Sports results

Press, 27 April 1989, Page 38

Sports results

BASEBALL Results of U.S. Major League baseball games played yesterday: National League New York Mets 2, Atlanta Braves 1; San Diego Padres 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 0; Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Chicago Cubs 1; Cincinnati Reds 6, Montreal Expos 1; San Francisco Giants 4, St Louis Cardinals 0; Houston Astros 4, Philadelphia Phillies 1. American League Detroit Tigers 5, Seattle Mariners 2; Kansas City Royals 5, New York Yankees 3; Milwaukee Brewers 10, Minnesota Twins 4; Boston Red Sox 11, Chicago White Sox 0; Texas Rangers 11, Cleveland Indians 7; Baltimore Orioles 8, California Angels 1; Oakland A’s 3, Toronto Blue Jays 1. HOCKEY Goaltender Patrick Roy kept his unbeaten streak at the Montreal Forum alive as he led the Canadiens into the National Hockey League Stanley Cup semi-finals with a 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday.

Behind Roy’s stellar play, the Canadiens won the best-of-seven game Adams Division final, 4-1, from last year’s beaten Stanley Cup finalist.

Roy made 22 saves and raised his home record this season to 34 wins, no losses and four ties as the 23-time champion, Canadiens, avenged last year’s play-off loss to the Bruins. Chris Chelios, Shayne Corson and Stephane Richer scored for Montreal. Bob Joyce scored both of Boston’s goals. TENNIS A Pro Kennex A grade women’s field day held at Wilding Park recently resulted.— B. Skinner, C. Anderson (North Beach) 1, S. Mehrtens, J. Bissett (Kaiapoi) 2, M. Harkerss, J. Moore (Kaiapoi) 3. Challenge tournament Andre Agassi used overpowering ground strokes to overcome two comeback attempts by Tim Mayotte in the opening round of the Challenge tennis tournament in Atlanta yesterday.

Agassi defeated Mayotte 75, 7-5 in the second match of the first day of the pro tournament, which continues through until Sunday. Agassi led Mayotte, 5-0, in both sets before Mayotte rallied, only to be overpowered by Agassi’s ground strokes. In the first match, Michael Chang defeated Aaron Krickenstein 6-4, 2-6, 6-2. Krickenstein was coming off a recent injury to his right ankle. In play today in the roundrobin tournament, Ivan Lendl is to play Yannick Noah at Horseshoe Bend Country Club. Houston tournament First-round results from the $U5250,000 ($NZ410,000) Houston tennis tournament yesterday (prefix number denotes seeding):— Andrea Temesvari (Hungary) beat Mary Pierce (U.S.) 6-2, 6-3; Kathy Rinaldi (U.S.) beat Michelle Torres (U.S.) 7-5, 2-6, 6-3; 7-Gretchen Magers (U.S.) beat Iva Budarova (Czechoslovakia) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Laxmi Poruri (U.S.) beat Melissa Gurney (U.S.) 63, 6-1; Carrie Cunningham (U.S.) beat 3-Katerina Maleeva (Bulgaria) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; 5-Susan Sloane (U.S.)

beat Pam Casale (U.S.) 6-0, 61; 8-Amy Frazier (U.S.) beat Andrea Holikova (Czechoslovakia) 6-2, 6-2; Elise Burgin (U.S.) beat 6-Isabel Cueto (West Germany) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Kim Kessaris (U.S.) beat Amy Schwartz (U.S.) 7-5, 6-0; 2-Zina Garrison (U.S.) beat Mariaan DeSwardt (South Africa) 6-2, 7-5. Monte Carlo Open Jakob Hlasek, of Switzerland, headed a parade of seeds sliding out of the SUS6OO,OOO ($NZ983,000) Monte Carlo Open men’s tennis grand prix in the wind and rain yesterday. With a blustery wind blowing in from the Mediterranean and continual light rain falling, the fourth seed, Hlasek, was trounced 6-4, 6-1 by Martin Jaite, of Argentina, the losing finalist last year but unseeded this time round. But the tournament’s top seed, Mats Wilander, of Sweden, the world No. 2, refused to slither out even though he experienced some disturbing moments near the end of his first set against Italian teenager Diego Nargiso. Wilander won 7-4, 6-1.