Another casualty? The Michigan Daily--Wednesday, December 10, 1980-page 21 Blue cagers aim to down Kent State Ti soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer Ihear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio, Four dead in Ohio. -Neil Young By MARK FISCHER The above lyrics were written about Kent State, whose basketball team will meet the undefeated Michigan Wolverines tonight at Crisler Arena. And if the Blue cagers have their way, there will be "four dead in Ohio" when the season's over. Four dead hoop squads, that is. You see, Kent State is only one of four Ohio teams that the Michigan hoopsters play this season. The first was the Akron Zips, who the Wolverines ate up, 98-69, last Monday night. The second are the not-so-hot (1-2) Golden Flashes from Kent, who tip-off against the Maize and Blue at 8:05 this evening. THE WOLVERINES will then try to shoot down their third set of Ohioan foes, the Dayton Flyers, who they visit this Saturday. The fourth and final bun- ch from Ohio is the one Michigan really wants dead-you guessed it, Ohio State. The cagers will battle the big, bad Buckeyes (at least) twice before the season is over. But the season has just barely begun, Big Ten action won't get going for a while, and Ohio State won't be around for a month and a half. So tonight, Bill Frieder and his boys will have to con- centrate on KSU, who hail from the Mid-American Conference. The Flashes, piloted by third year coach Ed Douma, are having a little trouble getting going themselves, however, They came from behind to squeak by Capital (from Columbus) in the season opener, but then fell twice at the Carrier Classic in Syracuse, where they were handled easily by the hosting Orangemen, 81-65, and edged by Wagner, 73-72. THE KENT STATE cagers can look to improve, however, for with no seniors, three juniors, six sophomores, and four frosh, they are quite young. In fact, the Flashes will probably start four sophomores tonight, including standout guard Robert Kitchen, who averaged 13.1 points per outing a year ago. The Flashes may well have 'to chalk one up to experience tonight against the (UPI) 16th ranked Wolverines, who are cruising along with a 4-0 record. Frieder ... undefeated coach THE LINEUPS Alan Fanger MICHIGAN (40) (45) (15) (34) (30) Mike McGee. (6-5) Thad Garner. (6-7) P. Heuerman. (6-8) J. Johnson...(6-4) Mark Bodnar.(6=3) F F C G G KENT ST. (6-6) Keith Gordon. (14) (6-8) Bob Koch....(40) (6-8) M. McClenahan(44) (6-3) R. Kitchen... (24) (6-3) Geoff Warren(22) SCORES College Basketball Notre Dame 68, Indiana 64 Fordham 68I ,ona 57 Tennessee 72, Lafayette 42 Bowling Green 88, Capital 70 NBA New York 107, Washington 104 Philadelphia 96Cleveland 83 NHL Vancouver 4, Washington 2 Hero McNamara quits... for lack of support? TT WAS WINTER term of 1979, and I had clearly hit an academic 1 "sophomore slump." I did everything I could to escape the dank, dreary carrels of the libraries-a movie one night, some TV the next, pinball, the bars-anything that would instill in me a sense of being somewhere other than the book-ridden University. After two weeks of solid recreation, I finally found a reliable venue to which I could take my non-scholastic road show. It was basketball season down at Crisler Arena, and it took about ten shots and a few steals for me to find some sports heroes who were of another gender. Katie McNamara and Diane Dietz. They were the Keystone Kops, the Bonnie and Clydes, the Bobbsey Twins and every other gallant duo rolled in- to one. For the few fans-mostly local junior high and high school girls who played basketball-in attendance at these contests, they represented quality -women's athletics in its most visible form. There on the basketball court, in a game that so many of us can easily digest, were two women playing the game as skillfully as their male counterparts. They even attended high school together, leading their Our Lady of Mercy H.S. squad to the state title in their senior year. What a pair they were. Until a week ago, that is. McNamara's career had taken a distinct slide since her freshman year (when she averaged 15 points per game), and two games into her junior season, she decided that she would no longer play basketball at Michigan. She quit. For "personal reasons." McNamara wasn't the first hero borne out of the young Michigan women's athletic t program to prematurely depart from the limelight. But Mc- Namara's decision to abandon in- tercollegiate, basketball simply reinforces sbmething many ob- servers determined quite some time ago.6 Somehow, somewhere, women ,athletes here at the University _,need more support than what they are presently receiving. The assistance may be finan- cal, moral, or aademic in nature-reflecting the unique makeup of each person-but the overriding question is one of sup- port in general. I'm not even sure that the sour- ce of this support can be drawn along rigid lines. Universities, families, and counselors cannot McNamara offer suport that is limitless in . departed hero its scope. It is alarming to know that several of this school's finest women athletes-many of whom were granted some form of financial assistan- ce-are dropping the "athlete" portion from the socially-constructed title, "student-athlete." The women's basketball team, which joined McNamara in enduring a slump during the 1979-80 season, provides an excellent example of the problems that plague the program. / Two years ago, the women cagers were on the rise, sporting a lineup that consisted of an enthusiastic bunch of young players. Among the notables were Terry Schevers, a 5-6 guard who had transferred from Indiana; Yvette 'Harris, a 6-2 center-forward who could dominate the boards; Kris Hansen, a 6-0 center who was a reliable inside shooter; and, of course, McNamara and Dietz. Just a season later, Schevers quit the team, Harris transferred to the University of Detroit, and Hansen left school. McNamara and Dietz remained on the 79-80 squad, along with reserves Brenda Venhuizen, Tam- mie Sanders, Jeanne White, and spot starters Abby Currier and Penny Neer. The following season was a disaster for the Wolverines. They finished a dismal 8-20 and were eliminated in the first round of the SMAIAW (state) tournament. Had some of those players remained on the team, Michigan would surely have been more competitive. Such a remarkable rate of attrition is not a phenomenon confined 'to one team. The women's tennis team suffered heavy losses in the form of Kathy Krickstein and Whit Stodghill, who left following the 1978-79 campaign. In that season, the Wolverines won the state crown, finished second in the AIAW Midwest regional, and placed among the top 20 teams in the national finals. Last season, the netters withered to a 3-11 dual meet record and were eliminated early in tournament play. Even the women's swim team, perhaps the mightiest of all Michigan women's athletic squads, has been hit with a dose of the dropouts. And the question remains: what can we, as supporters of Michigan athletics, do to ensure that a woman can be both an athlete and a student and can operate in that dual role relatively free of pain, whether physical or emotional. I only wish that there were a surefire, catch-all answer to that question. For now, I will lament McNamara's absence and hope that Dietz, along with her fellow women athletes at the University, continue to delight the fans with their abilities, despite what appears to be a wealth of pressure. BURRITOS and TACOSat DER GARABEDIAN DISQUALIFIED: Penn StategrplrniBue By CUKJscores. Rob Rechsteiner won a major 158- M-Beljan won superior de By CHUCK JAFFE and for stalling. The stalling penalty decision, while both John Beljan and over PSU-Wood, 20-7. 'he Michigan wrestling team, gave DerGarabedian too many penalty Eric Klasson won superior decisions. 167-PSU-Hanrahan decisione ring off of an impressive showing in points, and he was disqualified with The grapplers open their home M-Nadhir, 9-4. t weekend's Penn State Invitational, only six seconds remaining in the mat- season against Clarion State this 177-- M-Rechsteiner won majo s defeated by Penn State in a dual .-eh. Friday at 7 p.m. decision over PSU-Bingam r r i b 4 T con las wa fcision meet late Monday night. The Nittany Lions opened a big lead in the middle of the meet and held on for a 22-20 win. After Joe McFarland started the meet with the night's only pin, con- troversy entered the match. Mike DerGarabedian of Michigan was disqualified in his match against Penn State's John Manotti. DerGarabedian was awarded penalty points for not being in the correct starting position THE NEXT THREE Michigan wrestlers lost their contests, as Penn State rolled up a big lead. Bill Goodill, Mark Pearson, and Tim Fagan were all decisioned by their Penn State op- ponents. Fagan lost his match in the last seconds, when a reversal gave his Nittany Lion opponent, Mike Doherty, an 8-7 win. The Wolverines won three of the remaining five matches, all by big Meet results 118- M-McFarland pinned PSU-Webster in 4:42. 126- PSU-Manotti beat M-DerGarabedian by disqualification. 134- PSU-Bury won major decision over M-Goodill, 12-2. 142- PSU-Fritz decisioned M-Pearson, 10-6. 150- PSU-Doherty decisioned M-Fagan, 8-7. 190- PSU-Johnson decisioned M-Rehberger, 6-0. Hwt- M-Klasson won superior decision over PSU-Longcor, 20-6. Rent a Car from Econe-Car Econo-Car 438 W. 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