4 Page 10-Friday, January 7, 1983-The Michigan Daily McFarland By JOHN TAYER It sincerely was a merry Christ- mas vacation for Joe McFarland as he traveled to Arlington Heights, Ill. with the rest of the Michigan wrestling team to compete in the 1982 Midlands Tournament. Mc- Farland placed first in the tour- nament at 126 pounds. Not since 1974, when Jim Brown won at the 118-pound weight class, has a Michigan wrestler done so well at this prestigious tournament which attracts wrestlers from every cor- ner of the United States, ranging in age from 18 to 30, and is seen by many as the. springboard to the Olympics. TO WIN the championship, Mc- Farland had to beat some rather stiff competition. In the first round,' McFarland beat a wrestler from Kentucky by scoring a quick ten points which ends a tournament match. In the quarter-finals, McFarland beat Oklahoma State's Mark Perry, 9-0 The most important victory for McFarland came in the semi-finals against Iowa's Barry Davis, 6-2. Last year Davis, who compiled a 42- 1 record, was the NCAA champion at 118 pounds. Davis' only loss last year came against none other than Mc- Farland in the, you guessed it, Midlands Tournament, by a score of 4-1. Davis has beaten McFarland every other time they have met. BE IN T HE FOREFRONT OF T ODAY'S TECHNOLOGY Air Force scientific engineering of- ficers plan tomor- row's weapon systems. If you have a scientific or engineering de- gree, you can join a dynamic team. See your ideas ma- terialize. Contact an Air Force recruiter today. MSgt. Dave Walters 561-3405 Davis has defeated McFa twice in dual meets, twice in t Ten tournament. THE MATCH was tied 2-2 th two periods and up until one n to go in the third period. A time, things started to go wrong for Davis and very rig McFarland. In an attempt to the tie McFarland decided to the offensive, working for a leg take down. Rather than go defensive and try to hold out overtime period, Davis deci counter McFarland's attack some offense of his own, w seconds to go in the match. B Farland completely outmanet Davis, countering beautifull taking Davis to the mat for tw ts. Davis was so stunned by th McFarland was able to take1 his back for two more points the final buzzer. In the finals, McFarland two-time NCAA champion brighten rland Mills and beat him, 7-6. In the first he Big period, McFarland started out the scoring with a two-point take down. irough Mills followed with a two-point minute reversal from which McFarland t that escaped, making the score 3-2. In the very second period McFarland was down. ght for Mills rode him for the maximum break allotted time of 30 seconds, go on whereupon the two wrestlers were single- separated. McFarland then got a on the takedown which was followed by for an another Mills' reversal, leaving the ded to score at 5-4. In the third period Mc- with Farland rode Mills for the 30-second vith 10 limit. Once again, the wrestlers ut Mc- were split and McFarland got uvered another takedown which was then y and countered by another reversal for o poin- Mills, which ended the scoring for Lis that the match. him to After the match, Mills said, "He before (McFarland) is the strongest 126- pounder I have ever wrestled. One faced time he hit me (on the side of the Gene head) and did it so hard that I had to look across the mat to see if he knocked my head off." ACCORDING to Assistant Coach Joe Wells, "This is a good win for Joe because he has suffered some minor discomfort this season due to a back injury he incurred from weight lifting. Joe has never looked for excuses and always displays strong determination, and this is possibly one reason for his success." McFarland wrestled as an in- dependent in the tournament and will most likely be red-shirted this season. No one else from Michigan placed in the tournament. However, one other bright spot was the perfor- mance of Rob Rechsteiner. Rechsteiner had a 4-2 record in the tournament and was beaten by only the two top seeds in the tournament. His. most impressive victory came over Rob Chamberlain, who is af- filiated with the Hawkeye wrestling club. Chamberlain used to be one of the finest heavyweights in the Big Ten and outweighed Rechsteiner, 280 to 210 pounds. SAID BAHR of the entire team's performance, "I am satisfied with the way our kids wrestled at the Midlands. They were mentally prepared and did a good job against some outstanding competition." In other wrestling news over the Christmas break, Tim Fagan was elected team captain. Fagan is a local boy from Huron High School and is a senior wrestling at 158 pounds. Another development is that Michigan has acquired 177-pound Bill Elbin from California, where he attended Sequoyas Junior College. Tonight the team travels to Ohio State to take part in a quadrangle meet pitting Michigan against teams from Ohio State, Ohio Univer- sity, and Nevada-Las Vegas. If Michigan can pull out some vic- tories in the lower weights they could expect to do very well. s wrestlers' holiday r 4 Fagan ... named grappling captain X X ............................ 4 Icers try to extinguish Flames By JOE CHAPELLE It will be a battle for ninth place tonight at Yost Ice Arena as the Michigan Wolverines play host to Illinois-Chicago. Both the Wolverines and the Flames along with Lake Superior State share the not-too- impressive ninth slot in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association standings. Although the Wolverines would rather be further ahead in the race right now, it is still a very impor- tant series for them. Michigan head coach John Gior- dano sees it as a chance to jump off to a good start in the second half of the season. "IT IS a significant series," said Giordano. "We are going on a long road trip after this series. We want to get off to a good start in the second half." According to Giordano, ,the Wolverines, coming off a rather impressive 12-3 win over Notre Dame, are starting to show signs of improvement. "I think we're improving," said Giordano. "We're setting up a settled lineup now and that is giving us more stability." IN THE Illinois-Chicago series, Giordano will still make a few adjustments. Senior co-captain Ted Speers will be moving back to his usual forward position. Giordano put Speers on defense earlier in the season in an attempt to add some maturity and stability to the inexperienced blue-liners. "We don't think he has been the answer back there," said Giordano. "He was not really ac- customed to the position and we are going to have to give our defense experience at some time or other. They have twenty games under their belt now, so they should be able to handle it:" The Flames are coming off a four-week break in action. The last time Illinois-Chicago played, it drop- ped a two-game series to Western Michigan, 6-0 and 8-5. "WE EXPECT a different kind of a game," said Giordano. "They are more of a skating team. We feel we're ready for them. I think we've prepared well for the series. One asset for the Flames in the series is senior net- minder Ricn Blakey. The junior from Halifax, Nova Scotia has more saves than any other goalie in the CCHA, garnering 471 in league play and 611 overall. Blakey, however, is eleventh in the CCHA in saves percentage at .882, .885 oyerall. The Flames' scoring attack should be led by freshman left wing Ken Steves and sophomore Joe Jackman. Jackman led the Flames in scoring last season. Tonight's game with Illinois-Chicago starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the door or at the ticket office at the corner of State St. and Hoover during business hours. Student tickets cost $2.00. WJJX (650 AM) will broadcast both games of the series begin- ning at 7:30 p.m. each night. 4 4 Speers ..'returns to front line for Illinois-Chicago series SPOR TS OF THE DAILY: Womf By JIM DAVIS The season starts tonight and the team is hot. With a two game winning streak on the line, the Wolverines women's basketball team opens its initial Big Ten schedule at Crisler Arena against the Northwestern Wildcats. " A Al UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GRADUATE LIBRARY SCHOOL offers M.A., Ph.D. and Certificate of Advanced Study in library and information science. Financial aid and assistantships are available. For a throrough and distinctive preparation for the library and infor- mation professions. apply Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, Room S-110, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (312) 962-8272 en tipoil Previously, women's basketball teams from Big Ten schools did not fall under conference jurisdiction. MICHIGAN, 2-8 on the season, is coming off a 68-63 victory over Detroit Monday night at Calihan Hall. The Wolverines are led by sophomore Peg Harte, who is averaging a team- high 22.9 points per game this season, including 31 against Michigan State in the Grand Rapids Press Tourney on Nov. 27. Her 7.1 rebounds per game also leads the team. Freshmen Orethia Lilly and Wendy Bradetich are also making a large con- tribution, averaging 12.9 and 9.4 points, and 5.0 and 5.5 rebounds per game, respectively. Junior Lori Gnatkowski and sophomore Diana Wiley are also expected to start for the Wolverines. NORTHWESTERN is led by 6-0 sophomore Anucha Browne with a 19.6 points per game average. Tracie Diemer, a 6-4 soph, sparks the team off the bench with a 10.7 average. The Wildcats are 4-5 this season and have yet to play a home game. North- western recently won the LaSalle Classic with a victory over 16th-ranked Penn State. Annette Lynch is in her third season as head coach of the 'Cats. This is the first year the Big Ten has had a schedule for women's basketball, which includes home and home series with all conference teams. THE GAMES will be played on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons against the same school as the men played the previous day, except at the other site. For example, last night the Michigan men played at Northwestern, so tonight the Wildcat women's team visits Crisler Arena. Why on Friday and Sunday? Because 0e 0 initial B the conference coaches, including Michigan's Gloria Soluk, hope to draw fans "on our own" and prove that women's athletics are capable of sur- viving, despite the apparent athletic department bias toward men first. But will the fans come out and sup- port Big Ten women's basketball? Par- ticularly in this initial season? We should know the answer by this spring. M tankers dunk EMU They couldn't even come close. No matter how well prepared the Eastern Michigan men' sswimmers were, they were no match for the powerful Michigan Wolverine team who dunked the Hurons handily, 78-35 on Dec. 10. "IT WAS a low-keyed Michigan squad swimming against a fired-upsand enthusiastic Huron team," said Michigan head coach Jon Urbanchek. "They were all shaved and tapered. We had some good times and I see it as a promising performance." Freshman Benoit Clements earned his coach's praise with his victories in the 1,000-yard freestyle (9:30.15), and the 200-yard butterfly (1:53.42), as did Antonio Cerezo with times of 1:53.67 in the 200 IM and 2:08.82 in the 200-yard breaststroke. Freestyle sprinter Mark Noetzel cap- tured first place in both 50- and 100-yard events with times of 21.10 and 46.17, respectively. Michigan divers also dominated EMU. Bruce Kimball continued to ex- cel by winning the one-meter event (326.10) and the three-meter com- petition (362.05). Urbanchek and his team are in In- dianapolis, IN for the U.S.S. Inter- national Meet, today through Sunday. - KATIE BLACKWELL Gymnasts trarel to MSU Six gymnastics teams are going to compete in the Big Ten Invitational this 1 gTen sI weekend at Michigan State, but two of the teams are not in the Big Ten and none of the teams are going to win. Yes indeed sports fans, both Western Michigan and Eastern Michigan will compete with Michigan State, Wiscon- sin, Ohio State, and Michigan today and tomorrow in a meet that no team will win because it is an individual com- petition only. "IT'S A comfortable meet to get back into our 1982 form," said Michigan head coach Newt Loken. "It'll get us ready for whatever we will have to face in the season ahead." The competition allows forunlimited entries, so the Wolverines will be able 4 to put several gymnasts into com- petition who have not seen action thus far this season. This is important for the squad since it has several top per- formers, but needs more depth and ex- perience in several events. The Wolverines will be looking for especially strong performances from Kevin McKee and captain Milan Stanovich. In the Wolverine's last meet, T e Wolverine Invitational, McKee took frsts in both the high bar and the floor exercise, while Stanovich was the top finisher on the trampoline and in the all-around competition. eason 4 KARL WHEATLEY - I I 4 . . .r'r:.asi tw . . . . . . :r'.A; :.. . . . . 4 :i..:fi ;!S. ::: ::i' .: : :~ ..: "";;::;:. 4 .: 1.i: :; ' i ualit ~~ZK AP Photo Directions to the Super Bowl? Detroit Lions defensive line coach Ed Khayat holds up plays for the team during practice yesterday. The Lions square off against the Washington Redskins in the first round of the NFL playoffs tomorrow. QI Equipment For Professional Results Rapidograph technical pens, Koh - I - Noor templates, scales, lettering guides, and fine drawing instruments. 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