Men's Basketball vs. Minnesota tomorrow, 4:00 p.m. Crisler Arena The Michigan Daily SPORTS Big Ten Track Championships today and tomorrow Track and Tennis Bldg. Friday, March 2, 1984 Page 9 'M' IU battle for By CHRISTOPHER GERBASI History may repeat itself this weekend at the Big Ten Indoor Track Championships as defending champion Indiana and host Michigan should stage another showdown for conference honors. Both Indiana's coach Sam. Bell and Michigan's coach Jack Harvey down- play their respective teams' chances, but it's clear each knows first place is within reach. "INDIANA should be favored to win the meet," Harvey said emphatically. "After that, it'll be a dogfight. If we perform well, we might be able to challenge Indiana. If not, we'll be fighting it out for second." In turn, Bell is impressed with Har- vey's team and the other challengers. "Michigan has a good team again, as usual," Bell said. "On paper, it looks like Indiana and Michigan again, but Iowa is vastly improved and Purdue and Wisconsin will be right there. If they run well, they could open a Pan- dora's box for someone." THE HOOSIERS are led by 440-yard world record holder Sunder Nix, who established the indoor mark of :46.66 at last year's meet. Nix is a clear favorite to win, as is high jumper Ron Jones. Jones has leaped 7'4%" this season while no other Big Ten competitor has surpassed 7'1". Sophomore Albert Robinson has the season's best time, :30.46, in the 300 yard dash. The Wolverines' all-senior field crew could pile up the points. Long jumper Derek Harper has the best leap of the year at 25'21", and Vince Bean is also capable of jumping 25 feet. Shotputters John Nielsen and Scott Eriksson have been tough all year, and triple jumper Tony Krpan and high jumper Dave Lugin placed second and third, respec- tively, at the '83 meet. Of course, anything could happen. As Bell said, "Strange things happen in a track meet. For anyone to go in there and win, they'll have to do a heck of a job." And that's exactly what the Hoosiers hope to do. The long jump and two-mile finals are today with additional finals on Saturday. track si Badgers challenge Blue Defending champ Michigan will have its hands full this weekend trying to retain the women's Big Ten Indoor Track title, as favored Wisconsin should set the pace for the rest of the% field in Champaign.. "It's going to be ,a real tight race," said Wolverine coach Francie ipremacy Goodridge. "Wisconsin is definitely the dash, Joyce Wilson will contend in the favorite. I think they're a little ahead 600, and Sue Schroeder is a favorite in of everyone else." Purdue and Indiana the three-mile. She will also anchor the also figure to be in the running. two-mile relay team which includes The Badgers have two of the top Wilson, Martha Gray and Jennifer long jumpers and triple jumpers, but Rioux. Rioux replaces Sue Foster fromr Michigan could come away winning last season's top team. more individual titles than any other Preliminaries will be held today with me finals taking place Saturday. team. Debra Bradley could win the 440-yard - CHRISTOPHER GERBASI . STUDENT HEALTH AIDES SValuable work experience in health care Harper ...leaping for top CCHA title run begins Provide to education and service peers By JOE EWING The college hockey season may be through in Ann Arbor, but there will still be plenty of collegiate action throughout the midwest this weekend as the Central Collegiate Hockey Association opens up the first round of its playoffs. In the opening round, the top four place finishers host the teams finishing fifth through eighth in the standings in two-game, total-goal series. The win- ners advance to the finals at Det'roit's Joe Louis Arena next weekend. This weekend's matchups are: Lake Superior (12-19-1) at Bowling Green (22-4-2) You'd think that the Bowling Green squad, which is ranked third in the country and is 17-1 this year at home, wouldn't have any fears about hosting Lake Superior, the last team to make the playoffs. But they do. The Soo Lakers are the only team to beat the Falcons in Bowling Green this year and are coming off - a sweep of Michigan Tech last weekend that rocketed them into the playoffs. "They beat us once here and they could do it again," said Bowling Green head coach Jerry York. "But (the earlier loss) gives us a little more motivation for them than for playing any other eighth place team." Ferris State (13-15-2) at Ohio State (21-9) Head coach Dick Bertrand will try to regroup his Ferris players after being swept by Michigan State last week to make the trip to Columbus and face the high-powered Ohio State offense, a task that won't be easy. The Buckeyes have four of the top six scorers in the conference, including Paul Pooley (29 goals, 62 assists), Perry, Pooley (36,37), Dave Kobryn (21, 46) and Andy Browne (32, 31). Ferris continues with Randy Merrifield (20,54), the league's fourth leading scorer. "They hope to shut down some of our big scorers," said Ohio State coach Jerry Welch. "But you can't concen- trate on doing just that and still win." The Buckeyes swep the teams' only series this year, winning 6-3 and 3-1 in Big Rapids. Michigan Tech (14-16) at Michigan State (21-9) Tech took both contests, in the most recent series between these two fierce rivals, dumping State 6-4 and 3-1 at I~ home in Houghton. But State still holds the victory ad- vantage this year with a sweep in East Lansing and a 6-2 win in the champion- ship game of the Great Lakes In- vitational. The Spartans will also be at home in soldout Munn Ice Arena, something that usually works in' their favor. 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