w Page 8-Sunday, January 17,1982-The Michigan Daily NINTH STRAIGHT LOSS FOR WOLVERINES Gophers bounce 'M', 67-58 By BOB WOJNOWSKI Special to the Daily MINNEAPOLIS-In the final analysis, it was simply Minnesota firepower overcoming Michigan hustle, as the Gophers turned back the Wolverines, 67-58, in Williams Arena yesterday. With 7-3 center Randy Breuer working inside to score 18 points and forward Trent Tucker bombing away from the outside to score 21, the Gophers were able to overcome some Wolverine slowdown tactics and hand Michigan its ninth straight setback. "WE CAN'T PLAY much better than that," said Michigan Head coach Bill Frieder, who saw his squad drop to 1-11 on the year. The Wolverines opened the game with a spread offense-holding the ball for two minutes in some stretches-and the tactic ap- peared to frustrate the Gophers. At least the crowd of 16,529 was slightly annoyed, as it taun- ted the Wolverines with chants of "Boring, boring...," The game was tied at every even number through 12, until Michigan captain Thad Gar- ner converted a three-point play on a short jump hook with five-and-a-half minutes left in the half to give the Wolverines a 15-12 advan- tage. With less than 4:30 remaining, and Michigan still leading, 17-14, Minnesota made the key strategic move of the game, utilizing a half-court trap to pressure the Michigan guard tandem of Eric Turner and Dan Pelekoudas. THE STRATEGY WORKED to perfection, as the Wolverines turned the ball over three con- secutive trips down the floor. Meanwhile, the Gophers began getting the ball inside to Breuer, and he responded with six points in a 14-2 Minnesota binge that put the' Gophers up, 28-19, at the half. "Their trap was probably the most in- strumental thing in turning the game around," said Frieder. "We were hanging in there until about five or six minutes to go in the first half, when their trap really bothered us." MINNESOTA QUICKLY took command at the outset of the second half. Breuer tipped in a missed shot, guard Darryl Mitchell hit a 15-foot jumper, and Tucker canned one from the baseline to give the Gophers their biggest lead of the game at 41-25 with 14-and-a-half minutes left. But the Wolverines clawed right back. Tur- ner nailed two 20-footers, and when reserve center Willis Carter hit one from the baseline, Michigan had completed a 10-0 string to pull to within 41-35. From there, the lead fluctuated between eight and 14 points, as the Gophers began to score on the fast break with Michigan forced to gamble on defense. WHILE HIS SQUAD did win its third straight to go to 11-2 on the year, Minnesota head coach Jim Dutcher was not particularly ecstatic with his team's play. "We played well enough to win, and that's about it," said Dutcher. "But give Michigan some credit. They're a team that's in a horrible Can't slump; yet when you get down by 15, it's very easy to roll over and lose by 30. But they did not do that." And Frieder, too, was pleased with the effort his squad put forth. "I'M NOT GOING to get on my kids when they go out and play their butts off for 40 minutes and do the best they possibly can," said Frieder. "In the second half, when it looked like they were going to blow it open, our kids hung in there and battled right down to the last damn minute." Garner went the entire 40 minutes for Michigan, scoring 21 points and grabbing a game-high 10 rebounds. Turner, who also went the distance until he fouled out with nine secon- ds remaining, scored 11 points on four-of-seven shooting and received some words of praise from Tucker, who grew up with the Wolverine freshman from Flint. "I've known Eric since he was eight years old, and I knew he was gonna be tough," said the Minnesota senior. "He's extremely quick." Before the game, the, Wolverines felt that if they could out-rebound the Gophers, they could beat them. Such was not the case yesterday, as Michigan had 32 rebounds to Minnesota's 27.. bury Gophers MINNESOTA Garner .............. Rockymore.......... Person............ Turner .............. Pelekoudas........ Carter........... Hopson............ Rudy ................ Team Rebounds ..... Totals ............... MICHIGAN Min FG/A FT/A R 40 9/19 3/3 10 31 4/10 1/2 4 32 5/10 0/0 5 40 4/7 3/4 0 39 0/1 0/0 1 14 2/5 0/0 5 3 1/1 1/2 1 1 0/0 0/0 0 25/53 8/11 32 A 0 4 3 0 0 PF Pts 4 21 2 9 3 10 5 11 5 0 2.4 0 3 0 0 Holmes.............. Tucker............ Breuer........... Davis ............... Mitchell ............. Willey ............... Howell ..- ....... Petersen .......... Team Rebounds Totals............ Min 30 38 30 36 35 18 2 FG/A FT/A R 0/3 2/2 3. 9/17 3/6 1 6/8 6/7 4 4/4 1/2 3 6/12 3/5 3 0/1 0/1 5 0/2 2/4 4 0/0 0/0 0 4 25/47 17/27 27 A 0 2 3 4 4 0 0 PF Pts 2 2 4 21 1 18 3 9 1 IS 2 0 2 2 0 0 Ar rfPoto MINNESOTA'S 7-3 CENTER Randy Breuer towers over Wolverines Ike Person (left) and Leslie Rockymore as he prepares to take a shot during the first half of yesterday's game at Minneapolis. Breuer scored 18 points in the contest, as the Gophers upended Michigan, 67- 58. 10 21 58 14 iS 67 Indiana BLOOMINGTON (AP)- Ted Kitchell scored seven of his game-high 20 points in a 19-8 second half spurt that sent Indiana to a 66-61 victory over Ohio State in Big Ten conference basketball yesterday. The Hoosiers, who have defeated the Buckeyes 10 straight times at Assembly Hall, took the lead for good, 33-32, with their first basket of the second half. Randy Wittman, who had 10 of his 17 points in the second half, then scored four points to open a 37-32 advantage. A CLARK KELLOGG field goal pulled the Buckeyes to within three points. But Indiana respon- ded with a Steve Bouchie .field goal and five con- secutive points by Kitchell that helped produce a 50- "38 lead with 9:36 to play. Kellogg was high for the Buckeyes with 19 points, and Larry Huggins was the only other Buckeye in double figures, with 11. Jimmy Thomas scored 17 for the Hoosiers, who climbed to 8-5 overall and 2-2in the conference. Purdue 56, Northwestern 51 WEST LAFAYETTE (AP)- Keith Edmonson scored 20 points to lead a cold-shooting Purdue offen- se, as the Boilermakers capitalized on free throw op- portunities to down Northwestern, 56-51, in Big Ten conference basketball yesterday. The game was tied 12 times before freshman Jim Bullock's free throw put Purdue ahead to stay, 39-38, with 10:22 remaining. Northwestern was then outscored, 9-2, as Purdue opened a 48-40 lead, recording nine of the points from tops OSU, the free throw line. Edmonson had Purdue's only 6:42 field goal in the spurt. Bullock and Ricky Hall each wits had a pair of free throws, while Michael Scearce, cap Kevin Stallings and Edmonson each made one at- left. tempt. o Iowa 78, Wisconsin 62 to 66-61 2 left in the first half, Iowa broke the game open h a 13-2 spree. Two free throws by Kevin Boyle ped the rally, making the score 35-22 with 2:14 owa shot 54 percent from the floor in the first half take a 38-26 lead at the intermission. The wkeyes added a 15-4 outburst to lead, 53-30, on a rk Gannon layup with 14:32 left in the game. owa, which employed a 1-3-1 zone defense against Badgers, continued to increase the lead oughout the second half. The game's biggest rgin came at 62-34 on a layup by Todd Berkenpas h 9:21 remaining. MADISON (AP)- Bob Hansen scored 17 and Mike Payne added 12 to lead, the fifth Iowa Hawkeyes to a 78-62 victory over Wisc Big Ten basketball yesterday. Iowa improved its conference record to 3-1 overall. WISCONSIN WAS led by Brad Sellers at Blackwell, with 14 points each. The Badgers f in the Big Ten and 4-8 overall. After the Badgers, who never led in the bal had rallied to within 22-20 on a Sellers jump Big Ten Standings Conference points, -ranked onsin in and 11-2 nd Cory ell to 1-3 Ma I, the thr ma with W Iowa ..................... 3 Minnesota ................. 3 Ohio State ................. 3 Purdue .................... 3 Indiana .................... 2 Northwestern .............. 2 Illinois ..................... 2 Michigan State ............ It Wisconsin .................. 1 - MICHIGAN ............... 0 L 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 W 11 11 12 6 8 6 9 6 4 Illinois 55, Michigan State 51 Ll game, CHAMPAIGN (AP)- Sophomore guard Derek er with Harper drove in for a layup with five seconds remaining to boost Illinois to a 55-51 victory over Michigan State yesterday in a Big Ten Conference Overall basketball game. L Harper's game winning tally, his second basket of 2 the game, came after Illinois had called a time out 2 with the score tied at 51. Two seconds later, freshman 4 forward Jay Daniels added two free throws for 7 Illinois after the Spartans turned the ball over on a -5 traveling violation. 7 THE GAME WAS close throughout. Illinois led by 4 four on several occasions, and Michigan State led by 8 five midway through the first half. The score was tied 8 at 27 at halftime. MICHIGAN ...................................19 39 - 58 MINNESOTA...........................28 39 - 67 Att.-16,529. full court PRES Blimps are hot... ByBOBMinnesota 's not By BOBWOJNOWSKI MINNEAPOLIS A sportswriter's notes from the Great White North... " Omigod it's cold. It's 20 below outside and maybe 20 above inside drafty, cavernous Williams Arena. They say the "Barn" was originally built as a blimp hangar; if it was, then they probably had more hot air in the blimps than they bothered to pump into the arena yesterday. - Direct quote from the Minneapolis Star: "While the rest of the country gets to see number two ranked Missouri play Louisville, or Georgetown take on Syracuse, we in TV basketball-poor Minnesota get the home team and junk." The home team is Minnesota and the, er, junk is Michigan. But wait, it gets better. "This one should be a cinch for the Gophers. Whose on Michigan? Look for Eric Turner to try a move or two." Now that's outstanding journalism.- " Omigod it's cold II. On the 20-minute freeway ride west from Bloomington to Minneapolis, there were no less than 13 stalled cars in ditches and one seven-car pile-up. " Did you ever wonder how the TV networks can time it so that just when they come on the air the home crowd is going berserk? Ah, so simple: "In one minute let's welcome NBC with a cheer . . . in thirty seconds let's welcome NBC with a cheer..." Eye opener " The basketball court in Williams Arena is elevated about four feet off the ground so that the press sits eye level with the court. This lends itself to some interesting views-and some fantastic intermission entertainment. * When Michigan opened the game with a semi-delay offense, the crowd began jeering, "Booooooring." Strange, you'd think they'd have gotten used to boredom by now-living in Minnesota and all. * Oddly enough, the big refreshment seller here is the ice cream cone. They even had a banner up which said, honest to God, "Ice cream welcomes NBC." Who's on first? * The public address announcer in the "Barn" may have put away a little bit too much- antifreeze before the game. He variously identified Thad Garner as Willis Carter, Willis Carter.as Thad Garner, Ike Person as Thad Garner, Eric Turner as Dan Pelekoudas, and Dan Pelekoudas as Eric Turner. * Mark Hall, who has just recently returned to action for Minnesota after having previously been declared academically ineligible, was the subject of .a nice little cheer by the Gopher fans late in the game. "We want Hall, we want Hall, they chanted. So do his teachers, so do his teachers. " They have the most unique little halftime show up here in the Land of Numb. Twenty-four little kids in gold uniforms emblazoned with "Golden Dunkers," scurry out onto the court and bounce 24 little basketballs in unison. And they even do it to music. Honest to God. * The bus lines operate a little differently up here, too. When the Michigan players came out of the locker room after the game and headed for the team bus, they discovered that the bus had-disappeared. Ordered to remain outside the gates for the entire game, the bus driver had apparently grown weary of wait and decided to take off-with all the team's luggage. A local schoolbus was eventually commandeered for transportation to the airport while Minnesota's finest searched for the elusive team bus. 4 1 -11 Women tankers crunch Buckeyes By KARL WHEATLEY The Michigan women's swim team won convincingly, 89-60, over the Ohio State Buckeyes at Michigan's Matt Mann pool yesterday. The Wolverines jumped out to an early 15-1 lead and mnaintained a sizable margin all after- ioon, thanks to the strong swimming of Sue Cahill, Denise Stuntzner, Melinda Copp, and Tami Paumier. This quartet' helped Michigan along towards its final tally of 11 out of 17 fir- st-place finishes, three new pool recor- ds, one Wolverine varsity record, and two times good enough to qualify swimmers for the AIAW national championships. LEADING THE way for the Wolverine tankers was Cahill, who won every time she entered the water. She started off the day with a 17:12.82 time in the 1,650-yard freestyle event. This was good enough for first place, and qualified as her best time ever in that event. Cahill went on to win both the 200-yard butterfly and 'the 500-yard freestyle, swimming personal-best times in both events. She then found the energy to put her 800-yard freestyle relay team into the lead in the second leg of the event. It was a lead they didn't relinquish, as the foursome of Marion Stanwood, Cahill, Leslie Beckstein, and Stuntzner went on to win the event in 7:51.57. Stuntzner also came up with nothing but firsts yesterday. Stuntzner began with a new pool record of 1:52.27 in the 200-yard freestyle. She also took first in the 100-yard freestyle and swam on the winning 400-yard medley relay team of Copp, Paumier, Stuntzner, and Carolyn Clymer. Stuntzner also swam the last leg of the victorious 800-yard freestyle relay team. Freshman Tami Paumier won, while setting a new varsity record of 1:06.39, in the 100-yard breaststroke, and added on a victory in the 100-yard butterfly. A surprising victory for the Wolverines came when Vicki Kimball topped a strong OSU diving squad to win the one-meter competition. "It turned out about how I thought it would," said Wolverine head coach Stu Isaac. "But we sat back on a lot of even- ts and stopped being aggressive when we got control of the meet." Isaac ad- mitted that his swimmers were tired but said, "I'm going to keep on them. I'm staying on them for another week or so to get them, really ready for the Big Ten (Championships)." 11 Celtics slip by Pistons, 128-120 By KEVIN ANKOVIAK and RANDY BERGER Special to the Daily PONTIAC- As Larry Bird goes, so go the Boston Celtics. Down by 12 at half-time, the Celtics were spurred by Bird to a 128-120 victory over the Detroit Pistons last night. Sitting out most of the fourth quarter with five fouls, Bird still finished with 32 points, 24 of them coming in the second half. "When you have five fouls, you just have to play a lot smar- ter and try to contain your man," said Bird. THE PISTONS, who kept it close in the first quarter, broke the game open in the second period and went into the locker room at halftime leading by a score of 75-63. The difference in the second half was that the Celtics con- tained John Long, who scored 21 first-half points but only connected on four baskets in the second half. The other key for the Celtics in the second half was that they got their fast break in gear. "In the second half, we got our break going and were able to match up effectively by just taking it two points at a time," explained Bird. SCOTTY ROBERTSON, coach of the Pistons, pointed to the Pistons' lack of intensity on defense as their downfall in the second half. "We didn't play the good 'D' or get the ball inside offensively," he said. The attendance of 20,140 was the third largest crowd in Detroit history. The victory improved Boston's record to 28-9, while the Pistons fell to 15-23. Mees and Fernan dez to meet By TAM BENTLEY The tennis showdown begins at noon today between Mark Mees of the Michigan and Ernie Fernandez of Ohio State in the finals battle for the Nike Collegiate Indoor Singles Cham- pionship. "It will be a tremendous finals mat- ch," said Michigan coach Brian Eisner. "The two players have very conflicting styles. Mees' strong points are his groundstrokes and his back- court play, while Fernandez' strengths are his serving, his volley, Michigan's Ihor Debryn, an un- seeded player, came through with what Eisner termed "a tremendous win" over fourth-seeded Adam Abele of Purdue, 6-4, 6-4. "He had a very, very good match," said Eisner. Debryn lost his next match, though, 6- 3,6-2, to fellow Wolverine Mees. A new addition to the Michigan ten- nis squad is Brian Godfrey, a transfer from Colorado. "I'm very pleased with his progress and play," said Eisner, "even though he lost today in a tough match against Fernandez." Ru cks may stay home, By JOE CHAPELLE Decisions concerning whether or not the athletic teams at Ohio State will continue their travel schedules will be made on a week-to-week basis, according to Assistant Sports In- formation Director Claudia Dinges. OSU President Edward Jennings ordered a complete travel ban for the school's athletic teams Friday, including the basketball and hockey squads. By yesterday, however, said Dinges. "The state currently has a deficit of ap- proximately $1 billion, and part of these funds must be made. up from the state's allocations for higher education," con- tinued Dinges. 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