Saturday, March 27, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pann Nine W, N CAA NIT finals close . cage campaign Villanova challenges UCLA for national championship Cinderella Yellowjackets face North Carolina for NIT title By AL SHACKELFORD Woo-woo chugga-chugga clang- clang! It's that UCLA express, steam- ing toward its fifth straight NCAA crown, piloted by superb forwards Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe. Will the Bruin express be stopped by long-shot Villanova? Chances are slim, although Vil- lanova played a whale of a game Thursday night at the A-dome in nippingda great Western Kentucky team 92-89 in double overtime. Vil- lanova simply outgunned the Hill- toppers, shooting 49 per cent from the floor to Western's meager 37, per cent. UCLA looked as formidable as ever in trouncing Kansas 68-60. Henry Bibby emerged' from his shooting slump to score 18, mostly from outside, and Wicks whittled Jayhawk forward Dave Robisch to a splinter in scoring 21. To add press with his deft ball-handling. Rowe, often referred to as "the other forward" on the Bruin squad, outbattled Jayhawk sequoias Ro- bisch and 6-10 Roger Brown on the boards, collecting 15 caroms. He backed up Bibby and Wicks with 16 points. "My goodness, I don't know when we've had so many turnovers," commented Bruin trainer Johnny Wooden. UCLA, bothered by the Kansas press on occasion, turned- the leather over 24 times in one of its less awesome floor perform- ances. Kansas Coach Ted Owens blamed his team's loss on missed charity tosses, saying, "We didn't take ad-' vantage of our chances." Kansas hit a poor 12 for 23 from the line compared with UCLA's 22-30. The imperturbable Wicks calmly tossed in 11 of his 13 chances. Villanova parlayed the deadeye i insult to injury, the smooth 6-8 shooting of Wicks broke Kansas' full - court towski into husky Hank Siemionk- their second straight upset win. Just one week ago The Wildcast bumped off undefeated, Penn by a startling 90-47 count. iiemiontkowski netted 31 points in a fine display of shooting from. about 15 feet out. Villanova Coach Jack Kraft commented after the game, "We designed our offense so that whoever was guarded by Jim McDaniels would get the 15- foot shots. We didn't think Mac would come out too far on de-r fense." This Krafty strategy paid off as the Big "S" hit again and again while McDaniels, Western fine 7-0 center, stood near the key.. All-America forward Howard Porter was a monster for Villanova in the second overtime as he swat- ted a pair of Western .hots out of bounds and sent the 'Cats into an 89-87 lead with a corner jumper. Western got fine efforts from Jerry Dunn (25 points) and Jim; Rose (18 points) but just couldn't match the torrid Wildcats from the field. Western Kentucky's loss prob- ably deflated many Bruin-haters who saw the aggressive Hilltopper press as the weapon whicn could have stopped UCLA. The Bruins numerous turnovers against Kan- sas demonstrated their weaknesst for a tough press. Villanova must do two things to defeat UCLA today: continue their fine shooting and stay out of foul trouble. Basically a five-man team, the Wildcats almost blew the West- ern Kentucky game after Siemionk- in towski fouled out with a few sec- onds left in regulation time. Joe -Associated Pres s onnplad sllanova s sixball this UCLA BRUIN Kenny Booker (left) battles for a rebound with year, particularly in the East re- Kansas center Roger Brown (55) in Thursday's NCAA semi- gionals against Penn, but can't per- finals in the Astrodome. UCLA won the contest and will meet form as well as his starting mates. Villanova today to determine the national champion. Sonics win rights to Haywood ending legal hassle -withB NEW YORK W)--Georgia Tech's big Rich kid gets a shot at the North Carolina roulette wheel to- day in the finals of the 34th Na- tional Invitation Basketball Tour- nament. It's Rich Yunkus' crack outside shooting against North Carolina's free-wheeling substitution system, often termed Coach Dean Smith's "roulette players." "We'll get blown out if we don't play our game," Smith said yes- terday on the day before the championship at Madison Square. Garden. The game he's talking about is a high-pressure, man-to-man de- fense, board strength with a trio of fluid, agile front-liners and a quick-striking fast break. It's also the game that Yunkus says Georgia Tech must stop. "We can't let them control the boards," said the blond, 6-9 center with one of the best outside shots in the country. "If they get the board play, they'll run us out with that fast break." Smith's system of shuttling daily sports 14IGHT EDITOR: BILL ALTERMAN players in and out of a game has been the key to North Carolina's three victories in this classic-a 90-49 sweep of Massachusetts in the opener; the 86-79 quarter- final success over Providence and a 73-67 triumph over Duke in the semifinals Thursday night. . "When the players get tired, they let me know by holding up their fists-and I send in fresh re- inforcements," said Smith. The Tar Heels' balance has been pointed out dramatically in this tourney. They lost leading scorer Dennis Wuycik to injury in the first game, and still asserted them- selves. Among the North Carolina cast are 6-foot-6 Bill Chamberlain, 6-8 Dave Chadwick and 6-11 Lee Ded- mon, a quick center who will have the job of guarding Yunkus, a 27- point-a-game scorer. North Carolina guards George Karl and Steve Previs, one of the quickest backcourts in this 16- team tourney, will be charged with holding off Georgia Tech's Frank Samoylo and Jim Thorne. Georgia Tech's Tommy Wilson and Bob Murphy will battle one-on-one with the Tar Reels forwards. The Tar Heels, who won the regular season Atlantic Coast Con- ference crown, appeared only once before in the NIT. They were eliminated in last year's first round. Georgia Tech also m'nade only one other appearance, in 1970, and dropped a quarter-final match after an opening-round victory. The Yellow Jackets made it into this year's finals with victories over LaSalle, Michigan and St. Bonaventures. Schoolboy crowns at stake. as March madness peaks By AL SHACKELFORD March madness reaches its climax today with the four finals of, the Michigan state high school basketball championships at Crisler Arena. The featured game will pit Detroit Kettering against Flint North- ern in the Class A finals at 8:30 p.m. Kettering, led by 6-9 All-State center Lindsey Hairston, nailed Campy Russell and his number-one ranked Pontiac Central squad 70-67 last Saturday to win a favorite's role in tonight's contest. Michigan basketball fans may be viewing a future Wolverine in Hairston, who is currently being courted by the school's recruiters. Other Kettering starters are high-scoring Conniel Norman and Rick Higgs at the forwards and Joe Johnson and Howard Robinson at guards. Flint Northern finished'second to Pontiac Central in the power- house Saginaw Valley Conference and clipped Kalamazoo Central 52-40 last Saturday in the semifinals. A lack of height may plague Northern tonight, as they have only one starter over 6-3. Center Tom McGill leads Northern scoring with a 23-point average while forward Wayman Britt has grabbed 16 caroms a game to lead the team in that category. Lending good outside shooting and floor leadership to Northern is 5-11 guard Ron Polk. Perennial champ River Rouge is favored to clobber Muskegon Heights in the B finals at 11:30. Rouge has piled up one of the finest records in the history of schoolboy basketball and turned out such stars as Willie Betts, Frank Price and Bill Kilgore. The Class C finals will feature a battle of the undefeateds as Stockbridge (23-0) faces Shelby (23-0). This will be Stockbridge's first trip to the finals, but Shelby has been here before. Jesse Campbell, a 6-8 center, brings 28-points and 25-rebounds a game stats into today's 4:30 C final. Campbell and his smaller mates have guided Stockbridge to the number-one ranking in Class C this year, one notch ahead of challenger Shelby. At 3 p.m. Covert will tangle with Freesoil in the D final. Covert grabbed 'the title a few years back behind giants Jim Sarno and Maurice Armstrong, but fields a smaller, better-shooting team this year. Freesoil boasts a 6-4 All-State center in Rich Shereda. IN IRISH INVITATIONAL Michigan netters crush Florida Special To The Daily i SOUTH BEND, Ind.-- Michigan's defending Big Ten Tennis Champions traveled to South Bend yesterday to compete in the Irish Invita- tional Tennis Tournament. This was the first in- tercollegiate action for the Wolverines this season, and they didn't wait long in asserting their tal- ents by routing Florida 8-1 in t h e i r opening match. The Gators are usually one of the b e t t e r southern tennis teams, but they were completely outmanned as Michigan took five singles matches and all three doubles competitions. The only loss came at the sixth singles slot where Mike Ware defaulted to Florida's Mike McCafferty after split- ting the first two sets. Michigan's victory was so complete that none of the top five singles players were even extended to three sets. , In number one singles, Junior Joel Ross de- feated the Gatoc's Ray Heidema 6-4, 7-6. The second set was decided using the tie breaker sys- tem. Tim Ott, who recently outdueled Dick Ray- reby for the second position in a challenge match; easily handled Rick Knight 6-2, 6-4, Ravreby de- cisioned Bruce Bartlett 7-5, 6-4. Freshman Kevin Senich made his varsity debut with a convincing r 6-4, 6-4 victory over Rusty Addie. Ramone Al- monte, Wolverine captain, picked apart Bing No- bles in the number five singles match and came out on top 6-0, 6-2. According to Michigan Coach Brian Eisner, "Ware developed severe stomach cramps and had to default. He also had to be pulled out of number one doubles, but (Doug) McClaury did a great job in his place." Ott and McClaury, both tremendously power- ful servers, downed the Gator team of Bartlett and Hiedema 6-3, 6-2. In the second doubles match Senich and Almonte were extended to the limit but still managed to-emerge with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Knight and Addy. Ravreby and Ross completed the romp as they tore past Nobles and McCafferty 6-3, 6-2. Eisner remarked that he "was very happy with the ovorall performance." He added, "The doubles combinations will be switched around during the tournament. We'll use a different number one team each time." The Irish Invitational also includes the squad of Indiana and host Notre Dame. Michigan meets the Irish today at 8 a.m. in what Eisner expects to be an "outstanding match." Notre Dame has a 3-2 team record. i. NEW YORK (P) - The National Basketball Association said yester- day Spencer Haywood, a center of controversy in his two years as a, pro, can play with Seattle at a cost of $200,000 to the Super Sonics. The outhof-court settlement, in- cluding the $200,000 fine by the League, was announced by NBA Commissioner Walter Kennedy and ended a series of legal hassles involving Haywood, the Sonics and the NBA. "All litigation now pending in reference to the Haywood-Seat- tle SuperSonics case in the Fed- eral Court is to be immediately dismissed with prejudice," said NCAA COMPETITION: Indiana dominates swimming; Esteva bests teammate Stamm AMES, Iowa (P) - Southern blistering 6:39.0 clocking, shatter- California's 800-yard freestyle re-1 ing the old American mark of lay team smashed the American 6:47.2 also set by the Trojans in record by more than eight seconds, 1970. but Indiana, behind record-shat- In the second day of the three- tering Gary Hall, continued to build day NCAA aquatic show at Iowa a huge team lead in the 48th NCAA State, two other American records swimming and diving champion- were fashioned and a five NCAA ship last night. The Southern Cal quartet of Andy Atrenk, Kim Tutt, Tom Mc- Breen, and Jim McConica outlasted Indiana's foursome to win with a' Cowboys ahead in *wrestling AUBURN, Ala. iP) - Mighty Oklahoma State, sending five into championship matches, virtually clinched its 27th National Colleg- iate Athletic Association wrestling championship last night. The Cowboys built a 73-52 bulge over defending champion I o w a State, which earned two finals spots. Iowa State, which also won in 1969, could gain a tie if all OSU wrestlers lost and the Cyclones won each match by a fall. Two Cowboys won on referee's decisions, Darrell Keller over, Navy's Lloyd Keaser at 1 4 2 pounds, and Jay Areson at 150 marks fell both in the afternoon preliminaries and the evening's six-finals program. Hall became a double winner, copping the 400-individual medley with an American mark of 3:58.2 and in the afternoon trials, fresh- man Tom Bruce of UCLA posted a 100-breastroke American mark of 56.8. It was the second victory in American record time for Hall who also won the 200-yard individual medley ;Thursday in 1:52.2. Although Indiana made a stirring battle against Southern Cal in the 800-freestyle relay, with Jim Mc- Conica, the Trojans newly crowned 200-freestyle champion, staving off Hall on the anchor 200 leg, the Hoosiers were disqualified when a team member jumped in the pool before the other teams had finished. Indiana's clocking of 6:39.5 also bettered the former American re- cord and Indiana's own NCAA re- cord of 6:48.8 in the afternoon pre- lims. Although the relay disqualifica- tion took away 26 points, Indiana has compiled 239 points for a 74- point lead over Southern Cal 'after the meet's first 11 events. Hall's second victory in the three- day meet came after Spaniard San- tiago Esteva of Indiana upset ed in 51.71 seconds and Stamm in 51.73. Indiana, carrying a wide team point margin into the second night of the three-day meet, also had a new champion crowned in Mark Spitz, who captured the 200-yard butterfly in 1:50.1, slightly slower than his own American and NCAA record of 1:49.5. Defending champion Brian Job of Stanford retained his 100-yard breaststroke title by leading all the way to defeat UCLA freshman Tom Bruce, who set an American and NCAA record of 56.8 in the afternoon prelims. Job's title-win- ning time was 57.2, with Bruce clocked at 57.6. The 200-yard freestyle crown' went to Jim McConica of South- ern California, whose teammate, Frank Heckl, edged out Indiana's John Kinsella for second place. McConica led after the first 100 yards and Kinsella, who Thursday set an NCAA mark of 4:27.3 in the 500 freestyle, never could cut down McConica's early lead. In the afternoon's five-event individual trials, Indiana produced a total of 12 qualifiers including no fewer than five for the 12-man finals in the 400-individual med- ley. 'Kennedy in a statement. The term "with prejudice" means an issuer is legally dead. However, there still is. other legal action involving Haywood which has not been settled. "This the NBA action does not affect our breach of contract suit against Haywood nor our $10 million damage suit against the Seattle SuperSonics," said a spokesman for the Denver Rock- ets of the American Basketball Association. Haywood, who was rookie of the year and most val- uable player in the ABA last sea- son, jumped to the Sonics this season from the Rockets with whom he had a $1.9 million con- tract. Kennedy also said the Sonics would participate in all rounds of the NBA's college draft next Mon- day and that "all protests filed by NBA teams in reference to games in which Haywood partici- pated have been dismissed." "It clearly appearing that Hay- wood's contract with the Denver Rockets of the American Basket- ball Association is invalid," Ken- nedy said, "a settlement was work- ed out in meetings with the league, its counsel and counsel for Hay- wood." The crux of the NBA's case against Haywood and Seattle was its constitution and by-laws which prohibit a club from signing a player until his college class grad- uates. Haywood, who signed with Seat- tle last Dec. 28, was an Olympic ace and a sophomore star at the University of Detroit and his col- lege class does not graduate until June, 1971. During the various legal ma- neuverings, Haywood managed to play in 33 games for the Sonics. In Seattle, owner Sam Schul- man of the Sonics said he felt the I NBA would "show compassion and minimize the fine over the years." Bullets win PHILADELPHIA (P) - The crip- pled Baltimore Bullets apparently took a miracle cure as they came back to rout the Philadelphia 76ers 119-107 last night to even their National Basketball Association semifinal playoff series at one game each. Special to the Daily PHOENIX - Michigan's ace right-hander Jim Burton put on another good pitching perform- ance yesterday but received little support from Wolverines batsmen and came out a. loser, 2-1 to Wyo- ming. Burton scattered ten hits and only walked one but suffered his first loss after two wins. The de- feat was Michigan's fourth against five victories on their spring trip which they close out today against Wyoming. In the bottom of the ninth three Wyoming singles loaded the bas- es but Burton retired the next two and seemed to be out of the jam. But a passed ball by catcher John Lonchar let Gerald Stearns cross the plate with the winning run for the Cowboys, and gave Bur- ton his loss. WYOMING Bulloch 2b O'Daniels lb Stearns 3b Meyer ss Madia cf - rf Onjack c Martoglio rf McKenzie If Corbin if - rf Daniel ph R. Sullivan cf Wiatrak ph Jones p Meanwhile ,in Los Angeles, the Buffalo Braves of the NBA ask- ed U.S. District Judge Warren J. Ferguson, who ruled that Hay- wood could playdwith the Sonics, for permission to pick Haywood at Monday's college draft. Ferguson said he could not ap- prove or deny the request until such a draft is made. Carrow 3b Bowen cf Rafferty ss P. Sullivan lb Roberts if - rf Mulvihill c Lonchar ph - c DeCou rf Kettinger ph - If 'Kocoloski 2b Burton p MICHIGAN ab 4 3 4 4 2 3 1 1 4 3 )tais 31 LOSE ON PASS BALL: 'sfl. r 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1' 0 0 0 a 0 h 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1X 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 Totals 36 2 10 Errors - Rafferty, Bulloch, Meyer 3. PO - A Wyo., 27-16; Mich. 26-10. DP - Wyo. 3. LOB - Wyo. 10, Micli. 9. RBI - Madia, Kocploski. 2b - Martoglio, Stearns 2. SB - Roberts, Onjack. Sac - Roberts, Burton, Madia. rhe MICHIGAN 010 000 000-1 6 1 Wyoming 000 001 001-2 10 4 PITCHING ip h r er w so Burton (I, 2-1) 82 10 2 1 1 8 Bones (w, 1-0) 9 6 1 1 3 3 HBP - Roberts by Jones. Pass- ed ball - Lonchar. Umpires - Meh- ren, Ashby. Time 2:20. *Two out when winning run scored. The most wonderous peo- ple on campus come to the P. Bell-do you? REMEMBER: MONDAY NIGHT IS BEER NITE. CHEAP BEER 1. t PLACES TO GO? COSTS? PLANS? OTHER PEOPLE? YOU'RE INVITED.. . U TRAVEL to ISRAEL on YOUR MIND? SOUTH QUAD Presents THE MOTOR ECitMUTANTS REVUE E