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Basketball Alabama vs North Carolina UAB From page D1 (StaSaScs do not Include Ini irtfe games) WHEN: pm CST today WHERE: Charlotte NC AIRWAVES: WTTO-21 WVOK (890-AM) NOTES North Caroms Chariot upset 2fttwnked DePaul 6663 In last ni(ira first gams Twelve players haws played for 8w Crimson Tide Rs (Irat live gamae tNs season Of tfnea 12 only one senior Robert Horry has bean el Alabama longer than two years James Robinson and Latral Sprawal are second year players Sprawal was aetadad as the 8porta iustralad national player of tie weak last weak Haywood laid he ii willing to play any poaition on the court And he appear! to have accepted his role aa a reserve player who cornea in lor somebody who is tired or in foul trouble But Haywood admitted he haa a little extra incentive when it cornea to blocking shots an individual thing between me and Elbert (Rogen) Haywood aaid "There's competition between us to aee who haa the moat blocks" Haywood led 6-5 going into last nightrs gain only one blot game But Rogers managed one block so Haywood now haa 49ers have Demons feeling blue By Ray Melick Rat-Herald Reporter CHARLOTTE NC UNC-Char-lotte head coach Jeff Muliina knew his team would be nervous After all the 49ers' first-round opponent in the Tournament of Champions was 20th-ranked De-Paul and UNOC had not beaten a top-20 team since 1976-77 you are tight you put the ball in the Mullins said the one thing you can do is play defense and rebound" what the 49ers did outre-bounding the Blue Demons 48-41 and limiting them to 228 percent shoot- a comfortable 11-6 lead UAB appeared to have just aa comfortable a lead against Jackson State taking a 44-24 advantage into halftime But the Tigers outscored the Blazes 22-12 in the first 11 minutes of the second half cutting UAB'a lead to 57-47 Corey Ellis had an opportunity to slice the lead to only eight points byt he missed an easy layup Bartow took advantage of the reprieve by calling a timeout with 8:47 remaining to regroup his players told the team I wanted us to shoot layups and close-in Bartow said more jumping up from 20 feet off-balance Hie strategy worked as the Blazed Mt three consecutive layups and went on a 0-1 run to up their lead to 66-48 with seven minutes left Despite their second-half comeback attempt the Tigers never wre in sync on offense Leading scorer Lindsey Hunter who was three of 20 from the field and managed only nine points Hunter is our best player and for us to beat a team like UAB on their home court Lindsey kauo a mtmiI nlitkl bIimiIIim had to have team like all the teams been Ml I OH That may be especially tough for UNC-Charlotte this season because the 49ers lost leading scorer Jarvis for the season with a broken was a kid you could count on for 19 points a Mullin said diant know how the other kids would pick up for him only one game but a good was one game but DePaul coach Joey Meyer like what he saw dan say early (in the season) but it still Meyer said it be any easier tomorrow night first half they just kicked the hell out of us on the boards They got a lot of second shots They just made the big play and we didn't The Mg play came at the end when leading 62-60 with three minutes left UNC-Charlotte outscored the Demons 8-2 The biggest basket of all belonged to Daryl DeVauU who Mt an eight-footer with 57 seconds left to put the 49ers up 66-62 DePaul could not convert on the other end and free throw with 22 seconds left iced the game got behind at the end and there were no screens no Meyer said just Mullin said them shoot out and over us And we did a pretty good job of And got better as the game went along In the first half DePaul shot only 282 percent and the two teams went ui tied at 35 at the break In the second DePaul could barely find the basket hitting just 267 percent Meanwhile UNC-Charlotte was taking the high-percentage shot -7 layups by 6-11 sophomore center Rodney Odom Odom hit nine-of-10 shots and finished with a game-high 20 points along with 10 rebounds and three blocked shots every shot I took was a Odom said I could make layups I could score I can make Delano Johnson came off the bench to score 18 for UNC-Charlotte with Henry Williams adding 11 Stephen Howard led DePaul with 16 followed by Booth with 15 and Terry Davis with 10 was a big win for Odom said my first year to play here and used to being in a winning ram never played on a im that lost more than five games inaseason want to make UNOC a winning New York Knicks guard John Starke left knocks the bal away from Boston Catties guard Reggie Lewis during the first quarter Celtics knock off Knicks for lead was good enough to give UNC-Char lotte (2-1) a 68-62 victory over DePaul (3-1) and advance to championship game DePaul jumped out to a 15-5 lead and for a while it looked like the Demons would run away with it But then the 49ers ran off 11 unanswered points to go ahead 16-15 and the game stayed tight until the end And in the end it was poor outside shooting that did the Demons in Leading scorer David Booth averaging 24 points a game scored 15 only five in the second half there was one area we were concentrating on it was to keep them out of the middle of our de NBA wrapup BOSTON Larry Bird scored 12 of Ms 31 points as the Boston Celtics cracked New vaunted defense In a 25-point fourth period last night rallying for a 103-92 victory and extending their regular season streak against the Knicks to 21 games in Boston Garden Trailing by five points 73-68 after a raid third period the Celtics broke away from an 80-80 tie with a 13-4 run and went on to become the first team to score 100 points against the Knicks in seven games Bird led the decisive surge with six consecutive free throws including two that put Boston ahead to stay while Robert Pariah scored two key baskets on a book shot off a Bird pass and a dunk following up a Tide From page D1 Cedric Moore rebounded literally from a poor serformance in the recent victory over Ten-nessee-Chattanooga to score eight points but pull down a game-high 12-rebounds did a nice job but Tommy (Gugliotta) was pressing a lot Robinson said guy (Gugliotta) had one foot in the grave after (miming) his first six or seven that said glnia All-Atlantic Coast Cbnfe forward Bryant Stith to only 12 points last Sunday a challenge for me I tried to keep him from getting the ball a good scorer I just wanted to keep the ball out of his Sprewell had three steals two blocked shots and four rebounds to Gugliotta hit a 17-foot jumper to cut lead to seven points at 00-59 but then guard Dennis Miller sank two of two free throws Sprewell made two of two Miller made two of two again followed by Sprewell making two of two again and finally Robinson made three of four aa the Tide finished with an 11-7 run to clinch the victory It was a significant stretch because Alabama! had made only nine-of-10 free-throw attempts until that points Alabama finished Mtting 20 of 28 714 percent to 10 of 14 for NC State The victory was the ninth consecutive holiday tournament victory for the Tide and puts Alabama in its 14th tournament championship game of 16 holiday tournaments under Sanderson had 21 rebounds aa the Detroit Piston beat Washington the fourth straight loss I Dumars made nine of 12 field goal attempts and all 14 free throws to help the Piston snap a two-game losing streak Isiah Thomas scored 21 and Orlando Woolridge added 17 Harvey Grant scored 25 for Washington and Larry Stewart had 19 Michael Adams missed 13 of 18 field goal attempts and finished with 15 points 10 below his average Pacers 126 Bucks 108 INDIANAPOLIS Kenny Williams tied his career-high with 23 points and the Indiana Pacers outscored the Milwaukee Bucks 30-17 in the second quarter to win Reggie Miller added 19 points and Chuck Person 14 for Indiana Fred Roberta led Milwaukee with 20 points and Jeff Grayer had 19 for the Bucks who are £-2 under new coach Frank Hamblen Lakers 98 Nets 89 EAST RUTHERFORD NJ -Sam Perkins scored 18 of his 22 points in the second half leading the road-weary Los Angeles Lakers to a victory over the New Jersey Nets The Lakers losers of three of their four previous games after nine consecutive victories completed a even-game 12-day road trip with a 4-1 record They return home tomor- a good night shooting Jackson State coach Andy Stoglin said think it was defense He just hit the 3JAB opened the game looking as ifit would leave no ooubt on the outcome Leading 8-5 the Blazers went oaa 20-4 run over an eight-minute sfta run was a team effort in every-sense with seven players scor-ihg Stanley Jackson sank a baseline jumper George Wilkerson had a steal and a layup Rogers nailed two jiipip shots from the paint Carter Lhng sank a three-pointer Corey Jackson and Reginald Allen both had' layups and Clarence Thrash ttice tapped in missed shots really played pretty well during that stretch probably as well as wve played (this Bartow laid By the time the run was over UAB held a 28-9 lead with seven minutes left in the half Alien and Long took charge down tlje stretch scoring 11 of the Blazers final 16 points in the half as UAB took a comfortable 44-24 lead into the locker room Rogers led all scorers with 16 points Mowed by Long with 12 and Thrash and Corey Jackson with 10 each Rogers steals tlie show for Alabama St to take anything away from defense but we were atrocious Our offense is our key and any time you go nine for 24 (actually nine for 36 the first half) not doing much Perhaps the best stretch for Alabama was over the final 1:18 of the game when the Tide made ll-of-12 free-throw attempts with NC State fouling to try to get back into the game Horry finished with 15 points eight rebounds and a tournament-record six blocked shots giving him 23 in five games Alabama had eight blocks and now has 46 for the sea- rebound of a miss by Brian Shaw With their seventh victory in eight games and their seventh in a row at home the Celtics took the Atlantic Division lead from New York wMch had won six consecutive games Parish finished with 18 points Ed Pinckney 15 and Kevin Gamble and Reggie Lewis 10 apiece for Boston Patrick Erring had 28 points for New York John Starks had 19 off the bench one more than Xavier McDaniel No other New York player was in double figures Jazz 93 Spurs 92 SAN ANTONIO Bine Edwards made a 15-foot bank shot with 47 seconds left and the Utah Jazz beat San Antonio the first home loss of the season David Robinson had 81 points and 17 rebounds for the Spurs now 8-1 at led Utah with 81 home Karl Malone led Bearcats maul Carolina Pirates College wrapup Women points wMle Jeff Malone and John Stockton added 18 24 AnocUted Pren CINCINNATI Herb Jones scored 26 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead unbeaten Cincinnati (6-0) to a 105-69 blowout of East Carolina (3-2) last night Cincinnati's Nick Van Exel had 21 points Anthony Buford had 13 Allen Jackson had 12 and Martin had 11 Ike Copeland led the Pirates with 19 points Steve Richardson had 18 points and Ronnel Peterson had 12 St 60 Nero scored I points to lead UAB (4-0) to defeat Georgia State (3-2) Shyronda Mifflin added 12 points for UAB Vonda Scott 11 and Eureka Robinson 11 The Lakers allowed no field goals in a six-minute span of the fourth quarter when the outcome was in doubt Sam Bowie scored 18 points and Drazen Petrovic 16 for the Nets while James Worthy joined Perkins 1 for the Lakers with 22 points for the! 76ers 105 Trail Blazsrs 102 PHILADELPHIA Johnny Dawkins Mt a three-point shot at the overtime buzzer and carried Phila- Miles 64 Stillman 24 TUSCALOOSA Mia Ward scored 22 points and Shirley Sanders three-pointers late in the game to help the Trojans (6-0) rally against the Falcons (6-2) Jack Smith led all scorers with 25 points Andy Davis added 17 Terry McCord 15 and Fayson 11 Nate Driggers had 20 points for Montevallo and Don Coskey had 15 Jacksonville State 109 Georgia College 78 JACKSONVILLE Jacksonville State (5-0) used a 24-point night from Willie Fisher to fuel a win over Georgia College (1-3) Charles Burkette led the Gamecocks with 20 points grabbed 21 rebounds to lead Miles (4-2) over Stillman College (0-6) CelesUne Jackson had 18 By Gary Estes Pnt-Ifarild Reporter Steve Rogers made a key steal and slam dunk and Alabama State sank four-of-four free throws in the final 20 seconds as the Hornets battled back from a nine-point second-half deficit to defeat Northwestern (LO) State 90-85 last night in the second game of the UAB Classic at UAB Arena -With the game tied 82-82 and Northwestern (4-1) in possession of the' ball Rogers swiped the ball from guard Mark Dillon at midcourt rh3 1 Suns 122 Magic 10! ORLANDO Fla Jeff 1 scared 28 points and Andr had nine of his 17 points in period as the Phoenix Suns took trol in the second half and downed the Orlando Magic The victory was the sixth straight for the Suns who started the night in fifth place in the Pacific Division Hornacek was one of aix Suns to score in double digits wMle Lang led aU rebounders with 19 and also blocked six shots Scott Skiles led Orlando with 26 Miles delphia to a victory over the Portland Trial Blazen snapping the 76ers' seven-game losing streak Hersey Hawkins 1 with 29 points incli throws while Armon Gilliam contributed 24 and Dawkins 23 Clyde Drexler led Portland with 38 while Alaa Abdelnaby scored 17 including 11 aa the Blazed rallied from a 10-point deficit in the final to send the game into over- Marquette 71 Columbia 63 MILWAUKEE Damon scored 18 points and Ron Curry 10 in the second half as Marquette (3-0) held off Columbia Columbia (0-3) got 23 points from Buck Jenkins and 14 Iran Par Downing Troy SL 92 Montevallo 89 ROME Ga Tim FSyson Mt two Alabama 100 Cincinnati 80 MURFREESBORO Tenn -Linda Burgess scored 28 points and Betsy Harris added 19 to lead (5-1) past Cincinnati (2-3) and sprinted in for a slam dunk giv- athe Hornets (2-2) an 85-83 lead 1 2:30 remaining points while Turner each had Reynolds and Jeff 121 for the Magic tlSamfordat Evansville Bulls 114 Hornets 96 CHICAGO The Chicago Bulls extended their team record to 14 straight victories aa Michael Jordan scared 19 points and Horace Grant added 18 in an easy win over the Charlotte Hornets Jordan also had 11 rebounds and 10 assists GUI led Charlotte with 18 points while Johnny Newman had 17 Pistons 105 Bullets 94 LANDOVER Bid Joe Dumars scored 32 points and Dennis Rodman Clippers 102 Nuggets 100 DENVER Gary Grant scored five points In the final IAS of over- 1 time and Ron Harper made two de- dsive free throws with 172 seconds 1 remaining as the Los Angeles Clip- pers beat the Denver Nuggets Grant scored 20 points off the bench making eight of 10 ahota aa the Clippera hit 511 percent to 442 On their next two possessions the Demons threw the nail away and then were called for charging Clarence Taylor sank both ends of a one-and-one with 29 seconds left to make the score 87-82 Roman Banks quickly drove in for a layup for the Demons cutting the lead back to two points at 87-85 But the Hornets' Danny Carr immediately was fouled He calmly stopped to the line and sank both free throws to put the game away had some clutch free-throw shooting down the Alabama State coach James Oliver said "Danny Carr is probably our best free-throw shooter and he hit two big For Northwestern it was another WHEN: 735 pm CST todiy WHERE: EvwwvRs Ind ABIWAVEStWYDE (856AM) NOTES: Samtordwlbe locking for to first read victory of SwseasofL The BuSdogs lost 75-69 to Xavtor on Monday night Samtord sophomore point guild Kenya RanMn scocsd a career-high 12 points Thle is the eeoond consecutive game In which Semfoid has MeMon-40 feiEvansvRs EvanevMe has won Its last two since toeing to Oklahoma Stats in the first round o( the preseason NIT The Aces have dsfeatsd Capstan Northitdge and Peey Patroons knock off Bandits BlnnlnghamSoUtheillt BtnSiighem SoiShem CoSege (T 1) point for each quarter won Birmingham is still in a tie for first place in the Eastern Division with Grand Rapids which lost 125-112 to Rockford last night Albany ia aix prints behind in second place led the Bandits last Henry led Poor shooting and rebounding were the contributing factors last night as the Albany Patroons defeated the visiting Birmingham Bandits 94-90 The Bandits (6-7) defeated the Patroons (5-6) earlier this season in Birmingham 120-118 Last night however the Bandits hot only 392 percent from the field and were outrebounded 59-40 Albany picked up six points by winning the game and three quartos Birmingham earned one point by winningthe first quarter 24-17 In the CBA teams are awarded three prints for a victory and one iir a long line of frustrating list year the Demons lost 12 games in the final minute the way we Northwestern coach Dan Bell said live and die bv the three-point Alabama State led 59-57 with 14:30 left when freshman guard Jay Scherer of Grissom High School in Huntsville accounted for all of points in a 13-2 run that gave the Demons a 70-61 lead went on an amazing run for the Demons Bit Alabama State battled back to tie it at 72-72 and shut down Scherer from there WHEW 730 pm today WHERE: Memphis AIRWAVES: WCEO (1260AM) University (NAIADlstrfct24) hes bat 87-84 to Austin Peay an NCAA Division I school The Buocanaars are coming off a 82-80 victory ovsr Division I Tennessee Martin Last season Mfce Razafc was an atcontoranoe selection and sat a freshman soork? reoord with 172 points par game and Brant Addbon set a sbgbsoason assist raoord wBh8i2 par gam BSC wNwafcoms tie aervtoes of Darrin Moore Ssleadkig scorer after Iw missed two gamae wlh (ha flu Guard Dwmy Sen has been battlbg Hnesa as was but is scheduled to start 24 prints 24 night with Jeff Sanders scored 19 and Johnnie Hilliard and Derrick Rowland 18 each for the Patroons Birmingham plays host to Oklahoma City pm tomorrow.