Wednesday, April 21,1 982 post crcnt, AppKton-NMnoh-Mwn. wi. B-5 Sports, briefly Bullets, Nuggets win NBA playoff openers Compiled by Dan VanderPas, assistant sports editor Commentary I really wasn't too concerned about The Nuggets led the NBA in scoring with 126.5 points per game, but they also were last in defense, allowing 12Q points. Billy McKinney, who averaged It points a game for Denver, added 24 against the Suns. Kyle Macy scored 22 points and Walter Davis 20 to lead.
Phoenix. who set the. Dace in Mondav's 86th Despite Denver's pivotal 40-point third period, Suns center Rich Kelley said the Nuggets' defense was the key. "They've been maligned all season," said Kelley. "But they did a great job tonight of pressing us and creating confusion when we were on offense." TUNE UP The Nets played without starting point guard Clarence "Foots" Walker, out with a sore ankle.
He is considered a key to controlling the tempo of their game. Rookie Buck Williams led all scorers with 23 points for the Nets, while Albert King added 15 for the losers. Kiki Vandeweghe scored 29 points and led a third-quarter surge by Denver that carried the Nuggets past Phoenix. Vandeweghe scored 11 points in the third period as the Nuggets turned a slim 62-59 halftime edge into a comfortable 102-82 advantage. Boston Marathon.
What impressed me as an mediocre, amateur jogger, was the great number of qualified entrants and "bandits" who finished the hilly 26.2-mile course. A comfortable non-stop running distance for me is about five miles on a level course. And during those stints of jogging, swearing, sweating and sometimes staggering around the streets of Applet on' southside, I think about quitting and flagging down a bus at least a dozen times. With my running experiences in mind, I realize how much training, determination and insanity it takes to finish at Boston. So to all area entrants who didn't finish anywhere near Salazar on Monday, but still finished, congratulations.
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Mahorn added 16 points, all in the second half, sparking the Bullets back from a 10-point third quarter deficit. Washington started the game by missing 15 of their first 22 shots and trailing 24-16 at the end of one quarter, and it took them until the end of the third period to catch the Nets. "Mahorn played great in the second half and Ruland was sensational," said Washington Coach Gene Shue. "It was a typical Bullets game. It didn't look good for awhile, but we were playing good defense the whole time." In the only other NBA playoff game Tuesday, Denver took a 1-0 lead in its best-of-three series against the Phoenix Suns with a 129-113 victory.
Game 2 of that series will be in Phoenix Friday night, while the Nets travel to Landover, to play Washington the same night. In games tonight, Atlanta starts its playoff series with the76ers in Philadelphia and Seattle opens at home against Houston. Mahorn scored four of his eight third-quarter points in the final two minutes as the Bullets got the last eight points of the period to tie the game 63-63, the first deadlock since 2-2. Mahorn then hit the first six Washington points of the fourth period to give the Bullets their first leads of the game. He got another basket to start a 20-4 spurt that broke open the game, giving the Bullets an 87-73 lead with 3:42 left.
"I'm really just a defensive clog," said Mahorn, who didn't take a shot in the first half, but was 7-for-10 the last two periods. "I try to help everyone else on defense. But I started taking my shots in the second half. "My job is to take the shot when it's the last thing to do. Usually, I just do the dirty work underneath." But with their 16-point first quarter and 41-point first half, the Bullets might not have been able to win if the the Nets' top scorer, Ray Williams, hadn't had a 4-for-19 shooting night.
Williams followed a career-high 52 points In New Jersey's final regular-season game against Detroit Saturday night with 11 against the Bullets, most of them when the game was out of reach. "Maybe I should have stopped shooting in the third quarter of the Detroit game, and saved some for tonight," Williams said. "But what can you say? I got to be professional about it. You can't dwell on it because it's going to haunt you in the 11711 LFCUlgaiUC Atlanta Continued From Page 1 by Steve Trout, the New York Yankees broke through for seven runs in the seventh inning and went on to an 11-2 rout of the previously-unbeaten White Sox Tuesday night that stopped Chicago's winning streak at eight games. "We didn't expect to get 16 hits on a cold night like this," New York's Lou Piniella said after a raw night in Comiskey Park.
"But that's baseball. You can never tell." Temperatures dipped into the 30s and snow flurries dropped intermittently throughout the game. According to Chicago Manager Tony LaRussa, the White Sox were under no pressure to keep their streak going. "But," he said, "we're not happy we lost. It was a game we wanted to win, especially after we had a 2-0 lead." That was wiped out by the Yankees' big seventh, which was highlighted by two-run singles by Rick Cerone and Willie Randolph.
The Yankees sent 13 men to the plate in the seventh. They collected eight singles and then scored three more runs in the ninth. Despite the defeat, Trout said, "I was extremely pleased with my performance. You can't go undefeated all year. Somebody had to get the first loss.
We were just destined to lose. Maybe this defeat will bring us back to reality." The victory went to Yankee starter Mike Morgan, but Morgan was unable to loosen up after the Yankee's 37-minute rally in the seventh and he gave way first to Shane Raw-ley and then Goose Gossage and George Frazier. "He'll be all right," Yankee Manager Bob Lemon said of Morgan. "It was too cold and he just couldn't get loose. It gave me a chance to give the other guys some work, especially Goose." Gossage faced six batters, walking three and striking out two.
Elsewhere in the AL, Seattle beat California 6-4; Detroit blanked Kansas City 8-0; Cleveland routed Texas 9-4; Boston stopped Baltimore 8-3 and Oakland beat Minnesota 4-3 in 16 innings. Cold weather postponed the Toronto-Milwaukee game. mm "FREE" UNIFORMS "FREE" MEMBERSHIP With Each 1 or 3 Month' TAE-KWON-DO KARATE COURSE Open 10 cm. to I p.m. CHO'S BLACK BELT ACADEMY 321 N.
Apawten St. Phong 731-1679 Notes From Tht Aitoctated Prut il PaulHornung Paul Hornune, a star running back for the Green Bay Packers two decades ago, is in Beiievue Medical Center in New York suffering from an undisclosed ail ment. Stephen Mature, a hospital spokesman, said Homung, 46, was admitted about noon Tuesday as an emergency case. He said Hornung requested that nothing about his ailment be released until sometime today, but Mature added that the onetime National Football League star was in stable condition, talking and in good spirits Tuesday night after undergoing a battery of tests and diagnostic procedures. Leading money winner Earl Anthony, defending champion Steve Cook and the most recent Professional Bowlers Associ ation title winner, Pete Weber, led a 52-man field into qualifying for the $200,000 Firestone Tournament of Champions at Akron, Ohio.
Bernard Fritz of France upset defending champion Victor Pecci of Paraguay 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the first round of the $144,000 State Express Tennis Classic at Bournemouth, England. Chris Evert Lloyd whipped Barbara Jordan 6-0, 6-0 in the surprising opening round of the $250,000 Murjani Women's Tennis Association tournament. Dibbs defeated Tomas Smid 6-4, 7-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinal round of the $300,000 WCT Finals in Dallas. Stockton stunned Sweden's Bjorn Borg 7-6, 1-6, 6-2 in a qualifying round to oust the five-time Wimbledon champion from the $370,000 Alan King-Caesars Palace Tennis Classic in Las Vegas. An Associated Press photographer was barred from the Milwaukee Brewers' dressing room Sunday, and an official of the American League baseball club said a new policy would deny access by still photographers this season except under unusual circ*mstances.
Dick Hackett, vice president for marketing, said the ban was prompted in part by an AP photograph, taken shortly before major league baseball players went on strike last June. The picture showed a cap, bearing the words, "take this job and shove it," atop Brewer third baseman Sal Bando's locker. Chicago Cubs have sent pitcher PaulSemall to Denver of the American Association to complete a trade that brought second baseman Bump Wills from the Texas Rangers earlier this year. Hrabosky, a left-handed relief pitcher with the Atlanta Braves, was placed on the 21-day disabled list because of a pulled groin muscle, the National League team announced Tuesday night. Former Appleton West pitcher Mrby Krueger has been reassigned to the Minnesota Twins farm club in Visalia, Cal.
Last season with the Wisconsin Rapids Twins, Krueger had a 3-6 record and a 3.58 ERA. He completed seven of the ten games he started and had one shutout. Visalia, considered to be between A and AA on the Twins' scale, won the first-half championship of the California League and had the best overall record in the league at 87-53, but lost the divisional playoff to Stockton. Quote of DAN VANDERPAS Assistant sports editor and local ttorc Bobby Winkles The main speaker for the rescheduled Appleton Foxes "Welcome Home Banquet" will be Bobby Winkles, the Chicago White Sox director of player development. The banquet will be at 7 p.m.
May 2 at the Darboy Club. Winkles was a White Sox coach for three seasons. He served as head baseball coach at Arizona State for 13 years. He compiled an overall record of 524 wins, 173 losses, and coached such greats as Reggie Jackson. Tickets for the banquet are still available the Goodland Field office.
John Fourcade, the University Mississippi quarterback, said Tuesday he'll sign with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League if he isn't picked in the first two rounds of the National Football League draft next Tuesday. "If I went in the first two rounds, I'd say I'd have to consider the NFL seriously," said Fourcade, 21, selected Most Valuable Player in January's Senior Bowl. Three Wisconsin high school wrestling champions and titlists from two other states have signed letters of intent to compete at the University of Wisconsin, the Badgers announced Tuesday. The Wisconsin champions are Ralph Uegel of Spring Green at 167 pounds, Mike Murphy of Mineral Point at 138 pounds and Tom Wicks of Stoughton at 126 points. The others are four-time Ohio titlist Jim Jordan of Graham at 126 pounds and Indiana champ Jerry Jackson of Laporte at 185 pounds.
Former Janesville Craig football star Mike Liebenstein, who has left Notre Dame, said Tuesday he was considering playing at the University of Wisconsin or UW-Whitewater this fall. He started the first games of last season at defensive tackle as a sophom*ore at Notre Dame last year, but was injured and red-shirt ed for the remainder of the season. Appleton native Judy Winski, a senior on the UW-Madison track team, disregarded cold and windy weather conditions last weekend as she ran AIAW national qualifying times in the 100-and 200-meter dashes. She had a time of 11.68 seconds in the 100-meter and 24.28 seconds in the 200-meter. Winski and her UW teammates were competing in their outdoor track opener in Champaign, 111.
The Badgers placed third in the meet with 137 points, behind Big Ten rivals Illinois with 146 and Purdue with 142. In the Kimberly Ladies League Tuesday at Jerry's Lanes, Pauline Pleier slammed a 237 game and 608 series. Mel Gray is back in the fold for the St. Louis Cardinals, but safety Ken Greene of the National Football League team still says he wants out. "I'm very serious about getting traded," said Greene after it was announced Tuesday thatn Gray had signed a one-year St.
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