SPORTS Wednesday, March 4, 1981 The Michigan Daily Page 8 FIRST-YEAR STRUGGLE AT ISU Orrfights 1o By RON POLLACK With 11 minutes remaining in the February 7 Iowa State- Missouri basketball game, Missouri's 6'11"Steve Stipanovich hit Iowa State's 5'9" Lefty Moore in the head with the basket- ball for the second time in the game. Much to Cyclone head coach Johnny Orr's dismay, no foul was called. Enraged by the absence of a call, Orr ran onto the court while the game was still in progress. Stipanovich wasn't given a personal foul-but two technicals were levied against the furious Orr. IT'S BEEN AN uphill battle for Orr and his 9-18 Cyclones this season. After producing numerous winning teams at Michigan, where he compiled a 246-145 record in 12 seasons, Orr is far from conditioned to the losing ways of his team. "When you're losing, it's hard to deal with, after ten con- secutive winning seasons," said Orr. "But now that it's over, we should learn from it. I know I have. You get complacent when you're winning, but I'll tell you-it's much better to win." The loss of starting center Ron Falenschek and his backup John Kunnert has not helped the Cyclones, who were 7-4 prior to the injuries. 0 NOT ONLY WILL Orr have to overcome the other seven teams in the Big Eight in future years, but also a losing tradition. "It's not rebuilding (the program) because it's never been built ... We have not had a great program here. We have to have a great recruiting year," said Orr. Although a "great recruiting year" would put Iowa State on the road to respectability, a team that finishes in last place in its conference does not usually enjoy the luxury of ENGINEERING GRADUATES We're the HOWMET TURBINE COMPONENTS TION, the world's foremost manufacturer of inve superalloy components for aircraft gas turbine generating and pumping markets. Our ranking in1 well as our involvement in many others, has kept thereby creating a need for these dynamic profess METALLURGICAL ENGIN MECHANICAL ENGINEI We will be on campus Tuesday, March 10,1 graduating seniors with majors in the above area are in our Whitehall, Michigan facilities for engin uates in the following areas of employment; R Development, Production, and Training Progra offer you a superb working environment where can grow in many ways,.allowing you to keeps professional needs and goals. In addition, your HOWMET will boast a competitive starting sa mented by many valuable benefits including assistance. Stop by the U of M Engineering Placement Office West Engineering Bldg. and register for your inte met Turbine Components Corporation fully subs principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and the inquiries of all prospective engineers includ and minorities. HOWMET TURBINE COMPONENTS CORPORATION One Misco Drive, Whitehall, Michigan4 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F/H img tradition having blue chip players stand in line to sign letters of intent. "YOU'VE GOT TO get them to want to come and build something like 'Magic' Johnson at Michigan State or Mark Aguirre at DePaul. You've got to get them to go here instead of an established program, and that's not easy," said Orr. On this topic, Big Eight Commissioner Carl James kid- dingly says of Orr's two technical foul performance against Missouri: "Knowing John Orr, it might be because of recruiting-just to let the recruits know he's still around." In spite of the Cyclone's inauspicious record, Orr's presen- ce has given reason for fan optimism, and has resulted in a 45 percent increase in attendance over last year. "I THINK MY coming here has brought hope and en- thusiasm. The fans are wild here. There's no negativism in our (news)papers and radio, even when we are in a losing streak," said Orr. The esteem that Orr is held in does not stop with Iowa State fans; both Cyclone Athletic Director Lew McCullough and Michigan head coach Bill Frieder hold the former Wolverine coach in high regard. "We haven't had a great season," said McCullough, "but we are 500 percent satisfied with coach Orr. We think he's the greatest." "HE'S ONE OF the top coaches in the country," said Frieder. "There aren't many coaches who've accomplished what he has." Only time will tell whether or not the Iowa State program can be turned around, but one person who believes that this is not an insurmountable task is Orr. "I think we'll get it going next year. We'll be able to compete with anybody," said Orr. In accord with Orr in this belief is former pupil, Frieder. "I think he'll get the program going. He's a proven coach. He'll win some games before it's over with." IOWA STATE ENDED their season last night with a 95-70 loss to Missouri in the opening round of the Big Eight Tour- nament. In his first year, Orr guided the Cyclones to a 9-18 record. CORPORA- UPI Top Twenty estment cost 1. Oregon St. (41).........25-0 629 and power 2. DePaul (1) ...............25-1 569 this field, as 3. Louisiana St..............27-2 495 us growing, 4. Virginia ..................24-2 476 ionals. 5. Arizona St ...............22-3 415 6. Iowa... .........21-4 398 7. Notre Dame............22-4 370 E ERS 8. Kentucky. ...........22-4 361 9. Utah....... .......24-3 275 5 10. Wake Forest..........21-5 180 11. North Carolina.........22-7 157 to interview 12. Tennessee ................20-6 137 s. Our needs 13. Indiana .................19-9 120 veering grad- 14. UCLA ....................18-6 86 esearch and 15. Arkansas .....,...........22-6 67 ims. We can 16. Wyoming .................21-5 48 your career 17. Illinois................19-6 45 sight of your 18. Louisvile.,............19-8 42 career with 19. Brigham.Young.........21-6 30 lary compli- 20. Missouri............21-8 28 '' '' ' '' ' '' ' 'S V AP Photo IOWA STATE'S FANS aren't the only ones going wild over the Cyclone basketball program.-Coach John Orr took the liberty of interrupting play when he felt his team was being unnecessarily roughed up by its Missouri opponents, earlier this season. The game's officials decided not to hire Orr as a permanent referee, and rewarded the first-year Iowa State coach with two technical fouls. Ye e stars i n 'l By LARRY MISHKIN There is a saying in sports that a team does not know how good they really are until they have faced the best competition available. The Michigan men's gymnastics team faced the best and found out during spring break that they still have a lot of work to do before they will be considered a gymnastics powerhouse. IN A TRI-MEET with California and Arizona in Tucson oh February 20, the Wolverine gymnasts finished in third; place with a 261.2, despite a career high 9.65 on the rings by captain Darrell Yee, and a season high 3s perfor-; mance by the pommel horsIquad. California took top honors in the meet with a 265.45 score and Arizona barely edged out Michigan with a 262.8 score. I Coach Newt Loken, however, was not disappointed with his team's perfor- mance.1 "We ran up against a really toughc team in California. Arizona is at about1 our level and we might have edged them out, but we had a letdown on the high bar (40.4). That event has been our Achilles heel all season and we'll have to put forth a little more effort in that1 area." THE NEXT DAY the team travelled to Tempe to participate in the South- west Cup Invitational along with California, Brigham Young and the host team, Arizona State. Once again the team was led by Yee, who captured first place in the rings with a 9.3 and the pommel horse squad who topped their previous night's per- formance by turning in a 44.2 score. However, once again the gymnasts found themselves at the bottom as California turned in another first place score of 269.7, Arizona placed second with a score of 268.55, and Brigham Young placed third with a score of 264.1 while the Wolverines could only muster a score of 260.45. -THE BRIGHT SPOT of the meet for the team was Yee's first place perfor- mance that earned him the South- western Cup Individual Award. As a result of the award, Yee was named the Big Ten athlete of the week for the week of February 24. He is the first gymnast to win the award in the Big Ten this year. The gymnasts concluded their Southwest tour by facing powerful Oklahoma in a dual meet at Norman last Saturday. The Sooners, the top team in the defeats nation, had no trouble as they easily defeated the Wolverines by racking ;up 280.95 points, the most by any team this year, to Michigan's 260. THE GYMNASTS were without the service of Marshall Garfield but Merrick Horn turned in a career high of 52.1 in the all-around competition and Kevin McKee tied for first in the floor exercise with a 9.55 score. Garfield was absent from the meet because he had travelled to Toronto with the team's graduate assistant and 1978-79 team captain, Nigel Rothwell for the Canadian national gymnastics team trials. Out of a field of 20 par- ticipants Rothwell placed third and Garfield placed fourth. Strong perfor- mances by the two at the second trial, to be held in May, would secure spots on the team for them. "It was a great experience for the men as they go to go up against some super competition," said Loken. "In- dividual wise the team did quite well and showed considerable im- .rovement, but they still have a lot of ard practicing to do to prepare for the Big Ten championships." g relocation now, 128 H. erview. How- scribes to all we welcome ding females 49461 Don't wait for a little birdie to tell you- SUBSCRIBE TO THE MICHIGAN DAILY - I I Emmommi RUN FOR OFFICE in the RACKHAM STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS- MARCH 23-25 Applications due March 12 at the RSG Office, 2006 Rackham, 763-5271' SCORES College Basketball Toledo 95, E. Michigan 88 OT Ball State 85, Ohio U. 70 Northern Illinois 79, Bowling Green 72 West Virginia 64, St. Bonaventure 62 Kansas 96, Oklahoma St. 69 Iona 64, Siena 48 Creighton 64, Indiana St. 61 Drake 89, Bradley 84 Loyola 86, Detroit80 NBA Milwaukee 115, Detroit 98 Atlanta 100, New York 93 Boston 117, Dallas 105 " The PRIME Engineering Team, a highly innovative group which relies on the contributions of bright new talent and experienced technical staff alike. Prime Computer designs, manufactures. and sells medium tolarge scale interactive minicomputers in the end user market. In an incredibly competitive market, our people and our products have made Prime one of the fastest growing computer companies in the world. Now more than ever, Prime Computer is the company to join for technical challenge and professional advancement in Engineer- ing Research and Development as well as Marketing, Finance, and Manufacturing. We provide the tools necessary to support and enhance your special talents and skills. If you are expecting a degree in CS, CE, EE, or ME, please arrange to see our Engineering Research and Development representative on campus this Spring or send a resume to: Charles Cohen, Prime Computer, Inc., 500 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701, Dept. R16. Prime is an Affirmative Action Employer, seeking outstanding individuals. PRiM Compute THE ONE YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. r 3Days to the Even 6- Saturday March 7, 8pm in thefUnion 44 Carnival Games o Casino Prizes 6 UofM Jazz Band O"Magazine "f Dancing M Club o Roaming Performers Movies ,, : I ' ?