European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 8, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 21 flyers Hawks win division titles by the associated press the Philadelphia flyers and Chicago Blackhawk each won their Cliff Hanger division races sunday on the last Day of the regular National hockey league season. The flyers wrapped up the Patrick division title with a 5-3 Victory Over the Washington capitals and clinched the divisional Home ice advantage in the Stanley cup playoffs starting wednesday night. The flyers will Host the new York rangers in the opener of the Best of five series while the capitals who finished second in the Patrick division three Points be Hind Philadelphia will entertain the third place new York islanders. The Blackhawk meanwhile turned Back the St. Louis blues 3-1 to win the Norris division title by one Point Over Minnesota. Chicago will Host the fourth place Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota will entertain third place St. Louis in the other Norris opener wednesday night. The smythe division s opening round pairings were nil Roundup also completed sunday when division Champion Edmon ton Defeated Vancouver 3-2. The oilers will face the canucks in the opening round while Calgary will meet Winnipeg. The Adams division playoff picture had been decided on saturday. Division Winner Quebec will open against fourth place Hartford and second place Montreal will Host third place Boston. The two time Stanley cup Champion oilers had Long since locked up first place with the help of Wayne Gretzky who had a single season Points record of 215. Gretzky also had broken his own record for most assists in a season with 163. The oilers also had the nil s leading goal scorer in Jari kurd 68 and the top defens Eman in Paul Coffey who earlier in the week broke Bobby Orr s record for most goals in a season for a defens Eman with 48. Coffey also was this season s Leader in shorthanded goals with nine. Other individual statistical leaders included John Vanbiesbrouc of the new York rangers and Phila Delphia s Bob Froese who tied for the most goal ending victories with 31. Froese who had an average of 2.54 going into sunday night s game also led the league in goals against average. Philadelphia s Tim Kerr produced the league s most Power play goals 33, and Toronto s win Del Clark led the league in most goals by a Rookie 32. Along with the record making seasons by Gretzky and Coffey Denis Potvin of the new York islanders broke Orr s career goal and Point record for a de Senseman. It was a year also that the islanders Mike Bossy hit the 500-goal level and scored More than 60 goals for a record fifth season. In sunday s other games new Jersey beat the new York islanders 9-7, Calgary trimmed Winnipeg 6-4, Hartford edged Boston 4-3, Detroit turned Back Toronto 4-2 and Pittsburgh edged the new York rangers 5-4 in overtime. Yankee bats Boom in Blue Jay rout by the associated press the new York Yankees criticized by owner George Steinbrenner last week for their Lack of Spring training clout broke out their booming bats sunday. Dave Winfield hit a grand slam Willie Randolph hit a three run Homer and Ken Griffey had a Solo shot As the Yankees celebrated the final Day of the exhibition season by crushing the Toronto Blue jays 16-1. Randolph and Winfield connected off Jim Clancy with Winfield s fifth Spring Homer following an intentional baseball Roundup walk to Don Mattingly in the fifth inning. Griffey Hom ered off Dennis lamp in the sixth and added a two run double off Luis Leal in the eighth. Rookie Bob Tewksbury who has won a spot in the starting rotation went six innings for the Victory giving up five hits and an unearned run. Rod Scurry Dave Rig Hetti and Brian Fisher each pitched one inning in Relief. In other exhibition games sunday pirates 2, mets 1 Pittsburgh completed a two game weekend sweep when Mike Stevens a non roster outfielder delivered an infield single with one out in the Lith inning that scored Jim Morrison. The teams meet tuesday in their regular season openers. Keith Hernandez homered for the mets in the first inning off Rick Rhoden and Pittsburgh s Rafael Belliard singled Home the tying run off Jesse Orosco in the eighth after Bob Ojeda had shut out the pirates on two hits Over seven innings. Indians 13, Brewers 1 Randy Washington and Jim Wilson hit Solo Home runs to trigger an 11-run sixth inning in a game called after seven innings so the two teams could make travel connections. Cleveland minor leaguer Mike Murphy pitched for Mil Waukee after Jaime Cocanower gave up two Home runs a Dave Winfield s fifth inning grand slam sunday helped the Yankees end Spring training by clobbering Toronto 16-1.ap photo double a walk and a triple. John Henry Johnson and Chris Bosio were injured. Johnson suffered a pulled Ham string and Bosio had a Groin pull. Cardinals 7, royals 5 Andy Van Slyke hit a two run Homer off Mark Gubicza in the fourth inning As the 1985 world series rivals ended their exhibition season with sub-.500 records Kansas City 12-13, St. Louis 12-15. Jose Oquendo St. Louis top Spring hitter had three singles raising his average to .436. Steve Balboni homered twice for Kansas City. Cubs 13, rangers 2 Steve Trout pitched witless Ball for 5% innings and see baseball on Page 23 76ers end celtics Streak with triple miracle1 by the associated press the Boston celtics Riding a 14-game winning Streak the longest in the Aba this year were holding a two Point Lead with seven seconds left and Larry Bird at the free throw line. The Philadelphia 76ers, with Moses Maine Andrew Toney and Bob Mcadoo Side lined by injuries needed a Miracle to win. Or was it three miracles first Bird hitting nearly 90 percent of his free throws missed two. Then 6-foot-6 Charles Barkley beat 6-10 Kevin Mchale on a jump Ball with three seconds left. Finally Julius Erving grabbed the tip and swished a three Pointer at the Buzzer to give the 76ers a 95-94 Victory Over the celtics. We Don t want to get too emotionally High before the playoffs but that was a no Roundup great win for us Philadelphia coach Matt Zupkas said. This is probably our most satisfying win of the  Bird said the failure to take his time at the foul line caused his rare double miss. When you Don t concentrate at the foul line that s what happens said Bird who had 18 Points and 10 assists. The 76ers, who have clinched the no. 3 position in the Eastern conference have won four straight despite the loss of Malone their All Star Center. In other Aba games sunday rockets 109, lakers 103 Houston won the Battle of division Cham pions snapping a Streak of 14 consecutive Home losses to los Angeles and setting a team record with 50 victories. Akeem Olajuwon scored 25 Points and Ralph Sampson making his first Start since injuring his Back in a fall at Boston two weeks ago had 19 Points and 17 rebounds. Houston led 104-92 with 3 45 left before the lakers scored eight straight Points to get within four with 44 seconds to play. But a jumper by Robert Reid and three free throws by Mitchell Wiggins sealed the outcome. Earvin magic Johnson led the lakers with 20 Points and 20 assists. Nuggets 124, spurs 106 Denver solidified its hold on the no. 3 Western conference playoff spot As Alex English scored 29 Points. The nuggets who Lead fourth place dal Las by 2 /2 games hit 58.7 percent of their shots against the spurs who lost for the 21st time in 24 games but still have a l /2 game Lead Over Phoenix for the last West Ern conference playoff berth. Bullets 106, Cavaliers 95 Washington got 33 Points from Cliff Robinson 25 from Jeff Malone and 21 from Gus Williams in its Victory Over Cleveland which tightened the Eastern conference playoff scramble. The bullets Are tied with new Jersey for sixth place with the Winner of that race to be paired with injury hobbled Philadelphia and the seventh place finisher facing Central Divi Sion Champ Milwaukee. The loss dropped the Cavaliers into a tie with Chicago for the final Eastern conference playoff spot. Roy Hinson led the Cavaliers with 24 Points and world b. 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