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sports Battalion/Page 17 April 21, 1982 fifth inning, ve where everythinf|J was,” said Hough,^H e players had hitni« n ting for ten)' BA playoffs Washington, Denver grab early edge in series lylevin’s curve ball I nek out seven and si halt Md. A United Press International It’s been six seasons since Julius “Dr. J” Lrving left the New Jersey Nets, and they , IB need help, i the fifth inning Ju “The most important player going into a inawalkandthreehitiPoff series is the P oint guard,” New ersey Coach Larry Brown said Tuesday tight, after the Nets played without injured tarter Foots Walker and lost, 96-83, to the Mashing ton Bullets at home in the first wpe of a best-of-three NBA Eastern Con- erence mini-series. “Ray (Williams) Right he had to do an awful lot and I don’t hink Darwin (Cook) played with a point • gird mentality.” T"! /AYM Rick Mahorn, who didn’t take a shot in / J. Lvy 1 1 he first half, scored 16 second-half points as j he Bullets downed the Nets, who struggled in offense and shot only 36 percent from Valenzuela helped V held. Walker, the team’s playmaker, i ce-run rally in tli hissed the game with a sprained right ankle, ig with an RBI sin yThe Bullets can wrap up the series with a ished with sevens**^ Frida V ni g ht at handover, WJ A s his second victory cisions as he bested R hie, 0-2. The Dodgers raded s and 10 runs - lit ■y’ve had in a gan son. ... Houston took a brief top of the second wb ight led off with his firs| of the year, hut the 1 it in the bottom of g on Rick Monday's tier, his first. [ he Dodgers went fourth when Ken ux singled, stole seconij red on Dusty Baker’s ey made it 3-1 in the ;n Bill Russell led off ible and scored ) Kiko Garcia fm en/.uela’s hard groundti error third game, if necessary, would be played Sunday at Meadowlands Arena. Washington held New Jersey to 38 second-half points and came from a 10- point deficit to open a 14-point lead with just over S'/a minutes to play. Mahorn scored eight points in the final period -— including the Bullets’ first six points to pull them into a 69-69 tie with nine minutes re maining in the game. After Kevin Grevey hit two foul shots and New Jersey’s Buck Williams scored on a dunk, the Bullets went on an 8-0 spurt to take control of the game midway through the final period. Ruland led the Bullets with 18 points, Johnson hit for 15 and Spencer Haywood added 14. Buck Williams led New jersey with 23 points and Albert King had 15. Dar win Cook poured in 13 points and Ray Wil liams finished with 11. New Jersey, a team that hustled its way to 44 regular-season victories, might have been a little in awe of the playoffs, according to Walker. “Scared?” he asked. “You might say the team played scared.” In the Western Conference, Denver defe ated Phoenix, 129-113, to go up 1-0 in its miniseries, which will continue Friday night in Phoenix. Tonight in the East, Atlanta opens up at Philadelphia while in the West, Houston is at Seattle. At Denver, Kiki Vandeweghe scored 11 of his 29 points in a third-quarter surge and Dan Issel and Billy McKinney added 24 each to key the Nuggets’ attack. Denver shot 72 percent from the floor in the third period and outscored the Suns, 40-21, to take a 102-82 lead after three quar ters. Kyle Macy paced Phoenix with 22 points and Walter Davis had 20. Alex English scored 19 for Denver. Atlanta extends | opening streak, dges Reds 4-2 N WILDLIFE BIOLOGY SOCIETY i: s United Press International e Atlanta Braves are beginning to resemble a family circus — everybody gets into the act. jdell Washington, who hadn’t played in a week, and Rafael irez, who hit only two home runs last season, were the latest es as the unbeaten Braves Tuesday night extended their start- e-season winning streak to a modern major-league record 12 es by beating the Cincinnati Reds, 4-2. allowing Rut| Playing before the largest crowd in Atlanta in nearly two years e. -37,628 — the Braves rallied from an early 2-0 deficit to beat the he Dodgers addei tedsand tie the all-time National League record for victories at the s in the sixth, and thmiart of a season set by the New York Giants in 1884. The all-time he eighth. Monday najor league record is 20 set by St. Louis of the Union Association, le the first run of the Iso in 1884. altei Ron (.ey walk Washington, playing for the first time since being beaned by s sacrifice Ily scored2 nc ; nna( j’ s Frank Pastore a week ago, tripled home the tie- inas. I men ™ ner Rking run in the third inning and scored an insurance run on a nickeand pinch bain ^ pi tc h by Pastore to spark the triumph. tiger scored iln “p e threw me a fastball and I was looking for it,” said ger runs. Washington. Ian Knicely singled )■ os’ final ninin thenigRhough outhit, 9-5, and allowing six walks, the Braves sur vived with the aid of four double plays. “We were in a lot of trouble tonight but we managed to survive,” ‘d Braves’ Manager Joe Torre. “That’s the way it’s been going luring this streak.” Elsewhere in the National League, St. Louis downed Pittsburgh, 4, New York edged Chicago, 3-2, and San Diego defeated San " cisco, 8-4. Philadelphia at Montreal was rained out. 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