European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 25, 1986 stars and stripes Page 21 the final four Duke Kansas Louisville leu vie for title by United press International the Field for the final four is set. No. 1 Duke and no. 2 Kansas earned the remaining two berths sunday with solid Victo Ries against Navy and North Carolina state and will face each other saturday in the semifinals of the Mcaa tournament at Dallas. Saturday s regional victors no. 7 Louis Ville and Louisiana state will face off in the other semifinal. The National championship will be decided next monday. Navy s dream season came to a screech ing halt at East Rutherford n.j., As Johnny Mcaa tourney few and far Between a photo Navy s David Robinson lays in a two Pointer against Duke s Billy King sunday in the Mcaa Eastern Region final. Easy baskets such As this were a rarity for the midship men who saw their dream of a National championship shattered by the Blue devils. Robinson blamed the Academy s downfall on its sporadic inside game. Navy could hit Only 40 percent of its Field goal attempts mostly from the perimeter. The Blue devils capitalized by out rebounding the middies 49-29, and outscoring them 71-50. Dawkins scored 28 Points allowing the top ranked Blue devils to overwhelm the mid Dies 71-50 in the East regional final. At Kansas City mo., Danny Manning scored 10 of his 22 Points in the last nine minutes to rally no. 2 Kansas to a 75-67 Victory Over North Carolina state and the Midwest regional championship. I told our kids to celebrate for about 30 seconds said Kansas head coach Larry Brown whose Jay Hawks will be making their seventh final four appearance but the first since they finished in fourth place in 1974. It s a special thing to get there but you can t be satisfied just getting there. You be got to do everything you can to win once you get  with Kansas trailing 57-52 with 8 53 remaining Manning scored 8 consecutive Points in a Span of 2 12 on a variety of shots and offensive rebounds off the left Baseline to put the Jay Hawks into the Lead for Good 60-57. Danny will take challenges when they Are there Brown said. He was the player of the year in our conference he was the map of our big eight tournament and he was the map of this tournament. Every time he plays against a great player he s been  North Carolina state head coach Jim Valvano recognized Manning s domination As the game s turning Point. From then on we broke Down defensively especially on the second shots he said. They kept shaking Loose on the  Greg Dreiling added 19 Points and 12 re Bounds and Ron Kellogg 12 Points As Kansas Defeated North Carolina state for the second time this season. The Jay Hawks also prevailed 71-56 at Greensboro in Early december. Charles Shackleford scored 20 Points and Chris Washburn 17 to Pace North car Danny Manning. Will take Challenge Olina state which fell in a regional championship game for the second straight year. The Wolf pack also lost to St. John s in the 1985 West regional final. North Carolina state finished the season 21-13. Kansas improved to 35-3 with its 16th consecutive Victory. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski after his team s impressive Triumph Over Navy gave credit to the four starting seniors Daw Kins 6-8 Forward Mark Almarie 6-5 guard David Henderson and 6-8 Center Jay Bilas. Almarie supported Dawkins offensively Vith 18 Points and Bilas sparked the devils Well balanced rebounding which dominated on the boards 49-29, with 10 snare. I would Hope that people look at the trophies that we put out from Duke univer sity As not being some banners or something you put in a trophy Case Krzyzewski said. To me we have five championship banners Duke s fifth senior is Reserve Weldon Wil Liams leaving us this May. In my Estima Tion they re living  that senior Core which takes on Kansas in the semifinals next saturday has progressed from an 11-17 beginning in 1983 to the present top ranked club which is 36-2. On Carroll s Jas be conf 20-/oofer Golden state edges past Denver 113-111 by the associated press Oakland Calif. Joe Barry Carroll made a 20-foot jump shot As time expired sunday giving the Golden state warriors a 113-111 Aba Victory Over the Denver nug gets who led by 13 Points after three quarters. The warriors outscored Denver 26-10 in the fourth period before Mike Evans tied the game by sinking a three Point shot with one second remaining. The warriors called a timeout and Carroll made the winning shot from the right Side after getting the in Bounds pass from mid court. Carroll the warriors Center scored 31 Points 29 of them in the first three quarters. Guard Eric Floyd scored 11 Points and substitute Forward Peter Thibeaux had nine in the fourth Quarter for the warriors. The warriors used Only one starter Floyd Over the first seven minutes of the Barou Dup fourth Quarter and outscored Denver 19-4. Golden state lost Star Forward Purvis Short Early in the game because of an injury. Denver s Alex English the Aba s Lead ing scorer totalled 34 Points reaching 30 for the 40th time this season. He had four Points in the last Quarter. Short the league s fourth leading scorer played Only 9 /2 minutes before aggravating a foot injury. In other Aba games sunday supersonics 107, spurs 104 san Antonio Texas Ricky sob ers scored is of his 17 Points in the final period including a breakaway Layup with 29 seconds left to Lead Seattle past slump ing san Antonio. Sobers and spurs guard Wes Matthews had a scoring Duel going in the last period but Sobers won the contest for the sonics who had lost 10 of their last 11 Road games. Matthews scored nine Points in the period in route to a career High performance of 29 Points. But he missed two Long Range jump shots and a Layup in the last minute when the spurs trailed by Only two Points. Jack Sikma scored 23 Points to Lead Seattle in scoring. Ken Mccormick added 19 Points including two clutch free throws with 22 seconds remaining. Mike Mitchell scored 21 Points and Alvin Robertson 16 for san Antonio which has lost 15 of its last 17 games. Center Artis Gilmore who sat out the last 10 games with injuries had 13 Points in the first half. Trail blazers 112, Kings 102 Portland Ore. Clyde Drexler had 32 Points 10 rebounds and nine assists As Portland Defeated Sacramento. The blazers shot 61 percent during the Sec Ond Quarter rallying from a 27-24 first Quarter deficit to a 57-47 halftime advantage. Sacramento led by Mike Woodson who scored a season High 39 Points closed to with in 66-61 with 7 33 remaining in the third Quarter but Kiki Vandeweghe scored eight Points to help the Trail blazers outscore the Kings 24-14 during the next seven minutes. The blazers held a 90-77 Lead after three quarters and Sacramento never got closer than seven Points in the final period. Drexler hit 14 of his 19 Field goal at tempts. Vandeweghe and Mychal Thomp son had 22 Points each for Portland while Kenny Carr had 12 Points and 14 rebounds