Show C2 The Salt Lake Tribune Monday April 22 1991 Spurs Capture Title 1 Chicago Portland 1 By Routing Mavs f11991 8 New York PLAYOFFS Seattle 8 4 Milwaukee Phoenix 5 Philadelphia Utah 5 2 Boston San Antonio 2 Conference losing streak and banded the Celtics their fourth defeat in a row The Celtics were led by Kevin Gamble with 27 points Bird who missed seven games with a bad back had 17 points Cavs 123 Sixers 110: At Richfield Ohio John Williams perhaps playing his last game for Cleveland scored 10 of his 20 points in the third quarter as the Cavaliers beat Philadelphia for By The Associated Press The San Antonio Spurs who almost blew their chance in the Midwest with a loss at Denver on Friday took advantage of Utah's defeat at Golden State Sunday to win the division title for the second consecutive season The Spurs improved their record to 55-2- 7 when they routed the Dallas then waited two Mavericks 135-10- 1 hours while Golden State beat Utah Warriors End Wa stem Eastern Conference 1991 their fourth consecutive victory Cleveland finished its season by winning eight of its last 10 games The 76ers lest five of their final six Wolves 89 Bullets 87: At Landover Md Tony Campbell scored 22 points shot at the buzzer and made a as Minnesota overcame a deficit and beat Washington matching the biggest comeback in the two-yehistory of the Timberwolves seven Minnesota finished at 29-5games better than last season but perhaps not good enough to save coach BUI Musselman'i job Kbgs 105 Clippers 101: At Sacramento Antoine Carr scored 12 of his team s final 15 points and finished with 50 points and 11 rebounds as Sacramento beat Los Angeles Carr's pressured baseline jumper and free throw with 20 6 seconds left pushed Sacramento the Kings' lead to 102-9finished the season with a 24-1- 7 home on record but the Kings were the road Magic 120 Nets 110: At Orlando Nick Anderson scored 26 points and Scott Skiles had 25 points and 18 assists as four Orlando players finished with more than 20 points against New Jersey The Magic finished the season with 31 victories best among expansion teams Rockets 131 Nuggets 125: At Houston Sleepy Floyd scored 15 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter as Houston defeated Denver and set a franchise record for victories in a season with 52 Hakeem Ola ju won led the Rockets with 26 points 13 rebounds and nine blocked shots He finished with 221 blocks for the season to win the league title for the second year in 125-10- 6 Instead of playing host to Phoenix in the playoffs the Spurs now will meet the Warriors The Spurs never trailed against Dallas and late in the third quarter led by 41 points San Antonio opened the third period with a 17-- 4 run highlighted by two dunks by Sean Elliott But it was rookie Tony Massenburg who stole the show with a career-hig- h 19 points to lead the Spurs who had scorers Robinnine double-figure- s son had 16 points nine rebounds and nine blocked shots Uken 163 SuperSonics 100: At ingle wood Magic Johnson capped his 12th NBA season with his single-seaso- n high in assists and Terry Teagle scored 19 points to lead Los Angeles over Seattle Suns 135 Blazers 118: At Phoenix the Suns grabbed homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs winand snapped Portland's ning streak Kevin Johnson scored 23 points and Jeff Hornacek 22 for the Suns and both sparked a third-perio- d rally with 14 points apiece as Phoenix improved its record to 55-2- 7 Bulls 108 Pistons 100: At Chicago Scottie Pippen scored 28 points as Chicago beat Detroit to finish with a Mifranchise-bes- t 1 record of chael Jordan seeing limited action had 18 points for the Bulls Joe led the Pistons with 22 points and John Salley scored 20 Hawks 117 Celtics 105: At Boston Dominique Wilkins scored 24 points as Atlanta beat Boston spoiling the return of Larry Bird from the injured list The Hawks snapped a three-gam- e 20-poi- 7 Indiana Golden State 7 3 Detroit LA Lakers 3 Atlanta Houston 6 ar 3 16-ga- 61-2- Du-ma- rs Continued From C-- l threaten by going inside to Malone He had 19 points and shot 10 free throws Lister picked up his fifth fouL Jim Petersen picked up his fourth Suddenyly it seemed the Jazz had the Warriors on the ropes A trapping defense helped ignite the rally "It's a gimmick defense" said Sloan "and anytime you do something like that you give up something Mostly you're hoping against hope that they might get a little lazy uor get a little the Jazz ran Down 83-7- 3 though 1 ' out of gas A by Karl Malone with 3:35 left in the period made a game but two illegal defense calls on Utah resulted in free throws ' by Mullin He made them both and when the Hardaway nailed a Warriors were on their way "You always think you can come back" said Bailey "But one we got close we let it slip away again" It was 95-7beading into the fourth quarter when the Warriors closed out by toying with a team that had beaten them three straight times this f it'cH A season But the biggest one got away r Game Notes: Stockton finished his season with 1164 as- sists He also moved past Jerry West into 12th place on the NBA's e The Jazz finished list with 6239 the month with an 4 record That ties the best April in the history of the Jeff Malone finished franchise second in the NBA free throw shootagainst the ing race He was Warriors meaning he ended up That's 917 percent" Indiana's Reggie Miller finished at 918 The Jazz ended with a percent road record of 18-2- 3 including one victory on a neutral floor in Tokyo But they beat only three home teams with a winning record (Detroit Philadelphia and Golden State) The Jazz also finished by losing five of their Sloan missed last six road games a chance to get his 150th win as Jazz coach He's now 149-8- 0 t" 15-fo- 7 jazz diq ior Division Title TIM M IsXt TrilMM Golden State 'Chooses' Spurs in Playoffs Continued From C-- l ously and we played one of our better games of the year Everybody knew it was a big game for Utah But we wanted people to know it was a big game for us too" d Did the Warriors prefer a matchup with the Spurs instead of the Jazz? "We had no preference" said Nelson "Both are terrific teams We just took care of our own business" Nelson's players agreed "We played great" said Chris Mul-li- n "but our reward isn't great meetBoth the Jazz ing San Antonio and Spurs are equal No matter who we play we're the underdog" After falling to fifth in the Western Conference's overall standings the Jazz will also be the underdog in their series against Phoenix The Suns eliminated Utah in five games last year when the Jazz owned the homecourt advantage This year first-roun- narrow wins that edge belongs to Phoenix "They are always tough on us" said Jerry Sloan "Last year in Game 4 in the playoffs we won down there for the first time in about 700 years Obviously they present a lot of problems for us" Those problems could have been avoided if the Jazz had defeated Golden State Instead emotional wins over Seattle and the Lakers that set up the deciding afternoon were wasted Perhaps they took a toll "I knew this would be a tough one for us" said Sloan "Our guys worked awfully hard the last couple of nights to put themselves in this position Honestly I don't think they had too much life left" Jeff Malone thought so too "We had two great wins against Seattle and LA" he said "But instead of playing like we did we went back to the way we played before that in over Sacramento and Dallas" Karl Malone however didn't think the Jazz blew their opportunity against the Warriors "It's just one game" he said "You can't look at one game and say that's what cost us the title Sure the opportunity was there But you have to look back at the whole year There were other games maybe that we should have won too" The Jazz had won four in a row heading into the fateful game with the Warriors They'd won six of seven and eight of 10 But only one of Utah's last 61 opponents scored more points on the Jazz than the Warriors Lack of defense is a major reason why they fell one game short "No excuses" said Karl Malone "We lost and now we'll go from here We can't worry about this one any more It's irrelevant now" division-- ' ' nt record-breakin- g all-tim- 8-- 231-for-2- Unbelievable' Pirates Rally From Five Runs Down — Twice — and Stun Cubs Pittsburgh Pirates' clubhouse after one of the most dramatic comebacks in the club's 104-yehistory was "unbelievable" n double capped a Slaught's two-ru- n rally in the 11th inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates survived Andre Dawson's second grand slam in three days to stun the Chicago Cubs 13-1- 2 Sunday at Pittsburgh In one of the most dramatic games of the 1770 played between the two National League rivals since 1900 the Pirates came back from a 2 deficit to tie it in the ninth and ar 7-- accepting something she didn't earn" Yoculan's gymnasts dominated Saturday's individual competition Spi-ve- y won floor and tied for vault honors while teammate Kelly Macy won uneven bars Yoculan quoted Patterson as saying "if the shoe was on the other foot you'd feel differently" Yoculan said she had talked to Spi-ve- y and told her "in our trophy case you're second in the nation on beam according to the judges' scores" Marsden said if he was in Patterson's shoes "I'd give it Basile's title back" meaning Marlowe would be the clear-cu- t champion with Spivey moving up to second and Basile and Knight sharing third place Lattimore contended the committee "handled it well discussed it Continued From C--l earned" said Marlowe who was a e here counting tie finish on floor "I her third-plac- e imagine she feels pretty embarrassed right now I would" Efforts to reach Alabama Coach Sarah Patterson Sunday night were unsuccessful Marsden quoted Patterson as saying "she saw nothing wrong with the committee's decision to let the finish stand She said it was like the Colorado-Missouri football game last fall when Colorado was given an extra 0 fifth down and won the game She said it was beyond her control" Yoculan disagreed "All Sarah had to do was admit that a mistake had been made but she tried to protect her girl Instead she's hurting her by two-tim- 31-3- -- f i JsF 4 WITH 12 volt automatic pump for your A mm it tor MM Mano '"' No MwmrO tw " jES2 tm mi MM mm CM Card fL JTS t Vir- - fTfc Wr t ffifaaa ''j! 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The NCAA committee found it simple to go the bogus route or at least they honored a 98 score with a 99 FREE ut At Montreal Kevin Elster homered and drove in four runs and Vince Coleman got three hitsColeman's RBI triple keyed a three-ru- n rally in the seventh inning that put New York ahead 2 Mariners 7 Athletics 2: At Seattle the Mariners completed a three-gam- e sweep of Oakland in the Kingdome as Ken Griffey Jr sparked a five-rueighth inning with a sacrifice fly The Mariners who have won six straight games after losing their first six swept the A's for the third time in history White Sox 5 Tigers 4: At Chicago the White Sox won their first game in three tries at the new Comiskey Park when Lance Johnson's Lei-bran- Marsden Livid Over Error in Scoring two-oRBI single capped a two-ru- n rally in the ninth inning to beat Detroit Chicago snapped its three-gam- e losing streak and end-' ed Detroit's four-gam- e winning streak Brewers 11 Blue Jays 8: At Milwaukee Robin Yount's three-ru- n homer with one out in the 10th inning gave lifted Milwaukee over Toronto after the Blue Jays blew a five-ru- n lead The Brewers who trailed 3 before rallying for five runs in the eighth to tie the score won the game against Frank Wills Twins 4 Angels 3: At Anaheim Calif right fielder Max venable's error allowed Kent run as MinneHrbek to score the sota beat California to snap its seven-gam- e losing streak MetS 9 Expos 5: er 12-1- six-ru- American League when he knocked the ball loose from catcher Darren Daulton in the 10th inning as Philadelphia lost its seventh in eight games Dodgers 6 Padres 0: At San Diego Darryl Strawberry hit his first home run for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Ramon Martinez and delivered a two-ru- n pitched a five-hittsingle to beat San Diego Giants 1 Astros 0: At San Francisco rookie Steve Decker homered with two outs in the ninth inning and the Giants beat Houston which hasn't scored a run in 23 innings Braves 3 Reds 2: At Atlanta Charlie gave up two runs in eight innings as the Braves beat Jose Rijo and Cincinnati then overcame Dawson's slam in the 11th With Chicago leading 12-- 7 reliever Heath Slocumb walked Jose Lind and Curtis Wilker-so- n and Orlando Merced singled to start the 1 1th loading the bases with no outs and bringing on Mike Bielecki the Cubs' sixth pitcher Jay Bell doubled home two runs and Van Slyke's sacrifice fly made it 0 Bonilla walked before Barry Bonds who had struck out four times and was singled to slice the Cubs' lead to one run With one out and the bases loaded Slaught hit a drive over center fielder Jerome Walton's head to score Bonilla and Bonds standing up Cardinals 7 Phillies 6: At St Louis Ray Lankford scored from second on a groundout By The Associated Press Don Slaught said he'd never seen anything like it Andy Van Slyke predicted he never would again And the word most used in the OGDEN 1276 WALL AVE 393-133- 3 |