Sunday, January 28, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY E oge Nine-I Tankers By CHUCK BLOOM The Michigan swim team took a giant step in its preparation for Indiana, the Big Ten Championships, and the NCAA Championships by demolishing perennial Southwestern C o n f e r e n c e champion, Southern Methodist, 81-32, yesterday at Matt Mann Pool. The Wolverines passed their first major challenge of the swim season with flying colors by winning all but two events against a strong Mustang teani, recently conquerors of NCAA runners-up Southern California. THE KEY TO the meet was the open- ing event, the 400-yard medley relay. In non-Big Ten meets, relays score 7-0, so the winner would have a decided edge going into the individual -events. Real- izing the importance, the team of Chris Hansen, Stu Isaac, Ray McCallough, the outstanding swimmer of the meet, and Jose Aranha turned in the best time of the year with a clocking of 3:31.3, whip- ping SMU by five seconds. smash h) McCullough tursned in the two biggest upsets by beating the Mustangs' Ray Ince and Paul Tietze in both the 50 and 100- yard freestyle. Ince and Tietze had the best times in the nation in both events going into yesterday's meet. "BY A RACE standpoint," stated a happy Michigan coach Gus Stager, "the two swims by McCullough were the best." In the 50, McCullough pulled off a superb turn to nip Tietze with a time of :21.7. "I came out of the turn and was shocked to see Tietze behind me," said the victorious senior. "From then on, I knew I had him." The 100-yard freestyle saw McCullcugh ease away from Ince and Tietze to win with a clocking of :47.8. "But the two best performances time- wise, in my estimation," Stager explain- ed, "were Larry Day's swim in the but- terfly and Dick Quint's diving." As the old master said, those were outstanding efforts by two members of the swim team of whom a lot is counted upon. ~gh y-ra tet DAY FLASHED by SMU's John Rubot- tom early in the 200-yard butterfly and stopped the clock at 1:56.39 for his best of the year. Quint, who has been diving better with each meet, garnered an in- credible 342.50 points in winning top hon- ors off the three-meter springboard. Sev- eral dives by Quint earned marks of eight and higher. Joe Crawford won the one-meter events and finished second to Quint in the three-meter. One new varsity and two new pool records were established by the same swimmers who previously held them. Tom Szuba, swimming easy in two other races, broke the record he earlier set in the 500-yard freestyle by 0.6 seconds. His, 4:42.22 was good enough to beat John Thorburn handily. STU ISAAC set a new pool record in the 200-yard breaststroke, eclipsing his old mark with a new time of 2:11.16. Pat Bauer swam his best race ever, finish- ing second and beating SMU's nationally ranked Larry Driver. SMU Dan Fishburn missed another record in the 1000-yard freestyle by only a sec- ond. His 9:57.6 was just shy of Carl Robie's top time set a ;ouple years ago. Isaac also won the individual medley going under two minutes for the second consecutive time. Hansen and teammate Paul Foster went 1-2 in the backstroke with Hansen's winning time at 1:58.33. STAGER HAD praise for all his swim- mers, even those who didn't win. "I thought everyone swam well. Bauer was super in the breaststroke, doing his best time ever. Steve McCarthy, even though he didn't win the 200 (freestyle), still swam a smart race. Don Peterson con- tinues to improve and so does Mark Anderson." SMU's only, wins came in the 200 free- style with Thorburn taking the laurels and the final event, the 400-yard freestyle relay, where the Mustangs are nearly in- vincible. 79=73 Daily Photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI MICHIGAN'S DAN FISHBURN, in the foreground and Tom Szuba (back) take off from the block at the start of the 1000-yard freestyle in yesterday's impressive 81-32 win over Southern Methodist at Matt Mann Pool. Indiana dims G1 /t 11'1 cage title hopes, full court __ PRES It's not over yet... . but almost By BOB McGINN "T20 HAVE ABILITY is nothing, to use your ability is some- thing," That's what the chalkboard read in Michigan's somber dress- ing room yesterday, as the players and coaches silently filed by, It had been a crushing afternoon, and it must have been ex- tremely difficult to walk by with the words glaring down on them. Coach John Orr was in one corner, beseiged as usual by the endless stream of reporters. He looked stunned; beaten. The season which had carried with it such hope for this much-maligned man had turned into a nightmare. "We're not out of it yet," he said, and it sounded sort of strange coming from a coach whose club two weeks ago had just whipped bitter rival Michigan State for the Big Ten lead. The question after that one was not can Michigan do it, but how can they do it. "It's a question of desire," Orr continued. "I certainly think we're capable of winning the rest of our games. But I'm very disappointed. I just don't know what we could have done dif- ferently today." Ernie Johnson, though, could think of a few things. Speaking very candidly, the shocked 6-8 senior tried to explain why this team just hasn't put it together. - "It always seems like we're outhustled at the end of each game. The other teams are more hungry than we are. If we play together, we play well. One man can't do it alone," he intoned. "Sure, we still have a chance, but this was the big one today," Ernie added. "At home and everything, we were supposed to win. But we played like it wasn't a big game or something. If I knew the problem, I'd tell you." You can point out all sorts -of reasons for Michigan's defeat yesterday. Campy Russell turned in another one of his lack- adaisical performances, sinking just two of nine shots and failing to hustle after loose balls on several occasions. Joe Johnson sat out 13 minutes after suffering a cut eye and was ineffective the rest of the day. And other than John Lockard, the forgotten man, and his sparkling first half play, Orr didn't receive much from the four reserves he sent into the fray. But the Wolverines shot 49 per cent from the floor and 85 per cent from the line, figures which bear out the fact that the Maize and Blue didn't play that poorly. No, the reason Michigan finished on the short end of the score yesterday was the Indiana Hoosiers. After spurting out to a 27-18 lead, Indiana's smooth-operating senior cornerman John Ritter suffered a mild concussion in a rebound struggle underneath. Although he had but one bucket, Ritter's loss deprived Knight of one of his two veterans who can be so valuable in the vital games on the road. Three minutes later the Hoosiers' sensational freshman guard, Quinn Buckner, drew his fourth personal, almost simul- taneously with powerful soph Steve Green's third. "We've never had foul trouble like that before," Knight commented later. "So we had to use our untried people in a pressure situation." Into the breach stepped soph John Laskowski, and freshmen Trent Smock and Tom Abernathy. They had to be intimidated by the veteran Michigan players and the unusually vociferous crowd of 13,600, right? Apparently Indiana's freshmen are dif- ferent than others, because they all played as if they had been in dozens of those situations before. Abernathy, especially, drew praise from his coach. "He simply played an exceptional second half for us," Knight en- thused, "and he wasn't even listed in the program. He'll be there next week," Perhaps the most aggressive of the Hurryin' Hoosier yearlings was the muscular 6-2 Buckner. His press clippings were the equal of Russell's during his high school days, but Buckner doesn't take greatness for granted. His hard-nosed defense and flashy steals drew waves of appreciation from the Michigan fans, who aren't accustomed to seeing their "superstar" playing up to his potential. The battle of the pivot between Indiana's 6-8 senior strong- man Steve Downing and Ken Brady was almost a standoff. True, the Hoosier outscored Brady 22-12, but he took 13 more shots, and three of his buckets resulted when the Wolverines were desperately double-teaming all over the court in the late stages. Downing summed up his teammates feelings as he relaxed in the locker room later. "This has to be our biggest win so far, mainly because it was on the road. But I'll tell you something, it's a lot easier plaving here than it is at some place like Minne- By DAN BORUS The Big Ten title hopes of the Michigan Wolverines were "'_ dealt a severe blow as the In- diana Hoosiers utilized the sterling performances of two UNDAY freshmen to bounce the Wol- verines 79-73 in yesterday's NIGHT EDITORS: GEORGE H barnburner at Crisler Arena. Quinn Buckner, a 6-2 guard,! passed and defended with the ease and poise of an old pro and Tom on Ernie Johnson's two free throws Abernathy, who had played but with 2:19 remaining and the gameI five minutes the entire season, all but over.E netted 12 key points as the Hoosiers The Hoosiers simply played a employed one of their patented better sagging defense and were scoring streaks in the second half much more willing to switch than to down the hard pressing Wol- expected. Wilmore's shooting from verines. the baseline and three Brady lay- Michigan had the second half ups constituted the second half shots but as Coach John Orr scoring for the Maize and Blue. said, "We just couldn't make More importantly, the Hoosiers hitI them when they counted." Lead- the boards exceptionally well. In ing the scoring draught was the key portion of the second half, Campanella Russell, who could Michigan did not get a second garner but two first half field chance. goals. The game began as a real rip- "Joe Johnson and Campy were roaring affair. Two players were: not making them in key situa- felled in the first half and Indiana tions," a dejected Orr said. "And guard John Kamstra joined the: we weren't getting any offensive number with a torn Achilles ten- rebounds to keep us in the ball don in the second half. The Hoos- game. Campy did not play well." iers were hardest hit, losing start- The turning point of the game er John Ritter to a mild concus- seemed to come at 11:11 in the: sion and blurry vision midway second half with the score knotted through the first stanza. at 61 apiece. Indiana coach Bobby Joe Johnson also left the game Knight inserted Buckner, who had in the first half with a cut over drawn four personals in the first the eye which required seven half of the contest. stitches. From there it was, all Indiana. But the Hoosiers did not play Buckner seemed to be all over the crippled. Riding the hot shoot- court-intercepting passes, forcing ing of guard Jim Crews, another the bad shot, or setting up the freshman, and the passing of the bucket with a crisp bounce pass. omnipresent Buckner, the Hoos- For a stretch of two minutes, the iers built a 27-18 advantage. For SPORTS ASTINGS and FRANK LONGO a while it looked' as if the Wol- verines should take up a game like hopscotch. The seemingly poised Hoosiers! back to put the Wolverines ahead suffered a lapse in play, turning 41-39, an advantage they carried to the ball over on errant passes and the dressing room. clumsy fouls. Surprisingly the lead- "We were happy to be trailing ing bad guy was Buckner, who only by two at the half," Knight remarked. More sports; Page 7 The second half started off just as bruising and as close as its predecessor. The lead see-sawed hacked Joe and Wilmore on suc- frequently before the Hoosiers put cessive plays and promptly took a it away with their late scoring ride on the pines, burst. Leading the charge at this, point With starters Ritter and Green was an unlikely hero-John Lock, out, the latter through the foul who was substituted into the game route, Knight got a great re- because, as Orr put it, "the for- sponse from an unknown, Aber- wards (Ernie and Campy) were nathy. The 6-6 forward, whose not playing well," almost single- name was not even in the pro- handedly put the Wolverines on gram, banged in ten second-half top by a 34-27 count. In the space points mainly on offensive re- of two minutes the 6-5 forward, who bounds. has had a disappointing season to Down the hall in the Michigan date, blocked two shots, got three dressing room things were not be- key defensive rebounds, converted ing taken as lightly. "We gotta. a pair of free throws and two win 'em all now and we won't if buckets. we stand around like we sometimes The momentum had turned, did today," Orr said softly. "And Crisler Arena was bubbling over someone's got to knock off In- in ecstasy, and the Wolverines diana." You can bet that, whoever had managed an amazing sixteen they list in the program, that won't straight points against the flust- be an easy task. ered Hoosiers. "I have never had to go to my bench because of foul Itrouble before," Knight stated, "we were just too sloppy. "You got to give Michigan credit, though. It takes a tough club to come back from a nine point deficit." But Knight's Hoosiers are a tough club themselves and within two minutes knotted the tally at 37 all. Downing added a layup and the Hoosiers were back on top 39- :37. Greg Buss tallied with a jumper when the Indiana defense over- compensated and Wilmore came Daily Photo by DENNY GAINER INDIANA HOOSIER Jim Crews (45) cowers in the shadow of All- America Henry Wilmore (25) of Michigan during yesterday's cage duel at Crisler Arena. Crews' teammates had little to be afraid of, however, as Indiana ran away late in the second half to a 79-73 win: Wolverines could only watch was the Hoosiers ripped off eight straight points. Big Steve Downing contributed a! layup and Buckner a jumper in thes scoring effort. Super-sub Johnj Russell Laskowski hit two one-and-one situ- Johnson ations to account for the rest of the J: Johnson scoring. From then on, the game wilmore was locked in the Hoosiers' win Brittar column. Kupec But the big second half story was Buss the lack of Michigan offense. Henry Team Wilmore and Ken Brady accounted Totals for all but four Michigan points and the first of those were notched Ritter 'M' Quint Bucked MICHIGAN FG 2-9 3-6 5-10 1-6 12-20 0-1 2-3 1-1 2-3 FT 0-i 4-4 2-2 2-3 7-8 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 R 5 5 11 2 3 0 3 2 0 4 35 F 4 3 2 5 4 0 1 0 1 TP 4 10 12 4 31 0 6 2 4 Green Downing ECrews IBuckner Laskowski Smock Memering IKamstra Abernathy Team 4-5 2-2 3 9-23 4-6 15 6-10 0-0 3 6-11 1-3 5 1-4 4-5 2 0-3 0-0 1 0-0 0-0 0 1-5 0-0 1 6-10 0-0 6 7 34-75.11-16 43 S 10 2 22 3 12 4 13 2 6 2 0 S 0 12 0 12 'CATS CLIP WISCONSIN: Buckeyes stun Purdue t Totals 3 SCORE BY PERIODS 28-57 17-20 INDIANA FG FT 1-4 0-0 20 73 MICHIGAN R F TP Indiana 1 1 2. Attendance-13,609. 1 41 39 20 2 32 40 MURRAY, ADAMS, SYPHAX WIN-: 'W thinclads debut successfully By The Associated Press WEST LAFAYETTE - A 11 a n. Hornyak pumped in 34 points yes- terday, leading Ohio State to at 79-73 Big Ten basketball victory over 20th-ranked Purdue. Hornyak scored 14 of Ohio State's first 24 points as the B u c k e ye s led 24-8 midway through the first half. After that, Purdue switched to a 3-2 zone but could pull no closer than 12 points the rest of the half. Hornyak finished the half with 20 points as the Buckeyes took a 46-31 margin at the intermission. In the second half, Purdue pulled within six at 62-56 with nine min- utes to go, but Ohio State scored six straight for a 12-point lead and was never seriously threatened after that. In the last eight minutes, Ohio State had only one field goal but hit 11 of 13 free throws. Frank Kendrick and John Gar- rett each had 20 points to lead Purdue. TheBoilermakers had a chance to close the margin by five points late in the game when Hornyak biggest margin, 68-59, but Bryan was called for a personal foul Ashbaugh, one of three Wildcat and a technical. scorers to hit in double figures, But Purdue missed the tech- scored on five free throws and a nical free throw, the first of a layup to close the gap. 1-and-1 foul shot and then lost Ashbaugh finished with 17 points, the ball on an error. eclipsed by teammate Mark Sib- "They came to play and took it ley's 20 who took the game-scor- ing honors. Sund, who didn't start, a ended up with eight. IJI PEd. * * * By JEFF CHOWN The Michigan Relays, the Wol- verine track squad's annual sea- son debut, is characteristically a mediocre indicator of things to come for the Blue thinclads. Gen- erally it is too early in the season to make predictions. However, many Michigan tracksters went home with smiles on their faces last night, as indeed there were3 many bright spots in the season opener. Some of the bigger smiles were probably on the faces of Steve Ad-I ams, Greg Syphax, and Godfrey Murray who were all individual winners for Michigan. Murray, the Jamaican Olympian, although fail- ing to qualify in the 60-yard dash breezed home with a victory in the 70-yard high hurdles in 8.3, j a meet record. Syphax easily won the 300-yard dash in 30.8. Adams won the shot-put in 59'- 5". Although bothered by an ar- thritic finger, Adams comment- ed: "I was hoping for over 60 feet, but I can't complain, as I haven't been able to throw enough lately. Our next big meet is the MSU relays and I hope to get it out over 60 there." , Michigan's other Olympian Kim Rowe did very well running a 48.6 quarter-mile in the distance med- lev and a 47.3 in the mile-relay. 3 1/4", good for second behind John lays including a half-mile leg in Craft of the Chicago Track club. the vicinity of 1:52. Wottle was Nowacki, the Wisconsin high 1 perhaps somewhat tired from a school state champion, jumped performance in San Francisco the 6'10" and took second on more night before. misses to John Mann, a former Coach Dixon Farmer comment-I Michigan star. Mann, who also ed: "It was on the whole very went 6'10" was named the out- pleasing, especially in the field standing field event performer. events. One of the best perform- A modern day record crowd of ances came from senior Al Corn- 3.217 watched the meet in Yost wall who you don't hear much Field House. Although he did from but put together two 1:55 nothing spectacular, much of the crowd came to see Dave Wottle of half miles. He's done a yeoman's Bowling Green. Wottle ran two re-: job." to us right from the start," said Purdue Coach Fred Schaus. "We weren't aggressive enough. They got all the loose balls and jumped on us real good. If we made the key plays down the stretch, we still could have won." Schaus, whose Boilermakers suf- fered their first home loss of the season, added, "Ohio State came to life today and really played well, and I wasn't surprised. We got 22 more shots and 14 more re- bounds and the turnovers were even. And we still lost-amazing." Buckeye assistant Coach Bob Burkholder said, "We were due for a good shooting night and got it in a pressure situation. Hornyak has played real well at both ends in the last couple of games." * * * Badgers bumped EVANSTON-Rick Sund hit a 25- foot jumper with one second left yesterday to lead Northwestern to a come-from-behind 74-73 Big Ten victory over Wisconsin. The final score was the only time Northwestern led after a 38-383 tie at half. With 5:52 left, Wisconsin guard Gary Anderson hit a layup that put the Badgers ahead by their Gophers gorge MINNEAPOLIS - Ron Behagen tossed in 26 points and pulled down* 16 rebounds and Bob Nix contri- buted 20 points last night as the eighth-ranked Minnesota Gophers overpowered Michigan State 93-77 in a Big Ten basketball game. The Gophers jumped into a 6-0 lead and never trailed in winning their 12th game in 14 starts and lifting their conference record to 2-2. Michigan State, led by Mike Rob- inson's 27 points, fell to 9-6 for the season and 2-4 in the Big Ten. Big Ten Standings ;~ Indiana Purdue MICHIGAN Illinois Minnesota Ohio State Michigan State Iowa Northwestern Wisconsin W 5 4 4 2 2 2 2 1 1 L 0 1 2 1 2 2 4 3 3 5 Pct. 1.000 .800 .667 .667 .500 .500 .333 .250 .250 .167 i Yesterday's results Indiana 79, MICHIGAN 73 Northwestern 74, Wisconsin 73 Ohio State 79, Purdue 73 Minnesota 93, Michigan State 77 ::"i:?4"ifi:v:":":": s ::: ::::.: .:"."; : ,::S {%.:"r...... ." 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