Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sur Jay, March 14, 19-1 * I Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Surday, March 14, 1971k I NCAA FINALS: 'Kentucky St. Villanova ccrns team taCk tile trins E MIT. CLINCH NCAA BERTH: ------- ~~1~~ - By SANDI GENIS Special To The Daily DETROIT - Villonova's super miler Marty Liquori coasted to his second victory of this season's NCAA track and field champion- ships last night at Cobo Arena, cop- ping the mile title, and, at least as far as the 9,681 screaming fans were concerned, essentially sewed up the team title for his squad. Running a typical Liquori race, the ace ran back in the pack, grad- ually making his way to the front, grabbing the lead with about a quarter mile to go to beat Wash- ington's Jim Johnson with a rather mediocre time of 4:04.7. But the jubilant Jim Elliot, the Villanova mentor, declaimed the merits, of his mile relay team of WilsonSmith, Lamotte Hynian, John Harnett, and Chris Mason, who captured third in that event, the final one of the night, as the real reason for the win. 'I didn't do it, they did it. That mile relay really did it for us; they were really something else," ex- claimed the victorious Elliot. Meanwhile, despite a rather poor showing for the Wolverines on the whole, one Michigan tsam man- aged to play the unlikely role of giant-killers. The Wolverine's fine two mile relay team of Al Cornwell, Eric Chapman, Bill Bol- ster and Rick Storrey finished third in the competition, but were dis- qualified for eliminating Wiscon- sin's excellent team from the race. Chapman, running one of his best races of the season, was pushed from behind rounding a curve, banging into Drake's runner who in turn plunged headlong into Wis- consin's Chuck Baker, knocking him onto the infield. However, a couple of other Wol- verine stars managed to place with fine performance. Gene Brown, Michigan's sprinting star who has really come into his own of late, copped the fifth spot in the 60 yard dash to give Michigan its first point. In that same race, pulling off one of the greatest upsets of the indoor season, Kentucky star Jim Green edged out defending champ Herb Washington of MSU in a photo finish, as both were clocked at 6.0. The only other Wolverine placer, John Mann, was an especially pleasant surprise for the partisan fans as he copped the fourth spot, Stickmen stuck The Michigan lacrosse club dropped its first regular season game yesterday to Oberlin, 11- 7. According to coach bio-chem- ist Bob Kaman, "We had cor- rected the team deficiencies, but we got beat individually." The Wolverine goalie, sopho- mpre Jay Johnson, played an excellent game in Kaman's es- timation, making 22 saves. The Michigan coach blamed the poor defensive performance on a lack of support by the defensemen. . in the high jump clearing 6-10 on his second attempt, after finishing a disappointing fifth in last week- end's Big Ten championships. Also in the high jump, Wiscon- sin's Pat Matzdorf, the Big Ten champ, set a new NCAA record of 7-2, clearing that height for the fourth time this season. The 1000-yard run was the scene of another record setting perform- ance as Duke freshman sensation Bob Wheeler posted a 2:07.4 run to eclipse the old mark by .4 second, beating his nearest competition by. more than a full second. In one of the most exciting races of the championships, Colorado's amazing Marcus Walker, the sec- ond ranked hurdler in the world, copped the 60-high hurdles title with a fine 7.0 time. . Big Ten champ Dick Taylor of Northwestern finished fourth with a fine 7.2 performance, while nei- ther of MSU's stars, Wayne Hart- wick and John Morrison was able to place. EXHIBITION BASEBALL Detroit 4, Boston 2 Tokyo Giants 6, Minnesota 3 Chicago N 7, Toyko Orions 5 Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 0 Atlanta 1, Baltimore 0 Oakland 4, San Francisco 3 Montreal 13, Houston 4 Chicago A 14, Washington 12 Philadelphia 7, Kansas City 4 Milwaukee at California, ppd. rain Cleveland at San Diego, ppd. sandstorm I wins NATA ----I-- ~ Special To The Daily KANSAS CITY - The classy Kentucky State Thoroughbreds suc- cessfully defended their NAIA crown last night by racing to a 102-82 win over Eastern Michigan. The Hurons got good efforts from stars Kennedy McIntosh and Lin- dell Reason but couldn't overcome the superior shooting and poise of Kentucky State. Travis Grant, a 6-8 junior dub- bed "The Machine" by Thorough- bred fans, gunned in 43 points de- spite theefforts of harried Huron defenders. With 7-0 Elmore Smith drawing defenders into the mid- dle, Grant was free to roam the perimeter at will for his deadly 20-30 foot jumpers. Kentucky State destroyed East- ern early and galloped to an im- posing 57-40 halftime advantage. Eastern's Jessie Evans came offI the bench to spark the Hurons but his efforts proved meaningless in the face of the K-State barrage. Shooting 55.4 per cent from the floor, the Thoroughbreds opened up leads of 25 points during the second half and were never headed. Eastern was no match for Ken- tucky State either from the floor or the foul stripe, as they shot only 43.5 per cent from the floor and 44 per cent from the line, compared with K-State's 55.4 per cent and 67 per cent. Lindell Reason of Detroit led the Hurons with 23 points and South Haven's Kennedy McIntosh added 21. Evans played his finest game of the season in scoring 15 points. In post-game action Grant was named the NAIA tournament's most valuable player. McIntosh and Reason grabbed first and sec- ond team berths respectively. Eastern finishes the season with a mark of 22-11. UCLA By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Top ranked UCLA using a vicious man to man defense, held Southern California with out a field goal for the first four minutes yesterday and the Bruins went on to win 73-62. UCLA thus filled the only open NCAA playoff berth by winning the Pacific 8 Conference championship. The Bruins ran off to an early 12-3 lead as Curtis Rowe hit two key shots and Kenny Booker stole two Trojan passes to set up fast breaks. Joe Mackey connected for USC's first field goal of the game but the Bruin lead swelled to 26-13 as Rowe neutralized USC center Ron Riley and controlled the board-.' The Bruins, 25-1, picked off 35 first half rebounds to only 21 for their foes and led by as many as 21 before the first half ended with the defending national champions leading 40-21 in the nationally tele- vised game. Booker and running mate at guard Henry Bibby were key fac- tors as they shut out the Trojans' guard combination of Dennis Lay- ton and Paul Westphal. The victory gave UCLA a 14-0 record in conference play. USC, 12-2, could have tied the Bruins with a victory. That would have forced a playoff for the NCAA berth. The third ranked Trojans wound up the season 24-2. The only other Trojan loss was a 64-60 defeat to UCLA. The Bruins were led by Rowe with 15 points followed by Sidney Wicks with 13 and center Steve Patterson and reserve guard Ter- ry Schofield with 12 apiece. * * Eastern Regional NEW YORK - Fordham's run- away Rams poured it on early and often with wonder boy Char- lie Yelverton leading the charge and barged by Furman 105-74 last night' in an NCAA Eastern Regional basketball playoff. Yelverton knifed through Fur- man for 30 points, including 21 in the first half as the 10th ranked Rams built a 50-30 lead at inter- mission and coasted to their first victory ever in these national playoffs. Furman scored the game's first goal but it was no contest there- after as the race horse Rams bursts Trojans' bubble plagued the Palladins with their gin to 18 points early in the second game-breaking press and crack half. outside shooting. The Frogs started chipping away * * * on the hot shooting of Eugene MORGANTOWN,- W.Va. - Bob "Goo" Kennedy and Ricky Hall Morse, a 6-8 forward, dumped in and managed to pull within seven 20 of his 24 points in the first half, points on three occasions, the last mostly on long jumpers to lead time with 5:16 remaining. fourth ranked Penn to a 70-65 vic- * * * tory over Duquesne last night in HOUSTON - Houston, ranked a first round battle in the Eastern eighteenth, roared back from a 19 Regionals of the NCAA basketball point deficit to down New Mexicoj tournament. State 72-69 and advance to the Morse, averaging only 14.8 points second round of the NCAA Mid- per game, made nine of 14 shots west Regional basketball tourna- and two free throws in the half to ment last night. help the undefeated Quakers break * * the Dukes' mixed zone and man- ACCTournament to-man defense. I Penn pulled out to a nine point, GREENSBORO, N.C. - A layup lead midway in the first half but Duquesne closed it to 32-28 by halftime. The Quakers shot to a nine-point lead again early in the second half, but then it was Corky Calhoun and Dave Wohl hitting instead of Morse. PHILADELPHIA - Villanova parlayed its rebounding skills into a 83-75 romp over St. Joseph's last night in the first round of the NCAA East Regionals in college basketball. Villanova outrebounded St. Jo- seph's 30-14 in the first half and had a 56-34 edge for the game. In the first half 20 of the Cats' rebounds were off the offensive boards. It led to a 44-37 halftime .ead for Villanova. In the first eight minutes of the second half, Villanova con- tinued to dominate the game and built a 61-43 advantage. But St. Joseph's, 19-9, rallied with a 13 point streak to come within five. * * * Midwest Regional HOUSTON - Superstar Austin Carr poured in 52 points to lead 14th ranked Notre Dame to a 102-94 victory over Texas Chris- tian yesterday and advance the Irish to the second round of the NCAA Midwest Regional basketball tournament. Notre Dame piled up a big lead in the early going, then had to hold of the Horned Frogs late in the game. With Carr scoring 29 of his points in the first half, the Irish moved to 56-43 advantage over the Southwest Conference cham- pions. Notre Dame upped the mar- d by 6-10 Tom Owens with four sec- onds to play clinched an uphill1 52-51 victory for South Carolina over Notrh Carolina last night and gave the nationally sixth ranked Gamecocks the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball champion- ship. The victory moved Coach Frank McGuire's team into the NCAA Eastern R e g i o n a l semifinals against Pennsylvania T h u r s d a y night at Raleigh, N.C. In capturing the school's first ACC title, South Carolina won its 12th straight game and brought its record for the season to 23-4, while dropping nationally 13th ranked North Carolina to 22-6. The major difference was at the foul line, where South Carolina hit 18 of 24 and North Carolina only 15 of 28. * * * Big Ten Meanwhile, back in the Big Ten the season finally ended for most of the league. George McGinnis broke the conference sophomore scoring mark, but the Hoosiers were downed by Illinois. For the Illini it was their first victory after an eight game losing streak. The Northwestern Wildcats man- aged to win their third game of the season as they downed Michigan State in Evanston. But the win won't prevent them from finishing in the Big Ten cellar.t Hoping to attract an NIT bid, the Purdue Boilermakers clobbered Iowa 110-84 in West Layfayette. The win gives Purdue an 11-3 confer- ence mark and third glace. * * * MVC Playoff PEORIA, Ill. - Drake put on a tremendous second half rally last night to defeat Louisville 86-71 in a Missouri Valley Conference play- off for an NCAA berth. Louisville, bowing out with a 20-8 record and still clinging to hopes for a National Inviational Tournament bid, grabbed a 38-33 halftime lead as Al Vilcheck scored 12 points and Jim Price added 10. But Drake turned in the hot hand in the second half and scored on 23 of 35 field goal attempts with Jeff Hallburton leading the way. Drake battled to a 43-43 tie in the second half and Hallburton scored five points in a one minute span to give Drake a 48-43 lead. Leon Huff then connected for 12 points in a five minute spurt and Drake extended its lead to 67-54. Six m-atmen' advance to INCA finals Special To The Daily DE KALB, Ill.-Michigan's hard luck wrestling team came through with a strong showing yesterday in the NCAA Regional tourna- ment, finishing third and qualify- ing six wrestlers for the finalsY Second place finishes by Big Ten champions Jerry Hubbard and Tom Quinn highlighted the Wol- verine performance. At 118, Jerry Hoddy, the team captain, defeated Russ Cunning- ham of Southern Illinois, 5-2. The victory gave him third place in* the tournament. At 126, Jim Ha- gen finished fifth with a 5-2 win over Iowa's John Robken. Rick Neff failed to qualify in the 134 pound class, but Mark King finished fourth at 142. King, who has been injured for much of the season, had a shot at third1 place but was defeated by Tim Whittaker of Kent State, 4-3. Hubbard was wrestling for first place, but, lost to Southern Illinois' Richard Casey at 150. Hubbard had fallen behind 10-3 before he rallied in the last minute to bring the score to 10-7. At 158, Quinn( was beaten 1-0 by Bruce Trannel of Ohio University, who finished second in the nation last year. The other Wolverine qualifier was Bob Huizenga, who finished fifth. Huizenga won his consola- tion bout by decisioning John Eva- shevski of Iowa, who defeated himt. in the Big Ten meet last week. For the student body: LEVI'S. CORDUROY Slim Fits ......$6.98 (Ali Colors) Bells .........$8.50 DENIM Bush Jeans Bells ..... Pre-Shrunk Super Slims. $10.00 $8.00 $7.50 $7.00 State Street at Liberty SGC ELECTION Statements of Candidacy Must Be Filed By Monday, March 15, 5:00 p.m. FOR ALL POSITIONS Daily Classifieds Bring Results Ui NOT SETTLED ON FALL HOUSING? LOOK AT BAITS OPEN HOUSE Take the North Campus Bus to Baits I Sunday 14 March Eaton Lounge Noon-3 p.m. I - - 4 /6 P-3 MS HAS MOVEDI - 0- "; vl A ( : f, " e + E t U. ..--