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favored Mavs to take on Sonics
n opening-round playoff action
DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Mav-
ricks are 10-point favorites to bo
nce the Seattle SuperSonics in the
rst round of NBA Playoffs after
whipping them five times in the reg-
ar season, but they are wary of for-
ber Maverick Dale Ellis.
Dallas, the Midwest Division
ampions, hosts the Sonics today
bd Saturday night in Reunion
ena before traveling to the West
ast in the best-of-five series.
Game three is set for Seattle on
esday night with game four on
ursday if needed. The Mavs
would have the homecourt advan
ce on Saturday, May 2 should it
me down to a fifth game.
Ellis, buried deep on Dallas’
bench, was obtained by the Sonics in
exchange for guard A1 Wood.
Ellis averaged almost 25 points
per game to the 7 points with the
Mavs. Wood has played sparingly
for Dallas.
“1 knew I was good enough,” Ellis
said. “Last year I was watching the
guys who were averaging 20 points
per game and now I’m one of them.”
The 6-foot-7 Ellis was a first
round draft pick in 1983.
“In Dallas most people thought
my game was shooting from the pe
rimeter but I’ve proved this year I
can do other things,” he said.
Ellis shot 51 per cent from the
loses-loaded walk gives
irioles win over Rangers
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plight, the leading hitter in the
perican League, drew a bases-
jaded walk from Texas reliever
jrcg Harris in the 10th inning
pi ft| y Wednesday night, giving Baltimore
v/ll lllv victory over the Rangers and
ding the Orioles’ three-game los-
lg streak.
(AP)-Trti J Alan Wiggins led off the 10th with
capturedikit |single and Rick Burleson drew a
inference »ec|)|ji 1 |is f r o m Matt Williams, 0-1. Harris
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lay,54-holtffi dnve, but walked Eddie Murray,
piding the bases,
out to a IMsm After Fred Lynn struck out,
Monday’s owaLight,, batting .423 and 3-for-7 in
hedthebh Is career against Harris, walked on
luthem Mo fj-l pitch.
Vednesdws cBlexas’ Pete Incaviglia tied the
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the SWCiq four first-set aces on the way to
Kr 6-3, 6-4 victory over Peruvian
Laura Gildemeister Wednesday
■ the $150,000 Virginia Slims of
Houston women’s tennis four'na-
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serve.
Navratilova broke in the first
and fifth games of the second set
to forge a 4-1 lead. But Gilde-
heister battled hack to tie the set
14.
In third-round action, Navrati-
||va will face Houstonian Lori
McNeil, who advanced Wednes
day when Andrea Jaeger of Sad-
dlebrook, Fla., withdrew because
of bursitis in her right shoulder.
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ped Hana Mandlikova needed
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ihe Lady Longhorns had a match
tainst Trinity.
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draw, replaced Bowes. Mandli-
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iha Fulco in a second-round
Batch today.
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the ninth against Mark Williamson.
Dave Schmidt, 2-0, pitched 1 Vs in
nings for the victory.
Terry Kennedy’s solo homer put
Baltimore ahead 2-1 in the seventh.
Kennedy’s home run, his second,
came off starter Edwin Correa.
Mike Boddicker, 7-0 in his career
against Texas, allowed one run on
seven hits in TVs innings. He left the
game after hurting a finger on his
pitching hand.
The Orioles took a 1-0 lead in the
first after loading the bases with no
outs on a single by Wiggins, a hit by
pitch and a walk. Wiggins scored as
Murray grounded into a double
pby.
The Rangers tied it in the third
when Scott Fletcher walked and later
scored on Incaviglia’s RBI
grounder.
field and also was deadly from 3-
point range.
Dallas Coach Dick Motta said, “I
know Dale would love to have a
great game against us in Reunion. It
will be a challenge to stop him.”
Motta said he knew Sonics’ Coach
Bernie Bickerstaff had to love the
underdog role coming into Reunion.
“They don’t have anything to lose
because there is no pressure on
them,” Motta said. “The pressure is
on us. We have to be very careful we
don’t look past them.”
Guard Derek Harper said “We
dominated Seattle during the regu
lar season, but we know we can’t take
them for granted.”
LA Clippers
fire Chaney
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Don
Chaney was fired Wednesday as
coach of the Los Angeles Clippers
following the club’s 12-70 record this
season, second worst in NBA his
tory.
Clippers General Manager Elgin
Baylor made the announcement,
noting that Chaney would not be re
hired as coach after Chaney’s con
tract expires on June 30.
Chaney, who had a 52-133 record
since replacing Jim Lynam on March
6, 1985, plans to remain with the or
ganization in a front office capacity.
The Clippers were hard hit by in
juries, including the loss of two of
their best players. Norm Nixon
missed the entire season and Mar
ques Johnson was out for most of it.
Considered among the candidates
for the Clippers’ coaching job are
John MacLeod, Hubie Brown and
Gene Shue.
Desha ies four-hitter
lifts Astros to 6-0 win
HOUSTON (AP) — Left-hander
Jim Deshaies gave up four hits and
struck out a career-high 11 in seven
innings Wednesday night as the
Houston Astros defeated the Atlanta
Braves 6-0 to remain undefeated at
home this season.
Deshaies, 1-0, walked two in his
first start of the season. Larry An
derson and Dave Smith finished up,
David Palmer, 0-3, went bVs in
nings to take the loss.
Houston took a 1-0 lead in the
first when Bill Doran led off with an
inside-the-park home run. Doran
lined the ball into the gap in right-
center between the outstretched
gloves of center fielder Al Hall and
right fielder Dale Murphy, both of
whom dove for the ball. It was the
first inside-the-park home run in the
Astrodome since July 3, 1983, when
Terry Puhl hit one.
Glenn Davis led off the Astros’
two-run fourth with his second
homer of the season. Singles by Ke
vin Bass and Jose Cruz, and a walk to
Craig Reynolds loaded the bases.
Palmer then walked Deshaies, forc
ing in Bass.
Houston increased its lead to 4-0
in the sixth on a double by Bass and
an RBI single by Alan Ashby, then
added two more in the seventh on an
RBI single by Bass and an RBI
groundball by Ashby.
The Braves failed to score in the
eighth inning despite getting four
hits, including a double. Hall
doubled to left but was thrown out
attempting to stretch it into a single.
Three more hits, all singles, loaded
the bases, but Houston was able to
get out of the jam without allowing a
run to score.
Red Wings confident
despite trailing 4-0
From the Associated Press
The dreaming is over for the De
troit Red Wings. Now the work be
gins.
The Red Wings, most often spec
tators during the NHL playoffs, en
ter tonight’s game against Toronto
already having lost the home-ice ad
vantage in the Norris Division finals
by losing 4-2 to the Maple Leafs
Tuesday night.
But Detroit doesn’t look at it that
way.
“It’s one game. It’s over,” Detroit
defenseman Mike O’Connell said.
“In the playoffs, you can’t dwell on
one game whether you win or lose.”
“It’s a seven-game series,” said
Red Wings goalie Greg Stefan, who
was lifted for Glen Hanlon after sur
rendering three quick second-period
goals that erased a 2-1 first period
lead. “You can’t get down after one
game.”
Also on Tuesday night, Edmon
ton beat Winnipeg 3-2 in overtime to
take a 1-0 lead in their Smythe se-
The playoffs continued Wednes
day night with the New York Island
ers defeating Philadelphia 2-1, and
Quebec downing Montreal 2-1. The
Flyers and Nordiques each lead its
series 2-0.
The Red Wings, who finished first
in the Norris, not only must win to
day to tie their series at 1-1. They
have to win a game in Maple Leaf
Gardens when the best-of-seven
Stanley Cup series shifts to Toronto
for Games 3 and 4 Saturday and
Monday against a team that held a 5-
2-1 advantage over them in the reg
ular season.
“The home ice advantage isn’t
that big a deal in the playoffs be
cause you’re so intense,” Stefan said.
“You can’t win every game in the
playoffs. We lost one and that’s the
way you have to look at it.”
Toronto Coach John Brophy
agreed.
“One game doesn’t mean any
thing in a seven-game series, (ex
cept) we have to win three games
now, instead of four,” Brophy said.
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