Page 20-Saturday, May 13, 1978-The Michigan Daily
Philly sent packing!
Bullets in NBA final
LANDOVER, Md. (AP)-Wes Unseld
put in a rebound shot with 12 seconds
remaining to give the underdog
Washington Bullets a 101-99 victory
over the Philadelphia 76ers last night,
giving Washington the Eastern Con-
ference Championship, 4-2.
Washington moves into the National
Basketball Association finals against
the winner of the Western Conference
besto-of-seven series between Seattle
and Denver.
The 76ers overcame an eight-point
fourth quarter deficit while Julius Er-
ving was on the bench in foul trouble
and went ahead 99-98 on a fould shot by
Joe Bryant with 2:04 left.
Elvin Hayes, who scored 21 points for
Washington, tied the score 99-99, hitting
one of two foul shots with 1:10 left to
play.
Hayes then rebounded a shot with 50
seconds left by Doug Collins, who
scored 31 of his 33 points in the first
half. Hayes missed a field goal attempt,
but little Charles Johnson rebounded
with 35 seconds remaining.
Johnson's next shot was off the rim,
Unseld put up a rebound which missed
but then followed his own shot and put it
in to win the game.
Philadelphia, the runnerup to the
champion Poortland Trail Blazers last
year, had one more chance but Lloyd
Free was charged with an offensive
fould when he ran into Hayes.
Bog Dandridge led Washington with
28 points and Larry Wright had 17, both
before fouling out.
Erving, who was on the bench for 10
minutes in the second half after
drawing his fifth foul, finished with 22
points. Collins hit 14 of 19 shots in the
first half, but was only 2-for-8 in the
second half after the Bullets put Tom
Henderson on him.
Unseld scored eight points but grab-
bed 15 rebounds, while Hayes gathered
in 14.
It was the 20th consecutive home-
court victory for Washington when
played before crowds of 12,000 or more.
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as he leaps through two Washington Bullet defenders. It wasn't enough as the
Bullets withstood a late 76'er rally to win the series 4 games to 2 with a 101-99
victory.
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By DAVE RENBARGER homer and two doubles. no losses. Steve Staggs, who lifted a short pop-up
Special to The Daily TIGER RELIEFER John Hiller was The zany ninth inning turned what behind second. Lou Whitaker went back
handed his first loss of the year while had been a close game all night long in- after the ball but it dropped from his
ROIT-Aided by a seven run Oakland reliefer Elias Sosa was toa real side-splitter. . glove, for an error, letting in the go
n the final inning, the Oakland credited with his fourth victory against TWELVE A'S WENT to the plate in ahead run.
eked off the Detroit Tigers, 10-4 the agonizing frame. Seven of them got AFTER THAT, things went from bad
r Stadium last night, dropping hits and seven runs scored, as the to worse. The next batter Mario
ngals into a virtual tie for the SCORES Bengals contributed one error and one Guerrero smashed a one-hopper right
leadership with the Boston Red walk, using a total of three pitchers. off Foucault's face. One run scored on
ie A's, who came into the game American League Alexander began the firewords with the freak play as Foucault was shaken
g an amazing 2.15 team ERA Ceveland 4 California 3 his second double of the evening, and up. He left the field under his own
heir stsff against the hot bats of aian d10.etroit 4 went to third on Jeff Newman single to power in favor of lefty Jim Crawford.
ers, who lead the league with a National League left.Thomasson picked up his second With just one out and the bases still
rage. Montreal 5. Atlanta 3 RBI doubling to right to score the game loaded, first baseman Dave Revering
n the end it was the bats of the Cincinnati3. Philadelphia 0 tying run. delivered a two-run single to up
t decided the game. Designated NBA Bill North was given-an intentional Oakland's margin to 8-3.
.ary Alexander lead the A's 16 washingtonlo i. Philadelphia 99 walk to load the bases with no one out.
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Women grab state tennis crown
By BOB WARREN
Some good news and some bad news for the women's
tennis team. First the good news: Michigan defeated
Michigan State, 7-2 yesterday in Ann Arbor to win the team
competition of the state AIAW tournament to qualify for the
midwest AIAW competition next week in Muncie, Indiana.
Now the bad news: Michigan's Kathy Krickstein, the
number four seed in the individual singles competition of
the tournament sprained her ankle during her match with
Michigan State's Heather Mactagert and had to retire.
Not only does Krickstein's default eliminate her from en-
tering the singles competition at Muncie, but it also knocks
out she and Lisa Wood from competing in the doubles
qualifier, where they were seeded second behind
Michigan's Kathy Karzen and Ann Kercher.
"Her left foot just stuck to the surface and didn't give,"
commented Michigan coach Bill Flood. "I'm not sure if she
will be ready for the Midwest Regional and this could hurt
the team's performance (Krickstein is Michigan's number
two player). If she can't play, either Whit Stodghill or Ann
Kercher will replace her."
"I was playing next to her and I saw it happen," said
Leticia Diaz-Perez, Michigan's upset .winner of.third
seeded Kelly Serges of-Central.Michigan yesterday, 'When.
you're tired or not moving your feet enough on that surface
(track-tennis building's) your foot sticks. It happened to
Horwitch (men's tennis star Matt) and he broke his foot."
When Krickstein was healthy in the early part of the day
Michigan blitzed the Spartans by winning four of their six
singles matches and all of their doubles. Only Diaz-Perez
and Elaine Crosby lost.
"The team as a whole is playing very well," Flood said.
"Karzen has an excellent chance of winning the singles
tourney and she and Kercher look like they can win the
doubles."
Besides Krickstein's injury and the team victory, the
biggest news was Diaz-Perez's upset victory of Serges after
a listless performance against Michigan State,
"Against Kelly I played each point and played my
game," Diaz-Perez said. "I kept playing until I pulled it
out. In the morning I wasn't there and I wasn't playing."
Diaz-Perez's match with Serges was a marathon three
hour match that went to a tiebreaker in the third set that the
Michigan freshperson won 5-1.
Today the individual competition continues with
Michigan's Karzen, Sue Weber and Diaz-Perez still alive in
singles competition and the doubles teams of Karzen and
Kercher and Diaz-Perez and White Stodghill also fighting it
out-for thetitle.
disaster, the Detroiters had things pret-
ty much their own way. In fact, the
Tigers never trailed before that last in-
ning, coming up with a pair of runs in
the second inning.
After mowing down the first five
Bengals, Oakland starter John Johnson
was victimized by third baseman
Wayne Gross's miscus. Gross'
throwing error on John Wockenfuss'
ground ball enabled catcher Lance
Parish to unload a two run homer into
the leftfield seats.
Tiger starter Jack Billingham was
sharp in the early going. Not normally a
strikeout pitcher, the veteran whiffed
six A's in six innings of work, allowing
single runs in the third and fifth in-
nings.
BILLBOARD
The Recreational Sports Department
has announced a special lockei sale to
be held Saturday, May 13 beginning at
9:00 a.m.
There are 375 women's and 475 men's
lockers available at CCRB, and 60
women's and 80 men's lockers at
NCRB.
Lockers at the Old IM Building are
available anytime.