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Grant steals show

in Spartan slaughter

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of charge - the one that gave the Wol
verines their first-half advantage.
"Sometimes those eight-to-10 point
leads can really hurt you," Frieder
said "because the kids think it's so easy
and you as a coach know it isn't and
boom, all of a sudden the momentum's
gone."
The Wolverines did all they could to
mollify their coach's fear in the second
half, outscoring the Spartans 22-7 in the
first seven minutes after the half.
ROY TARPLEY scored seven of his
team-high 17 points and Antoine
Joubert, who finished with 15, scored
eight as Michigan took a 59-35 lead, one
it would stretch to 29, 68-39, three
minutes later.
And while the Wolverines' balanced
attack was dropping the curtain early,
half the Spartans' two-man show was
drawing poor reviews from the season's
first sellout crowd at Crisler Arena.
As forward Richard Rellford went up
to finish a Michigan breakaway, Skiles
flew in for a collision Jack Tatum would
have been proud of. For the rest of the
game, Skiles heard about 13,000 boos
every time he touched the ball.
ON THE other end, Grant was ear-
ning yet another vote for the all-
excitement team. Along with the first
half in-your-face-Sam layup, the Can-
ton, Ohio native saved a ball out of
bounds by tossing it through his legs,
maintained his dribble after being
knocked flat on his back and turned one

of his game-high three steals into two
points off a Spartan inbound.
Said Grant: "I was more surprised
than Sam Vincent," from whom Grant
stole the ball. "I thought they were
going to call a foul."
"He's amazed me every game," said
Tarpley of the freshman phenomenon.
"He's a crowd pleaser. He's a
motivator."
ALONG WITH the motivation, Grant
provided 14 points and seven assists,
but neither the guard nor his coach
was completely satisfied with Grant's
play.
"It was an average game," said
Grant. "It wasn't one of my best, but it
wasn't one of my worst."

"He made some careless turnovers
and gets lackadaisical," said Frieder.
With Michigan now 5-2 and sharing
first place in the conference, the team's
prospects look anything but
lackadaisical.
"Michigan is on a roll," said Heath-
cote, whose team drops to 3-4 in the Big
Ten and 12-5 overall. "They're playing
very good basketball.
"I think that stretch in the first five to
six minutes of the second half was as
good as anybody's played against us."
"Hey, I'm talking about the Big Ten
title," said Rellford. "I'm talking about
going to Kentucky. If we work hard, we
can go to Kentucky."
Call it unguarded optimism.

A pieceof the Rock

MICHIGAN STATE

MICHIGAN

Min FG/A
Polec .........22 3/6
Mudd ......... 16 0/1
K. Johnson .... 26 1/3
Vincent ....... 38 11/19
Skiles......... 40 7/17.
Valentine. 24 2/5
Walker.........10 1/1
Pedro..........11 1/2
Fordham ...... 12 4/5
Vanek ......... 1 1/1
Team rebounds
TOTALS ......200 31/60

FT/A
0/0
0/0
0/0
7/9
5/6
0/1
0/0
0/0
0/0
1/1

R
6
2
4
2
5
5
1
2
2
1

A
0
0
0
3
S
0
0
1
0
0

PF
4
1
1
3
3
3
2
1
0
0

Pts
6
0
2
29
19
4
2
2
8
3

Mi
Relford.......21
Wade.........27
Tarpley ....... 32
Joubert.......28
Grant ........34
Thompson ..... 16
Henderson..... 19
Rockymore.... 21
Stoyko ........ 2
Team rebounds
TOTALS ...... 200

In FG/A
3/9
2/5
7/16
3 6/12
5/10
2/5
2/5
8/9
0/0

FT/A
4/6
2/5
3/4
3/4
4/4
0/1
0/0
0/0
0/0

R
4
13
5
0
3
3
5
1
0
3

A
0
0
4
3
7
3
1
2
0

PF
2
3
3
3
2
1
2
2
0

Pts
10
6
17
15
14
4
4
16
0
86

35/71

16/24 37 20 18

4
13/17 34

9 18

75 Halftime score: MICHIGAN 37, Michigan State28
Attendance: 13,609
Big Ten
Standings
Conf Overall
W LW L
MICHIGAN ........... 5 2 13 3
Illinois ................ 5 2 16 4
Iowa .................. 4 2 15 4
Minnesota ............. 4 2 11 5
Purdue ................ 4 3 13 4
Indiana ............... 3 3 11 5
Ohio State..........3 3 11 5
Michigan State........ 3 4 12 5
Wisconsin ............. 1 5 10 6
Northwestern..........0 6 4 12

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Daily Photo by STU WEIDENBACH
Poised in action during last night's victory over Michigan State, Gary Grant exhibits his defensive stance. Grant had
seven assists and three steals in the rampage.

BIG TEN ROUNDUP:

Purdue hangs

Hoosiers, 62-52

WEST LAFAYETTE (UPI) -
Freshman Troy Lewis had 10 of his 12
points in the second half to lead the
Boilermakers to a come-from-behind
victory yesterday over intra-state rival
Indiana, 62-52.
The win ' lifted Purdue's overall
record to 13-4 and conference mark to 4-
3. Indiana dropped to 11-5 and 3-3 in the
Big Ten.
INDIANA HAD a38-30 lead midway
through the second half when Lewis got
hot. He scored three straight baskets to
pull Purdue within one point, 40-39, then
hit four straight points late in the game
to give Purdue a 51-48 lead Indiana
could not overcome.

Daily Photo by MATT PETRIE
MSU guard Scott Skiles stops Richard Rellford's move to the hoop as a
horrified Bill Frieder and staff look on.

kEbin sparks grapplers

By JON HARTMANN.
According to head coach Dale
Bahr, senior Bill Elbin is the
resident joker on the Michigan
wrestling team. "'Bill is kind-of like
the Bill Murray of the team," said
Bahr."He can imitate me or one of
the other guys on the team. When
things get serious, he can make a
joke and really lighten things up."
But Elbin has been much more
than the team jester. With the
possible exception of freshman John
Fisher, Elbin has been the biggest
surprise of the year for the
Wolverines.
THE FIRST surprise Bill presen-
ted to the team was his wrestling
weight. Last year, Elbin compiled a
17-19 record wrestling at both 167
and 177 pounds. Bahr expected him
to have to cut his weight to 167 this
season to make the team as Scott

Senior matman pulls

There was very little offense
displayed in the first half, which Pur-
due won, 22-21. The Hoosiers, with the
best field goal shooting percentage in
the nation going into the game, hit a
miserable 7-of-21 in the first 20 minutes,
but were down by only one point
because the Boilermakers made only
10-of-27 field goal tries.
Purdue never trailed in the first half,
and led by as much as five points, in-
cluding a 19-14 advantage on a 3-point
play by Steve Reid.
Indiana shot much better at the start
of the second half and got its 8-point
lead by scoring seven straight points.
Iowa 66, Northwestern 47
IOWA CITY (UPI) - Greg Stokes,
the Big Ten scoring leader, scored 24
points last night to pace Iowa to a 66-47
victory over Northwestern.
Stokes' performance moved him into
second place on the all-time Hawkeye
scoring list, behind Ronnie Lester who
scored 1,675 points from 1977-80.
The Hawkeyes used a strong defense
to hold the Wildcats to only 29 points in
the second half after the score was tied
at 28 at the half.
The Hawkeyes jumped out to a 34-28
advantage two minutes into the second
half on baskets by Al Lorenzen, Stokes
and Garry Wright. Lorenzen, a fresh-
man, started in place of Michael Payne,
who has a sprained knee.
Minnesota 72, Wisconsin 62
MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) - Tommy
Davis scored 21 points and John Shasky
had 12, grabbing 15 rebounds, to pace
Minnesota to a 72-62 Big Ten victory
over Wisconsin last night.
The victory raised the Gophers
record to 11-5 overall, 4-2 in the con-
ference, while the Badgers fell to 10-6
and 1-5.
Minnesota held a 39-27 halftime lead
but the Badgers slowly pulled within 45-
39 on Rick Olson's bucket at 13:00.

more than
Rechsteiner, redshirted last year,
competes at 177.
But when Kirk Trost moved up to
heavyweight, Elbin moved in as his
replacement at 190. "He (Elbin) is
up a class from what he should be in
terms of body size,"said Bahr. "But
I think he wrestles better when he's
eaten well."
Elbin certainly has wrestled well
this year, improving his record to 23-
10-1. "I'd have to say he's my can-
didate for our most improved
wrestler," said Bahr.
ELBIN attributes his success, as
does Bahr, to his hard work in

his weight
Bahr's two-a-day practices and at
the Wolverine summer camp.
Describing his workouts at camp,
Elbin said "I took on the toughest
guys there, like (graduate assistant
coach Mark) Churella and
(assistant coach Joe) Wells. You get
tired out and the coaches push you to
keep on going."
"He's worked real hard-I think
he wants to finish off (his senior
year) well," said Bahr. "This year,
he wanted to prove himself to his
coaches and teammates. Last year,
he lost a match in the Michigan State
dual meet, 2-1. It ended up being the
key to the match." Elbin will have a
chance to avenge that loss tonight
when Michigan travels to East Lan-
sing to battle the Spartans.
In high school, Elbin had no need
for revenge. As a senior at St. Ed-
mund's High school in Cleveland, he
won the state title at 175 pounds,
thereby becoming a member of the
Cleveland Touchdown Club.
AT MICHIGAN, Elbin is com-
pleting a degree in Exercise Sports
Physiology from the school of
Education. After graduation, he
plans on doing some more work in
that field while going through Of-
ficer Training with the Marines. The
22-year old senior has set some lofty
goals for the season: "To get in to
the Big Ten finals versus Big Duane
(Goldman of Iowa), to make the
NCAA's, and to be an All-
American."

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Purdue's James Bullock finds his path blocked by Indiana center Uwe Blab
in last night's Big Ten action from West Lafayette.

SPOR TS OF TH E DAILY:
Illini guard canned for six-pack

CHAMPAIGN (AP)-Illinois basket-
ball player Doug Altenberger has for-
feited a $50 bond on a city charge of
possession of alcohol by a minor.
Altenberger was stopped by police for
running a stop sign on Jan. 6, and of-
ficers said they found an unopened six-
pack of beer in the car.
He and former Illinois basketball
player Tom Schafer were charged with
the liquor violation.
Altenberger, who since has turned 21,
paid a $50 fine on the traffic charge
jP,.lir'thismnnth hen nrfnid i

The victory was the sixth straight for
the streaking Pistons, 24-16, while the
loss was the 13th in a row for Golden
State, 10-31.
THOMAS HIT a jump shot with 3:57
remaining in the third quarter to spark
a 11-4 surge that gave the Pistons a
commanding 98-86 lead on a dunk shot
by reserve center Earl Cureton.
The Pistons carried a 104-92 lead into
the last quarter and the Warriors, led
by forward Purvis Short with 28 points,
weren't able to come back.

goals last night, leading New York to
3-1 National Hockey League victor
over the Detroit Red Wings as Craig
Patrick made a successful return as
Rangers coach.
Patrick took over behind the Rangers-
bench after firing Herb Brooks on Mon-
day. In his previous stint as Rangers:
coach in 1980-81 Patrick had a 26-23-11
record.
Peter Sundstrom - added a short-
handed goal as New York's specialty
teams dominated the Red Wings.

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