European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 26 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday april 10,1990blues go up 3-0 with of Victory by the associated press Toronto a Sergio Homes so a second goal of the game at 6 04 of overtime gave the St. Louis blues a 6-5 Victory Over the Toronto Maple Leafs sunday night and a 3-0 Lead in their Best of seven Norris division semifinal series. Momus so used defens Eman Tom Kurvers As a screen and fired a slap shot from the Blue line that beat goaltender Allan bes Ter through the pads. It came less than a minute after Bester stopped Brett Hull on a Solo dash Down the right Wing. The blues who lost seven of eight games to Toronto during the regular season can Advance to the Norris finals with a Victory at Maple Leaf gardens on tuesday night. Toronto which out shot St. Louis 46-40, forced the overtime by scoring twice in the final 2 52 of regulation. In other games sunday night jets 2, oilers 1 Winnipeg Manitoba a Dale a Verchuk scored with less than five minutes remaining to give Winnipeg a Victory Over Edmonton and a 2-1 Lead in their smythe division series. The Veteran jets Center scored his third goal of the playoffs at 15 30 of the third period snaring an errant Clearing pass in the oilers zone and whipping a 20-foot foot screened wrist shot past Oiler goal tender Bill Ranford. The jets out shot Edmonton 30-16. Ranford making his third straight playoff appearance despite a shaky Start in the opening game was outstanding stopping Doug Smail with a sliding kick save on a breakaway and later diving in front of Pat Ely Nuiko a rebound shot in the opening period. Kings 2, flames 1 Inglewood Calif. A Tony Gra nato scored the first shorthanded overtime goal in Stanley cup playoff history As los Angeles rejuvenated by the return of Wayne Gretzky beat Calgary to take a Stanley cup playoffs surprising 2-1 Lead in the smythe division semifinals. Granato knocked the puck Loose at Center ice chased it Down in the offensive zone and skated in on goalie Mike Vernon and scored with 8 37 elapsed in the first overtime period. He beat Vernon with a 10-foot wrist shot from close in on the right Side for his second goal of the series. Gretzky returned from a seven game Layoff and set up the Kings first goal by Tomas Sandstrom 23 seconds into the second period. Gretzky had missed the last five regular season games and his first two playoff games in 11 seasons with a hype extended Back. The Best of seven series resumes with game 4 tuesday night also at the forum. Blackhawk 2, North stars 1 Bloomington Minn. A Steve Larmer snapped a scoreless tie with 9 48 to play As Chicago regained its Home ice advantage in the Norris division by beating Minnesota. Greg Millen yanked out of Chicago a goal by coach Mike Keenan after allowing three first period goals in game 2, made 31 saves. Chicago which had lost 2-1 at Home in game 1, rallied for a 5-3 win in the second game when de Bel four took Over in the net. Game 4 is tuesday night at the met Center. On the winning goal Denis Savard beat Dave Gagner on a face off in the left Circle. Greg Gilbert passed to Larmer at the top of the Circle whose shot hit Gagner a skate and deflected Back to him. Larmer then beat goalie Jon Casey Low to the Glove Side. The North stars thought they had tied the game about 1 la minutes later when Gagner poked a rebound past Millen. But referee Bill Mccreary said the puck never crossed the goal line. Television replays were inconclusive. Blues Glen Featherstone shows the ice to Toronto a Daniel Marois on sunday. Palomar homers twice for Al Best indians by the associated press if the exhibition season is any indication the Trade that sent Joe Carter from Cleveland to san Diego will work out Well for both teams. Rookie Sandy Alomar jr., a Catcher obtained by Cleveland in the 3-for-l Deal hit two homers and drove in four runs As the indians beat Cincinnati 12-6 sunday the last Day of Spring training. The indians finished Spring training at 10-5, Best among american league teams. The padres won their last 10 and wound up at 12-2, tops in the major leagues. San Diego Defeated Seattle 2-1 in their wrap up. The indians Are worried mostly about scoring. They were last in the league with 604 runs last season the first time since 1933 that Cleveland has been at the Bottom. The slugging Carter was sent to san Diego in december for Alomar Rookie third baseman Carlos Baerga and outfielder Chris James. Alomar hit four Home runs this Spring including a three run shot and a Solo blast off Cincinnati a Danny Jackson. Baerga drove in three runs against the reds and James doubled and scored a run in the game at Columbus. Last year Cleveland won 1-0. This time the Batter Spring training Roundup dominated As they combined for 23 hits including Home runs by Alomar Cory Snyder and Joel Skinner of the indians and Luis Quinones of the reds. In sundays other final exhibition games padres 2, mariners 1 de Whitson pitched six innings and allowed Only an unearned run As the padres beat Seattle in san Diego. Whitson gave up three hits walked one and struck out three. Bip Roberts homered in the third inning and drove in the tie breaking run in the seventh with an infield single. Athletics 5, giants 0 Scott Sanderson gave up two hits in four innings and Curt Young finished with five innings of two hit Relief As Oakland beat san Francisco at Home. Sanderson and Young combined to strike out six and walked just one. The athletics capitalized on five errors All by giants infielders. Walt Weiss had two of Oakland a five hits. Mets 2, Yankees 1 Mackey Sasser and Kevin Elster hit consecutive Home runs off Rookie reliever Alan Mills in the eighth inning As the mets won at Yankee stadium. Ron Darling Sid Fernandez and Winner David Cone combined on a five hitter for the mets. Dodgers 4, Angels 2 Rick Dempsey went 2-for-2 and drove in two runs As los Angeles beat California at Home. Eddie Murray and Mike Scioscia drove in the dodgers other runs cardinals 4, orioles 1 Greg Mathews who missed last season with Elbow problems pitched three scoreless innings for the win As St. Louis beat Baltimore in Louisville by. Mathews relieved in the sixth inning with the score 1-1. He allowed one hit walked one and struck out two. Ricky Horton pitched the ninth for a save. Astros 6, braves 4 Todd Jones in class a last season pitched four shutout innings As Houston beat Atlanta at Kissimmee Fla. Jones 22, allowed Only two hits. Expos 10, twins 4 Marquis Grissom hit two homers and drove in five runs As Montreal downed Minnesota at the Mel radome. Winner Kevin Gross allowed three runs on five hits while striking out six Over six innings. Pirates 11, Phillies 4. Jeff King hit his fourth Home run of the sprinj5.androve in four runs As Pittsburgh beat Philadelphia at Clearwater Fla. The pirates had six doubles one triple and three Home runs among their 15 hits. Navratilova Downs Capriati in straight sets Hilton head St Ann or 1ad\ i. Hilton head Island . Apr Jennifer Capriati called Martina Navratilova a legend. Navratilova called Capriati a legend in the making. The legend prevailed for now. Navratilova earned her 150th singles Crown sunday denying the 14-year-old Capriati her first title with a 62, 6-4 Victory in the Circle Magazine cup women a tournament. A it was the greatest feeling of my life. Here i was playing a legend a said Capriati who jumped from being a ranked to 25th in the world monday after completing her third professional tourney. A a think i played a legend in the making a said the 33-year-old Navratilova. Quot i think Jennifer a got the future in Ner hands. It s going to be fun watching her grow and be a Champion. Navratilova won the match with her so far serve and Volley attack a winning two thirds of Points after coming to the net. Capriati was playing in just her third in Jana since turning pro last month. She is now 13-3 As p and 3-2 against players in the top 10. Navratilova won $100,000 and an automobile. Privati took Home $40,000