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Friday, April 25, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9 Bullets clip 76ers 116-111 to force deciding game Blues shake Leafs 7-4 to even series TORONTO (AP) — Doug Oil- mom, who had a key short- handed goal, and Ric k Meagher scored two goals each to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 7-4 victory met the 1 oronto Maple Leafs rintrsdav night and tie theit Mil. plavoll series at two games apiece. (lame .") in the best-of-seven Norris I)i\ ision dual will lie NHL Playoffs placed dav night in St. Louis. Toronto goaltender Ken Wregget was pulled in favor of an extra iittitcket w ith TkS seconds re maining, and Meagher scored into the emptv net with 24 sec onds left. Greg Milieu was the winning goaltender. Oilers 7, Flames 4 CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Wavne Gretzkx scored three goals, two while Kdmonton was shotthanded, as the Oilers beat theCalgan Flames 7-4 Thursday night and tied their NHL plavoff series at two games apiece. Came 5 of theit best-of-seven Smythe Division final will be played Saturdav night in Kdmon ton. fhe Flames, li ving to take an unexpected 1 lead in the series, were unable to achieve the consis- tentlv aggressive pace that trig- gered them to two earlier wins against the two-time Stanley Cup champions. Dineen a Whaler hero HARTFORD. Conn. (AP) — When the Hartford Whalers needed a hero in the NHL play offs, Kevin Dineen was the one who stepped forward. Dineen s goal in overtime lif ted the Whalers to a 2-1 victors over the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night at a time when a loss would have left fiis team with die near impossible task of coming back from a 3-1 series deficit. “Somebody’s got to w in two out ol the next three games,” Dineen said. “ I he good thing is we’ve played well in clutch situations all veai and hopefully we can keep it up. LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — A smart plav by reserve guard Dudley Bradley set up the go-ahead basket bv Jef f Malone with 43 seconds re maining to giv e the Washington Bul lets a 1 lb-1 1 1 victory over the Phila delphia 7tiers Thursday night, tying i h e i i N B A plav off series at NBA Playoffs Fhe deciding game of the best-of- five series w ill be played at Philadel phia Sunday night. Fhe 7(iei s, w ho rallied to win the previous two games, overcame a nine-point def icit in the fourth quar- tei and took a 111-109 lead with 1:31 remaining. But after a blocked shot by Cliff Robinson, Jeff Ruland scored to make it 111-111. Ruland was f ouled on the play, but missed his ensuing foul shot. Bradlev grabbed the rebound and National threw the ball of f the shins of Phila delphia's Charles Barkley. Washing ton retained possesion out of bounds and Malone scored the tiebreaking basket. After Bradley scored on one of two free throws to make it 114-111, Barkley missed a three-point try, Robinson rebounded and was fouled. Robinson missed both f ree throws with eight seconds remaining, but fie wrested the ball from Julius Erving and sank an insurance basket. Both Robinson with 31 points and Malone with 32, posted playoff ca reer-high totals for the Bullets. Guard Maurice Cheeks led Phila delphia with 30 points, Erving added 25 and Barkley 22. Both Detroit and Utah will have i he home court advantage when their first-round, best-of-five.series NBA playoff series resume Friday night. Nuggets 116, Trail Blazers 112 POR I LAND. Ore. (AP) — Alex English hit the decisive basket with 1:10 remaining and Lafavette Lever scored 30 points as the Denver Nug gets defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 1 10-112 Thursday night to lake the best-of-five NBA plavof f se ries in four games. The Nuggets won two in a row in Portland and open their Western Conference semifinal series on Sat urdav in Houston. Portland tied the score at 1 10-1 10 on Jim Paxson’s three-pointer with 1:23 to go, but English put the Nug gets on top for good at 112-110 with a rebound basket with 1:10 left. Clyde Drexler was called for an offensive foul on Portland’s next possession. Two free throws apiece In English and Mike Evans sealed die Nuggets' victory. POEMS WANTED ^lajor anthology now seeks poems: love, nature, haiku, song lyrics, reflective, free verse, religious — all types! B ®glnners are welcome! Our editors will reply within 7 days. Send ONE POEM ONLY, 21 lines or less, to: n WORLD OF POETRY PRESS ®pt. AP • 2431 Stockton Blvd. • Sacramento, Calif. 95817 HOMEMADE, DELICIOUS COOKIES STRAIGHT FROM vi < •rJdiMYV 7 STICKY CHINS COOKIE FACTORY NEXT TO THE DIXIE CHICKEN (continued from page 8) went to Bryn Smith, 1-2. Phillies 4, Pirates 2 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Schmidt drove in all of Philadelphia’s runs with two home runs and a sacri fice fly and the Phillies edged the Pittsburgh Pirates 4- 2 1 hursday night behind Shane Rawley’s five-hitter. Loser Rick Rhoden, 2-1, pitched a complete game, allow ing six hits. Rawley improved his record to 2-1 as he struck out live and walked four. The loss was the third straight for Pittsburgh. The Pirates’ Johnny Ray singled in the fifth to ex- lend his National League season-best hitting streak to I 1. Rav has hit safely in every game the Pirates have plaved. including a suspended game last Sunday in Chicago. Mots 5, Cardinals 4 (10) ST. LOUIS (AP) — George Foster singled home Wallv Backman f rom second base with two outs in the 10th inning Thursday night, and the New York Mets extended their winning streak to six games with a 5-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. 1 he defeat marked the first time the Cardinals had lost a regular-season game in which they led going into the ninth inning since the final contest of 1984, a span of 90 such games. f he Mets trailed 4-2 entering the ninth, but tied it on Howard Johnson’s two-run homer with one out off Todd Worrell, 0-1. Wally Backman led off the New York 10th with a walk and then stole second. Worrell retired Keith Her nandez and Gary Carter, and intentionally walked Darryl Strawberry. Foster then lined his game-winning single to left. Roger McDowell, the fifth New York pitcher, worked the final two innings and raised his record to 2-0. Dodgers 6, Braves 3 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Marshall and Greg Brock hit solo homers and Mariano Duncan ended a 2- for-21 drought with a two-run double Thursday night to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves. Brock’s second homer of the season, a towering drive to center field with one out, ignited a three-run fourth inning that snapped a 1-1 tie. Rick Mahler, 1-4, then hit Mike Scioscia with an 0-2 pitch with two outs. Franklin Stubbs followed with a single and Duncan stroked an opposite-f ield double to left to score Scios- < ia and Stubbs. Orel Hershiser, 2-2, pitched five innings for the vic- torv. MARIO & SONS PIZZERIA ,6 " ■ LAR GE I ^ f\J/\POLET/\/\f/\ p fZZ/\ — $5.50 52. OFF 00 16" Sicilian Pizza Plus Tax With 12" SMALL PIZZA Plus Tax FREE SALAD WHEN YOU BUY ANY DINNER (Spaghetti or Lasagna) PlusTax INSIDE ONLY PIZZA BUFFET $3.25 405 W. 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