Tuesday, March 11, 1986/The Battalion/Page 13
Celtics bow to Mavs for first time, 116-115
Associated Press
DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks
[ |. finally shed their Boston Celtic jinx
Son a night Larry Bird scored 50
?l points.
I “We survived one of Bird’s clinics,
I you have to feel fortunate,” said Dal-
i las Coach Dick Motta after the Mav-
itericks came from 13 points down
I ; with less than five minutes left to de-
; feat the Celtics 116-115 Monday
night.
I It was Dallas' first NBA victory
over the Celtics in 12 tries since the
Mavericks joined the league in 1980.
Bird scored 50 points, hut it
wasn't enough.
“No big deal,” said Bird. “I should
. have had 54. If you play a team
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Other Monday Scores:
(home team in capitals)
Phoenix 120
DETROIT 109
Seattle 1 11
GOLDEN STATE 108
happen. The shots were there for
me and f just took them.”
Bird added, “We gave them too
many free throws and easy baskets
down the stretch.”
Motta said, “There was every indi
cation this was going to be a bad
night. But we showed some profes
sional pride out there.”
He added, “I knew we would beat
them sooner or later whether it was
me here or Rip Van Winkle.”
Rolando Blackman’s two free
throws with eight seconds left iced
the game for Dallas.
Blackman, who had 32 points for
the Mavs, was fouled and made two
free throws. After a timeout, Bird
hit a layup with four seconds left,
but Dallas avoided a foul and the
clock ran out on the Celtics.
Dallas played the game without
high-scoring Mark Aguirre, but Da
vis scored 18 points and Sam Perkins
added 24 to pick up the scoring
slack.
Walling,
Astros trip
Tigers 6-2
Associated Press
LAKELAND, Fla. — Denny Wal
ling had a double and a single, driv
ing in three runs Monday, as the
Houston Astros beat the Detroit Ti
gers 6-2 in a Grapefruit League ex
hibition game.
The Astros scored five of their
runs off Detroit starter Jack Morris
(1-1), who was 16-11 for the Tigers
last year. Left-handed rookie Jim
DeShaies (1-0) . 1 . .
allowed just Exhibition
one hit over the Baseball
first three
nings for Houston, striking out four.
In the Astros second, Mark Bailey
walked, Tony Walker singled and
both rode home on a double to the
right field corner by Walling. A two-
out single by Bert Pena scored Wal
ling.
Bill Doran singled in the Houston
third, went to second on Terry
Puhl’s bunt single and scored on a
single by Bailey.
Puhl scored on a grounder by
Walker and the Astros led 5-0.
John Mizerock doubled in the
eighth and scored on Walling’s sin
gle for the final Houston run.
Detroit scored both its runs in the
fifth off rookie Rob Mallicoat. Scott
Earl started the inning with a leadoff
homer.
Doug Flynn doubled, Nelson Sim
mons walked and Lance Parrish hit a
two-out single to score Flynn.
Former Tiger reliever Aurelio Lo
pez, who worked the seventh and
eighth innings against Detroit, got a
rousing ovation from the partisan
crowd of 4,580 in Marchant Sta
dium.
Lopez allowed one single and
struck out one.
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