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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, June 9, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports worthy boost lakers past celts into 32 Lead los Angeles Kareem Abduljabba Hooks Over Bostons Robert Parish for 2 of his 36 Points in lakers 120111 via photo Victory a the los Angeles behind Kareem Abdul James worthy and Earvin magic refused to Wilt under relentless Boston pressure Friday and beat the celtics 120111 for a 32 Lead in the National basketball association championship to win their third title since How the lakers must win one of two games at Boston where the celtics have never lost the final game of a championship if Boston wins game 6 sunday to even the Besto seven the championship would be determined tuesday two victories by Boston would make the celtics the first Aba team to repeat As champions since they won in Brilliant in All three los Angeles scored 36 worthy equated his playoff career High with Johnson had 26 Points and 16 the celtics got 26 Points from Robert 24 from Kevin 22 from Dennis Johnson and 20 from Larry they Are 151 in the championship series in their storied including 80 against the lakers in their Lone finals in the sixth and decisive game was played in four of Bostons finals victories against the lakers have gone seven including last the celtics Are 4015 in bos ton in All finals worthy had nine Points during a 207 Streak in the final of the first half that turned a tie game into a 6451 Lead at half the lakers extended their margin to 70 52 Early in the third they led 7659 after Boston coach Jones was assessed two straight technical and was ejected with that seemed to fire up the who scored nine straight Points after that to trim the deficit to who scored Only two Points in the first led the los Angeles surged again As worthy scored five of his 11 third Quarter Points to spark a 134 run that rebuilt the advantage to the lakers took a 9581 Lead into the final 12 again the celtics battled connect ing on seven of their first 10 All from while the lakers went scoreless in the first of the the lakers led Only 9995 with four More times the celtics got within four but the lakers rediscovered their offensive touch and answered every with the score Abduljabba hit a Kurt Rambis hit two free throws after an offensive Johnson made it 113103 with left on a fast break Bas Ket after a steal by Abduljabba now has 92 Points in los Angeles three victories and Only 33 in the lakers two losses in this Abduljabba scored 12 Points in the first minutes of the which saw five Lead changes and four ties in that he triggered an 114 spurt by the lakers with a Hook shot and an uncharacteristic High arching jumper just As the 24second clock the Streak gave los Angeles Lead with 51 seconds left in the opening Mchale scored 13 Points in the period to keep Boston including the celtics last As they continually passed to him see lakers on 23 Evert Lloyd wins sixth French open Paris a Chris Evert Lloyd upset fellow Ameri can Martina Navratilova 67 75 in the million French open Here saturday to avenge last years finals loss and win a record tying sixth women singles title at this grand slam the second seeded Evert Lloyd used patience and consistently wicked passing shots to throw Navratilova Serveant Volley game off Navratilova had trouble with her serve All but kept the match close by winning the big the mens final on sunday was to match defending Champion Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia against the 1982 French Mats Wilander of it was Evert Lloyds 17th grand slam her Victory Here tied her with Suzanne Lenglen of who won six French open women singles crowns in the that also matches Bjorn Borg of who won six mens titles at this Cla court event before retiring in the tournaments top still has a 3332 career Edge in her matches against Evert and she was favored to successfully defend the Crown she won last year when she crushed Evert Lloyd but this Navratilova usually overpowering game never got on she in Sloppy and Evert by played her usual steady Baseline game and repeatedly punished her oppo nent with stinging passing shots when she approached the after dropping the first set managed to come Back from deficits of 31 and 42 in the second set to take it into a which she and Send the match into a third but at 55 in that deciding she squandered three break Points to allow Evert Lloyd to take the Lead for Evert Lloyd took a 30 Lead in the first set with a break in the second Navratilova held serve and broke Back in the fifth game to make it 32 and then held again to even the set at but the 30yearold Evert who first won Here As a 19yearold in reeled off victories in the next three games to close out the set the two women exchanged service Breaks in the first three games of the next set until Evert Lloyd held to take a 31 they each held serve to make it the challenger had two chances to take a 53 Lead in the eighth game with Navratilova serving and Down but the 28yearold naturalized american got out of Trou ble with big serves and won the game on a Fine Exchange at the Navratilova then broke Evert Lloyd to even up the set at 44 and held her own serve to take a 54 Lead her first Lead in the the set went to 55 after each held and an Exchange of service Breaks sent it into the tiebreaker at Navratilova jumped into a 41 Lead and held on to win the tiebreaker Evert Lloyd took a 31 Lead in the final but blew two chances to go ahead 41 when she netted a backhand on one break Point and sent a forehand Long on Navratilova took the fifth game with a backhand Cross court Winner and served out the next game at love to tie the set at in the seventh with Evert Lloyd Navratilova had a Chance to take the but on break who had trouble finding the Range on her ground strokes most of the sent a forehand into the dropped her Racket to the ground and pleaded to the heavens for Evert Lloyd held on and broke Navratilova in the next see Evert on Page 25 a photo French open Champion Chris Evert Lloyd controlled action from the Start  
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