Page Twenty-Four THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, May 4, 1977 Home court advantage may AP Photo Montreal goalie Ken Dryden looks over his shoulder at the puck that got away for the New York Islanders first goal in last night's NHL playoff game. The Islanders got a goal from Billy Harris in overtime to win 4-3 and send the series back to the Big Apple for the sixth game. Texas trounces By The Associated Press DETROIT - Bert Blyleven, making his first appearance af- ter a three-day suspension, fired a four-hitter for his second straight shutout and Ken Hen- derson drove home four runs Tuesday night in a 13-0 rompby the Texas Rangers over the Detroit Tigers. A seven-rmn second inning and foair hits by ex-Tiger Willie Horton helped Blvieven raise his record to 3-2. Blyleven, who was susnended by American League President Lee MacPhail after admitting he threew a beanball at Kansas City's Dar- rell Porter last week. also struck nt 12 batters in record- ing his 32nd career shutout. HENDERSON hit a three-ran homer, his third after Horton's two-oat single kept a rally alive in the first inning against loser Vern Rahle, 3-2. Bump Wills, who also had a four-hit night, stroked a two-ran homer in the ninth. his first as a major leagner. The Rangers sent 12 batters to the elate and collected tine hits in the so-ond inning upris- ing against Ruble and two other pitchers. Yanks streak NEW YORK - Bucky Dent's grand-slam home run helped Mike Torreg: gain his first vic- tory as a Yankee as New York beat the California Angels 8-1 Tuesday night. The victory was the Yanks' fifth straight and 11th in their last 12 games. California has now lost five of its last six. REGGIE JACKSON and Graig Nettles also homered in support of Torrez, who was making his * first start for New York since .being obtained from the Oak- land A's last week. Torrez, 4-1, held the Angels to just one hit over the first five innings. Reliever Dick Tidrow came on in the sixth, when Torrez was forced to retire because of a blister on the thumb cf his pitching hand. Tidrow allowed three hits, but no runs in the four innings he worked and was credited with his second save of the year. Tribe toppled CLEVELAND - Mike Cub- bage's sacrifice fly in the 10th inning lifted the Minnesota Twins to a 4-3 victory over the Cleveland I n d i a n s Tuesday night. Tom Burgmeier, 3-1, picked up the victory in relief of starter Dave Goltz. Burgmeier went the final 311.3 innings, getting relief help for the last out from Tom Johnson. MINNESOTA'S Butch Wyne- gar brought the Twins back from a 3-2 deficit with a solo homer in the eighth, his fourth of the season. Lyman Bostock led off the 10th with a single off Jim Kern, 0-2. and stole second. He went to third on a single by Wynegar and came home after leftfieller Johnny Grubb made a running one-handed catch of Cubbage's line drive. Grubb's throw to the plate was cut off by third base- man Buddy Bell who then threw wild'y to the plate. Sox dropped BOSTON-Seattle's Bill Stein hit his first two home runs of the year and Carlos Lopez drove in three runs with a homer and a pair of singles as the Mariners outlasted the Boston Red Sox 10-8 Tuesday night. STEIN'S FIRST homer drove tip scales y Thr As"ciatd Pe-s LOS ANGELES-Kareem Ab- dul-Jabbar and his Los Angeles Lakers carry the home-court ad- vantage to its ultimate test to- night when they battle the Golden Gate Warriors in their deciding playoff game. The National Basketball Asso- ciation W e s t e r n Conference semifinals stand 3-3 in games with the Lakers winning their three at the Forum and Golden State winning all of their at home in Oakland. "IT'S SO boggling no one can figure it out," declared the War- rior Jamaal Wilkes of his team's inability to win at the Forum where they've lost their last 7 outings. It's not a matter of con- fidence. We've played tough arenas on the road before . . . we just start fidgeting and we can't get our shots." Coach Al Attles of Golden State said he just hopes "the law of averages catches up with us and we finally win one. Our guys know what they have to do. Attles made a strategic move in the series when, during game No. 3, he switched Wilkes to guarding the Lakers' Cazzie- Russell. Rick Barry had been doing the guarding and Attles felt he and the Lakers' forward were nullifying each other. The move has proved beneficial to the Warriors, yet Russell says, "I'm thinking about a few Tigers in three runs in the first inning and finished Boston starter Rick Wise, 1-2, who lasted just one-third of an inning and gave up five runs. Stein's second homer was a bases-empty blast in the fourth. Seattle added another run in the fifth and got two more in the seventh on Lopez' first homer of the year. The Red Sox, who nad won three straight, scored twice in the sixth and seventh innings to narrow the gap to 9-6, but Seattle added an insurance run in the top of the nonth on Jean Bernhardt's RBI double. Brewers hop TORONTO-Barry Cort, a To- ronto native making his first major league start. checked To- ronto on nine hits Tuesday night to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 6-2 victory over the Blue Jays. The rookie pitcher, who turn- ed 21 three weeks ago, struck ot fide and walked one. THE BREWERS backed Cort with a three-run outburst in the second inning. Von Josha had a two-ran sinle and Don Money knocked in the other run with a single. Money belted his first homer of the season in the third in- ning. NM PLAYOFFS N.v. Islanders 4, Montreal 3 (OT) (Montreal leads series, 3-2) AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas 13, Detroit 0 New York 8, California I Minnes ta 4, Cleveland 3 Milwaukee ,Toronto Seattle u, Blotna8 NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 9, Houston 0 Pittsburgh , Atlanta 7 pt (the 4i4 Cagers sign top recruit The Michigan cagers have a newcomer from Nebraska's Omaha North. His name is Mike'McGhee, and his style of play is similar to Indiana's Mike Woodson. McGhee, a 6-5, 195 pounder, was named Nebraska's out- standing basketball player of the year. He's been on both the AP and UPI all-state team for the last two years. He aver- aged 38.1 points, 15 rebounds and S assists, in the 1976-77 sea- son. From the floor he shot 47.9 per cent and, from the free throw line he hit 76 per cent. The Omaha North forward, who may play either for- ward or guard for the Wolverines, has a three year total of 1,595 points, which averages out to 23.4 points per game. Yet, he only played in 19 games his sophomore year, scor- ing 60 points. His last two seasons, he totalled 1,535 points, which averages out to 31.3 points per game. Omaha North, a Class A school in Nebraska which includes the state's largest schools, had a 19-5 season last year. The year before it went 19-6. In McGhee's junior year, his team fell in the state finals. Last year, Omaha North was knocked out in the state's quarter-finals. McGhee's highest scoring game this year came against Omaha Gross. He netted 54 points. "Mike is one of the greatest players in the country. He's an outstanding scorer, but he also excels in every other phase of the game. Besides being a great shooter, he handles the ball well; he's an outstanding passer and a great jumper. In other words, he's a complete basketball player," Michi- gan basketball coach Johnny Orr said. "He has been the most highly recruited basketball player ever in the state of Nebraska, and we are elated that he is joining our program," Orr added. - DAILY SPORTS Debol paces American icers VIENNA-Michigan's star hockey center, Dave Debol, spark- ed the United States team to a 4-1 win over West Germany in the World Ice Hockey Championships last night. The American team started off sloppily, but gained the lead at 8:19 of the first period. Debol skated in alone to ig- nite the red light for the first time in the contest. Deebs, as his Wolverine teammates call him, led the WCHA in scoring this year with 71 points. New Hampshire's Bob Miller also tallied for the Ameri- cans, putting them ahead for good in the second period. Mark Heaslip, assisted by Miller, scored 19 seconds later making the score, 3-1. Bill Schneider netted the final goal of the game. in Lakers' things I want to do, but I don't want to talk about it now. I want to spring it on them." It could be that Russell will do more driving toward the bas- ket just as he did at times dur- ing Sunday's 115-106 loss in Oakland. However the Lakers' hopes of reaching the conference finals against Portland rest primarily with Abdul-Jabbar, their 7-foot-2 all-star. "I KNOW WE can win," com- mented Abdual-Jabbar. He has been over 40 points four times in the current series with a high of 45 in his last outing at the Forum. The Lakers have won their last 13 games on that home court and 40 out of 44 since the season began. For the Warriors to win, both Barry and Wilkes must keep up their scoring and perhaps get some help from Phil Smith, who has been held down with out- standing guarding by the Lak- ers' Don Chaney. Unfortunately for the War- riors, this best-of-seven series won't return again to Oakland where they have beaten the Lakers 16 straight including five this year. But Wednesday night's winner will be the home club against favor Portland on Friday and Sundas in the- first two games. "When the Lakers beat us at the Forum, it's like a velve' hammer," commented Wilkes the former UCLA All-American "They beat us, but not badly BILLBOARD The summer tennis pro- gram held at the varsity courts on Ferry Field is now receiving membership appli- cations for the coming season. Chris Gagalis, the Track and Tennis Building manager and the outdoor court manager, said the program will operate everyday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. until the middle of Sep- tember. The courts will be available on a membership basis plus an hourly rate. Michigan students' member- ship fee is $5 plus a $2 an hour rate. Faculty and staff have to pay a $7 membership fee and a $3 hourly rate. The general public will be charged $10 for membership and a $4 hourly rate. Members can bring guests for an additional fee of $1 plus the hourly rate. Membership forms are avail- able at the Track and Tennis Building, and any questions should be guided towards Ga- galis at 763-5088.