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,Sunday, January 31, 1971

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

- _ -.

Page Nine

Cagers

rip

Gophers,

Icers

down

'Dogs

Wilmore, Grabiec power squad
into Big Ten lead with 4-0 mark

Renfrew finally nets
200th Michigan win

By ELLIOT LEGOW
Special To The Daily
MINNEAPOLIS-The Michigan .
rcagers rolled to a surprisingly easy *
97-79 victory here last night over
the Minnesota Gophers, to boost
their Big Ten record to 4-0 and SUNDAY
put them all alone in first place SnthU N D AYofeecerce
in the tight conference race.
Michigan had fine performances NIGHT EDITOR
from all five starters and was led
in scoring again by sophomore
Henry Wilmore. Wilmore tossed
in 31 points and was joined in in just over three minutes while
double figures by the rest of the holding the Gophers scoreless to
Wolverine starting lineup, turn the ball game into a rout.
Decisive to the Wolverine vic- The rest of the way the teams
toryk ,was their domination of the played even with both coaches
backboards. Michigan outrebound- laigtebnhs
Sed the Gophers 49-34 lhog clearing the benches-.
playing without 49-3n although The Gophers were hurt by the
Klayng Br thoy m starting center lack of good scoring from their
Ken Brady most of the second front line, which netted only 17
half..
Minnesota alternated between points. Jim Brewer, the Gophers'
man-to-man and zone defenses leading scorer, was held to only
but neither was able to contain seven points and fouled out with
the Wolverine offense. Wayne over 13 minutes remaining in the
,Grabiec scored 20 points, all on game.
outside jumpers against a Gopher Minnesota's two starting guards,
defense which concentrated on Ollie Shannon and Eric Hill did
stopping Wilmore underneath. most of the shooting for the
After moving into a command- Gophers but made only one-third
ing lead late in the first half, of their shots. The leading scorer
Michigan never led by fewer than for the Gophers was substitute
four points. The Wolverines ran guard Bob Murphy who totaled 23.
4into a cold spell at the start of Rodney Ford, Dan, Fife, and
the second half, but Minnesota Brady also contributed to the
could do no better than pull to Michigan win, scoring 14, 13, and
within four, 53-49 after five slow 12 points respectively. As a team
minutes of second half play. Michigan shot 50 per cent from
Minnesota kept the gap at four, the floor, to only 38 per cent for
59-55 until the nine minute mark the Gophers.
of the half, when Michigan took With three Big Ten road wins
over complete control of the game. now under their belts, the Wol-
The Wolverines scored 16 points verines return home this week to

SPORTS
MORT NOVECK
meet Purdue on Tuesday and
Northwestern on Saturday in
games at Crisler Arena.'
Michigan was in control through
most of the first half, with a bal-
anced attack leading the Wolver-
ines to a 49-41 halftime advan-
tage.
Wilmore, Grabiec, and Brady hit
for 12 points apiece in the period
as Michigan diversified its attack
with effective outside and inside
shooting.
Grablec ruined Minnesota's
zone defense by hitting on five
outside jumpers in the first ten
minutes to put Michigan on top,
22-20. The Gophers reverted to a
man-on-man defense after a con-
ference with their coach, and did
succeed in cooling off Grabiec, but
could not stifle the Michigan at-
tack.
Wilmore, who went scoreless
from the field in the first ten min-
utes, came back to life and cashed
is on three quick field shots to
move Michigan up to a 32-24 ad-
vantage.
The Gophers pulled back to
within two with backup guard Bob
Murphy making good on four con-
secutive shots, but Michigan
surged back to a 42-34 lead. Mur-
phy finished the half as Minne-
sota's leading scorer with 12
points.
Jim Brewer, the Gophers super-
sophomore, was ice-cold in the
half, making only one of nine
shots although he did snatch eight
rebounds. On the boards, too, the
Wolverines were dominant, with
Brady pulling off 12 to lead Mich-
igan to a 29-21 halftime rebound-
ing advantage.
Alone on top
MICHIGAN

By JOEL GREER
It was a happy group of Mich-
igan icers after their inspiring 4-3
victory o v e r Minnesota - Duluth
last night at the Coliseum.
Not only did they break a four-
game losing streak, they proudly
helped produce Coach Al Ren-
frew's 200th victory at Michigan.
For Renfrew it was a most grati-I
fying win as his team played its'
steadiestngame of the season. "It's
been a long time coming," the
coach shouted across the jubilant'
Michigan dressing room. "The kids
just played great."
Renfrew couldn't have been
happier as the personnel change
he made before Friday night's
game dramatically payed off. He
completely switched around the
line of Bernie Gagnon, Rick Mal-
lette, and Mike Jarry by moving
Gagnon from center to right wing,
Mallette from left side to center,
and Jarry from left wing to the
right side.
The combination accounted for
three of the four Michigan goals
putting Michigan ahead to stay
midway through the second period.
With Duluth leading 2-1 Mal-
lette grabbed a loose puck at the
Bulldog line and skated in alone
only to have his wrist shot from
ten feet out deflected away by
goalie Glenn Resch. But the Mon-
treal sophomore was not to be
denied as he stole the puck behind
the net.
Jarry took Mallette's pass in the
corner and found Brian Skinner
open at the point. Skinner slam-
med it home and the game was
tied 2-2 at 7:04.
Minutes later the line put
Michigan a h e a d with Duluth's
Pokey Trachsel serving a holding
penalty. Jarry hit Mallette with
a pass inside the circle to the right
of Resch. The puck bounced in
the air only to fall between the
skates of Mallette.
Gagnon somehow got a stick on
it and the puck found the net-
ting behind the bewildered goal-
tender.
They were on again at 15:05 to
put Michigan ahead 4-2 and it was
Mallette to bang it home this time.
The play, however, was made
by Punch Cartier as he streaked
over the Bulldog line. Skating
around defenseman Jim laertz,
Cartier circled behind the net and
delivered a goal mouth pass to
Mallette who completed the play.
Michigan, playing flawless hock-
ey throughout the remainder of

the second period and nearly all
of the third, didn't get the victory
without a last minute scare.
A fighting incident between
Michigan's Tom Marra and the
Bulldogs' Alan Young set the stage
for the final suspenseful moments,
Marra was moving along the
boards for a loose puck near the
Michigan b e n c h when Young
skated half way across the ice to
nail the Michigan defeseman.
Immediately thereafter, Marra
dropped his gloves and went after
the Duluth defensman. With the
entire Michigan contingent hold-
ing him back, Marra never could
get to Young who was awaiting
Marra with his stick raised ready
to do battle.
After a long delay for the offi-
cials to sort out the penalties, play
resumed with Marra getting four
minutes and Young getting the
original charging penalty in addi-
tion to four minutes worth of
roughing penalties.
W i t h Michigan outnumbered
five men to four Pokey Trachsel
brought Duluth within one after
taking a pass from the league's
leading scorer, Walt Ledingham.
In the final seconds, the Bull-
dogs nearly knotted the score as
they went in two-on-one. Just as
Ledingham was about to shoot,
Brian Siknner hooked him from
behind to break up the play.
A long time coming
SCORING
DULUTH 1 1 1 -- 3
MICHIGAN 1 3 0 - 4
FIRST PERIOD SCORING: 1. M-
Falk (Skinner, Gamsby) 9:27; 2. D
Hubick (S. Trachsel, Young) 17:31;
PENALTIES: 1. M - Gamsby (2,
holing) 17:09; 2. D - Boutette (2,
slashing) 19:42.
SECOND PERIOD SCORING: 3. D -
Routette (Un.) 1:52; 4. M - Skinner
(Mallette, Jarry) 7:04; 5. M - Gag-
non (Mallette, Jarry) 11:36; 6. M -
Malaette (Cartier, Jarry) 15:05; PEN-
ALTIES: 3. D - Heaslip (2, slashing)
4:39; 4. M - Cartier (2, bodycheck-
ing offensive zone) 9:10; 5. D -
S. Trachsel (2, holding) 10:27; 6.
M - Skinner (2, slashing) 15:50; 7. -
Routette (10, misconduct) 15:50; 8.
M- Jarry (2, elbowing) 18:42; 9. -
D - S. Trachsel (2, tripping) 19:44.
THIRD PERIOD SCORING: 7. D -
S. Trachsel (Ledingham) 16:53;
PENALTIES: 10. M - Slack (2,
slashing) 9:20; 11. D - Stevens (2,
high sticking) 15:46; 12. M - Con-
nolly (2, high sticking) 15:46; 13.
M- Ga-nsby (2, holding) 16:04; 14,
D - Young (2, charging) 16:22; 15.
D - Young (4, roughing) 16:22; 16.
M - Marra (4, roughing) 16:22; 17.
MSSkinner (2, hooking) 19:58.
SAVES:
MICHIGAN (Bagnell) 13 13 7--33
DULUTH (Resch) 6 13 7-26

-Daily-Terry McCarthy
WOLVERINE HURDLING ACE Godfrey Murray displays his outstanding form en route to tying the
university division record in the 70 yard high huriles yesterday afternoon. Later in the day Murray
lost in the finals.
161
Mcian shines, nie
nemarks in RJelays

Ford
Wilmore
Brady
Grabiec
Fife
Johnson
Hart
Hayward
Nlckslc
Bazelon
Roberts
TOTALS

fg
6-16
10-21
5-8
10-16
6-13
1-1
0-1
0-0
2-3
0-0
0-1
40-80

ft
2-Z
11-15
2-2
0-1
1-4
1-4
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
17-28

ftp
2 14
2 31
4 12
3 20
2 13
13
0 0
1 0
0 4
0 0
0 0
15 97

By SANDI GENIS1
Nine broken records and out-
standing performances g a 1o r e
brought a large and very partisan
Yost Field House crowd to their
feet repeatedly as the Michigan
track team displayed a new, win-
ning look last night as they made
their season's debut in the Mich-
igan Relays.
Leading the Michigan contin-
gent in their outstanding show-
ing, several Wolverine freshmen
displayed traces of super talent as
they provided coach Dave Martin
with a firm basis for his title
challenge hope.
In, one of the biggest and most
exciting wins of the night Wol-
verine freshman Mel Reeves, the
state hurdles champ in high school
last year, upset teammate God-
frey Murray in the 70 yard high'
hurdles. Earlier in the day Murray
had tied the Yost Field House
record in the semifinals of that
event, posting an 8.4 run.

In that same event, some of the Michigan high Sump ace John
Wolverines' veteran talent reveal- Mann came up on the short
ed itself as Eric Chapman, Bob end of that competition, succumb-
Fortas and Rick Storrey turned in ing to a fantastic effort of an-
outstanding runs, along with Boi- other Ann Arbor competitor, Mike
ster, to shave 1.6 seconds off the Bowers, as Bowers leaped to a new
old record. Storrey, who anchored Yost Field House and University
the team, assured the team's vic- division record, clearing the bar
tory with a 1:50.5 half mile in the at 7 feet, eclipsing his old mark
final leg. by a4 of an inch. Mann managed
Still another Wolverine relay to leap 6-8 to take second.
team set a record as the contin-
gent of Reeves, Greg Syphax,
Murray, and Reggie Johnson cap-
tured a first in that even with
time of 29.0.
In the final even of the evening "
and one of the hardest fought con- n d ian a
tests of the evning, a strong MSSt
team of Mike Holt, Mike Murphy,
John Mock and Bob Casselman By KEN COHN
edged out the Michigan team of The Michigan gymnastic team,
Kim Rowe, Lorenzo Montgomery, facing truly tough competition for
Greg Syphax, and Chapman to the first time in almost two
gain a victory in the mile relay. months, proved equal to the test,
In a renewal of an old and fa- eking out a close but well-earned

MINNESOTA

Brewer

3-

-Associated Press
WAYNE GRABIEC (40) Michigan guard, fouls Minnesota's Eric
4 Hill in last night's game in Minneapolis. Grabiec was a key per-
former for the Wolverines, scoring 20 points on 10 jump shots
to destroy the Gopher zone defense and take the pressure off of
Henry Wilmore. Michigan won, 97-79.

Taylor 2-
Masterson 3-
Hill 8-1
Shannon 3-
Murphy 11-
Hurtgen 1-1
Pyle 1-1
Arnold 0-
Rlckert 0-
Troland 0-
TOTALS 32-
TURNOVERS: 4
SCORE BY HALES:
MICHIGAN
MINNESOTA

13 1-3 5
8 0-1 0
7 0-1 1
19 2-2 4
14 5-7 4
17 1-1 1
1 2-2 2
1 0-1 1
1 4-4 1
-0 0-0 0
0 0-0 0
81 15-23 19

7
4
6
18
31
23
4
2
4
0
0
79

40 4 8
41 38

SPARTANS STICK BUCKS:
Illinois knocks off Notre Dame
By The Associated Press 18th. and the Irish. played slowed throws and a basket before time
CHICAGO - Sophomore Nick down basketball and tried to set ran out.
Conner's two baskets in an over- up shots. Moran had 25 points and Lusk
*ime period last night gave Illinois * * I * was second high Iowa scorer with
a 69-66 upset victory over seventh- c q17 points, 14 in the first half.
ranked Notre Dame in the opener U Un,* a o
of a Chicago Stadium basketball COLUMBUS - Michigan. State, Purdue boils
doubleheader. playing in Ohio State road un-!
In the final 12 minutes of regu- forms, handed the Buckeyes their' LAFAYETTE-Junior Bob Ford
lation time, both the Illini, ranked= worst setback of the basketball pitched in 22 points to lead Pur-

gymnasts squeeze by
ate, Iowa invaders

Mike Pierce, another s t a ; e miliar rivalry, Spartan speed de-
champ in the mile, displayed great mon Herb Washington, the co-
talent as he posted the best time worlds record holder in the 60,
for Michigan freshmen ever with yard dash at 5.9, edged out pre-
a 4:08.9 showing in the mile run mier Wolverine sprinter Gene
for third place in that event. Brown with a time of 6.1. Brown
Menwhile, on the infield, fresh- posted a 6.2 run.
man shotputter Steve Adams lost Bowling Green ace Sid Sink,
one round of an old rivalry with NCAA steeplechase champion, dis-
Jessie Stuart, a freshman from played his amazing virtuosity in
Kentucky with whom Adams has the distance events, as he set a
been competing for several years. new record in the two mile run,
Adams tossed the shot 54-53/4 to turning in a ramble of 8:48.2.
take third as Stuart managed a
throw of 59-234 for first, Stuart's
older brother John, also of Ken-
tucky, made the event a brother
act as he copped second place.
Still another freshman, Bill Bol-
ster, one of Martin's international
acquisitions hailing from Ireland,
~looked good as he posted a 1.54 3
leg while helping the Wolverine
team to a new record in the two
Imile relay and a first in that
event.
alarso 66, Tulane 65
William & Mary 78, Furman 71 (ot)
Murray State 90. Austin Peay 76

victory over two midwestern rivals,
Indiana State and Iowa, yester-
day in Crisler Arena.
Because of an unusual scoring
procedure under which certain
Michigan squad members compet-
ed against only one of the two op-
posing teams, three sets of dual
competion scores were announced.
It made no difference to the Wol-
verines, who outpointed both op-
ponents. Iowa was an easy mark,
falling to the Michigan machine,
163.15 to 158.20; Indiana State

put up much more of a contest,
but also lost, 163.85 to 162.35.
Indiana State suffered from no
dearth of individual standouts,
copping the single highest score in
four of the six events. But neither
State nor Iowa possessed depth
like that of the Wolverines, who
scored above 27, an average of
nine-plus for each of the first
three team members, in each
event.
Superb winning scores turned in'
by Bob Johnson on the parallel
bars and high-bar man Ed How-
ard provided large margins which
more than made up for Michigan's
relatively small number of indi-
vidual victories.
The top hero for the Wolver-

Ilaby Blue bow
to Baby Bucks
Special To The Daily
COLUMBUS-Ohio State's Baby
~uckeyes clobbered Michigi-n's
'reshman basketball team yester-
day, 105-88. The towering Bucks
and an unusually large number of
turnovers spelled doom for the
Baby Blue, who have now lost five
of their seven games to date.
With 6-8 Jeff Foley pummeling
Sichigan's biggest man Jake
Whitten (6-4) under the boards,
sharp-shooting guard Ron Repella
fired in 28 points for the Baby
Bucks.
Repella single-handedly turn d
a nine-point 44-35 Ohio State lead
late in the first half into a 53-
*5 margin by halftime. Michigan
never was able to close the gap as
the two teams played evenly in
the second half.
Ironically. the Baby Blue fin-

season with an 82-70 Big Ten vic- cdue to a 79-74 baM
gory last night.I over Marshall Un
The Spartans had their uni- day.
forms' stolen from their locker Marshall trailed
room here earlier in the day. the start beforet
The Spartans outscored the{ Hurd caught andp
Buckeyes 8-1 in the first two min-I ermakers with sev+
utes of the second half and werei .,..,:...., _,
never behind after that.I
The loss snapped a five-game'
Ohio State winning streak and
left the Bucks 3-1 in the Big Ten CleeB
and 9-5 over-all, Michigan State; Lasalle 79, Hofstra 6
now is 2-2 and 8-6. ?Mississippi 133, LSU
* * * Princeton 66, Rutger
Lafayette 84, Delawa
Iowa Survives Navy 57, NYU 50

asketball victory
niversity yester-
Id Purdue from
the Thundering
passed the Boil-
ven minutes left
SCO\..

ines, though, was again senior all-
arounder Rick McCurdy, who
rolled up a spectacular 54.1 total
in the six events, thus attaining a
personal, season high. Amazingly
consistent, McCurdy did not score
below 8.9 in any event, and was
followed closely in hte final sta-
tistics by teammate Ray Gura,
who turned in a 53.55 all-around
score.
Indiana State squad members
rolled up individual victories in
the first four events, yet still could
not pass Michigan in the team
score at any time. Staters Ray
Jauch and Fred Henderson both
turned in winning free exercise
routines; their teammate Kevin
Murphy then took the side horse
event.
Yet the Indiana State three-
man total in the latter event of
only 26.05, against Michigan's
27.05 was crucial, for in the next
two events, rings and vaulting,
even superb State scores of 27.4
and 27.7 were not enough to make
up the deficit
Excellent Wolverine perform-.
ances like Monty 'Falb's 9.25 on
the rings and McCurdy's 9.3 vault
were overshadowed by the yeoman
ring routine of State's national
champion Dave Seal, which fea-
tured a double-back piked dis-
mount, and the flawless 9.4 vault
of Dan Wunderlich.
With Iowa far behind, the meet
could have gone either way at this
point, Michigan holding less than
a one-point lead over Indiana
State. But the Wolverines pro-
ceeded to pull away; Johnson's
9.15 and Murray Plotkin's 9.0
helped to take the parallel bar
event, one which had given the
Michigan gymnasts particular
trouble in previous weeks.
No more breathers?
FLOOR EXERCISES - 1. (tie)
Jauch and Henderson (IS), 9,25;
3. (tie) (Gura and Black (1M), 9.2.
SIDE HORSE - 1. Miurphy (Is),

asketball
190
ers 58
rre 62

EVANSTON-Iowa's Hawkeyesl
led by Fred Brown's 35 points,j
nearly blew a 16-point lead early
in the second half but survived for
a 87-85 victory over Northwestern
in a battle of Big Ten basketball
tail-enders yesterday afternoon.
It was Iowa's first conferetve~
triumph in three starts and left
the Wildcats, paced by Ron Shog-
er's 32 points, with an 0-5 Big Ten
mark and the Wildcats' seventh
straight overall loss.
'hoWo lr..a c hsii. fhpr h,,

Purdue 79, Marshall 74
Miami (O.) 60, Dayton 59
Columbia 56, Cornell 48
St. John's, N.Y. 66, Dartmouth 60
Kentucky 102, Vanderbilt 92
Duquesne 72, Creighton 69
Tulsa 89, Wichita State 86
SMU 90, Arkansas 88
Utah 95, Arizona State 90
Arizona 81, Brigham Young 76
Evansville 113, DePauw 95
Memphis State 93, Drake 70
Bates 69, Coast Guard 62
St. Bonaventure 89, Niagara 73
Akron 85, Philadelphia Textile 71
Kanhas 95, Iowa State 72
Loyola (L.A.) 73, Pepperdine 65
Florida State 82, U.C. Irvine 69

Tuscaloosa Tech 88, So. Rheeberg
State 77
Johns Hopkins 72, Muhlenberg 66
Northern Idaho 75, East Nevada 67
Le Tourneau 95, Austin Col. 81
Texas Tech 76, Texas A&M 65
New Mexico State 108, Montana St. 89
Colorado State 79, New Mexico 71
West Texas 94, Cincinnati 83
Arkansas State 74, Citadel 66
Canisius 92, Providence 70
Fairleigh Dickinson 79, Georgetown 71
College Hockey
Minnesota 6, North Dakota 0
Mankato 4, St. Cloud 2
Amherst 13, Wesleyan 1
Vermont 7, Boston State 3
Colby 8, Massachusetts 2
Bemidji State 10, Superior 0
.S. Natinnas 7 WiscnnsinI

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