Page 8-Sunday, January 16, 1983-The Michigan Daily 'M' bites Badgers, 62-57 y JIM DWORMAN Michigan can win a basketball game without Eric Turner. The Wolverines proved it last night with a 62-57 vic- tory over the Wisconsin Badgers at Crisler Arena. Turner, Michigan's best performer, played only 22 minutes in the contest - just four in the second half - and was totally ineffective. He scored a season-low of two points and his seven turnovers overshadowed his two assists. Instead of Turner, it was injury-slowed Robert Henderson and reserve guard Dan Pelekoudas who spearheaded the come-from-behind victory. Hender- son, a starter since the Toledo Blade Classic, did not play in the first half last night due to a sprained knee suffered in the Minnesota game. He started the second half, however, and his defense rebounding, and enthusiasm paved the way for Michigan's comeback. PELEKOUDAS, MEANWHILE, replaced Turner early in the second half and got the Michigan offense on track. He moved the ball around crisply, dishing off for six assists, and pressured the Wisconsin guar- ds into numerous turnovers. Five minutes into the second stanza, the Wolverines began their charge when forward Richard Rellford blocked a reverse layup by the Badgers' Brad Sellers. Leslie Rockymore followed the play by sinking a 20-foot jumper from the left wing to make the score 40-35 in favor of the visitors. Pelekoudas then forced Wisconsin's Ricky Olson into dribbling the ball out of bounds and Rockymore again hit a long bomb. HENDERSON, IN TURN, knocked the ball away from Olson and Rockymore once more hit from 20. After a Wisconsin free throw made the score 41-39, the Wolverines took the lead on a three-point play by Tim McCormick. The Michigan center took a lob from Pelekoudas and powered home a layup over the Badgers' Scott Roth, who fouled McCormick in the process. Roth then committed an offensive foul and Mc- Cormick returned to the forecourt to hit a jumper from just inside the foul line to give his team a 44-41 lead. AFTER THAT, Wisconsin never again got within three points of Michigan as the Wolverines patiently worked their offense. Rockymore led the Michigan attack with 23 points on a 10 for 14 shooting performance. McCormick ad- ded 17 points and 10 rebounds. Cory Blackwell led the Badgers with 16 points and 12 rebounds. The Wolverines started out well enough. After Michigan lost the opening tipoff, Turner stole the ball from Badger freshman guard Ricky Olson and soon afterward Rockymore sank a 20-footer from the left wing for the first two points of the game. On Wisconsin's next possession, McCormick smothered an inside layup by Scott Roth and it looked as if Michigan would dominate the early going. It was not to be, however. Although the Wolverines worked to a 14-13 lead af- ter four minutes of play, they could not find the basket for almost the next six minutes. Wisconsin switched from a man-to-man defense to an active, two-three zone and denied Michigan any type of shot. The result was little ball movement, five Turner turnovers and Badger leads of 24-14 and 32-20. Michigan then scored the final six points of the half - the last two on a pair of McCormick free throws with the clock expired - to cut the Wisconsin lead to 32-26. Burnt Badgers MICHIGAN Min FG/AFT/A R A PF Pts WISCONSIN Wade........... Rellford ........... McCormick ....... Rockymore........ Turner.......... Person .......... Jokisch......... Tarpley ........... Pelekoudas........ Henderson....... Team Rebounds TOTAL.......... 22 25 36 38 22 5 6 7 19 20 3/7 0/0 3 1 1 6 2/5 1/2 0 1 4 5 7/14 3/3 10 3 3 17 10/14 3/3 1 3 2 23 0/1 2/2 2 2 0 2 0/0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0/1 1/2 2 0 1 1 0/1 0/0 0 0 0 0 1/1 2/2 0 6 3 4 2/4 0/0 5 1 2 4 5 25/48 12/14 28 17 16 62 M Blackwell......... Roth........... Sellers............. Olson.......... Ploss............. Miller ............. Laszewski ......... Smith ............. Team Rebounds TOTALS Min FG/A FT/A 40 7/17 2/2 39 0/6 6/8 33 5/12 3/4 24 6/12 0/0' 26 0/0 0/0 20 2/3 1/2 14 0/1 2/2 4 2/2 0/0 R 12 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 A PF Pts. 1 1 16 3 3 6 2 4 13 0 2 11 0 2 0 0 3 5 1 1 2 0 0 4 Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Michigan freshman power forward Richard Rellford drives for the hoop. 22/54 14/18 24 7 16 57 First half score: Wisconsin 32, MICHIGAN 26 Attendance: 10,309 Illinois upsets Ohio State, 63-55 CHAMPAIGN (AP) - Guard Derek Harper scored 21 points, 15 in the second half, to lead Illinois to a 63-55 Big Ten basketball win over 20th- ranked Ohio State yesterday. Forward Anthony Welch added 16 to the Illini effort. Harper's output tied his season-high set earlier in the season against Illinois State. ILLINOIS LED 30-27 at the end of an error-filled first half. Early in the game the Buckeyes went four minutes without a basket. Illinois followed that by going more than eight minutes without scoring a point. Illinois came out firing at the start of the second half, building its three-point halftime lead to 44-35 with 12:21 to go, but the Buckeyes scored three baskets in less than a minute to pull to within three points. The Illini, 12-5 overall and 2-2 in the Big Ten, managed to maintain the lead, and send Ohio State to its second defeat in three Big Ten contests. The Buckeyes are 9-4 overall. Indiana 81, Purdue 78 WEST LAFAYETTE, (AP) - Randy Wittman and Ted Kitchel scored 23 points apiece yesterday, including 10 of Indiana's final 14 points from the free throw line, as the No. 4-ranked Hoosiers turned back a second half rally to beat Purdue 81-78 in a Big Ten Conference basketball game. The Hoosiers, taking control with a 20-2 burst midway through the first half, held a 20-point lead before the Boilermakers' comeback. Purdue cut the margin to 15 at halftime and steadily closed the gap in the second half. Purdue center Russell Cross, held to one point in the first half, pulled the Boilermakers within 73-67 on a three- point play with two minutes to go. In- diana's Jim Thomas then hit two free throws but Dan Palombizio countered with a three-point goal for Purdue. Minnesota 69, Michigan State 67 EAST LANSING (AP) - Substitute forward Barry Wohler stole the ball from Michigan State's Scott Skiles and sank the winning basket with four seconds remaining to lift 17th-ranked Minnesota to a 69-67 victory over the Spartans in Big Ten basketball yester- day. Minnesota outscored the Spartans 9-2 early in the second 'half before Michigan State hit three straight buckets to tie it at 44-44. The game was tied eight times in the final 20 minutes. Minnesota lifted its record to the Big Ten and 11-2 overall Michigan State fell to 2-2 and 9-5. 3-1 in while Iowa 73, Iowa State 56 IOWA CITY (AP) - Greg Stokes led all scorers with 21 points as 12th-rated Iowa used balanced scoring to defeat Iowa State yesterday 73-56 in a non- conference basketball game. The victory lifted Iowa's record to 11- 2. Iowa State fell to 8-5. Three other Hawkeyes scored in double figures. Michael Payne tallied 14, while Bob Hansen and Steve Carfinc each collected 12 points. Barry Stevens led Iowa State with 18 points and teammate Ron Harris added 16. Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Michigan freshman Roy Tarpley goes for the basket over Brad Sellers (32) and John Ploss of Wisconsin. SPORTS OF THE DAILY: Women ers drop OSU I L By STEVE HUNTER record and the Eastern Intercollegiate The Engineers of Lehigh come to Wrestling Association crown. Crisler Arena today at 2 p.m. to face the PROBABLY THE most impressive of Michigan grapplers, and they'll be the Engineers, however, is 142 pounder looking to avenge last year's 20-19 hear- Darryl Burley. As a freshman he won tbreaker at the hands of the the NCAA title at 134 pounds and Wolverines, finished second the following two years. The last big gun for Lehigh is Junior With a lineup of nearly all upper- Jim Reilly at 167 pounds. Reilly will Lehighs pobably he vrier in t face Michigan's Scott Rechsteiner and dual meet this year. It has a 4-3 advan- this match could be tremendous, as it tage in head to head competitions, and pits the sophomore Rechsteiner, one of lo o k s is looking to improve its season record, Michigan's top wrestlers (with a record after suffering losses to number two of 11-5) against the veteran Reilly (a ranked Iowa, and top-ten ranked Iowa red-shirted Junior), who has an overall St. and Northern Iowa. record of 39-13. AN OUTSTANDING core of wrestlers REILLY ISN'T the only veteran at the lighter weights is Lehigh's though. "They've got some pretty goo strength, starting with 118-pounder people up and down that lineup," com- Bobby Weaver. Weaver, a senior, was a mented Michigan head coach Dale member of the 1980 Olympic team and Bahr. last year compiled an impressive 21-3-2 The extra experience may pay off for record on his way to a third place finish Lehigh, which has no freshmen and at the Nationals. He started out strong only two sophomores in the lineup, and this season, winning seven of his first nine returning lettermen. eight matches. Michigan's hopes will rest on the In the 126 pound weight class the heavier weights, Tim Fagan at 158 (9- to d a Engineers have Junior Rich Santoro. 5), Rechsteiner at 167, Kirk Trost at 190 Despite missing most of last season (13-6), and Rob Rechsteiner at the with an injured shoulder, Santoro has Unlimited class (19-4). a career record of 25-8. Therefore it looks like the proverbial Things don't get any better for the immovable object will meet the Wolverines at 134 pounds. Senior Pete irresistable force tomorrow at Crisler Schuyler holds an outstanding 35-9-2 arena. f r i r l t f a ';1 , e r e M- 0 e I p r Special to the Daily COLUMBUS - The Wolverine women tankers came away victorious yesterday, slipping past Ohio State, 79- 70, in a dual meet. Michigan led for ten events before the Buckeyes took the lead. The meet came down to the final event, the 400- yard freestyle relay, and the Wolverine team of Naomi Marubashi, Kay Lundy, Leslie Beckstein, and Denise Stuntzner came through with a victory. MICHIGAN HAD three people credited with four first place finishes apiece. Melinda Copp took first in the 400 medley relay, 100 yard backstroke, the 200 yard backstroke, and 400 yard individual medley. Stuntzner garnered first place finishes in the 400 yard medley, the 50 yard freestyle, and the 100 yard freestyle, to go along with her first place efforts in the final event. Marubashi, competing in her first meet for the Wolverines, also came away with top finishes in the 400 medley relay, the 200 yard freestyle, and the 100 yard butterfly. Michigan coach Stu Isaac was im- pressed with Marubashi's first meet. "She got into the fire and really came through for us," said Isaac. Red Wings 4, Maple Leafs 3 By JIM DAVIS Special to the Daily DETROIT - "It was the biggest game so far this year. We couldn't af- ford to lose at all," said Red Wing goalie Corrado Micalef. And the Wings didn't. THE POWER play was Detroit's biggest ally last night as the Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-3 at Joe Louis arena before a crowd of 18,910. The Wings scored two power play goals and fought off five Toronto man- advantages to get the win. Included was a Leaf power play opportunity with slightly more than two minutes to go in the game. But the Wings and Micalef made Dwight Foster's twelfth goal of the season at 9:06 of the last period stand up. Micalef also survived a fight with Leaf defenseman Jim Korn with only sixtee° seconds left in the game. The bigger Korn had a size advantage, but he was the one bleeding when the players were finally separated. THE VICTORY gave the Wings a six- point lead over Toronto in the Norris division standings, just two points behind St. Louis. The Leafs have four games in hand on Detroit, however. But that didn't make this victory any less important. The game got off to a fast start as Toronto's Rick Vaive picked up a loose puck and beat Micalef only :25 into the game. Four minutes later, with Toron- to's Barry Mellrose and Borje Salming each in the penalty , box for hooking, John Ogrodnick re-directed a Willie Huber slapshot past netminder Rick St Croix for his 22nd goal of the season. 1 1 Stuntzner ... four firsts Redskins whip Vikings, 21-7 ; Jets rough up Raiders, 17-14 WASHINGTON (AP) - John Riggins thundered through Minnesota's defense for 185 yards and a touchdown and set up two scoring passes by JoeTheismann as the Washington Redskins beat the Vikings 21-7 yesterday, and advanced into the Naitonal Football Conference championship game. Riggins carred 37 times, one short of the National Football League playoff record, and gave a deep bow to the crowd as he left the field seconds before the game ended. Theismann completed 17 of 28 passes for 213 yards, including touchdowns of three yards to tight end Don Warren and 18 yards to wide receiver Alvin Garrett. THE REDSKINS, whose only loss during the strike- shortened nine-game season was to Dallas, will play either the Cowboys or Green Bay in next Saturday's conference championship game. The Packers play in Dallas today in the NFC's other second-round playoff game. had run five yards on a similar sweep with less than twc minutes remaining to beat Atlanta 30-24 in Minnesota's playoff opener. Jets 17, Raiders 14 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Richard Todd's 45-yard pass t Wesley Walker set up a one-yard scoring plunge by Scott Dierking with 3:45 remaining Saturday, giving the New York Jets a 17-14 victory over the Los Angeles Raiders in a second round National Football League playoff game. Walker, who caught seven passes for 169 yards on the day got open deep over the middle and Todd was right on target Dierking scored the game-winning touchdown on the next play. THE CONFERENCE title game, scheduled next Sunday, will be played at either San Diego or -Miami since both are seeded A L :., 3,,a aFi .,.. a..