Page 10-Sunday, January 7, 1979-The Michigan Daily MICHIGAN TURNS SOUR IN SECOND HALF: Upstart Hawke yes shock Blue, 85-79 By GEOFF LARCOM It was said time and time again b)efore the basketball season began-there are no easy games in the Big Ten this year. For once, the pre- season dopesters hit it right on the nose. Yesterday's game between Michigan and Iowa served only to produce more believers, as the Hawkeyesrstole away with a 85-79 shocker over the 12th- ranked Wolverines before a stunned crowd of 13,315 at Crisler Arena. -JUNIOR ALL-BIG Ten guard Ronnie Lester was the adhesion that held the Hawkeye upset machine together, as he converted on both ends of three one- and-one foul attempts in the last minute-and-a-half to preserve the Iowa lead and even Michigan's Big Ten record at 1-1. Surprising. Iowa is now 2-0. The Wolverines still led, 68-67, with a litle more than six minutes to play. Then Lester went to work. W IN0 * .STA R - GAME ~ Tickets The speedy backcourt ace hit on two short jumpers and sank two foul shots as the Hawkeyes opened up a five point lead. Iowa then went into a four-corner delay offense, forcing the Wolverines to foul the Hawkeyes in an attempt to regain possession. But each time Iowa rose to the oc- casion as guards Dick Peth, Tom Nor- man and Lester each sank a pair of free throws in the last 30 seconds to 'keep the door shut on the frustrated Wolverines. "NORMAN, LESTER and Peth are all around 80 per cent at the line, so it was ideal for us for them to shoot in that situation," said Iowa coach Lute Olsen. 'Nuf said. Lester was 13 of 16 from the line in the contest, while Peth converted on five of six and Norman canned his only two attempts. Despite the fact that Lester led all scorers with 29 points, Olsen was quick to point out the win was a team effort. And it truly was, as Hawkeye center Steve Krafcisin and forward William Mayfield (16 points) continually picked and screened for Lester. "He's quick," Blue guard Marty Bodnar said of Lester. "It's hard enough to stay with him one-on-one, but when they pick for him it's almost im- possible." MICHIGAN'S SCORING was unusually balanced, with Alan Hardy topping the Wolverines with 18 points, 16 of them coming in the first half. Blue forward Mike McGee garnered only 17 points, considerably below his 25 per game average, while Phil Hubbard pumped in 15. "I think the key for anybody to beat Michigan is to stop McGee and Hub- bard," said Olsen. "That was our first goal." And stop the two Michigan stars the Hawkeyes did. Both McGee and Hub- bard had difficulty putting the ball in the hole with any regularity, each shooting considerably less than 50 per cent from the field. After the Hawkeyes jumped out to an erly 10-4 lead, the Wolverines roared back on Hardy's first half heroics to lead at the half, 44-38. But Hardy gar- nered only one bucket during the second half, while sitting on the bench for six minutes. "THEY ADJUSTED well to hardy in the second half, and shut him off," ex- plained assistant coach Bill Frieder. "We put Thad Garner in there because he gets our zone moving." Thus the Wolverines were left in the second half with nobody holding the hot hand, while their playmaker, freshman guard Keith Smith, was forced to play tenatively with four personal fouls while trying to guard Lester. "I thought the foul trouble took away a lot from our offensive game. I like to See LESTER, Page 12 I 1' TWO GREAT SEATS ! Game Feb. 4th in Pontiac Enter by Feb.1st at .... Spartazi By The Associated Press EAST LANSING - Michigan State survived a lesson in long-range shooting by Minnesota freshman Leo Rautins and rallied for a 69-62 Big Ten Conference basketball,'victory yester- day. Rautins, a 6-foot-8 forward from Toronto, hit seven of eight shots from outside the key in the first half. The Gophers led 36-29 at half over first- ranked Michigan State, then scored six straight points as the second half opened. From that 13-point deficit, 42-29, the Spartans went on a spree, outscoring the Gophers 27-8 before slowing the tempo with about eight minutes i IISTAT E OPEN 7 Days typing copying - printing CLOSED OUT OF A COURSE YOU NEED; Maybe Independent study Can Help! BIG TEN ROUNDUP Ls survive scare [ Don't let a closed-out class stop you short. You just might be able to pick up what you need through Independent Study. The University Extension Service offers dozens of credit courses in many subject remaining. Ron Charles led the Michigan State comeback with 11 points in the second half and a game-high total of 19. Jay Vincent added 16. Minnesota started three freshmen. Junior Kevin McHale, a 6-11 forward, led the Gophers with 19 points and Rautins had 14. Gopher coach Jim Dutcher conceded that playing three, and sometimes four freshmen, hurt against the veteran Spartans. "They were pressing kind of an inex- perienced group," he said. "The full- court, man-to-man really bothered us." The Spartans are 9-1 overall and 2-0 in the Big Ten, while Minnesota fell to 5-6 and 0-2. Indiana 63, Purdue 54 BLOOMINGTON - Junior forward Mike Woodson scored 20 points and In- diana University converted 13 straight free throws in the second half to repel a Purdue rally yesterday as the Hoosiers grabbed a 63-54 Big Ten basketball vic- tory. Indiana's free throw string, including four each by guard Butch Carter and forward Steve Risley, started after the road-weary Boilermakers chopped a 34- 26 halftime deficit to 48-44 on a tip-in by center Joe Barry Carroll with more than five minutes to play. The victory lifted the Hoosiers' record to 9-5 overall and 1-1 in the Big Ten. Purdue, dropping to 10-4 overall, fell to 0-2 in the conference with key matchups ahead in the next week against Big Ten powers Michigan and Michigan State. Illinois 74, Northwestern 56 EVANSTON - Mark Smith pumped in 16 points and undefeated and fourth- ranked Illinois swept past North- western 74-56 yesterday for its 14th straight basketball victory and second on the road in Big Ten conference play. Illinois again employed a stifling defense and a balanced scoring attack in setting up the victory before a stan- ding room-only crowd of 7,122. The Illini ran up a 27-14 lead early in the first half as they connected on 10 of their first 14 shots from the field. Nor- thwestern cut this margin down and left the floor trailing 31-23 at the half. Midway in the second half, Illinois re- established its 13-point lead at 50-37. Then the Illini, led by Smith and Rob Judson, who finished with 12 points, outscored Northwestern 16-4 in a span of six minutes to grab a 66-41 lead which clinched the outcome. OSU 82, Wisconsin 71 COLUMBUS-Kelvin Ransey and Herb Williams combined for 43 points last night to lead Ohio State to an 82-71 college basketball victory over Wiscon- sin in Big Ten Conference play. Ransey poured in 24 points, marking the 43rd straight game that he has reached double figures. Williams added 19 to help the Buckeyes remain un- defeated in the conference. Big Ten Standings Conference All Games W L W L Illinois.......2 0 14 0 Michigan St. 2 0 10 1 Iowa .........2 0 10 2 Ohio State 2 0 7 4 MICHIGAN 1 1 7' 3 Indiana.... ..1 1 9 5 Wisconsin... 0 2 6 5 Purdue ....... 0 2 10 4 Minnesota . 0 2 5 6 Northwestern 0 2 4 7 Yesterday's Results Iowa 85, MICHIGAN 79 Illinois 74, Northwestern 56 Michigan State 69. Minnesota 62 Indiana 63, Purdue 54 Ohio State 82, Wisconsin 71 Thursday's Games MICHIGAN at Purdue 'Indiana at Minnesota MichiganState at Illinois Northwestern at Wisconsin Ohio State at Iowa full court viPRES Lester hurls screwball. SWolverines strike out By GARY KICINSKI T HERE GOES THE no-hitter, as they say. The Iowa Hawkeyes jolted the Wolverines' out of their sleep yesterday, rudely waking Michigan from its dream of getting the Big Ten season off to a perfect start. With a pair of home games for openers and three road games coming up against mediocre Purdue and weak sisters Wisconsin and Northwestern, a 5- 0 start would not have been totally unrealistic to expect. The favorable early schedule could have put the Wolverines out in front of the league as Michigan State was last year, forcing the others to play cat- ch-up. But the Hawkeyes, eighth in the conference last season with a 5-13 record, quickly showed Michigan that nothing in the Big Ten can be taken for granted any longer. Ronnie Lester, the Hawkeyes sensational junior guard, utilitized his ex- treme quickness and fine shooting touch to forge the Iowa squad into the lead. And even more importantly, Lester refused to snap during the game's waning moments. Five times in theslast 6:15 of the game Lester stepped to the free throw line with a one-and-one situation. Four times he sank both shots, and three of those occasions came within the last 1:22. Lester's steady nerves contributed significantly to his game-high 29 points. He hit 13 of 16 free throws on the afternoon and netted 8 or 14 field goal attempts. "I was just trying to concentrate on hitting the free throws," said Lester. "I heard the crowd screaming and saw them waving and stuff, and I just tried to block them out." Michigan's freshman guard Keith Smith, faced with the task of trying to guard Lester, did his best to keep up with him but fouled out with 6:15 remaining. Johnny Johnson and Mark Lozier tried their hands at controlling Lester but were equally unsuccessful. When the Wolverines were forced to keep fouling late in the game they were forced to keep fouling Lester, as he was the primary ball-handler in Iowa's four-corner offense. Many of Smith's fouls on Lester were purely the result of aggressive defense and involved only incidental contact. "I put my hand on him and they'd whistle me down," said Smith, who scored just three points on the day and had just one assist. "I thought my foul trouble took away a lot from our offensive game. I like to penetrate and pass the ball off quite a bit. But once you get three or four fouls the coach doesn't want you penetrating any more because its easy to pick up those offensive fouls." While Lester's performance made the Hawkeye scoring ledger lopsided, only Alan Hardy of the Michigan starters was able to shoot better than 50 percent. Hardy seemed to be the lone Wolverine not fazed by Iowa's 2-3 zone defense, and accounted for most of Michigan's first-half offense. Hardy hit on eight of nine field goals in the first half, accounting for 16 points. With Hardy, the Wolverines shot 51.3 percent from the floor in the fir- st half. Without him the figures read 39 percent, as Mike McGee, Phil Hub- bard and Marty Bodnar combined for a sickly 7-for-23. Curiously though, Michigan's only hot hand spent six important minutes on the bench early in the second half. The Wolverines' lack of punch during this period prompted some fans to start up a "Har-dy, Har-dy" chant. When the 6-6 center returned to the lineup with ten minutes left his effectiveness stayed on the bench, as he connected on just one of two field goals in the remaining time to finish with a team-high 18 points. Iowa's William Mayfield, a friend of Hardy's since their high school days in Detroit, was one who wordered about that. "I was surprised that he was on the bench so much in the second half, especially after going 8-for-9 in the first half. He was their best shooter," he said. Michigan coach Johnny Orr said Hardy "ran out of gas." Hardy, though, seemed somewhat miffed, at first refusing to comment on the situation and then saying, "I guess I just have to trust Orr's judgment. If that's what he said, I guess that's right." Whatever the reason, Hardy's scoring punch was not adequately picked up by anyone else and the Wolverines went down to their first defeat of the Big Ten season. What they'll have to do now is forget about that last pitch and start concentrating on the next batter. Being one run down this early in the contest is not too much to overcome. fields, including: Languages Literature Psychology Conservation 1 American Studies Political Science Accounting Economics Geography Writing Math Women's Studies Each course has an assigned instructor, who consults with you through the mail or over the telephone. And dont worry about not finishing up the course this term-you may take as long as a year to complete it. Drop into the office, or call today to get full details on what is available to help you conquer the closed-out blues I Independent Study Dept. U-M EXTENSION SERVICE 412 Maynard St. 763-2042 R... maw= McNAMA RA, DIE TZ PA CE WOL VERINES Women mop up Northern, 90-44 _ FOLD BACK THIS FLAP 8 SEAL WITH TAPE By LIZ MAC The young, supposedly inexperienced women's basketball team sure didn't play that way yesterday, blowing out the Northern Michigan Wildcats, 90-44, at Crisler Arena.. Both the offense and the defense were on target for the Wolverines, who chalked up their highest point total thus far while holding the Wildcats to a mere 16 points in the second half. "WE FINALLY did it. Our defense made the difference," said freshwoman Diane Dietz, referring to the lopsided score. She and Katie McNamara shared scoring honors with 16 points. Other scoring leaders for Michigan were Terry Schevers with 10 and Bren- da Venhuizen and Abby Currier with 8 apiece. Northern's top scorer was Lori Juntila, who had 10 points. Michigan grabbed an early lead, and aided by Dietz's 14 first-half points and a 53.8 team shooting percentage, led 48- 28 at the half. The second half was no contest as the Wolverines substituted freely and consistently scored unan- swered buckets. "We have a super ben- ch," said coach Gloria Soluk of her subs, who collectively scored 33 points. A FROM I IT WAS THE defense that truly did the job for the Blue cagers. Paced by Schevers and Penny Neer in the first half and Venhuizen and Yvette Harris in the second, the team forced tur- novers which stympied Northern's of- fense. "We've been concentrating on our defense. Everything just fell into place," said freshwoman Kris Hansen. "They had to go to a man-to-man when we got so far out in front, and they couldn't adjust to it," Venhuizen said. "Our fast break went well, too." The cagers host Dayton on Monday. Game time is 7:00 at Crisler. Nolo contendere , I AFFIX POSTAGE HERE qL OF OVER 40,000 VEGGIES SOLD! 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