Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, January 13, 1974 Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, January 13, 1974 Wolverines hang on, nip Minnesota 66-65 By MARC FELDMAN - Special To The Daily MINNEAPOLIS - The 18th-. ranked Michigan Wolverines staved off a frantic Minnesota rally in the closing minutes to SUNDAY post a nerve-jarring 66-65 Big SNA Ten victory over the Golden Gophers at Williams A r e n a NIGHT EDITORS: JIM EC: yesterday afternoon. The 10-2 Wolverines led by 16 points, 55-39, with under nine min- the left baseline and sliced the utes to play before foul trouble Michigan advantage to 63-58 with and the hot hands of Gopher guard 1:52 left. 14 seconds later Campy Rick McCutcheon and Flip Saun- Russell was whistled for charging,1 ders got Minnesota moving. bringing the 11,216 fans who McCutcheon, who scored 17 of braved 20-below zero temperatures his 20 points in the second half, to their feet.# controlled almost all the time They sat down temporarily wheni the Gophers had it. His driving C.J. Kupec made the defensive moves to the hoop brought a tor- gem of the game, blocking a rential succession of fouls from Saunders shot into the waiting Michigan guards Joe Johnson 'hands of Grote. Showing great, and Lionel Worrell. poise, Grote ran the club in John- Burdened with just two fouls son's absence and drew McCutch- midway through the second stanza, eon into a foul with 58 seconds Johnson picked up three personals remaining. in a 1:48 span to foul out with over GROTE MADE the first, and seven minutes still remaining. when the second was off the mark. Then McCutcheon went to work on Kupec tipped it in for a 66-58 lead. the reserve Worrell, inducing four But the tenacious Gophers still fouls from the freshman guard in had time for one last rally, scor- just a little over four minutes. ing seven points in the final 37 All these fouls and foul shots seconds to cut Michigan's victory had a corrosive effect on' what margin to one thin point when the had been an imposing Michigan final horn sounded. lead. Suddenly, the visitors led by Dennis Shaffer hit a three-point just five points, 59-54, with 4:13 play after Wayman Britt missed on the clock. from the line and Charlie Sims After Wolverine Steve Grote came back with a ten-footer with hit a couple of free throws to up 22 seconds left. Saunders fouledf the lead to seven, Saunders sand- Grote 12 seconds later, but Grote wiched a couple of errant shots missed the free throw and thej around a Michigan turnover. The Gophers cleared the boards and Wolverines then played ball con- called time. trol and ate nearly a minute off With a three-point lead Mich- the clock before turning it over igan Coach Johnny Orr ordered once again. his players to keep their hands McCutcheon and Grote exchanged off the Gophers, so Pete Gilcud's braces of free throws before the buzer tip-in only finalized the irrepresible Gopher guard drove score. - _ _E--x - _- lainin- the near-fatal col- 13au VZ1 1p SPORTS KER and BRIAN DEMING exhibition for most of the after- noon. McCutcheon came back for the Gophers with a couple of jump- ers but the Wolverines went on a 13-4 tear to assume the 16 point lead. Russell tallied seven, John- son four, and Kupec two during the spurt. Michigan showed its painful lack of depth when Johnson and Wor- rell fouled out and starting for- ward Britt had to move to the backcourt, a position he had not played since the second day of practice in October. Johnny Orr said, "A win is a Campy Russell, who scored a win, especially when it's on the. game-high of 23 points, meshed his road." The Wolverines won, but consummate skills with his team- the lack of frontline substitutes mates and dominated play at both will haunt the Wolverines many ends of the court. Seemingly play- times before this Big Ten season ing all three positions, Russell is over. triggered fast breaks with long out- let heaves, gunned from long and Golden Gophers short range, and hit his teammates tarnished with efficient passes. Russell made 11 of his 19 shots, MICHIGAN including a number of off-balance GroteFG FT R F iTP jumpers with Gophers hanging al so10-4 over him. He also pulled down 11 Kupec 4-8 6-7 12 2 14 rebounds. The Wolverines led by Britt 2-9 0-1 2 4 4 nine points on several occasions Russell 11-19 1-3 11 4 23 in the first half, with Russell and Rores 1-1 0-0 0150 Kupec leading the way. Team 6 The junior co-captain combined TOTALS 25-52 16-22 37 25 66 for 22 points and 14 rebounds in MINNESOTA the opening period before a basket FG FT R F TP and two free throws by Shaffer cut Mccutcheon 6-11 8-13 6 5 20 the Michigan lead to 34-29 at half- Saunders 5-16 4-4 1 4 14 time Gilcud 3-5 0-0 10 3 6 time Sim 2-5 2-2 2 M } } Michigan threatened to blow the. game open six minutes inta the second half when Russell and Grote scored on passes from Britt and Kupec, and Grote canned a couple of free throws for a 42-31. lead. Shaffer 7-18 5-5 5 Filer 0-4 0-0 2 Dungy 0-0 0-0 0 Team 7 TOTALS 23-59 19-24 37 SCORE BY PERIODS MICHIGAN 34 Minnesota 29 Att. 11,296 4 5 0 19 0 0 23 65 32-66 36-65 AP Photo MICHIGAN's BATTLING BACKCOURTMAN Steve Grote (30) wedges around Minnesota center Peter Gilcud (32) and after Gopher guard Rick McCutcheon (22) during the Wolverines convincing 66-65 victory y esterday. Grote's clutch foul shooting down the stretch kept Minnesota at bay and helped Johnny Orr's scrappy crew to remain unbeaten in Big Ten play. FALCONER FLOURISHES V-R's keep clean tab; 1711/T Tt"I*"v-v C £ ''1 3hA I iichl By BILL STIEG In an abrupt turnabout last night, the Michigan hockey teamrebound ed from a lackluster loss Friday and rolled to a convincing 6-2 vic- tory over North Dakota. Led by Bob Falconer's four goals, the Wolverines decisively' outplayed the Fighting Sioux be- fore an enormously pleased crowd of 4,287 in Yost Ice Arena. In every facet of the game, Mich- igan completely outclassed their opponents to hang onto a three- point lead over the Sioux in the battle for the eighth and last play- off in the WCHA. Though Falconer was definitely Northw to slugg By CLARKE COGSDILL . I Special To The Daily EVANSTON - Michigan's top ranked wrestlers may have scored their least impressive duel meet' victory when they overcame a tough pack of Northwestern Wild- cats 22-12 here, yesterday. Yet it may also prove to be the most significant. THE MAIZE AND BLUE were forced to the limits of their re- sources by a team which was gen- erally regarded as no better than fourth in preseason Big Ten rank- ings as it led by a mere one point, 13-12, after seven of the day's ten matches had been completed. "I'm disappointed we ware so f 1 a t," post - mortemed Michigan wrestling coach Rick Bay. "But I'm not surprised-we had some pretty lackadaisical practices this week and the guys might have come into here just a bit over- BADGERS UPSET Swimme r Special To The Daily MADISON - Wisconsin swam to a 70-53 upset victory over Mich- igan here yesterday in a meet fea- ,turing only four Michigan vic- tories. Coach Jack Pattinger'ss Badgers splashed to victory in nine events on their way to triumph. The Wolverines opened the meet with wins in the 400 yard medley, relay and the 1000 yard freestyle as the team of Chris Hansen, Stu Isaac, Fred Yawger, and Paul Foster nipped the Wisconsin squad by a second in the relay and Norm Semchyschen swam to a 9:51 win in the freestyle. gndekers pound the scoring hero of the contest, P e t e r Waselovich. Waselovich Later in the period, Pete Dun- several of the Wolverines also play- steered away the first shot, but bar scored his first goal of the ed great games. In the nets, Rob- Falconer quickly flipped the re- season, and Paul Paris added an- bie Moore was his usual outstand- bound out in front where it hi an other tally with a long slap shot ing self, not losing his shutout until unsuspecting Sioux defender in the from the blue line. the third period. chest and bounced into the net. By now the crowd realized Micn- Angie Moretto, one of Fal- A little more than a minute igan had wrapped up the game and coner's linemates, had a fine later, Falconer was lucky again began to root for Moore's first night and picked up three assists. when Pete Fox's slap shot from the shutout of the season. But at 6:38 On defense, Tom Lindskog made point glanced off his skate aid slid of the final stanza, NoDak winger several good plays to stymie the past Waselovich for another goal, Tom Evans beat the diminutive North Dakota attack. making the score 2-0 when the goaltender with a slap shot from Michigan dominated the opening period ended. ten feet out. play, but was unable to score until At 7:40 of the middle period, Fay- Michigan regained the five goal 12:38 of the first period when coner gained his hat trick with a lead less than two minutes later, Falconer picked off a NoDak pass quick shot from close in when though, as Moretto and Falconer at their blue line and skated in Moretto set him up after winning clicked again in one of the most for a clear breakaway on goalie a face off in the Sioux zone. exciting plays of the game. The _______- ---- two Wolverines broke into the Sioux zone with one defender back -Ken Gibbs. Gibbs made a beau- ester succum bs kno lf falling stab at the puck and ~LI5i11 UI5 U111J S knocked it away from Moretto, ap- parently breaking up the threat. But Moretto, recovering the puck amazingly quickly, centered it back m n to a waiting Bob Falconer, who sh B um neatly flipped it into the upper left hand corner of the net. As the crowd roared its approval, a frus- confident." had been expected to get. trated Gibbs violently pounded his But Bill Davids, who scored "I think that getting that win stick against the boards, smash- Michigan's only pin of the after- they didn't expect at 126 kind of ingkitgintseer ds.Hsa- noon viewed matters from a dif- turned them on," Bay noted is dis- ig it into several pieces. His ac- ferent perspective. "This meet did cussing several of the other entire Siouxteam exerinte not mean anything," the defending matches. entightn Big Ten 126-pound runnerup em- Bill Schuck and Dan Brink, both last night. phasized. "We know we can do it of whom lost heart-breakers in the g North Dakota scored one more if we have to-and we will." third period, were the principles goal late in the game on a pow- IN FACT Davids' pin Nas one of the Wildcats' newfound spirit. der to finish the scoring.y of the keys to the eventual Wol- BUT THE Maize and Blue vet- Michigan coach Da Farrell ex- verine triumph. It came immedi- erans had some spirit of their ownIiian othe taringarrellight ately after Jim Brown had gar- which enabled them to do what h plained the startling overnight nered a disappointing - by his they had to do when they had to change in his clubs performance. standards-decision over Wildcat do it to transform a cliff-hanger'"re h ear et nd thi Don Anderson, and Tom Space, into a comfortable victory. morning," he related, "and we rushed into action following a last Team captain Jerry Hubbard, Sioux ambushed minute injury to regular 126-pound- admittedly wrestling below par,' er Rich Valley, dropped a tough was still able to come back from SCORE BY PERIODS 7-5 verdict at the hands of NorthIa quick 2-0 deficit-the first time MICHIGAN 2 3 1-6 western freshman Harry Earl. he has trailed at any time in North Dakota 0 0 2-2 A pin counts the same ;n team match this season-to -ompile a FIRST PERIOD scoring as two regular decisions. 15-5 superior decision over Dave sCORING: 1. M-Falconer (unassist- Thus Davids' accomplishment sub- Perse which was far more im- ed) 12:38; 2. M-Falconer (Fox Moret- stituted nicely for the pin Valley pressive on the scoreboard than to) 13:44. ______ _ _ the action had been on the mat. SECOND PERIOD T(Then,after John Ryan, weaken- SCORING: 3. M-Falconer (Moretto) 7:40; 4. M - Dunbar (Blianzy, Dufek BLUE: ed by a crash weight reduct'on 12:29; 5. - Paris (Palmer, Kardos) program, was destroyed 12-3 by 16:52. Northwesterner D a v e Froehlich, THIRD PERIOD Hibbard called a quick impromptu SCORING: 6. ND -- Evans '(Cruise) s d u n k ed ! with the three whose actions were 6:38; 7. M - Falconer (Moretto, Fox) to determine the outcome - Rob 8:06; 8. ND - D. Drader (Kompon, De- Huizenga, Dave Curby, and Gary Piero) 14:08. Ernst.SAS Tankers sunk THE IMPACT was obvious. Non Waselovich (ND) 19 8 8-35 400 YD. MEDLEY -Michigan (Han- of the three had any difficulty in ATTENDANCE: 4287 sen, Isaac, Yawger, Foster) 3:34.4. thoroughly dominating their respec ..:.'. 1 1*11 1000 YD. FREESTYLE - 1. Semchys- tive opponents, to sew up the >'F: ':>' chen (M), 9:51, 2. Ihmoff (W), 3. Fish- match. bar (M). "avin those three coming in 200 YD. FREESTYLE - 1. Horner " ig t (W), 1:44.1, 2. Evans (W), 3. Downie at the end is a big edge i our C (M). favor," Bay remarked jubilantlv. COLLEGE BASKETBALL ONE ETE DIV - . Cre (), -<