Page 10 -- The Michigan Dily- Friday, March 9, 1984 TraCksters set for NCAA fina By CHRISTOPHER GERBASI An era has ended for Michigan track fans. After 19 years in the Detroit area, the NCAA Indoor Track Championships are being held this weekend in, Syracuse, N.Y., breaking a tradition established by Michigan athletic direc- tor Don Canham. ' Canham started running the meeting in 1964 when he was the Wolverines' track coach, and through the years, the meet has been staged at 'Cobo Arena, Joe Louis Arena and, the past two y'ears, at the Pontiac Silverdome. LAST. YEAR. the NCAA added women's teams to compete at the meet, and each year the workload for Canham and current men's coach Jack Harvey has gotten heavier. "It's become more work each year, and as athletic director there's just too many other things to do," said Canham, "We've got (high school) basketball tournaments, the CCHA :playoffs. It should have been moved a EUROPE BY CAR One Rockefeller Plaza Phbne(212) 8-34 Mail this ad for Special Student/Teacher Tariff. O RENTAL 0 LEASE 0 PURCHASE ... C. is on road long time ago, but the NCAA always left it here because it was profitable." SO, NOW THE Syracuse athletic department has the task of organizing the meet, which will be held in the spacious Carrier Dome. The Orangemen will host the meet the next two years as well, and after that, it will move around on a rotational basis. Traveling to Syracuse to represent Michigan are four members each from its men's and women's teams. Long jumpers Derek Harper and Vince Bean have a good shot at scoring. -Both are coming off their best career jumps at the Big Ten Championships last weekend. Harper is ranked third going into the meet for his leap of 25'10 3/4" and Bean has gone 25'5 ". SOPHOMORE THOMAS Wilcher had his best effort of the season at the Big Tens, in the 60-yard high hurdles. His time of 7.29 seconds in the semifinals qualified him for the meet. Ron Simpson, also a sophomore, had qualified earlier in the year in the 1,500 meters with a time of 3:44.66. The women's foursome is the two- mile relay team of freshman Jennifer Rioux, senior Martha Gray and sophomores Sue Schroeder and Joyce Wilson. The team finished third at last week's Big Tens with a time of 8:53.69, and that was with Wilson running with the flu. WILSON HAD also qualified in the. 500 meters and Schroeder was to run in the 3,000, but coach Francie Goodridge decided Michigan's best chance for points would be in the relay. MSUBG shoot for rematch in CCHA finals By JOE EWING This weekend's Central Collegiate Hockey Association playoff finals at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena may not end on as thrilling a note as last year's but they still should be ex- citing. You can't beat last year's cham- pionship game for thrills. The top scorer in the country, Bowling Green's Brian Hills, faced All- American goalie Ron Scott of Michigan State on a penalty shot in overtime. Scott prevailed and the Spartans went on to win 4-3 on a goal by Mark Hamway. THIS YEAR HAMWAY, Scott and Hills are gone, but their teams, Bowling Green and Michigan State, have returned for another shot at the title. First, however, they'll have to make it through some tough com- petition in the semifinals. The Bowling Green squad, curren- tly ranked third in the nation, will have to face a hot Western Michigan team in the semi's at 8 p.m. tonight. The Falcons, who easily finished on the top of the CCHA standings with a 22-4-2 league mark and then eliminated Lake Superior in the opening round of the playoffs, are led by centers Dan Kane (24 goals, 41 assists) and John Samanski (23,35). Western, meanwhile, has used a potent offense sparked by Dan Dorion (41 goals, 48 assists) to go 11- 3-1 in its last 15 games and knock off Northern Michigan at Marquette to make it to the final four. Dorion has scored in43straight games. IN THE OTHER semifinal contest at 5 p.m. tonight, the sixth-ranked Spartans meet the high-powered of- fense of number five Ohio State. Last year, the teams met in the semi's with Michigan State coming out on top, 8-3. This year though, things should be a little closer. The teams finished in a virtual tie for second place with identical 21-9 records and split their only series of the year. In addition, the winner probably will get one of the CCHA's two bids to the NCAA playoffs. The Buckeyes sport- four of the' top six scorers in the league, led by Paul Pooley (32 goals, 63 assists) who broke the CCHA single season assist record and whose 95 points are one shy of the league mark. Pooley's twin brother Perry (39,39), left wing Dave Kobryn (23,50) and right wing Andy Browne (37,32) follow in third, fourth and sixth places. Freshmen Craig Simpson (13 goals, 35 assists) and Bill Shibicky (16, 30), top the Spartans in points. Wings down Blues, 6-3 By SCOTT, SALOWICH Special to the Daily DETROIT - Detroit's playoff starved hockey fans got a big push in the right direction last night as they saw their Red Wings beat the St. Louis Blues 6-3.s. The scrappy Wings out-hustled their Norris Division rivals and increased their hold on second place to three poin- ts over idle Chicago. TWO SECOND PERIOD power play goals by Ron Duguay and Reed Larson put Detroit ahead to stay. Larson, the game's first star, added another goal just 38 seconds into the third period. "Absolutely no way-do we have a lock on a play-off spot," said Wing's Coach Nick Polano. "But I like our chances and I like the way my team is playing," he added. Rookie of the year candidate Steve Yzerman continued his fine play by ad- ding a goal and an assist. ijg Tens are left should be quite enough for the Wolverines to grapple with. SINCE OHIO STATE, the returning Big Ten champion, is ranked in the top ten teams in the nation, Minnesota in the top fifteen, and Michigan State probably in the top twenty, Michigan "is sitting about fourth place going into the meet." Wolverine head coach Sheri Hyatt said, "We hope to improve our fifth-place finish of last year, but with this year's competition that will be tough." Hyatt realizes it is not the ranking Tumblers take talents toI By DAN COVEN this weekend in East Lansing will be a Men's gymnastics coach Bob Darden showcase for the young Wolverines. is a man of great expectations. Yet he "You can only rebuild for so long, then knows how to keep them in perspective. it's time to show your stuff," said Dar- He knows that the gymnastics team is den. "I would like to close the four-point not going to win the Big Ten champion- gap between us and the upper echelon ships this weekend - or even finish in Big Ten teams (OSU, Illinois, Min- the top four. nesota, and Iowa) and maintain our fif- This has been a rebuilding year for th position. After all, those four teams the steadily improving tumblers, but are all ranked in the nation's top ten." NOT ONLY are the Wolverines under pressure to improve the team's overall score, but several of the gymnasts are trying to qualify for April's NCAA championships. This added pressure is not unfamiliar to Darden who was a former All-American and NCAA run- ner-up on the high bar in 1976. "Yes there is a lot of pressure," said the first year coach, "but if our guys just do their average best - as they do in prac- tice - things will be fine." Senior Captain Merrick Horn is trying to qualify for the NCAA's as an all-arounder as well as on the parallel bars and floor exercise. For Horn to qualify, he must post one of the top five scores in the mideast region. Freshmen Brock Orwig and Mitch Rose have made the switch from high school to Big Ten competition well enough to have an outside shot at qualifying on the high bar and rings. Women vie for title _ After finishing preparation for its biggest meet of the season, the Michigan women's gymnastic team left yesterday for Buckeye territory, to face seven conference schools in the Big Ten meet. Why only seven? Well, North- western's team is in Division II and Purdue does not have an intercollegiate gymnastic squad. But the teams that 4 Hyatt ... hoping for fourth and high team scores that are going to win the meet, but rather, it will come down to the team that can "hit all four events well." "At practice we've been pretending we're at the Big Tens," said Hyatt, "So when we get there we'll be used to the pressure." - SUSIE WARNER If The WoFniers Uand book.I youhaven'! &oIF - ohaven'! goI 1i And it's free! 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