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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 28.1987 the stars and stripes Page 17 sports celts steal win from pistons Boston a do Broil had the Victory in the bag Bill Larry Bird stole it. Bird who had missed two shots in the final .10 seconds picked off an i Bountis pass by Isiah Thomas with five seconds left. The Boston Star fed Dennis Johnson for the winning Layup with one second to go As the celtics beat the pistons 108-107 and look a 3-2 Lead in their Aba Eastern conference final series tuesday night. We were in a big Hole Bird said. "1 thought it was really just a matter of  ill put that on top of everything Larry s Ever done Boston assistant coach Chris Ford said. It was sort of a Lazy pass Over to Bill Laimbeer Johnson said. I did t see where Larry came  neither did Thomas whose foul line jumper had put Detroit ahead 107-106 with 17 seconds remaining. Aba playoffs you can see i should have called a timeout he said. You can Sec i should not have thrown the pass. You can see 1 should have thrown the bait harder or Bill should have come in. But All i can say is they stole the Ball and they won the  " made a mental mistake by not calling  said Liyim Bacr who wailed under Boston s Basket for Thomas to pass from the sideline. In the heat of Battle he said the proper decisions sometimes arc not made. I thought basically we had the game won Detroit coach Chuck Daly said. All we had to do was in bound the  then Bird stepped in. I was going to foul Laimbeer. 1 stuck my hand in there and then i knew 1 had it stolen he said. Then i turned around and saw . Standing in the  but Johnson still had to make the Basket with Joe Dumars guarding him closely. He drove Down the left Side of the Lane and put the shot up with his right hand. I was Oft balance Johnson said. It rolled around and went  Detroit then called timeout and put the Ball in play from mid court. Adrian Dan Ley s pass hit Laimbeer 5 hands and Wen out of Bounds As the final Buzzer sounded. The defending Champion celtics can reach the Aba finals for the fourth straight year by winning game 6 of the bust of so Van series in Pontiac mich., thursday night. A seventh game if necessary will be in Boson saturday. The series survivor will play the Western see celtics on Page 19 rally gives flyers 4-3 win new life in Stanley finals Edmonton Alberta a Brian Propp assisted on All four goals As the Philadelphia flyers rallied to defeat the Edmonton oilers 4-3 tuesday night and remain alive in the Stanley cup finals. The oilers Lead the be surf seven w Ries 3-2 and can wrap up their third nil nil playoffs Oiler Craig Muni goes Down after i Check by flyer ran Suiter 14 in tuesday s name. Title in four years with a Victory to Phila Delphia thursday night. The flyers appeared to be out of it when they fell behind 2-0 in the first period and 3-1 in the second but they bait Lud Back behind Propp and Rick Tocchet who had two goals to Send the series Back to Philadelphia. Touch cars second goal of the night his itch of the playoffs came at s 56of the third period and put the flyers ahead to stay. The flyers Hope to become Only the second team in nil history to win the Stanley cup after falling behind 3-1. The Only team to do that was the l 42 to Ronto Maple Leafs who beat the Detroit red wings after losing the first three games. After Jari Kerri and Marty Mcsorley had scored for a 2-0 Edmonton Lead Tocchet scored late in the first period. Mcsorley restored the oilers two goal lend with his second goal of the night Early in the second period. But Propp then set up Doug Grossman and Pelle Eklund later in the second period sending the game into the final period tied 3-3. Propp did most of the work on the winning goal when he took the puck away from dec Neman Craig Muni and fed touch cd across the crease. Tochel shot the puck into the net beating Edmonton goaltender Grant Fuhr on the Short Side. Edmonton pulled Fuhr at 18 51 for an extra attacker but flyers Rookie goalie Ron hex late who was booed loudly by the sellout crowd of 17,502 at the Start of the game for his part in a slashing Inci Dent in game 4, held them off. Each goalie registered 31 saves. Propp s four assists tied a club record fora playoff game. The oilers who have scored first in every game of the series got off to a 1-0 cad on Kerri 5 Power play goal at 2 58 of the first period. Kerri j uth goal of the playoffs came on a shot from just above the Dot in the left lace off Circle after after he took a pass from Randy Gregg. He tall was partially screened by oilers Center Mike  on the play. Mcsorley gave the oilers a 2-0 Lead with his third Goat of the playoffs at 6 39. Wayne arc Luzky set up the goal when he carried the puck Over the Blue line and shot from the lop of the left Circle. Mcsorley followed he puck into the crease and nudged it Over the line while diving past a sprawled Hextall. Gretzky s assist was his 27lh of the playoffs and raised his Point Tola id 32, tops in these playoffs. The flyers got a goal by Tochel at see fivers on Page 22 athlete denies Block Market steroid soles san Diego a a British olym Pic track medallist accused of running a nationwide steroid smuggling and Distri Bulion ring pleaded innocent tuesday to dozens of charges in the Case. David Jenkins a member of Bitala s Silver medal winning 1.600-meter relay team in 1972, appeared before . District judge i. Lawrence Irving who continued an order that has kept Jenkins jailed without Bond. Jenkins was arrested april 23 on a steroid smuggling charge. He was arraigned on a superseding indictment which contained the additional charges. The alleged ring which smuggled and told the illegal muscle building drugs since at least january 986, is believed by authorities to have controlled 70 per cent of the . Black Market in Suvo ids. Steroids a sold Only by prescription in the uni cd states. Jenkins 35, of Carlsbad Calif is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United states conspiracy to colled cred it by extortionate Means and numerous charges involving the manufacture pos session importation and distribution of anabolic steroids. In addition to Jenkins four other defendants in the Case appeared before Irving three of whom Are free on Bond. Assistant . Attorney Phil Halporn told Irving that 23 of 34 people charged in the indictment unsealed last thursday have been arrested in the United Stales and three More have made arrangements to surrender. Several of the people arrested else where Are being held without Bond Pend ing their removal to san Diego Halporn said of those who remain fugitives All but two Are mexican citizens. Halporn told the judge he did not know when the mexicans including alleged steroid manufacturer Juan Javier Macklis would be in custody the americans still wanted Are John Sec Tonieh of Long Beach Calif and Garry Depaepe of Rock Island iii., Hal pern said  
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