The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 03, 1987, Image 5

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 03, 1987, Image 5

Newspaper Page TextJune3, ; if 50 'Orf >atrol a ws mam shoppi;- °f unaiij Wednesday, June 3, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 5 Sports t0 burj idinelv d Marti '’led inCj >s domi ■melastij «rs art kj tars, siixf ‘reos. force ofs WS, Todii Mrs, the i wintM Mke iitjj re expel ms - (J it doon [ ■e peopStl s are srj pretn i people e their Worthy propels Lakers over Celtics LA fastbreak leads to convincing 126-113 win INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — I Janies Worthy scored 33 points land Magic Johnson 29 as they fu- leled a near-flawless fastbreak at- Itack Tuesday night that carried |the Los Angeles Lakers to a I2(i- 113 victory over the Boston Cel tics in the opener of the NBA I Championship series. Los Angeles, which had an NBA-best (55-17 record in the regular season and have now won 12 of 13 playoff games, will be looking for a 2-0 lead Thursday night at The Forum. The Lakers, playing for the first time in eight days after a | four-game sweep of Seattle in the Western Conference finals, ran the ball upcourt on virtually every possession. The Celtics, who struggled to seventh-game victo ries over Detroit and Milwaukee in the Eastern Conference play offs, are trying to become the first team to repeat as champions since Boston won two straight titles in 1968 and 1969. Worthy, who averaged 30.5 points against the SuperSonics and was hitting 63 percent of his field goal attempts in the play offs, hit 13 of his first 15 shots in the game as the Lakers raced to an 81-60 lead with 7:47 left in the third period. Johnson, who didn’t commit a turnover in the first half as the Lakers led by as many as 21 points in the second period, also finished with 13 assists, while Worthy had 10. Byron Scott had 20 points and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar added 14 points and 10 rebounds. Larry Bird led the Celtics with 32 points, while Robert Parish had 16 and Kevin McHale 15. Bird hit 1 1 consecutive shots during one stretch of the second and third periods and he and Danny Ainge letl a short-lived Boston rally after Worthy hit two baskets in an 8-0 streak that gave the Lakers their 81 -60 lead. Bird was 7-for-7 in the third quarter and Ainge hit three 3- point goals as the Celtics cut the 21-point deficit to 95-83 with 1:59 left in the third quarter. But Worthy hit two baskets as the Lakers scored six of the final eight points of the period for a 101-85 advantage. A 9-0 Los Angeles spurt early in the fourth quarter clinched the first game of the series, the third meeting in the finals between the two NBA titans since 1984. The teams split their first two meetings in 1984 and 1985, and both have three titles in the 19 8 Os. The Lakers and Celtics are meeting for the 10th time in the finals, five more than any other NBA rivals. The Celtics won the first eight meetings before the Lakers won in six games in 1985. Although the Lakers, led by Worthy and Johnson, the league’s MVP, ran through the Boston de fense almost at will, the Celtics could take heart in the solid play of their injured stars. McHale, Parish and Ainge all have missed playoff games with injuries, and Bill Walton, who had made only token appearances during the postseason, played six minutes in the first half . Dawson, Cubs smash Astros 13-2 Bran s here art s repon 00 or? ! ’ are vul: or says, of biin or a ttfa ■ hit,liti happen in a; or pkii mam a beaux com®: ng wind' he win! i ■ CHICAGO (AP) — Batting in the seventh inning, Andre Dawson had alshot at becoming the second player in major-league history to hit for the tide twice in one season. He missed ■ Instead ol getting a double to go along with his triple and single, Daw son hit his second homer of the game and drove in seven runs Tues- cjaytolead the Chicago Cubs to a 13- 2 v ictory over the Houston Astros. ■ “Someone mentioned it in the tire ciigout,” said Dawson of hitting for tflo cycle again. “It was in the back of mv mind. I was trying to hit the ball Bird." ■ Dawson, who drove in five runs with two homers in a 6-5 loss to Houston on Monday, hit the ball too liircl and lined it into the left-field bleachers for a two-run homer in the seventh for his 18th home run and fourth in two games. Dawson, who signed as a free agent with the Cubs prior to the start of the season, hit for the cycle April 29 against San Lrancisco in an 8-4 victory. The only player to hit for the cycle twice in one season was Babe Herman of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1 93 1. Dawson singled in a run in the first and hit a two-run homer in the third off Nolan Ryan, 2-5, before a rain delay of two hours and 46 min utes. He also tripled in two runs in the sixth. It reminded him of his career- high eight RBI in 1985. That came against the Cubs when he was with Montreal. “I haven’t really thought about it but this might have been a better game," Dawson said. “In that game, 1 hit three home runs.” Dawson's feats overshadowed some other line performances by the Cubs including a home run and a single by Keith Moreland who drove in four runs; four hits by Shawon Dunston and three hits by Ryne Sandberg. In all, the Cubs had 18 hits. Mike Mason, 2-0, made his first National League start a success by al lowing three hits in the seven in nings lie worked. Dawson tripled in two runs in the fifth and hit his 18th home run after Sandberg had doubled in the sev enth, boosting his RBI total to 53. He has hit in 25 of his last 30 games w ith 16 hornet s and 46 RBI. Ryan did not return after the rain delay and the Cubs added two runs in (he third after play was resumed off Aurelio Lope/ on a pair of walks, a sacrifice and a single by Moreland. Dawson tripled in a pair in a three-run fifth and Moreland hit a two-run homer in the sixth. Texas falls to Stanford OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Lee Ple- mel pitched a 12-hit complete game and second-ranked Stanford scored two runs on wild pitches and an other on a balk Tuesday night for a 6-1 vic tory over No. 1 T exas in the College World Series. Brian Cisarik’s leadoff homer in the eighth inning ended Plemel’s shutout bid. Texas added three sin gles in the inning but left the bases loaded and stranded 12 runners in the game. Losing pitcher Curt Krippner, J3- 1, allowed only five hits but the Car dinal stole five bases, three by Toi Cook. Krippner walked four, each leading to a run. Stanford, 50-16, will play Okla homa State Thursday in a game be tween the only undefeated teams in the tournament. eo i !ay to p IS, is I proffl rly nappe' • jurglaoj ee tto] I thef is to te|l that t IN VIETNAM THE WIND DOESN'T BLOW IT SUCKS Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET STARRING MAIIHEW MINE ADAM BALDWIN “^STANEEV KUBRICK MICHAEL HERR PRESENTS SMEY KUBRICK'S FULL METAL JACKET ERIO EEEERMEY OOBIAN UABEWOOO AREISS HOWARD KEVYN MAJOR HOWARD ED O'ROSS BASED ON THE NOVEL THE SHORT-TIMERS BY CO PRODUCER PHILIP HOBBS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERi PRO dEd AN b? SMEY KUBRICK WARNER BROS l A, WARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY French Open to see Evert-Navratilova duel PARIS (AP) — Defending cham pions Ivan Lendl and Chris Evert swept into the semifinals of the French Open Tuesday, along with women’s top seed Martina Navrati lova, who reached top form after a winless start to the year. The victories by Evert and Navra tilova set up the 72nd meeting be tween the two powerhouses of wom en’s tennis but their first in a tournament semifinal since the U.S. Open in 1981. Lendl came from behind to beat Ecuador’s Andres Gomez 5-7, 6-4, 6- 1, 6-1, losing just three of the last 15 games, while Evert overpowered Raffaela Reggi of Italy, 6-2, 6-2. “I did not come into this tourna ment in the same way as I have in the past,” said Lendl, who has won only one Grand Prix event this year. “On the other hand, I feel much stronger physically than I ever have.” In Thursday’s semifinals, Evert faces Navratilova, who scored a 6-1, 6-2 victory over West Germany’s Claudia Kohtie-Kilsch. The other semifinal will between between 17-year-olds Stef fi Graf and Gabrieia Sabatini, both going for their first major title. Lendl’s opponent in the last four of the men’s event on Friday will be a fellow Czechoslovak. Miloslav Mecir, the No. 5 seed, led 4-2 in the open ing set against unseeded Karel No- vacek when rain ended their quar terfinal match for the day. They will continue at the start of Wednesday’s play and will be fol lowed by the other two men’s quar terfinal matches, Yannick Noah against Mats Wilander, and Jimmy Connors, the last American in the men’s draw, against two-time de fending Wimbledon titlist, Boris Becker. Lendl, who was taken to five sets in his previous match, had early problems against Gomez, whom he was meeting for the third time in the French Open quarterfinals. He had 11 break-points in the South American’s first six service games but still managed to lose the opening set. Gomez stayed with his opponent for another seven games. But just as in 1984 and last year, he faded badly in the latter part of the match. “He can be like a madman at the start, but the chances are he’s the one who’ll tire out,” Lendl said after beating the No. 10 seed for the 13th successive time. “Today was a carbon copy of our previous matches here.” Gomez said he had as good a fore hand and backhand as Lendl, a strong serve and probably a better volley. But, he said, he was inferior in one vital way to the world’s top- ranked player. “He is in better shape. He’s an athlete, and I’m not,” the Ecuado rian said. “He’s fitter, and he takes advantage of the situation. This is the hardest tournament to win be cause fitness counts as much as ten nis.” Evert, the No. 3 seed, gave up only eight points against 14th- seeded Reggi after the Italian had won the first two games of the sec ond set. Reggi, in a Grand Slam quarterfi nal for the first time, clenched her fist and shouted encouragement to herself whenever she she won a big point. But she was blown away by Evert’s superior groundstrokes. The match opened the day on center court and Evert said of her opponent: “She’s hyper at 1 1 o’clock in the morning, that’s for sure. . . .She was jumping up and down and was very eager.” Evert and Navratilova have met only four times in the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament. Most of their clashes have been in the final. “I shall go in and hope to hit well, hard and deep. I shall hope to serve well. All these things are important against her. I’m in good shape physi cally,” Evert said. Navratilova took only 65 minutes to whip eighth-seeded Kohde- Kilsch, taking a 4-0 lead in both sets and dropping her serve just once. 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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 03, 1987, Image 5

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