40 Baseball vs. Grand Valley Today, 1:00 p.m. Ray Fisher Stadium SPORTS Baseball vs. Adrian Sunday, 1:00 p.m. Ray Fisher Stadium The Michigan Daily Monday, March 24, 1986 Page 10 f , full court ~*PRESS- Ja yhawks jam Wolfpack Mills wins title.. . ..wants the same at M' By SCOTT G. MILLER Forget that he scored 19 points. Forget: his ten rebounds, four assists and three blocked shots. Terry Mills and his Romulus teammates are the 1986 Michigan Class A High School Basketball Champions. The Wolverine fan who missed Saturday's championship game at Crisler Arena probably scanned the box score in the Sunday paper to find out how Bill Frieder's prize recruit performed. This same fan wondered why the 6-10 Mills didn't singlehandedly destroy Detroit Southwestern. After all, the fan heard Mills possesses the total physical package for basketball such as excellent hands, coordination and great leaping ability. Some say Mills' dribbling skills in the open court resemble those of Kansas' Danny Manning. Why then the lack of domination? With all his basketball tools and being the tallest man on the court Saturday, Mills could have scored forty points. He also could have gone nowhere. Instead, Mills and his teammates are champions. Team is the key word in describing Romulus' victory. Four players scored in double figures for the Eagles. Mills made the team plays that sometimes go unnoticed. He helped direct traffic on offense as well as helping to break Southwestern's vaunted press. Mills also displayed excellent passing skills. On two occasions he drove through the lane, pulled up for a short jumper and passed to an open teammate for an easy layup. He could have just as easily shot the ball. It is amazing what a team can accomplish when nobody wants to take the credit. For those Wolverines this season everybody wanted to take the credit. How many times did Michigan players force shots instead of making passes to open teammates? The "I want to be a star" attitude resulted in Michigan going nowhere in the NCAA tournament for the second con- secutive year. Michigan lacked a leader to take charge when games were in the balance. Down the stretch against Iowa State, the team had no emotional spark plug to look to. Syracuse's Dwayne "the Pearl" Washington cried after his team lost to Navy. Conversely, Antoine Joubert smiled after fouling out against the Cyclones and reclined to watch the remainder of the contest by putting his feet on the riser. Obviously help is needed. Mills could provide that help. Unquestionably, he was the leader of his team. Instead of raising coach Al Wilkerson to their shoulders, Romulus players raised Mills towards the Crisler rafters. He made the players around him perform better and thus fulfilled his role. Michigan's Mr. Basketball will next look to execute his role on the Wolverines. "I just want to go in and play wherever coach Frieder puts me," said Mills. "Even if I have to come in off the bench in the second half. Whatever I can contribute to the game, I would like to do. "I wouldn't be mad if I didn't start because I know that there are players that have been there. I will be a role player just like other players are." Wolverine fans must remember Mills will not be an immediate replacement for Roy Tarpley. His freshman season will probably be a learning experience. While having unlimited potential, he shouldn't be regarded as Michigan's savior. His 205 pound frame needs to fill out so he can develop his inside game. The future for Mills is boundless if his first appearance in Crisler is any indication. "I think that (winning a title in Crisler) is going to carry over to my college career," said Mills. "Because I would really like to win a title before I leave." Last Chance To Join UM "MICHIGAN CLASSICS" SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT OPENING AVAILABLE IN MEN'S C, MEN'S D, CO-REC LEAGUES TOURNAMENT DATES: MAY 4 - AUGUST 17 For More Information Contact JAN WELLS 936-0599/763-3562 (UM Department of Recreational Sports) I[ ,STA T PhA 1AC 320 S. STATE STREET - Phone 663-4121 - ANN ARBOR. MICH KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP)-Danny Manning scored 22 points and keyed the go-ahead rally with five unan- swered field goals yesterday, sending second-ranked Kansas to a 75-67 vic- tory over North Carolina State in the finals of the NCAA Midwest Regional. The Jayhawks, the top seed in the Midwest, will meet No. 1 Duke, 36-2 in the NCAA semifinals next Saturday in Dallas in their first Final Four ap- pearance since 1974. Duke beat No. 17 Navy 71-50 yesterday. THE WOLFPACK seemed to be taking control with a 6-0 run midway through the second half. Ernie Myers climaxed the spree when he stole a pass by Kansas' Greg Dreiling and was fouled while driving for a layup. He missed the free throw, however, resulting in a 57-52 North Carolina State lead. Then Manning went to work from the left corner, scoring his team's next five baskets and personally out- scoring the Wolfpack 10-1 to turn a 57- 52 North Carolina State lead into a 62-58 Kansas advantage. Dreiling, rebounding a missed shot by Cedric Hunter, put in a follow shot that gave the Jayhawks their biggest lead of the day, 64-58, with 4:40 remaining. The 7-1 senior playing with four fouls, sank key free throws down the stretch to thwart North Carolina State's bid for its second Final Four appearnce in three years. The Wolf- pack won the national championship in 1983. Dreiling, had 19 points for Kansas, 35-3. One of the Jayhawks' three losses was a 92-86 setback to Duke in the finals of the Big Apple NIT. North Carolina State was led by Charles Shackleford and Chris Wash- burn with 20 points each. Duke sinks Navy EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP)-Duke's strong second-effort rebounding in the first half and All- American guard Johnny Dawkins' sharp second-half shooting earned the top-ranked Blue Devils a berth in the NCAA Final Four yesterday. The Blue Devils, 36-2, champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference, take a 20-game winning streak-longest in the nation-against Kansas to Dallas for Saturday's semifinals. The other Final Four pairings pits seventh- ranked Louisville against Louisiana State. DAWKINS, one of four senior star- ters who finished 11-17 as freshmen, scored 20 of his game-high 28 points after intermission as Duke routed No. 17 Navy 71-50 for the NCAA East Regional title. But is was strong offensive reboun- ding that broke the game open last in the first half when the 6-f oot-2 Dawkins hit only four of 15 shots from the field. "If we don't rebound, we're losing (at halftime)," Duke Coach Mike Kr- zyzewski, said. "The rebounding and the defense were critical." DAWKINS capped an 18-2 run with a spectacular behind the back dunk to put top-seeded Duke in front at half- time 34-22. "I had to do it for myself to get motivated," said Dawkins, who was voted the regional's outstanding player. "I was ready for the second half." Hitting mostly on jump shots, he scored 14 points to give Duke a 56-33 lead with 10:10 remaining. Dawkins wound up making 13 of 25 shots from the floor. Duke won the battle of the boards 34-15 in the first half to overcome poor 16-46 field-goal shooting. Despite the lack of a bonafide center and the presence of Navy's 6-11 David Robin- son, the nation's top rebounder and shot blocker, the Blue Devils outrebounded the Middies 49-29. Jay Bilas, a 6-8 senior, topped Duke with 10 rebounds and 6-8 senior Mike Alarie, who had 18 points, had eight rebounds, while Dawkins had seven. Dawkins ... caps 18-2 run 54-FOOT BUZZER-BEATER DOWNS BEECHER: Miracle shot lifts Buena Vista V By ADAM OCHLIS It took all of three seconds for a poorly played and boring basketball game to turn into one that will be remembered for years Saturday when Saginaw Buena Vista defeated Flint Beecher, 33-32 in the Class B finals of the Michigan Boys basketball tour- nament. Chris Coles' 54-foot prayer was an- swered just when the final buzzer sounded, setting off a number of cir- cumstances that will not be witnessed in Crisler Arena for a long time to come. AS COLES' teammates mobbed the son of Central Michigan's coach Charlie Coles in one corner, Beecher's players were crying in another. Meanwhile, Saginaw's coach, Nor- waine Reed, was fainting at center court after jumping on top of referee Hugh Jewell, a man Reed said he knows personally. Stealing the show, however, was Beecher's classless coach, Moses Lacy, who stormed around the court, claiming that Coles' buzzer-beater should not have been allowed. The final shot was set up when Flint's Ernest Stewart went to the foul line for a one-and-one with three seconds left in regulation, and the score tied at 31. After the number of timeouts, Stewart clanged in the first one. After bricking the second, Michael Jackson quickly outletted the rebound to Coles who took a couple of steps and laun- ched his rainbow that hit nothing but net. FOR THE SELLOUT crowd that witnessed it, the shot looked good right when it left his hands, but it was indeed a heave shot. The controversy arose because Lacy did not think the time keeper started the clock when the rebound came out to Jackson. "There's no way," said a hostile Lacy after the game. "There were three seconds on the clock, there was a rebound to fourteen (Jackson). The clock starts when the balls hits his hands. There was an outlet pass to Coles and Coles took at least two drib- bles and then let the shot go. No way. Does time stand still? The man on the clock must be on drugs." FOR A WHILE it did not look as if Flint would even have chance to lose in controversy. Buena Vista lead 5-4 at the end of the first quarter and 13-6 at halftime. Shoun Randolph led the Knights' attack with 11 points during that time, as the 6-4 junior did his best to replace Mark Macon, Saginaw's star player and next year's favorite to win Michigan's Mr. Basketball. Macon was averaging 31 points a game, but fractured his ankle in prac- tice last Thursday. Without Macon, Saginaw slowed the tempo down as the low score would indicate. "There's an old Chinese proverb that says there's a 1001 ways to do one thing and so we thought playing deliberate basketball was one of those things that we had to do if we wanted to be competitive," said Reed, who ad- ded that his team would not have played that if his Star center was available. "I don't think Macon would have allowed it," he said. Romulus takes Class A Crisler Arena's foray into basket- ball fantasyland ended when Romulus and Detroit Southwestern tipped off the Class A championship. After an incredible, unexpected ending to Saturday morning's Class B game, the Class A game merely confirmed the expected. Terry Mills, the state's best player, led his Romulus Eagles to the state championship with a 72-65 victory over the Detroit Southwestern Prospectors. It was similar to recent years, when Michigan prep stars like Earvin Johnson, Eric Turner and Glenn Rise led their schools to the Class A championship. AND ALSO keeping with tradition, the Prospectors lost the state finals the fifth straight time. The Eagles looked to Mills and Steve Glenn for point production. The pair produced as they have all season, each contributing 19 points. Bill John- son and Juan Street added 13 and 12 points. The Eagles shot 64 percent from the field. The hot shooting forced South- western to commit nine more fouls than Romulus, which Prospector's coach Perry Watson partially blamed for the loss. "NOT TO BE negative, but today was the firsttime all season long that a team shot more free throws than we shot," said Watson. Romulus converted 22 of 32 attem- pts from the line while Southwestern sank only 7 of 15. Mills and Glenn each sank as many free throws individually as did the entire Southwestern team. The most surprising aspect of the game was the way in which Romulus weathered the Prospectors' press. 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