Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY r ~U y ~ IL I.~I~ 1 WIN OPENER, 78-64 agers b By BILL CRANE injury sustained on Thanksgiv-- The Michigan basketball team ing gave White the starting call. bounced into action last Satur- Michigan coach John Orr said,I day d e f e a taing the Toledo "Robinson. did a very good job Rockets, 78-64. for us in practice. Not only did senior co-captain "He's a good basketball play- Joe Johnson turn in an excep- er," Orr added, but said that tional performance, but sopho- Robinson might have a hard more Rick White started in the time getting back into the start-I forward position vacated by ing lineup. Campy Russell, and did well. White's showing aside, John- White's debut as a starter son piloted Michigan past the was a pleasant surprise. Al- Rockets. The wiry backcourt though he hadn't seen much ace led all scorers with 20 action as a freshman, he con- points, assisted four times and nected on six of eight floor expertly broke the Toledo shots and score 16 points. press. adger Toledo This Week in Sports TODAY WRESTLING - Penn State, 7:30 p.m. at Crisler Arena FRIDAY HOCKEY - Notre Dame at South Bend SWIMMING - Purdue at Lafayette WRESTLING - Michigan State at E. Lansing SATURDAY BASKETBALL - Tennessee, 2:05 p.m. at Crisler Arena HOCKEY - Notre Dame at South Bend SWIMMING - Illinois at Champaign GYMNASTICS - Windy City Invitational at Chicago SUNDAY WRESTLING - East-West Double Dual at Uniondale, New Frost hit a narrow the 40-38 two stanza. pair of jumpers to Wolverine lead to minutes into the Johnson answered w i t h a! jumper, but Britt fouled To- ledo's Mike Larson, who hit two charity tosses to close the gap to 42-40. A f t e r Michigan resumed playing defense, Britt, Grote and White untracked the Blue attack. With Kupec and Britt pounding the boards, the Wol- verines were never seriously threatened a g a i n. Although Orr said later, "We couldn't put them away," Michigan's Despite inexperience, White played adequately on defense. He substituted for center C.J. Kupec for about six minutes in the game, but the Rockets couldn't capitalize. Toledo cen- ter Jim Brown scored 12 points, and didn't give either White or Kupec much trouble. White was the fifth man on a squad which included four re- turning starters. Although he grabbed only two rebounds and made two assists, his alert play didn't hurt the Wolverines. White committed only one turn- over. White was not supposed to start but John Robinson's ankle Johnson providetheebest de- fense of the day. He held Larry Cole, one-half of Toledo's nor- mally high-scoring guard attack, to six points. Cole was three of 12 from the field and, as Orr noted, "Joe held Cole withoutj a smell of the basket-without a shot for 30 to 35 minutes." Trailing 14-6 early in the game (mostly from the scoring of Toledo guard Jim Kindle) Mich- igan took time out to regroup. Immediately afterward, Way- man Britt arched a shot over the Toledo defenders, and the ball rolled around and dropped in. Brown answered with a jumper over Kupec, but John- York son made his first steal of the day and drove to the basket. Brown fouled him. Johnson converted both tosses and Michigan jumped into a full-court press. Britt recovered the ball, and when his own drive to the hoop was squelched, fired an over-the-shoulder pass to Grote, who scored. This made the tally 16-12 in Toledo's favor, but Mich- igan once again made the press work. Kindle, totally victory was well-earned and ------- -- - - convincing. trapped in the corner, called "I thought we played good de- a Rocket time out. fense and we were awfully After play resumed, the teams tough on the boards," Orr said. exchanged baskets, but Mich- igan proceeded to can four in I thought we held our own and a row. This Wolverine spree, I think we will regardless of which gave them a 22-18 lead, size because we're so luiok. featured good team defense and "We made a lot or mistakes! strong rebounding, especially by but we played hard. That's one KWhere earlier Kindle ad thing nobody will be able to. sparked Toledo's attack with fault us for-we play hard three quick baskets, Grote an- swered with strong dwfensive play. The Toledo star fai'el to DI score after his opening flurry, shot a cold 3-for-11 for te after-, noon, and fouled out with 7:37 to play in the game. After intermission, T o 1 2 d o I came back to within two points I Iel on two accasions, chiefly be- rao.QP fMichion didn'tge t Luck . AP Photo flich Ccssidv' onihe 1(11 Miami fullback Larry Csonka, grimacing like Ernest Hemingway Pt a bad bullfight, rips the Cincinnati defense for another first down during last night's 24-3 Dolphin victory over the Bengals. UMP TOP-RANKED TIGERS sen Se B setIs U OF M SKI CLUBMEETING WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4-8 p.m. ASSEMBLY HALL (in the Union) FILM ON BANFF (destination for Christmas trip) START THE NEW YEAR OFF RIGHT- Join the Ski Club in the Canadian Rockies, ski at Canada's largest ski area. Airfare, lifts, accommodations, and ground transportation included for $300 January 2-January 8 cause xcxgn xl gc , on defense well. Rocket Puss By ROGER ROSSITER season. Colorado College came into Michigan broke open each .....=.......... Ann Arbor last weekend as col- game with three-goal flurries lege hockey's top-ranked team. from w h i c h Colorado could The Top 20 But the Tigers did little to sub- never recover. The Wolverines stantiate that position, falling jumped into a quick 3-0 lead in By The Associated Press twice to Michigan, 8-5 and 7-3. the first seven minutes Friday, 1. N. Carolina state 37 1-0 876 "T H E Y (Colorado College) and the Tigers never got closer! 2. UCLA 7 2-0 796 have caught a lot of teams off than two goals thereafter. 3. Indiana 1 1-0 710! guard with the way they fore- SATURDAY IT was a five- 4. Maryland ina 1 1-0 441 check," said Michigan winger ( goal Michigan outburst in the 5. Souh Caroina 1 -0i42 6. Louisville 0-0 416 Kris Manery. "You have to second period, featrina three 7. Kansas 1-0 359 break the wingers off the goal spurt in the final five immi- 8. Marquette 0-0 342 boards against them, and some utes, that told the story. 9. North Carolina 1-0 293 10. Southern California 1-0 276 teams haven't done this. We "Forechecking. Making them 11. Alabama 0-0 268 were able to adjust." give up the puck in their own 12. Purdue 1-0 156 Angie Moretto scored three end. That's what made things. 13. Notre Dame 1-0 120 goals in -the series, increasing happen," Moretto said. "When 15. Kentucky 1-0 9 his Western Collegiate Hockey we do that, we score goa s" 16. Memphis State 1-0 90 Association total to 14. Moretto The Michigan defense did its 17. Providence 0-0 44 has scored 18 goals over-all this job well, keeping the Col'iraCo 18. Arizona 1-0 40 19. MICHIGAN 1-0 28 20. Houston 0-0 14 mu"fAr1Tr A . - wingers out of the sot ard; making them shoot frr:-m bad, ankles. Defenseman Tom Lindskog, who scored his first goal of ther season Friday, credited ,he for-, wards for helping the defense-' men. "The forwards are backcheck- ing so we can stand up," Lnd- skog said. "It's a niece of cake when they're working 'ike that." MICHIGAN STILL couldn't:1 stay out of the penalty box, and; its frequent penalties led to' many Colorado goals. The Ti- gers scored three power play goals in Friday nigh 's third period alone - two of which came when Michigan was two men short. The Wolverines 1.id get the "balanced s c o r i n g that we didn't get last year," Moretto said, as 11 Michigan players scored at least one goal.1 "We're playing more disci- plined, intelligent hockey this year," defenseman Greg Natale said. Michigan has won five of its! last six games against some of the WCHA's better teams, Min- nesota, Michigan Tech and Colo- rado. Much of that success is r W CHAIl TFILIY~iAR [ l <\'iiI _A~I\NALSR(& t WtNg s ts. WEEKEND RESULTS ', .:, :; ; rc ' e . v....".LL_- .. (.. ', : %' + % /j% {l' it I ,' i i ' % r ffft it rtz:?'f +.":;; ,f :F :::i r .:. ,r.; =" i ;;"ii?:iii'. fy.> iii':: iC4'{' fF ,.. :y:ri. 7 ' , , .; Jy ,, .. ..,.,, ;:,;: >r :::f:: > . ::s: :. .. n ome nc.. , to TIE&SI may. 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