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2B Daily News – Friday, June 3, 2011 Nowitzki rallies Mavs Giants rock Cards MIAMI (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks put a stunning end to their misery in Miami. Now they can win their first NBA title without ever coming back to South Florida. Nowitzki made the tie-breaking layup with 3.6 seconds left, and the Mavericks roared back from 15 points down in the fourth quarter to beat the Heat 95-93 on Thursday night and tie the NBA finals at one game apiece. Capping a furious rally by scoring Dal- las’ final nine points, Nowitzki made two late baskets left-handed — despite a torn tendon on that non-shooting hand. He fin- ished with 24 points. Dwyane Wade had 36 points for Miami, but his desperation 3-pointer was off at the buzzer. ‘‘I thought defensively we really got into them,’’ Nowitzki said of the rally. ‘‘We pressured them full court and we scrambled defensively. We even gave up some offen- sive rebounds, but we kept scrambling.’’ Game 3 is Sunday in Dallas. Seemingly out of the game when the Heat led 88-73 with 7:15 remaining, Dallas held the Heat to just one field goal from there, a 3-pointer by Mario Chalmers with 24.5 seconds that tied it just 2 seconds after Nowitzki’s 3 had made it 93-90. But after a timeout, Jason Kidd ran the clock down before getting the ball to Now- itzki, who drove into the lane, spun back to the left and made the layup. Jason Terry, largely silent since the first half of Game 1, fueled the comeback with PARIS (AP) — As Maria Sharapova prepared to serve while only a point from defeat in the French Open semifinals, Li Na was thinking what any opponent would at that precise moment. "I was, like, 'Please, dou- ble-fault. That way I can win the match,'" Li explained to the crowd a few moments later. Sharapova obliged. Her second serve hit the white tape atop the net and bounced back for Sharapo- a couple of jumpers and finished with 16 points. Shawn Marion had 20 points for the Mavericks, who had lost four straight finals games in Miami since taking a 2-0 lead in the 2006 series. They were about to go down 2-0 this time before Nowitzki, who insisted his injured finger wouldn’t hinder him, led a rally even more amazing than the one that won Game 4 of the Western Conference finals, when the Mavs trailed Oklahoma City by 15 in the fourth quarter before pulling it out in overtime. LeBron James scored 20 points for the Heat. He and Wade were running by and over the older Mavs for three quarters, and it appeared the only thing that could slow them down was that big trophy they would soon be holding. Not so fast. Wade angered the Mavs, particularly Terry, when he held his follow through after his 3-pointer from the corner with 7:15 left capped a 13-0 run and made it 88- 73. The Heat suddenly went cold, holding the ball too long on possessions and forcing James and Wade to attempt long jumpers with the shot clock winding down, instead of playing to their strengths and driving into the lane. A series of those missed jumpers even- tually ended with the Mavs getting posses- sion, and Nowitzki making a layup that tied it at 90 with 57 seconds to play. The Heat lost for the first time in 10 games at home in the playoffs and will have to win at least once in Dallas to force the series back here. Sharapova's 10 double-faults help Li va's 10th double-fault of an error-filled afternoon, clos- ing Li's 6-4, 7-5 victory Thursday. The result ended Sharapova's bid to complete a career Grand Slam, and allowed Li to reach a second consecutive major final. At the Australian Open in January, Li was the run- ner-up, the first tennis player from China to reach a major championship match. At the French Open on Saturday — when she will play defending champion Francesca Schiavone — Li can become the first Grand Slam champion from her nation of more than 1 billion people. The sixth-seeded Li said she wants her sport to "get bigger and bigger" back home. A year ago at Roland Garros, Schiavone became the first woman from Italy to win one of tennis' four most important titles. But she had failed to make it to the final of any tournament since then, until beating 11th- seeded Marion Bartoli of France 6-3, 6-3 Thursday. ST. LOUIS (AP) — Aubrey Huff hit three home runs and matched his career best with six RBIs and the San Francisco Giants ham- mered a pair of rookie pitch- ers making their major league debuts in a 12-7 vic- tory over the St. Louis Car- dinals on Thursday night. Huff, who entered bat- ting .219, hit two-run homers in the fourth and ninth and a solo shot in the seventh for his first three- homer game. He also had an RBI single in the sixth. Huff raised his average 14 points while leading the surge for the Giants, who set a season high for runs. Huff has four homers and seven RBIs the last two games after totaling four RBIs the previous 16 games. Freddy Sanchez added a homer and four RBIs for San Francisco. Colby Ras- mus hit his second career grand slam and had a career- best six RBIs to help make it a contest for the Cardinals, who dropped three of four at home to the Giants for the first time since June 30-July 3, 2003. Albert Pujols had NBA FINALS (Best-of-7) x-if needed Dallas 1, Miami 1 Game 1: Miami 92, Dallas 84 Game 2: Dallas 95, Miami 93 Sunday: at Dallas, 5 p.m. Tuesday: at Dallas, 6 p.m. x-June 9: at Dallas, 6 p.m. x-June 12: at Miami, 5 p.m. x-June 14: at Miami, 6 p.m. two hits, a steal and scored twice. The NL Central-lead- ing Cardinals had been 13- 1-1 in their previous 15 series since dropping two of three at San Francisco from April 8-10, leaving town with a 3-6 record. Triple-A callup Lance Lynn (0-1) needed 56 pitch- es to get through five innings working on three days’ rest, but retired only one of four hitters to start the Giants’ three-run sixth. Double-A reinforcement Mikail Cleto hit 98 mph several times on the stadium radar in the sev- enth but walked the first two hitters and surrendered back-to-back homers to Sanchez and Huff in a five- run inning that made it 10-3. Manager Tony La Russa slotted Lynn ahead of Jaime Garcia in the rotation, giving the left-hander an extra day MLB West Division Texas East Division American League WL Pct GB 31 26.544 — Seattle 28 27 .509 2 Angels 29 29 .500 2.5 A’s 27 30 .474 4 WL Pct GB New York 31 23 .574 — Boston 30 26 .536 2 Tampa Bay 29 26 .527 2.5 Toronto 28 28 .500 4 Baltimore 25 29 .463 6 Central Division WL Pct GB Cleveland 33 21 .611 — Detroit 29 26 .527 4.5 Chicago 27 31 .466 8 Kansas City25 31 .446 9 Minnesota 18 37 .32715.5 ————————————————— Thursday’s results Minnesota 8, Kansas City 2 Texas 7, Cleveland 4 Tampa Bay at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. Today’s games Oakland (Outman 1-0) at Boston (C.Buchholz 4-3), 4:10 p.m. STANLEY CUP (Best-of-7) x-if needed Vancouver 1, Boston 0 Game 1: Vancouver 1, Boston 0 Saturday: at Vancouver, 5 p.m. Monday: at Boston, 5 p.m. Wednesday: at Boston, 5 p.m. x-June 10: at Vancouver, 5 p.m. x-June 13: at Boston, 5 p.m. x-June 15: at Vancouver, 5 p.m. Texas (Ogando 5-0) at Cleveland (Masterson 5-3), 4:05 p.m. Toronto (Villanueva 2-0) at Baltimore (Britton 5-3), 4:05 p.m. Detroit (A.Oliver 0-0) at Chicago (Buehrle 4-4), 5:10 p.m. Minnesota (Pavano 2-5) at Kansas City (Duffy 0-0), 5:10 p.m. New York (Nova 4-3) at Los Angeles (Weaver 6-4), 7:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Sonnanstine 0-1) at Seattle (Vargas 3-3), 7:10 p.m. to get over a disastrous out- ing in which he surrendered 12 runs in 3 1-3 innings in Colorado. The move also set up Garcia, Kyle Lohse and Chris Carpenter to face the Cubs in a weekend series starting Friday, but left the Cardinals short in the Giants finale. La Russa was out to the mound for a pep talk with Cleto before Huff finished rounding the bases on his seventh homer of the season. Jonathan Sanchez (4-3) allowed three runs in 5 1-3 innings, surviving a season- high six walks. Freddy Sanchez had a season high for RBIs with a three-run homer in the seventh and a run-scoring groundout in the sixth. MLB West Division National League WL Pct GB Arizona 31 25 .554 — GIANTS 31 25 .554 — Colorado 26 29 .473 4.5 Dodgers 26 31 .456 5.5 Padres 24 32 .429 7 East Division WL Pct GB Philadelphia 34 22 .607 — Florida 31 23 .574 2 Atlanta 31 26 .544 3.5 New York 26 30 .464 8 Washington 24 31 .436 9.5 Central Division WL Pct GB St. Louis 33 25 .569 — Milwaukee 30 26 .536 2 Cincinnati 29 28 .509 3.5 Pittsburgh 26 29 .473 5.5 Chicago 23 31 .426 8 Houston 22 34 .393 10 ————————————————— Thursday’s results San Francisco 12, St. Louis 7 New York 9, Pittsburgh 8 Houston at San Diego, late Washington at Arizona, late Today’s games Colorado (Nicasio 1-0) at San Francisco (Cain 3-4), 7:15 p.m. Philadelphia (Hamels 7-2) at Pittsburgh (Karstens 3-4), 4:05 p.m. Atlanta (D.Lowe 3-4) at New York (Niese 4-5), 4:10 p.m. Los Angeles (Kuroda 5-5) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 3-5), 4:10 p.m. Milwaukee (Wolf 4-4) at Florida (Nolasco 4-1), 4:10 p.m. Chicago (Dempster 4-4) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 5-1), 5:15 p.m. Washington (Maya 0-0) at Arizona (Collmenter 3-1), 6:40 p.m. Houston (Happ 3-6) at San Diego (Moseley 1-6), 7:05 p.m. HOME SERVICES DIRECTORY Print Runs Every Monday - Wednesday- Friday $9900 Appliance Service & Used Appliances Appliance Repair Rod Pierce service on all major appliances. 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