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Show ft F 2C The Salt Lake Tribune 7, 1RK5 Tuesday, May Cubs Edge elps Dodgers Scioscia s Homer Tribune Wire Ser vires The Los Angeles Dodgers admittedly have had trouble storing runs homer but Mike Seioseia's two-rumight bring about a change of momentum. It did Monday. Seioseia's shot in the ninth off Lee Smith lifted the Dodgers into a tie and gave them the momentum to rally for two runs in the luth Chiinning for a 4 victory over the Field Cubs at Wrigley cago "I went up there swinging and happened to get a hold of one, said Scioscia of his first homer this year "I think the home run changed the momentum n - V Two-Ru- ' - . Mike Scioscia Homer for L.A. n The Dodgers got to reliever and loser Hay Fontenot, quickly in the 10th Candy Maldonado and Ken both singled and Maldonado 0-- Lan-dreau- x Guerreros scored when Pedro ground ball got by shortstop Shawon Dunston for an error Mike Marshall followed with a single to score Landreaux with a much-needeinsurance run since Ron Cey homered for the Cubs in the bottom of the 10th off winner Ken Howell, Landreaux, who went into the game with a 177 average and was before getting his key hit in the 10th, said "It's been a tough year Ive been hitting good but they haven't d 1 MSA Playoff Notes Bv Lex Hemphill Tribune Sports Wr er DENVER - Thurl Bailey certainly hasnt gotten the plum assignments in the playoffs for the Jazz this spring The second-yeaforward had to play Ralph Sampson of the Rockets in the first round and now is opposing Alex English of the Nuggets. They are s and the leading scorers both on their team, but there is a big difference in how they operate. and he's not goSampson, hes hes either ing to be doing too much going to post up and shoot the hook or try to take it in, or he's going to be out on the perimeter trying to shoot, said Bailey Monday. "I think English uses things a lot more. He uses picks; they set a double-pic- k up high for him sometimes and sometimes its hard to get through that. But theyre two different types of players. The offense that they (the Nuggets) run, he just knows how to move and cut and get the ball and go to the basket with it. While Sampson is certainly the more acclaimed player, English is doing the better job of driving Bailey nuts. Thurl did a good job on Sampson, holding him to 43 percent shootscoring average ing and a in. that series, while averaging 17.8 points himself. Its been a different story with English. After Alex burned the Jazz for 40 points Sunday night, just two short of his career playoff high, he was left with twice the number of r 3 21.2-poi- points that Bailey has in this series, 123-6English is the leading scorer in the series at 30 8 points per game on 54 percent shooting, while Bailey is shooting only 33 percent for his 15 3 points pei game "Alex English is a big assignment, said Bailey, when asked about his own subpar offense "Hes a great player, and a lot of times you tend to concentrate so much on him that youre either worn out on offense and not getting into the flow of it or you just aren't really concentrating on your shots. Asked how to defense against English and his slithery moves to get open for Bailey responded, Thats a good question. One answer, he thinks, is to get more help from his Once he starts to the teammates basket, we need someone else to come and try to harass the ball." Thurl Bailey has had the most difficult defensive chores for the Jazz in the playoffs. And if you think that Ralph Sampson is obviously a more dangerous player than Alex English is, you might want to see Thurl for a second opinion The NBAs ballyhooed lottery, which will be televised live Sunday, became a more attractive deal when undergrads Wayman Tisdale and Benoit Benjamin beat the Saturday midnight deadline and declared their eligibility for the draft. Even though the Jazz, who will draft either 13th or 14th, aren't involved in the lottery, they were interested in Saturdays news. 1 Lakers Hope to Expel Portland in Playoffs - The INGLEWOOD. Calif (AP) Los Angeles Lakers are counting on a home court crowd Tuesday night to help boost them past the Portland Trail Blazers and into the National Basketball Association Western Conference championship finals The Lakers, who have won 21 consecutive home games, can wrap up the second round of the playoffs with a victory over the Blazers. Portland trails the after breaking the Lakers' series string of six NBA playoff victories Sunday. The Blazers' second unit employed a half-coutrap defense to catch the Lakers by surprise and roll decision in Portland to a "We got aggressive through the trap, said Blazers assistant coach Bucky Buckwalter. "We have to do that again. We have to win one game down there. They (the Lakers) haven't played when they had to make shots to win games. Everything has been free and easy for them." But the Lakers will be ready for n 3-- 1 115-10- 7 Scioscia empathized with them saying, We know how they must feel, weve been leaving nine, 10, 11 men on base. Dodger Managei Tom Lasorda saw a ray of hope in the men left on base. I think we re leading the league in men left on but thats encouraging because were at least getting on, said Lasorda. The hits will come. another trap Tuesday night, said Coach Pat Riley. "We expected it (the trap! in the first three games," Riley said. We haven't seen one in a couple months" Their aggressiveness on defense, especially in the second period, was crucial, he said of the Blazers. We will match that aggressiveness, I its guarantee that, on Tuesday going to be a good, hot game. . . Asked why he had not used the trap earher in the series, Portland Coach Jack Ramsay said, "In the two games down there (Los Angeles), they were gone before we could trap." Our trappers turned the game around," Ramsay said "That's not our best basketball team, but they make things hapoen." If the Lakers win Game 5 of the series, they will advance to the con- ference championship playoffs against the winner of the Utah Nuggets series, which Denver leads Jazz-Denv- 3-- 1 "Because of Benjamin and Tisdale coming out," said Scott Layden, the Jazz's chief college scout, that means a Bill Wennmgton slides two spots and maybe gets down to us. Layden said a total of nine under-grad- s declared for the draft (the official list will be released by the NBA later this week), but the only ones that will make a dent are Benjamin, Tisdale, and Karl Malone of Louisiana Tech, who may also go before 13th or 14th, pushing another senior down to the Jazz Layden said under-grad- s Kenny Green of Wake Forest and Jerry Reynolds of LSU are possible late The Jazz can take pride in the performance of their fans during the playoffs While some other cities were getting nothing but complacency from their fans during the early rounds of the playoffs, the Jazz have drawn four straight sellouts. And Sunday's crowd of 12,716 was particularly impressive. Jazz Coach Frank Layden, after seeing his fans keep the Jazz in the game when they were behind by as many as 24 points Sunday, declared, "The fans here are the best in the league. They're like San Antonio used to be. Every time we scored a goal, they went crazy. Scott Layden said he understood that Bill Russell told his WTBS national audience Sunday night that the Salt Palace was "the loudest building And in the Western Hemisphere. Frank Layden said that WTBSs Skip Caray told him, "This is better than college basketball." And to think the Jazz fans have responded like this when there was talk just a month ago that they were going to lose their franchise. If there is a Game 6 in the series, it will be at the Salt Palace Thursday night at 7 p.m., and the game will be shown by WTBS. If there is a Game 7, it will be at Denver at 1 30 p.m. Saturday, and it will be telecast nationally on CBS, with Brent Musburger and Hubie Brown scheduled to call the game. Brown, of course, was Frank Lay-den- s old roommate at Niagara. The four teams that have come back to win an NBA playoff series after being behind by 3- are: the 1968 Celtics against Philadelphia in the Eastern finals; the 1970 Lakers against Phoenix in the Western semifinals; the 1979 BulleLs against San Antonio in the Eastern finals; and the 1981 Celtics against Philadelphia in the Eastern final. Layden made note of the fact that the 1979 occurrence came against a team, the Spurs. Doug Actually, Moes Spurs blew 1 leads twice in that playoff year. First, the Spurs allowed Philadelphia to catch them at before winning the seventh game, Then, of course, came the series with the Bullets, who won the last three in a row. the fastest speed so far in practice for the Indianapolis 500 on Monday and said he can go even faster "There's still more t there," J Vv said Rahal "We try to go as fast as we can each day, but in a Mario Andretti controlled manner You want to make ctungos but in an intelligent fashion not just I'm very happy irh willy-nillthe way the car is handling in said We had a productive day bui we still have more things t. uy It was the busiest scs.sk n by far in the three days since tin tinn opened for practice for the May 26 race. Six more drivers cracked 2 it) mph for the first time, bringing that total to 22, and the previous fast lap of 209.302 by former Utahn Dick Simon had been dropped to fifth-bes- t by the end of the day finisher Rahal, seventh-plac- e last vear, and Mario Andretti, the 1909 Indy winner, first took turns bettering Simon's speed Then late his new around the Speedway's Indianapolis 212-mil- Motor track at e early in the afternoon, reinforcing his standing as one of the favorites for the pole position in Saturday's first round of qualifi-- i ations But Rahal. whose best previous lap was 208 913, matched Andretti with an identical lap at 209 643 hen went even faster with laps of 209 741 and finally 210 970 Guerrero the runner up to Rick Mo, ii s last year, tied Andretti's speeo and Johnson beat both of inoMi with a lap at 209 937 in the losing minutes of prai Ik e It be a real interesting week said Rahal The big sjieed dlffer-eie will come from the ability to make your car different Still it will be hectic " Thi official track record is i ' 11 210 689 mph for one lap and 210 029 for four laps, both set last year by pole w inner Tom Sneva But Andretti who has crashed in the race in each of the past three years, re-- ( orded the fastest unofficial practice speed in Indy history a year ago at 212 414 Most drivers believe both the i of- - 31-- 7 - half-gam- 3-- single as the San Francisco yards. 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The Gam biers, who exploited their quickness throughout the game, never were forced to punt. Houston scored on each of its five first-hal- f possessions to blow open a lead, with Kelly completing 23 of 32 passes for 276 yards in the first 30 minutes alone. won its third in a row Houston, to regain sole al! on the road in the Westof first place poss e ahead of ern Co; ference, a lost for the Oakland Portland, fourth bright week. The Breakers, playing di tome for the first time in a month, diew a crowd of 18,457. The game was televised by ESPN and wasn't blacked out locally. Richard PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Johnson caught a United States Football League record four touchdown passes from Jim Kelly Monday night as the Houston Gamblers rolled to a 45-- 7 victory over the Portland Breakers. Johnson, in his fourth pro season from Colorado, had scoring catches of 11, 49 and 1 yards in the first half, catch late in the then added a third quarter. The speedy, receiver Giants 7, Pirates 5: At Pittsburgh, wound up with 10 receptions for 167 pinch hitter Scot Thompson lined a first-rounde- final and unofficial marks Lola C'osworth-powere- left-cent- - 0-- Ex-Uta- hn Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS - Bobby Ra hal, leading a furious charge with a lap just under 211 mph, claimed 5, Gamblers Bury Breakers, p Raimi, Andretti Lead Indy Speed; Simon Drops to Fifth the day, Roberto Guerrero and Ilerm Johnson also recorded faster laps Andretti, winner of the seasons first race at Long Beach, scorched Padres 2: At si Louincludwent is. 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