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sports Battalion/Page 19 April 7, 1982 TANK MCNAMARA by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds lit an unei taost by H's son.ScotUljLj ’'I'man mechanic "S iria jor, hasb^.jji. iress box assistau 1 f, >ur seasons. ^ the system I announcineis dtiman said. "Si d' e outside Clri gi I’ve hadoi iclper. He 'd I spot theol -v exactly who's play, in most a lot more r , h two people" Haywood, Ruland lead scoring Bullets stay alive with victory : spots i| Lakers ‘stop’ Malone 12-point victory in New bers of SILON 7:00 p.i dder Tow i>n United Press Internationa! HOUSTON — Tire Los Angeles Lakers had lone thing in mind as they traveled to Houston [Tuesday night — stopping Moses Malone. They |did — barely. Under a fierce attack by the Lakers, the Rock- lets’ 6-10 center managed to sink 37 points and [grab 21 rebounds. “We did a good job keeping Malone from [controlling the game,” said Lakers’ center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. “He is so hard for one [man to defend all the time, but we did the job [tonight. “In the fourth quarter, the team came to me [and 1 took the shots that were there. Fortunately, [they went in.” Jabbar scored 20 points in the Lakers’ 108-96 | victory. Even though the Lakers were successful Tues- [dav night. Coach Pat Riley said the struggle is not [over yet. He said the Lakers might face Houston [again in the playoffs. “We were determined not to let Malone beat us [tonight by himself. And when they missed their perimeter, vve were able to tack the middle on [Malone and (Elvin) Hayes. “They are a great team and we could see them again in the playoffs,” Riley said. Magic Johnson, who led the Lakers with 23 points, said the key was keeping the running game g oin £- . . . „ “We just kept our running game going all night,” Johnson said. “They almost caught us, they missed some key shots down the stretch. W r e hit ours and we won.” Houston, which had won seven games straight, fell to 43-33 in the Midwest Division, 1 'A> games behind San Antonio. The Pacific Division leading Lakers are now 52-24 for the year. “We were just beaten by one of the top two or three teams in the league,” said Houston coach Del Harris. “We had been sharp for seven straight games, coming back in many of them. But because vve didn’t run our offense well and had too many turnovers, we just couldn’t come back tonight. We only shot 29 percent in the second half and you can’t win doing that. It will help if we can benefit from this loss, we have six tough games left and none of them will be easy.” Los Angeles led at halftime 57-52 with Johnson out front with 17 points. The Lakers played their running game to perfection in the half, scoring 15 layups and shooting 52 percent from the field while holding the Rockets to 37 percent. United Press International For most teams, defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers is nothing special. For Gene Shue, it was a religious experience. “Thank God,” he said, Tues day night, when his Washington Bullets registered a sloppy 94-85 verdict over the Cavaliers, who now have lost 12 straight. “I can’t remember a time this year we won with Kevin (Grevey) and Greg (Ballard) shooting that badly,” he added. Spencer Haywood scored 20 points and rookie Jeff Ruland added 19 for the Bullets, who snapped a three-game losing streak in their quest to hold on to the sixth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. “This is the time of the year when you want everything going great and it wasn’t tonight,” Shue said. “This wasn’t a great confidence builder. Hopefully, things will work out.” The Cavaliers, who hit only 18 of their first 63 shots, were led by Cliff Robinson with 24 points and Phil H ubbard with 21 points. Haywood’s 16-foot shot with three minutes left gave the Bul lets their biggest lead of the last SCHULMAN 6 THEATRES half, 41-26. Cleveland, which hit only 14-of-45 shots in the first half, trailed 45-37 at intermis sion. “It wasn’t pretty,” said Ru land, “but at this time of the year you take what you can get.” In other games, it was Atlanta 106, New York 104; Milwaukee 122, Boston 116; Philadelphia 117, Chicago 104; Utah 129, Dallas 114; Seattle 102, Phoenix 91; Portland 136, Denver 122, and Golden State 110, San Diego 96. Hawks 106, Knicks 104 At Atlanta, Eddie Johnson scored 32 points, including two free throws with four seconds left, to lilt the Hawks. The Knicks lost a team-record 11 th straight on the road. Bucks 122, Celtics 116 At Milwaukee, Sidney Mon- crief and Bob Lanier each scored 26 points and Marques Johnson added 20, enabling Milwaukee to register its sixth straight victory. 76ers 117, Bulls 104 At Chicago, Julius Erving scored 23 points and Bobby 775- 2468 2002 E. 29th. 775 2463 Expos’ Rogers has .learned from past mistakes on field Jjj^StudenOllghu United Press International ■ As long as baseball records are I kept Ralph Branca will be re- Tnembered as the pitcher who gave up the home run to Bobby Thomson that cost the Brooklyn Dodgers the National League pennant in '1951. It was unfortunate for both Branca and the Dodgers, but he lias long since learned how to rope with those who ask him ab- put it. Calmly and patiently, he calls attention to the fact that ; wasn’t the only game he ever pitched for the Dodgers. Indeed lie had a fine run with the Dod- gers, winning 88 games for them, including 21 in 1947. Which brings up the case of Rtevt Rogers, who was to have pitched Tuesday’s opener for Montreal in Pittsburgh that was ostponed by the weather. Rogers is the ace of the Ex pos’ staff and the biggest winner they’ve ever had. But in a way, he’s like Branca, because forever more he’s bound to run into someone who’ll remind him that he was the pitcher who gave up the home run to Rick Monday that cost the Expos the pennant in 1981. Rogers isn’t aware of how Branca handled his problem. Truthfully, he’s not that in terested. He’s sorry what hap pened, sure. But it’s all over with and Rogers is all set for a brand new season. After the Expos lost that game to the Dodgers, and the pennant along with it, Rogers went back home to Broken Arrow, Okla. “I love it there,” he says. “What I like about it a lot is I don’t think baseball when I’m there. Everybody back home really was positive about what happened to me and the ball duh. I honestly didn’t get to hear anything about it until I came back to Montreal early in the year to go on that caravan we have. Then I heard about it con stantly,” What Rogers heard about over and over again was some thing he already knew — how, in making his first relief appear ance in three years, he retired the first two batters, then gave up the game-winner to Monday. They all saw it at the park or on TV, and if they didn’t actual ly see it, they read about it in the papers, but they still wanted to hear it from the copyright own er — Rogers himself. “If I hadn’t thought out the pitch 1 threw him (Monday) as completely as I did, it might’ve been different,” Rogers says. “The pitch I wanted to throw, a sinker low and away, was the right one. The count was 3-and- 1, and if I missed, I wanted to miss for a ball, because I wouldn’t have been too upset had I walked him. I just made a physical error by getting the pitch over the plate and up too much. “I don’t have to be happy ab out the result or lie about what happened, but I know I thought it through and that was all I could possibly do. I don’t intend to make that a guide post to my entry into 1982.1 refuse to make it the only thing I carry over from 1981. As bad as it was, there were many other good things 1 can remember about last season.” Rogers has the right idea. He’s a good pitcher, the best one the Expos have ever had, and he doesn’t propose to let one pitch ruin the rest of his career. Get It all at PORKY’S (FI) You ’ll be glad you came! Alex Kerns ■ Stoss Clark 7:40 9:45 846-6714 Open 7:00 Corner Univ A College 7:25 9:35 ROBIN HOOD Walt Disney on 7 g6lden ^iTumber O^e^cfureofThe^eaT” ..••••••• t..f •5 .«■ * • « 7:20 9:40 SILENT RAGE Chuck Norris ‘ “2** ‘ V:35 9:55 * * VICTOR VICTORIA Julie Andrews/James Garner 7:25 9:35 ! 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