Page 8-Saturday, January 9, 1982--The Michigan Daily BOTH TEAMS CAUGHT IN SIX-GAME SKID Fish Tales r 1ag eri By LARRY FREED It's a little too soon to talk about key games this early in the Big Ten season, but after coming off losses in their respective conference openers, the Michigan Wolverines and Purdue Boilermakers both find themselves in that precarious situation. Purdue coach Gene Keady has seen his highly touted club fall to 3-6 during a rugged non-conference slate that in- cluded five top-twenty teams. But the trouble did not stop there as his Boiler- makers were routed for their sixth straight defeat by Big Ten co-favorite' Iowa, 62-40, on Thursday night. s host Boilermakers By MARK FISCHER "WE'VE BEEN humbled by the caliber of teams we've faced," Keady explained. "Hopefully, it will help us during the Big Ten season. Our record is very disappointing but people will forget it if we can finish high in the Big Ten race., If Purdue is to finish as high in the conference as many people expect, the Boilers will have to get more produc- tion out of other starters besides all- conference candidates Keith Edmonson and Russell Cross. Edmonson led the conference in scoring prior to league play, averaging 21.2 points per outing. However, he could only manage one field goal during Iowa's victory, a game which saw the Boilermakers score just 14 second-half points. CROSS, WHO has moved back to his more familiar center position after a brief stint at forward, contributed14 points against Iowa only below his season average, good enough for fourth in the Big Ten overall scoring column. Purdue will be looking to go inside to the 6-10 Cross and 6-7 Mike Scearce against a Michigan team that has not shown that it is capable of stoppng a big man inside. "Losing Tim McCormick and Jon An- tonides really hurt them," Keady said. "Like us, they have struggled. But they're playing with young people and that car only mean they will improve." IF PURDUE is unable to get the ball to the front-line, then guards Ricky Hall and Kevin Stallings, both new starters in the Big Ten, will be pressured. The 6- 5 Stallings saw considerable playing time last season and has become con- sistent full-time starter, averaging 7.4 points and nearly six assists per outing. As Wisconsin coach Bill Cofield found out Thursday, the best place for Keady and Purdue to try to snap the six-game skein and get some key Big Ten ex- perience is in Ann Arbor against the slumping Wolverines (1-8, 0-1). Michigan is coming off a tough, two- point loss to the Badgers, who many considered to be the conference door- mat of 1982. It marked the third game in the last four in which the Wolverines were downed by a basket or less. The latest developments have left coach Bill Frieder anything but optimistic about the rest of the season. "WE MIGHT not win a game," Frieder dejectedly remarked. "But we're going to hang in there tough and I'm going to call on these kids to come back." For Michigan to earn an elusive vic- tory, guard Eric Turner will have to turn in a more consistent performance than in previous outings. Turner hit on just three of 15 field goal attempts against Wisconsin. "Eric didn't play well (against Wisconsin)," Frieder said. "But he's only a freshman. He has to become more consistent, and I think he will be." 0 1 -26 possible for cagers LINEUP S MICHIGAN (1-8) PURDUE (3-7) (23) Dean Hopson (6-7) ..... F .. (6-5) Keith Edmonson (11) (45) Thad Garner (6-7) ...... F ..... (6-7) Mike Scearce (23) (52) Ike Person (6-7) ........ C .... (6-10) Russell Cross (40) (25) Eric Turner (6-3) .......G ........ (6-1) Ricky Hall (21) (32) Dan Pelekoudas (6-1) .. G ... (6-5) Kevin Stallings (32) GAME TIME & SITE: 4:00 p.m., Crisler Arena RADIO: WAAM-AM 1600, WWJ-AM 95, WCBN-FM 88.3, WUOM-FM 91.7 Cross . Purdue big man E ncore: Seven Wolverines to play in All-Star bowl By BUDDY MOOREHOUSE For most of the members of Michigan's football team, the season ended with a 33-14 New Year's Eve thrashing of UCLA in the Bluebonnet Bowl. But seven of the graduating Wolverines, as well as coach Bo Schembechler, will have their collegiate gridiron careers extended thanks to four senior All-Star bowls. Six of Michigan's departing players will be in action today - three in Honolulu's Hula Bowl, and three in the East-West Shrine game, played in Palo Alto, Calif. Also representing the Maize and Blue in the Shrine game is Schem- bechler, who will be an assistant to Alabama's Bear Bryant on the East squad coaching staff. PLAYING IN the Hula Bowl (kickoff 4:00 p.m., ABC-TV) for the Wolverines will be tailback Butch Woolfolk and of- fensive linemen Bubba Paris and Kurt Becker. "It's been really fun out here," Woolfolk said in a telephone interview from Hawaii. "We've done a lot of things. We rode horses and mini-bikes and there's been sunshine all the time." Back on the mainland, fullback Stanley Edwards and defensive backs Tony Jackson and Brian Carpenter will be playing in the Shrine game (kickoff 3:00 p.m., CBS-TV). The All-Star games have traditionally been an opportunity for seniors hoping for a career in the National Football League to impress the pro scouts, and because the stands at the games will contain quite a few NFL talent watchers, Woolfolk said, "I'm sure that a lot of players will be playing with a great deal of purpose. But I'm going to try and forget the pressure. The reason I got to this spot is by playing my game, so that's what I'm going to do." EVEN THOUGH the players will be trying to impress the pros, however, Woolfolk said that the practices have games not come close to matching the inten- sity of his sessions at Michigan. "We've been hitting in helmets and pads," said Michigan's all-time career rushing leader. "But they're totally different from the ones at Michigan. They're much less intense." A week from today, Paris and Jackson will be playing in the Japan Bowl, while Woolfolk, Edwards, and of- fensive tackle Ed Muransky, who recently announced that he will not be returning to Michigan next season to use up his final year of eligibility, will be featured in the inaugural Olympia Gold Bowl, the newest of the All-Star games. The Olympia Gold game is played in San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium. but don't bet on it They couldn't even beat Wisconsin. Wisconsin, the team the experts picked to finish last in the Big Ten. Wisconsin, a team starting three freshmen, a 35 squad which had been blown out by 30 points by Johnny Orr's Iowa State Cyclones in its previous game. Wisconsin, a team which had not beaten Michigan since-February 22, 1979. So where does Thursday night's 65-63 home loss to the Badgers leave the now 1-8 Michigan cagers? In trouble. To put it bluntly, if the Wolverine hoopsters can't beat Wisconsin in Crisler Arena, who can they beat? As he sat dejectedly in the press room after Thursday's loss-a hear- tbreaker which the visitors won with a last-second 20-foot jumper-Michigan coach Bill Frieder himself admitted the harsh reality of his team's situation: "We might not win another game. Worst season ever? "We're going to hang tough, and ask the kids to do the best job they can," the coach went on to say. But if Frieder's worst fears become true even if the cagers do "hang tough," his team will wind up 1-26 and take a spot in the record books as the worst team (recordwise) ever to don the Maize and Blue. Not just in the history of Michigan basketball, but in the hallowed history of Michigan sports. Not that it will be the first time a Michigan unit goes winless and finishes last in the conference. In 1917, for example, "the Chaipions of the West" wound up 0-1 in the BigTen football race, good for the cellar spot. (Even though they did manage to go 8-2 overall.) As far as basketball ineptitude goes, the 1959-60 edition struggled through the worst overall (4-20) and conference (1-13, last place) seasons, and the worst start (1-7) ever produced by a Michigan hoop team, This year's 1-8 hoopsters broke the last mark Thursday night. Don't be surprised if the other records are topped-or rather, bottomed-by March. Personally, however, I think the 1981-82 cagers will win again before the season is through-maybe three or four times, in fact. Although the cagers are inexperienced, relatively small, and injury-rid- den, they're not that bad. Like Frieder said Thursday night, "We're 1-8, but we've been in every damn game." The only blowout that Michigan has been part of this year consisted of its 80-58 bombing of Northern Michigan, and half of the Wolverines' losses-including three of their last four-have been by two points or less. And don't think that because Michigan couldn't beat Wisconsin at home, they can't win in Madison. The Blue hoopsters just might be a better team on the road than at home. They have already played perhaps their two best games, against two sometime Top Twenty teams, on foreign floors-the first in a season-opening 83-72 loss at Arkansas (which was much closer than the score suggests), and the second in a 73- 72 loss to Alabama-Birmingham in Los Angeles. On the road, after all, the cagers don't have the pressure of fans who are overly critical because they are used to following winning Wolverine squads. The fans on the road also might not be as hard on Michigan as they are on other teams who pose more of a threat. Thursday's Wisconsin game could have gone either way, anyway. Michigan committed, as Frieder put it, "too many turnovers" and "mistakes caused by carelessness". The young Wolverines should make less and less of these kinds of mistakes as the season progresses and they gain more experience. Garner What's more, senior forward Thad Garner, Michigan's captain and second leading scorer, was called for several marginal (if not bogus) fouls, which forced him out of the game for much of the second half. When Garner came back in late in the half, his team was down by nine, and he promptly proceeded to lead the Michigan comeback, scoring 10 of his game-high 17 points (7 of 11 from the floor) in the final stretch, eight of which came on four straight successful field goal attempts in the game's final two and ahalf minutes. "Garner was terrific down the stretch," said Frieder, "but when he got in foul trouble it hurt us-he being the only veteran we have out there." With Garner on the floor for the entire game, instead of only the 23 minutes he did manage to play, the outcome would most probably have been better for Michigan. Garner deserves better In a way, you have to feel sorry for Michigan's "only veteran." Garner, a likeable guy who works as hard and plays with as much hustle as any player in the country, deserves to captain a far more successful team than the one he now leads. And if not for the unfortunate departures of a number of talen- ted one-time Wolverines, Garner would have that team. After his sophomore year, Garner's only two classmates on the team had their differences with Coach Orr and headed off for greener pastures. Guard Keith Smith, an excellent ballhandler and sometime starter, left for San Diego State. John Garris, a 6-10 shot-blocker who saw limited action but showed promise, transferred to Boston College. As seniors, both players would now be starters and major contributors. Add to their absence the 1981 departures of M. C. Burton and Joe James, and the season-long injuries to both of Michigan's sophomore big men, 6-11 Tim McCormick and 7-2 Jon Antonides, and Garner finds himself leading a 1- 8 team that "might have been" instead of a winner. When Badger freshman Steve Roth's winning shot singed the net at the buzzer Thursday night, Garner shook his head and waved his arms in silent demonstration as if to say, "No, this can't be happening. My luck just can't be this bad." The funny thing is, I know how Garner feels. I'm a senior, too, and I have to cover the Michigan basketball team this year from start to finish. Even if it does go 1-26. I 4 ANNOUNCING The University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING For the April 1982 Production of "Patience" Please join us if you are interested in participating in the cast, orchestra, costume or set crews. Everyone is welcome! 8 PM Sunday, Jan. 10th Pendleton Room in Michigan Union Tigers lift sanctions on writer Plagenhoef DETROIT (AP)- Detroit Tigers General Manager Jim Campbell said yesterday he has rescinded restrictions placed earlier in the week on Grand Rapids Press sports writer Vern Plagenhoef. Campbell was angered at a story Plagenhoef wrote disclosing Manager Sparky Anderson's private-and less than flattering-evaluations of his players. EARLIER THIS week, Campbell told the sports writer he would no longer be permitted in the stadium dining room or on team charter planes or buses. He also told Plagenhoef the club's traveling secretary no longer would aid him in booking flights and reservations with the team. However, no restrictions were placed on the writer's access to the stadium press box, field or locker room. Campbell hinted that Plagenhoef came by the report illegally. However, the reporter maintained that the report was leaked to him by a team employee. IN A PREPARED statement, Cam- pbell emphasized that he regretted that many loyal "Tiger employees innocen- tly have been placed under suspicion of dishonesty by the alleged act of a single employee who has been accused of delivering a confidential company scouting report to Plagenhoef." Campbell said that Mike Lloyd, editor of The Grand Rapids Press, notified him that Plagenhoef gave him (Lloyd) the name of the Tiger employee and that Lloyd has talked to that worker who confided the confidential document was given to the writer with knowledge it would be used in a newspaper story. In his statement, Campbell said he respects and believes Lloyd and therefore is willing "to turn the other cheek even though Plagenhoef realized when he accepted the document that it was obtained from confidential Tiger files or taken from Manager Sparky Anderson's desk." Plagenhoef said he was grateful the issue was resolved, but that he still did not believe the Tigers' actions were justified. "As far as I'm concerned, I hold no malice toward Jim Campbell," he said. 4 APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE UAC EXECUTIVE OFFICERS FALL/ WINTER 1982 President OVERALL COORDINATION OF ORGANIZATION, LIASON TO UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY, LEADERSHIP ROLE Vice President: Finance PLAN AND CONTROL OF BUDGET. 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