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Atlanta, Miami win, move on ■ PLAYOFFS: After trailing 2-1, Atlanta wins the last two games to advance The Associated Press ATLANTA — Dikembe Mu tombo showed why he’s the NBA defensive player of the year, and the Atlanta Hawks moved on in the playoffs Sunday with an 84 79 victory over the Detroit Pis tons. The Hawks, who trailed 2-1 in the best-of-5 series, won the final two games to earn a meeting with the defending NBA champion Chicago Bulls in the second round. Game 1 is Tuesday night at the United Center. Mutombo, who was a dominat ing inside force for the Hawks throughout the series, finished off the Pistons with two brilliant defensive plays against Grant Hill. With the score tied at 77, Hill drove the baseline for a dunk, but the shot was deflected away by Mutombo while the Detroit star dangled from the rim. Atlanta ran the other way and Christian Laet tner hit a 17-footer as the 24-sec ond clock expired to put the Hawks ahead to stay, 79-77 with 1:14 remaining. But Mutombo wasn’t through. Hill drove around him at the foul .line and headed t 33 & 7 fry / W lu U1C Aluup iry M\a11LLI ing to pull the Pistons even, but Atlanta’s 7 foot-2 center caught Hill from be hind and got a hand on the shot. Steve Smith then made a 3 pointer from deep in the left cor ner as he was falling out of bounds with 41.7 seconds to go. Detroit, which shot only 39.5 percent from the field, cut the gap to 82-79 and had a final chance to tie, but Terry Mills’ 3 pointer from the top of the key missed badly with about five sec onds to go. Smith then hit two free throws with 0.4 seconds left for the final margin. Laettner led the Hawks with 23 points, but Mutombo was a force at both ends of the court. He had 17 points, nine rebounds and six blocks. Hill led the Pistons with 21 points but shot only 9-of-24 try ing to carry the offensive load. Detroit even sent in Rick Mahom in an attempt to counter Mu tombo’s size, but about all the 38 year-old could do was foul. Miami 91, Orlando 83 MIAMI — The Miami Heat didn’t wilt when the Orlando Magic wouldn’t quit. Thanks to two clutch baskets by Tim Hardaway, Miami with stood one last comeback by the resilient Magic, holding on for a 91-83 victory Sunday in the de ciding fifth game of their first round playoff series. Orlando scored 10 consecutive points midway through the fourth quarter and reduced a 17 point deficit to three. But Hard away shook off a shooting slump to hit two baskets — an off-bal ance 20-footer and a 3-pointer from 24 feet — in the final 43 sec onds to eliminate the Magic. Track: Buciarski wins pole vault at Texas ■ Continued from Page 11 2:10.61 third-place performance. Sutherland said she liked the way she handled the fast pace of the first 600 meters, but at the start of the race she had to fight to keep up. “It just really surprised me be cause I thought I was going out hard and everyone was all the way ahead of me,” she said. The Ducks had some help from Gina DeWitt, a post-colle gian 400-meter runner, who vol unteered to set a fast 400 pace be fore dropping out of the race. A Pac-10 qualifying jump came from Nonglack Somsanith, who turned in a slightly wind aided but legal jump of 39-3. Her previous best was 38-9 1/2. Freshman javelin thrower Karis Howell moved up further on the NCAA provisional list with a personal best of 162-7 to win the event. Heinonen said he likes the consistency discus thrower Heidi Fisk has shown this season. Two weeks ago Fisk set a personal best of 158-0 and reaffirmed her standing with her performance of 152-7 Saturday. “Heidi Fisk showed that she has reached a new level with throwing 152-7,” Heinonen said. On the men’s side, while most 57 W. BROADWAY 687-0139 of the team was taking it easy at the All-Comer’s Meet, Chris Nel son led six Ducks at the Texas In vitational in Austin, Texas with a season best in the high jump. The Ducks went to Texas looking for big marks, and for the most part they were successful. Nelson cleared 7-3 1/4 in fin ishing second behind Charles Austin, the 1996 Olympic gold medalist who won with a meet record 7-7 1/4. Nelson’s jump was 1/4 inch better than his pre vious best of 7-3 at last week’s Drake Relays. Piotr Buciarski regained his winning touch in the pole vault by clearing 17-0 3/4. Southwest Texas’ Brad Metting and Angelo State’s J.J. Miller also cleared that height but finished second and third as a result of more total misses. Continuing the Ducks’ success in Texas, Jody Mortimore notched a personal best by 1/2 inch with a wind-aided 24-9 3/4 to finish second behind Angelo State’s Darrin Session. Gregg Bleakney placed third in the triple jump with a leap of 48 2, while Scott Kolenic placed third in the 800 and Nat Johnson was seventh in the long jump. Back home in the All-Comers Meet, the Ducks were gearing up for the season’s stretch run but also had some impressive perfor mances along the way. “There have been some good results and some that are pretty average,” head coach Bill Dellinger said. “But then again it’s not much of a meet. The one that counts is in a couple of weeks, but I am real happy with Tom Newman and what he did.” Newman was impressive for the Ducks, notching a personal best 3:57.18 in the 1,500-meter run and a personal best 1:52.61 in the 800. Other running highlights came from Will Dreissen, who set a personal record of 48.53 in the 400, and Micah Davis, who turned in a season best 3:51.32 in the 1,500. In the field events, Ryan Cole continued his mid-season surge by winning the shot put and dis cus. Jeremy Robinson finished second in the hammer, and David Ovall placed second in the javelin. “It was just kind of a workout day in preparation for next week,” Dellinger said. 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