European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 4, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 21 a darts Herrmann to be Navy Cage coach Annapolis my. A Pete Herrmann chief assistant to Navy head basketball coach Paul Evans for the past six years has been named to succeed Evans Navy director of athletics . Coppedge announced wednesday. Herrmann 37, came to the Academy with Evans in 1980 and has played an integral part in Navy s Success in recent years particularly with the recruiting and defensive style of play Coppedge said. We believe that Pete Herrmann can sustain the excellent program which Paul Evans structured during his six years at Navy Coppedge said. He has shown he is a diligent worker and some one who has a great Deal of loyalty to the naval Academy and we in turn have loyalty to  Evans resigned last week to take a position As head basketball coach at the University of Pittsburgh. Evans guided Navy this year to its most successful season. The midshipmen 30-5, made it to the final eight in the Mcaa tournament before losing to Duke 71-50 in the East regional. We considered him to be a prime candidate for the coaching vacancy As soon As it occurred Coppedge said. Herrmann is a native of Buffalo ., and came to the Academy after five years As head coach at mid lakes High school in Phelps  He guided the team to an Overall 45-34 record. File photo middies Pete Herrmann. 6 years As assistant Herrmann was graduated from Geneseo state University in new York in 1970 and began his coaching career at Byron Bergen High school in Bergen ., where he remained for four years. In the 1974-75 season he coached the Hobart College freshmen to a 15-3 record. He then moved to mid lakes in 1975. As an undergraduate at Geneseo state Herrmann lettered in both basketball and baseball and twice captained the Blue knights baseball team. He earned most valuable player baseball honors in 1969 and 1970 and was named to the new York All state baseball team in 1970. Mcaa approves three Point goal other Cage rules Dallas a the three Point goal and use of televised instant replays to Cor rect timing and scoring errors will become part of College basketball starting next sea son the Mcaa men s rules committee announced wednesday. Under another Rule change coaches no longer will be charged with a technical foul if they leave the coaching Box to protest errors involving timing scoring or alternating Possession. Or. Edward s. Steitz Secretary editor of the rules committee said the three Point goal which has become a popular feature in the Aba was adopted by the 12-member committee following a five year experimentation among 20 conferences. Three Points will be credited for a shot made 19 feet 9 inches from the Basket. Steitz said it was hoped the three Pointer would ease the rough play underneath the Basket and give More attention to outside play. It s going to Force teams to play More defense away from the Basket Steitz said. People will say you Are putting the Little Man Back in the game and that s  notre Dame coach Digger Phelps say ing he was very surprised to see the three Point goal pass was less than enthusiastic about the new Rule. It would be Nice one of these years to let the game Settle Down and see what we really have. If anything needed to be addressed it s still the foul situation at the end of games said Phelps. Bobby Dotson an assistant coach at Louisville also questioned the need for the three Point goal. The game was going awfully Good. I Don t see Why they need mess with it. I can t understand Why they would put something like this in. I think it s  of the use of instant replay Dotson said i think there is a time for it to be used but not on a judgment  Steitz emphasized that instant replays would be used Only to Correct mistakes made by scorers and timers and not for any officiating Calls. Steitz said an incident that occurred in Kansas City during the Mcaa Midwest regional two weeks ago was a Factor in the decision to use instant replays. A clock malfunctioned causing 15 seconds to be lost during a game Between Kan Sas and Michigan state. The incident was blamed for Blem Ishing the Jay Hawks Victory when there is a problem area that we Haven t addressed Well try to address it see Mcaa on Page 23 celtics Down pistons to set Aba record from press dispatches Boston Boston s starting front court of Robert Parish Larry Bird and Kevin Mchale combined for 83 Points and the celtics set an Aba single season record with their 28th consecutive Home Victory by beating the Detroit pistons 122-106 wednesday night. Parish had a season High 30 Points Bird 29 and Mchale 24 As the celtics stretched their Overall winning Streak to 13 games tying their Mark for the longest in the Aba this season. Parish also had 18 rebounds. The celtics erased the 36-year-old league record of 27 straight Home victories in a single season set by the min Neapolis lakers in 1949-50. Philadelphia holds the Mark for More than one season with 36 in 1967-68. The pistons played without guard Isiah Thomas who Barb Windup missed his third consecutive game with a pulled left Ham string. They were led by Vinnie Johnson with 20 Points and John Long with 17. Boston was leading 69-63 when Mchale s stuff launched a 13-3 run that made the score 82-66 with 3 54 left in the third Quarter. Mchale had six Points in that Span of 4 04. But Detroit rallied with an 11-2 spurt sparked by Earl Cureton s five Points to make the score 86-79. Boston led 88-79 after three quarters and Detroit came no closer inthe final period. The Victory gave the celtics a 37-1 Home record equalling the Mark for most Home victories in a season achieved twice each by Philadelphia and the los Angeles lakers. If Boston wins its remaining six games it will tie the Aba Mark for Best single season record 69-13, set by the lakers in 1971-72. Tony Campbell scored 10 Points in the second period to help Detroit whittle a 37-25 deficit Down to 57-55 at  other Aba action 76ers 93, kicks 87 Philadelphia Charles Barkley had 18 Points and 19 rebounds As Philadelphia pulled away in the final period to beat new York. Julius Erving scored 23 Points and Rookie Terry cat ledge 19, while Maurice Cheeks collected 14 Points nine assists and seven steals As the 76ers handed the kicks see Aba on Page 26 Coffey Breaks Orr s record by the associated press it was a night for individual goals and assists in the National hockey league. Team objectives however fell a bit Short. Edmonton s Paul Coffey set a single sea son record for a defens Eman of 47 goals in the oilers 8-4 Victory Over Vancouver and Montreal s Mats Naslund became the High est scoring left Wing in the history of the canadians in a 6-3 Triumph Over Detroit. In addition to Vancouver the Chicago Blackhawk and new York rangers fell Short of their targets. Chicago missed a Chance to win the Norris division by losing to Minnesota 7-5, and new York could have clinched a Patrick division playoff berth had it not lost 5-2 to Philadelphia. Vancouver could have clinched a playoff spot in the smythe division. Coffey scored his 46th and 47th goals to break the nil record for goals by a de tense Man set by Boston s Bobby Orr in 1974  75. He also assisted on two other goals and his four Points gave him 137 for the season two Short of Orr s 1970-71 Mark. I once thought those records would be impossible to get Coffey said. It was a tremendous feeling he said of his record breaking goal at 2 44 of the second period. Coffey scored at 19 37 of the first period to tie Orr. His attempted pass from the right face off Circle deflected off the skate of Vancouver defens Eman Doug Lidster past goalie Wendell Young. That came 11 seconds after Coffey appeared to have scored but his shot from the Blue line was deflected by teammate Jari Kerri for his league leading 65th goal. Coffey s record breaker came on a typical end to end Rush not entirely unlike Many of Orr s goals Coffey split the Vancouver de sense pair of Doug Halward and Rick Lanz shifted the puck to his forehand and Slid it under Young As he was going Down. Edmonton s other goals were scored by Wayne Gretzky Dave Hunter Esa Tikkanen Kevin Mcclelland and Mike Kru Shelyski. Gretzky had a goal and an assist in the final period increasing his season total to 211 Points one Short of his own record. Canadians 6, red wings 3 Montreal Naslund s assist on Rookie Claude Lemieux s first nil goal gave the speedy swede 106 Points one More than Steve Shutt s old Mark. Mike Mcphee scored twice for Montreal. Mcphee s first goal came 52 seconds after Naslund notched his 42nd of the year at 17 05 of the second period. Mcphee scored his Sec Ond Midway through the third period. North stars 7, Blackhawk 5 Chicago Kent Nilsson broke open a close game with a pair of second period goals and Lin mate Dennis Maruk contrib see nil on Page 26 file photo Paul Coffey. Two goal Effort