European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 27. 1986 stars and stripes Page 19 Duke picked no. 1 in a Cage poll . Drops to 3rd by the associated press Duke became the third team All from he Atlantic coast conference to hold the no. I spot in the associated press poll this season As the Blue devils convincingly jumped Over North Carolina tuesday. Duke. 27-2. Received 62 of the 64 dust place Voles and 1.278 Points from the nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters As the Blue devils joined Georgia tech which was no. I in the preseason poll and North Carolina which held the lop spot Tor 13 weeks Afler the season began. In four of the last five weeks the tar heels were unanimous choices. The Blue devils managed two victories last week As they blasted Miami Fla. 104-82 and held off a charge by then no. 10 Oklahoma 93-84. Kansas 27-3, jumped from third to second in the poll with 1,181 Points and one first place vote As he Jay Hawks clinched the big eight regular season title with an 84-69 Victory Over Kansas state saturday. Monday night the Jay Hawks beat Oklahoma on the Road 87-80. North Carolina received the other first place Vole and 1,140 Points for third place after suffering iwo losses last week. The tar heels 25-3, were beaten at Home by Maryland 77-72 in overtime and fell at then no. 20 North Carolina stale 76-65. The tar heels who were second in Llic preseason poll Are scheduled to meet Duke sunday in Durham . North Carolina won an earlier meeting of the two learns 95-92. Nofre Dame ouf guns Depau Navy fops Richmond for title from press dispatches South Bend ind. For notre Dame s Donald Royal practice indeed made perfect at the foul line. In High school i was a terrible free throw shooter but i be improved a  he said tuesday after hitting 16 of 16 from the line against Mcpaul. Sparked by Royal s 26 Points the no. College basketball 12 Irish Defeated the Blue demons 70-59 in a non conference game. " assistant coach Gary Brokaw has taught me different techniques and i prac Tice before and after practice each Day Royal said. I work on the same rhythm every  Mcpaul coach Joey Meyer said the Blue demons offence was stagnant in the second half and lacked the aggression that keyed heir upset Victory saturday Over St. John s. But then there was Royal too Meyer admits. He takes it right to you and draws the fouls he said. While Royal was setting a notre Dame individual record for consecutive free throws David Rivers added 14 Points. Kevin Holmes and Dallas Comegys led the Blue demons 15-11, with 15 each. Notre Dame 20-5, the nation s third Best free throw shooting team at 78 per cent made 30 of 35 attempts from the line. With six minutes left the Blue demons moved within 56-51. But the Irish out scored Mcpaul 14-8 the rest of the Way. Notre Dame hit 15 of 17 from the free throw line in the first half including a nine for nine performance by Royal to take a 37-30 halftime advantage. Ken Barlow notre Dame s leading foul shooter and scorer was benched seven Aba from Page 21 clock with a Short jumper to give Boston the Lead and then made it 55-50 with 4 50 to go with a three Point Field goal. Bill Walton who had 15 Points and 14 rebounds for the celtics completed the 12 0 Streak by passing the Ball off a defender s hand and into the Basket. Boston then led by As Many As 18 Points in the fourth period As new York went the first five minutes of the Quarter without getting a Field goal. Parish finished with 20 Points for the celts. Patrick Ewing led the kicks with 16 in his first game after missing seven with an injured knee. The loss was new York s ninth in its last 10 games. Pacers 100, bullets 87 Indianapolis Herb Williams scored 24 Points and five other Indiana players finished in double figures As the pacers Defeated Washington. Washington scored the first Field goal of the game but never led again As the pacers beat the bullets for the third time in three meetings this season. The win snapped a three game Indiana losing Streak. Jazz 100, rockets 97 Salt Lake City Utah s Adrian Dantley scored 35 Points including 25 in the first half and Houston s Allen Leavell missed a three Point shot at the Buzzer As the jazz beat the rockets. Rickey Green finished with 23 Points for the jazz including seven Down the stretch As Utah overcame an Early rocket Lead. Thurl Bailey had 18 for Utah. Bucks 114, clippers 99 Milwaukee Terry Cummings scored 16 Points and Paul Pressey bad 16 assists to lift Milwaukee past los Angeles for the Bucks ninth straight win. Milwaukee led 55-49 at the half and the Bucks oils cored the clippers 28-22 in the third period to take an 83-71 Lead. The clippers pulled to within five Points twice in the third period the latest at 68 63 with 5 15 left. But the Bucks went on a 15-6 run to nullify the los Angeles rally. Craig Hodges who finished with 14 Points scored six during the Bucks Streak. 76ers 122, bulls 108 Chicago Moses Malone scored a season High 42 Points and Charles Barkley added 30 Points and 15 rebounds to Pace Philadelphia Over Chicago. The bulls paced by Rookie Charles Oakley s career High 31 Points and Reserve guard Michael Helton s 21, helped Cut a 22-Point deficit Down to 110-104 with 2 52 left in the game. Malone then hit a Basket and two free throws and Barkley connected on a re bound to assure the Victory. Nuggets 112, suns 99 Denver Alex English scored 41 Points surpassing the 40-Point Mark for the seventh time this season to Lead Den ver Over Phoenix. The Victory moved the nuggets to Wilh in 1 a games of Houston in the race for first place in the Midwest division. The nuggets also won for the ninth consecutive time at Home where they Are 27 4 for the season. Kings 102, supersonics 100 Seattle Lasalle Thompson hit a 12-foot jumper with 20 seconds left to defeat Seattle and extend Sacramento s longest winning Streak of the season to five games. Reggie Theus who handed out a Ca reer High 18 assists set up the play by driving to the Basket and passing off to Thompson with just six seconds leu on the 24-second clock. Terry Tyler preserved the Victory by blocking guard Gerald Henderson s Layup attempt with four seconds to play. A photo Donald Royal. Scores 26 for Irish minutes into the half with three fouls and finished the game with iwo Points. Depaul held the Lead during the first 10 minutes thanks to Tony Jackson s shoot ing before notre Dame came Back with six unanswered Points and sparked a two minute Streak in which the Lead changed hands four times. The Irish then scored 10 straight Points including six by Royal to take the Lead for Good. In the oily other game tuesday involving a lop ranked team Navy 85, Richmond 72 Annapolis my. Vernon Butler scored 27 Points and Kylor Whitaker added 24 As i9lh-ranked Navy downed Richmond to win the regular season championship of the colonial athletic association. Ii was the i Mil straight Home court Vic tory for Navy which earned the lop seed in the upcoming conference tournament. Navy 24-4 Overall ended with a 13-1 Mark in the conference. Richmond which was led by Peter Woolfolk s 24 Points is 22-5 Overall and ended the conference season with a 12-2 record. After cutting a 15-Point deficit to 71-66 with five minutes left Richmond committed turnovers on consecutive posses Sions and Navy converted both opportunities. The midshipmen turned Back Richmond from there. Navy opened the second half with a 15 5 run that Sercl Chad a five Point halftime Lead to 59-44. Butler a senior Forward highlighted that spree with nine Points. Richmond trailed by at least 14 Points from there until iwo baskets by John new Man started an 8-0 spree thai trimmed the Lead to 70-64. After Butler connected on a free throw Newman tipped in a missed shot to pull Richmond Lowil Hin 71-66, but it would get no closer. Navy never trailed and was sparked in the first half by the shooting of who Laker. With 6-foot-l i Center David Robinson double teamed underneath the Basket Whitaker was successful on nine of his first 10 shots. Navy built up As much As 20-11 Lead in he first half. But Richmond battled Back to pull to within one Point on four differ ent occasions the last at 34-33. Rookie leads Toronto rally for 7-3 win Over rangers from press dispatches Toronto Rookie win Del Clark snapped a 3-3 tic in the final minute of the second period and added two goals in the third As the Toronto Maple Leafs rallied to beat the new York rangers 7-3 in a National hockey league Duel tuesday. It was the first three goal game of Clark s nil career and the first win for Toronto Over the rangers this season. New York won two earlier pairings. The rangers who started the game three Points behind the Pittsburgh pen Guins in the race for the fourth and final playoff spot in the Patrick division had been Riding a six game winning Streak. New York appeared to be on ils Way to its seventh straight win by 6 20 of the first period Laking a 2-0 Lead on goals by Kelly Miller and James Patrick. Bui Toronto s Borie calming brought the Maple Leafs Back with a Power play goal at 18 36 of the opening period. He hit a soft shot that went through goaltender John Van Biesbrouck s Skalics. The Leafs turned the game around in the second period outs Cong the rangers 3-1 on goals by Russ Courtnell who also had three assists. Rick Vaive and Clark. Crijo Ruotsalainen scored for new York. Clark who now has 26 goals this sea son scored his second and third goals of the game at 5 49 and 8 00 of the final period Afler Wall Poddubny had increased the Toronto Lead to 5-3 with a goal Al 4 01. Clark now is within two goals of tying the Maple Leaf club record for most goals by a Rookie. Poddubny and Peter Ihnacak share that Mark. Nil Roundup the Leafs also cooled off rangers right Wing Pierre Larouche who had his seven game goal scoring Streak end. In other games tuesday capitals 4, red wings 3 of Landover my. When the game goes into overtime the Washington Capi tals have an Edge. A goal by def Anseman Peter Andersson just 36 seconds into the extra period gave the Caps a Victory Over Detroit and extended an impressive Washington Streak. Since last losing in overtime on feb. 19, 1984, the Caps Are unbeaten in their last 22 such contests including a 4-0-5 Mark this season. The goal by Andersson was Only his sixth of the season but it was his third game  7, Nordques 4 Quebec Randy Pasin broke a lie with his first of iwo third period goals lifting Boston Over Quebec. The loss was Quebec s fifth in a Row and in left the Nordques in second place in the Adams division with 70 Points two be Hind the Montreal canadians. The Bruins now arc in third three Points behind the Nordques. Flames 4, blues 1 St. Louis def Anseman Gary sul or s disputed goal late in the second period broke a 1-1 tie and Calgary went on to defeat St. Louis. Steve Bock Jamie Macoun and Joe Mullen also scored for the flames. Dave Barr scored the St. Louis goal