European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 7, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 21 James Bon Crusher Smith lands a hard left to Mike Weaver s face in their Hea Weaver crushed a weight fight at Latham . Sat urday. Smith knocked out Weaver at a photo 2 29 of the second round see sports wire on Page 27. Jordan leads bulls past Hawks from press dispatches Chicago Michael Jordan in his longest stint since returning from a 4/2 month Layoff with a broken foot scored 30 Points in leading the Chicago bulls to a 102-97 Aba Victory Over the Atlanta Hawks saturday. Jordan played 31 minutes after complaining to Chicago owner Jerry Reinsdorf he was t getting enough action. The bulls fearing re injury to Jordan had been limit ing his playing time. The win moved the bulls within a half game of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the race for the last playoff spot in the Aba Eastern conference. The Hawks who led 51-44 at halftime pulled away to a 65-50 advantage in the third Quarter but their Lead melted before a bulls Blitz. Orlando Woolridge hit two free throws to tie the score at 91. A pair of free throws by Charles Oakley and a Dave Corzine Dunk shot put Chicago up by four Points with 2 28 left. Two free throws by Woolridge with 53 seconds left iced the game. Corzine who came off the Bench finished with 20 Points for the bulls. Domin near Pudup ique Wilkins 28 Points topped Atlanta. In other Aba games Kings 119, suns 100 Sacramento Calif. Reggie Theus had 21 Points and 18 assists As Sac Ramento clinched a trip to the Western conference playoffs by defeating Phoenix. The Sacramento win coupled with Golden state s 107-106 Victory Over the los Angeles clippers put the Kings in the playoffs. The suns shot 86.7 percent from the Field in the second Quarter but cooled off to 50 percent in the third period. Theus led the third Quarter Kings charge with 10 Points. Mike Woodson and Otis Thorpe added 18 Points each for Sacramento. Walter Davis scored 14 of his 20 Points in the first Quarter to Lead Phoenix scorers. Nets 107, kicks 93 East Rutherford . Mike Gminski scored 25 Points Buck Williams added 20 and they combined to key a big third Quarter spurt by new Jersey As the nets handed hapless new York its eighth straight loss. Stirts Gminski and Williams combined for 16 Points in the final 9 41 of the third Quarter As the nets outscored the kicks 30-12, turning a 52-51 deficit into an 81 -64 Cushion. Darrell Walker paced new York with 22 Points and Louis Orr added 16 for the kicks. New York Center Ken Bannister was ejected from the game with 1 38 to play in the first half when he picked up his second technical foul. Pistons 115, pacers 106 Indianapolis Bill Laimbeer scored 28 Points including four during a critical run late in the fourth Quarter and added 22 rebounds leading Detroit Over Indiana. Laimbeer who was 12 for 15 from the Field hit a Layup to launch a 9-2 fourth period spurt for the pistons. Kelly Tripucka added a 20-foot jumper Joe Dumars hit a foul shot and Isiah Thomas added a jumper. Tripucka scored 20 Points and Vinnie Johnson added 19 for the pistons. Herb Williams had 29 to Lead the pacers and Wayman Tisdale added 22. Sonics 111, Mavericks 109 Dallas Tom Chambers scored 11 see Aba on Page 26 North stars up wings Clinch 2nd from press dispatches Bloomington Minn. Goals i 5 apart by Willi Pletl and Craig Hartsburg late in the second period lifted the Minnesota North stars to a 5-3 nil Victory Over the Detroit red wings saturday night clinching second place in the Norris Divi Sion for Minnesota and giving Detroit its worst record in modern club history. The North stars finished their season with a 38-33-9 record and 85 Points. 13 More victories and 23 More Points than they had last year when they finished fourth in the Norris. The North stars moved one Point ahead of Chicago into first place in the Adams  division As the Blackhawk dropped a 7-5 decision to St. Louis. Chicago and St. Louis were to meet sunday night. In other nil action capitals 4, rangers 4 Lan Dover my. James Patrick scored with 16 seconds remaining in Regula Tion As Washington and new York played to a tie clinching a playoff spot for the rangers in the Patrick division. In the race for first place in the Patrick the Caps fell one Point behind Philadelphia. Blues 7, Blackhawk 5 St. Louis Rick Meagher avoided a Check to score from close Range with 16 minutes remaining then added an empty net goal with 81 seconds left giving St. Louis a Triumph Over Chicago that prevented the Blackhawk from winning the Norris division title. Bruins 2, Nordques 2 Quebec Keith Crowder scored his 36th goal with less than six minutes left in the third period to lift Boston into a tic with Quebec. The draw meant the Bruins could Clinch second place in the Adams division and the Home ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs against Montreal with a Victory Over Hartford in sunday night s regular season finale. Canadians 4, sabres 2 Montreal Mats Naslund set up three goals to break an nil record for the most assists in a season for a left Wing As Montreal beat Buffalo eliminating the sabres from the Adams division playoff race. The Victory in their last regular season game gave Montreal 87 Points one More than the Boston Bruins. Flyers 4, penguins 3, of Pittsburgh Ilkka Sinisalo scored his second goal of the game 1 49 into Over time to give Philadelphia a Victory Over Pittsburgh and eliminate the penguins from the Stanley cup race. Whalers 7, Maple Leafs 1 Hartford Conn. Goalie Mike see nil on Page 23 Clemens sparkles As red sox whip tigers 6-0 by the associated press Roger Clemens the Boston red sox Pitcher who underwent surgery last sum Mer is doing just Fine thank you. I m very satisfied where i am right now Clemens said after yielding just three singles and striking out nine in seven innings on saturday to Lead the red sox to a 6-0 exhibition baseball Victory Over the de troit tigers. It s been a lot of hard  Only one Tiger got As far As second base while Clemens was on the Mound. It was his Best performance since he shut out baseball to Uriaus Cleveland 5-0 on May 17, 1985. The Only Detroit hits off Clemens were by Dave Bergman in the second inning a bunt single by Doug Baker in the third and a single by Matt Nokes in the fourth. While Boston s pitching was shutting Down Detroit the red sox attack was led by Tony armas who had four consecutive hits the first a High Fly Ball that was Al Lowed to drop 20 feet Down the third base line for a rib double in the first inning. His other three hits were solid singles. Dwight Evans singled Home two runs off Detroit starter Walt Terrell in the fourth. In other exhibition action Yankees 6, Blue jays 1 Dale Berra tripled in two runs and Rickey Henderson had three hits including a Home run and his first stolen base of the Spring to Lead the Yankees. Joe Niekro worked the first five innings giving up Toronto s run in the top of the second before the Yankee bats exploded for three runs in the Bottom of the inning. Cardinals 5, royals 3 Home runs by Jack Clark and Mike Lavalliere powered St. Louis Over Kansas City in their first meeting since the 1985 world  Ownbey homered for the cards. The royals got four hits from sex Cardinal Lonnie Smith and three from Willie Wil son. A s 7, giants 1 Joaquin Andujar pitched five scoreless see baseball on Page 26