Thursday, December 9; 1976, /" THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pope Nint. Thursday, December 9, 1976 x'THE MICHIGAN DAILY Women's cage progra rr '#1ii'rn By MIKE HALPIN Have you ever envied those Iuzky people who got in'on the ground floor of a good thing? YOU KNOW-they bought IBM at 15, supported Jimmy Carter in '74, or backed the Mets in '62. Well here's a hot tip on a sure thing, and you can beat the rush-Michigan women's basketball. In some states women's basketeball is a phenomenally popular sport. The s ate high school finals in Iowa draw over 10,000 people'to each game. HERE IN MICHIGAN, though, the sport is just developing. State high school tournaments have only been held for the last four years and most of the programs in the state are only that old. So naturally the Michigan team, which opens its season three days after Christmas, has been short on experience. Until now. COACH CARMEL BORDERS feels that this year's team represents a basketball program which has come of age. Not only does the team feature more experience than last year's squad, but also more height and speed. The added experience is extremely important. Borders feels that last year's squad, which entered the state college tourna- ment as, the second seed only to fall apart, was badly hurt by inexperience. THAT PROBLEM SHOULD be partially solved by a pair of junior college transfers-Sheila Butler and Linda Gardner. The women will strengthen a forecourt that spent last year playing in the 'shadow of star guards Lydia Sims 'and Melinda Fertig. Although Sims and Fertig are back, they'll be supported by a trio of freshwomen-Karen Gilhooly and Jeanne Otto, bo.h from Our Lady of Mercy in Farmington, and Peggy Kopmeyer from Lawson. BORDERS SEES THE trio of freshwomen, sophs Fertig and Denise Cameron and senior co-captain Sims making the squad "strong at guard-very strong." "Lydia is strong and exremely competent. She runs our offense, she's a great team player-the quarterback of our team," says Borders. Sims even had an Olympic tryout last year. At starting forwards will be junior Terry Conlin and senior Carol Klomparens, both returning from last year. Klom- parens, the other co-captain, is coming off a knee injury. IN THE PIVOT will, be sophomore Cathy Young. Borders believes that "she'll be a lot stronger than last year" and that the combination of good rebounding and speedy guards will open up fast break possibilities. So there's the team, but how will they do? "It's really hard to judge. In women's basketball you can't go on last year's records. The high schools are developing so many good players that unless you know who a team has-who its freshman starters are-you can't tell how good they'll 'be." AS FOR HER own recruiting efforts, Borders believes she has two big advantages over other Michigan schools. The first is her assistant coach Jane Bennett, and the second is the academic prestige the U of M enjoys. Bennett is not only Michigan's assistant coach, junior varsity coach and chief recruiter, but she's also the women's basketball coach at Ann Arbor's Pioneer. High School. Like Borders, she's a Michigan grad herself, having played here in the late '60s when women's basketball was still a club sport. DESPITE THESE ADVANTAGES, the program has been hindered by several factors. When Borders came here as coach three years ago the schedule consisted of eight games, she worked out of her home instead of an office, and she wasn't reimbursed for recruiting expenses. Now things are a little better. The team plays 25 games (see the corrected schedule). The coaches now have an office in the old physical education building, which Borders describes as "super." BUT THE ASSOCIATION of Intercollegiate Athletics for' Women (AIAW) still prohibits schools from covering their coaches' recruiting expenses. For that reason Borders and Bennett concentrate most of their recruiting efforts in South-' eas'ern Michigan. They are helped in their search by contacts they've made as high school coaches. They even get unsolicited films from young hopefuls. There are young women playing in high schools around the state who continue their careers at Michigan. That's why women's basketball is such a sure thing. Bennett observes, "Our program is already as good as anyone else's (inI the state) and it will improve faster than anyone else's." WOMEN'S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE All home games; Dec. 28-29 Jan. 6 Jan. 11 Jan. 15 Jan. 17 Jan. 21-22 Jan. 24 Jan. 26 Jan. 29 Feb. 1 Feb. 5 Feb. 7 Feb. 11-12 Feb. 17 Feb. 19 Feb. 21, Feb. 25-26 Mar. 4-5 at Chrisler Arena. Wayne State Christmas Tourney Grand Valley Eastern Michigan Purdue Central Michigan Can-Am Tourney Michigan State Wayne State Northwestern Western Michigan Chicago State Adrian Big Ten Championship Michigan State , Eastern Michigan Wayne State Central Mich. Invitational State Tourney Away Home (5:45) Home (8:00) Home (7:30) Home (8:00) Windsorj Away Away Away Away Home (11:30 am) Home (8:00) W. Lafayette Home (8:00) Away Home (6:00) Away Undecided PRETZEL LOGIC By RICK BONINO YOU ARE ENTERING A WORLD WHERE FANTASY IS FACT, IN WHICH THE BIZARRE BECOMES NORMAL AND SATIRE IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY, YOU ARE IN ... THE BONIN-OZONE .. Lefty watched the blocker cut down the last possible tackler. Twenty-five yards to the winning score and the adulation of those fans and cheerleaders already clustered in the end zone. Aaahh, those cheerleaders . . . 25 . . . 15 .. . 10 .. . S. A sharp rap on his door brought Lawrence "Lefty" Lat- terrell's mind back to his office surroundings. The Universal University football coach slipped the Hustler back into his top drawer to join "Winning Football" and "How To Talk with a Southern Accent" and turned to greet his guest. "Lefty!" greeted Universal cage coach Shep Sapling, "How's things in the gridiron world?" "Oh, can't complain. So . . . ready to spill those big beans?" "I guess so. It's just too good an offer to turn down." "No kidding -. . . damn, Lefty, head coach at Shinola State. That's a nice move you've worked out." "I'm really looking forward to it . . . maybe t'oo much, too soon. We've still got a bowl game to play, remember." "Yeah, I was wondering about the timing of that an- nouncement." "And it's not just me, Our defensive coordinator, Coach In- cisor, is taking over at Moolah A&M, our line coach is headed for a better spot with Spondulic Tech .. . I just hope we can all keep our minds here long enough to get ready fbr that Boysen- berry Bowl." "Aw, hell, the players are the ones who are gonna Win the game anyway, right?" "I hope. But we have problems there, too. You know Rock, our big middle guard? Damned if he wouldn't rather get a dioloma than play football. Sometimes I just don't understand kids these days. "And A. C., our senior quarterback? Cripes, now that he's a 'pro prospect' he's worried about stubbing his toe every time he turns around. Doesn't have to impress the scouts anymore, I guess, just needs to stay healthy. I guess I'm as worried about those kids' heads as our own." "Yeah, but you're lucky, Lefty. At least you don't have a 'hardshin draft' to worry about. I'm afraid tiff has his heart set on that, and you know what that does to team play." "Is he that bad off?" "Hell, his only h'ardshin is that he can't afford Columbian, jest Mexican . , . I guess some kids really need the cash but; . . "So, if he's that m'lch of a problem, why not just berich hii and nlay Lucius? That'll fix his mind up!" SPORTS OF THE DAILY Six Blue on smart list Michigan's Rose Bowl bound Wolverines continued to reapI post season honors as they placed six players on the 1976 Big Ten All-Academic footballE team announced yesterday by commissioner Wayne Duke. The Wolverines defense led the way, placing four players on the team. John Anderson, with a 3.26 grade point aver- age, made the team as both a defense lineman and a punter. Lineman Bob Lang, 3.46, andI Dominic Tedesco, 3.13, plus safety Jim Pickens, 3.43, also{ represented Michigan on theI defensive team. Wide receiver Curt Steph- enson, 3.15, was named to the offensive team while line- man Kirk Lewis received an honorable mention. Minnesota followed Michigan placing four players: Tony' Dungy, Brien Harvey, Kent, Kitzman, and Bob Weber on1 the team.- * e iOutland named I OKLAHOMA CITY - Ross Browner of Notre Dame won, the prestigious Outland Award! as the outstanding college line- man in the nation yesterday when the Football Writers As- sociation of America announc- ed its 1976 All-Star team. Browner, 31st recipient of the award starting in.1946, is a 6-foot-3, 248-pound junior from Warren, Ohio. He has started for the Fighting Irish since his freshman year. Browner topped the Writers' list of 25 All-Star picks, an-' nounced here by Volney Meece, sports writer for the Oklahoma City Times and secretary-treas- urer of the 905-member associa- tion. In addition to 11 offensive and 11 defensive players, the association cited place-kick- er Tony Franklin of Texas A&M, punter Russell Erxle- ben' of Texas and kick return- er Jim Smith of Michigan. The only repeaters from the 1975 Writers' squad were run-. ning backs Ricky Bell of South- ern Cal and Tony Dorsett of Pitt. The third running back is Terry Miller of Oklahoma State. The quarterback is Gifford Nielsen, a Brigham Young jun- ior who rewrote the Western Atheletic Conference passing records while leading the Cou- gars to a league co-champion- ship, a 9-2 record *and a date in the Tangerine Bowl opposite Oklahorma State. -AP{ i 't FSCORES I NHL Vancouver 4, Toronto 3 St. Louis 4, N.Y. Rangers 4 (tie) Buffalo 5, Cleveland 1 Montreal 4, Chicago 3 Atlanta 5, Minnesota 0 NBA Boston 104, Portland 95 N.Y. Knicks 105, N.Y. Nets 95 Philadelphia 123, Buffalo 102 Seattle 109, Washington 99 Indiana 111, Los Angeles 98 Atlanta 117, San Antonio 106 Detroit 107, Chicago' 100 COLLEGE B-BALL W. Michigan 94, Grand Valley 73 E. Michigan 83, Oakland U. 59 Minnesota 66, Nebraska 58 Northwestern 96, S. Dak.-Springfield 64 Marquette 64, Florida 61 North Carolina 99, Athletes in Action 86 Maryland 80, E. Carolina 69 Cincinnati 67, Bowling Green 63 Louisville 89, Idaho St. 68 "S'ire, that'd probably work out better for the team anyway, but then we'd have five black starters. Now, you know I'm not a bigot, but the alumni . . . well, yov know . .." Hup. I know. They've got supreme wisdom, eternal lovaltv, and npenty o bucks." "Heh, that's about it. Tf it wasn't for them, we probably wo ld"'r even have owr new arena." " hoot, that nlace is a real palace, especially compared to the field hose and the baseball stadium. But I guess you have to plll vour weight . . . vox'r weight in gold, that it." , "That's right, Lefty, it's a dog eat dog world." RP.RRRTNG!! Lefty nicked up the receiver, wondering why A. C.- always seemed to have so mnvch trouble doing the same. "Lefty? Marty Meek here from the Courier-Times. We've heard some talk that you're leavinw Universal and we were wondering . . . could this he a pro job?" 'Well, Marty, I can't tell you too much, but you know how I feel about the pros. You get in there and it's money, money, money . . . those guys just don't play for the love of the game, like we do . . . that's right, there's just nothing like good, clean r college sports . . . fresh air . . . win one for the Gipper ... AP Photor CHICAGO'S Mickey-Johnson (8) is ready to go, but he's neglecting the bail. Bull Jack Mar- tin watches the ball bounce away, as did the game from the Bulls against the Pistons, 107- 100, at Cobo Hall last night.' Pistons win again at home, crumble Chicago, 107-100 1 -0 wpm MOONAM" 0! By ERNIE DUNBAR DETROIT - The Detroit Pistons won their seventh consecutive home game last night, defeating the Chicago Bulls, 107-100, before a crowd of 4,715. Keyed by Al Eberhard's ten fourth quarter points, the Pistons finally took command of the see saw game with five minutes left in the fourth iuarter. EBERHARD crashed the boards for five rebounds, moving inside both offensive and defensive-boards and finishing the game with 12 points. The Pistons seemed to have the game pret- ty well in hand early in the first quarter, running up an 11 point lead. BUT THE BULLS, who have yet to win a game on the road this season had rookie Scott May and John Laskowski come off the bench to Lcan 18 and 12 points, respec- tively. "We broke down offensively in the last quarter," said Chicago coach Ed Badger. "We have a young team and they get ex- cited and think they can win it by them- selves. "WE HAD A GOOD second quarter (56 per cent from the floor) and not a bad third quarter (47 per cent from the floor), but that 20 per cent shooting in the fourth quarter hurt." Piston coach Herb Brown also received fine efforts from his bench as Leon Douglas scored seven points and Ralph Simpson added 11. "The answer tonight was the bench," said Brown. "Al (Eberhard), Ralph (Simpson) and Leon (Douglas) all played real well. That's not to take anything away from the starters, but it was the bench." EBERHARD REFLECTED on the Pistons style of play saying, "It was a case of me being open and getting the ball, but that's the kind of team we have. If you're open, they'll get the ball to the open man and work the team aspect of the game." The bills Wilbur Holland had the hot hand for Chicago. scoring 22 points. Artis Gilmore tossed in 17 noints and grabbed 14 rebounds for the Bulls. Bob Lanier led all 'scorers with 24 points and rined down 12 rebounds. KEVIN PORTER, the league's leading per- centage shooter going into last night's game, went eight-for-14 and finished the night with 1R points and eight assists. Piston forward Marvin Barnes scored his first basket in the NBA in the second quar- ter, slamming the ball through the basket'on a feed from Leon Douglas. EBERHARD SAW action in his first game since knowledge of his right big toe fracture after last week's Houston game. "He wasn't supposed to play but the doctor said it was okay," said Brown. "I told him to dress but he probably wouldn't play. Al has 'been giving us something off the bench for the last 23 games." The Pistons will play a home and home sories with the New York Nets this weekend, playing at Long Island on Friday and re- turning to Cobo for a Saturday night game. I Uof M Ski Club Meeting Thurs., Dec. 9-7 P.M. Assembly Hall-M. Union PINE KNOB SKI TRIP-DEC. 12 HAVE.A CHECKU? IT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE. I I I 9iria /. Johnny Bench During one of my checkups, the doctors found a spot on my lungs. I thought it might be cancer. So did they. Luckily, it wasn't. Most people are lucky. Most people never have cancer. But those who find they do have cancer are far better off CLEAR UP YOUR FUTURE IN THE 2-YEAR AFROTC PROGRAM. What's up after college? That question is enough to get a lot of young people down. Air Force ROTC college graduates have that worry,