Tuesday, June 21,1988/The Battalion/Page 5 Sports i Read on h 10:30-noon,i at 693-552?. ■cell’s house; J brum, Thomas injury ive Lakers advantage t Movement fi ReedMcDc'i We only p ate IINGLEWOOU, Calif. (AP) —The Angeles Lakers, already armed Ith the homecourt advantage in the eet at 7 pjf in al game of the NBA Finals, found even bigger edge Monday: The |troit Pistons’ Isiah Thomas was on itches and, according to the team liner, almost certainly out of the me. [Thomas, who scored 43 points in so. Miat'sul Slnday’s sixth game against the 5m/sstear.B]< ers> sprained his ankle during itrywillm '.|^ e quarter. He scored an NTA-finals-record 25 points in that plriod. ■“I don’t think he is going to play,” ; Ktroit trainer Mike Abdenour said ■cmday. “If this was regular season OQ m would be out a minimum of 10 Hys to two weeks.” ^Abdenour said Thomas has a “se verely sprained right ankle and can’t put any weight on it.” BThe trainer said Thomas was be- ini; treated with ice at the Los An- Hles Raiders’ training facility and alf j would not practice Monday. mtsandlilfiM The pressure is on both teams which havB w ’ but I give us the advantage be- najor factor: cause we ’ re home,” said Lakers cen- kVilsonsaid tei ^ areem Abdul-Jabbar, who will idea bd M making his 222nd career playoff i j s ma |, ir ; appearance in Game 7. id Itisseitfl b’s worth something,” Lakers Id like to pie as a Bad ealth problc! hich is be:: a month s s 1 by maiLj>j| WIMBLEDON) England (AP) — Defending cham- ith and pj (in p at Cash, top-seeded Ivan Lendl and two-time Bampion Boris Becker overpowered their first-round are not be:. ■. )0nents M on( j a y a t the Wimbledon tennis cham- hey haven pl^ships. nodandDr-jHL eiu ji anc i Becker each served 20 aces, while Cash son said -Bed a strong service return to win their matches at the ling than All England Lawn Tennis Club. oved or is 5 JCash, playing the first match on Centre Court, de- IDA appn f»ted 17-year-old Todd Woodbridge of Australia 6-1, product an g-1,6-2. Lendl beat David Felgate of Britain 6-4, 6-1, 6- 3atid Becker defeated John Frawley of Australia 6-3, 6- TDH Dr lj6 _ 2 and the runner-up at Wimbledon the past two years, e investiplcM eezec j p ast Felgate in 84 minutes before early evening at 30 ski showers caused a one-hour rain delay. the state. point guard Magic Johnson said of playing the game at the Forum. “But you’ve got to make it worth a lot. It’s worth something, but you’ve got to make it worth more than that by coming out here ready to play and make it a real advantage.” The Lakers forced the seventh game by winning 103-102 Sunday. They trailed 102-99 going into the final minute, but a jumper by Byron Scott and two free throws by Abdul- Jabbar with 14 seconds left kept Los Angeles alive. “We want the championship bad, and in order to get it you’ve got to overcome things like this,” the Pis tons’ John Salley said. “We’ll be all right.” Thirteen NBA finals have gone the seven-game limit, and the home team has won 10 of them. In the Pistons’ favor, however, is ■ I just couldn’t pick his serves up,” said Felgate, ranked 362nd in the world. “I couldn’t figure where they were going. I tried everything, but it didn’t make am difference. He was just pounding them down.” win at Wimbledon Cash had only one ace against Woodbridge, but his service returns were deadly. “I just returned so well today and that set everything up,” Cash said. “The court is pretty slow, so you have some time to get the ball back.” Becker, the champion in 1985 and 1986, overcame three break points in the final game against Frawley and closed out the match with an ace. “The way it started today, I think I should be very satisfied,” said Becker, who was upset in the second round last year by Peter Doohan. “It could not get any better than that.” Lendl, a natural baseliner who has never felt com fortable on grass, was pleased with his opening-xound play- “I served quite well, which 1 didn’t do in practice,” said Lendl, who appeared to be recovered from a shoul der strain suffered during a quarterfinal loss at the French Open. “I didn’t have to hit many volleys and the few times that I did, they were pretty easy,” Lendl said. Strange captures Open in playoff the knowledge that two of the last three seventh games have been won on the road. Boston beat the Lakers in Game 7 at Boston in 1984, but be fore that Washington won at Seattle in 1978 and Boston won at Milwau kee in 1974. Thomas, who scored 31 of his 43 points in the second half, isn’t con cerned about the Lakers’ supposed homecourt advantage. He even ad mitted that the Pistons came to Los Angeles believing they would need two games to win. “The best team will end up the winner,” Thomas said. “We know it’s going to be tough. We were expect ing to play two hard basketball games, and so were they. That’s what we’re going to do.” The Lakers have won 10 cham pionships, five of them before mov ing to California from Minneapolis, and are seeking to become the first team since the Celtics in 1969 to re peat as champions. Thomas said the Pistons need to get forward Adrian Dantley back into the offense. Dantley scored 14 points Sunday and was only 3-for-10 from the field. He averaged 28.6 points in the Pis tons’ three victories and 15.7 in their three losses in the series. BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Cur tis Strange achieved a personal goal Monday with a par 71 that provided hjm with a four-stroke victory over Nick Faldo in their 18-hole playoff for the U.S. Open Coif Championship. Faldo, the stolid Englishman who owns the British Open title, struggled to a 75 in the 28th playoff for the American national championship. The victory was the first of Strange’s career in one of the game’s recognized major championships. With three strokes in hand as he marched up the 18th fairway at The Country Club, the smiling Strange saluted a cheering gallery with a raised, clenched-fist salute, first with his left hand then with his right. His wife, Sarah, tears of happiness streaming down her face, hugged Strange’s twin brother, Allan, and then embraced Faldo’s wife, Gill. The 15th victory of Strange’s 11- season career, and his third this sea son, was worth $180,000 from the total purse of $1 million, lifting his season’s earnings to $548,525. More importantly, it answered a nagging question and confirmed his stature in the game. The question Strange no longer has to answer con cerned what had been a gap in his record, the lack of a victory in one of golf s Big Four, the Masters, the U.S. Cub fans to see the light at night CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Cubs said Monday the lights will go on at Wrigley Field on Aug. 8 and opponents vowed to continue fight ing to keep them off. The first night game ever at Wrig ley will be against the Philadelphia Phillies — more than five decades af ter baseball debuted under the lights and 40 years after the Detroit Tigers became the last team to join the “en lightenment.” The Cubs’ announcement ended weeks of suspense over when the lights atop the left- and right-field upper decks would be turned on. At least one night-time practice session is scheduled before the Aug. 8 game against the Phillies. The game itself will end a 72-year tradi tion of playing baseball only in the sunshine at the major league’s sec ond-oldest park. “It is an historic event for our club and fans,” said Don Grenesko, exec utive vice president for business op erations. “This is an opportunity for more fans to experience Cubs base ball.” The Cubs’ owner, media con glomerate Tribune Co., have fought heated battles with Chicago aider- man over ordinances, with state leg islators over statutes and with neigh borhood groups in court . since acquiring the club and the North Side park in 1981. A City Council vote in February removed the final roadblock, even while limiting the team to eight reg ular-season night games in 1988 — although the Cubs will play just seven this season — and 18 games each season for the next 14 years. Few signs of the neigborhood’s once-formidable community opposi tion, coordinated by a group called Citizens Linked for Baseball in the Sunshine (CUBS), were visible Mon day. Reds coast past Astros HOUSTON (AP) —- Tom Brown ing allowed five hits in 7% innings to win his fourth straight game and Nick Esasky’s sacrifice fly in the sixth inning scored the go-ahead run as the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Houston Astros 2-1 Monday night. Browning, 6-3, defeated Houston starter Jim Deshaies, his former tea mmate at LeMoyne College, for the second time in a week. Browning struck out six, walked three and gave up Kevin Bass’ sixth homer in the fourth inning for Houston’s only run. John Franco earned his ninth save. Deshaies, 4-5, allowed eight hits in eight innings, walking four and striking out five. and British Opens and the PCA. He recognized that shortcoming after winning the Memorial tourna ment last week. “I want to win a major,” the 33- year-old Strange said. He got it in his next attempt. But it was far from easy. It was, in fact, a scramble throughout a warm afternoon in the Boston suburbs. Strange, prema turely at age 33, may have added a few more by hitting only seven fairways and as many greens in reg ulation. Yet he never trailed Faldo in the playoff which was set up when both finished regulation play on Sunday at 6-under-par 278. Kunkel propels Rangers to win ARLINGTON (AP) — Jeff Kun- kel’s one-out RBI double in the bot tom of the ninth inning lifted the Texas Rangers over the Seattle Mar iners 4-3 Monday night. Leadoff batter Larry Parrish walked and Cecil Espy ran for Par rish. Mike Stanley also walked and Espy scored one out later on Kun- kel’s second RBI of the game, mak ing a winner of Jeff Russell, 7-0. Russell’s start matches the best in Rangers’ history — Jim Kern did it in 1979. Mike Schooler, 0-1, took the loss as the Mariners’ winless streak on the road stretched to 13. They’ve lost their last eight games overall. 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