The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, November 30. 1982-Page 11 Hamway leads Spartans' turkey triumph y3' CHUCK JAFFE _ .stead, the eight active teams showed Bowling GrPen 121 2- "It seems that every time Bowling goals Saturday, including the game- five of Northern's six goals. A thir d With one CCHA team taking a *Thanksgiving break and three others playing non-conference opponents, most fans would have expected a boring ockey weekend in the midwest. In- explosive offense, tight defense and steady play as the CCHA race tightened up and got hot. Michigan State, ranked fourth in the nation entering the weekend, was the most impressive, sweeping sixth-rated Michigan Tech by scores of 6-3 and 3-2. Senior captain Mark Hamway, who has played poorly for much of the season, broke his scoring drought with a flurry of goals, including the overtime game- winner in the second game of the series. "THAT WAS probably the toughest series we've had all season," said Spar- tain head coach Ron Mason. "Even though it was 6-3 in the first game, we needed some great saves from Ron Scott to stay in front, and then we went into overtime to win on Sunday." The combination of Lyle Phair's two goals and Scott's goaltending took Michigan State into overtime, where Hamway needed just 15 secnds to score his goal. "The overtime winner was the big goal, but Mark Hamway is going to score his share of goals,"said Mason. "He is just now working his way back into the scorescheet, and it is going to help us." The wins raised MSU's conference record to 10-2, good for second place, while the Huskies were able to hold on to third place, despite falling to 8-4. Notre Dame 2-3 Brian Hills set a school record with ten points in two games, and Notre Dame showed no visible signs of being competitive, as the Falcons romped to a series sweep, 12-2 and 12-3. "Winning like this is certainly better than losing by two or three," said Bowling Green coach Jerry York. "We're a better team now than we were early in the year, and even though we're not playing many close games, we certainly showed improvement this Green plays a tem with a good defense they have problems, and Tech has a good defense," said the Spartans' Mason. "They lost and tied at Ohio State, and I'm not even sure they have beaten a team with a .500 record. I think a split on the road would be good for Bowling Green.' "We don't expect to split on the road," said York, "and we know that Tech will be the best CCHA team we have faced this year. We aren't concerned with being in first place right now, because there are to many good teams, We're not just pointing to the series with Michigan State, because we have to win all of our games." Michigan 3-5, Northern Michigan 6-3 Freshman Chris Seychel scored two WMPL Hockey Poll Team (Overall) W L T Pt Bowling Green (10-2-2) ..10 1 1 2 Michigan State (12-2) ....10 2 0 2 Michigan Tech (8-6) ..... 8 4 0 1 Northern Michigan (7-4-2 7 3 2 1 Miami (8-5-1) ..........6 5 1 1 Ohio State (8-4-2)........5 4 1 1 Western Michigan (5-9) . 4 6 0 Ferris State (6-7-1).......3 6 1 Lake Superior (5-7)......3 7 0 MICHIGAN (5-9).......3 9 0 Notre Dame (3-9)'.......3 9 0 Illinois-Chicago (3-13) ... 3 9 0 winner just 1:11 into the third period, to give Michigan a 5-3 win ad a series split with the Northern Michigan Wildcats. Jon Elliott picked up 34 saves in the nets, and junior transfer student Ray Dries, playing in his first game as a Wolverine, scored a goal and two assists to raise the Michigan record to 3-9, good for a four-way tie for ninth place. "We just played with more concen- tration the second night," said Michigan coach John Giordano. 'We were much better at taking their men off the puck on Saturday.' In the first game, theWildcats' first line of Erick Ponath, Bob Curtis and Dave Nogush did the damage, scoring CCHA Standings weekend. We moved the puck excep- tionally well, almost in a textbook style of play. We're a team with balanced scoring, and our players were smark and passed really well. Some nights you can do all of those things and end up losing, 1-0." THE ROAD gets much tougher for the first-place Falcons this week, as they travel north to Houghton to face Michigan Tech, in what is expected to be their stiffest challenge of the young season. s. 21 61 20 16 16 13 11 8 7 6 6 6 6 1. Minnesota-Duluth (8) .13-2-1 2. Minnesota (1) .........12-3-1 Tie. Bowling Green (1) ...10-2-2 4. Michigan State ........ 12-2-0 5. Providence ........... 11-2-0 6. Wisconsin ............ 9-5-2 7. Clarkson .............. 5-0-1 8. North Dakota ..........9-7-0 9. Michigan Tech .........8-6-0 10. Northern Michigan .....7-4-2 98 80 80 72 57 47 39 22 20 18 period comeback, sparked by two Ted Speers' goals and one by Seychel, fell short late in the game. Miami 6-4, Illinois-Chicago 3-i The Miami Redskins used two goals by Mike Kirwin to overcome a 1-0 deficit and complete a sweep of the Illinois-Chicago Flames. The Flames, coming off a Wednesday night game against nationally-ranked Wisconsin, who they took to overtime before losing 3-2, did not carry momentum into the Miami series, however, and the Re d- skins came away with the sweep that dropped Illinois-Chicago into the four- way last-place tie. The wins upped Miami's record to 7- 4-1, and moved them past Ohio State in- to fifth place in the CCHA. For the season, the Flames fell to 3-9. pesign c sAL1 I :.~ THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE PHONE! 14 DISCOUNT PERIODS jC hNT , I