Page 8-Friday, February 24, 1978-The Michigan Daily IJUSKIES STARTED IT ALL: By BOB MILLER eighteen games and 15 losses ago, the Michigan hockey team was sitting on top of the collegiate Hockey world. Rated Number 1 in the country, Dan Farrell's squad had just completed a two game massacre over defendin'g NCAA champion Wisconsin and set their sights for first place in the WCHA. .Then they played at Michigan Tech. THE HUSKIES of Houghton were only a mediocre 7-7 overall at the time, gerkerally splitting most of their two game series. But for whatever explanation aniyone wishes to use, the combination of a Husky high and a Wolverine low resulted in two lopsided victories for Tech. rs face Tech Since that time, MTU has gone 14-4 to climb steadily in the WCHA ranks where the Huskies are currently in third place, one game out of second. Since the tables have turned so completely from the last time these two teams have met, it would be justified if the Wolverines could come up with a pair of victories. But don't hold your breath. TECH WILL be the same swarming pack of hungry Huskies that hounded the Michigan defense for 21 goals in the three confrontations this season. The Wolverines were only able to counter with eight. The singular feature about the Tech team is their size. There are six Huskies that hover over the 6-3 mark with Gord Salt leading the way at 6-5. Ironically, the shortest player on the team, Dave Joelson is the Huskies leading scorer. Joelson's 22 goals ranks as tops for MTU as does his 39 points. He is tied with Stu Ostlund, both in all games and just in league play (31 points each). BUT IT IS MTU's defense that is coach John MacInnes' trademark. Tech has given up only 112 goals in the league, better than everyone else except Denver (94) and Wisconsin (101). While the Huskies will be attempting to move into second place this weekend, the Wolverines will again try to keep their heads above water. Michigan is in seventh place with four games remaining. But fifth place Colorado College is only one game.ahead of the Wolverines. MICHIGAN WILL keep their eyes on a make up series between Notre Dame and North Dakota which will be played on February 28-March 1 in Grand Forks. The Irish are currently one point up on Michigan and the Sioux are four behind. Notre Dame plays at MSU and the NoDak's host Wisconsin this weekend. The race for the number five through eight positions in the league will probably go down to the final night of the season. . The Wolverines need one victory over Tech either tonight or tomorrow just to stay in contention for the first round of the WCHA playoffs. The games start at 7:30 at Yost both nights. Icers' 32-game stats HOS T INVITATIONA L Strid ers tune-up By KEVIN ROSEBOROUGH Tonight's Wolverine Invitational track meet represents the final skirmish for the men's track team before the Big Ten championship battle next week. In what is considered by track Coach Jack Harvey "a lowkey meet," the Wolverines are looking to tune up their performancesfor the Big Ten meet. "We've trained hard all week," said Harvey, "but are definitely looking to the Big Ten meet." While the focus of the team is on the league competition next week at West Lafayette, a good night of quality performances is expected. Squads from Bowling Green, Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan, and Central Michigan will be in attendance. This meet is the last chance for many of the teams to qualify their athletes for the NCAA championships in two weeks. Due to a wave of illnesses that has been sweeping the team in recent weeks, the status of several athletes is questionable for the meet. Bill Donakowski, Michigan's co-captain and premier miler, has a cold but is ex- pected to compete. Distance men Steve Elliot and Jim Baumgartner are down with the flu and it's doubtful they'll be able to perform. Shotputter Randy Ross, also a flu victim, will probably be absent from the lineup as well. The Wolverines are coming off a big win last weekend at the Central Collegiate Championships at Ypsilanti. The Wolverine striders hurdled, jumped, ran and vaulted their way to their third straight CCC title on the strength of firsts by Arnett Chisholm, James.Henry, Bill Donakowski, and Jim Stokes. "It was a big Win for us," said Harvey. "We always like to beat the local teams." The Wolverine Invitational is the final opportunity for fans to see the Michigan indoor track squad at home this season. The thinclads, serious contenders for this year's Big Ten indoor track crown, were edged out for-the title last year by a mere point. The action at the Track and Tennis Building starts at 5:00 p.m. this evening with the long jump. The running events begin at 6:15 p.m. Player GP Dave Debol...........32 Dan Lerg.............28 Kip Mpurer............32 Bill Thayer............30 Mark Miller............,31 Doug Todd.............30 John McCahill..........31 John Olver............32 Dean Turner........... 32 Mike Coffman...........27 Gordie IHampson .......32 Ben Kawa..............2 Dan Hoene ............. 31 Tim Manning........... 32 Jhn Waymann........ 31 Bill Wheeler ............ 26 Dave Brennan..........430 Rod Pacholzuki......... 22 Jeff Mars ...............722 Frank Zimmerman.....16 Rick Palmer ........... 15 Roger Bourne ........... 3 Rudy Varvari ........... 7 Steve Luongo ........... 4 John Blum.............7 Bench.................:1 A 32 25 16 21 12 13 20 12 14 1'2 7 6 9 8 11 7 4 6 2 2 0 0 0 TP 51 45 38 32 30 24 23 19 19 17 16 15 14 13 13 9 6 6 2 2 1 0 0 0 P-PM 10-20 12-33 7-14 21-42 15-39 8-16 15-34 7-14 41-82 17-34 5-13 11-22 8-16 9-18 14-28 6-15 5-13 10-20 1-2 0.0 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 2-4 2-4 SPORTS OF THE DAILY Boilermakers whip Iowa, 82-69 By The Associated Press WEST LAFAYETTE - Two jump shots by Eugene Parker started an 11- point second haif Purdue streak and the Boilermakers rolled to an 82-69 basket- ball victory over Iowa yesterday. Parker, who finished with 19 points, hit an 18-foot jumper to break a 59-59 tie with 11:32 left in the game. He hit another jump shot 30 seconds later. Iowa went scoreless for more than six minutes before Tom Norman broke the streak and Clay Hargrave hit a pair of free throws for the Hawkeyes to make the score 70-63. Purdue then slowed down its offense and put together a nine-point streak, which included a pair of dunk shots by. 7-foot-1 Joe Barry Carroll.' Ronnie Lester kept Iowa in the gam early, scoring 22 pointsizi he first hail which ended with PurLue priecting i 43-41 edge. He finished with 30 points, while Walter Jordan was -high for Purdue with 21. Hoosiers hot BLOOMINGTON - Ray Tolbert's layup with 29 seconds remaining broke a 54-54 tie and the Indiana Hoosiers held off Wisconsin 58-54 yesterday. Indiana, which fell behind 19-18 with 1:56 left in the first half, did not catch up until Steve Risley's layup with 8:15 left in the game knotting the score at 44. The game was tied five more times again before Tolbert's score, which came after he took a pass from Tommy Baker. Baker sank two free throws with nine seconds left to complete the scoring. The Hoosiers, 9-6 in the Big Ten and 17-7 overall, were led by Mike Wood- son's 19 points. He had 13 in the second half. Wayne Radford added 13 and Risley had nine, including seven in the second half. Wisconsin, which defeated Indiana by 13 points last month, was led in scoring by Arnold Gaines with 13 points. Claude Gregory had 10 for the Badgers, 4-11 and 8-16 overall. MICHIGAN Totals ......32 155 241 396 227-481 Opponent Totals........32 177 298 475 256-554 PR EPAREFOR: 4th MCAT*- DAT -"LSAT -GRE GMAT OCAT - VAT SAT NMB 1,1I1,111I, ECFMG -FLEX-VQE NAT'L DENTAL BOARDS NURSING BOARDS Flexible Programs & Hours There IS a difference!!; ZK N EDUCATIONAL CENTER Test Preparation Specialists Since 1938 For Information Please Call: (313) 662-3149 For Locations In Other Cities, Call: TOLL FREE: 800-223-1782 Centersin Major US Cities Toronto. Pue.rto itico and 1Lugano. Sw trerlan'C ; Gary SnyderA POET, AUTHOR: The Old WRYs, Earth Heuseheld, Regeading Wave, Tutfle Islond Gary Snyder writes in his introductory note that Turtle Island is "the old/new name for the con- - tinent, based on many creation myths of the s people who have been here for millennia, and reapplied by some of them to 'North America' in recent years." The nearly five dozen poems in the book range from the lucid, lyrical, almost mystical to the mytho-biotic, while a few are frankly political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of this land and the ways by which we might become natives of the place, ceasing to think and act (after all these centuries) as newcomers and invaders. A tentative cross-fertilization of ecological thought with Buddhist ideas of interpenetration is also suggested, reflecting the poet's own life with his family and comrades in the foothills of the California Sierras. READING-Friday 8 p.m., February 24 Rackham Auditorium Ethics & Religion, G-513 Union, 764-7442 Cheevers out BOSTON - Boston Bruins goaltender Gerry Cheevers is' lost to the team in- definitely with a torn ligament in his right knee, the Bruins said yesterday. Cheevers, 37, was hurt iri the first period of the game with the Colorado Rockies in Denver Tuesday night. "While surgery will not be performed, the injury is serious enough to say that his return is indefinite," said Bruin General Manager Harry Sinden. The injury is to the same knee which, was injured earlier in the season anti keep Cheevers out of action for 21 games from Oct. 29 to Dec. 18. Cheevers was hurt when Colorado's Joe Contini scored and collided with him. * * * Norton next? NEW YORK - Promoter Don King has offered new heavyweight ehampion Leon Spinks $2 million to defend his title against Ken Norton in May or June, a spokesman for King said yesterday.' The spokesman said King has been negotiating with Norton for the bout. King said that Spinks had agreed, along with dethroned champion Muhammad Ali, that the winner of their fight would sign to defend against Nor- ton by July 7 or be stripped of the title by the World Boxing Council. Bob Arum, a promotional rival of King, denied the night Spinks beat Ah that Spinks had agreed to anything. Spinks is leaving all out-of-the-ring fighting to Arum and his attorney. 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