS Fieldhouse overcoming 38 points by Baltimore rookie Earl Monroe to prevail 135-126 fhe thing I like best about the Tacoma Athletic Commission-sponsored Golden Gloves boxing show is that it dates all back to 1949 and that it has happened every year since This is because I am increasingly fond of survivors one of which I myself yearn to become Outside of the rent there's not much else around here been going on that long without a miss In fact you can make a case that the 40th annual TAC Golden Gloves show which comes up at 1 pm (preliminaries) and 7 (finals) Saturday at Fieldhouse is really the 41st program in the series The old Tacoma War Athletic Commission sponsored a largely service-oriented Golden Gloves show in 1944 Ben Cheney the longtime lumber entrepreneur and sports booster and erstwhile News Tribune sports editor Dan Walton were ushered into the Pierce County Sports Hall to Fame Clay Huntington's then-annual show pulled 500 folks into the Winthrop Hotel's Crystal Ballroom A Rasmussen was mayor and as always the target to barbs Love wrote the editor to the paper to say that he had walked out of a City Council meeting Vsickened (by the) childish to the mayor The TAC was still dabbling in a lot of things back in those days Its inaugural Masters Bowling tournament at Pacific Lanes provided a scholarship award to a junior bowler Also among the bowlers the Carling All-Stars rolled 3246 for a three-game set at Lincoln Lanes with Earl 650 series only third best among the five-man team Star Trek aired Friday nights at 8:30 on NBC Comer Pyle VSMC on CBS drew more viewers Please aee Kenyon C8 Bella rmine teams of 1928-30 Ernie in fact was the first four-spot letterman in a single year join toother Frank in the 5-year-old Bella rmine Boosters Athletic Hall of Fame March 3 But I'm getting away from what I wanted to say about the Gloves I really wanted to tell you about all 40 years but we have enough newsprint for that Maybe another time Instead I'll split the difference and dig up a time capsule from tbs 20th annual GG show which happened Jan 12-13 1968 It was an interesting year too Then again most of them are looking from 20 years away Mike Colbert to Portland who went on to i.