4 Page 8-Tuesday, January 11, 1983-The Michigan Daily Bowl] IKE MCGRAW By M ng Green take it one game at a time and make ten nationally. sure we can hold second place. We're Despite three playing pretty inconsistently right now in the opener, t - sometimes we score goals and first home gam sometimes we don't, and when we don't File's third peri we lose." tie. In the night( The battle for conference supremacy was staged last weekend at Bowling Green and the host Falcons left no question that they are the leading force in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association after sweeping second- place Michigan State, 6-4 and 4-2. The wins left Bowling Green with a conference record of 15-2-1 and a big five point bulge over the Spartans. "Bowling Green is as good as any team in the country," said MSU coach Ron Mason. "Their strength is definitely their forwards. Brian Hills being such a high scorer makes them very ex- plosive offensively." HILLS, THE leading scorer in theC- CHA with 50 points, scored three goals in the games beating All-American goalie Ron Scott of MSU. Scott un- characteristically allowed nine goals for the weekend, much higher than his 2.35 goals against average. The Spartans scored the first goal in each of the contests but couldn't hold on. State had scored the initial goal in 12 previous games this season and had won every time. Falcon goalie Wayne Collins was the Spartan's chief nemesis as he made 31 saves in game two and at one point in the second period shut MSU down during six minutes of a Spartan man advantage. "Their goaltending was stropig both nights, especially Collins on Saturday," said Mason. "There's an outside chan- ce we could catch them, but we'll just goal he e od cap, sweeps Mi .we.psand a lengthy team meeting. s from Andy Browne "We had excellent practices all week Buckeyes lost their and these games showed us that we can of the year as Jim skate with anyone when we want," con- slapshot broke a 6-6 tinued Bertrand. "We're definitely OSU skated to a 3-1 playoff contenders, but its really going Com Rudrud tie the to be a struggle for the sixth, seventh, and ogs late in the third eighth places. The team I'm worried about is Michigan. They're improving ite a turnaround for quite a bit and took four points last hich has struggled weekend." I gave the team two Miami 6-2, Pk nd t rd themt Ferris State 7-3 Ohio State 6-3 (OT) The upset of the week came in Colum- bus, as Ferris State, in last place only, four games ago, left Ohio with an un- defeated weekend over the Buckeyes who were in third and ranked in the top lead only to have T game for the Bulld period. The series was qu Ferris, a team wt most of the year. "I weeks off during bre relax, don't do anytt on the season," sai Bertrand. "We nee they needed to do t4 season. Now I thin' determined and w titude." So Ferris return December 30 wit] schedule, a rearra ichigan State goals in the winning effort. The Red- skins hang on to seventh place with a 7- 10-1 record while MTU holds a firm grip on the fifth slot with a six point lead over Western Michigan. Northern Michigan 4-3 Western Michigan 2-4 Northern started out strong on the road as Eric Ponath's shorthanded goal at 9:09 of the third period broke a 2-2 tie and supplied the Wildcats with the margin needed for victory. Bronco senior Rob Reid scored two goals on Saturday, including the game-winner in the third period to lead Western to a split. Notre Dame 7-3 Lake Superior 3-4 New LSSC coach' Frank Anzalone ea an Loa mem to hing and just reflect id FSC coach Dick ded to realize what o have a successful k we've come back ith a positive at- ied to practice on h a new practice nged locker room, Michigan Tech 3-13 Michigan Tech's Bill Terry received CCHA player-of-the-week honors as he notched eight points on the weekend, including a hat trick in the Huskies 13-2 thumping of Miami in Houghton Satur- day night. But the Redskins managed a 6-3 win in the opener to insure the split. Miami's Rich Kuraly scored two Bowling Green. Michigan State. Ohio State........ Northern Mich. Michigan Tech..... Western Mich...... Miami ........... MICHIGAN....... Ferris State...... Lake Superior ... Illinois-Chicago..... Notre Dame ........ W 15 13 10 10 11 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 L 2 5 5 5 7 10 10 11 10 12 13 13 T 1 0 3 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 Pts 31 26 23 23 22 16 15 14 14 12 10 10 4 took two nights to gain his first career win as Notre Dame pounded the Lakers 7-3 in his debut behind the bench Friday. But the victory came the next night as Nick Palumbo scored three times to help knock off the Irish 4-3. CCHA Standings r'flflTfl rNI TflflSPORTi OFTHE DbATIN ;irUnu1 ;3 i ml r BE IN THE FOREFRONT OF TODAY'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. 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Michigan State, Wisconsin, Western Michigan, and Eastern Michigan sent competitors to the individual competition, No team scores were compiled. Wolverine gymnasts captured first place in four of the six events, and placed at least two in the top five in every event. CAPTAIN MILAN Stanovich placed first in vaulting with a score of 9.8 and first in all-around competition, with 109.10. That total was more than three points higher than the 106.0 he needed to qualify for the U.S. Gymnastics Federation Championships. Top finishers in that competition will represent the U.S. in international competition. Nevin Hedlund topped the field on the pommel hor- se with 9.5. Kevin and Mike McKee placed first and second in floor exercises with 9.5 and 9.4 respectively. On rings, Rick Kaufmann took first place honors with a 9.6. Although Wolverine gymnasts have done very well all season in individual competition, a lack of depth has consistently hurt the team score. COACH LOKEN thinks that problem may be alleviated by the team's newest addition, freshman Gavin Meyerowitz of South Africa. Meyerowitz is a first term engineering student who came to the United States, at least in part, because the gym- nastics competition is much better here than in South Africa. He scored 53.50 in all-around competition last weekend. "It was a great happening when he joined us in mid-season," said Loken.. "Gavin will partially fill the shoes of Merrick Horn." Horn is injured and out for the season. With the addition of Meyerowitz, Loken thinks the team will "be much more competitive against the national powers.. . He'll get a chance to try out that hypothesis this Saturday as Michigan takes on the Gophers of Min- nesota, who finished eighth in the NCAA's last year. Wrestlers win two of three Close may count in horseshoes, and even in wrestling sometimes, but close wasn't enough for the Michigan wrestling team last Friday. While the matmen won their dual meets against Ohio University and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, they fell slightly short in their first conference dual meet against Ohio State. MICHIGAN GRAPPLERS did "have some especially outstanding duels," according to head coach Dale Bahr, but three of these ended in Buckeye victories. Kirk Trost, wrestling at 190 pounds, lost a 10-6 decision to OSU's Eric Neilly. Trost led until late ir the third round when he tried a takedown and insteaa suffered the reversal, which cost him the match. Mike Garabedian, 126 pounds, and Scott Rechsteiner, 167 pounds, also fell in the final round, losing 9-7 and 3-2 respectively. POSTING VICTORIES over OSU were Greg Wright, Bill Goodill, Tim Fagan, and Rob Rechsteiner. Goodill, 142 pounds, had to overcome adversity as well as his opponent. Despite a badly sprained ankle in practice Thursday, Goodill came back Friday to win an 8-4 decision over OSU's Greg Delong. "He gave a gutsy performance," said Bahr. "He did a good job just wrestling for us." Tankers compete in international meet Eighteen countries, 17 U.S. colleges, and national greats such as Rowdy Gaines, marked the stiff com- petition six members of the Michigan men s swim team faced in the U.S.S. International Meet at IndiaA apolis last weekend. Benoit Clement continued to prove himself a va ua ble member of the tankers. The freshman's performance included a third place finish in the con- solation final of the 400 meter freestyle (3:55.30), seventh in the 80 meter freestyle (8:05.64) and in the 1500 meter freestyle, coning in at 15:44.85. WOLVERINE captain and lone senior Bruce Gemmell captured tenth place in the 200 meter backstroke with a time of 2:46.32. Lance Schroeder, another promising freshman, came in tenth in the men's 200 meter butterfly. Antonio Cerezo had a strong swim in the 400 meter IM when he came in second in the consolation finals (4:30.42). THE WOLVERINES combined efforts also led to a good showing in the relay events finishing seventh in the 800 meter freestyle relay. Gemmel, Cerezo, Schroeder, and Mark Noetzel stopped the clock at 3:52.70 for ninth place in the 400 meter medly relay. Coach Jon Urbanchek was pleased with the way his swimmers performed against international com- petition, the strongest of which included East Ger- many, Sweden, and Norway. " It was an improvement over Canada," said Ur- banchek, referring to the Canada Cup held in Toronto December 4-6 where Michigan last faced swimmers from foreign teams. "Now we're ready to face Wisconsin this Thursday. They are a very good team and we need to be strong to win." -KATIE BLACKWELL A' Tumblers place high in tourney -STEVE WISE 4