European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Celtics tie series with cars jazz enter second round by ousting clippers 98-89 by the associated press it does no to take too Many weak performances before doubt sets in about a 38-year-old Center. Robert Parish who made Only two of 12 shots in Bostons previous two playoffs games bounced Back monday night scoring 27 Points As the celtics beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 104-98, tying their Eastern conference semifinal series 1-1. A the answered every question after he played bad a Kevin Mchale said. A the answered questions about being too old. He answered questions about Brad Daugherty being too Good for him. Today he played Well and hell let others do the  despite aggravating his sore left ankle in the third Quarter of saturdays loss to the cars Parish Sank 13 of 18 shots while helping limit Daugherty to 22 Points on 7-for-15 shooting. Daugherty scored Only two Points in the fourth Quarter. Also on monday night the Utah jazz a a a a past behind them by rallying the stars and stripes May 6,1992 Page 28 n b n plan of is it their rom a 15-Angeles c joint deficit to defeat the los _ uppers 98-89 in the fifth and deciding game of their first round series. The comeback enabled the jazz now 40-4 at Home this season to avoid another embarrassing playoff defeat. They lost four of their previous six appearances in the first round with three or those losses coming with Utah taking the Home court advantage into the series. Reggie Lewis scored 26 Points and Mchale finished with 18 for the celtics winners of 12 of their last 13 games. Larry Bird has missed All 13 games because of his sore Back. Boston which plays Host to the cars in the next two games Friday night and sunday trailed 76-75 entering the fourth Quarter. But a 16-6 run capped by parishes two inside baskets gave the celtics a 91-82 Lead. Mark Price scored 20 Points for Cleveland which lost for the seventh time in its 22 Home playoff games. The first. M m trying to become the fourth team to rally from a 2-0 deficit to win a Best-of-5 series. They led 52-40 at halftime but the jazz closed to four after three quarters and then pulled ahead in the fourth Peri a i Ayumi games. He clippers making the franchises playoff appearance since 1976, were Odas los Angeles missed nine of its first 10 shots and scored just 12 Points in the final 12 minutes. Jeff Malone scored 25 Points for the jazz and Karl Malone finished with 19, 15 of them in the second half after he went 1 for 9 from the Field in the first half. Danny Manning who fouled out with three minutes left scored 24 Points for the clippers. The jazz advanced to the second round against Seattle the Only lower seeded team to win in the opening round. On tuesday night Michael Jordan a Chicago bulls defending league champions were to play Host to Patrick Ewing a new York kicks for game 1 of their second round playoff series while Phoenix was to be at Portland in another opener. The bulls kicks seems to be a mismatch. The bulls had the leagues Best record this season 67-15 while the kicks were 51-31. Chicago beat new York in All four meetings and owns a 14-game winning Streak Over the kicks including a three game sweep in the first round of last years playoffs. The bulls have beaten the kicks 17 straight times at Chicago stadium. The kicks Haven to won at Chicago since March 6, 1987, when they edged the bulls 110-109. In addition the bulls have the leagues top scorer in Jordan who won his sixth straight scoring title with a 30.1 average. Jordan also among the league leaders in assists with a 6.1 average and in steals with 2.28 per game gets Strong assistance from Scottie Pippen who averaged 21 de Pinckney of the celtics denies a Dunk by Brad Daugherty of the Cavaliers. Points and seven assists. But the kicks have Ewing fifth in scoring at 24 Points and eighth in rebounding at 11.2. He got new York through the first round of the playoffs with a dominating 31-Point, 19-rebound performance in sundays 94-87 game 5 Victory Over the Detroit pistons. The Trail blazers coming off a four game first round Victory Over the los Angeles lakers Are favored Over the suns. They won the Pacific division title with a 57-25 record four games ahead of the third place suns 53-29. However Phoenix won the season series 3-2. The suns have some minor injuries. Dan Majerle has a knee injury and Tom Chambers and Kevin Johnson have been slowed by nagging hurts. Majerle practice sunday for the first time in a  tie Blackhawk go up 2-0 nil pkwy it Iby the associated press so much for Home ice advantage in the Stanley cup playoffs. Of the first six games played thus far in the second round five have been won by visiting teams. The Vancouver canucks finally broke _ the trend with a 4-0 Victory Over the Edmonton oilers on monday night tying their smythe division finals at a game each. Earlier the Chicago Blackhawk beat the Detroit red wings 3-1 at Joe Louis Arena to take a 2-0 Lead in their Norris division series. In the four opening games of the division championship series Over the weekend All the visiting teams won. The playoffs were to continue tuesday night with games in the Patrick and Adams divisions. The Pittsburgh penguins were to visit the new York rangers in the Patrick and the Boston Bruins were to be at Montreal in the Adams. In mondays games Norris division Block Hawks 3, Rod wings 1 the Blackhawk who have allowed Only a total of three goals in three straight Road games won for the fifth straight time in the playoffs. First period goals by Jeremy Roenick and Greg Gilbert gave Chicago a 2-0 Lead and Steve Larmer made it 3-0 in the second period. Steve Yzerman scored a third period goal for the red wings who also Tell behind Minnesota 2-0 in the semifinals before rallying to eliminate the North stars in seven games. The red wings were 5-1-2 against the Blackhawk during the season 3-0-1 at Joe Louis Arena. The red wings finished first in the Norris division and third Overall in the nil with 98 Points 11 ahead of the second place Blac Knacks who were eighth Overall in the league. The Black Hawks defense held Detroit to Only three shots on goal in the second period and Chicago had a 23-13 Edge in shots after two periods. Chicago finished with a 28-25 Edge in  division canucks 4, oilers 0 Cliff Ronning scored twice and the canucks dominated from Start to finish. The canucks who beat Edmonton for the first time in five lifetime playoff meetings did almost everything right. They connected on three straight Power plays in the first period hit every Blue Jersey in sight and shut Down the oilers so thoroughly that goalie Kirk Mclean often spent minutes by himself As Vancouver out shot Edmonton 39-14. The oilers went nearly 16 minutes before a 160-foot Clearing pass on net was credited As their first shot on goal. They were out shot 15-1 in the first period and 24-8 through two. The oilers who won the series opener 4-3 in overtime on sunday and Host game 3 on wednesday May have lost More than a game. Goaltender Bill Ranford who made saves in the game 1 Victory did not Cor out for the second period sidelined i what the oilers called a Bruise to t upper body. 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