F 0 Page 10-Wednesday, January 6, 1982-The Michigan Daily LOSING SKID A T FIVE Holiday blues catch - By RN POLLACK Big Ten competition has yet to begin, but this season is quickly becoming a long one for the Michigan men's basketball team. The Wolverines have dropped their last five games to lower their record to 1-7. "We've got to be the best damn 1-7 team, not only this year but in the last decade," said Michigan head coach Bill- Frieder. MICHIGAN'S FIRST loss during its current five game losing streak came against Western Michigan, 71-60 on Decembd 12 at Crisler Arena. The Wolverines were ice cold from the field, hitting on only 35 percent .of their shots from the field and 10 of 20 tosses from the free-throw line. With Michigan holding a three point lead and six minutes to go in the half, the Bronco's Walker D. Russell (29 points) scored nine consecutive points, and Michigan never regained the lead. Freshman point guard Eric Turner led ;the Wolverines with 19 points and seven steals. In its next game, against Detroit, on December 19 at Crisler Michigan led most of the way, only to lose 55-51. The Wolverines led by as many as seven points early in the game, and owned a 29-26 lead at the half. MICHIGAN LED by five with 13:23 remaining, but several Wolverine, tur- novers allowed the Titans to eventually take the lead on a tip-in by Joe Kopicki. Turner led the Wolverines in scoring with 16, while sophomore Dean Hopson added 14 on seven of eight shooting. Against Louisiana Tech, on Decem- ber 21 at Crisler Michigan lost a hear- tbreaker. With 1:05 left in the contest, .....,-... the Wolverines owned a 60-59 lead and the ball. But Turner had the ball stolen, and Louisiana Tech converted this tur- nover into a 61-60 lead on two Rennie Bailey free throws. Michigan then went into a delay of- fense until the game's final seconds when now departed Joe James took the contest's final shot. The ball bounced of the rim ' and the Wolverines had lost again.W "THE SHOT that I took in the final seconds was definitely my shot," said James. "What can I say? It just didn't go down. Since it was my shot. and it didn't go down, I'll probably think about it for a long time." "It's extremely discouraging to get that close and let it get away," said Frieder. It comes down to big plays in big situations, and we were careless. The great teams win these games and we didn't." IN THE WINSTON Tire Holiday Classic, at the Los Angeles Sports Arena Michigan's play improved. Nonetheless, the only reward that the Wolverines received was two more losses. In the first round, Michigan lost to USC 77-63, in a game that was much closer than the score indicated. Despite outplaying the Trojans in the first half, Michigan only led 38-35 at the intermission. "We shot 70 percent (.667 in actuality) and outrebounded them and only led by three," said Frieder. "That was disheartening. That's a sign that it (the lead) is not gonna last." And last it didn't. USC led by a narrow 62-59 margin with 6:22 left, when the roof fell in on the Wolverines. USC outscored Michigan 15-4 down the stretch, turning a close contest into a rout. cagers DESPITE THE LOSS, team captain Thad Garner noted that Michigan was beginning to show marked im- provement. "At the beginning of the season when we were losing, I felt that our play wasn't typical of Michgan. But during this game I saw our poise and said, 'now this is a typical Michigan team.'"h The following night, the Wolverines turned in another sterling performan- ce, only to lose to Alabama- Birmingham 73-72 in the tournament's consolation game. Late in the first half, Michigan led 33-24; but Alabama- Birmingham scored the half's last eight points to close to within one point, 33-32. Michigan fell behind by as many as 13 points in the second half, but battled back to make the contest very close., For Garner, the moral victory wasn't satisfactory. "We didn't come here to play well, we came here to win." Gymnasts win own invitational By ANDREW OAKES Michigan's men's and women's gym- nastics teams displayed powerful' overall strength as' the host squads at the Wolverine Invitational, held this past December 12th and 13th at Crisler Arena. Both squads took a blue ribbon for first place, beating out the remaining three teams participating; Chicago Circle, Michigan State, and Western Michigan. Men's gymnastics head coach Newt Loken, was deservedly ecstatic over his squad's overall performance. "We did a great job, the Wolverine's victorious! It was a great team victory. They all contributed to the high team score." THE TEAM score was a season, high 2651/ for the male tumblers, and all ten of roster members had a hand in the scoring. Taking first for the Wolverine's were: Kevin McKee, floor exercise; Nevin Hedlund, pommel horse, Rick Kaufmann, still rings; Dino Mannus, parallel bars; and Kevin McKee and Merrick Horn tying for first in the high bar. Exceptional performances were turned in by Milan Stanovich in vaulting, Al Burger in the rings, Dave Miller in the parallel bars, and John Maretto on the high bars. Performing well in the all-around competition for the Wolverines was Chris VanMiller, and the all-around champion Merrick Horne. "I was elated with the boys' progress," crowed Coach Loken, "but we still have a lot-of work ahead of us. Now we've got to forge ahead.". However pleased coach Loken may seem to be, he remains cautious of what future competition may have in stock for his talented squad. Many of, the an- swers, he feels, will be found in the coming Big Ten Invitational, held this weekend in East Lansing. "It's a very strong league up and down the line. By the end 'of next weekend, we should have some indication of how we're going to do." * Blue Lines , The Great Lakes tourney.. Sgood hockey in Detroit By MARK BOROWSKI A FTER SUFFERING with the lowly Detroit Red Wings for three months, Detroit area hockey fans were finally treated to some good hockey. It only took four college teams (Michigan, Michigan State, Michigan Tech and Notre Dame), an obnoxious Michigan Tech pep band and some highly spirited onlookers to-make The 17th Annual Great Lakes Invitational College Tournament (held at the Joe Louis Sports Arena) the finest in the tour- nament's history. Over 33,000 fans turned out for the two-day event, the most ever to watch a two-day college hockey tournament. And 19,225 followers (the most ever to witness an NCAA hockey game) turned out to cheer, rant, rave, fight and see Notre Dame capture the tournament championship for the first time ever and end a string of five championships for tourney co-host Michigan Tech. The Fighting Irish trailed the Huskies until the last seven minutes of the game, when right wing Jeff Logan scored the winner to make the score 4-3. Michigan finished in a tie for'third in the tourney by losing 6-2 to Notre Dame in the opening game on December 29 and tying Michigan State, 4-4, in the con- solation on December 30. Tech made it to the final by topping the Spartans, 63, on opening night. The Wolverines played poorly in the. opener. The time off during the Christ- mas break hurt them and coach John Giordano certainly wasn't happy with his team's performance. Giordano "We didn't play well," he said. "We ... disappointed have to play a certain way to win and we didn't. The defensive play in front of (goalie Peter) Mason is not very good." What really hurt the Wolverines in the first game was their failure to turn on the red light when they had the power play, connecting on only one of 12 extra-man advantages. When questioned about the struggling power play, Giordano quipped, "What power play?" But what really came out of the post-game interview was that Giordano was disappointed with his personnel. Due to the coaching fiasco that has taken place over the last two years since seven-year coach Dan Farrell retired, Michigan has not been able to recruit the players needed to make its program successful. First, because a replacement for Farrell was not named until heavy recruiting was over in 1980 and second, because Giordano did not have an assistant (whose major chore is recruiting) until midway through this past summer. The numbers tell the story as well. Two years ago, the same p'ower play was used by Michigan and was the most potent in the country, registering a goal almost 50 percent of the time. This season it has been successful just 10 percent of the time. But Giordano has done a fine job up to this point of the season with the players he has and that is the sign of an excellent coach. 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