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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 .
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■ 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.
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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.
The tall West German several
times led 30-0 on serve but could not
finish off the games as Navratilova
pressured her into errors.
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