4 t' SPORTS *. . . -i- : T Ine Micnigon uoily Tuesday, February 28, 1984 Page 16' Icers melt; miss By MIKE MCGRAW Two weeks ago, it seemed like a trip to Bowling Green was in the bag. But the Michigan hockey team proceeded to play its way out of the playoffs and into r inth place by losing three of its last four games,.all t Yost Arena. The Wolverines were still in good shape after split- t4ing with Michigan Tech February 17-18. The only day then for them to miss out on post-season action Would be to lose twice to Northern Michigan while Lake Superior swept Tech-but that's exactly what happened. MICHIGAN LOOKED sluggish last Friday when Northern's Bill Schaufhauser gave the Wildcats the lead just 19 seconds after Mike Neff had tied the game late in the second period as NMU went on to record a 4-2 victory. Meanwhile in Sault Ste. Marie, Lake Superior was handing MTU a 2-1 defeat as seldom used goalie Ran- dy Exelby stifled the Huskies. That set the stage for the Saturday night showdown for Michigan, but the Wolverines responded with a disappointing performance and lost 7-6, opening the door for the Soo Lakers to cancel Michigan's travel plans this weekend for the CCHA playoffs. "IF WE HAD any goaltending at all Saturday, we would have won," said Wolverine coach John Gior- dano. "Of all the times not to come up with a big game, that was it." Giordano started Mark Chiamp in goal both nights last weekend for the first time in three weeks, but the usually outstanding junior netminder played poorly in the second game and Michigan fell behind 5- 1 early in the second period. But-sophomore Tom Stiles led a furious comeback, scoring two goals and assisting on another by Brad Jones. Then Dan Goff tallied at 15:38 to end the second stanza in a 5-5 tie. SAID GIORDANO, "Saturday we may have played' >la offs the best second period of the season, it could have easily been 7-5." Instead, though, it was 7-5 in favor of Northern seven minutes into the third. Less than a minute after Wildcat goal number seven, Bruce Macnab brought Michigan back to within one but that was the last goal the Wolverines will score this season as they didn't get any good scoring chances the rest of the game. "I'm very disappointed we didn't make it," said Giordano. "In the final analysis it hurt not to have (John) DeMartino and (Greg) Hudas on defense. I don't think we're that great, but we're not that bad either." The one consolation for the Wolverines after their second straight disappointing finish is that they have seven of their eight leading scorers returning next year with the biggest loss being scorer Jim Mc- Cauley. 4 4 4 CCINfIScoreboard Final 1983-84 CCHA Standings 9. MICHIGAN (14-22-1) .. 11 18 1 10. Miami(13-23-1)...... 10 20 0 11. Illinois-Chicago (5-29-1) 5 22 1 .383 .333 .196 Playoff Schedule March 2-3 Overall 1. Bowling Green (30-4-2) 2. Ohio State (27-9-1) ..... Michigan State (28-10) 4. No. Michigan (17-21) .. 5. West. Mich. (20-17-1) .. 6. Mich. Tech (19-19-1) ... Ferris State (18-18-3) 8. Lake Superior (17-19-2)1 W 22 21 21 16 13 14 13 12 L 4, 9 9 14 14 16 15 17 T 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 Pct. .821 .700 .700 .533 .482 .467 .467 .417 CCHA Scores Northern Michigan 4-7, MICHIGAN 2-6 Michigan State 8-7, Ferris State 4-4 Lake Superior 2-6, Michigan Tech 1-3 Bowling Green 11-2, Miami 4-6 Western Michigan 6-3, Ohio State 4-5 No. 8 Lake Superior at No. 1 Bowling Green No. 7 Ferris State at No. 2 Ohio State No. 6 Michigan Tech at No. 3 Michigan State No. 5 Western Michigan at No. 4 Nor- thern Michigan WMPL POLL 1) Minnesota-Duluth (6) ............95 2) R.P.I. (3) ......................92 3) Bowling Green (1) ................82 4) Boston University ................56 5) Minnesota ...................55 6) Michigan State................48 7) North Dakota ...............46 8) Ohio State ........................31 9) Boston College ...................26 10) Clarkston ....................... 9 4 Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Wolverines' right winger Frank Downing takes Lake Superior's Grant Clark out of a play in action at Yost Ice Arena in December. The Lakers, however, knocked Michigan out of the CCHA playoffs by sweeping Michigan Tech last weekend while the Wolverines were dropping a pair of home games to Nor- thern. The Blue icers finish the season at 11-18-1 (14-22-1 overall). SPRING BREAK-DOWN: F THE BEST JUST GOT BETTEI McFarland wins S540 E. 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"Both Michigan State and Minnesota have primarily a senior team and we (have) a lot of freshmen and sophomores and juniors so I think they're graduating a lot of their out- standing people and we should be moving up in another year," Bahr said. In dual meet action during spring break, the Wolverines beat Ohio State 23-12 and lost to Wisconsin 28-9. Michigan ended its season with a 7-9 record in dualnieets. Women's swimming In the Big Ten Swimming Champion- ships held a week ago in Milwaukee, (Not Valid After 2-29-84) 665-6101 CAMERA SHOP, INC. Since1939 1115 S. University Ave. Michigan's young team finished fourth behind the now three-time champion, Ohio State. "We were pleased to edge up on In- diana and Wisconsin," said Michigan coach Peter Lindsay. "It came down to the last two events." Thanks to strong performances by the diving team, Michigan pulled fourth out of the water. Wolverine Diane Dudeck was named diver of the year and Michigan coach Dick Kimball was announced the diving coach of the year. -PAULA SCHIPPER Men's swimming "No contest," said men's swim coach Jon Urbanchek in reference to the dual meet against Michigan State at home last week. The Wolverines triumphed, 56-23. Benoit Clement had the most suc- cessful swim of the meet, breaking the school record in the 1000 freestyle with a time of 9:18.28. Apart from Clement, most of the other Michigan swimmers swam events out of their specialties. Other Wolverines who placed first in their events included Mark Noetzel in 50-yard freestyle, Mick Gruber in the one-meter diving, and Jim Bruzzese in the 400-yard individual medley. -PAULA SCHIPPER Women's tennis The spring break. got off to a good start for the women's tennis team after they downed Kansas, 6-3, but one week and five matches later, the team came home with a disappointing 1-5 mark. Wichita St., N.E. Louisiana St., 17th- ranked Oklahoma St., Oklahoma, and Texas Christian all downed the Wolverines. - Michigan's only undefeated player was fifth singles player Maryanne Hodges, who won all three singles and all three doubles matches she played before coming down with the flu after the N.E. Louisiana St. match. In individual matches, 20. of the 54 went to three sets - the Wolverines could win only seven. Michigan won 18 and lost 36 and 7-11 in doubles. -PHIL NUSSEL Softball The sun shone, the beaches were nice, and for the most part everything went Big Te' as planned as the Michigan softball team compiled a 7-3 record during its California trip over spring break. "We did as well as I expected," said Wolverine coach Bob IDeCarolis. "The teams I thought we should blow out, we blew out, those that we should beat by a run or two, we beat by a run or two, and the ones I thought we might lose, we lost." Michigan dropped the first game of the trip to U.S. International, but bat- tled back to a hard-fought 4-1 victory in the second game of the doubleheader. The Wolverines then snatched two vic- tories apiece from San Diego St. and Dominquez Hills, before running into number-two ranked UCLA. Debbie Doom of UCLA spelled cer- tain destruction for the Blue as she fan- ned 14 Wolverines in a 2-0 victory. Teammate Tracy Comton then struck out 10 Michigan hitters in the second game, en route to a 7-1 win for UCLA. -TIM MAKINEN .4 r 1 crown 76-GUIDE IS HIRING' 76-GUIDE,the peer counseling service of counseling services is currently selecting students for next year's staff. If you like to: * help other students through phone counseling.. . * develop your skills as a member of a hard-working team.. . * work about 15 hours a week for about $3.75/hour THEN PICK UP AN INFORMATION SHEET AND AN APPLICATION. Applications are available at Counseling Services, 3100 Michigan Union during business hours. Deadline for applications is Friday, March 2. Women's basketball The Michigan women's basketball team came up with its first Big Ten vic- tory of the season at Purdue, only to return home to lose to Indiana and Ohio State. Everything went right for the Wolverines in West Lafayette, as they topped the Boilermakers 65-59. Michigan's half-court trap, which gave Purdue problems throughout the con- test, was the key to the Wolverine defense. After the Purdue victory, the cagers returned home with great expectations,. However, the Wolverines fell on hard times when they bowed to Indiana, 77- 50. Michigan couldn't find any respite against Ohio State, losing 86-69. The Buckeyes' Carla Chapman and Fran- cine Lewis gave the Wolverines a dickens of a time, combining for 42 points and 16 rebounds. -BARB MCQUADE Men's gymnastics The men's gymnastics team had a warm spring break at the University of Georgia and Louisiana State but the fact that it was vacation probably had an affect on their performance. The Wolverines lost both meets by close scores, however Michigan still managed to come home with their two highest season totals of 265.2 and 266.5. Senior captain Merrick Horn, Mitch Rose and Brock Orwig tried to put Michigan on top last Saturday, but Georgia was a bit stronger, winning the. meet 270.0 to 265.2. Despite the team total, coach Bob Darden felt that Michigan was a bit in consistent at Georgia. "We're creeping up but we still have to work on those couple of misses. Michigan improved on their overall score against Louisiana State on Friday. There were no first place finishes for Michigan but Horn excelled in several events. --SUSAN BROSEI Track The big week is finally here, that is; the Big Ten Indoor Track Champion-, ships, and Michigan's men's and women's teams will be vying for cony ference laurels after two months of preparation. The women grabbed three firsts at the Huron Invitational in Ypsilanti; highlighted by a school record in the 4 X 400 meter relay. SOPHOMORE Sue Schroeder literally ran away from the field in the 1000 meter run, finishing a whopping 15 seconds ahead of her nearest com- petitor. Michigan's other first-place finish belonged to freshman Jennifer Rioux in the 800-meterrun and team- mate Martha Gray placed second. While the women's team will be defending its Big Ten crown, the men's team will try to avenge a loss at the hands and feet of Indiana last year. Two weeks ago at the Central Collegiate Championships, the Wolverines finished second to Eastern Michigan, but it was basically a two- horse race as both teams were well ahead of the competition. One noteworthy effort was that of Ron Simpson, who ran a 3:44.66 in the 1500 meters, qualifying him for the NCAA Championships next week. This past week at Michigan's own Silverston Invitational, long jumper Derek Harper qualified with a leap of 25'21%2". -CHRISTOPHER GERBAS Women's gymnastics The women's gymnastics team is now 9-4 after beating Indiana University and dropping one to Lousiana State during spring break.