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SC0REB0ARDD2 FANFARED3 BASEBALL-G0LFD3 THE HERALD-SUN MONDAY MAY 27 1991 iViears new Indy 500 legend Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS One last time Rick Mean raced against AJ Foyt and bis Indianapolis 500 and won On the day Indy was supposed to bid a fond farewell to its first four-time winner it welcomed Mears as a new one Mears did it with a daring pass of Michael Andretti that would have made a young Foyt en- vious and joined his boyhood hero and A1 Unser as the only men in 75 years to win Indy four times And while the 56-yearold Foyt is wrestling with second thoughts 600 START: Mark car (R) Mike Waltrip (L) blow toward starVTinish line as Coca-Cola 600 finally won by Davey Allison begins Fomd flies alt Otartotitte over his plan to quit after 34 consecutive starts the 39-year-old Meats is for from finished In only 14 Indys he has four firsts one second two thirds and two fifths and is all of 16 seconds from behing a six-time winner In the process he has stamped the last laps of the biggest race as hit time Mears Time "It gets sweeter each Mears exulted Sunday believe this one yet" He be surprised really He was on the pole for a record sixth time and twice before he won from there He beat Foyt in the middle of the front row at the start led the first 12 laps and then laid back running as low as sixth in the middle of the 200-lap grind before pulling away at the end "We just tried to get a good start as good as we could and string it out as long as see INDYD4 And Allison said in response to Earnhardt there was no cheating got bad news for them a guy won two races and now won one and my an ecstatic Allison said "Something's funny about Earnhardt's statement Allison led six times for 264 laps in the 400-lap event That includes the final 93 laps His victory comes one week after he whipped the field in The Winston annual exhibition of all-stars "Davey was just superior here this said Ken Schrader who was second to Allison in his ing dust from Ford on Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway NASCAR allowed Ford to make some modifications to its spoiler design on the rear of its stock cars Alliron said the change help the car go any faster and in fact creates drag on the automobile Try selling that story to the people chasing him on a hot sunny day By TOM FOREMAN JR AP sports writer CONCORD There's was no doubting Davey domination of Coca-Cola 600 Or was there? "You outrun an illegal race car like said Dale Earnhardt whose Chevrolet was third and spent most of the day swallow- see ALUSOND4 UNC meets upstart Towson for title Staff and Wire Reports SYRACUSE NY Top-ranked North Carolina appears a big favorite today as the-Tar Heels (15-0) aim to complete a perfect season and win their fourth NCAA lacrosse title since 1981 Only llth-seeded Towson1 (Md) State stands in UNCs path as the teams collide in the Final Four climax at the Carrier Dome The feces Towson State coach Carl Runk sees on the field are the same but the team that has reached the NCAA final the one Runk saw during the preseason From a humble 3-2 start the Tigers (12-3) have advanced to the first appearance in the Division I championship game didn't think we could get this Runk said after his team beat Maryland 15-11 in semifinals behind Glenn two seeds have won a combined 14 champi- onships The lowest seed ever to win the NCAA title was No 5 North Carolina in 1986 had a Runk said "Then we started to come back "Once we got into the tournament the tempo picked up a great deaL You could see a different team a different Towson victory over Maryland was only the second victory over the Terrapins in 12 meetings during tenure The Tigers have experienced a similar lack of success against the Tar Heels who have won the last 11 meetings including 196 in the opening round of the 1989 NCAA playoffs UNC in the Final Four for the 10th time see LACROSSED4 four goals and the outstanding second-half play of goalie Richard Betcher "I knew we had a good group" said Runk who has compiled a 214-124 record and won a Divi- sion championship in 24 years at Towson State "A handful of parents told us that we were Final Four material But you know how parents are They feel their youngsters are the best in the world I'd agree with them just to get The Tigers are only the second No 11 seed to reach the title game Cornell competed in 1988 losing to Syracuse Since see dings were introduced in 1974 the top Lakers blaze by Portland Associated ftess INGLEWOOD Calif Kevin Duckworth knocked over a trash can near the Portland dressing room Sunday after the Trail Blazers had been thrashed by the Los Angeles Lakers It was his most effective play of the day Vlade Divac had just outplayed Duckworth again as the Lakers overpowered the Blazers 116-95 to move within one victory of reaching the NBA Finals for the ninth time in 12 years The Lakers lead the Blazers 3-1 in the best-of-7 Western Conference finals and can win the series Tuesday night in Portland Duckworth the 7-foot Blazers center pushed the 7-1 Divac all over the court in the first two games of the series in Portland but Divac has answered in Games 3 and 4 at the Forum-Divac had 20 points four rebounds and three blocked shots despite sitting out the fourth quarter while Duckworth hampered by foul problems had only seven points and four rebounds "I have no Duckworth said "If 1 say something be fined It could be assumed the burly 275-pounder had the officials on his mind when he made that statement He picked up his fourth find late in the second quarter and played only 25 minutes Later Duckworth said "The game was a disgrace Everything was a In Game 3 Divac had 16 points seven rebounds and three blocks while Duckworth had five points and eight see LAKERSD4 Tin HmM-SuVKIINMIO THOMM PENSIVE: Larry Picard ponders a putt in Durham Amateur Patterson chases N-S Durham Am crowns and 18 in another with an hour-and-a-half drive in-' between And he must be at the top of his game for both His 67 gave him a two-round total of 2-under-par 142 Herald-Sun defending champion Redell Miller is in second place with 4-over 148 after firing a 1 -over-par 73 Sunday Former Jordan High golfer see AMATEURD4 By EDDY LANDRETH The Herald-Sun David Patterson did what few players at this 18th annual Durham Amateur have done conquer the Duke Golf Course After shooting a 5-under-par 67 to take a six-stroke lead Patterson faces an even greater challenge today He has to play 36 holes 18 in one town SCRAMBLE: Vlade Divac (L) battles Portland's Kevin Duckworth In Lakers' win si! 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