Sunday, March 20, 1977
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Seven
NCAA BERTH AT STAKE
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Blue
By ERROL SHIFMAN
On to Detroit.
That will be the next stop for the win
tonight's Michigan-Bowling Green State
versity (BGSU) hockey game at Yost at
Detroit's Olympia Stadium will be the s
the NCAA hockey championships.
BESIDES THE honor of participating
NCAA tourney, the Wolverines and the F.
of Bowling Green have added incentive
winning tonight.
Michigan (26-16) has not qualified fi
semis in 12 years, when they won the
title in 1964. A tournament berth could
give the Blue another shot at Wisconsin
team which defeated them for the WCHA
pionship.
Bowling Green (28-10), champion of the
tral Collegiate Hockey Association (CCE
the first team from outside the WCHA or
to be given a chance at the NCAA tourn
since Michigan won the first title in 1948
BOWLING GREEN athletic director
Young summed up his school's feelings
their selection:
"We are thrilled to death to be the first
outside the WCHA in the west to be select
the tournament," Young said, "It's an hc
have the opportunity to represent the CCF
other independent college hockey teams
championship."
Michigan will have the home ice advn
but that doesn't really bother Falcon
Ron Mason.
skaters
host
I3G 'U
"I don't really care. The NCAA decided (to
play at Yost) based on attendance capaciy,"'
said Mason. "The big thing is that we're so'
close that we can bring a lot of fans along.
That will help."
"The home team has at least a one goal ad-
vantage," added Mason. "If we play an excep-
tional game, we have a chance, if we play an
average game, we're in trouble."
IF PAST performance is any indication, Bowl-
ing Green will need all tse help they can get.
In four previous meetings, the Falcons have yet
to defeat the Wolverines. The teams last tangled
last season when Michigan took a 7-6 win on
Dave Debol's winning goal.
The Bowling Green attack is led by St. Clair
Shores native Mark Wells and John Markell.j
Both are freshmen arrd both shared the CCHA
scoring title.!
Wells picked up 23 goals and 37 assists for
the season while Markell led the team with 26
goals.
Bowling Green lacks Michigan's scoring punch
but are endowed with a strong defense.
THE BACKBONE of that defense is the net-
minder Mike Liut. Liut received CCHA player'
of the year honors based on a fine 2.53 goals
against average and two shutouts.
The Falcon's key to their CCHA championship
series victories was their penalty killing. Bowl-'
ing Greep killed 15 of 16 -penalties and scored
one shorthanded goal. Sophom6re John Mavity
and 6'4, 200 pound Ken Morrow lead the defense.
FINAL WMPL COACHES POLL
1. Wisconsin (9) 99
2. Clarkson (1) 91
3. Notre Dame........ .......71
4. MICHIGAN .... ........... 64
5. New Hampshire.63
6. Boston University.........43
7St. Louis.........36
8. Denver...................31
9. Cornell................ 22
10. Bowling Green . . 14
The WMPL poll is conducted
by the sports department of ra-
dio station WMPL in Houghton,
Michigan.
FINAL NCAA POLL
i. New Hampshire.......... 74
2. Wisconsin. ............71
3. Clarksona . . . 64
4. Notre Dame............. 59
5. Denver. .............55
6. MICHIGAN 46-
7. Boston University........45
8. Cornell4...2.........42
9. North Dakota . .... . .... , ..37
10. Michigan Tech . .. ...... 27
The NCAA poll is the first such
poll sanctioned by the NCAA and
is conducted from Shawnee Mis-
sion, Kan.
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Daily Photo by BRAD BENJAMIN,
GOALIE RICK PALMER stops Brian Walsh of Notre Dame in a game earlier this year.
Mark Miller (14), Dean Turner (3) and Dan Lerg (16) swoop in to aid Palmer while Geoff
Collier (15) looks on for the Irish. Michigan will be in action TONIGHT against BGSU in a
playoff game for the final NCAA playoff spot.
LACROSSE CLUB VICTORIOUS
Final
The'battle of the blue-chip-
pers is set for next Saturday
at Crisler Arena as Birming
ham Brother Rice's Kevin Smith
will lead the Warriors against
Earvin Johnson and the top
rated Lansing Everett in the
finals of the Class A high school
tournament.
Brother Rice advanced ,to
the finals by edging defend-
ing champion Detroit Catholic
Central, 65-63, while Everett
downed Saginaw, 48-40.
Dearborn Divine Child niped
Saginaw Buena Vista, 51-50, to
earn a shot at unbeaten Grand-
ville in the Class B finals. The
Bulldogs, claiming the states
only perfect record, turned back
Oscoda 66-59.
In Class D action, Detroit
East Catholic whipped Fulton
Middleton, 72-62 and Maple
City Glen Lake knocked off
Harbor Springs, 75-59.
The finals in all classes will
be played Saturday at Crisler
Arena.
Crossers crush
Special to the Daily
Michigan's lacrosse club open-
ed the season on the road yes-
terday by swamping Cincinnati
26-0. Fred Hartman, lacrosse
coach at Michigan State last
pit Everett,
Brother
Rice
year, led the Blue onslaught
with six goals and two assists.
- Bobby Gordon blasted the
Bearcats for five goals and
two assists while Steve Bissell
added four goals and three
assists for the Wolverines.
The lacrosse club has won
the University Division Mid-
west Lacrosse Club Association
championship for the last three,
years.
Today the Wolverines play at
Southern Ohio and their first
home match is March 27 versus
Ohio State.
--DAILY SPORTS
IIoo 1)scoop
MINNEAPOLIS (Minn.) -
Delta State shoots for its third
straight khampionship when the
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics for Women basketballI
tonrnament opens Wednesday.
The Lady Statesmen from
Cleveland, Miss., tangle with
host Minnesota in the opening
game of the sixth annual tour-'
n~ey. I
Led by 6-foot-3 Olympian
Lusia Harris, who averaged
24.7 points and 14.2 rebounds a
game, Delta State carries a
15-game winning streak and a
28-3 record into the tourna-
ment.
3LSU, Minnesota, Missouri,
Tennessee and Michigan State
each is making its first appear-j
ance in the tournament, won
only by Delta State and Immac-
ulata, which suffered two of its
three losses this season to Del-
ta.
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Immaculata won the first
three AIAW tournaments before
losing the 1975 title game to
Delta State.
-AP
Houston's hopes, say both
Cougar Coach Guy Lewis and
St. Bonaventure mentor Jim
S'atalin, could rise or fall on the
play of Houston's Otis Bird-
song, the tournament's leading
scorer with 78 points in three
games.
Despite Birdsong's point pro-
duction, Lewis laments that
the 6-foot-4 guard is not play-
ing up to par. Birdsong's 26-
point per-game average for
the tourney is four shy of his
season average.
"If Birdsong is having a bad
tournament and he has a good
game against us, then we are
in for bad, bad trouble," said
Satalin. "He is one super play-
er.
NIT finals
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Hous-
ton's Cougars are slight favor-
ites to beat St. Bonaventure
today for the championship of
the new-look National Invitation
Tournament - the nation's old-
est post-season collegiate bas-
ketball classic,
peaking as they move into
the NIT final against Hous-
ton. Satalin's squad, 23-6, has
won 17 of its last 20 games.
Lewis cites St. Bonaventure
players Glenn Hagen, Greg
Sanders and Essie. Hollins as
some of the reasons the NIT
final "will be a very hard
game." -AP
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