European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. May 12,1987 the stars and stripes Page 21 flyers dump canadians Eklund nets 3 Montreal up Pulle Eklund score three goals for a total of five in his last two games sunday night moving the Philadelphia flyers within one Victory of the Stanley cup final with a 6-3 Triumph Over the defending Champion Montreal a Victory in came 5 of the bust of seven Wales conference final tuesday at the spec nil playoffs Trum he flyers can Advance to face the Winner of the Campbell championship Between the Edmonton oilers and Del rail red wings. The Oil ers Lead 2-1 and play Ai Detroit flyers last were cup finalists two years ago when they lost to the oilers in five games. With Philadelphia Leat ing 3-2 after iwo periods Eklund and Rookie Scott Mellanby scored in the first 88 seconds of the third to Pul the game away. Montreal had rallied from a 2-0 deficit after one period to i the score 13 39 into Etc second. However Eklund s first score of the night 2 01 later quickly reclaimed the flyers Lead for Good. Montreal started Patrick Roy for the first time in 10 games. The map of last year playoffs Roy looked bad on All four goals he sur rendered Brian Kayward replaced him 14 seconds into the third period after Mellanby s goal. On that play Ron Sutler stole the puck from Claude Lemieux and look a slow Shoi hat Mel Lanny redirected Between Roy s right skate and the Post for a 4-2 Lead. Montreal coach Jean Perron then replaced Roy with Hayward bul Eklund scored 74 Sec Ond later the puck bounced off Montreal de pc Neman Larry Robinson right in front to Eklund who sent the puck through Hayward s legs. Floyd s glorious 4th thwarts la. Sweep from press dispatches Oakland Calif. For one glorious Quarter Eric sleepy Floyd said the Basket seemed 10 feet wide. Floyd driving furiously and Hilling 12 Oft 3 shots Ina record Selling 19-Point fourth Quarter sunday finished with 51 Points leading the Golden stale warriors in a 129-121 Triumph Over los Angeles for their first Victory in heir bust of seven Aba Western con Ference semifinal playoff series. The lakers Lead the series three games to one while Seattle leads Houston 3-1 in the of her Western series. Earlier sunday Detroit and Boston took 3-1 leads i their Eastern conference semis As the pistons beat Altanya 89-88 and the celtics Defeated Milwaukee 138 13 7 in double overtime sleepy was simply Oul of this world said lakers coach pal Riley whose bid for a sweep of the series ended amid the wild cheering of 15,025 fans at the Oakland coliseum Arena. All you saw in the found Cru Alicr was a lot of blood and guts from a Bunch of Guys who would t quit warriors coach George Karl said. Thai was a great win but it was also one of the All time shows i be overseen. I m not real old but that s pros stably the greatest individual performance i be seen in a playoff game. And Notus his shooting. He also made several steals and he prob ably assisted on All the other baskets we Floyd who had 10 assists and four steals broke the one Quarter scoring record of 25 set by Detroit s Siah Thomas on Friday in is. His 39 Points in he second half also broke Elgin Baylor s 25-year-old Mark of 33 Points in a half and his 51 Points were the most Ever by a player against the lakers in a playoff game. Golden state dispirited after saturday s 25-Point 102-88 going into the final period but refused to collapse As it rallied behind Floyd who had scored the warriors last five Points of the third period sleepy took it upon himself to keep his team see Aba on Page 26 Aba playoffs Gomez rips Noah in toc title match new York up Andres Gomez captured the biggest prize of his career sunday when he whipped Yannick Noah in straight sets to win the $615,000shearson Lehman Brothers tournament of champions. Gomez asserted his authority with a service break in the first game and he capped the Day with his sixth Ace to com plete a 6-4, 7-6 7-5. 7-6 7-1 Victory. Noah. The defending Champion lacked his usual Fine Loub and agility on an afternoon when the temperature soared to 90 degrees on the court and Al no Point could he establish control. In his five previous matches the 26 year old Frenchman had nol dropped a set conceding 24 games and he had nol lost his service in the last four of those contests. Noah did have one Chance for a comeback when he gained set Point Inich ninth game of the third set. But Gomez managed to hold in a Gam which went to Deuce three times and he broke in the next game at 15 to even the set Ai 5-5. In the deciding lie break Noah could win Only the first Point As Gomez completed the 2-hour and 48-Mmule match with a flourish. Gomez the found seed from Ecuador who had knocked off lop Scheu Boris Becker a Day earlier earned $80,000. Noah picked up $40,000, a photo Andres Gomez unleashes a topspin forehand rum the Baseline against Yannick Noah. Up Phoice Eric sleepy Floyd hits is Points to Lead warriors. Swedes Roll As men Start italian open Rome a five swedes marched through the first round of the italian open men s Tennis championships Mon Day Ai the j49s.ooo event got under Way with a Field that includes most of the world s top players. Eighth seeded Kent Carlsson of swe Den the highest seed in action at the fora italico monday cruised past of Australia 6-1, 6-0, on the slow red Clay surface perfectly suited to the swedish Baseline game. Other seeded swedes advancing were no. 9 miracl perfors no. 13 Jonas Svensson no. 14 Ulf Stenlund and no. 15 Joakim Nystrom. Perfors battled for More than two hours before subduing Libor pick of Czechoslovakia 4-6.6-4,6-2. Two unseeded americans advanced to the second round while two others lost. Andre Agassi of Las vegas nev., Bea Simone Colombo of Italy 6-3, 7-5, and Jay Berger of Plantation fla., downed Jan Gunnarsson of Sweden 6-4, 6-2. Hard hitting Cassia Motla of Brazil eliminated Mel Purcell of Atlanta 6-2, 4 6, 6-0, while Horacio de la Pena of Argentina Beal Derrick Kos Lagno of Brent Wood Calif., 6-3. 6-3. Svensson overpowered Ivan key of Brazil fi-0, 6-2 sic Lund breezed past Milan sri Jer of Czechoslovakia 6-3, 6-4 and Nystrom Beal Hans Schwaier of West Germany 6-3, 6-0
