Page 10-Thursday, February 2, 1978-The Michigan Daily FACE IOWA ST. AND IOWA Grapplers head into eye o storm By BOB WARREN THE UNLUCKY Michigan wrest- ling team has lost out to the prowess of the great schedule-maker. At a point in the seasons when the oft- injiured grapplers are at their season health apex, the Wolverines must wrestle against the number one and two schools in the nation, Iowa State tonight, and Iowa tomorrow night. "All I can- tell the guys is that they're going to have to wrestle like hell to be respectable this weekend," commented. a realistic Michigan coach Bill Johanessen. "Let's face it, Iowa State and Iowa are the strong- est teams in the country, and we're young, inexperienced and injured." Oddly enough, Michigan could sneak in a few surprises tonight against the Cyclones. "We have four matches in four nights and they might catch us tired and off guard," said Michigan '39 graduate, national champion and Cyclone coach Harold Nichols. IOWA STATE, a recent loser to Oklahoma State in a close 20 to 18 match, has an awesome lineup. "We're strong at every position, with the possible exception at 118 pounds," boasted Nichols. "We wes tle all of the top teams in the nation and that makes us the great team we are." "I guess we might get a win from Schneider (Todd) at 118 if Nichols says they're weak, but I don't know," Johanessen said. "I figurg six or seven of their starters will make the NCAA's, and with one of those being Joe Zuspann at 150 even our Mark Churella could have a lot of 'prob- JOHANESSEN has switched team stars Karl Briggs and Churella between the 150 and 158 spots to generate the most potential in each spot this weekend. "Once we get out of Iowa State, we have to wrestle Iowa and they are just as tough as ISU," said Johanes- sen. "Schneider has a chance at 118 again, but after that it looks over- 1whelmingly difficult. We have a totally inexperienced freshman in Bob McAlvey at 126 against the nation's top high school recruit Randy Lewis. Then the nation's number one ranked 134 pounder Steve Hunte faces another inexper- ienced wrestler in Kirk Arndt. "The story is the same all the way, through to the heavyweights, with each Iowa wrestler either a Big Tey champion, national champion or nationally ranked wrestler'. I honest- ly would be content with three wins after Iowa State and Iowa." IT SOUNDS gloomy, but the week- end does not end with a trip to Iowa. After tomorrow's match against the Hawkeyes, the exhausted grapplers will fly to Minneapolis to wrestle Minnesota, another Big' Ten team with mirror-like problems. "We have the weakest team we've had in four years," said Minnesota wrestling information director Craig Thompson. "We lost three All-Ameri- cans this year and now find ourselves the weakest of the top five teams in the Big Ten, behind Michigan among other teams.'' Minnesota has a tough schedule this week also, as they already have lost to Iowa State, 29 to 8 and to Missouri. "WE'RE WEAK at all but three or four spots, and those happen to be at Michigan's strong, proven posi- tions," admitted Thompson. "If we're still walking after out two matches in Iowa, I think we could beat Minnesota," said Johanessen with an optimism oddly juxtaposed to Thompson's realistic evaluation of his team's talent. Michigan was lucky getting a break from the snow, since its matches against Purdue, Illinois and Ohio State were cancelled. The layoff gave the team extra practice and time for the injured to recover. Nevertheless, the, prospect of com- peting against the class of collegiate wrestling in Iowa could make this opportune break, corn over the silo. FIFTH STRAIGHT VICTIM, 127-120: Pistons ec By LIZ MAC Special to The Daily DETROIT - Playoff hopes are stronger than ever at Cobo Arena, where the Pistons outmaneuvered the Phoenix Suns in a fast paced game last night, 127-120. The Pistons never lost the lead, which at one time stretched to 20 points mid- way through the third quarter. A well balanced scoring attack was led by Bob Lanier with 36, Eric Money with 27 and John Shumate with 20 points. Ron Lee and Paul Westphal showed some strong shooting for the Suns, who made an attempt at a comeback late in the game. Rookie star Walter Davis, however, who led the drive with 18 poin- ts in the fourth quarter, failed to sink an outside shot with 15 seconds left which would have put the Suns within one. Four last minute free throws by Lanier put the game away for Detroit. lipse Suns. The quick tempo of the Piston's fifth straight win let up in the final quarter. "They were pressing us near the end, "but they ran out of gas," said Money. Piston coach Bob Kaufman said "it was a hell of a win when you beat the second winningest team in basketball." The victory raises Detroit's record to 23-25 with its next game at Kansas City tonight. Pistons trade Special to The Daily DETROIT - Last night, only hours before the midnight trading deadline, the Detroit Pistons completed a major deal with the Midwest Division leading Denver Nuggets, it was announced at Cobo Arena. Little-used guard Ralph Simpson goes back to the team with which he gained stardom in the old ABA in exchange for six-year NBA veteran Jim Price. Price, carrying a 6.5 scoring average on the season, has recently been employed in Denver's starting backcourt and averages 22 minutes per game. Around the NBA Price is noted for his defensive and leadership ability. In addition, Detroit receives the Nuggets' first round draft selection next year, with Denver obtaining a pair of choices - number two in 1979 and number three in 1980. "We believe Jim Price is going to help us," said Pistons' General Manager/interim coach Bob Kauff- man. "Ralph has not been contrib- uting for us." There s a new look to old Tiger Stadium By BOB MILLER T CAME AS A SHOCK, as fires always do, but this fire had more than I just a passing interest to the people of Detroit and the rest of the nation. It could have been much worse if it weren't for the Detroit Fire Depart- ment getting to the blaze and putting it out quickly. But the fire did its damage to Tiger Stadium, just one year ago yesterday. Around six o'clock on February 1, 1977, fire fighters were summoned to the famous corner of Michigan and Trumball Avenues to extinguish a fire that originated on the third deck of the stadium. The press box was totally ruined and so were portions of the third deck that were used to seat people at particularily crowded games. Just one year later, more reconstruction is changing the shape of the home of the Detroit Tigers. But this time, the changes were planned. As soon as last season ended,'the renovation of the stadium got under- way. When completely finished sometime next year, the familiar green that the stadium was bathed in will be confined to the grass on the field. Gone will be those old green chairs with their wooden slats and metal arms. Instead, modern contoured seats in light and dark blue will seize your attention when you first walk into the stadium. This year, only the lower deck will be redone. the process seems simple but is tedious to transform an age old landmark into an up-to-date building. "All the seats have been knocked out (in the lower deck)," explained Bill Brown, the Tigers' assistant public relations director. That means ap- proximately 22,500 seats. "The new seats will be 17 inches across instead of 16," he added. Before the seats can be installed, however, the cement on the floor will be sand blasted to smooth the old surface and get rid of the weak cement that might crumble. The next step is to install the bolts that will clamp the seats down, then add the frame and finally' the back and the bottom. The finished product is one of those new seats that will automatically spring up whenever you stand. Eventually, the stadium will be refurbished with a mezzanine or loge section that currently doesn't exist. That area will be where the upper deck box seats are now. When complete, the seats in that part of the stadium will be orange. The crowning touch will come in a couple of years when the last of the old guard scoreboards that dominate the bleacher section is replaced with one of those electronic models. The seating capacity of the new Tiger Stadium will be somewhat smaller than the current amount, but only by about one thousand. The last time seating capacity was reduced was last year when the fire eliminated the third deck seats. State law requires a public restroom every certain amount of feet-which wouldn't have been available to the people sit- ting up there. But, while the fire forced part of the stadium to shut down, it also paved the way for a brand new press box to open up. The new version features carpeting as well as heating and cooling for the first time. Another innovation was the plexiglass that was placed on the facade of the press box. Previously, it was open air. "We had air conditioning, but it didn't work ,much," Brown said, "but before we had 'factory air'-all you had to do was breathe in." Whether or not Detroit's fans approve of the changes remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure-if last year's fire was any worse, they might not have had a choice. -Dave Renbarger I . S> OR TS OF THE DAILY Thinclads trip S By KEVIN ROSEBOROUGH came close to breaking his own indoor record of 17' one-quarter inch. The power packed Michigan men's This makes a total of five members track team lived up to its early season on the squad who have bettered the billing as the Big Ten favorite with a NCAA qualifying standards after a convincing 87-44 triumph over mere twoimeets. Michigan State. The Mile relay squad missed the The meet featured efforts qualifying standard by a mere 9/10ths of a second, two more Wolverines - James Grace and no one in the Wolverine camp in the 440 and Jim Stokes in the pole seems to think that their potentials vault - for the NCAA Championship have been reached. this March held in Detroit's Cobo Hall. As the score of the meet indicates, In his very first open 440 of the sea- though, it was not just a few individuals son, co-captain Grace ran his best in- providing the scoring. The points came door 440 ever, a rapid 48 seconds flat. from all areas. Stokes went over the bar at 16'9" and Coach Harvey is very encouraged by COUPON 0 COLOR COPIES Regular .95 ONLY .60 From 35 mm slides 1.20 ONLY .75 (8" x 10" Print) T-shirt transfers 1.90 ONLY 1.25 DOLLAR BILL COPYING 66 CHURCH CALL 665-9200 ANN ARBOR Above Blue Frogge Dissertation-Resume Specialists Expires 2 /18 /78 partans the depth of his team. In fact, he was so confident of his teams ability that they trained as though there wasn't even a meet yesterday. "The meet is their workout," said Harvey. The Wolverine scoring power from all areas more than justifies the coach- ing staff's confidence in the squad. Even though the Michigan one-two punch in the mile was broken up by some outstanding running by State's Keith Moore, who also won the 1,000- yard run, the worst the Blue thinclads could do was to come out of an event with three points. So the season goes on for the talented, enthusiastic, and ultra-promising Michigan striders. They're aiming for the Big Ten and NCAA meets - and so far, they're right on target. Women winged The Michigan's women's basket ball team was defeated by Grand Valley State last night, 75-61. "It was closer than the score indicated," commented a spokeswoman for the team. Scoring for the Wolverines was center Abby Currier, high with 24 points. Freshwoman guard Brenda Venhuizen, 'senior forward Terry Conlin and junior gurad Sara Smo- lenski each tallied ten points for Michigan.Kim Hanson sank 24 buckets for Grand Valley. The cagers' record is now 5-9, with all of their losses coming on the road. -Daily Sports Don't know your ice from a hole in the ground? Find out at M HOCKEY (wear maize!) Looking for a cheap date? Try M HOCKEY (wear maize!) Trying to avoid cheap shots? Refs at M HOCKEY will show you how to ignore them (wear maize!) 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