1.   The Gills were staring at a second successive defeat in the final with just seven minutes of extra time remaining.

2.   It was a disappointed Graham who sat in the clubhouse after his second defeat.

3.   THE Bears suffered their second defeat of the season in Scotland and have now won just one of their opening three Second Division Gold Cup matches.

4.   Before a loud Madison Square Garden throng, the Knicks won their fifth in a row and sent Houston to only its second defeat of the season.

5.   A similar thing happened at UCLA, where Washington State gave the Bruins their second consecutive defeat.

6.   After a second consecutive defeat, the leftist candidate, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, has been severely weakened and there is no natural leader to take his place.

7.   After the second defeat, Walter Zenga replaced Thomas Rongen as head coach.

8.   Coming off a loss at Sacramento on Friday, just their second defeat of the season, the Lakers figured to right themselves against Seattle.

9.   Even though Inter was without Ro-naldo when it lost to Udinese before the holiday break, Simoni could not likely have endured a second successive defeat.

10.   For Dole, the worst of it was not that it was his second defeat in a row.