European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Jazz Streak by Bob Baum the associated press Portland Ore. The Utah jazz almost pulled off one of the biggest comebacks in playoff history in the Aba though almost does no to mean much. Thanks to Terry porters inside Basket with 3.6 seconds to play the Portland Trail blazers escaped with a 118-116 Victory thursday night to take a 2-0 Lead in their Best-of-7 Western conference semifinal series. Quot things kind of snowballed Dowie the stretch and nothing went right for us a port land coach Rick Adel Rhan said after his team blew a 23-Point fourth Quarter Lead. Quot but the Bottom line is we have two in another thursday game the Boston celtics Defeated the defending Champion Detroit pistons 109-103 to knot their Eastern 1-1, the stars and stripes May 11,1991 Page 28 Aba playoffs on an to Boston at Detroit 8 40 pm. Saturday., followed by Portland at Utah delayed. Karl Malone scored a career playoff High 40 Points for the jazz half of them in the final Quarter he was 10 for 10 from the free throw line in the final Quarter and 20 for 22 for the game. Porter who suffered a bruised left thigh in a collision with Mark Eaton earlier in the game came off a pick on the game winning play and found himself alone inside. Clyde Prexler got him the Ball with a Bounce pass one of Drax Lerz a career playoff High 15 assists. A porters status for saturdays third game wont be determined until just before Tipoff the bla2ers said. Portland Reserve Mark Bryant also is questionable because of a sprained left ankle. The blazers won game 1 by 20 Points and through the first 1 Viz minutes of the fourth Quarter game 2 looked like an Quot even bigger Blowout. A. A everybody thought the game was Over including Portland a Malone said. The rally gave the jazz reason to believe things will be better when the series moves to Salt Lake City. Still coming it close Wasny to Good enough Malone said. The blazers starters were on the Bench when the rally began and they weren table to Stem it when they returned. A _ John Stockton who Sank two straight 3-Pointcrs during the Utah rally despite having his nose bloodied in the Aba on Page 22 Utah a Karl Malone Aims Over Portland a Jerome Kersey in thursdays playoff game. Rips _ a a the new York times Boston the Pittsburgh penguins firepower finally surfaced thursday night in a 7-2 Triumph Over the. Brums that silenced Boston Garden. A Pittsburgh was its third in a Row in this National bloc key league semifinal playoff series and it _ put the penguins just one Victory away from reaching the Stanley cup finals for the first Lime in their 24-Ycar history. The penguins can capture the series with the Bruins with a Victory at Pittsburgh saturday in Glt Quot this is an important Victory for uis a said coach Bob , Quot but it s Only number three and you have to win four and the fourth win is the a your Job was to win a hockey game Here and we did that a said Kevin Stevens who led the penguins with _ two goals and three assists. Quot we needed a win Here to have any Hope and the puck went in for us Mario Lemieux Bryan Trottier Paul Stanton Larry Murphy and Ulf Samuelsson also had goals for the penguins against goalie Andy Moog who was replaced by Reggie Lemelin shortly after Pittsburgh a seventh goal Early in the last period. The penguins scored 15 goals in the first four games of this series and produced nearly half playoffs on an to Boston at Pittsburgh 1 30 . Sunday. A a they re As a talented a club offensively As there is in the league a said coach Mike Milbury of the Bruins. A they deserve the win a _ _ _ Nevin Markwart committed the first two penalties for the Bruins and his team paid the Price on the second with Lemieux capitalizing during the penalty for a 2-1 Lead 12 minutes 4 seconds into the game. Lemieux a goal came after Stevens tied it for the penguins with his first of the night and it was the Cut ruination of a domination by the penguins during Markwarth a second penalty. 3�?The penguins pinned the Bruins in their zone from the moment Markwarth a penalty started at 10 40, until Lemieux scored his goal. Randy Gilhen who was effective winning face offs in the penguins two victories in Pittsburgh fell victim on Bostons first period goals his loss of face offs to Bob Sweeney and Ken 1 Lodge resulted in two Boston goals. Don Sweeney a second goal in the playoffs opened the scoring 40 seconds into the game after Sweeney beat Gilhen on a face off to the right of Barrasso and a Nncy a fourth came immediately after Gilhen lost a face off to Hodge. A a Trottier extended Pittsburgh a Lead to 3-1 with his second in the playoffs at 15 49, before Janney a goal with 33 seconds left narrowed the Gap for the Bruins. Trotti cry a goal was the direct result of a rare mistake by j Trottier got his goal because the Boston goalie had a shot in his Glove but dropped the puck in front of the experienced Trottier. Moog yielded his position to Lemelin 8 14 into the last session but by that time Moog had allowed four More goals. He had allowed seven goals on 27 shots. A a a Moog had a couple of Brilliant moments while the penguins had a 3-2 Lead stopping Phil Bourque and Bob erred from Point Blank Range but things went downhill from there. It started with the second goal by Stevens who beat Jim Over the left shoulder with a wrist shot from the left Circle 13 04 into the Middle period. It continued with Stanton s goal for a 5-2 Lead four minutes later -1 his time Moog was beaten Over the left shoulder from v the Slot alter Trottier held the puck will until Stanton stepped into Bostons Zon phils win gives braves Lead san Diego up baseball May have its own air Jordan. Ricky Jordan hit a pair of Home runs and drove in four runs for the second straight game to Lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 9-6 win Over the san Diego padres in thursdays Lone National league game. San Diego dropped out of first place in the no West falling six percentage Points behind Atlanta which Hadnot held the Lead since 1987.National league. Jordan who smashed a grand slam in wedgies Day a win Over the padres went 4 for 5 and scored three runs. A. --��.�����. Jordan hit Lead off homers in the second and seventh innings and added a two run single Iti the Phillies five run fourth inning san Diego a Fred Mcgriff also hit two Home runs his sixth and seventh of the season and went 3 for 4 to extend his hit Ting Streak to 14 games Matching the dodgers Brett Butler for the years High. Jordan who has four Home is is 14 of r 29 with 13 Bis last eight games. Terry Mulholand 4-2, gave up eight hits and six runs Over eight plus innings. Mitch Williams relieved and pitched the ninth for his seventh save. The last time the braves found themselves in first after May Day was in games 52 through 58 of the 1984 season when Joe Torre was manager inside sports baseball to haul v Al a May decrease a Page 22 Birmingham pm on fire a Page 25 jays make White sox Blue a Page 26 Stich stuns Edberg a Page 27 Quot 1
