Show Standard-Examine- r 3S November 19 1988 Saturday m Sports matchups affect bowls Big By HERSCHEL NSSENSON AP Foo teal! Wnte It is doubtful there has ever been a college football Saturday like this Super Saturday — at least not in a long while No fewer than eight of the Associated Press Top Twenty will go at it today and next week’s rankings may bear scant resemblance to the current head-to-he- ad poll Today's schedule is so scintillatMichigan-Ohi- o State game for years the one that decided the Big Ten's Rose Bowl representative has been relegated to also-ra- n status Even the ing that the Big Eight shoo- tout has lost some of its luster although both teams are in the Top Ten and the winner as usual will go to the Orange Bowl with the loser bound for the Florida Citrus Bowl Topping the schedule is “Measles Mania” — second-ranke- d Southern California at No 6 UCLA for the Pac-1- 0 crown and a Rose Bowl berth Ironically the game will be played in the Rose Bowl which also serves as UCLA’s home field If USC wins — the Trojans are 3 against UCLA at the Rose Bowl — UCLA goes to the Cotton Bowl if UCLA wins Southern Cal goes to the Sugar Bowl Hopefully the game within the battle game — the of the dueling quarterbacks UCLA’s Troy Aikman vs USC’s Rodney Peete — also will take place Peete was suffering from the measles this week 0-- Judy Bob Murray (left) of the Saginaw Hawks and Jim Johannson r OwensStandard-Examtne- long-await- of the Golden Eagles try to untangle themselves Rookie lifts SLC past Saginaw SALT LAKE CITY — Two goals by rookie left wing Paul Ranheim led Salt Lake City to a 2 win over Saginaw in International Hockey League action Friday night at the Salt 5-- Palace Friday’s victory was the fourth straight triumph for the Golden Eagles “We forced the action initiated the contact offensively" said Salt Lake Coach Paul Baxter “(Goalie Doug) Dad- - swell came up with some key saves on the defensive end” The Hawks took the early lead when Bill Watson batted in his own rebound only 33 seconds into the game Saginaw managed to hold onto the lead throughout the first period Center Theoren Fleury tied the score for the Golden Eagles in the second period Fleury has now scored in six straight contests He has 18 goals for -0 the season Ranheim who played at the University of Wisconsin last year put in the next two goals to give the Golden Eagles a 1 3-- lead Rich Chernotnaz and Rick Lessard each followed with goals as Salt Lake increased its advantage to 1 Dadswell had 25 saves for the Golden Eagles while Salt Lake City had 32 shots at the Hawks’ net 5-- Salt Lake raised its record to for the season while Saginaw dropped to overall The Eagles now begin a road trip with a game tonight at Kalamazoo and Sunday at Peoria “It (Friday’s victory) was the kind of win we needed before starting this trip” said Baxter Salt Lake won’t return to the Salt Palace until Dec 10 with a battle against Denver 12-8- -1 -3 10-ga- Southern Cal must win to set shootout with up next week’s Notre Dame which has a home game against a 5 Penn State team that is trying to avoid its first losing season in 50 -2 top-rank- 5-- years Third-ranke- d Miami Fla bound for the Orange Bowl again and still hoping to repeat its 1987 national championship has a LSU which night game at No will play in either the Sugar or Hall of Fame Bowls depending on tonight’s game plus what Au- 1 1 Any team would be hurt by the loss of Larry Bird but Washington Coach Wes Unsold quickly notes “those other four guys are capable of beating just about any- body” The “other four guys” — Kevin NBA Roundup The Blazers were led by Clyde 76ers 137 Knlcks 135 Clippers 113 Pacers 110 At Philadelphia Charles Barkley had 38 points and 13 rebounds and made a key steal with 10 seconds left carrying the 76ers At Los Angeles Benoit Benjamin scored 22 points to lead the Clippers past winless Indiana which lost its eighth straight Charles Smith and Ken Norman added 18 points apiece for the Clippers 4 at Boston Celtics “The have Chuck Pearson had a game-hig- h people in DJ McHale Parish 27 points for the Pacers and Ainge” Unsold said “We playing their first game under inplayed as well as we could and terim head coaches Mel Daniels came up short With a couple of and Dave Twardzik who rebreaks it could have gone the placed former Coach Jack Ramother way” say Thursday “We don't expect one guy to fill Larry’s shoes” Boston Coach Bulls 115 Hawks 112 Jimmy Rodgers said “We have (OT) to get solid efforts out of everyAt Chicago Michael Jordan body Everybody played solid to34 points including five scored to and had because night they free throws and a basket in the fiWashington put up a battle nal 1:51 of overtime to boost the past Atlanta Lakers 106 Blazers 105 Bulls Jordan rebounded a miss by At Inglewood Calif Magic Dominique Wilkins and then adJohnson scored 10 of his 12 ded two free throws to put Chica9 John points in the last go ahead to stay at five minutes including two free Battle gave Atlanta its last lead at 8 with a basket and free throws with 54 seconds remaining for defending NBA champion throw Los Angeles Jordan’s soft jumper after drivJohnson finished with 26 ing the lane then put the Bulls up a mA flf- Ky three with just 34 seconds left r A nnalac VMltlw or putlllj Sill LrfVU Wilkins who had a season-hig- h 2 from a deficit with 5:41 to 39 points converted one of play to outscore Portland 14--9 McHale Robert Parish Dennis Johnson and Danny Ainge — showed what Unseld meant Friday night as the Celtics bid farewell to hospital-boun- d Bird with 8 a victory over the Bullets 114-10- 4-- high-calib- er fourth-quart- 110-10- er 109-10- T f'fc V- 96-9- to victory over New York and e snapping the Knicks’ streak winning Two free throws by Hersey Hawkins with 10 seconds remain2 lead ing gave the 76ers a from Barkley who was the field then stole New York’s inbound pass at halfcourt The Knicks were charged with a breakaway foul and Philadelphia retained possession after Barkley hit one of two free 2 throws to make it Maurice Cheeks connected on a foul shot with six seconds left and New York’s Johnny Newman hit a at the buzzer for Warriors 123 Heat 117 (OT) At Miami Chris Mullin scored 29 points and Winston Garland scored six points in overtime to lead Golden State over winless Miami The expansion Heat 7 ral- 0-- ot Biscane Golf Course Elder 54 had four birdies in his bogey-fre- e round to move ahead of South African Harold Henning who shot a 68 Four other players including Miller Barber and Joe Lopez were tied at 69 about my lifestyle” Elder said “and I’m very lucky to be out here playing I have a new appretournament favorite Arnold ciation for golf I have a lot easier Palmer was in a group another outlook on life You'll never see me get mad on a golf course shot back at 71 It was almost exactly a year again” Elder who has seven career ago that Elder suffered a heart attack following this tournament victories on the Senior Tour has He was forced off the Senior not won this season but has four Tour for more than two months Top 10 finishes and is 30th on s list with and was concerned that he might the never again play competitive golf $107839 “I had to change a lot of things “I feel like my game is getting Defending tournament champion Gene Littler headed a group of nine golfers at 70 while pre- money-earning- (3-4-- 1) more concerned about the future than the imme- long-rang- e diate one “I never thought about the streak and I’m not thinking about it now” he said He also said — and you can bet Notre Dame’s Lou Holtz was listening — that a young Penn State team’s athletic ability is “good enough for them in a couple of years to have a shot” at the national championship After upsets over California and Arizona State the last two weeks with his biggest games of the season — a combined passes for 666 yards and six touchdowns — Peete came down with the measles His illness is part of a recent outbreak on the USC campus and all the Trojans were inoculated Tuesday night 45-of-- Friday to take a lead one-stro- ke golf tournament “It looks like a good race tomorrow I just wish I could have stretched it out a little more” d Gilder said after his round of 71 in strong gusty winds at the Kapalua Bay course He was at 20f if-tthree rounds but had three golfers within two strokes of the lead going into today’s final round in the chase for a $150000 hard-earne- er Associated Press New Jersey’s Charles Shackleford gazes through a maze of arms as he fights with Cleveland's Tree Rollins (left) for the ball lied from a deficit to ’s force the overtime on Rony dunk with six seconds left 23-poi- nt Sei-kaly- Garland finished with 22 points Seikaly led Miami with a season-hig- h 29 Conner led the Nets with points 18 Pistons 121 Suns 105 At Phoenix Joe Dumars scored of his regular-seaso- n 31 points in the career-hig- h fourth quarter as Detroit beat the Suns to remain the NBA’s only unbeaten team and tie a club record with their sixth consecutive road victory Detroit 0 matched the mark set by the 1970-7- 1 team which won six straight on the road en 0 route to a start Isiah Thomas scored 24 of his 30 points in the second half for the Pistons while Tom Chambers paced Phoenix with 26 points and Jeff Hornacek had 22 and Armon Gilliam 21 more for the 1 1 Cavaliers 95 Nets 94 At East Rutherford NJ Larry Nance scored on a slam dunk with 22 seconds left and Mark Price had 27 points on shooting for Cleveland I4 Cleveland undefeated in three road games trailed 3 after Lester Conner hit two free throws for the Nets with 27 seconds remaining After a timeout the Cavaliers inbounded the ball to Nance at midcourt and he drove the lane and dunked the ball over Roy 94-9- HinSon 8-- club-reco- rd 9-- Suns Elder fights winds greens to take tourney lead KEY BISCAYNE Fla (AP) — Lee Elder battled swirling winds and fast greens for a 67 and a one-shlead after Friday’s first round of the $300000 PGA Senior Tour event at Key ct after the third round of the $600000 Kapalua International 135-13- the final score Mike Gminksi added 26 points and Ron Anderson 24 for the 76ers while Mark Jackson had a 34 and Newman 30 career-hig- h for the Knicks State KAPALUA Hawaii (AP) — Bob Gilder birdied the 18th hole five-gam- 136-13- Florida Fifth-ranke- d (Cotton or Sugar) No 8 Auburn (Sugar or Hall of Fame) No 10 Arkansas (Cotton) No 18 Alabama (Sun) and No 2Q Georgia (Gator) are idle Among today's most concerned spectators will be the bowl scouts who will for the NCAA the invitations they actually issued a week or more ago Penn State hasn't had a losing — an season since 1938 NCAA record 49 consecutive years — but Coach Joe Patemo is advantage by 1 stroke two free throws before Jordan clinched it with 21 seconds left with two more free throws He later added the 115th point Drexler’s 28 points burn does against Alabama next Friday Fourth-ranke- d West Virginia Notre Dame's Fiesta Bowl opponent in a possible national championship game entertains No 14 Syracuse (Hall of Fame Bowl) under the lights and No 7 Nebraska visits No 9 Oklahoma In the Second Ten No 12 Michigan (Rose Bowl) is at Ohio State No 13 Oklahoma State (Holiday) at Iowa State South Carolina (Liberty) at No 15 Clemson (Citrus) No 16 Wyoming (Holiday) at Hawaii in a night game No 17 Houston (Aloha) at Texas Tech and Washington at No 19 Washington State (Aloha) Gilder takes Celtics prove to be tough force even without Bird Associated Press College Football back where I want it to be” said Elder who made four birdie putts of eight feet or less “It was a tough day and I feel like I fought hard and played well” playing in his 30th d tournament of the year the 15th hole for his only bogey in an otherwise solid round He made birdie putts of 6 0 5 and 8 feet but missed two makeable birdies coming down the stretch “With the way the winds were Henning three-putte- 1 swirling today the important thing was thinking things through and having the right club” Henning said “I feel like I thought my way around very well” after 12 Palmer was holes but struggled coming in He bogeyed three of the final five holes “I was striking the ball well but not making any putts" Palmer said “I’m not happy with the round but I’m not out of the tournament” prize Corey Pavin shot his third consecutive 67 and was in at 201 “It was important for me to get in the last group (the final threefirst-plac- e some for Saturday’s round)" Pavin said “The odds are that the winner will come from the last group So if I play a good round I have a good chance to win “I’m hitting the ball as well as I ever have and I’m putting very well I’m very confident" he said John Mahaffey who shared the second-rounlead with Gilder and Billy Glasson were two strokes off the pace at 202 Mahaffey struggled to a 73 on Friday and Glasson shot a 69 “No putts” Mahaffey said “I guess I should be glad I didn't shoot myself totally out of the d tournament” Mark O'Meara Stve Pat anj Jim Carter were next tied at 205 Carter closed up with a 66 while O'Meara and Pate each shot 69s Gilder opened up a lead with birdies on the two par-- 5 holes on the front side and appeared to be poised to run away two-stro- ke from the pack But he was distracted by an insect as he stood over a three-fobirdie putt on the 10th hole and ot missed it “It’s funny how important one putt can be That could have given me some momentum” he said “Instead it started going the other way” After playing 49 holes without a bogey he bogeyed both the 14th and 15th holes |