| Show 4B Standard-Examin- Monday March 27 1983 er Sports Wallace has formula for winning -- New Celtics contributing BOSTON (AP) — From obliv- ion to opportunity fantastic journey “I’ve never been in a playofT race like this” Pinckney said “It's very exciting Joe Kelvin and I talk about it every day” Before they arrived playofT talk in Boston centered on whether the Celtics would reach that competition at all Now the talk is hopeful: Will they pass Philadelphia in the battle for a better berth? With all three newcomers making major contributions Boston held on for a 3 victory over the 76ers despite Charles Barkley’s 38 points and 15 rebounds The Sixers are only 'h games ahead of Boston in the race for the playoff spot in the Eastern Conference The teams meet again Tuesday night in Philadelphia “Early in the season we were in these situations a lot of times and couldn’t hold the fort” Coach Jimmy Rodgers said “We’re a different team now We’re a deeper team” On Feb 23 Boston traded Danny Ainge and Brad Lohaus to Sacramento for Pinckney and Kleine At the time the Kings 7 were and the Celtics were 5'2 games behind Philadelphia and three ahead of Washington in the fight for the final Eastern playoff spot On March 9 Boston signed Upshaw a speedy guard in the Continental Basketball Association At the time Boston was three games behind the 76ers and 2 Vi ahead of the Bullets The Celtics now 2 are since the trade and 2 with Upshaw They are three games over 500 for the first time this season and Vh games ahead of 1 Washington The 76ers are after missing more than half their shots for the 10th time in 11 fourth-quart- er 105-10- 1 next-to-la- st (fourth-quarte- r) 14-3- 35-3- 1 6-- -4 NBA The three new Boston Celtics — Ed Pinckney Joe Kleine and Kelvin Upshaw — are thrilled with their 37-3- RICHMOND- - Va (AP) Rusty Wallace has the formula for winning down almost to perfection The driver somehow survives trouble in the early going stays with the leaders until late in the race then uses a final caution period and a fresh set of tires as a launching pad to victory He won Sunday’s Pontiac 400 at Richmond International Raceway that way — just as he did a race earlier this season at Rockhard-chargi- games “Toward the end we should have had better shot selection” Philadelphia’s Ron Anderson said Robert Parish led Boston with 30 points and 16 rebounds but Upshaw had six points in the last nine minutes Kleine had three of Boston’s last six points and a season-high 13 for the game and Pinckney playing for the injured Kevin McHale made two critical defensive plays against Barkley in the last 28 seconds Pinckney’s fifth steal of the game with two seconds to go sealed the victory ingham Lakers 118 Suns 116 Johnson who led the Lakers with 34 points also had 10 rebounds and 17 assists for his sece and ond straight 5th of the season With 20 seconds left he took the inbounds pass and dribbled near the circle for 1 5 seconds before driving on Phoenix guard TR Dunn and stopping at the foul g line for his shot e The Lakers broke a home losing streak and moved four games ahead of the second-plac- e Suns in the Pacific Divi- 300-mi- le race as well as two o penalties for running a stop sign at the end of pit road 400-la- p stop-and-g- triple-doubl- 1 during the ensuing caution period He took control of the race on lap 267 and led for the next 104 trips around the oval building a margin of about 10 seconds over W'allace Then Michael Waltrip scraped the wall in turn four leaving debris on the track and bringing out a caution flag That brought W'allace back to the front but the tenacious Kulwicki was leading again when the last of 12 caution periods in the race began on lap 380 after Dick Trickle blew an engine and spun in turn two Then Wallace beat both Kulwicki and Dale Earnhardt out of the pits after each changed four tires under the yellow flag on lap three-quarter-mi- le game-winnin- two-gam- sion The Suns trailed by as many as points early in the third period before they trimmed the Lakers’ lead to 2 entering the fourth quarter After James Worthy drove for a field goal to give Los Angeles an 2 lead the Suns went on a 5 run and took their first lead 4 on Tom of the game k Chambers’ slam with 8:21 to play For the first time in five games between the Suns and Lakers this season the winning margin was less than 10 points The Lakers lead the series 2 going into Tuesday night’s game at Phoenix The home team has won each time 13 87-8- 89-8- 1 3-- 95-9- fast-brea- 381 Kulwicki managed to get past Earnhardt on lap 387 but Wallace drove his Pontiac Grand Prix across the finish line 41 seconds ahead of Kulwicki’s Ford Thunderbird “We came back to the point that eventually we were the fastest car” the frustrated Kulwicki said “It looked like we had the race won and then we had all those yellows" 3-- Mansell wins Brazilian Grand Prix with Ferrari RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil (AP) — Grand Prix auto racing took a step back in entering a new era of Formula One competition After a decade of increasingly sophisticated and vastly more expensive turbocharged engines Grand Prix racing opened its 1989 season with all cars operating with normally aspirated power plants as in the old days And as was the norm a decade ago a bright red Ferrari was es corted to the winner’s circle On Sunday it was driven to victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix by Briton Nigel Mansell who was making his first start with racing’s most famous team after four seasons with Williams “It was a fantastic and unbelievable feeling having won my first race for my new team” a perspiring Mansell said after an exhausting race conducted in temperatures up to 105 degrees He dedicated the victory to Fer rari team founder Enzo Ferrari were ordered banned teams have who died last year been allowed to phase them out e ForMansell outran mula One champion Alain Prost of France by about eight seconds over 61 laps of Rio’s Nelson Piquet track Mansell’s Ferrari 2 averaged 11530 mph g If the race is indication can One Formula any look forward to its first truly wide-ope- n championship in two-tim- V-1- season-openin- years In the three years since turbos Duke From 3B on a goaltending call That got Mourning back into the game and Georgetown responded with four points to move to pull within 6 But any thoughts of a comeback evaporated as Henderson made a quick move down the lane and jammed over Mourning’s belated block attempt Laet-te- r followed with six straight lead points for a “Phil's play was a great play” said Ferry who finished with 21 points “When the skinniest guy on your team goes in for a dunk like that against Mourning it has to give you an emotional lift” Mourning said he did not see 60-5- 68-5- 6 Associate Preis Georgetown's John Thompson wears a concerned look Illini From 3B Coleman had 17 each Douglas finished with 15 and Matt Roe had 13 “Everybody is disappointed" said Douglas who ended his col- lege career as the NCAA’s e assist leader “There’s only one happy team at the end We’re not satisfied We had a productive season and did what we wanted but we just missed all-tim- out" Syracuse had been seeking its second Iinal four trip in three years The Orangemen lost to Indiana in the 1987 championship game Illinois’ last appearance in the inal I our was in 1952 when the Illini lost to St John’s in the semifinals and beat Santa Clara in the consolation game Henson who took New Mexico State to the I inal lour in 74-7- 3 1 1970 kept his excitement inside Sunday "I suppose I could have pulled off my sport coat and thrown it and run around kissing people” Henson said “I really felt good I think it’s great that we’re going to the Final Four but we still have business to take care of" Part of that business will be getting his team healthy again In addition to Battle’s injury starting center LowdI Hamilton was slowed by a sprained ankle suffered in the Louisville game and finished with only seven points and two rebounds Also reserve guard Larry Smith played while his mother was hospitalized with a stroke suifered on Friday Smith didn't miss a shot from the field or the free throw line in scoring eight points and handing out live assists laiher missed 12 the season Gill games because of a in broken bone in his right foot NC In both of those victories it was Alan Kulwicki who gave up the lead to Wallace and wound up second "If it wasn't for that (last) caution flag Alan would have won the race" Wallace said Kulwicki survived a blown tire and spin on lap 188 of the NIT each season surrendering a bit of horsepower and fuel allotment as a penalty for continuing with the big powerplant But engineers easily overcame the dwindling horsepower and fuel witness McLaren’s dominance of last year’s schedule — 15 wins in 16 races with 10 finishes of On Sunday McLaren did get second with Prost but five automakers earned points for placing -2 Henderson coming until there was almost nothing he could do Howevei Mourning said there was a lot more he could have done for his team in the second half but didn’t He played just minutes and scored only three points “I just felt like I was moving in slow motion” Mourning said “I 'just couldn’t get clicking like I wanted to The intensity wasn’t there I have no one to blame but myself" But the Hoy as weren’t dead With Mourning on the bench Georgetown mounted a 12-- 0 run to draw within on two free throws by Dwayne Bryant with 3:22 to go “You never think the game is over against Georgetown even lead" though we had a 1 1 75-7- 3 nt 3 quarterfinals The Redmen overcame a deficit to beat Ohio State in overtime “We were wounded but not dead" St John’s Coach Lou 18-1- nt From 3B Car-nesec- ca last four years but not many people knew about us until now” The Bilhkens are led by junior forward Anthony Bonner who averaged 159 points and 106 rebounds in the regular season “He presents a big problem for us” Michigan State Coach Jud and Heathcote said “He’s 6-- he's very active" Michigan State 8 said UAB 21-1- beat defending 1 champion Connecticut by six points “When you beat Connecticut at Storrs it’s like beating the Russians in Moscow" Carnesec-c- a said "Napoleon couldn't win up there” Alabama-Birmingha- finished near the bottom in the Big Ten But the Spartans beat Wisconsin finale and in their regular-seaso- n advanced to the NTT semifinals 18-1- 3 with victories over Kent State Wiehita Slate and Villanova “Our team is young our team is small and our team is not physical" Heathcote said “but we do a lot of things well” St John's and set up their meeting with tough road victories in the Alabama-Bir-mingha- gets an- other road test against St John’s The Redmen play several games each year at Madison Square Garden just a short subway ride from the school's lampus “It’s always nice to be close to home" UAB C ouch Gene Bartow “It gives them a little advantage but I don't think it will make a big difference" said arnesecca agrees “Both teams will get the same treatment" he said ( I Wallace had his own problems among the top six Brazilian driver Mauricio was third in a March-Jud- d Johnny Herbert of England made a smashing Grand Prix debut by claiming fourth in a Benetton-For- d and Derek Warwick of England finished fifth in an Arrows-For- d Gug-elmi- n Rounding out the points was Italy’s Alessandro Nannini in the other Benetton-For- d awarded on a Piquet was 20th Points are basis Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski said “We knew they would come back but I didn’t expect it all to 'happen in a minute and a half But we survived by playing real good defense and hitting our free throws at the end” The Blue Devils stopped Georgetown’s momentum at the foul line Duke made 10 of 12 free throws in the final 3:11 while Georgetown made just two of eight from the field and missed both its free throws Mourning spent the entire time on the bench “The coach made the moves because he had to" Mourning said when asked about sitting out down the stretch “I just wasn’t into the game in the second half I just didn’t get back on defense e pit making a series of stops while his team tried to figure out an apparent problem e with the tires “It turned out it was a malfunctioning air gun” Wallace said “It took a couple of stops until we figured it out It was only tightening the lug nuts on the right-rea- r tire to about half of what it was supposed to be” Earnhardt finished third his third such finish this season to go with a second mid-rac- right-sid- and run the floor I just made a lot of mistakes" Laettner hardly made any He hit 9 of 10 shots from the field six of seven free throws and grabbed nine rebounds in 32 minutes “The team has come together in the tournament" Laettner said “and the other teams have had to concentrate on people like Danny Phil and Quin leaving me some opportunities and I’ve tried to take advantage of them" As a team Duke connected on 29 of 57 shots from the field including 16 of 25 in the second d half The Blue Devils Georgetown Charles Smith closed out his Georgetown career with a performance including 16 in the second half outre-bounde- 41-3- 5 nt Frleder He was a loyal assistant for seven years and he’s done a great job in From 3B Frieder said he planned to call Fisher later m the day And what would he tell him? "Congratulations and win the next two" the tournament" though “If this is the worst thing that ever happens to me I’ll have a great life" he said “I’m just thrilled for (seniors) Mark Hughes and Glen Rice because this was their last chance to make the Final Four I’ll have another chance” Fisher the interim coach is being hailed for getting the Wolverines to the Final Four for the first time since 1976 when they lost the championship game to Indiana After Michigan beat Virginia by 37 points he was cheered by fans and hugged by Although he will be in Seattle for the Final Four Frieder won’t be looking over Fisher’s shoulder "This is his team now" he said Schembcchler No one could recall Schem-bethlhugging Frieder “It will be a crime if Steve doesn't get the (head coaching) job" Frieder said “It’s appalling that it hasn’t happened already er I i |
