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INSIDE 28 Cubs keep rolling 30 Indy 500 report 31 -39 Classified (Ehe Qlimes Wednesday, May 20, 1987 Bostonii takes sootos pimir Celtics Parish the thought of Pistons' upset MORNING LINE Reeves Feild Proposal may alter fish laws tained a lead of from seven to 15 points the rest of the way. Boston, which is 33-1 in its last 34 games at the Garden, will be home again for Thursday night's second game of the best-of -seven series. Kevin McHale scored 21 points and Dennis Johnson and Larry Bird 18 each for the Celtics, who had just one day off after their seven-game conference semifinal victory over the Milwaukee Bucks. Detroit, which beat Atlanta 4-1 in the other semifinal and hadn't played since Wednesday, was led by Isiah Thomas with 18 points and Dantley with 17. The Pistons, who lost their 15th straight game at Boston Garden since their last victory there on Dec.

19, 1982, took their biggest lead, 16-11, on Joe Dumars' short jumper with 5:06 left in the first period. But Johnson hit consecutive baskets that started a 14-2 spurt and Jerry Sicht-ing followed with a 15-foot jumper, giving Boston the lead for good at 17-16 with 3:30 left in the period. Sichting played in place of injured guard Danny Ainge, who missed the BOSTON (AP) Robert Parish scored 15 of his 31 points in the third quarter when Boston took control, and the Celtics went on to a 104-91 victory over the Detroit Pistons in the opener of their NBA Eastern Conference final Tuesday night. Boston's 44-40 halftime lead dropped to 48-47 on Adrian Dantley's short shot in the lane. Then Parish scored 13 points in a 26-14 run that gave the Celtics their biggest lead of the third quarter, 74-61, with 1:05 left.

Detroit cut the margin to 75-68 going into the fourth period, but Boston main Futile dive 11111 1U- mV 'ri "It probably went on for 30 years," said Charlie Hoenke, lake management project leader for the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. He was referring to a once thriving black market on nearby Lake Bistineau, which supplied bass and crappie taken in illegal nets and wire baskets to select customers in search of an easy fish fry. A major crackdown on such activities by the LDWF, along with the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission's ban on all webbing at Bistineau, has made it far more difficult for outlaw fishermen to operate. "We'll still get a net once in a while. And I'm sure we're missing some.

But it's not as bad as it once was. Crappie are a high-demand type of fish. And evidently, a lot of folks made a lot of money selling them," Hoenke said. However, if a bill now moving through the Louisiana Legislature becomes law, it may be that you ain't seen nothing yet. House Bill 1280 by Rep.

Alan R. Ater of Ferri-day was approved last Friday in the House Agriculture Committee, and is awaiting further action on the House floor. It would allow crappie to be raised in private ponds, and sold just like catfish or any other commercial species. The net results "We feel this could result in the illegal exploitation of crappie in our lakes, primarily with game with a sprained right knee suffered in Sunday's clinching victory over Milwaukee. In a game on the West Coast, Los Angeles took on Seattle with a 1-0 lead Tuesday night.

Boston and Detroit resume their series Thursday in a 7:30 p.m. (CST) game in Boston Garden. The seen shifts to Detroit Saturday for a 1 p.m. game and the two meet Sunday in Detroit at noon. If necessary, night games will be played in Boston May 26 and Detroit May 28 and a day game in Boston on May 30.

Hopeful Indians in NCAA Jansson, Cole await pairings ATHENS, Ga. Northeast Louisiana's tennis star Ville Jansson has pride on the line as play opens today in the 64-man singles draw of the NCAA Championships. Pairings were set this morning for both the singles and the 32-team doubles tournament, which begins Friday. Jansson and Sean Cole will represent NLU in the doubles competition. "Ville's crushing the ball now.

He's working really hard in practice and looks as sharp as he's been all year," said Indian coach Mark Tichenor. "I expect Ville to do well. With the right kind of draw, he could go a long way," Tichenor said. "In doubles, we'll probably get a better draw, but the competition is going to be tougher in the opening rounds for the higher seeds." Jansson won All-America honors in singles last year when he was seeded 12th for the NCAA tournament. "I think it (the low ranking) has motivated him, maybe made him a little embarassed," said Tichenor.

"It got his attention and I'm sure he's wanting to regain some respect. But there aren't any easy matches in nationals." That was apparent last year when Jansson, recovering from mononucleosis, was upset in the first round of singles. The soft-spoken junior from Virnamo, Sweden was 18-4 last fall and began 1987 rated No. 8 nationally. After posting a 16-11 spring record, including three losses to unranked opponents, he carries a No.

25 ranking into the NCAA Championships. While his singles play hasn't always been consistent, Jansson has combined with Cole to post a 26-6 doubles mark in 1986-87 including a win over the nation's top-ranked team. Cole and Jansson are currently ranked 17th. "With a 32-team draw, the doubles are incredibly competitive," said Tichenor. "Last year, one first-round match between Georgia's No.

1 team and USC's No. 2 went to tiebreakers in all three sets, and nobody ever lost serve. There is very little margin for error." nets," said Bennie Fontenot, chief of the 7VI ,1 "There's already a black market for crappie. But 5 AP LaserPhoto now, at least, when you see them for sale, you know it's illegal." Ater's bill, however, would create an atmosphere under which the illicit sale of game fish could flourish. For crappie taken in the wild could then Chicago Cubs first baseman Leon Durham has the nati in this pickoff play during Tuesday's 9-2 victory ball waiting for an airborne Dave Parker of Cincin- by the streaking Cubbies.

Story on Page 28. LBeDDe suspended againi be openly marketed through the fish farmer's licensed operation, and it would be all but impossible for wildlife agents to trace the source of those fish, Fontenot said. He said Dr. James Avault and Dr. Bill Kelsoe, top aquaculturists in the School of Fisheries at LSU, told Wildlife and Fisheries it is not economically feasible to raise crappie as a commercial species.

That prompted LDWF Assistant Secretary Joe Herring to ask: "Why would anyone want to do it if they can't make a profit? And if you legalize it, then what's next black bass?" "The crappie thing is just a way of circumventing the law," said Lt. Col. Winton Vidrine, assistant chief of the Wildlife Department's Enforcement Division. dogs have already seen once this year, and will see a lot more of in the future. UNO and Tech, along with four other schools, will become members of the American South Athletic Conference later this year.

Another member of the new ASAC, Lamar University, is participating in the NCAA playoffs at the regional in Austin, Tex. The South II Regional sports five nationally ranked clubs, including No. 2-ranked Cal State-Fullerton, who is the top-seed. The Privateers are ranked 15th by Collegiate Baseball-ESPN and the Bulldogs are rated as the nation's 26th best team by Collage Baseball, but are a notch higher in their debut in the Baseball America poll at 25th. LSU is ranked 25th nationally and seeded third.

Tulane is 24th. The 'Dogs and Privateers met on May 1 at Tech's J.C. Love Field and New Orleans came away with a 9-3 win over Tech ace Richie LeBlanc. It was LeBlanc's only loss of the season against 12 wins. But Tech head coach Pat Patterson, who'll start LeBlanc again against the.

Privateers, said his ace hurler should be prepared. "They popped Richie pretty good," Patterson said. "But, if I know Richie, he'll be ready to get back at them." Taking his seventh trip into NCAA play, Patterson said, "It's very evident that there are some very tough teams in the regional. And I don't know of anything harder than playing UNO on their own field to begin the playoffs. "I've said all along that UNO is the best hitting ball club we've faced all year." homers and RBI for a career and most homers for a season.

But he has been suspended once earlier this season when he left the dugout after being removed from a game and went to his dorm. He also had to miss two games, including one in Shreveport, after being thrown out of two games in a 3-game series at Ole Miss. Those who know Belle agree that is temper is confined almost totally to the ball park. "The disparity in his on-field game and off-field personality is the greatest of any player I've ever coached," Bertman recently told a New Orleans sportswriter. "Except for that one flaw in his baseball personality self control after making an out he's a great kid.

He's a perfectionist. He wants a hit every time up every pitch." "He isn't the hot-tempered fellow that-the media makes him out to be," Mrs. Belle told the New Orleans paper. "People have been led to believe he's a monster, and he isn't." Bertman said, if he were asked for advice on what Belle should do after the draft, he'd say for Belle to treat himself to a new environment. "New faces, new surroundings, new umpires, new pitchers, new teammates, new everything.

What else can he do here? He owns about every career mark there is at LSU." Louisiana Tech, 42-12, meets University of New Orleans, 42-17, at 4 p.m. Thursday in the New Orleans regional. In the other game of the double elimination tournament, Fullerton State, 42-15, meets Southern University, 30-20. Tech, seeded fifth in the regional, will be facing a Privateer club that the Bull By BRIAN MCNICOLL The Timet It appears the LSU baseball career of Joey Belle is over. Belle, the former Huntington High star, has been suspended indefinitely from the squad, LSU Coach Skip Bertman announced Tuesday.

That means he won't be with the team when it begins play Thursday at noon against Tulane in the NCAA South II regional in New Orleans. And the way Bertman talked, he's not looking for him should the Tigers advance along the way toward the College World Series. "Joey has had a fine career at LSU, and I am certain that he will continue his successes into the professional ranks." Bertman said in a statement released by the LSU sports information office. Belle will likely be one of the top 10 picks in the June 2 pro baseball draft, and could be the first non-pitcher taken. He is a student at LSU, majoring in accounting.

Last weekend, he chased a Mississippi State fan who taunted him during the Southeastern Conference tournament in Athens, Ga. It was his latest suspension. He missed seven games his first two years because of suspensions. Attempts by The Times to reach Belle were unsuccessful. His mother, Mrs.

Carrie Belle, declined comment. The 6-2, 200-pound junior leads the Southeastern Conference in home runs with 21 and slugging percentage with .810. He also had 66 RBI and a .349 batting average. He holds virtually every LSU batting record, including most hits, Problems foreseen "If the sportsmen of the state allow this bill to pass, they're opening the door to all kinds of problems. I think it's just a way to get sport fish on the market," Vidrine said.

Ater's home district House District 21 encompasses Larto Lake in lower Catahoula Parish. Several persons arrested there last year were charged with violations of federal and state fisheries laws in connection with the sale of countless thousands of pounds of crappie taken illegally on Larto Lake and sold outside Louisiana primarily in the Chicago area. Ater's bill was assigned to the House Agriculture Committee rather than the House Natural Resources Committee, which normally considers proposed legislation dealing with the state's fish and game resources. The Senate Agriculture Committee, chaired by Sen. Foster Campbell of Bossier City, will be the next stop in the legislative process should H.B.

1280 be approved by the full House. If there's something fishy going on, perhaps they can sniff it out. Tyler deadline near TYLER, Texas Entries are being accepted for the Rose Kuntry Sportsplex Softball tournaments in Tyler on May 23-24. Two tournaments men's NSA Class and qualifier and men's USSSA Class qualifier have openings for teams. Entry fee per team is $100, plus a sanction fee if the team is not sanctioned.

Deadline for registering is Thursday, May 21 at 3 p.m. For more information contact 214-882-4682 or 214-882-7201. Van Berg says Alysheba looks 'Super' Surprising Georgia wins NCAA tennis ATHENS, Ga. (AP) Georgia capitalized on an injury to UCLA's top player, Dan Nahirney, Tuesday to win its second NCAA men's team tennis championship in three years. Both titles came with 5-1 wins over UCLA.

"Winning this championship is a different type feeling from the title in 1985," said Coach Dan Magill. "We thought we could win it in '85, but this year I had hoped we would just have a good enough team to be seeded in the tournament" Nahirney was leading Philip Johnson 6-4, 2-1 when he apparently tore ligaments in bis right knee and had to retire. With Nahirney's retirement, Georgia won with five victories in the six singles matches. The three doubles matches were canceled. In the other singles matches, Georgia's Stephen Enochs defeated Buff Farrow 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (5-7), 6- John Boytim of Georgia defeated Tim Trigueiro 6-3, 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (8-6); and Trey Carter of Georgia defeated Brett Greenwood 7-6 (7-3) 7- UCLA's Patrick Galbraith defeated Mike Morrison 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, and Georgia's P.J.

Middle-ton downed Bryan Garrow 4-6. 6-4. 6-3. of Gold and Bob Holthus' very talented Come On Texas. Topping off the wekend is Monday's Barksdale Handicap, the traditional Memorial Day feature which is also the first stakes event of the season on the Sawyer Turf Course.

Most notable among the nominees is William C. Raymond's Inevitable Leader, recently winner of the Ark-La-Tex Handicap. Inevitable Leader scored his first Louisiana Downs victory since his upset win in the 1984 Ark-La-Tex Handicap when he captured the 1 986 Barksdale in course record time. He came back to defeat odds-on favorite Big Pistol in his next start and was named the season's top older horse. Inevitable Leader was the fourth Louisiana Downs champion to win the Barksdalejoining Incredible Ease (1979), Time Call (1981) and Police Inspector (1983).

New York Jockey Club for 3-year-olds and up Oct 10, and the $3 million Breeders' Cup Classic in California Nov. 21. "That's a tentative schedule if everything goes well," Van Berg said. Meanwhile, Louisiana Downs looks forward to a six-day race week and to a big Memorial Day weekend, year-in and year-out one of largest drawing periods for the local track. A record 88,229 fans came to Louisiana Downs over the six-day period-in 1986 and wagered a near-record $12,654,398.

That included 26,513 patrons who bet $2,986,938 on just Memorial Day. Those will be tough figures to overcome this year but the Bossier track plans to give away F.M. radios to the first 20.000 fans who come to the track on Monday as well as offering three very good stakes races and Monday. The first big stakes race is Saturday's $30,000 added Delicada Stakes for older fillies and mares going a mile and one-sixteenth. Russell McCaslin's Hope Win will be trying to repeat her performance here last year when she narrowly beat Lit-tlebitapleasure to deny trainer Frank Brothers his third straight Delicada victory.

Hope Win has not won since that race, however. Van Berg nominated three distaffers for the race, including Marilynn Special Victory, and Make Me an Offer. Sunday's feature will be the 12th running of the $30,000 added Dixie Miss Stakes, a six-furlong dash for 3 year-old fillies. Once again. Van Berg has nominated three fillies for leading owner John his hopes will rest on the shoulders of either Elsabet High Kick, or Exclusive Search.

Also nominated for the race is Gene Norman's multiple stakes winner Reef From Staff, Wire Reports The last leg of the Triple Crown the Belmont Stakes is next on the agenda for Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Alysheba, but trainer Jack Van Berg said the $1 million Super Derby at Louisiana Downs fits into the three-year-old's future plans. Van Berg, 50, outlined Alysheba's tentative schedule after the $350,000 Belmont, during a visit to Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha, to inspect his stable of horses at what he calls his home race track. In the Associated Press report, he said Alysheba will rest after the Belmont, with the Aug. 22 Travers at Saratoga, N.Y., his next possible race. Van Berg said.

"If he's sound, completely sound, then he'll go to the Travers," Van Berg said. The Travers purse is $1 million. After that come the $1 million Super Derby at Louisiana Downs Sept 27; the $1 million.