Wednesday, Nlar h 16, 1.97? ! HE M1CHlGAN DAILY Page Nine Wednesday, March 16, 1977 HE MICHiGAN DAILY Page Nine WCHA TITLE AT STAKE: Tl l l 'M' 28 game basketball stats G-s FG-FGA Pet. fT-FTA Pet. Reb. A sty. PF-D Pts. flue battles Ba 0' si n C fi : tI be c v; sY di at b: B H By JOHN NIEMEYER of the season and comes into the have to reckon with both of Not since 1964 has the Michi- series with plenty of momen- these centers if it hopes to con- an hockey team had a shot at tum. Over the Badgers last 22 tain the explosive offense. 'inning the WChAdchampion- games, they have posted a 19-2-1 Michigan's offense boasts the hip. .Tonight and Thursday record. league's scoring champ in jun- ight the Wolverines will try to Included in those 19 victories ior Dave Debol. Debol edged out are Michigan's last two defeats. Notre Dame's Brian Walsh with ace number one rated Wiscon- Michigan lost 3-2 and 11-8 to the 71 total points in the conference. e Badgers in Yost ending the Blue His 89 point season tally ses a inals icer s seven game slide. In the record for a single season and The winner of the two-game, betters his two previous seasons )tal goal series in Madison will1 Just as they have done all combined. e declared the conference< year long, WAAM (1600) in KIP MAURER and Kris Man- hampion and automatically ad- Ann Arbor will broadcast the ery finished eighth and ninth in ance to the NCAA champion- M i c h I g a n hockey series the conference and round out hips at Detroit's Olympia Sta- against Wisconsin. Tonight's Michigan's offensive punch. ium. The loser is not elimin-' coverage will begin at 8:15. Although the teams match upt ted, but must play Bowling well in the offensive category, reen in a one game playoff an teams' only other meeting thisdgn de coparo Suday for the final NCAA season, they split a' pair of over- the Badgers in defensive zrrow-' !rth time thrillers, 7-6 and 6-7. ess. While Michigan finisned' erthey jt vwith one of the poorer goals They will join Eastern entries BOTH TEAMS are offensive aantrcrsi h ege 3astn Unversty ad Ne , against .records in the league, oston University and New powerhouses. Of the league's top Wisconsin was on top. iampshire. ten scorers, six are from either Norwich again is largely re- MICHIGAN earned the right Michigan or Wisconsin. Leaders _ Green .....,.. Hubbard ..... I Robinson .. Grote....... Baxter ....... ITIhompxson,. sponsible. He and senior Jahn sttson ....... Taft have teamed up to give net- Hardy. minders Mike Dibble and Julian Lillard".... Baretta plenty of protection. Bergen. Lozier .... .. Michigan's defensive woes Jones........ weren't helped with the loss of Lelich ....... Greg Natale in the season finale Team/Others in East Lansing. Natale suffered oICHIGAN .'. a broken collarbone and leaves opponents .... a big burden on the other de- - - fensemen. SENIOR ROB Palmer and freshman Dean Turner will be relied upon heavily in Natale's' absence. The last time Michigan made it to the finals, it lost to Denver after finishing the season in first place. S This time around, Michigan comes in as the underdogs. They are on a streak, however, and I 1fl1 "are getting stronger with each game," according to Michigan 1 coach Dan Farrell. 26-25 28-28 28-27 28-28 27-3 28-11 28-18 27-0 11-0 21-p 16-f1 8-0 1-0 . 28 . 28 211-432 .488 93-117 .795 2.8 107 54 57-3 19.8 215-377 107-219 108-240, 92-177 83-158 71-161, 43-93, 8-12, 12-30 5-186 0-9 0-1 955-1925 855-1765 .570 122-184 .489 76-100 .450 62-85 .520 41-57 .525 36-51 .441 3I-46 .462 15-25 .667 2-2 .404 7-14 .313 4-5 .000 1-4 .000 0-0 - 0-1 .496 490-691 ,484 353-508 .663 .760 .729 .719 .706 .674 .600 1.000 .500 .800 .200 .000 12.7 5.4 3.0 1.7 3.6 3.1 2.2 1.1 1.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 5.6 42 39 90 63 22 68 8 5 5 0 41 102-4 1 62-1: 51 88-2 24 50-2 11 65-2 36 74-3 1 28-0 o 3-0 5 29-0 1 9-0l 1 2-0 0 0.0 0- 19.7 10.4 9;9 8.3 7.2 6.2 3.7 1.8 1.5 0.9 0.1 0.0 Avg. Avg. .709 42.1 450 242 569-17 85.7 .695 37.8 396 124 607-41 73.7 REGISTE R NOW! Department of Romance Languages JMMER STUDIES SPAIN or FRANCE Information: 4108 MLB-764-5344 rogram Date: JULY 3-AUG. 29 urses: FRENCH or SPANISH 230 (8 weeks equals 8 U-M credits) FRENCH or SPANISH 360 (8 weeks equals 6 U-M credits) to face the Badgers by winning four straight playoff games, two apiece against Michigan Tech and Denver. The Wolverines are flying high on a record tying 12, wins in a row, giving them third, place in the conference andI home ice up until now in the. playoffs. Wisconsin set back Colorado jCollege and Minnesota to arrive in the finals. The Badgers fin- ished the regular season in first place, giving them the right to play at home in the finals. Like Michigan, Wisconsin has been red hot over the last part for the Badger offensive thrust are Craig Norwich, Mark John- son and Mike Eaves, who tin- ished third and tied for fifth re- spectively in the WCHA. Norwich, a defenseman, is one of the nation's premier players this year. Of his 63 offensive points this season, 49 came on assists. At any time he is a threat to hit a man on a break away with a pinpoint pass. Norwich's favorite targets are fellow junior Eaves and fresh- man Johnson. Michigan will STEVE'S LUNCH 1313 S. UNIVERSITY COME FOR. P CO 769-2288 Vegetable Tempura Korean Bar-B-Q Dinner (Bul-go-gee) Mandoo (Kyoza) Plate Sweet & Sour Beef Dinner Fresh Bean Sprouts Brown Rice Dailv Photo by BRAD BENJAMIN MICHIGAN FORWARD John Robinson, shown here taking a shot in the March 6th win over Marquette, will play a key role in Thursday's NCAA playoff game against Detroit. Rob's highest scoring game came at home against Ohio State, as he lead the Wolverines with 22 points. Participar ts must fly as a group. Other Stu- dents and Faculty may participate in t h e round-trip flight. WE TAKE CARRY-OUT ORDERS GRIDDERS BACK IN ACTION Spring druts begin By DAN PERRIN hard-hitting days under the sun: ing job will take place in the Spring means different things also present a high risk of in- defense where seven positions to different people. To the aver- jury since the team hasn't, have been currently vacated age student on a college cam- worked in full pads since the' by graduating seniors. Open pus, spring is a time to relax a Rose Bowl. positions include m i d d I e little, lay out in the sun or throw But Schembechler disagrees, guard, both defensive tackles, a frisbee. But to a University of "The risk of injury is not any wolfman, wide side halfback Michigan football player, spring more so than during the fall. If as well as two linebacker means getting out the pads and a player is injured, he has plen- spots. returning to the football field for ty' of time between now and the "'Spring ball is a time where their annual spring practice. fall to heal." a player should improve him- And that's exactly what hap- self individually. A player can pened yesterday afternoon as With the departure of ex- earn a starting spot, but he has the Wolverines came out hitting, defensi'e coordinator Gary to defend it against the mnom- on the first day of spring foot- Moe1 r (now head coach at ing freshmen in the fall," said ball ' Illinois), Schembechler has Schembechler. While numerous universities moved some of his staff to One young man who finds him- across the'country are eliminat- new areas of coaching. self in a somewhat unusual situ- ing spring practice due to bud- Assistant Coach Bill McCart- ation for the second consecutive get cutbacks, Michigan head ney, formerly the outside line- year is sohomore quarterback backer -coach, has been appoint- RikLah coach Bo .Schembechler feels bAs well as playing varsity that this is a very important , ed to replace Moeller as top de- football. Leach is also the start time of year for his football fensive man, while coach Den- ing centerfielder for Michigan's team. nis Brown has jumped from the baseball team. Leach was the "The only way we wouldn't offensive backfield over to the Wolverine"s leading hitter last need it (spring practice) is if outside linebackers. year, boasting a powerful .429 we were allowed to start work- Two new .additions to the average. ing out two to three weeks Michigan coaching staff include Somehow, Leach manages to earlier in the summer. And Don Nehlen and Thom Darden. find time to make the spring that would take away a lot of Nehien, the new offensive football practices while leading the player's summer." backfield coach, made the trek the defending Big Ten cham- In pointing out the important northward after nine years as ,ion baseball team on and off aspects of spring football, head coach at Bowling Green. the diamond. Schembechler e m p h a s i z e d, Darden, currently a starter with Schembechier commented, "This is a good time for us to the Cleveland Browns, will tem- "The biggest part of the (base- experiment with different types porarily assist the defensive hall) season is after spring of offenses and defenses, to re- backs. (foot) ball. Therefore, Rick is place the graduating players The most interesting battles able to participate in both and to bring the team together." among the players for astart- snorts." It has been argued that these --o_. the-players f a sa-_r. vej notice. 0 ace t tiw courses SCORES NBA Philadelphia 133, Cleveland 102 Sah Antonio 118, N.Y. Nets 108 Chicago 107, Boston 96 Kansas City 101, washington 99 Denver 107, Los Angeles 95 NHL Cleveland 5, Washington 1 Atlanta 7, Pittsburgh 3 Toronto 4, St. Louis 1 COLLEGE BASKE'BALL NI1 Semifinals St, Bonaventure 76, Oregon 73 Villanova 81, Massachusetts,71 EXHIBITION BASEBALL N.Y. 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