Show Saturday Ogden April 19 1986 3B Sports Defending Stanley Cup champs down in defeat Associated Press Veteran Lanny McDonald and rookie Gary Suter scored in the first eight minutes and the Calgary Flames used a tenacious and physical checking system to upset the defending Stanley Cup chamin the first pion Edmonton Oilers game of their NHL Smythe Division Friday night lead after two w Calgary had a but broke loose for vgaals by Joey Mullen at 40 seconds and " Haakan Loob at 9:09 Glenn Anderson got Edmonton's only goal on a power play at 19:48 of the second period series will Game 2 of the be played Sunday night Jhe Flames winners of only two of both the offensive and defensive zones And it was the Flames not the Oilers who excelled at the transition game hype the Despite all the their previous 22 games against the game was a relatively cleanly played afe reigning Stanley Cup champion fair There were however two brief outOilers virtually nullified Edmonton’s breaks one in the first period and explosive offense with disciplined checkanother in the third when the Flames ing had the game well in hand On both ocWith a large and noisy contingent of casions it was the Oilers not the Flames Calgary fans cheering them on the who initiated the fights Flames played the body at every opporThe Flames reversed a seasonlong pattunity to constantly disrupt Edmonton's tern by scoring first and scoring early offense The Oilers who usually jump into an Goaltender Mike Vernon who went early lead against Calgary found themrecord against selves in a hole at 1:27 when McDonald into the game with a scored his fourth goal of the playoffs Edmonton this season had only a handful of difficult stops to make all night John Tonelli beat defenseman Randy Gregg at the side of the net and shoveled Calgary owned the middle of the ice in Hockey pass across the front to McDonald He put the game's first shot into the net Suter made it 0 on Calgary’s third shot at 7:38 The Flames outmuscled the Oilers for the puck in Calgary’s zone raced up ice and completed two excellent passes that left Suter in the slot with defenseman Paul Coffey trying to defend the empty Edmonton net The Flames against Edmonton during the regular season maintained that lead by controling the middle of the in their end ice especially Edmonton finally broke through with in the second period with left 2 seconds McDonald in the penalty box for an unnecessary hooking penalty he took at center ice a create it record Associated -- We can’t get -- full of ourselves ’ '"Associated ' Press The Los Angeles Lakers have played only one game in de- Tense of their NBA champion-- t ship and already they have established a playoff record They meet the San Antonio ir Spurs again in Los Angeles at 1:30 pm (MST) San Antonio Coach Cotton Fitzsimmons said he was after Thursday night’s NBA loss when the Lakers shots for a ukiade percentage of : 663 Milwaukee set the s record of 660 in 1978 ' “We played well” said Lakers guard Magic Johnson who had 13 points and 18 assists “But we can play better We can’t let 3urselves get full of ourselves “we’ve got to keep working hard “We know when it’s time to do it It’s a whole different season now and it’s time to get serious” The other home teams won their openers Thursday night Boston defeated Chicago 2 and beat Detroit Houston routed Sacramento mF35-8- In today’s other games Detroit visits Atlanta at 1:30 pm '"(MST) and Sacramento is at Houston at 6 pm (MST) Los Angeles’ big guns Thursday night were Byron Scott with 24 points on shooting — and 18 James Worthy hit points Michael Cooper and Lucas were and 7 Johnson “We were ready prepared and focused” Lakers Coach Pat Ril- cy said “The game speaks for Ttself 7 “I already told the players that Game 2 is going to be danger- ous because they’ve created some fury in their opponent” Mike Mitchell led the Spurs with 24 points Boston overcame Michael Jordan’s 49 points and made Chicago its 32nd consecutive victim at home Four Celtics scored 23 or more points topped by Larry field Bird’s 30 points on Igoal accuracy Kevin McHale for 27 points was Penney Hauschild of Alabama and Jackie Brummcr of Arizona State tied for first place among individuals with 3820 points Hauschild had a top scores of Charlie Bourgeois scored twice in the closing 141: minutes to help St Louis lead into Game 2 scheduled take a for Sunday night on Blues ice Jim Barr and Greg Paslawski also scored in helping St Louis extend its mastery at home over Toronto to 13 contests since February 1983 Press it was going in I was really hap- because I knew that was it” The rally appeared destined to fall short in the final seconds when with the 76ers leading Terry Catledge grabbed an offensive rebound with seven seconds to go to allow Philadelphia to maintain possession Julius Erving was fouled with three seconds left But he missed three free throws the last after a Washington lane violation gave him another chance The 76ers gave the Bullets the opportunity to win by committing five turnovers and missing their last five free throws down the stretch The poor shooting and negated a Philadelphia advantage in offensive rebounds But it still took the long shot by Bradley to win the game He was closely guarded by Erving before squirming away to free himself for the shot “I was just looking to pick up the ball because Doc was hounding me” “To be honest we didn’t need a but I don’t mind it” said Washington Coach Kevin Loughery “1 would have been happy getting the ball to Jeff Malone or Cliff Robertson to tie it but I’ll take it” Malone led the Bullets with 21 points Robinson had 18 and Dan Roundfield 20 including nine comeback Bradduring the ley who averaged 28 points finished with nine “You can never give up in the playoffs” Malone said “Maybe in the regular season we would have but not in the playoffs Dudley is our best shooter He put it up and it was a dream shot” py Associated Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird takes a break during team practice Dennis Johnson scored 26 points and Robert Parish 23 Jordan scored 30 points in the first half when the Bulls trailed Johnson scored 16 of his points including seven straight baskets as the Celtics pulled away in the third quarter Dominique Wilkins led Atlanta with 28 points Kevin Willis added 22 points rookie Jon Koncak 19 and Spud Webb 18 Utes claim sixth title GAINESVILLE Fla (AP) — Despite having only one performer in the individual Top 10 Utah claimed its sixth straight NCAA women’s gymnastics national championship Friday night at the McConnell Center r “Obviously this was a great team effort” said Utah Coach we Grcg Marsdcn “As a team we hit just refused to give up and And that’s 24 of 24 routines what I said I thought it would take This is a great group of - kids” “‘Utah finished with 18695 points barely edging Arizona State’s total of 18670 Alabama was third with 18635 and Georgia was fourth with 18545 1 Blues Dudley Bradley was the improbable hero of an even more improbable comeback Friday night Bradley statistically the worst shooter (349 percent) in the NBA this season banked in a shot at the buzzer capping an Washington rally that gave 4 the Bullets a victory over the Philadelphia 76ers in the opening game of their playoff series in the Spectrum “I practice a lot and it sure paid off” said Bradley who hit another as the Bullets rallied from a deficit in the last 3Vi minutes “I just spun around and shot it When it left my hand I thought ’" V’n Blues 6 Maple Leafs Gino Cavallini and Ron Flockhart scored seven seconds apart early in the second period to lead the St Louis Improbable hero shoots bull’s-ey- e for Bullets’ win Lakers ' The Flames failed to clear the puck out Coffey fired it to the side of the net and Wayne Gretzky was first there to backhand a pass in front Anderson flipped the pass through Vernon’s legs Gymnastics 960 in the vault and on the balance beam Brummcr scored a 965 on the both the beam and uneven bars Sandy Sobotka was the top performer for Utah with 3730 points good for ninth place overall Cheryl Weatherstonc was 12th Lisa Mitzcl 18th and Tina Hermann 50th for Utah Tammi Elliott of California was third with 3770 points while Gigi losa of UCLA was fourth at 3765 and Jube Cstin of Alabama was fifth with 3760 In order Fullerton Penn State UC LA Florida Louisiana State and Ohio State rounded out the top 10 teams The individual medal competition is scheduled for today The Hawks outscored the Pisin fne second period tons halftime lead to grab a Koncak 10 of his 19 points in the quarter and Kevin Willis added 14 of his 22 points in the decisive quarter Bill Laimbeer led the Pistons with 26 points and Isiah Thomas had 20 Akeem Olajuwon scored 29 points grabbed 15 rebounds in Press Boston and blocked four shots for Houston against Sacramento which shot only 38 percent from the field Olajuwon had 16 points at halftime to give Rockets a halftime lead Rodney McCray scored 18 points and Ralph Sampson finished with 16 points and 13 rebounds for Houston Bucks 119 Nets 107 At Milwaukee Craig Hodges PLAYOFFS scored 22 of his 25 points in the first half and Paul Pressey scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half The Bucks opened the fourth streak to go quarter with a with 8:05 left on two ahead foul shots by Pressey The Nets never got closer than five points after that as the Bucks’ defense forced crucial New Jersey turnovers Alton Lister came off the bench to add 17 for Milwaukee Buck Williams led New Jersey with 27 points Otis Birdsong had 24 and Albert King had 19 points The Bucks and Nets were tied at intermission The underdog Nets opened the third period with a surge to lead with 9:01 left take a But the Bucks using their potent transition game came back to lead with 3:25 left build an after an spurt Milwaukee went into the fourth quarter leadon a jump ing shot by Pressey Hodges a guard was from the floor and from the free throw line in the first half His 22 points led the Bucks Williams a forward led the Nets with 16 points Darryl Dawkins the Nets’ backup center until sidelined with n a injury March 27 was in uniform but did not play Nuggets 133 Blazers 126 At Denver forward Calvin Natt scored a career-hig40 points and center Danny Schayes in a rare start added 22 points and rebounds seGame 2 in the ries will be played here Sunday Alex English despite an off shooting night had 30 points for the winners Vandcwcghc paced Portland with 28 points and Mychal Thompson who sat out much of the second half with five fouls added 24 Clyde Drcxler also in foul trouble had 20 points Dallas makes a big bad comeback DALLAS (AP) — Dallas’ Rolando Blackman was shut out for 18 minutes Friday night but once he got untrackcd he blew the Utah Jazz right out of Reunion Arena 25 points put the Blackman's Mavericks a game up in their NBA series with a victory over the Jazz Blackman took charge late in the second quarter "How do you deal with a bad start? Well you try to be relentless" said Blackman “All I saw were green shirts cvcrytimc I went down the floor But I kept coming at them got some shots and I was able to bury them" Bob Hansen who guarded Blackman said “Ro is tough and I was really happy came out to hold him under 30 points and tried to get him to play me on the offensive end and disrupt his offensive flow Jazz “It worked at the beginning of the game but he still got his points" The loss could have been a costly one for Dallas because Mark Aguirre suffered back spasms late in the game Aguirre was listed as questionable for Sunday’s game Blackman was scoreless until he went on a tear with 5:55 left in the first half scoring 12 of the Mavericks’ last 16 points He scored eight points in the third quarter and made Dallas’ first field goal in the fourth period after a drought of almost six minutes when the Slavs were living off free throws Blackman also made three free throws and contributed a steal late in the fourth period Utah playing without leading scorer Adrian Dantley who is out with back pasms was paced by rookie Karl Malone’s points and Hansen’s 15 Mark Aguirre added 15 points for Dallas and Sam Perkins had 15 rebounds “I had an uneasy feeling coming into this game" said Motta “I didn’t expect anything but a tough game and that's what we got" Utah Coach Frank Laydcn said “It was a heck of a game I’m proud of the way wc Wc battled all the way" played free throw s before the Dallas hit sellout crowd of 17007 fans lead but the MaverUtah shot to a at halficks thanks to Blackman led time Utah never led in the second half with 4:32 although it tied the score at to play on a Hansen bucket The Jazz never scored after Hansen’s bucket and Dallas reeled off eight straight points four of them by IX'rck Harper The second game of the series is set for Sunday at 6 pm (MST) in Reunion Arena 23 |