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By FRANK LONGO
"We just didn't react.",
Michigan hockey coach Dan
Farrell summed it up best. Last,
night Minnesota's Golden Gophers
skated around and through the
Wolverine icers for much of the
game en route to a 4-2 victory at
Yost Ice Arena.
Except for brief spurts in the
second period, Michigan just
could not keep up with the faster
Gophers, who hold down third,
place in the Western Collegiate
Hockey Association.
"We're a much improved
club," countered Minnesota men-
tor Herb Brooks, whose team
tied and lost to the Wolverines
earlier in the season. "We came
in respecting Michigan, and knew
we had to play a good game to
win. This was one of our better
nights.
"But I'll tell you this," con-
tinued the second-year Gopher
coach, "this WCHA race is notr
going to be settled until the final
week. I can see teams moving
from eighth to fourth, maybe
iers
even fourth to eighth, and
Before last night 12 poin
arated the first and last
in the league, with some,
having as many as 12"gai
maining.
The Gophers almost com
dominated the play in the
ing period, but somehow
gan emerged with the onl
With each team a man
Wolverine Paul-Andre,
backhanded a shot from n
face-off circle which found
Brad Shelstad out of posit
Michigan had an early le
The goal was the second
season for Paris, who also
a major penalty-killing ro
ing the remainder of the
The Gophers did not score
er play goal, while theN
ines chalked up 28 mina
the sin bin, including
minute misconduct to
Shand for swearing at
Don Wilkie.
Shand claimed that Mini
Buzz Schneider had spear
in the throat, and reacted
deck
so on." when Wilkie did not call a
ts sep- alty. Shand sat out the rema
teams of the' game, and will not
teams for tonight's contest, whi
nes re- Farrell's standing rule for
ers receiving misconduct1
apletely ties.
e open- "We lead the league in
Michi- conducts," lashed an angry
y goal. rell. "They are going to pla
short, way or they, are not goi
Paris play."
ear the A number of end-to-end i
I goalie marked the second period's
ion and but Minnesota came up
'ad. three tallies while the Wolv
I of the garnered only one, that be
played tip-in by Gary Kardos offa
ale dur- tering pass from Kris Mai
game. The Blue icers began to
a pow- some control, but Randy
Wolver- and Angie Moretto were
Lutes in thwarted by Shelstad, and
a ten Dufek rang one off the goa
Dave from right out in front.
referee In the Michigan net, I
Moore was kicking out 49
nesota's but Mike Polich and Schi
ed him both beat him on the shor
vocally from in close, and Robby I
scored the eventual game-v
on a pretty deflection of a
from John Matschke.
"We weren't up for it,'
mitted Michigan captain I
Trudeau. "As a team we
didn't play well defensivel
let them wander around i
end too much."
icers,
4-2
This Weekend in Sports
TODAY
BASKETBALL-Iowa, at Iowa City
TRACK-Michigan Relays at Bowen Fieldhouse, Ypsilanti
GYMNASTICS-Minnesota, 1 p.m. at Crisler Arena
WRESTLING-r-Illinois, 3:30 p.m. at Crisler Arena
SWIMMING-Northwestern, 4 p.m. at Matt Mann Pool
HOCKEY-Minnesota, 7:30 p.m. at Yost Ice Arena
MONbAV
BASKETB'ALL-Wisconsin, 8 p.m. at Crisler Arena
Women's-University of Toledo,
6 p.m. at the IM Bldg.
night. In contrast, Minnesota
skated hard, passed well, and
forechecked and backchecked in-
cessantly.
The two teams do battle again
tonight at Yost, beginning at
7:30. If Michigan seriously. in-
tends to challenge for that final
playoff berth, a change is defin-
itely in order.
Gophered Blue
SCORE BY PERIODS
Minnesota 0 3 1-4
MICHIGAN 1 1 0-2
FIRST PERIOD
SCORING: 1. M-Paris (Kardos)
6:00.
PENALTIES: 1. Mn-Harris (inter-
ference) 4:12; 2. M-Dunbar (hold-
ing) 5:37; 3. M-Shand (misconduct)
7:16; 4. M-Moretto, 5. M-Neal, 6.
Mn-Auge, 7. Mn-Miller (roughing),
8:54; 8. M-Dufek (tripping) 15:57.
SCORING: 2. Mn-Polich (Schnei-
der, 'spannbauer) :47; 3. M-Kar-
dos (Manery) 4:10; 4. Mn-Schneider
(Polich) 11:37; 5. Mn-R. Harris . . ,,m*.
(Matschke, J. Harris) 13:41.
PENALTIES: 9. Mn-Auge (hook-
ing) 5:03; 10. M-Trudeau (holding)
on the ice); 12. M-Hughes (high
sticking) 17:38.'
THIRD PERIOD '
SCORING: 6. Mn-M a t s c hi k e ...:* *~~;
(Auge, J. Harris) 12:10.{s hk
PENALTIES: 13. Mn-Polich (high
sticking) 11:27; 14. M- Trudeau
(high sticking) 11:27; 15. M--T.
Lindskog (tripping) 12:55; 16. M-
Fox (high sticking) 18:29. Daily Photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI
SAVES: 1 2 3 Total MICHIGAN GOALIE Robbie Moore (29) readies -himself for a shot off the stick of Minnesota's John
Sheistad (Mn) 7 17 8 Sheridan (18) during last night's 4-2 Michigan loss at Yost Ice Arena. Moore saved this drive and
Moore CM) 19 14 16 9 48 others, but that wasn't enough to stop the Golden Gophers.
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scheduled
Tonight's basketball game at Iowa begins'at 8:35 p.m., East-
ern Daylight Time. It will be broadcast in Ann Arbor over WAAM,
1600 AM; and WUOM, 91.7 FM.
Minor sports take over
While Johnny Orr's hoopsters are off visiting the Fun Capital
of the Midwest, the so-called "minor" sports will come into their
own here at Ann Arbor.
This afternoon's gympastics-wrestling doubleheader at Crisler
Arena has been moved up a half-hour as a concession to the
energy crisis. The action begins at 1:00 when the gymnasts host
Newt Loken's alma mater, the University of Minnesota. Imme-
diately thereafter, Rick Bay's wrestlers take on Illinois.
The Illini are rebuilding this year, which is a polite way
of saying that so far they haven't been very good. Last
night, for example, they got stomped 33-2 by MSU up in East
Lansing. Their best men include 126-pounder Bob Mayer,
Andy Passaglia at 134, and heavyweight Palmer Klass, who
should be the toughest opponent Gary Ernst has faced in
awhile.
The Wolverines' next home meet will be a lot tougher:
Oklahoma visits Crisler on February 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the first
of four dual meets where the Maize and Blue will confront na-
tionally-ranked foes. If Michigan does win its hoped-for national
championship, no-one will be able to accuse the Wolverines of
having waltzed through a patsy schedule.
Swim fans should enjoy the meet against Northwestern at
4:00 p.m. in Matt Mann pool. The Wildcats have dropped dual
meets to nonpowers Ohio State and Purdue, and if they come
close against Gus Stager's crew, it will shock everyone.
The Michigan Invitational track festivities were originally
scheduled for the new indoor track facility, but because that
building is still under construction, the event had to be
moved to Bowen Fieldhouse at Eastern Michigan. Action be-
gins at 10:30 a.m., and continues throughout the day.
Minnesota is back at Yost Ice Arena for a rematch at 7:30
tonight, but if you want to see a really big game, clear your
schedule for Monday night and show up at Crisler, where the
Michigan basketballers will take on mighty Wisconsin at 8:00.
-STAFF
Hawkeyes pick Cecchini
IOWA CITY-Tom Cecchini, who played some scintillating
games at linebacker for Michigan during the Bump Elliott era,
has been named an assistant football coach at the University
of Iowa, where the Bumper is now Athletic Director.
Cecchini's last job was as head football coach at Xavier. He
turned the team around on the field, but couldn't do the same at
the boxoffice, and the sport was dropped.
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After what would have
considered. a successful
last weikend (a split at XN
sin), the Wolverines just
seem to have any energy
Mcy
grapp le rs
rip
up
Pu rdu e
By FRED UPTON
The 30 to six score wouldn't
indicate a close match to the
casual scoreboard watcher. But
the Michigan victory over the
Purdue Boilermakers was exactly
that.
Four of the six decisions were
won by a total of six points.
The best matchlin was between
Wolverine Dan Brink and Ptir-
due's Dave Dilworth. Brink won
at the buzzer with a takedown
and a near fall for a total of
four points for a 14-12 victory.
Coach Rick Bay commented
that, "Brink made a lot of mis-
takes out there-bit he's a hell-
uva competitor. He went for
broke and gave eight minutes of
wrestling."
THE CROWD WAS on its feet
for most of the battle. It almost
resembled last week's basketball
victory at the b'izzer over MSU.
The referee didn't hear the signal
because of the crowd noise. At
that instant, Brink had.just taken
his opponent down on his back.
Though the wrestlers continued.
past the buzzer, Brink was
awarded two points for a near-
fall, and Purdue coach Don Cor-
rigan argued to no avail with the
timer.
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Afterwards, Corrigan claimed
that "we shouldn't have been in
there at all, but then when you
take a guy down four times as
Dilworth did, s o m e t h in g's
wrong."
The Jim Brown - Joe Corso
match was close all the way. It
was decided on a false start by
Corso that gave Michigan a one
point penalty and hence the vic-
tory. Corso led in riding time.
RIDING TIME helped Michi-
gan's Rich Valley win over Joe
LaSpada in another close 4-3
decision.
Next came total domination by
Senior Bill Davids over Boiler-
maker Aaron Benjamin. Davids
almost literally ground his op-
ponent into the mat scoring ten
points by takedowns and 11 in
near falls.
According to Bay, the biggest
surprise of the match was Rick
Neff's performance in his loss
to Al Housner. Neff replaced the
injured Bill Schuck, and Bay
promised that "based on Neff's
performance he will definitely
still challenge Schuck for the
spot."
Though Bay was impressed
with Neff, Corrigan said that his
man (Housner) thought Michi-
gan was trying to scout him and
therefore didn't show any great
moves. "I didn't talk to Al
though, he did it on his own," the
Purdue mentor alleged.
JERRY HUBBARD, like the
Miami Dolphins, was like a ma-
chine in his cakewalk victory
over Andy Watt. Hubbard char-
acteristically took his man down
and repeatedly 'let him escape
adding one point to his lead every
time. The Maize and Blue cap-
tain had seven takedowns, giving
his opponent five escapes.
Rob Huizenga had nine points
in four near falls against Harry
Downing in his superior decision.
The only two points that Down-
ing collected were a reversal
which was countered by another
reversal 'ten seconds later.
Dave Curby showed signs of
Hubbard influence by completely
dominating Nate Kempler.
THE MATCH ended on a high
note as Gary Ernst pinned Dick
Rodgers with 1:11 gone in the
second period. After the first
period, it almost could have been
predicted.
Ruptured Boilers
118-Jir o rown (M) dec. Joe Corso
(P). 4-3.
126-Rich valley (M) dec. Joe La-
Spada (P), 4-3.
134-Bil Davids (M) sup. dec.
Aaron Benamin (P), 24-4.
142--Al Housner (P) dec. Rick
Neff (M), 3-1.
150-Jerry Hubbard (M) sup. dee.
Andy Watt (P),,18-5.
158-Dan Brink (M) dec. Dave
Dilworth (P), 14-12.
167-Bernie Barrile (P) dec. John
Ryan (M), 9-3.
177-Rob Huizenga (M) sup. dec.
Harry Downing (P), 18-2.
190-Dave Curby (M4) dec. Nate
Kempler (P), 10-4.
Hwt.-Gary Ernst (M) pinned Dick
Rodgers (P), 3:11.
SCIRIES
NBA
Detroit 93, Houston 89
IChicago 104, Seattle 99
Boston 112, Philadelphia 97
Kansas City-Omaha 118, Buffalo 113
NHL
f Detroit 2, Atlanta 2
Doily Photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI
WRESTLING ACE Rob Huizenga skillfully rises to his feet while attempting to control the hands of
his opponent, Purdue's Harry Downing, in their match last night. The former Bullshit Party candidate
for SGC did everything but ship
Cagers
By MARC FELDMAN
Borrowing the hackneyed cliche
of a sportswriter gone bad,.
Michigan Coach Johnny Orr says,
"Well, it's out of -the frying pan
and into the fire" for the Mich-
igan Wolverines when they take
the court at Iowa City tonight to
play the Iowd Hawkeyes.
Having played a much more
demanding non-conference slate
than most Big Ten teams, the
Hawkeyes struggle into tonight's
encounter with five straight loss-
es and a 4-10 overall record. The
Hawkeyes have had no success
whatsoever on the road with loss-
es in all seven games away from
the friendly confines of Iowa
Fieldhouse, but they have one,
strong sympathizer in Orr.
"They've had some tough de-
feats. Without a doubt, they're
the best 4-10 team in the country
and they've played a tremendous
schedule." While other teams
were fattening up on Rollins and
North Dakota State, the Hawk-
his foe to Singanore on the way to an 18-2 superior decision.
battle
Iowa
tonight
THE LINEUPS
Padres get Kroc-ed
CHICAGO-Raymond Kroc, who turned the MacDonald's
hamburger chain into a household word, announced yesterday he
plans to purchase the San Diego Padres, which he intends to
turn into a baseball team.
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5. * *
Pistons burn
DETROIT-Thundering "Bob Lanier whipped in .26 points
last night as the incredible Detroit Pistons recovered from a
12-point halftime deficit to stifle the Houston Rockets, 93-89.
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eyes were losing to Marquette,
Kentucky, and UCLA as well as
former top t w e n t y occupant
Kansas State.
Orr feels his team will be able
to bounce back from Monday
night's mind-blowing defeat at
Purdue. "We've had some good
practices and hopefully we'll
play well in Iowa."
Iowa mentor Dick Schultz has
a young team this year as his
former top gun, 7-0 Kevin Kun-
nert, has taken his talents to the
NBA, and guard Rick Williams
graduated.
The Hawkeyes' top scorer
(18.1) is backcourtman Candy
LaPrince, wvho pumped in 32
points M o n d a y night against
Michigan State up at East Lans-
ing and had a 34 point night in
a December game with Ken-
tucky. Three-year starter Neil
Fegebank is the only other Hawk
in double figures with a 12.9
point norm.
The scoring averages drop off
considerably after that with La-
Prince's running mate at guard,
John Hairston, scoring at an
8.4 clip and cornerman Scott
Thompson, 7.0.
Senior Jim Collins (6-9) has
taken over the pivot spot after
languishing on the bench and his
improved play in the Hawks' last
two gameshas given Schultz
some reason to be optimistic.
"Collins has played two great
games in a row and when he
f o u l e d out against Michigan
State, that's when they broke
open the game."
The Hawkeyes' major problem
seems to lie on the backboards.
Fegebank, Iowa's leading re-
bounder, has pulled down just
under seven caroms per game
and the Hawks are ninth in the
Big Ten in rebounding, com-
ppred with Michigan's surpris-
ing fourth ranking in that cate-
anr
Campy Russell (6-8, 23.0)
Wayman Britt (6-2, 10.6)
C.J. Kupec (6-8, 13.7)
Joe Johnson (5-10, 9.7)
Steve Grote (6-2, 13.1)
Michigan seems to have every-
thing going for it this evening
except the home court. The Wol-
verines are very much in the
thick of the conference race with
a 3-1 conference log and 11-3
overall record.
Campy Russell, who has been
as consistent as fine wine this
year, leads the Big Ten in scor-
ing with a 24.0 average while
center C.J. Kupec is eleventh in
the loop in scoring, second in
field goal percentage (.593), and
fifth in rebounding.
The fans at Iowa Fieldhouse
also remember the brouhaha that,
erupted at last year's encounter
b e t w e e n the Wolverines and
Hawkeyes, won by the Iowans,
75-68.
Home court or no home court,
tonight's game is a must win for
the Wolverines with the tower-
ing Wisconsin Badgers coming
to town Monday night. In other
Big Ten action today Indiana will
play at Northwestern, Michigan
State at Minnesota, and Wiscon-
sin will entertain Ohio State.
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DIVER CRAINE EXCELS:
IOWA
Neil Fegebank (6-8, 12.9)
Scott Thompson (6-3, 7.0)
Jim Collins (6-9, 6.3)
Candy LaPrince (6-2, 18.1)
John Hairston (6-2, 8.4)
Tankers sink Purdue
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By TED SMITH
Today's UCLA-Notre Dame rematch dominates
this weekend's college basketball action. The
Irish are ranked first in both major wire-service
polls following their stunning 71-70 upset victory
last week over the previously invincible Bruins.
Clearly, the Irish's desperation prayers worked.
UCLA led by wide margins throughout the game
until the closing minutes. Then, Notre Dame
miraculously reeled off the final 12 points to
capture the victory.
But weirdness can only go so far-it will take
another supernatural effort on behalf of the
Irish for them to nill off another triumnh over
D:
I invade UCLA
ference and the NCAAs" song-and-dance act, the
Uclans will have a lot of pride .at stake whenr
they take the court this afternoon.
Most basketball observers ,predict a UCLA vic-
tory, with a substantial point spread. It's dif-i
ficult to dispute their conclusions. Almost no-
body can imagine Notre Dame center John Shu-:
mate driving on Walton with impunity for the
second straight time.
Bruin All-American Keith Wilkes is a well-
k n o w n come-through-in-the-clutch player, who'
simply had an off-afternoon in South Bend. And
coach Wooden is widely respected as a master
nsvchologist who can inspire his teams to peak
By BILL CRANE
The Michigan swimmers pad-
dled away with another easy vic-
tory last night, swamping Purdue
89-32 at Matt Mann Pool. Coach
Gus Stager again tried some new
combinations of swimmers to test
the Wolverines' depth for the quick-
ly approaching Big Ten meet.
Freshman Norm Semchyshen,
who is becoming a minor sensa-
tion, won the 1000-yard freestyle
event, beating Tom Szuba by near-
ly five seconds. Stager remarked
that, "with the way Norm is swim-
ming, Szuba is finding a need to
get in better shape." Semchyshen
is one recruit who is truly coming
through for the tankers.
Fred Yawger, another Stager re-,
cruit new to the team this year,
won the 100-yard butterfly. Rob
Helt and Joe Bauer placed second
and third respectively behind Yaw-
ger.
SENIOR DAN FISHBURN had a
fine evening for himself, winning
both the 200-yard freestyle and the
200-yard butterfly.
In the best race of the night,
Purdue's Randy Rodriquez came
from way back to nip Pat Bauer at
the finish of the 500-yard freestyle.
The race was not really a disaster
Craine gave the rest of the Mich- Purdue boiled
igan divers a new goal bysearning 100 YD. BACKSTROKE-FOster (M),
a 310.05 -- Michigan's best threeI :56.6
meter board score of the year. 100 YD. BREASTSTROKE-Shuck (P),
1 :03.28.
ALTHOUGH individual swim-'100 YD. BUTTERFLY-Yawger (M),
ALTHOGH mividal -wim-4.6.
mers are paring their times, no ONE-METER DIVE-Schenthal (M),
team season bests were recorded 275.10. F Yy
last night. One season record set- 1000 YD. FREETYLE-Semchyshen
(M), 9:51.87.
ter, freestyler Gordon Downie, is 200 YD. FREESTYLE-Fishburn (M),
competing in the Commonwealth 1:48.87.
Games and won't rejoin the team 50 YD. FREESTYLE-Krauser (P),
until February. :22.22.
200 YD. INDIv. MEDLEY-Bauman
The Wolverines face North- (M) :. 2:02.19.
western at Matt Mann Pool today THREE-METER DIVE: Cralne (M),
at 4 p.m. Tom Szuba, used spar- 200 YD. BUTTERFLY-Fishburn (M),
ingly last night, will probably see 200 YD. BACKSTROKE-Foster (P),
more action this afternoon. Stu 2:01.19.
100 YD. FREESTYLE-Anderson .(M),
Isaac did not swim . breaststroke :49.30.
event and Chris Hansen didn't see 500 YD. FREESTYLE-Rodriguez (P),
I5:00:60.
action in the backstroke races. 200 YD. BREASTSTROKE-Brockway
Both might return to their spe- (M), 2:20.41.
400 YD. FREESTYLE RELAY- Michi-
cialties today. gan, 3:16.96.
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