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By BOB EMORY
Having both tuned up with season
opening games against CCHA opponen-
ts, Michigan and Minnesota-Duluth
prepare to start their WCHA season
with games tonight and tomorrow night
,at Yost Arena.
The Wolverines are 2-0 on the year,
having won a pair of bitterly earned
overtime victories against Bowling
Green in a home-and-home series
played last weekend. Duluth comes to-
town with a 2-1 record after splitting a
two game series with Lake Superior
State and beating Notre Dame in an
exhibition last Friday.
THE BULLDOGS, who last season
finished in a tie for seventh place with
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Notre Dame and Michigan, are a much
improved team according to Michigan
coach Dan Farrell."They have a lot of
their top players returning," he said.
"Their only real weakness is in the
goaltending department where they
have a couple of inexperienced
players."
Last year the two teams met only
twice, with Duluth winning both games
at home, 8-7 and 6-1. It will be a dif-
ferent story this year. For one, the two
teams will play each other four times
this season, twice here and twice in
Duluth. Also, neither team will be
directly battling the other for a playoff
spot as the WCHA was split up into two
five-team divisions, with the Bulldogs
in the Western Division and the
Wolverines in the Eastern Division.
The Bulldogs are loaded with plenty
of individual standouts. On defense, All-
ice opener
American Curt Giles returns for his
final season along with junior
blueliners Stan Palmer and Pat Regan.
Giles single-handedly destroyed the
Wolverines last year in the 8-7 victory
by scoring three goals, including the
game winner in overtime.
On offense, Duluth has 13 returning
lettermen headed by All-Conference
center Dan Lempe. Only a junior, Lem-
pe led the Bulldogs in scoring the last
two seasons in addition to being named
a conference all-star.
"IT SHOULD be a real interesting
series," emphasized Farrell. "Duluth
is a very quick skating team and I know
they'll try to force us into a skating type
of game."
The Wolverines are coming off a
series in which Farrell admits they
were outplayed. "Sure, they (Bowling
Green) controlled the puck on us well
and outshot us badly, but most of those
shots were taken from outside the cen-
ter line and weren't that tough for our
goalies to stop."
Speaking of goalies, the Wolverines
got a stellar performance from
sophomore transfer Bob Sutton in last
Saturday's game in Bowling Green.
Sutton kicked away 56 shots as
Michigan snapped the Falcons 23-game
home ice winning streak.
Farrell said he is planning on going
with the same goaltending system he
employed in the Bowling Green series,
starting Rudy Varvari in the opener
tonight and playing Sutton tomorrow.
In other WCHA action this weekend,
defending league champion Denver
plays the Spartans of Michigan State in
Denver. Other action finds Michigan
Tech at North Dakota, Notre Dame at
Colorado College and the Minnesota
Golden Gophers hosting Wisconsin.
The Michigan Daily-Friday, October 27, 1978-Page 15
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Harriers gunning for
5th straight CCC title
By DAVE RENBARGER
Most of the hard work for the Michigan cross country team is already
over this season. Whether or not it was all worth the effort, however, still
remains to be seen.
the harriers, who have trained hard for seven straight weeks, seek their
reward in the next four weeks, as they enter the crucial portion of the
schedule.
The Central Collegiate Conference championship meet, tomorrow in
Glen Ellyn. Ill., will be the first in a progression of big meets for the harriers.
Following the CCC meet is the real gem-the Big Ten Championship
meet--and then comes the NCAA District and the NCAA National meets.
In preparing his runners for this all-important, season-ending stretch,
coach Ron Warhurst emphasized strength and endurance training all year
long. But from here on out, the grueling workouts will be toned down as
Warhurst is looking for an appropriate mix of strength and speed.
"Everybody's healthy and fit," said Warhurst, who is seeking his fourth
CCC crown in a row. "We're ready to race for keeps now."
The 8,000 meter up-and-down chase through suburban Chicago
tomorrow will find the undefeated Michigan runners up against the best
competition they've seen this season. Penn State, rated fifth in the nation by
Harrier magazine, and Notre Dame are expected to provide most of the
competition. The Wolverines are ranked 12th.
Penn State returns with virtually the same team they had last year, plus
freshman\Alan Scharsu, who has stepped in as one of its top three runners,
according to Warhurst.
Michigan will counter with its regular top seven-Dan Heikkenen, Dave
Lewis, Steve Elliott, Gerry Donakowski, Doug Sweazey, Bill Weidenbach
and Gary Parenteau-plus seniors Jim Baumgartner and Bruce McFee.
Each of the 13 teams in the race will run nine men instead of the usual seven.
"I've been telling them all along that Penn State's going to be a bitch,"
said Warhurst. "But we've beaten them three straight years."
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