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It isthe NFL's longest run “We always seem to fight back after we have our feelings hurt,” fullback Alonzo Highsmith said. “If we ap proached every game like we had just lost the previous week, we'd probably have 14 victories season." In other games today, Washington visits Seattle and Buffalo is at the New York Jets. On Sunday, it’s Detroit at Atlanta, Green Bay at Dallas, Indianapolis at New Ofleans, Kansas-City-at- Miami, the Los Angeles Raiders at the New York Giants, the Los Angeles Rams at England, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, Chicago at San Francisco and Denver at San Diego. Cincinnati is at Minnesota on Mon day night in the final game of the regular season The Browns had a hand in Houston's last two-game losing streak when they beat the Oilers 40-7 at the Astrodome on Nov. 22, 1987. The next week, the Oilers lost at’ Indianapolis 51-27 PLAYOFF POSSIBILITIES Buffalo ‘can win the AFC East_by beating the hapless Jets, who probably are playing their last game under coach PRETTY PICTURES .. . Thr: Heather Sheppard looks on at the C ‘astlegar party Wednesday at the Community Complex. cosniews photo by Donna year-old Reena Saliken is drawing one on the ice as ure Skating Clubs’ annual Christmas NHL's top teams tangle toa tie The Montreal Canadiens almost waited too long to deliver a message that they aren't content with playing second fiddle to the Buffalo Sabres. Shayne Corson scored at 19:58 of Friday night, giving the Canadiens a 2-2 tie with the Sabres in one of three National Hockey League games Buffalo leads the Adams Division wit more than second-place Montreal, but the Sabres have two games in hand. The Canadiens have been riddled with in juries for most of the season, but have reach of the improved Sabres. Pat Burns said his troops wanted to rivals something to think about over the holiday season “The order of the day in the room wanted to give them a message that we were still here,”’ the Canadiens’ coach said. ‘*The Sabres played well. We know they're the hottest team in the NHL right now and Rick's (Buffalo coach Dudley) doing a super job with them."” In other games, it was: Toronto Chicago Blackhawks 3; and New J Philadelphia Flyers 4 in overtime With goaltender Brian Hayward on the bench in favor of an extra skater, Brian Skrudland won the faceoff and pulled the puck back to Chris Chelios at the point the third period h 48 points, three remained within 400 goals. from a crowd give their Adams — Auditorium was that we just who trail Maple Leafs 5, lersey Devils 5, Chelios fed Corson at the right circle, and he hit the open side of the net for his 14th goal of the season Pierre Turgeon had a goal and an assist and Phil Housley added two assists for Buffalo. Stephane Richer also scored for the Canadiens. Vaive became the 29th player in NHL history'to score The veteran winger received a standing ovation of 16,433 at the Buffalo Memorial MAPLE LEAFS 5 BLACKHAWKS 3 Tom Fergus and Ed Olczyk scored 18 seconds apart early in the third period, lifting Toronto into a second-place tie with idle Minnesota in the Norris Division. The Leafs, first-place Chicago by six points, host the Blackhawks tonight Tom Kurvers, Al lafrate and Gary Leeman, into an empty net, also scored for Toronto. For the Hawks, it was Steve Larmer, Greg Gilbert and Dave Manson Rick Vaive gave Buffalo a 2-1 lead early in the second period with his 400th career goal, but the make the lead stand up in a meeting between the top two teams in the league “‘It would have been awfully nice, but it wasn’t to be,”’ Vaive said. ‘*We didn’t lose any ground. You have to look at that positively.”* Corson sent the game into overtime after Buffalo was called for icing with five seconds remaining in the third Sabres could not DEVILSSFLYERS4 Kirk Muller shovelled a rebound past Ken Wregget at 1:18 of overtime to move New Jersey within one point of first-place Philadelphia and the New York Rangers in the Patrick Divion. , Ken Daneyko, John MacLean, Patrik Sundstrom and Doug Brown also scored for New Jersey scored twice, and Mike Bullard and Rick Tocchet added singles for the Flyers, winless in their last three outings Ilkka Sinisalo Top medal hope, Gery can now compete in Olympics MONTREAL (CP) — Czechoslovak defector Marcel Gery, one of Canada’s top swimming medal hopes, will receive Canadian citizen- ship in time to compete at the Com: monwealth Games, a Swimming Canada spokesman said Friday. Gery, 26, who left Czechoslovakia for Toronto in October 1986, got federal cabinet approval for his citizenship application Thursday and will be sworn in as a citizen early in January, the spokesman said. “It’s great news,"” said Tom John- son, coach of Canada’s swim team for the Commonwealth Games Jan. 24- Feb. 3 in Auckland, New Zealand. “It will add depth to our relay teams, especially the freestyle leg of the medley relay,"’ Johnson said by telephone from his Vancouver home The announcement ends six years of frustration for Gery, a world-class swimmer who will compete in the 100- metre butterfly and the $0- and 100- metre freestyle events, as well as the relays. He missed the 1984 Olympics when the Soviet bloc boycotted the Los Angeles Games. He missed the 1988 Games because he could not get early Canadian citizenship. Johnson said the six-foot-two Gery will bea team leader “He has the experience and a professional approach to the sport,”’ said Johnson. **A lot of the young kids will benefit from being around him.” Moorer retains title AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) Michael Moorer retained his World Boxing Organization light-heavy weight title with his 18th straight Knockoui, beating Mike Sedillo on Friday night The fight was stopped at 2:07 of the sixth round after Moorer floored Sedillo with several punches to the head The fight drew a crowd of 8,546 at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Moorer improved his record to 18-0. Sedillo’s record fell to 23-7 + Sedillo sustained a bloody nose and acut over his right eye “*I was very relaxed,’’ Moorer said “I knew he couldn't hurt me and his punches weren't doing anything to me. I'm a heavy-handed guy but my pawing jabs were hurting him. I can’t be beat."” Joe Walton. Indianapolis can win the division with a victory if Buffalo loses. A victory over New Orleans assures the Colts of a wild-card berth Miami can finish first with a victory and losses by Buffalo and In dianapolis. The Dolphins can be a wild card with a victory and losses by In. dianapolis, Cleveland and Pittsburgh Pittsburgh and Cincinnai need to win and hope for the right bination of losses to make it as a wild card. So do Kansas City, the Los Angeles Raiders and Seattle. Denver is the only AFC dam assured of a playoff berth and will be at home for all its playoff games. com, In the NFC, the Giants are assured of a playoff berth and can win the East with a victory over the Raiders or a Philadelphia loss to Phoenix. San Fipneisco, the West champion, has already Clinched the home-field edge throughout the playoffs Minnesota can win the Central by beating the Bengals or if Green Bay loses to Dallas. The Vikings can’t be a wild card. The Eagles will be in the playoffs if they beat the Cardinals. So will the Los Angeles Rams, if they beat New England. If the Rams and Eagles lose, Green Bay could be a wild card with a victory Rockers are rocked again by Bombers By ED MILLS Staff Writer He thought it was going to be dif ferent this time But unfortunately for Doug Hickey and the Stanley Humphries secondary school’s junior boys basketball team, the rematch against L.V. Rogers went exactly the same as the first time the two teams played. “We got beaten soundly,’’ said Hickey Thursday in describing the Rockers 62-26 loss at the hands of the Bombers the night before in the gym at SHSS It was a similar story the last time the two met for their season openers Dec. 6 at LVR, as the Bombers canned 74 in beating the Rockers by 28 In the time between that opener and | —wednesday*s game; the R beaten Rossland secondary but were humiliated by Grand Forks and lost by 10 to Creston. The Bombers loss makes it three straight defeats for the SHSS boys But Hickey, as coaches are liable to do for various reasons, was waxing confident prior to the Nelson game and players like Jodi Carew and Marcel Dusseault shared his sentiments Confidence can take a team only so far, and against the Bombers and their six-foot, six-inch Grade 10 forward Jared Klassen, the Rockers needed more than bravado. They needed to shut Klassen down and score some points — two things Hickey says his team failed to do. “Offensively we weren't probably as strong as we could have been they didn’t put the ball in the when the chances were there,” he said Hickey said his team played a more spirited defensive game against the Bombers but even then, Klassen led all scorers with 29 points and again almost sunk the Rockers single handedly Two 25-point-plus losses (and a 97 30 loss to Grand Forks) haven't done any good for the confidence of the players or the coach’s confidence in the system he’s trying to teach them But five games does not a season make and Hickey never expected this team, with so many players who have never played organized ball in their lives prior .o this year, to come out of the starting gate annihilating the op. position in the Kootenays hoop Still, he doesn’t expect the Rockers to lose every game either so changes are in his forecast after Christmas. Hickey says the intensity is there on the part of the players and they're begining to work hard, so he’s looking inward for the solution to the problem. “The boys are having a little trouble learning the offence we (the coaching staff) have been trying to implement so we might have to change something. It DOUG HICKEY . .. looking inward looks like they (the players) don’t have the experience right now to do what I want them to do. We're going to have tomakeit simpler.”” That way, he says, the boys don’t have to worry so much about fancy plays and can just concentrate on scoring some points. The team has the Christmas break to think about it and work on it until they have to put the simpler system into practice in a game against Rossland Jan. 10, in Rossland FOUL TE The Rockers were without forward Bob Baulne who was out with the flu ‘That hurt us,”’ said Hickey but added that Chris Archambault played his best game of the year, ‘particularily defen- sively Dan Kooznetsoff led the Rockers with eight points SHSS will stage homecoming basketball games Boxing Day with the girls game set for 6 p.m. and the boys All former Rockers and Rockettes are welcome. to follow Helen Keiesi, Canada’s globe. trotting tennis star, has been selec ted as The Canadian Press female athlete of the year “It’s probably the greatest honor I’ve received in my career," Kelesi said from Whistler, where she is on a skiing holiday. ‘I'm shocked. I was third the last two years and I’m very happy to have won it this year Kelesi, the Canadian women's singles champion the last three years, is ranked 13th in the world and is 23rd on the money list with tennis earnings of $151,569 at the end of her fourth pro season Kelesi, CP’s woman athlete of the year “Im happy with the way I've been playing,” said Kelesi, who leaves for Australia on Jan. 3 for a tournament in Sydney and then the Australian Open Kelesi received 14 of $4 first place votes and a total of 72 points to win the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award in the annual poll of sports writes and broadcasters conducted by CP and its affiliate, Broadcast News, Marathon swimmer Vicki Keith was second with 12 first-place votes and 51 points, and skier Karen Per cy was third with nine first-place votes and 49 points. Three points are allotted for a first-place. vote, two points for a second and one for athird (Rosenfeld, a track star who won gold and silver medals at the 1928 Olympics, was selected Canada's female athlete of the half-century in 1950. She later was a Toronto Globe and Mail sports columnist. She died in 1969.) Kelesi, 20, who calls Thornhill just north of Toronto home when she’s not on the tennis circuit, did not win a tour event in 1989 but im- proved six placings to No. 13 onthe Women's International Tennis Association computer with con sistently top-flight performances.