Wednesday, May 10, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Fifteen Ra~tyngersralat 32win keep playofhopes alive BOSTON ( A') - Shifty Bobby Rouisseau, With the score tied both teams had excellent scoreless in his last 22 games against. Boston, opportunities but Johnston and New York goalie connected for a pair of third period goals last Gilles Villemure stood off the threats. Then, at night and rallied the New York Rangers to a 12:45, Rousseau struck again. 3-2 victory in the fifth game of their National Irvine trapped the puck at the left boards Hockey League Stanley Cup championship and gave it to Rousseau in front. The helmeted series against the Bruins. Ranger flipped the puck at the short side and it The victory left the Rangers trailing the best- found its way past Johnston for the deciding of-seven series 3-2, with game six scheduled for goal. tomorrow night in New York. The Bruins lifted Johnston with 63 seconds If a seventh game is required, it will be played remaining, but Villemure held off the assault. Sunday afternoon in Boston. , lruins burst With the treasured Stanley Cup waiting to be First period-1, Boston, Cashman 2 Hodge, Esposito presented, the Bruins carried a 2-1 lead into the 3:35. 2, New York, Rolfe 4 Tkaczuk, Fairbairn 13:45 3, final 20 minutes as they tried for the clincher on Bcenzi, Hos, 5t Ayf aasposito 16 n. Pen alties their home ice. But the Rangers who skated 89 Tkaczuk, NY, 9.51, Rolfe, NY, 14:41; Gilbert, NY, 18:00. seconds near the end of the second period with Second period - None. Penalties -- Park, NY, :29; Smith, Bos, 6:36; Esposito, Bos, 6:36; Seiling, NY, 6:36; two men in the penalty box, would not be denied. Awrey, Bos, 13:08; Doak, NY, 16:16; Tkaczuk, NY, 16:48. Rousseau, shifted to a line with Ted Irvine Third period-4, New York, Rousseau 5 Park, Mac- and Bruce MacGregor before the third period Gregr 2:56. 5, New York, Rouseau 6, Irv e 12:45. Pen- andBrue Mc~rgorbefre he hir peiod alties - Selling, NY, 4:07; Esposito, Bos, 5:07. began, tied the score at 2:56 when his shot shots on goal by: dribbled through the pads of goalie Ed John- New York 7 9 10-6 Boston 12 Y r17-38 stone. New York, Villemsure; Boston, Johnston -Associated Press BOSTON BRUIN WAYNE CASHMAN (12) waits for the puck for what was to be the opening score in the Stanley Cup finals held last night in Boston. Ranger goalie Gilles Villermure (30 failed to stop the shot as did teammate Rod Seiling, who took to the ice. Tigers, Twins win, retain leads Detroit fells Sox' Wood; Indians sneak by Royals, From Wire Service Reports 2-3. The Detroit Tigers defeated Wilbur Wood for the second time this season last night, 5-2, to hold their half-game lead over the Cleveland Indians in the American League East. Cleveland kept close by nipping Kansas City, 2-1. Wood, now 4-2, and Joe Cole- man, also 4-2, were locked in a scoreless duel until the seventh when Eddie Brinkman's single and Coleman's squeeze bunt brought in Tiger runs. Detroit added another run in the eighth on a single by Norm Cash and two more -in the ninth. Fred Schermnn and Chuck Seelbach preserved the victory for Coleman, although the Sox scored twice in the ninth to end their scoreless streak at 34 in- nings. Rookie pitcher Dick Tidrow and centerfielder Del Unser were the heroes fir the Indians who registered their seventh triumph in their last eight games. Tidrowtheld the ite Sox scoreless through eight and two-thirds innings and Unser belted a two-run homer to give Cleveland all its scoring. Unoser's blast, over the right field fence, his first of the year, scored Tidrow .who had singled with two out in the last of the eighth. The blow came off Royal starter and loser Paul Splittorff, (ltggf5sfeW~iistsis'~i%3% Tidrow, now 2-2, had held he Royals to two hits until the ninth when Lou Piniella hit his second homer of the season with two out. The homer ended the In- dians' pitching staff's scoreless streak at 34 innings. Following Piniella's h o m e r,; Richie Schienblum walked and f Paul Schaal singled, knocking out Tidrow. Steve Mingori then got - pinch hitter Amos Otis on a force-out grounder, ending the game, and giving Mingori his third save. In late American League ac- tion, pinch hitter Bob Burda's r run-scoring single in the eighthAP inning gave the Boston Red Sox Asseleted Press a 4-3 victory over the California THIS ACTION SHOT shows Detroit Tiger catcher Bill Freehan Angels, ending the Red Sox' (left) staring at an unidentified round object during last night's three-game losing streak.- Tiger victory over the White Sox. WHEN IT RAINS.. . Upstart Expos axe Giants Professional Le( National League East W L Pet GB New York 12 6 .667 - Philadelphia 13 7 ,650 - Montreal 12- 7 .632 1s Pittsburgh 9 10 .474 3/ Chicago 9 11 .450 4 St. Louis 9 11 .450 4 west, Houston 12 7 .632 - Los Angeles 13 8 .619 -- San. Diego 9 12 .429 4 Cincinnati 8 12 .400 4 Atlanta 8 14 .36 5V2 San Francisco 7 16 .304 7 Yesterday's Results San Diego at Philadelphia, postponed Montreal 7, San Francisco 1 Los Angeles at New York, postponed Pittsburgh 5, Atlanta 2 Chicago 7, Cincinnati I St. Louis 2, Houston I Today's Games San Francisco McDowell 4-0 at Mon- treal Stoneman 3-2, night Los Angeles Downing 1-2 at New Yori Matlack 3-0, night Houston Reuss 2-1 at St. Louis Gibson 0-4, night Pittsburgh Johnson 0-1 at Atlanta Niekro 3-3, night. Chicago Pappas 2-2 at Cincinnati Nolan 3-0 San Diego Arlin 2-3 at PsMiladelphia Champion 3-0, night From Wire Service Reports the Cards' Cubs, Bucs and Ex- The National League's Eastern pos trounched their Western Di- Division race tightened another vision foes. notch yesterday thanks to some Behind the pitching of Mike pinpoint pitching and inclement Torrez a fireballer acquired weather on the East Coast. While Tor ez, areballeracuhe - the league leading Mets and from the Cardinals in the off- season, the Expos rode the po Phillies sang the rainy day blues; fielding express of the San Fran- cisco Giants to a 7-1 laugher. With the bases loaded in the ague Standings Expo sixth, Tito Fuentes drop kicked Boots Day's grounder into American League right field. The Expo third base lest W L Pet GB coach kept whirling his arm and Detroit 11 6 .647 - three Expo's touched home plate Cleveland 11 7 .611 Y2 on the play. Baltimore 10 7 .588 New York 6 12 .333 5!/ Using ex-Mets' Ken Singleton's Boston 4 10 .286 5!, and Mike Jorgenson's good hit- Milwaukee West 4 11 .267 6 ting, the upstart Expos laced Minnesota 13 4 .765 - Giant starter Juan Marichal for Oakland 11 4 .733 .1 his fifth defeat in six decisions. Chicago 9 9 .500 4 Torrez won his second straight Texas 1 10 .444 5 g s k California 7 1 .412 6 against no setbacks. KansasCitys ' 12 .400 6s s The game was a fairly sloppy Yesterday's Results Cleveland 2, Kansas City 1 - affair with five Giant errors as Detroit 5, Chicago 2 well as a hit batsman, who was Minnesota 4, New York 2 not Ron Hunt, and a wild pitch Boston at California b aihl Oakland 10, Milwaukee 2, 1st by Marichal. Milwaukee at Oakland 2nd, inc. The St. Louis Cardinals, who 'texas at Baltimore, postponed Today's Games this season have lost as many Milwaukee Brett 1-2 at Oakland Hunt- one run games as they have won er 2-1, night in total (9), reversed the trend New York Kekich 2-1 at Minnesota Perry 2-1, night last night and slipped by the Detroit Timmerman 2-2 at Chicago revamped Houston Astros, 2-1. Bradley 2-1 Kansas City Hedlund 0-2 at Cleveland Scipio Spinks came back to Perry 4-2 haunt his old team with six hit Texas Gogolewski 1-1 at Baltimore pitching. The only tally against Palmer 2-2, night Boston Patin 0-3 at California him came in the seventh ining Ryan 2-2, night when Jose Cruz, using his tip- toeing running style, bobbled Roger Metzger's pop fly for a two-base error. Cesar Cedeno, dubbed the up-and-coming super- star of the National League by some, followed Cruz's misplay with a line shot single. The Cardinals drew blood early withLourBrock doubling off Houston hurler Don Wilson in the first. Brock took third on an error to Cruz, and bounded home when Matty Alou, the spark plug in right field, singled. On a two ball count, Jumpin' Joe Torre, the Red Birds sluggin' man, pounded a double over first, scoring Cruz. Fergie Jenkins, rising to last season form after two disastrous outings, limited a new cogged Red Machine to five hits and Jim Hickman batting a surpris- ing .413, drove in two runs as the Cubbies blasted the Reds, 7-1. Every Cub seemingly pounded Red pitching, with Rick Monday (4 for 5) and Carmen Fazone doing primary damage. Dock 'Ellis, showing that the residual anger from F r i d a y night's macing incident was great indeed, used an assortment of fastballs and curves to butch- er the Atlanta Braves, 5-2. Dave Cash and Wee Willie Stargell provided the fireworks with homers to left and right field respectively. Kaat, Darwin boost Twins From Wire Service Reports The American League West's two hottest teams, Minnesota and Oakland kept winning last night at the expense of two-silt the East Division's slumberers, New York and Milwaukee. The Twins dropped the Yanks 4-2 behind the pitching of Jim Kaat and Oakland kept close on the division leading Twins' heels by pounding the Brewers 10-2 in the first game of a double- header. Kaat, backed by a three-run second inning posted his 171st career pitching victory and third of the season against no losses with relief help from Wayne Grager as Minnesota. handed Fritz Peterson his fifth loss. He is 0-5. Streaking rookie Bobby Darwin keyed Minnesota's big second in- ning off Peterson with a double that just missed clearing the fence in right after Harmon Kil- lebrew walked to open the inning. Steve Brye drove in the first run with a grounder. Phil Roof delivered the second with a sin- gle and, after Kaat singled, Qe sar Tovar doubled home the third run of the inning. Oakland exploded for the big- gest inning in its five-year his- tory-10 runs in the fourth-to crush the Brewers and give Ken Holtzman his fourth win. Jim Slaton and Frank Linzy were the victims of the A's big inning in which Angel Mangual drove in three runs with a dou- ble and a sacrifice fly and Dave Duncan, drove in two with a single. Nets nip Pacers , INDIANAPOLIS (A) -- The New York Nets held off a fran- tic rally by the Indiana Pacers last night to even their Ameri- can Basketball Association championship playoff series at one game apiece with a 117-11 victory. The Pacers, behind from mid- way in the second period and by as many as 16 points, ran off 16 straight points in the final four minutes to take a 115-114 lead. Rick Barry then scored a clutch basket with 25 seconds remaining to put New York ahead to stay and added a free throw with t h r e e seconds showing on the clock.