European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. May 13. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports oilers coast to final Edmonton. Alberta a Craig Simpson Anil Mike uni Shelyski had two goals and an assist apiece As the Edmon ton oilers beat the Detroit red wings 4 wednesday night and advanced id the Stanley cup finals. The oilers gunning for their fourth Stanley cup championship in five years. Lurry Bird Scurry record 24 Points in the first Quarter Hilling his first 10 Shols in spurting Button Piht Atlanta Wren Essiy. Bird s fast Scarf keys celtics in opening win Over Hawks by the As Stirli j i Rojs Boston one Hird soared Early and none of the Slawki not even High flying Dominique Wilkins could catch up. Larry Bird set a Boston playoff record with 24 Points in the first Quarter and the celtics survived Dihins 15 Points in the Fot rth Quarter for a 110-101 Victory Over the Atlanta Hawks in the opener of their Aba second round playoff series wednesday night. I was juy moving and gelling the Hall in areas i like to get u in said Bird who made his first 10 shots and led All scorers with 38 Points. "1 made some moves that i was surprised 1 beat my Man  Bird is just a phenomenal player Atlanta guard Glenn Rivers said better than  Atlanta never led and lost its 1 eth consecutive game in Boston Garden where the second game of the Best of seven Eastern conference semifinal is scheduled for Friday right. All of us maybe wanted to try too hard Atlanta coach Mike Fratello said. When you Haven t played Well in a particular building Anil you have such great Pride each player says til be the one 10 Lead us " even though Bird broke Dave cow ens 14-year-old team record of 20 Points in one Quarter of a playoff game the Aba playoffs Hawks fought Back into Contention. They Cut the Lead to 54-48 at halftime after trailing 30-14 and 38-23 at the end of the opening Quarter. "1 was looking for my shot Early but in the second Quarter i Felt we were standing around and 1 wanted to gel other people involved Bird said. We Weron t doing what we were doing in the first period. We could have easily packed in in and gotten blown  Wilkins  we kept pushing and Cut it  Wilkins had been held in Check for most of the first Altrec quarters. He missed a lot of shots out Here out Side jumpers Boston coach . Jones said. Much of it was  Wilkins who led the Hawks with 2 Points made just three of 11 shots in the first half then broke out in the fourth Quarter when the Hawks closed a 17 Point deficit to 106-99 with 53 seconds left. Hut they came no closer. The shots i had earlier weren t bad or difficult shots. They just would t Goin he said lit the fourth Quarter i was making those same  Kevin Mchale had 25 Points and Robert Parish 22 for Boston. For Allan nil playoffs la Rivers added 16 Points and Kevin Willis 13.Bird oils cored he entire Atlanta team in the first period. At one Point he had 11 consecutive celtic Poi nos to til in a 12 6 Lead into � 24-12  Hawks got Back into Llie game with a Strong second Quarter in which they got 14 of 1 lie first 20 Points making the score 44-37, at one paint they Cut the Lead to 49 45 before settling Tor the six Point half Lime  Celt in shooting accuracy dropped from 74 percent in the first Quarter to 3 i percent in the second. They warmed up again in the  began that period with a j4-4 run in which it scored the last 10 Points four each by Parish and Mchale and two by Dennis Johnson. That gave the cel tics a 68-52 Lead with 5 46 left in the third Quarter their big Ecol Lead of the game was 19 Points. The coast time at 80-61 with 1 01 left in the  the celtics ahead comfortably in the fourth Quarter Wilkins got nine of the Hawks next 21 Points As Boston s Lead dropped to 106-99 on a Dunk by Willis but Johnson hit two free throws and Wilkins also hit two before Mchale finished the scoring with a 15-foot jumper with 11 seconds led advanced to the final round with a five game Victory Over Detroit in the Camp Bell conference finals. It marked the fifth Timi in the bit six years that the oilers have made the championship round. The oilers who also whipped Duron in five Barnes last season in route to the league till will face the Winner of the Wales conference series Between new Jersey and Boston. The Bruins Lead that series 3-2 with Ciamp 6 scheduled for thursday night. Sim min scored both his goals in the first period when he oilers look a 2-1 Lead. Simpson misled on a goal by Jari Kerri Laic in the second period when the oilers scored four times far a fi-1 Lead and virtually put the of inc Nway the red wings got third period goals from Adam Dales at 1 33 and Steve Vic Nan at 4 13. But the flurry was Doolittle too Laif. Krusic Znyski who had a goal and an assist in the oilers second period burst clinched it at 14 49. Wayne  had a goal and to Anistis for the oilers. Detroit pulled Goa lie Greg Stefan with 3 44 remaining and Oret by scored into an empty net with 52 seconds to go assisted by Mark Mes sier who had a goal and set up three others. The oilers got a solid Riih from their penalty killing units. The oilers who Al Lowed Ihrck Power play gnats in five ,11 Urnis in monday night s 4-3 overtime Victory a Detroit held the no Wing without a Power play goal in tin it in mils. The had wings however did get a Short handed Goalby Brent Stcin in he first period. Dave ban scored in the first minute of the second to momentarily tie the game at 2.2. Bui Edmonton reeled off four straight goals by Messier  Keith Acton and Kerri to move into a comfortable Lead. Simpson scored twice in the first period both on assists by Messier us in boilers took a 2-1 Lead. Simpson scored on the game s first shot with just 47 seconds gone on a breakaway with Messier. The two roared Down the left Side before Messier got the puck to Simpson in the Low Slot and Sim son deflected in past Stefan the red wings lied in at 4 19 on the Short handed goal by Ashton. He intercepted a pass by Esa Tikkanen in the oilers zone and lugged the puck All the Way Down the ice before scoring from the left Circle. Once again Simpson and Messier combined to give the oilers the  shot Tram just inside the Blue line and Simpson deflected it past Stefan from the Tow Slot at 3 03 for his 10th goal of the playoffs