Wings ice Penguins
for 6-4 triumph
By BOB EMORY
Special to The Daily
DETROIT - The Detroit Red Wings accomplished two things with their
6-4 pasting of the Pittsburgh Penguins last night. They snapped a four-game
winless streak and officially eliminated the Penguins from the playoffs for
the first time in four years.
Detroit opened the scoring when a wild jam-up in front of the Pittsburgh
net resulted in a.loose puck that Paul Woods flipped past goaltender Dennis
Herron. It was Wood's 15th goal of the season and first of two for the evening.
After Pittsburgh left wing Dave Schultz, the NHL penalty leader, was
called fora double minor and a ten-minute misconduct, the Wings were able
to capatilize.
It came when Dennis Polonich re-routed a Dale McCourt slapshot from
the point for his 16th goal of the season.
Then came the Wing's turn to play shorthanded. Terry Harper was
waved for a five-minute highsticking and, sure enough, the Penguins scored.
Jimmy Rutherford skated out of the crease to clear a loose puck, he fell
down and Peter lYlahovolich was right there to score his 26th goal of the year.
The Wings moved two points ahead of Los Angeles for second place in
the Norris Division and didn't let up in the second period.
Three straight goals put them ahead 5-1 before Pittsburgh's Jean
Pronovost wedged one by Rutherford with just over a minute remaining in
the period.
Without Harper, still serving his major, Andre St. Laurent caught the
Pittsburgh defense up ice and cleanly best Herron for his 31st goal. Vaclav
Nedomansky and Paul Woods notched the other Detroit goals.
Although the Penguins scored twice in the final period to make the game
close, the real action came when Dave Schultz and Dennis Polonich squared
off twice at center ice. The second time they were given misconducts and
that finished both players for the night.
An empty net goal by St. Laurent finished tfihe scoring for Detroit, who
will finish in second place if LA loses one of its two remaining games with
Vancouver.
Detroit closes out its regular season with a home and home series again-
st the Montreal Canadiens this weekend.

The Michigan Daily-Friday, April 7, 1978-Page 13
WOLVERINES, TIGERS OPENERS DAMPENED

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Maybe Michigan's baseball team
should play its games inside the Track
and Tennis Building.
Or maybe the Wolverines could play
with an umbrella in one hand and
galoshes on both feet.
BETTER YET, why don't they just
start the season a couple of weeks later,
when teams could concentrate on
beating each other instead of the spring
weather?
"You can't do that," said Michigan
coach Moby Benedict, who watched a
steady rainfall postpone yesterday's
season opener for the third straight
day. "Then you would run into a
problem with-the season starting about
the same time as final exams."
Benedict thinks the weather wouldn't
be much better later in the month
anyway. "We can't sit around and
worry about the weather because it will
always be with you," Benedict said.
"The Tigers start this early, why not
us?"'
IF ANYTHING good is coming out of
the delay, it's the fact that injuries .to
two key Michigan starters are having a
chance to heal. Leg injuries to seniors
Bob Wasilewski and Scott Anderson
have just about healed and both are ex-
pected to play on Saturday, when the
Wolverines will try to play Bowling
Green here in a 1 p.m. doubleheader.
"Wasilewski can swing the bat but

he's not moving too well," Benedict
said. "Anderson should be ready - he's
got a bruised knee from being hit with a
ball."
But the opportunity for R & R doesn't
pacify Benedict much. "I'd rather be a
couple of players short and get the
season open on time than start it late
and healthy."
THE WOLVERINES were supposed
to play the Falcons in Bowling Green
today, but even though the weather is
expected to be fair, the games have
already been canceled due to wet
ground:
Meanwhile, the field in Fisher
Stadium is covered, and Benedict hopes
that today's warm weather will dry out
the field so that it's playable tomorrow.
But you guessed it - more rain is
predicted for Saturday. Lefthanders
Steve Howe and Craig McGinnis will
pitch for the Wolverines.
And if they can't play this time,
maybe'the team can get Don Canham to
build a BIG ark, take two players from
each position - we'll call it Moby's Ark
... set up a 40-game schedule...
- GARY KICINSKI
Tigers Flooded
DETROIT - All those adults who
skipped work yesterday to attend the
Toronto-Detroit baseball opener, and
all the kids who played hookey from
school, get a chance today to do it
again.
The game was postponed due to rain,
with everything being pushed up a day.
The prospect of a weather post-
ponement is why an open date was
available today. Games two and three
of the series are scheduled for Saturday
and Sunday.
SOME 52,000 spectators were expec-
ted yesterday and there probably won't
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be many. fewer than that t
Mark "The Bird" Fidrych isI
Detroit against ex-Tiger Da
czyk. Both are right-handers
Since the same pitc
scheduled to work, the line
nounced Wednesday will lik
the same, said Hal Mid
Tigers' public relations direc
The attendance "will sh
I'm sure," he said.
NEARLY ALL seats wer
cept those with an obstru
Some regular seat tickets
available today from those p
returned tickets because th
able to go a day later

in the rain
oday when allowed two earned runs while walking
to pitch for two and striking out two before a
ive Leman- Kingdome crowd of 45,235.
ENRIQUE ROMO, came in for Ab-
^hers are bott in the seventh inning and set down
ups as an- the Twins on two hits the rest of the
ely remain way.
dlesworth, Reynolds, who batted .248 with just
tor. four homers last season, belted a line
rink some, drive off Minnesota starter Dave Goltz
in the second inning that just cleared
the right field fence, scoring Bob Stin-
e sold, ex- son ahead of him.
cted view. Goltz, Minnesota's 20-game winner in
might be 1977, later worked out of a bases-loaded
ersons who jam in the inning after Bruce Bochte
iey weren't and Dan Meyer singled and then Stan-
ton walked.

The postponement is the third for a
Tiger home opener in the last six years.
Seattle reigns
SEATTLE - Right-hander Glenn
Abbott scattered five hits over six in-
nings and shortstop Craig Reynolds
drilled a two run homer to lead the
Seattle Mariners to a 3-2 victory over
the Minnesota Twins in major league
baseball's season opener Wednesday
night.
Abbott, who led the Mariner pitching
staff with a 12-13 record last season,
SSCORES

-AP

Stickmen belted by OSU,

14-4

NIlL.
I)etroit ti, Pittsburgh 4
Buffaio5, Roston 2

"NBA
Washington I11, Boston 1413
Clevelanad 117. Milwaukee 10i

By TOM STEPHENS
Wednesday night's Michigan-Ohio
State lacrosse game in Columbus was
only ten seconds old when Buckeye at-
tackman Bill Rodgers slammed home
the first goal from a position just to the
left of Michigan goalie Mike Bucci. A
few minutes later Rodgers' Wolverine
counterpart, top scorer Chris Phillips,
duplicated that effort on an identical
play.
It was only the beginning of an ex-
citing contest that saw the Wolverines
go down to their second defeat this
season by a 14-4 tally.
ALTHOUGH THE fine play of Ohio
State's talented midfielders combined
with the intimidating work of freshman
Dan Anderson , who took 14 of 18 face-
offs, and allowed the Bucks to dominate
play for most of the game, the score
was misleading. Until the final quarter
when the issue was no longer in doubt,
both teams knew they had anything but
a rout on their hands.
The first half featured spectacular
saves by the beleaguered Bucci, some
paranoid-inducing body checks by out-
fsized defenders on each team, and a
number of fierce drives by the Bucks,
who were able to control the ball at will
and constantly confound the Michigan
attackers with hustling team defense.
"We played a good defensive game
and moved the ball very well at times,"
said Ohio State coach Jerry Bell after
the game. "We weren't able to run
awl with the game 'till late in the
second half because Michigan played a
tough game and their goalie kept them
in it for i long time.
HAT TRICKS by Anderson and Tom
Culkin of the Bucks were the keys to the
Ohio State victory. In addition, Ohio
State's fourth goal, which came shortly
after the high point of action in the first
quarter, was a moral crusher for the
Wolverines.
One of' the Wolverines' biggest

problems was the penalty situation.
Michigan was tagged.with eight major
penalties to Ohio State's two. "We came
out psyched up and got a few penalties
right away," said Bucci, who still
refused to blame the loss on any ex-
cuses. "That was a well-conditioned,
hustling team. I think they're the best
we'll play all year. They beat us
because they were better."
"If you want the most basic reason
we lost, I think it's those kids who were

playing with lacrosse sticks behind the
bench. All Ohio State's players have
been playing since high school in that
area. The've got quite a program," he
concluded.
MIDFIELDER BOBBY Fleischman
.had a short opinion on the subject.
"They were better because they're a
varsity team and they put money into
their program."
The lacrosse club's record now stan-
ds at 5-2. Wednesday was their first loss
to a Big Ten team.


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