SPORTS The Michigan Daily Thursday, January 20, 1983 Page 7 By LARRY FREED Special to the Daily COLUMBUS - After last week' sweep, Bill Frieder might feel a littl drunk with success when he sees doubl on the court tonight in Columbus. The Michigan coach is always ston Isober when it comes to basketball, bu he still will have difficulty decipherin the carbon-copy Buckeyes. OHIO STATE and Michigan bot send the same type of lineup onto th floor: a backcourt composed of quic sharpshooting guards and a frontlin cagers may see which consists of strong, heavy- Buckeyes defensively, Turner and DES] rebounding big men. Rockymore will have to get on track of- Buckey s The Wolverine sophomore tandem of fensively. Rockymore showed signs of reason e Eric Turner and Leslie Rockymore will life against the Badgers when he tallied young t e have its hands full with the Buckeye a career-high 23 points, on 10-of-14 well. trio of Troy Taylor (15.3 ppg), Larry shooting. Turner, however, is coming "The i (1)nd Ron Stokes (9.3) . off his weakest performance as a Rockym double at OSU PITE Turner's sluggish play, ye coach Eldon Miller still sees for concern. "Michigan is a eam and they have been playing ir guards, Turner and more, are especially difficult to rebounds). Miller can also send out forwards Joe Concheck (6-8) or Keith Wesson (6-9). THAT TASK will be left up to Tim McCormick, who has played inspired of late, Richard Rellford, Robert Hender- son and Butch Wade, who continues to see more action each game. "They're big and strong up front," Frieder said of the Buckeyes. "We'll have to try to match up well with them inside." While the two squads parallel each other in many facets, unfortunately all of these facets are not positive - such as their lack of success on the road. If Turner and Rockymore can start hitting more consistently from the out side, then the intense inside struggle will be loosened up. And if that hap- pens, look for Miller and Frieder to be rubbing their eyes when they see double on the court. e it g h e k, e Huggns k.u anu u .w~ kz. While Michigan's duo was supposed to wreak the most havoc on the league with its long-range bombing, it has in- stead been the combination of Huggins (6-1) and Taylor (5-10) who have filled up the hoop with three pointers. In addition to trying to stop the THE LINE UPS MICHIGAN OHIO STATE Straight from the source's mouth By RON POLLACK Fund raising: The way to overcome financial barriers W HILE MICHIGAN football players grumble that there aren't enough baked potatoes on the training table and basketball players raise a fuss over the Holiday Inn beds being too small on road trips, a number of Wolverine athletes fight for mere survival. Performers on Michigan's minor sports teams do not enjoy the luxuries of the football and basketball teams. It is easy to complain. It is smart to do something about it. Most Michigan minor sports athletes have been smart. A perfectly good example is the Wolverine women's tennis team, which has greatly bolstered its finances with a number of fund-raising activities. During this school year, the women netters have sold football programs at games, raffled off a couple of tennis rackets and held a 24-hour tennis-a-thon. The team earned $1,000 for selling the programs; $200 from the raffle and expects to collect between $1,300 and $1,500 from the January 7 tennis-a-thon. In addition, the women's tennis players teach twice a semester for four hours on Sundays at the Huron Valley Tennis Club. In exchange for this ser- vice, the players receive free court time to practice.' "The athletic department doesn't require that they teach, I require that," said head coach Ollie Owens. "I don't think they're (the players) par- ticularly happy about it. But it's a good trade off, because the Track and Tennis Building courts are a slow surface. So it's good to get out and play on en fst gcourts at Huron. Also, with track meets and fairs, the Track and Tennis Building gets closed. "I think it's good for them to have to raise some of their own funds," Owens added. "But it's tough on them when they see other programs not have to do that. So that may bother them. But I don't think it's unbelievably tough." Where there's a will . . Apparently it's not unbelievably tough for other Michigan teams either. In order to help pay for a meet in Hawaii (December 19 to January 6), the women's swimming team held a swim-a-thon, conducted a letter-writing campaign asking for contributions, and spent some money of its own. The softball team will pay for a spring trip to California with money ear- ned from selling programs, running a softball clinic in February, and holding beer-and-pizza nights. The last beer-and-pizza night was held the evening of the Michigan-Ohio State football game, and $400 was earned. A similar event will be held tomorrow night (9 p.m.) at the local American Legion Hall. The pizzas are donated by Domino's, and the team is getting a good deal on the hall and the beer from the American Legion, said softball head coach Bob DeCarolis. "The community helps out," said DeCarolis. "They know it's for a good cause.'' The women's gymnastics team has a meet in Oregon (February 25-26). To help pay for this, it held both a raffle and a trick-a-thon. A trick-a-thon is where the female gymnasts do a series of gymnastics maneuvers for a price. To save money, the men's gymnastics squad puts up and takes down the equipment at its meets, while the baseball team takes the tarp both on and off the field at games. These may not seem like the greatest hardships in the world, but it's hard to imagine Anthony Carter or Steve Smith carrying the field markers and game balls onto the Michigan Stadium field before a game. "Basically, when you get into non-revenue sports, you have to do things to help yourself out," said Michigan Associate Athletic Director Don Lund. And this is exactly what so many Michigan athletes are doing. And it is for this that they should be commended. Their situations are far from ideal, and they most certainly would trade places and budgets with football or basket- ball players in a second. But they can't. So they do the next best thing; they do something to rectify the situation. It's refreshing to know that the desire to compete is so strong among these athletes that they are willing to battle and overcome barriers - both large and small. :Pistons down Bucks (15) (40) (44) (25) (24) Robert Henderson.. (6-9) Richard Rellford.... (6-6) Tim McCormick... (6-10) Eric Turner.........(6-3) Leslie Rockymore.. (6-4) F F C G G (42) Joe Concheck.....(6-7) (00) Tony Campbell.....(6-6) (13) Granville Waiters.. (6-11) (14) Troy Taylor........(5-11) (20) Larry Huggins...... (6-3) G-S FG-FGA Game time is 8:05 p.m. at St. John Arena. The game will be broadcast on WAAM (1600 AM), WCBN (88.3 FM), WUOM (91.7 FM), WWJ (950 AM), and WLEN (103.9 FM). Turner................13-13 Rockymore............14-14 McCormick ..............14-12 Rellford ..................14-11 Person ....................14-7 Henderson.................14-7 Jokisch................14-1 Tarpley .................14-2 Wade .....................11-2 Pelekoudas ................13-1 Antonides................6-0 Brown ......................6-0 Rudy...................6-0 Gibas....................6- McFarland .... ..........6-0 86-173 87-188 45-89 43-86 39-89 39-88 30-64 28-58 15-32 11-26 3-6 0-5 1-2 0-1 0-1 PCT .497 .463 .536 .500 .438 .443 .469 .483 .469 .423 .500 .000 .500 .000 .000 FT-FTA 41-74 19-31 46-58 26-34 17-24 15-20 10-13 12-23 5-12 8-13 0-0 2-2 0-0 2-4 0-0 PCT .554 .613 793 .765 .708 .750 .769 .522 .417 .615 1.000 .500 Michigan Basketball Statistics AV 49-3.8 45-3.2 95-6.8 48-3.4 73-5.2 90-6.4 4 1-2.9 52-3.7 31-2.8 25-1.9 2-0.3 6-1.0 0-0.0 0-0.0 0-0.0 REB-AVG PTS 220 194 136 114 95 93 70 68 35 30 6' 2 2 2 0 AVG 16.9 13.9 9.7 8.1 6.8 6.6 5.0 4.9 3.2 2.3 1.0 0.3 0.31 0.3 0.0 A 79 38 13 8 16 8 6 4 2 37 '0 0 0' 0 0 Wolverine. Against Wisconsin he tur- ned the ball over seven times, while scoring a mere two points. The two guards will have further problems as they try to make up for the loss of Saturday's hero, Dan Pelekoudas, who will probably miss tonight's contest (8:05 EST) due to illness. contain. This team had an impressive win over Minnesota last Wednesday, so they can play some very good basket- ball." And Michigan will have to play some very good basketball if it hopes to con- tain front-courters Tony Campell (13.0 points and 9.0 rebounds per game) and 6-11 Granville Waiters (6.3 points, 7.3 MICHIGAN................14 427-903 OPPONENTS........... 14 352-804 .47:3 203-310 .655 598-42.7 1067 76.2 111 .438 216-331 .653 457-32.6 935 66.8 153, EX 'M' ICER SHINES IN NEW JERSEY: Palmer finds a ni~che 3-point shots: Turner 7-24 (.292); Rockymore 1-7 (.143). MICHIGAN 8-32 (.250); OPPONENTS 15-49 (.306) SCORES College Basketball Maryland 80, Clemson 61 Virginia 74, Virginia Tech 64 gs D eviWake Forest 88, Duke 84 Notre Dame 64, Bucknel 52 NBA Detroit 107, Milwaukee 106 By JEFFREY BERGIDA There's a new franchise in the National Hockey League this season. The New JerseyDevils (previously the Colorado Rockies) are based in East Rutherford, N.J. and are playing in the sparkling new Brendan Byrne Arena. Crowds have been consistently large and enthusiastic throughout the year. Yes, everything is fine and dandy for the Garden State's entry in the NHL ex- cept for the fact that the Devils have won but 10 of their first 47 games. Former Michigan defenseman Rob Palmer has been experiencing the ups and downs of being part of a rebuilding NHLers. At one time or another from 1975 through '77, he teamed up with 11 future pros including defenseman Greg Fox of the Chicago Black Hawks and Edmonton Oiler forward Pat Hughes. Yet despite all the talent, the club did not gel until the secondhalf of Palmer's senior year, 1977. The '75-76 squad which was expected to be a national contender finished fourth in its con- ference and lost Hughes and former Philadelphia goaltender Robbie Moore. Great things were not anticipated for 1976-77. But the Michigan icers pulled off a major surprise, overcoming a mid- season seven-game losing streak to wind up in the NCAA playoffs. The Wolverines proceeded to shock national powers Bowling Green and Boston University before succumbing in the final round, 6-5 in overtime, to the Wisconsin Badgers in Olympia Stadium. Why did the team put it all together at once after years of incon- sistency? PALMER explains: "It just takes a while to get a winning attitude. Michigan had had some bad years in the seventies and we learned how to win after some of our best players left." The L.A. Kings drafted Palmer and the defender played 48 games for the club his first full year out of college. He had his best season to date in 1978-79 when he was the Kings' fourth-leading scorer with four goals and 39 assists. Palmer will never gain national recognition for his scoring ability or flashiness. Under the subhead "Talent," the 1979 Kings' yearbook describes Palmer as "well-trained in basic fundamentals, his best asset is to be in the right place at the right time." The defenseman himself is more succinct, "I try to play a percen- tage." Palmer spent two seasons in the minors after his initial success in Los Angeles but it appears that he has found. a stable position in New Jersey. A member of the Devils' penalty-killing crew, Palmer has been playing regularly and scored his 100th NHL point this season. Even on the team with the worst record in hockey, Palmer has a lot to look forward to. Join the Daily Sports Staff process with the Devils. After spending five years in the Los Angeles Kings' organization, Palmer chose to become a free agent in September of 1982 and signed an offer sheet with New Jersey. A member of the 1977 Wolverine squad which lost the NCAA finals in overtime, he is not discouraged about the way things have gone with his new team. "IT'S A tremendous situation," said Palmer. "We've averaged over 12,000 a night and the fans have been really vocal. They've also been patient. I ex- pect that we'll be showing a lot of im- provement soon. It's not as if we were playing really bad hockey, we've been in almost all the games we've played this year." At Michigan, Palmer played on teams that were brimming with future Dodgers trade Cey to Cubs CHICAGO (AP) - The Los Angeles Dodgers traded third baseman Ron Cey, who was unable to work out a new contract with the team, to the Chicago Cubs for two minor league players, a Cubs spokesman said yesterday. Cey, 34, was in the last year of his pact with the Dodgers and reportedly wanted to re-negotiate the contract to four years at an average of about $700,000 a year. The Dodgers refused to go along with the proposal and Cey agreed to waive the no-trade clause in his contract if a deal could be worked'out. COMPUTER TERMINALS for RENT $47/month TEL. 761-BYTE RENT-A-BYTE, INC. IN MEMORIUM Palmer ... playing the percentages R. TODD ELVIDGE 1961-1983 with Thomas' umper x: x RABBINICAL SCHOOL-GRADUATE SCHOOL-SEMINARY COLLEGE OF JEWISH STUDIES-CANTORS By MIKE BRADLEY special to the Daily PONTIAC - Isiah Thomas hit a 10- Wfoot jump shot from the middle of the lane to cap a furious comeback with three seconds remaining and lead the Detroit Pistons to a 107-106 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks last night at the Silverdome. The Bucks Sidney Moncrief, who finished with 31 points, had his 15-foot shot blocked by Terry Tyler -with no time remaining on the clock. AFTER THE game, Pistons' head coach Scotty Robertson emphasized the violation of the rules. A man (Tyler) cannot break the plane of the out-of- bounds line. We may well protest this game." Kelly Tripucka had 24 points, in- cluding four free throws in the last thir- ty seconds to pace the Pistons. Thomas added 19 and Tyler tallied 15. Marques Johnson had 30 for the Bucks, including eight points in the last two minutes which helped stake the Bucks to 106-101 lead before the roof caved in. o zJEWISH STUIIIES , o KIZ x n i vi a w IN JERUSALEM-IN NEW YORK Visit for a semester with credit z or enroll in a degree program. U LADIES DAY IS EVERY DAY