Odd, a Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday; February 13, 1977 _aeEg H IHIA L . ,_. Dekers fix Pioneers' wagon with second-stanza burst, 8-3 By JOHN NIEMEYER Proving that all bad things must come to an end, too, Mich- igan's hockey team capped a weekend sweep of Denver last night, 8-3. The crucial victory -reversed the Blue momentum after three straight disastrous weekends. The win, which vaulted the Wolverines into sole possession of third place in the WCHA, re- furbished Michigan's previously crumbling hopes of gaining a home berth in next month's opening rounds of the confer- ence playoffs. A four-goal burst in a 55- second span midway through the second period keyed the Wolverine victory, squelching a dull defensive struggle that had nearly put the 4,510 Michi- gan faithful to sleep. With .,Michigan leading 2-0, Pioneer Perry Schnarr- shoved Da i Sports ... AND FOUR - TO G -0 the puck past goalie Rob Palm-I er, narrowing Michigan's lead to one at 13:13. But in less than a minute, th6 Michigan icers nearly ran hap-i less goalie Ernie Glanville outf of Yost Arena. The determined dekers rammed in three goals to put the contest out of reach.! Mark Miller started the surge for the Blue'as he took a pass from Mike Coffman and fired the puck past Glanville 27 sec- onds after the Denver goal. Twenty-one seconds later, Glanville came way out to stop another Michigan scoring threat only to watch Kip 'Maurer skate around him and slide the puck into an empty net. With his head still spinning, Glanville watched again'as Bill Thayer drew him to the left side of the crease and then fed Kris Manery. The Blue captain eas- ily hit the right side of the net, making it 5-1 Michigan. "Our scoring finally came back this weekend," said Mich- igan coach Dan Farrell of the fine offensive performance. "When we were losing all those games, we weren't playing that poorly. We just weren't scor- ing." For the first half of the game it looked like neither team would score as lady luck and both goalies kept the puck out of the net. Both Palmer and Glanville made some tough saves in the first period, but on more than one occasion they ended up on the ice with the puck sitting there crying to be flipped in, to no avail. At one point, Debol took a beautiful feed on the left side of the net and slammed it past Glanville only to watch it carom off the opposite goal post. To finally open the scoring, Greg Natale skated down the right side and fired a slap shot off Glanville which Manery rebounded and put in. The power play score was Man- ery's 100th career goal and boosted his lead as Michigan's most prolific goal-getter ever. Michigan's second goal came on a picture perfect power play. Dave Debol waved his stick overhead, signaling to Bill Thay- er who hit him with the puck in front of the net. "Deebs" rammed the puck off Granville and then pushed the rebound in to make it 2-0. Two minutes later, the second period fireworks began. Farrell was especially pleased with the Wolverines' fourth straight win over Denver this year. "We've never swept a team twice in one season as long as I've been here," said the Michigan mentor. Sweeping Denver was even more impressive, since Farrell teams had only beaten Den- ver three times before this season. MICI Now the dekers turn to the wrest task of playing five of their re- mate maining six games on the road. Next weekend, Michigan travels to Minnesota to meet the sev- enth place Gophers. Minnesota is one of five teams 'r jammed within five points of one another in the conference. The top four finishers will earn home playoff sh~ots. Wisconsin and Notre Dame have just aboutI locked up the first two spots. I Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS HIGAN'S RICH LUBELL and MSU's Dennis Brighton perform a heady aria in last night's tling version of "Nutcracker Suite." The slumping Lubell lost his match, but his team- s still managed to shell the Spartans, 30-9. m1r stars shot to V1ctor grapplers re-rout Spartans PURDUE DOWNS WILDCATS: Gophers ni k Ua~likpves R:t DATRTt'K TznT),F. N W/' W IL.,/ A G = = IL/ Wo By AP and UPI IOWA CITY - Osborne Lock- hart sank two free throws with . 16 seconds left to end an Iowa rally as No. 8 Minnesot~a es- caped with a 61-58 Big Ten Con- ference basketball victory here yesterday. The Gophers led 55-46 with 1:25 to play, but Terry Drake hit three straight baskets in less than half a minute to cut Minnesota's margin to 55-52. Dick Peth added four points to make it 57-56 with 20 sec- onds remaining, but Lockhart hit his clutch free throws and guard Phil Saunders added two more to ice the Minnesota win. - The Hawkeyes led 31-28 at in- termission but hit only 27 per cent in the second half before a capacity crowd of 13,365 in Iowa Fieldhouse. Center Mike Thompson led the Gophers with 23 points and 14 rebounds, and guard Ray Williams added 12 points. Min- nesota improved to 9-2 in the Big Ten and 18-2 overall. Bruce King, who moved into second place on the all-time Hawkeye scoring list, had 18 points and 16 rebounds as Iowa dropped to 5-5 in the conference and 13-6 overall. S C O COLLEGE BASKETBALL Minnesota 61, Iowa 58 t Purdue 102. Northwestern 84 Michigan State 71, Ohio State 57 Wisconsin 62, Illinois 60 Providence 99, Long Island U. 85 Vilanova 90, George Washington 77 Georgia 92, Mississippi 76 Kentucky 89, Auburn 82 Maryland 84, Clemson 78 Central Michigan 76, E. Michigan 72 Cincinnati 84, Georgia Tech 73 Grand Valley 80, N. Michigan.69 Kansas State 86, Kansas 83 Marquette 86, Manhattan 60 Michigan Tech 68, St. Cloud 57 Notre Dame 84, S. Carolina 66 Rutgers 68, W. Virginia 66 Tennessee 91, LSU 64 Kent State 70, W. Michigan 68 'Cats dumped EVANSTON - Eugene Park- er scored 28 points and led a second half comerack yester- day which lifted Purdue to a 102-84 victory over Northwest- ern and kept alive the Boiler- makers' chances in the Big Ten basketball race. The triumph lifted Purdue's conference record to 9-3 and left the Boilermakers two games behind first-place Mich- igan in the loss column. Purdue trailed 52-46 at the half bf re Walter Jnrdan western with 18 and Jerry Ma- rifke added 16. Northwestern never trailed in the first half and the Wildcats made five steals in the first six minutes as they sped to a 20-8 lead with Tony Allen scor- ing half the points. Wayne Walls and Gerald Thomas helped cut North- western's margin to 29-26, but Purdue Coach Fred Schaus was called for a bench technical and Marifke connected on four straight free throws to put Northwestern ahead by seven. * * * - W ~-,,J ~That leaves the other five teams to fight it out for two three-point play with 17:45 left spots tLast night, the Michigan wrestling team found in the game gave the Spartans "Last year we got to play at that things get easier the second time around. a 45-28 bulge. home with 17 wins. I think we The wrestlers improved on a 27-15 triumph Ohio State, which lost its will have to come up with four earlier this season by scoring a convincing seventh straight game and fell wins in the next six to play at 30-9 victory over an injury-riddled Michigan to 7-13 overall and 2-9 in the home this time," anticipated State team in their second meeting of the Big Ten,rnever really threat- Farrell. year. ened after that. After Minnesota, cellar dwell- THE WOLVERINES' were spurred on by the The closets the Buckeyes got er Minnesota-Duluth lies ahead strong performances of three seniors appear- was 60-50 on a pair of free before the season finale with ing in their final home meet. Harold King pro- throws by Terry Burrns with Michigan gtate. igi hi ia oeme.Hrl igpo 3:52 left, but Kelser's three- vided a fall at 190 pounds, Mark Johnson gained point play and dunk shot put Denver leveled a major decision at 177 and Ed Neiswender Michigan State back in com-1 ' also turned in a strong win. I nail umue Yvaltr jurum came out shooting. Jordan OSU bumped scored the first two baskets COLUMBUS- Michigan State, of the second halftand eventu- led by sophonmore center Greg ally put Purdue ahead to stay Kelser's 27 points and 16 re- at 59-58 with a basket, less bounds, bolted away from Ohio than four minutes into the State late in the first half for second half. a 71-57 regionally televised Big Ten victory over the Buckeyes Th Boilermakers scored 11 yesterday afternoon. straight points in that span to Michigan State, outscored the move ahead 65-58. struggling Buckeyes 19-2 from Northwestern closed to within the 6:30 mark of the first half two points at 67-65, but the when it was 26-26 until Kelser's shooting of Parker and three tip-ins by Joe Barry Carroll sent the Wildcats on their way wom en to their 10th loss in 13 confer- ence starts. *" Jordan finished with 18'points tak e f i while Jerry Sichting added 14 f and Carroll had 11 for Purdue. In gym nastics Billy McKinney led North- - Falling short of a fourth place .finish by .23 of a point, the Michigan women's gymnastic R ES team finished fifth in a field of .eight at the Big Ten Champion- Detroit 123, Wayne state 77 ships held yesterday in Chain- WakeForet 84, N.C. State 77 iglini. VMI 92, Richmond 87 paign, Illinois. Massachusetts 71, Rhode Island 63 Host Illinois successfully de- Nebraska 60, Missouri 58 fended its title with a team Albion 90, Adrian 83 score of 138.04 followed closely Toledo 64, Bowling Green 55b ihgnStt' 3.4 Vanderbilt 85, Florida7 by Michigan State's 136.94. Alabama 73, Mississippi State 69 While Wisconsin easily cap- Drake 99, Tulsa 72 tured third place honors, Minne- N. Carolina 106, Tulane 94 sota, Michigan, Iowa and In- California 84, Oregon state 83 diana tallied a 127.15, 126.92, Alma 86, Olivet571204ad137repcily Colorado St. 78, Brigham Young 67 124.04 and 123.72 respectively. N.H.L. Sarah Flom's third place in Minnesota 2, Detroit 2 the floor exercise and seventh N.Y. Islanders 2, Philadelphia 1 place finish in the all-around Toronto 10, Washington 0 highlighted the Wolverines' sec- Chicago 4, Colorado 2 ond appearance in conference St. Louis 3, Atlanta 1 championship competition. plete control. Bob Chapman, who scored nine of Michigan State's first 14 points, finished with 17 while Edgar Wilson had 13. Larry Bolden led Ohio State with 13, followed by Jim Ellinghausen and Burris with 12 and 11, respectively. *-* Illini stumped MADISON - Wisconsin's Bob Fauk, sparking a three-guard of- fense, led the Badgers to a 62- 50 Big Ten basketball victory over Illinois yesterday. The triumph came on the heels of an upset of Purdue on Thursday and marked the first time since mid-December that Wisconsin had put two victories back-to-back. Center Ray Sydnor, who missed the Purdue game with a foot injury, saw limited ac- tion yesterday before he re- injured his foot with less than eight minutes gone in the sec- ond half. Wisconsin held a 36-32 half- time advantage and jumped to a commanding 43-36 lead on Falk's basket- four minutes after the intermission. Illinois managed to hang within six points until - Wiscon sin's Joe Chrnelich and Jimmy Smith reeled off seven straight points for a 59-49 lead with 1:15 left. Falk, who led the Badgers with 22 points, then hit two free throws and Coach Bill Cofield swept his bench. FIRST PERIOD Sophomore strongman Mark Churella furthur Scoring: None. Penalities: 1. (D) - Thomson, contributed to the effort, coming away with a 2:31; 2. (M) - Debol. 3:37; 3. (D)- pin at 150. woods, 11:09; 4. (M) - Turner, 13:56. SECOND PERIOD y( Scoring: 1. (M) - Manery (Na- tale), 6:16; 2. (M) - Debol (Thay- er), 11:31: 3. (D) - Schnarr (Woods), 13:13; 4. (M) - Miller (Coffman) (Debol), 13:50; 5. (M)- Maurer (McCahill), 14:11; 6. (M)- Manery (Thayer, McCahill), 14:18; 7. (D) - Pazelli (Messier), 18:55. Penalties: 5. (M) - Wheeler, 2:51; 6. (D) - Campbell, 5:11; 7. (D) - Berry. 5:58, 8. (D) - Hudson, 10:24; 9. (M) - Pacholzuk, 15:51; 10. (M)t - R. Palmer. 19:50. THIRD PERIOD Scoring: 8. (M) - Debol (Pachoi- zuk), 12:47; 9. (M) - Thayer (Maur- er. Debol), 14:17; 10. (D) - Woods (Berry, Campbell), 16:28; 11. (M) - Mauirer (Manery, Natale), 16:47, Penalties: 11. (M) - Turner. 3:00; 12. (M) - Coffman, 7:52; 13. (D) - Robinson, 13:00; 14. (M) - Turner, 15:08; 15. (M) - Lerg, 15:08; 16. (D) - Gibson, 15:08; 17. (M) - Turner, 19:46; 18. (M) - Ro Palmer, 19:46. An enthusiastic Bill Johannesen, Michigan's coach, termed the meet "just great "We had some really great performances. We're coming along week by week. We should be at our peak for the Big Tens and Nation- als," Johannesen said. King contributed the quickest victory by pinning Michigan State strongman Shawn Whit- comb 1:36 into the match. At the start of the match, King gained a fast takedown and Whit- comb hit his head on the mat, leaving him dazed. "I THINK KING would've beaten him any- way," Johannesen said regarding the injury. "He was ready mentally and that's what this is all about. He had good practices all week." "It's regrettable what happened to Shawn (Whitcomb)," Spartan coach Grady Peninger remarked. "If we could've had a five-minute break, it would've been better. But you only get three." Churella's fall came 3:05 into the 150-pound match over State's Bob Pollitt. "Churella wrestled one of the best matches in his life," Johannesen noted. Churella dom- inated the entire match, scoring a takedown, a two-point near fall and two three-point near fails before finally pinning Pollitt. NEISWENDER PROVIDED a 10-3 victory over Rick Warner of MSU at ,167. Team cap- tain Johnson, (177) in a flurry of takedowns, came away with a lopsided 18-6 superior deci- sion. Johannesen was also excited about 142-pound- er Karl' Briggs' performance. "Briggs was just great. He really wrestled right on. He beat a good fifth-year senior," Johannesen remarked. "This meet will defi- nitely help seedings (in' the Big Tens) and I think Briggs will be in there now." Briggs scored a 10-4 victory over Spartan Don Rodgers. Earlier in the week, John Har- rington was slated to ,wrestle for Michigan State but he suffered a broken hand last Tuesday. "I'VE GOT NO COMPLAINTS," the Spar- tan coach said. "We had to use five walk-ons who had very little practice. It was a° good meet overall." Other Michigan victories came at 118 pounds with a major decision from Todd Schneider and heavyweight Bob Taylor's first varsity win, 7-6. The Wolverines go on the road next week when they face Wisconsin, rated second only to Iowa among Big Ten teams. No dancing in Lansing 118 - TODD SCHNEIDER (M) maJ. dec. Terry Etvchison (MSU), 9-0. 126 - Mike Walsh (MSU) dec. RICH STRADER (M) 12-5. 134 - Dennis Brighton (MSU) dec. RICH LUBELL (M), 7-2. 142 - KARL BRIGGS (M) dec. Don Rodgers (MSU), 10-4. 145 - MARK CHURELLA (M) wbf. Bob Pollitt (MSU), 3:0. 158 - Doug Siegert (MSU) dec. GEORGE KELLEY (M), 7-5. 167 - ED NEISWENDER (M) dec. Rick Warner (MSU), 10-3. 177 - MARK JOHNSON (M) sup. dec. Jim Ellis (MSU), 18-6. 190 - HAROLD KING (M) wbf. Shawn Whitcomb (MSU), 1:36. Hwt. - BOB TAYLOR (M) dec. John Gurka (MSU), 7-6. GOALIE SAVES Glanville (D).......17 10 Palmer (M) ..... 10 12 5-23 11--33 DENVER .............. 0 2 1-3 MICHIGAN ........... 0 5 3-8 POOR SHOWING FOR BLUE: Th inclads sit ) in re lays I A 1 0 " r . Mlichigan ! t seniors shine in last home M eets.......'. Senior co-captain Chuck Ventura swings his way to a first-place finish in the pom- mel horse in yesterday's Big Ten Quadrangular meet at Crisler Arena. The meet, won by Michigan, was the final home appearance of four Wolverine seniors. Over in Matt Mann pool, senior Gor- don Downie set a new Michi- gan record to lead the Wol- verines to a victory over Ohio Ct.t CiY.nth. . a .rar 3 pI 1 1 r J T 1c T1 L Big 10 Standings Conference Overall W L W L MICHIGAN.....11 1 18 2 Minnesota ..... 9 2 18 2 Purdue........ 9 3 156 Indiana ..... 6 4 11 8 Iowa .. 55 13 6 Illinois . .. S 7 13 11 Michigan State .. 4 8 7 14 Wisconsin......... 4 9 8 13 Northwestern .. 3 10 5 17 Ohio State.......2 9 7 13 By DAVE RENBARGER Special To The Daily EAST LANSING - Plagued by {both slow times and disquali- fications, the Michigan track team turned in a disappointing performance last night at the 54th annual Michigan State Re- lays in Jenison Field House. The Wolverines failed to qua- lify any of their relay teams for the fast-approaching NCAA In- door Championships, while com- ing up with only three individual champions in eighteen events.. The team ventured to East Lansing with the purpose of qualifying a two-mile relay team of Steve Elliot, Greg Meyer, Dave Furst and Andy Johnson for next month's championships. Everything went according to plan until the third leg of the race, where runners from Bowl- ing Green and Eastern Michigan bolted past Furst. The team placed third with a time of 7:35.6, missing the NCAA's qua- lifying standard by nearly three seconds. Head tract coach Jack Har- vey could offer no explanation for the poor showing from the usually reliable Furst. "I don't know what happened to him," he said. "We were in it all along.'He just blew it." The other major Wolverine setback was the disqualification of the strong sprint medley re- lay team. Blue sprinter James Grace was flying around the fi- nal curve together with Barton, Randy Smith and Dennis Bel- through with the best vault of lamy of Air Force. - his career, soaring over the bar Grace then illegally cut in at 16-161 in qualifying for the front of Smith, according to NCAA's. The vault also broke the offiicals, sending the home his own'meet record of 16-4. town favorite flying across to "Stokes did the job tonight" the outside of the track. said Harvey. "He's really "It was a questionable call," been coming on- strong all said Harvey of the disqualifica- season." tion. "Those things 'are always The distance crew supplied tough to call but it looked like Michigan with its other two 'vic- Grace may have had enough tories. Meyer captured the room." three-mile run in 13:47.6 during / Michigan's talented shuttle the afternoon session, while hurdle relay team of Arnett Billy Donakowski easily outdis- Chisholm, Chuckie Crouther, tanced a weak mile field with a Gary Hicks and Don Wheller time of 4:08.6. cruised to an easy victory but "What can I say? We just was disqualified because of a weren't that sharp tonight," false start. Harvey said. "I'm very disap- On the brighter side, Blue pole ' ointed but I sti'l think that we vaulter Jim Stokes c a m e can pick up the pieces." Hoosie By SCOTT LEWIS Special To The Daily BLOOMINGTON-The NBC TV cam- eras will be rolling, Dick Enberg and Billy Packer will be yapping and the Indiana partisans will be screaming. A nationwide television audience will see all these characteristics of a typi- cal clash between two national powers. YET INDIANA owns but a mediocre 6-4 Big Ten record, with little chance of winning its fifth consecutive conference championship. It appears the Hoosiers must relegate themselves to nothing more than a spoiler's role for the re- rs Blue n in the Indiana players' minds. And you THEC can be sure Indiana coach Bobby Indiana's Knight will do all that he can to im- centerF press that national audience - which sembled will undoubtedly include those respon- powered sible for the final tournament selec- Poor s tions. jured ba NOT THAT conference-leading Michi- son all gan should prove easy victims of an thirty or Indiana uprising, he's hit "Just the whole Indiana series gets cent of us going," said guard Steve Grote. "I don "They're the only team I'll have a los- it (his in ing record against in my career. I'd said Kni really like 'to inflict a big loss on them him, but down there," he said with a grin, it everyt In Johnny Orr's seven years as Mich- ,i, , TV ONLY returning star s championship team Kent Benson, has h the indestructible fo past Hoosier squads. hooting, possibly due ack, has hampered th -American. Although r more points twicet a relatively mediocr his field goals so fG 't think there's any d njury) hinders his m ight. "I'm sure it's p t he goes out there, thing he has. That's a remato rter from teams, hitting 15 of 19 shots on his way last year, to 32 points. ardly re- Fellow freshman' Glen Grunwald rce that's (6-9), finally recovered from an annoy- ing knee injury, rounds out the Hoosier to an in- frontcourt. e pre-sea- Junior Jim Wisman (6-2) and Wayne i scoring Radford (6-3) fill the backcourt posi- this year, tions. Radford, recovering from an ear- re 50 per ly-season slump, replaces Butch Carter ar. as a starter. doubt that These guards have posed Indiana's ovement," biggest problem this year, totalling only ainful for 16.8 points per game. Michigan's and gives Rickey Green, Grote and Dave Baxter ill we can boast a combined average of 38.5.