European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Nets in playoffs lakers stay alive the stars and stripes april 20,1992 c Page 28 Laker Vlade Divac Spears a rebound in front of Blazer Kevin Duckworth on saturday. Division imperil heat inside sport shall Powers yanks 74-0 rout of tribe new York up Mel Hall hit a two run Homer after singling twice and driving in two runs in a 10-run fourth inning saturday powering the new York Yankees to a 14-0 rout Over the Cleveland indians. Greg Cadaret 1-0, pitched his second career shutout and the Yankees first Complete game shutout since last july 11. He gave up nine hits struck out six and walked two. The first 11 Yankees to Bat in the fourth reached safely with All nine starters scoring at least one run on the 69thweekend action in Al no see Page 26 anniversary of Yankee stadium. New York scored nine runs before a Batter was retired in the fourth. The indians bailed out starter Dave Otto 1-1, with double plays with the bases loaded in the second and with two on and nobody out in the third. But the support ran out in the fourth when third baseman Brook Jacoby threw a Danny Tartabull Lead off bouncer wide of first for an error. Hall followed with a single and Jesse Barfield the Only starter who did not get at least one hit walked to Load the bases. Catcher Mike Stanley singled in two runs for his first Bis of the season and Charlie Hayes singled Home Barfield to make it 3-0 with Stanley stopping at second. Pat Kelly followed with his second bunt single of the game and when Otto threw the Ball wildly to first Stanley came Home. Andy Stankiewicz stroked a run scoring line single to right and Don Mattingly singled in another run to Chase Otto. Ted Power took Over but kept the Parade going by hitting Roberto Kelly with a pitch and walking Tartabull up for his second time in the inning to Force in the seventh run. Hall singled again for two More runs before Power finally got Barfield on a Fly to left. Stanley walked to reload the bases and the 10th run came Home on a Hayes sacrifice Fly to left. Hall hit a two run Home run in the fifth inning and Kevin Maas added a Pinch hit Homer in the win Boston apr the Boston celtics capped a late season surge to their 14th Atlantic division title in 20 years beating the Miami heat 109-93 sunday for their eighth consecutive Victory without ailing Larry Bird. Boston trailed the new York kicks for nearly the entire season. Only in the last two weeks a and without Bird a did the celtics Challenge then pass new York. The celtics completed a comeback from five games behind new York with eight games to play and tied the kicks with a 51-31 record. Boston finishes first by the associated press East Rutherford . The strife Ridden new Jersey nets ended years of frustration by qualifying for the playoffs for the first time since 1986 with a 127-111 Victory Over the Orlando magic saturday night. The win nailed Down sixth place in the Eastern conference for the nets 40-421 and set up a first round matchup with Cleveland 56-25. Ironically the catalysts in the nets biggest win in years were Derrick Coleman and Chris Morris the Moody frontline duo who earlier this week refused orders by embattled coach Bill Fitch to re enter games. Coleman scored 31 Points and Morris put the game away by scoring 16 of his 22 Points in a third Quarter dunking show. In other games saturday lakers 109, Trail blazers 101. Portland Ore. The los Angeles lakers led by Vlade Divack a 25 Points and a dominating rebound performance kept their playoffs Hopes alive with a Victory Over Portland. The lakers who Haven to missed the playoffs in 16 years Advance to a first round matchup with Portland if they beat the los Angeles clippers on sunday and Houston loses at Home to Phoenix. Portland which wrapped up the Best record in the Western conference last sunday played its last regular season game without Clyde Drexler and Jerome Kersey because of injuries.76ers 111, bullets 104 Philadelphia a Hersey Hawkins scored 24 Points and Ron Anderson led a fourth Quarter rally As Philadelphia beat Washington in the season finale for both teams. Armon Gilliam added 23 Points for the 76ers, who missed the playoffs for Only the second time in 17 years. Philadelphia finished with a 35-47 record compared with 44-38 last season. Ledell Eackles had 31 Points for Washington which ended with a 25-57 Mark. The bullets held a 95-94 Lead on two free throws by Andre Turner with 10 04 to play. Anderson then scored All nine of his Points in a 13-2 114, Bucks 103 Milwaukee the new York kicks kept alive their chances for an Atlantic division title by holding off a late rally and beating Milwaukee behind the scoring of Mark Jackson and John Starks. Jackson scored a season High 30 Points and Starks added 28 for new Ork which scored the last 11 Points after the Bucks had tied it at 103 with 3 50 left. The kicks finished the regular season 51-31, but needed the Miami heat to beat Boston on sunday for the kicks to win the division. Because it beat new York 3-2 in the season series. The celtics will play Indiana which pushed them to the maximum five games last season in the first round of the playoffs. Of taxi is expected Back from Back problems. Robert Parish came off the Bench and scored 12 of his 22 Points sunday. Parish at 38 the a bad a oldest Active player also grabbed 10 of his 19 rebounds in the fourth period. Miami which needed a Victory to Clinch its first playoff berth in history still held out Hope that Atlanta would lose at Cleveland on sunday night. The heat then would get the final Eastern conference playoff berth and would meet Chicago in the playoffs. Parish was joined in double figures by teammates Reggie Lewis with 22 Points Kevin Mchale and Kevin Gamble with 15 apiece John Bagley with 14 and 11 assists and de Pinckney with 10. Glen Rice who averaged 35 Points in the three previous games led the heat with 34. Zmeskal wins 2nd gym title Page 21 Trevino tops pea seniors a a e 22 w Hawks Stop blues nil j playoffs open Page 25 dragons topple monarchs 9-0 Page 25 Aba saturday
