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TUESDAY JUNE 6, 1 989 SECTION SCOREBOARD page 2B OUTDOORS page 4B CLASSIFIED pages 7B to 9B Can Lakers sweep Pistons in finals? fv -y "We want to win four games and that's it," Riley said. "Chuck is telling his players that we can sweep to infuriate them." The Lakers, making their eighth Finals appearance of the decade, are 11-0 in the playoffs after a 3-0 first-round victory over Portland and 4-0 sweeps of Seattle and Phoenix. The 1983 Philadelphia 76efs, at 12-1, came the closest to having an unblemished postseason. "We happen to be undefeated, but Detroit has lost only two games," Riley said. "The unbeaten streak reflects the way we've been playing, which is great, especially defensively," swingman Michael Cooper said.

"It's too early to think about a sweep. It's even too early to think about winning two games in Detroit. Winning one here would be a feather in our cap." "My first goal is to win the first game," Lakers forward A.C. Green said. "If we do that, we can think about winning the next one.

But each game will be hard to win, no matter where it's rally Portag AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) -The Los Angeles Lakers have some obstacles to overcome before they can claim the biggest prize of all winning the NBA title without a single playoff loss. The Lakers need one victory over Detroit in the NBA Finals to bring Pat Riley into a tie with Boston's Red Auerbach as the winningest playoff coach in history with 99. In addition, the road team has never won the first two games of the Finals, but Los Angeles would have to win at the Palace tonight and Thursday to have a chance to finish 15-0 in the playoffs. Pistons coach Chuck Daly says that is exactly the Lakers' plan.

"I think they truly believe they can sweep us and go undefeated in the playoffs," Daly said Monday, the eve of Game 1 of the NBA Finals. "They are coming in here to win two from us. We are 43-5 at home and we've won the last game on the road in all three of our playoff series. So we believe we can win, too." by Scott Cottos Assistant sports editor CHESTERTON There may have been may more drama than Dwight Mathis cared to endure, but Hobart's baseball coach will gladly take the school's first sectional title since 1983. The 17th-ranked Brickies rallied for three runs in the top of the seventh inning Monday and came away with a 5-3 win over Portage in the Chesterton Sectional title game at the Westchester Middle School field.

"I was really proud of the kids' comeback," Mathis said. "A couple of kids who really got our inning going were second-stringers. Our bench really came through." The title finally came to Ho-bart (23-6) after two years of coming up short despite going into the sectional as a good bet to win it. "It's a good squad," Mathis said of this season's Brickies. "It's a lot of fun this year.

It's a lot more fun, actually, than last year, as far as the coaches go. We've enjoyed the kids. They ve worked hard. We had a lot of young kids who were inexperienced other than our five seniors; The seniors have done a real fine job leadership-wise." Hobart advances to meet Bremen (18-12) at noon Saturday in the semifinals of the LaPorte Regional at Schreiber Field. No.

11 LaPorte (25-5) will meet La-Crosse (14-12) in the first semifinal game at 9:30 a.m. The Hofoart stops Chuck Daly played." The Pistons, who have four games of the best-of-7 series scheduled at home because they had an NBA-best 63-19 regular-season record, want to put to rest any ideas the Lakers have of '4f i i V- Golf outings scheduled VALPARAISO The Father's Day golf tournament at Forest Park Golf Course is scheduled for Sunday, June 18. This will be an 18-hole scramble event with teams consisting of two players. Junior players are to be 10 years of age or older. Entry fee is $10 per team, with all monies returned in merchandise certificates.

An optional skin pot and proxies will be available to all players. Entry fee does not include appropriate daily fee. If interested in playing, call the pro shop at 4624411 to get assigned tee time. Tee times will be available from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m.

And Sunday, June 11, there will be a mixed couples golf outing at Forest Park. Couples will be teeing off at .4 p.m. on No. 1, with sign-up for tee times starting at 3:30 p.m. Call the pro shop for more details and to make reservations.

Tennis classes scheduled CHESTERTON Tennis instruction for youngsters age 7 and older will be offered on Monday mornings at the Westchester Middle School courts from June 12 through July 31. The classes will be sponsored by the Duneland YMCA and taught by tennis pro Jimmie Lopez, who is the Chesterton High School boys coach. Registrations will be taken through June 12. Participants will be grouped according to age and ability. Times will be 9 a.m.

to 10 a.m. for ages 7-9, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. for ages 10-13 and ages 11 a.m. to noon for high school ages.

For more information, contact the Duneland YMCA at 926-4204. Leagues, camps slated HAMMOND The following camps and basketball leagues will he held this summer at Purdue Calumet: Girls basic basketball, June 12-16, 9 a.m. -noon. Grades 5-9. Cost is $45.

Director is Purdue Calumet women's basketball coach Stacey Karpinec. Beginning cheerleading, June 19-23, 9 a.m. -noon. Grades 5-9. Cost is $45.

Directed by Purdue Calumet cheerleaders. Advanced cheerleading, June 19-23, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Grades 9-12. Cost is $50. Directed by Purdue Calumet cheerleaders.

Wrestling, June 19-22, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Grades 7-12. Cost is $50. Director is Purdue Calumet wrestling coach Mitch Hull. Football quarterback-receiver, June 26-30, 1 p.m-4 Bm.

Grades 7-12. Cost is $50. irector is Munster High School football coach Leroy Marsh. Basic volleyball, June 26-30, 9 a.m.-noon. Grdes 7-12.

Cost is $50. Director is Purdue Calumet volleyball coach Stacey Karpinec. Football defensive back linebacker, July 5-7, 1 p.m.4 Bm. Grades 7-12. Cost is $35.

irector is Purdue Calumet athletic director and former Munster High School football coach John Friend. Basketball shooting school, July 5-7, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Grades 7-12. Cost is $35. Director is Purdue Calumet men's basketball coach Larry Liddle.

Softball pitchers, July 5-7, 1 p.m4 p.m. Grades 7-12. Cost is $35. Director is Purdue Calumet softball club coach Stacey Karpinec. Girls nigh schoonbas-ketball, July 10-14, 9 a.m.-noon.

Grades 9-12. Cost is $50. Director is Lake Central High School girls basketball coach Tom Megyesi. Football linemen, July 10-14, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Grades 7-12.

Cost is $50. Director is John Friend. Boys junior varsity basketball league, Mondays, June 12-July 3. Grades 9-11. Cost is $15.

Girls basketball league, Wednesdays, June 14-July 5. Grades 9-12. Cost is $15. Boys varsity basketball league, Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 20-July 13. Grades 10-12.

Cost is $30. To register or obtain more information, call the Purdue Calumet athletic office at they believe they can win on the road. We believe we can win in their building, too." "If we win all four of our home games, we have to be the NBA champions," reserve forward John Salley said. "The Lakers have swept everyone they've played, but this is the Finals and we're a different team than the ones they've been playing." The Pistons have not allowed 100 points in 15 games, including 13 in the playoffs, and the opposition has scored an average of 90.0 in the postseason. But it's not the Lakers' 113.5 points per game in the playoffs that scares the Pistons.

"What worries me most about them is they will be as relentless to win as we are," Salley said. Riley believes that the Pistons' narrow defeat last year -made them a better team. "A team grows with some of the wounds inflicted on them," he said. "They thought they could win last year and they lost the seventh game. You get better with that kind of adversity." if ft 1 ED HUBBARDThe Vidette Messenger in the Chesterton Sectional game.

Coming in late with catcher Doyle Crowe. 1 Lendl He left the court in tears as the capacity crowd of 14,000 gave him a standing ovation. "I'm just surprised I was able to hang on so long," the 15th-seeded Chang said. At one point in the fifth set I thought I wouldn't be able to play anymore. "It hasn't sunk in yet.

I just want to get a good massage, go back to the hotel and sleep. Had Chang's cramps set in early in the match, he almost certainly would not have been able to last the pace. But by then, Lendl's concentration was already being tested. The top seed and favorite was warned in the first set, receiving a penalty point in the fourth game and expended as much energy complaining about line calls and the crowd as he did about trying to beat Chang. But Lendl, a three-time French Open champion and winner of the Australian Open in January, had kind words about his conqueror.

"He showed a lot of courage and deserves credit for it," Lendl said. "When you get cramps it's very painful and almost impossible to play. See FRENCH on page 3B to stay trade with Cleveland. Sutcliffe was 16-1 and 20-6 overall in 1984 when he led the Cubs to the National League East title and won the Cy Young Award. He was 8-8 in 1985 when he had a series of injuries, 5-14 in 1986, 18-10 in 1987 and 13-14 last year.

"After being 13-14 last year, I felt I could do a lot better," Sutcliffe said. "I've enjoyed my five years here." .7 yy Pat Riley sweeping. "We don't want" to read about them being undefeated anymore," center Bill Laimbeer said. "But more important is that this is a home game for us that we need to win. We know 7 over Portage championship the tag is PHS FRENCH OPEN a pro.

Then there was Soviet Andrei Chesnokov, facing defeat against an American power machine called Jim Courier. But Chesnokov staged another comeback to eliminate the blond righthander 2-6, 3-6, 7-6, 6-2, 7-5. The only player to have an easy time was Sweden's Mats Wilander, the defending champion. He whipped Lawson Duncan 7-5, 6-3, 6-2. Everything else on the tournament's eighth day, however, paled in significance against Chang's super-human effort.

Grimacing and cringing with pain, the 17-year-old staged a startling upset as he tried everything he knew to stay with Lendl after rallying to even things after four sets. With a mixture of moon balls, smashing winners, guts, unorthodox play including one underhand serve and numerous Lendl errors, Chang became the youngest player ever to reach the last eight of the men's event at Roland'Garros. doing what we can to win and we're looking beyond this year." Sutcliffe, 32, is getting $1.8 million in the final year of a five-year deal worth $9 million. The new contract, with a $550,000 signing bonus, is for $1.65 million in 1989 and $2 million for 1990. Sutcliffe, who would have been eligible for free agency at the end of this season, is 124-95 lifetime and 67-50 since joining the Cubs on June 13, 1984, following a Hobart's Troy Mercer slides in safely Monday afternoon with the go-ahead run in the seventh inning of the Brickies' 5-3 win Chang stuns No.

CHESTERTON SECTIONAL championship game is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Starting senior righthander Troy Mercer threw five no-hit innings at Portage (20-10), and the Brickies looked as though they would live comfortably with the 2-0 lead they had built in the first three innings. But the Indians' Mike Spicer led off the of the sixth-'" tit. fVi f1n.a ctinrflA tf tMrrlif Mathis replaced Mercer with flame-throwing senior righthander Dan Zanolla. "We told all of (the pitchers), 'Hey, we're going to go with you as long as you can go First sign ot trouble, we ve got four other guys, and we're just going to run them in there," Mathis said.

Zanolla, whose pitches registered as high 89 miles-per-hour on Chesterton High School's JUGS gun, walked Greg Meyne after Spicer stole second, and Hal Kilgore replaced Meyne as a pinch-runner at first. Portage's next hitter was senior cleanup man Jim Wilkie the one man Mathis did not want to beat his team. Zanolla got ahead of the rjghthand-hitting Wilkie with a l-and-2 count, but Wilkie tore into the next pitch and sent it high over the 365-foot sign in right center field for a See BASEBALL on page 3B (AP) ting into baseball. "I said 'Grandpa, where do you want me to play the next couple of years?" Sutcliffe said. "And he said 'What's wrong with where you're Sutcliffe, his agent, Barry Ax-elrod, and Cubs president Don Grenesko came to terms on the new contract although it was somewhat unexpected.

"I'm a little surprised, but it's great," Sutcliffe said. "When we ft W(vi A :L.yj tfy PARIS (AP) Michael Chang writhed with leg cramps but battled his way through. Ronald Agenor was wracked by stomach contractions but tried not to think about them. Mind over matter prevailed Monday as both players rallied from two-set deficits to set up a quarterfinal meeting at the French Open tennis championships. Chang's performance in beating Ivan Lendl, the world's top-ranked player, was described by the American's coach as memorable.

"I've been in tennis some years and this is the most incredible match I ever saw," said Jose Higueras, the former Spanish Davis Cup player. "Mike showed he has the stuff of a champion. It was memorable." Chang's 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 Center Court victory was the highlight of a remarkable day's tennis as the second week of the clay-court Grand Slalh event began. Over on Court No. 1, the unseeded Agenor of Haiti beat Sergi Bruguera of Spain 24, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his six years as couldn't agree in spring training, we decided to wait unul the end of the year.

But Barry called me and said the Cubs had had a change of heart." In earlier negotiations, the Cubs were agaist guaranteeing the second year of the contract. But Sutcliffe's 7-3 start had something to do with that. "It was a combination of his performance and his leadership," Grenesko said. "We're Michael Chang of the United States reacts Monday to his stunning five-set victory over top-seeded Ivan Lendl in the fourth round of the French Open tennis championships at Roland Garros stadium. Cubs give Sutcliffe good reason CHICAGO (AP) Rick Sutcliffe, claiming he'd like to wind up his career in Chicago, is staying with the Cubs after getting a two-year contract extension worth $4-2 million.

"I talked to my family and my grandparents and it was unanimous, everybody wanted me to stay in Chicago," Sutcliffe said. Sutcliffe 's grandfather, Bill Yearout, helped rear Sutcliffe and was responsible for his get.