A ednesdoy, December 8, 1471 THE MICHIGAN DAILY r Page Eleven, Wednesday, December 8, 1971 THE MiCHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven' Agains TheWal By AL SHACKELFPORD White-knuckle basketball came back to Crisler Arena last night, but Jim Dutcher was a little sick about the whole thing. The. Eastern Michigan coach threw everything at Michigan- man-to-man, various zones (3-2, 2-3 and 1-2-1-1), zone press-but to no avail. Eastern's All-America guard Lindell Reason ripped the tape off his throbbing wrist and flipped in 21 points, in a lost cause. Michigan lost its poise against the zone press, and looked tired at times, but the Wolverines ended up on top.. Eastern had Michigan on the run In the first half with a beautifully-eiecuted 1-2-1-1 sone, as skinny 6.5 junior Len Cole hounded Henry Wilmore and Wouldn't let hinst inside. Wilmore was forced to throw up long bombs and, unfor- tunately, his shooting was off. Michigan's other one-hiller, Wayne Grabiec, also couldn't find the hoop from the outer limits In the first half. But nobody is going to keep the lid on Wilmore for very long: he began getting inside and drawing fouls from Eastern. "Wil- more broke up the zone," commented Dutcher. "We don't have much depth and we were afraid of getting in foul trouble." And Grabiec, as pure a shooter as anyone in the Big Ten, found the range with his customary regularity. Eastern went to a'man-to-man and occasionally a zone press, but these measures "sapped us as much as it sapped them," according to Dutcher. Dutcher also pointed to the rough and ready board play of John Lockard as a key factor in the close loss. Lockard swept the boards for 20 caroms, despite the refined hacking techniques of the Hiurons. "We knew Michigan had dominated Notre Dame and Western Michigan on the boards," said Dutcher, "but we weren't going to let them dominate us." The battle for the boards was close, 56-54 for Michigan. Sophomore swingman George Gervin had Michigan fans shaking their heads with his deadly outeourt shooting and un- canny finesse. Gervin, who looks like a little kid who grew too fast, pinged in 26 points and cleared 16 rebounds, battling well underneath despite his lack of weight. Gervin didn't come to Eastern because it is a dummy school, as some have claimed, but because he didn't like sunny California and Long Beach State. "George didn't feel . comfortable at Long Beach," said Dutcher. 'A, lot of De- troit boys seem to feel that way." Gervin spent a week at Long Beach and then hurried home to the more friendfr confines of Eastern Michigan. A few years ago Gervin was tabbed a unanimous all-city, all-state choice after averag- ing over thirty points a game for Detroit Martin Luther King. Dutcher added that the presence of another former King star on the Huron squad, guard Gary Tyson, ;may have influ- enced Gervin's° decision to play - at EMU. Calling his 647 star "one of the top five sophomores in the country," Dutcher says, "George showed fine moves to the basket, and came inside after his shots." Reason, an all-tournament choice at last year's NAIA finals and a consistent twenty-point scorer, ignored his badly-sprained wrist and played a fine game fer the Jiurons.. Anyone who wonders how Eastern lost to Tolede and Wisconsin, remember that Reason missed most of both games due to his injury. Dutcher said that his scrambling Hurons had Toledo down by 16 points in the second half but let them get away. Why? Going into list night's contest Eastern had been turning the ball over about thirty-six times a game. Last night the Hurons cut their miscues to ten and this improvement signals their. re-entry into the ranks of the nation's top small-college teams. Wolverines survive rally; slither By RANDY PHILLIPS It was a court sizzler in Crisler Arena last night as the Wolver- iae cagers barely survived a late Eastern Michigan comeback bid for an 89-88 victory. The Hurons, down by 82-70 with 5:28 left in the contest, staged a rally led by Earl Dixon and Lin- dell Reason and out-scored Michi- gan 16-6 in the next three min- utes and 53 seconds to pull with- in two of the Wolverines, 88-86. b The last bucket by Dixon was on ii a fast break, and the Hurons put s on the full court press as Michigan tried to bring the ball in bounds. p The Wolverines called time with f 35 seconds left when Wayne Gra- s biec was almost trapped for a five g second violation. t The press tactic still almost a worked, but Terry Tyler slipped c through a two-man trap and w moved the ball over the center- t line for Michigan. But Tyler could m not control the ball in the fore- court and lost it to Reason. The t Hurons moved the ball back in 3 under the Michigan basket but the a Wolverines forced a bad pass to f give Michigan the ball with 11 seconds left and the Hurons still H down by two. Michigan called another time c out. The Hurons continued to press on the ensuing in bounds play, but the Wolverines got the L ball in to Henry Wilmore who o made a good cross court pass to 0 -Tyler. Tyler took the ball downm court and was intentionally fouled. Tyler made the second of two at- b tempts with 11 seconds showing ai on the clock to put Michigan out p in front 89-86. Michigan then let i the Huron's Bill James drive un- v molested for the meaningless final e Victory Waynes fr by Hurons, 89-88 dlaily sports NIGHT EDITOR: JOEL GREER asket as time ran out, and Mich- gan had extended its unbeaten tring to three games this year. Michigan and Eastern had played nearly even through the irst half and ten minutes of the econd period of play with Michi-. an holding a slight lead most of he way. In the last minute and half of the first half the lead hanged hands five times, but the Wolverines managed to hold onto he top end of the score at iner- mission, 44-43. Eastern took the lead for the last time as the second half began on a umper by James, but Wilmore nd John Lockard combined for ive straight, points to put the Wolverines ahead for good. The lurons kept within striking range n long corner shots by George 3ervin. With 8:44 left in the contest ockard committed his fourth ersonal foul and was taken out f the game for Tyler. Grabiec ,oved over to play forward. James sank both free throws to ring Eastern within five at 69-64, nd the Hurons went into the ress that had been so effective n the first half against the Wol- erine offense. Both teams then turned hot and =changed baskets for two min- tes. Grabiec and Tyler connected rom the outside for Michigan and Reason hit three straight bombs or the Hurons. Reason's last ucket brought the score to 75-70, ut then the Wolverines went to work. Dave Hart and Wilmore hit on >uckets to up the Wolverine lead o nine, and after an Eastern time 3ut Wilmore swished the hoop for ive straight points on a short' umper and a three point play That gave Michigan its largest Lead of the night, 82-70. Then Dixon and Reason got down to he job of whittling down the Wolverine lead. Henry Wilmore led all scorers with 29 points but only hit on nine of 29 shots from the field. Eastern went into a zone several times during the first half and the strategy stifled the Wolverine attack. Dixon came out to hound the Michigan forward every time he got the ball in the corner, and Michigan could not work the ball under the basket. The Wolverines were not rebounding well on de- fense in the first half as Eastern got several chances at tip-ins. Michigan hit the /offensive boards well also, but just could not seem to put the taps into the hoop. Michigan coach Johnny Orr was not too pleased with the first half play of his Wolverines. "We weren't putting the ball in the basket; we can't miss unmolested lay-ups. It was the worst half we've played this year, and I don't know how we were ahead at half." Michigan cent in the up shooting the game. John Lockard turned in his fin- est performance as a Michigan player as he pulled down 20 re- bounds and pumped in 19 points. But it was Grabiec's fine shooting eye that kept Michigan ahead in the early going of the second half as he made 10 of 19 shots and ac- counted for 22 points. Orr com- mented, "Grabiec really shot well for us; he's a great player, but not flashy." Wilmore had trouble inside due to the 6-6 Dixon covering him, and a bit of rough action under the boards. Orr said, "In the second half Henry (Wilmore) played very well, but he got beat up well with- out many fouls being called."' shot only 37.2 per first half and ended only 41.7 per cent for -Daily-David Margolick MICHIGAN'S HENRY WILMORE (25) leaps high to loft a shot over Eastern Michigan's Bill James (53) in the game last night at Crisler Arena. Wilmore missed 20 of 29 attempts but still managed 29 points to lead the Wolverines to an 89-88 victory. RUSSELL HUSTLES Frosh, zap cold Hurons, wilmore Johns"e Lockard Grablec Hart Tyler TOTAL$ MICHIGAN g 9-29 1417 9-19 10+19 4.4 2-2 35.84 t. reb 11-15 13 1-2 7 1-2 20 2.2 5 3.3 2 1-2 1 19-26 56 tp 29 3 19 22 11 S E9 2 19 a 4 26 21 a 88 EASTERN MCHIGAN Cole 1-4 0-0 Dixon 9-17 1-4 James 3-9 2-2 Tyson 2-3 0-0 Gervin 12-26 2-4 Reason 7-22 7-7 Smith 4-5 0-1 TOTALS 38-76 12-18 Fouled out: James Attendance: 11,552 b- to fl I C1 tl v By JIM EPSTEINs On the strength of Campy Rus- sell's best showing of the young season, the Michigan freshman team crushed a motley collectionf of cagers from Eastern Michigan1 102-71 at Crisler Arena last night. Russell totaled 30 points on 11, of 23 from the floor and 8 of 10t from the free throW line before being forced out of the contest withf an eye injury with 11 minutes gonef in the second half. Russell sustained his injury whileI battling under the Michigan boards as a flying elbow caught him on the way up. Although he could have returned to action, it proved wholly unnecessary because the Wolverines had the game prac- tically on ice. Coach Dick Honig understated the match-up, saying "We were just a little better team." The freshmen carried a 20 point lead into the second half as Honig had the opportunity to test his bench sitters for an extended period for the first time this year. The contest began on an odd note as the Hurons took the open- ing tip and went into a stall, and passed the ball around for over a minute and a half before Melvin Carr took the first shot of the game. The game remained fairly even for the first seven minutes until Doug Ashworth broke an 8-8 tie with a free throw to send the Wol- verines out in front for the balance of the game. The Baby Blue fol- lowed Ashworth's one pointer with a string of three baskets and one free shot to run the count up to 168 and finish Eastern for the night. The Hurons began the game with, a zone press, a maneuver which met with little success, and cer- tainly didn't bother guard John Kantner at all. "Kantner really broke the press," opined freshman assistant coach Dan Fife. Kantner swished seven long range shots in the first half and added a free throw to tie for 20 minute honors with Russell. He wound up with nine of 12 from the field and a perfect one for one at the line. The Hurons would have really been blown out in the first half if 1 02-7 it weren't for the solo job turned in by forward Gary Cronenwett. Cronenwett tallied 16 of Eastern's 28 first stanza points and finished with 24 points for the night. Cronenwett was largely respon sible for the high Huron shooting percentage (50 per cent) with 12 of 14 from the floor. As was the case in each of the two previous freshman games, Michigan capitalized on a prepon- derance of fouls committed by the opposition, scoring 22 on free shots to only nine by Eastern. C.J. Kupec swept the boards for the Wolverines with 11 caroms to lead the team, followed by Ash- worth with eight. When the second team took the floor in the second half, it was Larry Stroud who led the way with ten points on five perfect shots. Terry McClain put the Baby Blue over the hundred mark with 40 seconds left climaxing the rout. Michigan, with a 3-0 record, matching the varsity's, challenge the Toledo Rockets next Monday night preceding the varsity match with the Australian Nationals. 2 12 11 2 16 0. 5 y54 MICHIGAN Schneeburger Ashworth Johnson McClain Kantner Ayler McParian Wolff Russell Hat eli McGinnis Rahn Kupec Stroud Davis TOTALS FRESHMEN b f 0-0 0-0 2-5 3-3 4-10 1-2 1-1 0-0 9-12 1-1 3-7 2-4 0-1 1-2 2-4 0-0 11-23 8-10 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-9 6-7 5-5 0-1 0-1 0-3 40-80 22-34 reb tp 1 0 Exarhos 2-4 8 7 Martin 0-0 3 9 Miller, Tyrone 1-7 o 2 Carr 4-11 4 19 Agemy 0-1 3 8 Hammerschmidt 2-2 0 1Ashdown 1-2 0 4 Green 3-5 0 5 30Cronenwett 12-14 0 OMiller, Pete 2-7 1 0Vinson 0-0 11 10Sturevant 4-7 1 10 TOTALS 31-60 4 0:0 4 44 102 Fouled out: Pete Miller 3-3 0-0 0-0 3-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-3 0-0 1-1 9-10 3 0 2 6 2 5 2 2 4 3 I 4 37 7 0 2 11 0 4 2 24 6 0 71 Hurons Russelled EASTERN MICHIGAN FRESHMEN i SI I 9 A $1151 plus $14 administrative charges: DET./L.A./DET. 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