Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, June 4, 1977 Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, June 4, 1977 Blazers top Philly 110-104 Late Sixer rally falls short, Blazers one win away By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - Bob Gross scored 25 points and led a 268 third period Portland blitz as the Trail Blazers beat the Philadel- phia 76ers 110-104 last night to pull within one victory of the Na- tional Basketball Association championship. The triumph gave Portland a 3-2 lead in the NBA's best of seven final playoff series with Game Six scheduled for Portland at 3 p.m. EDT, Sunday. It wasn't as easy as the two blowouts the Blazers won over Philadelphia in Portland last Sunday and Tuesday. Although the Blazers built a 22-point lead at 91-69 late in the third period, the 76ers -- led by substitute Joe Bryant - rallied to reduce the deficit to five points with 3:23 left in the game. Then, Maurice Lucas, who scored 20 points, broke the hearts of a sellout crowd of 18,276 at 'he Spectrum with a jump shot and a feed to Lionel Hollins that produced another field goal and an insurnountable nine-point lead with 1:58 to go. Portland's 6-foot-11 center, Bill Walton, scored only 14 eoint, but it was his rebounding and vasta ing feeds in the firt three periods that triggered the Blazers to their third consectt;e vic- tory in the series. The Blazers can win their first NBA title with a victory Sunday And if they do, they will be only the second team in NBA history ever to lose the first two games of the championship series and come hack to take the title. Portland center Bill Waltln slaps the ball away from Sixer George McGinnis in action from last night's fifth game of the NBA's championships. With its 110-104 victory, Portland can clinch the title with a win at home Sunday in Game 6. NO QUALIFIERS IN NCAAS: te a Thincads f inish early By The Associated Press Longshot, Archer tied in Kemper CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Big Barney Thompson, on the verge of quitting the tour because of poor play, rammed in a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 70 and a tie with George Archer for the second-round lead yesterday in the $250,000 Kemper Open Golf Tournament. Thompson, who hasn't come close to making expenses in his three-year pro career, banking only $976 this season, and Archer each had 137 totals, seven nnder par, halfway through this chase for a $50,000 first prize. "I've just given myself until July of this year to see if I can make it out here," the red-haired, 6-foot-5 Thompson said. A's Page ready to play OAKLAND-Rookie outfielder Mitchell Page, who sat out fo-r games to rest a sore hand, was cleared to resume play before the Oakland A's game against Toronto last night, Page said doctors told him surgery was not necessary. le has soreness on his right palm where a wart-like growth was removed during spring training. -. "When the fluid builds up, like it did the other day, I'll just have to take the day off," said Page, who is batting .308. He said surgery would mean about a month of inactivity, "and I'm just not going to miss any four or five weeks." Woodie itching to pitch CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Reds pitcher Woodie Fryman, un- happy about the way he is being used, says he'd rather be traded than remain idle. "I'd just as soon go someplace else, loser or winner. I don't care," Fryman said. "I'm not going to be playing that much longer." The 37-year-old left-harder was a player in the off-season trade that sent Tony Perez to oMntreal. He was supposed to take up the slack left by the departure of Don Gullett, who played out his option and signed with the New York Yankees, Things did not work out that way. Fryman got off to a slow start, winning two of six decisions with an earned-run- average of 3.73. .... .... ,om ,.... By DAVE RENBARGER The season is over for the Michigan track team-one day sooner than the thinclads wotld have liked to have seen it end. AT THE NCAA Outdoor Na- tional Championship Meet, held this year at Illinois' newly-met- ricized Memorial Stadium in Champaign, t h e Wolverines failed to qualify for today's fi- nals in either of the two events in which they competed. In yesterday's 400 meter relay semifinal, t h e highly - touted Michigan q u a r t e t of Arnett Chisholm, James Grace, Doug Hennigar and Charles Crouther suffered a heartbreaking defeat, Glnce ed/ges Jones. for 00 mterfitle By The Associated Press CHAMPAIGN, Ill.-Harvey Glance, running with a painful groin injury, bolted from the blocks to an impressive victory yesterday as he successfully defended his 100 meter dash title at the 56th Annual NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Glance of Auburn outraced a strong field that included fellow Olympian Johnny Jones of Texas. Glance's time was 10:22, .06 off his best time of the year. Jones was second in 10.27. After being eliminated Thursday.in the 200 meter dash, which he won last year, Glance said he had suffered a groin injury dur- ing training this week. But it did not seem to affect his perform- ance yesterday when he anchored Auburn's 400 meter relay team which posted the best qualifying time. "I had to make up my mind that think would really kill me if I ran hard. I felt great pain but unlike yesterday I didn't think about it," Glance said. Six final events were staged yesterday with the remaining 14 scheduled for today. Washingtop State, one of the favorites for the team title be- cause of its long distance men from Kenya, finished the day in a second place tie with 16 points. Samon Kimombwa got 10 of those when he beat back a challenge from Craig Virgin of Illinois to win the 10,000 meter run in a. meet record of 28:10.27. Brigham Young, with 17 points was first. Illinois, Stanford and UCLA had 16 points each. Texas-El Paso with 14 and Arizona with 12 also are expected to fight for-the team title. as they were inched out of the finals by the slightest of mar- gins. After breezing through Thurs- day's preliminary action by placing third in their heat with a time of 40.64, the foursome combined to run a quick 39.95 it the semis, establishing a new varsity record. But it wasn't quick enough. MICHIGAN placed fifth in their heat, and only the top four finishers of each heat advanced to the finals. UCLA's team ran a 39.92 in the heat to slip in as the fourth qualifier. Auburn with Olympian Harvey Glance running anchor won the heat with a time of 39.36, a new stadium record. In addition to running int relay, j u n i o r quarter- miln Grace also competed in the opn 400 meter dash, GOING INTO that race, Grace figured that he would be hard pressed to get past the first pre, liminary elimination, and the competition turned out to be every bit as hard as he eget sioned it, Wit ha clocking of 47.81, Grace finished sixth in his preliml Thursday afternoon, enabling him to turn his full attention to the relay. SCORES MAJOR LEAGUE BAsEBALL American League Mnasata 6, sBos 2 Chicago 9, sNew York5 National League Pittsburgh 5, Cicole Cincinnati 4, iloaston 0 Philadelphia I, New York d Monseas a, St. Louis. Atlanta 5, San Fraselses 3 (second gamne sac.)