European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 29, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 21 i Points lakers thrash a avs 130-116 from press dispatches Kareem Abdul Jabbar scored 28 Points and magic Johnson recorded 14 assists sunday allowing the Aba defending Champion los Angeles lakers to clobber the Dallas Mavericks 130-116 in the first game of a Best of seven Western conference semifinal series at Inglewood Calif. Game 2 will be played wednesday night at the forum. The series then shifts to reunion Arena. In other Aba playoff games sunday the Philadelphia 76ers Defeated the Washington bullets 134-109 to win their first round series 3-2. The Boston celtics beat the Atlanta Hawks 103-91 in the opener of their Eastern conference semifinal series. The lakers trying to be the first team since the 1968 69 Boston celtics to repeat As Aba champions improved Aba playoffs to 4-0 in the playoffs. All of their triumphs three of which were Over san Antonio have been one sided. Dallas advanced to the conference semifinals with a four game Victory Over Utah. The mavs could not Over come poor first Quarter shooting and a surge by the Lak ers in each of the first three periods. Abdul Jabbar scored six Points Early in the second half to help the lakers go ahead 84-59. The Mavericks then made their Only second half run using a 15-3 spree to move to 89-76. But the lakers righted themselves and Michael Cooper s second three Pointer of the half two minutes into the final period put los Angeles up 103-80. Byron Scott had 24 Points and James worthy 23 for the ahead of them All a photo world Champ Alain Prost of France crosses the finish san Marino formula one event. He beat Brazil s line at Imola Italy to win sunday s grand prix of Nelson Piquet by 7.6 seconds. Strange wins Houston title the Woodlands Texas a Curtis strange made a 20-foot Birdie putt on the third Hole of a sudden death playoff sunday to defeat Calvin Peete and win the $500,000 Houston open. After strange made his putt Peete who had led or shared the Lead through All four rounds missed a 20-footer that would have forced another Hole. I just tried to hit it straight and get it on the Green said strange who pocketed the $90,000 first prize. Peete earned $54,000 for second place. Strange and Peete were deadlocked at 274, 14 under Par after 72 holes. Peete who started the Day tied with Tom Watson and Jay Haas with 11-under-Par 205 totals finished with a final round 69 while strange charged from three strokes off the Pace with an 8-under-Par 66. Both players parred the first two playoff holes the Par 3,177-Yard 16th and the Par-4, 376-Yard 17th. Peete s 20 foot putt for Birdie on the second playoff Hole stopped at the lip. Watson who narrowly missed an Eagle on 18 that would have tied him with the leaders finished with a 71 and a 276 total. Haas finished with a 74 for 279. Strange charged Back into Contention after he angrily broke his Putter on the 13th Hole thursday and had to finish the round at Par using his pitching wedge As a Putter. He shot a pair of 68s Friday and saturday and trailed the leaders by three strokes going into the final round. His 15-foot Birdie putt on no. 17 sunday pulled him even with Peete for the first time. Peete had Good Luck at no. 13 on sunday nabbing a Birdie to go 14-under. His second shot bounced from a wooden Border on the Island Green onto the putting sur face where he got Down in two for a Birdie. He missed a Birdie putt by three inches on no. 17 that would have broken the deadlock. After putting his second shot in the rough on no. 18, strange pitched to within eight feet of the Hole and Sank the Par saving putt to Force the playoff. Peete two putted from the fringe at 18 to earn his Par. Lakers. Jay Vincent scored 18 Points and James Don Aldson had 17 Points and 10 rebounds for Dallas. Continuing the hot shooting they displayed against the spurs the lakers hit seven of their first 10 tries and raced to a 16-4 Lead after 4vi minutes. With Kurt Rambis deny ing Mark Aguirre the Ball Dallas could make just two of its first 10 shots and trailed 22-6 two minutes later when Abdul Jabbar connected on three consecutive shots. The Mavericks got to 22-16 with a 10-0 Blitz but los Angeles ended the first Quarter Strong and was ahead 30 17 by its end. Dallas closed to 39-34 four minutes into the second period before Johnson engineered a 20-6 lakers burst that pushed the advantage to 59-40. Johnson angered by an offensive foul Call made by de Middleton Early in the period scored twice in the spree and led a ferocious run see Aba on Page 26 rangers Edge capitals to win Patrick series from press dispatches new York Pierre Larouche who spent most of the season in the minors scored two goals with assists from Mike Ridley and John Vanbiesbrouc sparkled in goal As the new York rangers beat the Washington Capi tals 2-1 sunday night to move into the Stanley cup semifinal round. The Victory in the sixth game of the Patrick division series sent the rangers into the Wales conference final starting thursday night against the Adams division win nil playoffs Ner to be determined tuesday in the seventh game of the Hartford Montreal series. The rangers won their first division title by playing brilliantly in a Low scoring High tension contest Between two of the nil s top defensive teams. It was the second straight upset Victory for the rangers who knocked off the Patrick division Champion Phila Delphia flyers in the first round of the playoffs. Phila Delphia and Washington finished with the second and third Best records in the nil regular season. The capitals who had finished 29 Points in front of the fourth place rangers during the regular season faltered after taking a 2-1 Lead in the series. They blew a 5-3 Lead in the third period in game 4 and lost 6-5 in overtime. Then in game 5 at Washington the capitals lost 4-2 to set the stage for the rangers sunday night clincher before a roaring crowd of 17,367 at Madison Square Garden. The rangers who Haven t won the Stanley cup since 1940, last played in a division final in 1983, when they lost in six games to the eventual Champion new York islanders. Larouche with the help of his Rookie Lin mate scored at 12 36 of the first period and then connected on a Power play 34 seconds into the third. That was All the offence needed by Vanbiesbrouc who made several outstanding saves throughout the game. He stopped 27 shots giving up Only a third period score to Bobby Carpenter at 5 38. In the Only other nil game sunday whalers 1, canadians 0 Hartford Conn. Mike list Back in goal after missing two games because of an injury stopped 32 shots and Kevin Dineen scored his sixth goal of the playoffs to Lead Hartford Over Montreal and Force a deciding seventh game in their Adams division final series. The canadians out shot the whalers 32-17 but list proved equal making up for several defensive lapses by his teammates. Dineen the whalers scrappy right Wing and inspirational Leader scored the Only goal the whalers needed to Send the Best-of-7 series Back to Montreal for a final game tuesday night. Patrick Roy the canadians 20-year-old Rookie goalie had another outstanding game stopping 16 shots to keep the contest close. Starting for the first time in three games since taking a shot on the right knee list stopped 14 shot s in a scoreless first period. In three previous losing efforts against the canadians the whalers have fallen behind in the opening 20 minutes. The canadians out shot the whalers 76-28 during the six first periods of the series