Thursday, March 17, 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven , '- w W ' iy ~, r ,y ORR, VIT ALE TRADE BARBS Wolverines face By HENRY ENGLEHARDT Special to the Daily LEXINGTON - . . .Springtime for Vitale. And Deeetroit ' , - The war for state college basketball suprem- acy happens tonight in huge Rupp Arena. Ann Arborites can view the action on TV Channel 4, starting at 8:00 pm. The victor of this NCAA Mideast Regional semi-final game advances to the region finals Saturday, against the winner of Syracuse-North Carolina-Charlotte. The gently rolling Kentucky countryside is alive with color which also de- scribes the verbal war Michigan coach Johnny Orr and his Detroit counterpart Dick' Vitale (Vitality?) are waging. AT A PRESS CONFERENCE yesterday the bubbling Vitale claimed he and Orr were not involved in a feud. The four-year Titan coach then proceeded .to rip some of Orr's previous statements. "Orr says I'm an opportunist," Vitale throb- bed. '"In life people try to better themselves. Why did lie (Orr) leave Massachusetts for Michigan?" He followed the left hook with a right jab. "Johnny Orr said that after we beat them in 1973 that we had a full color brochure on the game," Vitale gleamed, "but we never did that . . . never." MICHIGAN'S NINE-YEAR COACH retaliated by stomping a previous Vitale uppercut with a right cross of his own. "Mr. Vitale has never personally written or askedme to play him," the low-keyed - when compared with Vitale - Orrsnapped. The early part of the game is critical to both sides. If the Titans open up a big lead, they can slow the pace down and wait for shots. "I would not hesitate to put the ball in the freezer if we're ahead," said Vitale. DETROIT'S OFFENSE indicates a four-corner slowdown pattern, featuring guard Dennis Boyd. The Titans ran it effectively when they knock- ed off Marquette 64-63 in Milwaukee. In Detroit's first round 93-76 NCAA victory over Middle Tennessee State, Boyd had 14 points and a whopping 15 assists. Michigan counters with All-American Rickey Green, who had 35 points and nine ,assists last Sunday against Holy Cross. The 6-1 Boyd plays the point guard spot when not running .the four corner offense. The Titan's other four players all crash the offensive boards. So if Michigan snares the defensive rebound Tian-ic and starts the fastbreak, Boyd is the lone Titan laying back. A KEY 'MATCHUP under those boards is in the pivot, between Wolverine Phil Hubbard and Detroit's Terry Tyler. "Tyler's a great jumper, a power player," described Vitale. The 6-7 junior overages 17.4 points and 11.4 rebounds a game. He scored 29 against Middle Tennessee State. The Titan's leading scorer is a junior, 6-5 John Long. At times a blistering shooter averag- ing 20.1 points per game, Long will be guarded by Tom Staton. Michigan's John Robinson covers 6-9 forward Ron Bostick, who grabs over five rebounds per game. Rob will try to prevent Bostick from posting down low. Steve Grote, a native of Cincinnati only 80 miles away, is responsible for slowing 6-1 sharp- shooter Terry Duerod (11.4 ppg). WHEN MICHIGAN TAKES the offensive, the Titans will most likely fall into a zone defense. "We've got about 12 types of defenses to go to as the situation dictates," said Vitale. The Wolverines will probably see 1-3-1 and 2-3 zones. "They don't play anything we haven't seen," blew Michigan's assistant coach Bill Freider. strugge "Both Purdue and Minnesota zoned us and weI were successful." Very early in the season, Minnesota - who Michigan soundly defeated twice-shellacked Detroit 104-80. The Titan's then ran off 21 consecutive victor- ies before dropping two of their last four regu- lar season games. THE TITAN'S ARE finally getting to play; "the goliaths of Ann Arbor," as Vitale refers to the Wolverines, and they'll be fired 'up higher than Stroh's beer. But the Wolverines promise to be ready. They. know that the loser leaves Rupp Arena after the game in his street shoes, not to return. * * * Dave Baxter, Michigan's fabled 'third guard' was injured Wednesday when he stretched tendons in his left ankle.I Participating in a full-court drill during prat- tice, Baxter 'became -injured when he fell at- tempting to intercept an inbounds pass. He was helped to the dressing room where the injury was diagnosed and taped. "He's skinny, he doesn't have much weight . he'll recover quickly," commented Michi- gan coach Johnny Orr. Despite the injury the junior guard will be ready to play. -JMEDEACTRICS Presets . "ROMEO AND JULIET" Fri., March 18-7:00 & 9:30 AND "LITT LE BIG AN" Sat., March 19-700 & 9:30 Natural Science Auditorium - - -- s s Ii 4 I FONIGH T is: Dorm Nigkt Greek Night Free admission with Free admission with a meal cord proof of membership in a rot. or sorority (Free admission is after the qame this week) APPEARING THRU SUNDAY: Bager skaters put .-" Blue on ice, 4-0 By RICK MADDOCK Special to The Daily MADISON - The first segment of the WCHA final saw a predominantly defensively fought battle starring Wis- consin's goalie Julian Baretta. The Badger netminder blanked the Wolverines 4-0 in the first half of the total goal series. Baretta also h'ad the only shutout in the WCHA regular season this year. He blanked Michigan State 8-0 at East Lansing. Last night he turned back 31 Wolverine shots - snapping their 12-game winning streak. This was the third time Michigan has been shut out under coach Dan Farrell. MICHIGAN lost 6-0 to Michigan Tech in the 1974-75 season and 2-0 to Notre Dame in the 1973-74 season. The Wisconsin goalie nearly missed a chance at his shutout, as Michigan's Dean Turner took a vicious slap- shot that knocked Baretta off his feet. Play was stopped with two seconds left in the second period. He was helped off the ice as an official time out was called. The rules allow a ten minute time out to attend to an injured goalie. Third string Dave McNab began warming up. Just as McNab was ready, Baretta came back out on the ice shaking off his momentarv injury. But because McNab had already warmed up he had to play the final two seconds of the period. WAAM (1600) will broadcast tonight's basketball game and will join tonight's WCHA championship, game In progress. MICHIGAN goalie Rick Palmer also played well, stop- ping 43 shots. Wisconsin pressured him continually and took many inside shots that the Wolverine netminder re- jected. "They seem to get a lot of shots in the slot, and they get a lot of rebounds." Palmer said. WISCONSIN started off strong, tallying twice in the first period. Dave Lundeen passed to Dave Herbst who swept the puck past Palmer at 6:44. Then at 17:12, Steve Alley took a slapshot from the left point as Mike Eaves skated down the left side. Eaves tipped the shot past Pal- mer to make the score 2-0. "The two goals in the first period really sparked them," Turner said. THE SCORE remained 2-0 until 7:23 of the third period when Mark Johnson came flying in on a Les Grauer re- bound sending the puck in as he collided with Palmer. Mike Meeker added the final Wisconsin goal when he pushed the puck past Palmer's right side at 16:06. "Wisconsin was good. They were excellent as a mat- ter of fact," Farrell said. "Wisconsin moved the puck very well from their zone. We had a tough time attacking their goal zone," Farrell added. THE GAME WAS marred by the poor conditions of Hartmeyer. Ice Arena. The Badgers usually play in Dane County Memorial Coliseum. but the building was leased to a farm show. So, Hartmeyer was sold out with 2,481 fans while Dane holds 8 630. "I don't think it's a building to play a WCHA cham- pionship in," Farrell saidJ He admitted, however, "the rink had no bearing on the game." HARTMEYER has many irregular. features. The neu- tral zone measures about 35 feet.. inches larger than the center face-off circle diameter. The neutral zone lacks at least 1S feet from the size of regular zones, BLUE TANK ERS FINISH FOURTH In diana swims to By DAN PERRIN Whileqthe Wolverines didn't the top six in at least one event.l There's a famous old saying place quite as high as they Griffith, who competed with thtrgosI a first odoyn' would have liked to, Michigan a badly sprained ankle, plac- succeed, try, try again." Well, Olympian Gordon Downie swam ed second in the 100 yard free-f sthed, tych ryiganme sim. tem, serbly in winning both the 500 style (behind Montgomery of the Michigan men's swim team and 1650 yard freestyles. His Indiana) and fourth in the 200 has been trying its hardest for times of 4:27.62 in the 500 and freestyle, missing the NCAA ! still haven't been able to win 15:27.71 in the 1650 are both new cutoffs by two one-hundredths sthe Big Ten Swimming Chain- Big Ten records. . of a second in the 200. pionships. For that matter, nei-. Indiana's Jim Montgomery, Griffith observed, "To bad I ther have eight other teams in also, an Olympic swimmer, was swimming 'Th t' the conference. successfully defended his tit- (Montgomery).'h It's hard to' The owefulIndanaHoo- iles in the 50, 100 and 200 yard # chase a guy that fast. I was ' The powerful Indiana Hoos- freestyle events, setting a pretty pleased with my swims, ises isw12 o 18 evens i in- conference record in the 100 but disappointed that I didn't{ fishes in 12 of 18 events in win- co rnc eo make the NCAA's." ping the tourney held at free with a 44.68 clocking. m reA s t Michigan State University In winning the 200 free, Mont- 'Morgan swam to the run- from March 4-6. Indiana has i gomery touched out Downie by ner-up spot in the 200 yard in- been the Big Ten champion in one-thousandth of a second in Mike Rado while Weir plac- swimming every year since what was by far the most excit- ed third in the 200 yard back- 1960, which was the last time ing race during the three day stroke and sixth in the 100 Michigan captured the title. competition. yard backstroke, both surpris- The Hoosiers completely Downie exclaimed, "I felt ing for the first year man dominated the three day meet really good the whole meet. This from Pennsylvania. as they piled up an amazing 762 (meet) was almost as good as Sophomore diver Matt Chelich points compared to 472 for run- the Olympics. I would'vebeen turned in two outstanding per- I ner-up Wisconsin. Michigan fin- undefeated (for the season) if formances off the boards as he ished fourth with 406 points I hadn't lost to Montgomery (in came up with two second places. behind MSU (426), followed by the 200 free.) MSU's Dave Burgering edged Ohio State (344), Illinois (253), Michigan's rookies made a him out in both the one and Iowa (2491), Purdue (136), strong 'Thang for themselves three meter diving. Northwestern (127), and Minn-: as Paul Griffith, Kevin Morgan Other championship final- esota (111). I and Scott Weir all finished in ists for the Blue tankers were DIA MOND SCHEDULE SET: Orr chosen best again ti te Larry Schroeder (second in the 50 free)dand John Daly (third in the 200 yard butter- fly.) Consolation finalists for the Wolverines included Fred Yaw- ger (7th in the 200 fly), Ric Peper (9th in the 100 yard breaststroke and 11th in the 200 breast) and Josh Luce (12th in the 200 breast.) Coach Gus Stager summed up the meet by saying, "We got some good swims, but we could've done better, especial- ly in the preliminaries. ' The good swims we got were really good." LADIES' or CHILDREN'S HAIRCUTTING A SPECIALTY! DASCOLA STYLISTS ARBORLAND-971-9975 MAPLE VILLAGE-761 -2733 E. LIBERTY-66-9329 E. UNIVERSITY-662-0354 FREEWHEELIN, 994-535O 516 E. LIBERTY SE URA IL PASSES ore now on sole at time UAC Travel Office, 2nd floor, ALSO AVAILABLE: Flight Information, S and info on International Student I.D 's, and Youth Hostel Cards. I $I t6 - - 11 Michigan's Johnny Orr has ;Ten title picture up until the been voted Big Ten Coach - of- final game of the year last sea- the - Year by the Midwest writ- son. ers and broadcasters who cover- The feature games on the ed the conference this season. schedule are with NCAA Base- Orr, who was named National ball finalist Eastern Michigan Coach - of - the - Year in 1976, and arch rival Michigan State. edged Minnesota coach Jim' Dutcher, 424-408. Orr received BASEBALL SCHEDULE 66 first-place votes to 52 for Apr. s at Toledo (2) Dutcher, a former assistant Apr. s wAYNE STATE (2) coach at Michigan under Orr. Apr. 8 DETROIT (2) Purdue's Fred Schaus, who Apr. 9 at Bowling Green (2) Apr. I2 tWESTERN MICHIGAN ('?) guided the 19-9 Boilermakers tO Apr. 16 MINNESOTA (2) the NCAA tournament, finished Apr. 17 IOwA (2) third in the voting with ten Apr. 19 at western Michigan (2) j first - place votes and 149 points Apr. 21 NOTRE DAME an (2) overall. Illinois coach Lou Hen- Apr. 24 at Purdue () son took fourth with 60 points. May 1 at Illinois (2) -DAILY SPORTS May 4 OAKLAND (2) The Wolverines defeated MSU on the last day of the regular season to successfully defend its conference crown, then lost to EMU in the regional finals. Michigan will also play at Bowling Green, EMU, at third place Indiana and close out the regular season at MSU. -DAILY SPORTS SEE /I- A 1 S. DETROIT on our 1OUx8' SCREEN Thursday, March 17 AT $9[ fI43 LIVE BAND AFTER GAME - STAY TO CELEBRATE THE VICTORY! ADMISSION $1.50, STUDENTS $1.00 Doors Open 7 :30.DURING THE GAME: DoorsOpen /:30REDUCED BEER PRICES Game Starts 8:15 FREE POPCORN ALSO: GREEN BEER 994-5350 516 E. LIBERTY Bowling Pinball and Billitards OPEN 11 A.M at TTHE UNION 'a, * * * Suring fever M I C H I G A N beams its. two time defense of the Big Ten baseball title with a doublehead- er at home against second place Minnesota April 16. The Gouh- ers went to the NCAA west fin- als last year. Hiilighting Michign's home srhedile are double-dips with D etroit,Notre Dame; Bowling Green and conference foe Iowa. The Hawkeyes were in the Big May 7 at Ohio State (2) May 8 at Indiana (2) May 11 BOWLING GREEN (2) May 14 WISCONSIN (2) May 15 NORTHWESTERN (2) May 18 EASTERN MICHIGAN (2) May 21 MIChIGAN STATE May 22 at Michigan State HOME GAMES IN CAPS NHL Philadelphlia 4, New York Rangers 4 Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 3 Buffalo 6, Cleveland 2 New York Islanders 5, Chicago 0 Montreal 5, Minnesota NBA Chicago 11)4, Detroit 97 Indiana 109, Denver 98 Philadelphia 109, Atlanxta 100 seattle 100, Washington 96 Houston 1)00, New York Nets 86 j Phoenix 124, N.Y. Knicks SI MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE -SEMINAR SERIES- SARAH FRYER LEIBOWITZ THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY NEW YORK CITY. "Neurochemical Control of Appetite" THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1977 Co-sponsored by Michigan Women in Science SEMINARS: 3:45 p.m. TEAS: 3:15 p.m. Room 1057 MHRl Room 2005 MHRI BECAUSE YOU'VE ACHIEVED C.. iY b The experiences that have "carved" your real achievements are the personal ones Wear a class rin and remember Order on Ring Day and save 5%. You tr last 2 years at UofM can be your first 2 year of management. Wh'1y wait until yo u ' a° e out of college to get practical manage- ment training? Army ROTC is a possibility bz rayoaae aving two years of unidergraduate oi graduate work remnaiiniig. And leads you to ;an 'Armtay officer's eo nission ucpon gracluativaa. New Army u uf f i t: e r s take oil instan t leadership respoaasibility. They have to manage p'eoPle and handle money and equipment. They have to make more iml Urtant plan- ninig dec isions t h a n mo.t youn' executives. So when Armily RO'TC students r e c e i v e their undergraduate or graduate degree, they enter active or reserve duty fully prepared for these management challenges. If you'd like to be getting man- ag ement (kl~e'icaie after college, while others a e etting manage- ment training, apply for the Army ROTC 2-year program by April 1. The 3rd Annual Edward H. Krause Memorial Lecture "The Crisis in Schools of Education and Graduate Schools"