Page fight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, March 12, 1971 AW -ag - -H- MICHIG NIDAILYIF idayIMar h 12,I197 FRED NEIL REG. 3.25 2"99 JEREMY STEIG REG. 3.25 2'99 ON CAPITOL MARK . ALMOND REG. 3.95 3 49 MASON & ELLIOTT REG. 3.95 3 49 ON BLUE THUMB GREASE BAND RECORD SALE, NEW RELEASES ................. SCORE IN SOUTH: Racketmen show promise By JIM McFERSON Michigan's tennis team went down South over spring break to tangle with some of the top teams in Dixie, but ran into enough rain to spoil three matches and under- cut the overall success of the trip. The purpose of the annual spring trip this year through Georgia, and North and South Carolina, is to get good competition and good weath- er, according to Coach Brian Eis- ner. At least the netters got a whop- ping dose of Southern competition though the weather nearly fouled the purpose of the trip. Downpours forced two matches either indoors or outside on hard- courts and cancelled one outright. Not until the final two days -vas the team able to play competitively on the hosts' crushed shale'courts. Those courts were one big reason why the trip was mapped through the still hostile regions of the At- lantic Seaboard. This year's Big Ten Conference tournament will be held at Northwestern-a school unique for its athletic ineptitude, and crushed shale courts. Since the Big Ten tourney counts one-half in determining the winner of the conference crown (dual meet results comprising the other half), Coach Eisner hoped to get in a full week of competition on the courts so the team would find the transition from the Midwest's usual composition courts to Northwest- ern's crushed shale oddity a little easier. " "We were only half successful," said Eisner, "because ou, break was so early and because of the rain, some of the schools weren't able to get their courts in shape, so we got only half our matches on the crushed shale surface." The other half of the time, though, appeared to please the coach. "Most of our players came on very strong," he said. "The doubles teams came around and all the men showed their usual enthu- siasm and ability to work and im- prove." After two days of practice in At- lanta, the team bopped up to Clin- ton, S.C. and beat the tough little Presbyterian College, a school that's taken third in the NAIA na- tionals two years in a row and in Eisner's estimation the South's second best team. The score wasi 5-4. After stopping over at Davidson, where they were rained out, the racketmen trekked up to Durham, N.C. and blasted Duke 9-0 in a match rained out and rescheduled on a practice day. Yet the team had still not played competitively on a crushed snale surface until they steamed into Chapel Hill, N.C. for a pair of matches with the University of North Carolina, a team with six nationally ranked players and the best in the South. With an audience of over 1500 partisans cheering as if they were at a Poco concert, the Tar Heels battled to victories on Friday and Saturday, 7-2 and 8-1, respectively. Coach Eisner was not apologetic. "We have no excuse he said, "they're a fine team, the one we wanted to play." Playing against a team with years of experience on cne crushed shale type court with each player accustomed to its slow surface and treacherous footing, Michigan did well. Five losses were played to three sets and might have gone the other way. Had the matches been played on hardcourt, the results probably would have been reversed. "The team wasn't depressed about losing," said Eisner, "we came away knowing we're playing better on that surface." Individually there were three standouts. Sophomore Dick Ravre- by, playing number one, though he was recently pushed back into the number two position by Junior Joel Ross, showed his stuff in a match with Fred McNair, who beat both Gene Scott and Roscoe Tanner this summer. Freshman Kevin Senich, playing fifth, provided Michigan's only singles win over North Carolina and Sophomore Tim Ott, playing third, came close to taking a pair 0 from the Tar Heels. "All in all, it was very positive," said Eisner. "We still have a long way to go, a lot of loose ends and a good deal of individual work necessary, but the trade mark of this team has been its willingness to work and improve." So the newly tanned tennis team continues to work out in the Intra- mural building, waiting for that chimerical Ann Arbor Spring and preparing for their next match at the Irish Invitational, March 26 in South Bend, Indiana. 2 99 For the student body: LEVI'S CORDUROY Slim Fits .....$6.98 (All Colors) Bells .........$8.50 DENIM university Neumann paces scorers eel ar Bush Jeans Bells ...... Pre-Shrunk Super Slims. ..$10.00 ... $8.00 $7.50 ... $7.00 STUDENT OWNED NON PROFIT BOOK RECORD ART POSTER SUPPLY OFFSETTING YARN XEROX ETC. STORE IN UNION BASEMENT CHECKMATE] State Street at Liberty NEW YORK (A') - Austin Carr has canned more points but John- ny Neumann has hit them at a better clip. So "Johnny Reb" of Mississippi's Rebels has all but locked up basketball's scoring championship, according to statis- tics released yesterday by National Collegiate Sports Services. Through March 9, in 23 games the 6-foot-6 sophomore has scored 923 points for a 40.1 per game aver- age-only the third collegian to finish a regular season scoring bet- ter than a point"a minute. REG. 3.95 3 49 ON SH ELTER BIG BOOKSALE in PROGRESS M -TH.9-1, F SA 9-5:30, SUN. 12-11 Like to attend a small, warm unstructured Sabbath service? Creative celebration every Friday night, 8:30 p.m. at Hillel, 1429 Hill St. ONEG AFTER Carr has scored 976 points, 53 more than Neumann, but they've been spread over 26 games, giving the Notre Dame star a 37.5 aver- age. He set an NCAA tournament re- cord a year ago with an incredible three-game average of 52.7-but the 6-3 senior would have to sur- pass even that, averaging 62.7 in three games this time to catch Neumann. Jacksonville giant Artis Gilmore has all but clinched the rebound title with a 23.2 average to 20.5 by Kermit Washington of Ameri- can University and Greg Starrick of Southern Illinois appears certain TV RENTALS $10.50 per month NO DEPOSIT FREE DELIVERY AND SERVICE CALL: NEJAC TV RENTALS 662-5671 to take the free throw crown with a .902 average to .871 by Brown's Rusty Tyler. But the field goal championship is still up for grabs. John Belcher of Arkansas State leads at .633- but he's finished for the season. Dennis Wuycik of North Caro- lina, booted out of the top spot after five weeks by Belcher, could 1 regain it and win the crown with a 14-for-17 performance in this weekend's Atlantic Coast Confer- ence tourney. ..g Neumann Mississippi 23 Carr Notre Dame 26 Humes Idahe St. 24 McGinnis Indiana 23 McDaniels W. Ky. 25 B.Inaidi, St. Peter's N.J. 24 Mengelt Auburn 26 Phillips S. 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