State High School Basketball Championships Today and Tomorrow Crisler Arena SPORTS Women's Tennis vs. Western Michigan Today, 10:30 a.m. Huron Valley Tennis Club %4 Michigan Daily Friday, March 22, 1985 Page 7 1, THE SPORTING VIEWS Georgetown, Memphis St.prevail Silverdome collapses... ...let's dump the domes By MARK BOROWSKY You can't fool Mother Nature. An epithet most of us are familiar with. Ex- cept, it seems, the owners and designers of the Silverdome. Down, down, down came the cloth roof of the Pontiac complex under the weight of snow and rain. Like the teams it housed, the Lions and the Pistons, the dome collapsed under intense pressure late in the (winter) season. Mother Nature, no fool, had a field day with the flimsy, inflated top. The Silverdome is scheduled to be repaired by football season, just in time for the Lions to see if they'll be much worse than in 1984 under new head coach Darryl Rogers. The cost of repair is now estimated to be about $8.6 million, and is likely to rise by summertime. The money would be better spent elsewhere. While the damages are covered by insurance, the money should stay in the coffers of the guy in Woody Allen's recurring nightmare, the insurance salesman. Down went the dome, and there it should stay. Domed stadiums are to sports what shopping malls are to suburbia. Domes, like shopping malls are safe, convenient, and protected from the elements. In other words, there's no challenge in it. Since the challenge is gone, watching a game in a Plastidome is reduced to becoming something of a sheltered child. There is something to be said in battling the elements, and not all of them four letter words. It's the players who suffer most from the dome's protection. A domed stadium is perfect for the image that the NFL is trying to project: cool, modern, slick. Gone are the days of the weekend warriors slugging it out in the slush and mud, cheered on by the steelworker who had something stronger to drink before the game than ice tea. Bodies flying caked with mud and snow was the archetypal image one thinks of when thinking of the Dick Butkuses and Alex Karrases. Not that people don't enjoy throwbacks to the old mud bowls of the '60's. Anytime a football game is snowed on, the media gives it bigger play than it usually would. The Broncos-Packers blizzardfest easily gave Monday Night, Football its biggest audience of the year. Football players are real men, and shouldn't be treated like quiche-eaters by keeping them from the wind, rain, and snow. Imagine the Super Bowl in a cold weather city with an uncovered stadium. Have it in Michigan Stadium, for example. None of this high-tech, ultra- complex offense stuff. The game would be reduced to its barest components, like blocking, tackling, and trying to stay warm. And if a football dome is bad, a baseball dome is blasphemy. Even though only three teams play baseball in a dome (Houston, Seattle, and Minnesota), there has been talk of building more domed arenas for baseball teams to play. And while a roof means no rainouts, it also means you're no longer watching a baseball game. Baseballs bounce off the turf like silly putty dropped off the World Trade Center. Baseballs carry in the Kingdome and Metrodome like they were shot out of a gun, while at the Astrodome a homerun is rarer than an uncooded steak. For all you physics majors, watching a baseball game in a domed stadium is like travelling near the speed of light: everything becomes distor- ted. Basketball teams do have, it seems, some excuse for a domed multipur- pose arena. It's plain and simple economics when you can get 30,000 people into the game instead of 15,000. Lots of fun, too, when you're having to watch with binoculars and listen on the radio to know what those little people are doing down there on earth. economics is exactly the mess that the Pistons are in, forced to play their remaining games at Joe Louis Arena. The Pistons brass estimates that it'll lose around a million dollars in ticket revenues for the playoffs alone. Still, the best thing would be to forget to fix the dome and make the Silver- dome the Monte Clark Grounds or something to that effect. If the planners think that this type of disaster couldn't happen again, then they are bigger fools than anyone ever expected. It happened once, it could happen again, but with fewer pleasant consequences. Billy Simms stopped at the two by a snowdrift. Isiah Thomas rejected by a roof panel. Or, closer to reality, a death caused by the stadium collapse. Not a happy thought, but one that designers did not seem to think about. Besides getting athletes back to the elements, the best thing about dum- ping the dome is domes are ugly enough to make South Quad appealing. A concrete monolith for the sole purpose of spectacle is enough; a dome separates man from nature and his environment. And in baseball and foot- ball, interaction with Mother Nature is important. No fooling. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - All- American Patrick Ewing's strong second half letdtop-ranked Georgetown to a hard-fought 65-53 victory over Loyola of Chicago last night that snap- ped the nation's longest winning streak at 19 games and put the Hoyas in the NCAA East Regional finals. The Hoyas, 33-2, who rolled to their 14th consecutive triumph, will face six- th-ranked Georgia Tech in Saturday's regional final. The Yellow Jackets defeated Illinois 61-53 in last night's other semifinal. THE 7-FdOT Ewing scored 14 of his 21 points in the second half and was a dominant force with his rebounding and shot-blocking after limping off the court with 1:25 to play in the first half with an ankle injury. The defending NCAA champion Hoyas, known for their relentless defense, held Loyola's scoring sen- sation, Alfredrick Hughes, to eight points.. He entered the game with a 26.9 average, second in the nation, and had hit in double figures in 94 consecutive games. Hughes, a 6-5 senior forward, picked up three personal fouls early in the first half and sat out the last 10:02. Yet, the Ramblers gave the Hoyas trouble and led at halftime 28-26. GEORGETOWN, the Big East Con- ference tournament champion, still trailed 38-36 early in the second half as Hughes found the range for two baskets. But Georgetown went on a 8-0 run with Ewing contributing six points to give the Hoyas a 44-38 advantage with 13:17 to play. But Loyola, 27-6, didn't go down easily as Andre Moore, a 6-9 center operating from the outside, hit a three- point play to reduce the Ramblers' deficit to 46-43. That was the closest Loyola, the Midwestern Cities Con- ference champion could get as Ewing continued to be a force from the inside and Georgetown spread out its offense, taking just the easy shots. Still, the Hoyas led only 56-51 with a little more than four minutes remaining but Georgetown outscored the Ram- blers 9-2 the rest of the way. DAVID WINGATE added 14 points for Georgetown while Moore had 19 and Andre Battle 10 for Loyola. Memphis St. 59, College 57 Boston DALLAS (AP)-Andre Turner's 17- foot jumper with one second to play lif- ted No. 8 Memphis State to a 59-57 NCAA Midwest Regional semifinal vic- tory over Boston College last night, of- fsetting a rousing rally by the Eagles. Top-seeded Oklahoma defeated Louisiana Tech 86-84 in overtime in the other semifinal game and will provide the opponent for second-seeded Mem- phis State in Saturday's 1 p.m. CST final. TURNER'S SHOT, his second straight game-winner for the Tigers, came after a steal by Vincent Askew as Boston College, 20-11, stalled almost two minutes for a chance at the final shot. Boston College, which finished sixth in the Big East Conference, overcame a 12-point deficit with 12 straight points to tie the score at 55-55 with 4:31 remaining on two free throws by Roger McCready. William Bedford, who had a career- high 23 points, missed the front end of a one-and-one. The Eagles stalled the last 2:03 off the clock and called time out with 14 seconds to play. Two more times they called time outs to one for Memphis State as the coaches mapped strategy. MCCREADY THEN lost the ball to Askew, who fed Turner. Bedford scored three straight baskets to lead a 16-4 start in the second half by the Tigers, 30-3, champions of the Metro Conferen- ce. All-American Keith Lee got into early foul trouble just as he did in the Tigers other two tournament games. He was benched when he picked his third foul. Although he didn't return, Memphis State managed a 31-31 tie at inter- mission. Lee finished with only eight points. Stu Primus finished with 14 points for Boston College, while Michael Adams added 12. Turner ...smks Eagles Associated Press Boston College's Skip Barry battles Willie Becton of Memphis State for a loose ball in first quarter action of last night's game. .} ....n....v..................... .. ..h .........v:....r ..........:.n.......... .... ........................... r...............n..... . .. . . . . .. . . ........ "tr :i~i" Oilers get Woolfolk from N. Y. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP-Butch Woofolk, the New York Giants' first-round draft pick in 1982 and their leading ground gainer in 1982 and 1983, was traded yesterday to the Houston Oilers for a third-round pick in the April 30 National Football League draft. The trade, which gives the Giants the 58th pick in the draft, follows a disap- pointing season in which Woolfolk gained just 92 yards in 40 carries for just a 2.3 average and lost the starting halfback job he had held since his rookie year to Joe Morris. "It wasn't an easy decision," said Giants General Manager George Young, who said he had been talking to Houston about Woolfolk since the Gian- ts were eliminated form the playoffs last January. "We felt that Butch has a lot of ability but that a change of scene would be to his benefit. He struggled last year and we had to make the decision." The 6-foot-1, 212-pounder, who grew up in nearby Westfield, N.J., was the Most Valuable Player in the 1981 Rose Bowl for Michigan and was the leading rusher in the Big Ten his senior season with 1,469 yards. As a rookie in the strike-shortened year of 1982, he led the Giants in rushing with 439 yards in 112 carries, a 3.9 average, then picked up 847 yards in 1983. He set up 847 yards in 1983. He set an NFL record with 43 rushing at- tempts in a game against the Eagles in which he ran for 159 yards. . 4. r. }. v. .. .. .W..{.. .r r .. .. .ri .. . \.. ... .... . 3 ..< ..:.. ...: .. ................ ......... ... r...... .h ..44 4 ... {. . v.. .. : .:, ., ...... .s.. .r .r ., r.......r.r......r ...................... :................. rr.........:... ....:.; ..... 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Georgia Tech broke a 29-29 halftime tie, grabbed a 52-37 lead with 7:02 remaining and withstood Doug Alten- berger's outside shooting that brought the Fighting Illini within 55-51 with 1:33 to go. Leading 39-35, Georgia Tech reeled off seven consecutive points, the first five by Joseph and the last two by Salley. Altenberger ...sharpshooting withstood After Illinois' Bruce Douglas sank two free throws to cut the gap to 46-37 with 10:16 to go the Yellow Jackets took off on a six point spurt. Salley, who had 14 points, started it with a stuff and ....i 8s HAPPY HOUR py Shop= 30 rom 9 p.m. -12a.m. londay thru Thursday 540 E. Liberty St., 761-4539 Corner of Maynard & Liberty fouling out with 1:25 remaining. Altenberger followed Norman's poin- ts with a bomb from the right corner. Salley countered with a dunk, making the score 27-23, but Norman and Welch hit field goals to create the game's seventh tie 2:52 before the intermission. THE YELLOW Jackets went ahead again when a goaltending call gave Joseph a basket with 2:29 to go. But. Altenberger connected again from the right corner with 2:01 remaining to ac- count for the halftime deadlock. The Yellow Jackets, who have won their last six games--three in the Atlan- tic Coast Conference postseason tour- ney and three in the NCAA Tour- nament-built the advantage to 25-18, their biggest lead. of the half, when Price canned consecutive long jum- pers. But a three-point play by center Ken Norman with 5:37 left in the half launched a 9-2 run by the Illini and evened the. score at 27-27. The setback ended Illinois' five-game winning streak and eliminated the only survivor of the six Big Ten Conference teams that made the tournament. . Oklahoma 86, Louisiana Tech 84 (OT) DALLAS (AP) - Three-time All- American Wayman Tisdale's soft jum- per bounced on the rim five times then fell through the basket with two seconds left in overtime last night to carry No. 4 1 AI:Ial Ji I4A 11 Oklahoma to a racehorse 86-84 victory over No. 8 Louisiana Tech in the NCAA Midwest Regional semifinals. "It seemed like it took forever to go in," Tisdale said of the game-winning shot. "I had two men on me and tried to shoot it soft so I would get the bounce. I did, a bunch of them." TISDALE ADMITTED, "I thought I'd missed it completely. It was almost on the outside of the rim, but it still went in." Tisdale scored 23 points including eight in overtime as Oklahoma, the Big Eight Conference champion and No. 17 seed in the Midwest, increased its record to 30-5. The standout junior also had 12 rebounds. Louisiana Tech, 29-3, Made full use of the two seconds left, throwing a long pass -and the Bulldogs were granted a time out with one second to go. HOWEVER, Robert Goldbolt's attem- pted lob to Karl Malone on the ensuing inbounds pass hit the rim and bounced away. Malone led Louisiana Tech, the Southland Conference champions, with 20 points. Louisiana Tech's Willie Bland tied the game at 74-74 with a basket with 14 seconds to play in regulation. LOUISIANA TECH came from 10 points down to tie the game at 72-72 on a bucket by Alan Davis with 2:20 left. Darryl Kennedy scored 21 points for the Sooners and Anthony Bowie added 16. Davis and Bland each scored 18 poin- ts for the Bulldogs. Oklahoma ran off 12 straight points late in the first half to lead 32-28 at in- termission after Louisiana Tech had built an early eight-point lead. $} ONOSTENS GoLD COLLEGERINGS. 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