SPORTS
The Michigan Daily
Thursday, March 31, 1983
Page 9
SPORTS OF THE DAILY
Bird gets 53 in Celtics'
BOSTON (AP) - Larry Bird scored a
team-record 53 points last night as the
oston Celtics slammed the Indiana
acers 142-116 in National Basketball
Association play.
Bird's hot shooting, concentrated in
36 minutes, helped the Celtics avenge
their worst loss of the year, a 29-point
defeat by the Pacers Tuesday night. Bird
hit on 21 of 31 field goal attempts and
was 11-for-11 at the foul line.
THE CELTICS, greeted by scattered
boos as they entered usually friendly
Boston Garden, responded by commit-
ing four straight turnovers.
Down 2-0, Boston roared back with a
14-2 tear, including eight points by Bird,
and never trailed again.
Bird's 18 points and the Celtics'
swarming defense helped Boston build
a 37-16 first-quarter lead.
THE PACERS shot 33 percent in the
second period and trailed at the half 62-
40. Celtics center Robert Parish
dominated the middle, blocking four
*hots and grabbing 10 rebounds in the
first half.
The Pacers pulled to within 19 points
midway through the third quarter. But
Bird hit outside shots and layups at will,
his' 24 point in the quarter broke a 24-
year Celtic record and helping Boston
end the period. with a 108-74 lead.
Boston Coach Bill Fitch removed
Bird for the first six minutes of the final
quarter but, as the crowd chanted
"Larry, Larry," returned Bird with 8:10
emaining. Bird quickly scored five points
to break the team's regular season
reord of 51 points set by Sam Jones
in 1965.
'Bird received a standing ovation
when Fitch removed him for good with
5: 6 left.
Sixers clinch division title
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Julius Er-
ting scored 26 'points and Maurice
1bheeks added 24 as, the Philadelphia
*6ers beat the Atlanta Hawks 120-113
last night to clinch the National
Basketball Association's Atlantic
Division and Eastern Conference
championships.
The 76ers also reduced their magic
number to five. Any combination of five
Philadelphia victories or Los Angeles
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league's best record and the home court
in every post-season playoff series.
DAN ROUNDFIELD scored 36 poin-
ts, Dominique Wilkins 23 and Johnny
Davis 22 for the Hawks, who lost for the
fourth time in their last five starts. The
76ers, who lost Tuesday night to the
Chicago Bulls, won their 10th of 13 and
20th of their last 25.
Philadelphia boosted the record to 60-
12 and needs to win its final 10 games to
break the league's one-season victory
record of 69 held by the Los Angeles
Lakers.
Philadelphia trailed 35-29 after one
period, but erupted for 13 consecutive
points early in the second period to go
ahead 48-46.
THE HAWKS came back and led 55-
54 with 2:28 left in the second quarter.
But Philadelphia scored nine of the next
11 points for a 63-57 halftime lead.
The 76ers led by 11 with 11:12
remaining in the third period, but again
Atlanta stormed back, and finally took
the lead, 86-85, on an 18-foot jump shot
by Davis with 1:44 left in the quarter.
The Hawks came back for the last
.time to move within one point at 91-90
early in the final quarter. But substitute
guard Franklin Edwards scored two
baskets and made a steal and an assist,
as Philadelphia scored 11 consecutive
points for h 102-90 lead.
Washington 100,
New Jersey 97
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -
Jeff Ruland had 26 points and 13 rebounds
and Ricky Sobers made a technical foul
shot and a free throw in the final three
seconds as the Washington Bullets
edged the New Jersey Nets 100-97 last
night for their seventh straight
National Basketball, Association vic-
tory.
New Jersey's Michael Ray Richar-
dson missed a three-point field goal at-
tempt at the buzzer.
THE BULLETS' victory prevented
the Nets from clinching a playoff spot
and improved their own chances of
gaining a berth.
Sobers made the technical foul shot
with three seconds left on an off-the-ball
foul, then sank one of two free throws
with two seconds showing. The 6-foot-3
guard finished with 20 points and scored
the Bullets final five points, also sinking
a technical foul shot with 2:24 left and
hitting a baseline jumper four seconds
later.
The Nets had closed to 98-97 on
Richardson's three-point play with 1:39
remaining, but Richardson and Albert
King, who finished with 24 points,
missed shots in the final minute.
RULAND scored seven points and
Sobers had five to trigger a 16-5 burst in
the last five minutes of the third quar-
ter as the Bullets rallied from a 71-70
deficit to take an 86-76 lead into the final
period.
The Nets regrouped in the fourth
quarter behind Richardsonhwho had
seven points in the period.
Richardson and Buck Williams each
had 18 points for the Nets, who fell to 45-
27 and had a three-game winnng streak
broken.
Greg Ballard added 14 for the Bullets,
who evened their record at 36-36.
Oldham retires
CHATTANOOGA, (AP) - Ray Oldham,
a 10-year National Football League
rictory
veteran who played most recently for
the Detroit Lions, said yesterday he is
retiring from the NFL.
However, he left open the possibility
that he might try to play next season for
the Chicago Blitz of the United States
Football League.
"I'VE TALKED to the people in
Chicago and there is a chance I will join
the team next year," said Oldham.
"ut the USFL still has to prove itself.
"It's still not up to what it should be,"
he added. "But it's going to open up a
lot of jobs and give a lot of NFL
veterans a lot more playing time than
they might otherwise have had."
AP Photo
Chocolate thunder
Darryl Dawkins (right) uses Mark Eaton of the Utah Jazz as a stepladder en
route to a powerful left handed jam in NBA action at New Jersey last night.
Borg defeats Clerc
MONTE CARLO, Monaco (UPI) -
Bjorn Borg gratefully accepted the
surrender of third-seeded Argentinian
Jose-Luis Clerc yesterday to reach the
second round of his final Grand Prix
tournament, the Monte Carlo Open.
Clerc, ranked sixth in the world,
could not handle the big occasion and
capitulated totally, 6-1, 6-3.
"IT WAS really hard to play him,"
admitted Clerc, who also lost to Borg in
all three of their previous meetings.
Clerc never got his game going, won only
seven points in the opening five games
before holding service for the first time,
and squandered a 3-1 lead in the second
set to lose the next five games and the
match.
"I expected a much tougher match,
but he made a lot of simple errors,"
Borg said. "I wasn't very relaxed
because I haven't played for such a long
time, but I managed to keep my con-
centration throughout the match."
Borg made many unforced errors,
but far fewer than Clerc, and dropped
service only once during the 78-minute
match.
After taking the first set in 28
minutes, Borg had the chance to nail
down the match firmly in the opening
game of the second. He twice had break
point against Clerc's service, but the
Argentine recovered, only to collapse
finally four games later.
Borg next will meet rising French
star Henri Leconte, who said he would
try to go up to the net to attack Borg's
game, a tactic Clerc never tried.
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