4 State High School Basketball Championships Today, 11:00, 2:30, 7:00 and 8:30 Crisler Arena SPORTS Women's Tennis vs. Bowling Green Today, 11:00 a.m. Huron Valley Tennis Club The Michigan Daily Saturday, March 23, 1985 Page 0 Beecher advances to prep'B'n7 4 By BRAD MORGAN Top-ranked and undefeated Flint Beecher was pushed to the limit yester- day by number two Muskegon Reeths- Puffer before holding on for a hard- fought 44-42 victory in Class B semi- final action at Crisler Arena. The Bucs will face Saginaw Buena Vista in today's 11 a.m. final. Buena Vista ripped Dearborn Heights Robichaud 84-56 in yesterday's second game. BEECHER, WHO never led by more than seven, couldn't put the stubborn Rockets away. The Bucs let a 42-35 lead slip away in the final three minutes by missing six of eight free throws down the stretch. Mark Hughes closed the gap to the final 44-42 margin with 1:54 to play, but Reeths-Puffer missed several shots down the stretch, and Andre Johnson's 35-footer with two seconds left banged off the back of the rim to seal Beecher's victory. "If we made our free throws, I thought we had a chance to open it up," said Beecher head coach Moses Lacy. "We had them on the ropes but didn't put them away." Beecher hit only four of 11 from the line for the game (36 per- cent), but hit on 20 of 38 shots from the field (53 percent). THE TWO TEAMS traded leads throughout the first half with both relying on a one-two punch on offense. McDonald's All-American Roy Marble scored. 12 of Beecher's 26 first-half poin- ts, while Ricky Jackson contributed 10. For Reeths-Puffer it was much the same story, as Hughes nailed 12 of his own along with guard Quinn Barry's eight points from long, range. Marble's ferocious dunk with two seconds left sent Beecher to the lockerroom with a 26-22 lead. The third quarter proved to be much of the same, with both teams trading baskets. Jackson hit three straight jumpers to give Beecher a six-point lead, but Hughes completed a three- point play to keep it close and set up the fourth quarter's furious finish. "We had our chances, we just weren't able to capitalize on them,' said Muskegon head coach Dan Wright. "We got the ball in some nice spots, but the shots just didn't go down. There was a lot of physicalness out there," he said in sarcastic reference to what he thought were some obvious fouls in the late- going. "WE FELT IT would have to be just the type of game it was," he said. "We knew we couldn't play with them in the 60's, 70's or 80's, but if it was the 40's or 50's we could play with them." Jackson and Marble both finished with 16 points to lead Beecher, while Hughes led all scorers with 26 points. The 6-8 center outplayed the more highly touted Marble by hitting shots from all over the floor and demon- strating excellent ball handling skills for a big man. Hughes is still undecided on which college he will attend (Michigan is still in the running), while Marble has already committed to Iowa. Saginaw Buena Vista 84, Robichaud 56 Buena Vista forward Mark Macon proved that he is the player to watch for the next two years as the sophomore sensation poured in 30 points and pulled down 13 rebounds to lead the Knights to an easy 84-56 over an undermanned Dearborn Heights Robichaud team. Macon single-handedly broke open a close game by scoring 16 points in the third quarter to turn a 32-25 halftime lead into 54-33 cushion going into the final quarter. Macon hit on shots ranging from 15-foot jumpers to slam- dunks, and at one point ran off ten straight points for Buena Vista. THE TWO teams played to a 15-15 standoff in the opening stanza, but the quicker Knights slowly began to pull away from Robichaud. Guards Damon Lowery and Eddie Rogers consistenly beat Robichaud's man-to-man defense, and after the Bulldogs refused to trap or switch to a zone defense, Buena Vista consistently broke away for easy baskets. Robichaud coach William Ayler was quick to compliment Buena Vista. "They were by far the best team we've faced," he said. They were the most experienced as far as the tour- nament goes (Buena Vista reached the finals last year before losing to Oak Park), and that's a capital E on ex- perience. "I SEE similarities to the Michigan loss to Villanova. The inexperience hurt them, and it hurt us. They had been here before and they know what it takes," said Ayler, who took his team's thrashing in stride. Despite losing two regular season meetings with finals opponent Flint Beecher (by seven and two points), Buena Vista coach Norwaine Reed was confident about his team's chance today. "We will beat them," Reed proclaimed confidently. -BRAD MORGAN Doly Photo by BRAD MILIS Mr. Basketball runner up, Roy Marble of Flint Beecher drives for two of his 16 points in yesterday's 44-42 victory over Muskegon Reeths-Puffer. West Iron wins 'C' semi. By RICK KAPLAN The chant of "UP Power, UP Power" rose from the Crisler Arena as the final seconds ticked away in West Iron County's 81-71 Class C semi-final win over Wyoming Godwin Heights last night. The victorious Wykons' balanced offensive attack over- powered the Wolverines in the third quarter as West Iron put the game out of reach. "WEST IRON had great balance," said Wolverine head coach Jim Carroll. "We just don't have team balance." The Wykons led 41-32 at halftime but Godwin came out smoking. Wolverine point guard Andre Chillers scored five of his team's first seven points, bringing Godwin to within four after the first three minutes of the third quarter. Chillers was the game's high-scorer with 25 points. But West Iron answered with a 16-4 run to go up 59-43 with 1:06 left in the period. Wykon forward Dan Lewis (21 points, 13 rebounds) scored three buckets and assisted on two more in the spurt. The closest Godwin could get for the remainder of the contest was eight points. THE WYKONS' starting five all scored in double figures. Besides Dan Lewis, Brian Lewis scored 14, Michael Melson 17, Jeff Shapich 12 and Bill Kralovec 11. "They just shot real well all night," said Carroll. "if they can shoot like that in the finals they can win it all." West Iron led from start to finish. A 12-foot jumper by Kralovec three minutes into the game gave his club an 8-2 edge. A BIG SECOND quarter from Chillers kept the Wolverines close. The Godwin playmaker penatrated the lane for ten points in the frame, slicing the Wykon advantage to 31-28. But Dan Lewis pumped in six points to maintain West Iron's comfortable intermission advantage. . In the fourth quarter, the Wykon's spent more time at the foul line than engineering majors spend at the library. West Iron made only 10-of-18 attempts from the charity stripe in the final stanza. Fortunately for the Wykons though, Chilles went cold from the perimeter, sealing Godwin's fate. I 0 dePor-pis 74.L !,ninvr C. C. 4 - - Even if the Lansing Catholic Central players didn't attend classes yesterday, they got their schooling last night. Detroit St. Martin dePorres put on a show in the second game of the Class C semi-finals last night, pounding the Cougars, 74-48. "It would have taken a great effort by any team in a ny class to have beaten dePorres tonight," said Catholic Central coach Dave Kalchik. "That was a great exhibition of basket- ball - they played the game the way it's meant to;be played." Most of dePorres' scoring came on layups off great passing by Eddie Wdmack, Negele Knight, and Scott Nichols. The trio combined for 13 assists. Like West Iron County in the early game, all five Eagle starters cracked double digits, led by Knight with 19 and Nichols with 12. The Eagles dominated every facet of the game. As a team, dePorres hit 61 percent from the floor, compared to 39 per- cent for Catholic Central. dePorres also controlled the boar- ds with Willie Burton grabbing 10 rebounds and Nichols snaring nine. Despite his club's tremendous performance, dePorres coach Ed Rachal isn't underestimating West Iron County in 4 today's state finals. "I don't expect any runaways," said Rachal. - RICK KAPLAN SPORTS OF THE DAILY: Broncos edge women netters '4 Utrich's Annua Inventory Sale March 23 thru March 30 Involving every article in our store except textbooks. Special prices on calculators, computers and computer products. NO GIMMICKS-Just Good Old Fashioned Bargains.. Because of the thousands of items that we carry, it would be impossible to mark down each item. All regular priced merchandise will be discounted 20% at the registers. Special priced items or items with a larger discount will be tagged. This sale is our wdy of thanking our regular customers and introducing ourselves to the many new people who might not have heard of us. Have fun. Special to the Daily It could be a tough season ahead for the women's tennis team, which fell to Western Michigan yesterday, 5-4 at the Huron Valley Tennis Club in Ann Arbor. The close match left Michigan with a 3-2 record before heading into today's match with Bowling Green. "It was a disappointing loss," said coach Bitsy Ritt. "We looked better than last week's 5-4 win over Eastern." TROUBLE SPROUTED when Michigan's top singles players Paula Riechart and Leslie Mackey were trip- ped up by Amy Yeast and Marla Whit- field, respectively. Riechart was defeated 7-5, 6-4,while Mackey was edged out 6-2, 6-3. On the victorious side for Michigan were Tina Basle and Monica Borcherts, numbers three and four singles. Bor- cherts played a down-to-the-wire match against Western's Sonya Garshneck, which ended ina 7-5 tiebreaker. "It could have gone either way for the number four singles," said Ritt, who was very happy with Borcherts' per- formance and that of the numbers one- and two doubles. RIECHART AND Mackey combined efforts to defeat Yeast and Whitfield 7- 5, 6-1, while Borcherts and Trisha Horn blitzed Western's Janet Ray and Sherry Collins 7-5, 6-4. A bright note for the Wolverines was Red Wings 5, Rangers 3 DETROIT (UPI) - Steve Yzerman scored one goal and set up another in the first period last night to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-3 victory over the New York Rangers. Yzerman's pass set up a breakaway by Ron Duguay who scored his 35th goal of the season at 5:58 of the first period. Yzerman followed with his 25th goal of the season at 14:40 on a shot that sailed over' the right shoulder of Rangers goalie John Vanbiesbrouck. DARRYL SITTLER gave the Red Wings a 3-0 lead at 2:38 of the second period on a shot from the top of the faceoff circle. Gerard Gallant scored his third goal in fourgames at 5:35 when his shot from the goal line hit Van- ibiesbrouck's skate and deflected into the net.. Claude Loiselle scored on a deflection of a shot by Danny Gare at 1:20 of the third period to boost Detroit's lead to 5- 0. James Patrick spoiled goalie Greg Stefan's shoutout bid with a power play goal at 9:24 and Pierre Larouche and Tomas Sandstrom followed with New York goals in the final 1:13. The victory was the third in four games for Detroit, 24-38-11. New York, which has won only once in eight outings, fell to 23-39-11. Sunday at Oshkosh, Wisc. DETROIT grabbed the lead right off the tip-off and never lost that advan- tage the remainder of the game. The Flyers were able to tie the con- test at 43-43 in the second quarter offia jumpber by Jose Slaughter with 4:59 left in the stanza. But the Spirits came back with five unanswered points to go up 48-43. Detroit netted its biggest advantage of the night, 19 points, when forward 4 Dan Salisbery made a layup to make the score 110-91 with 5:06 remaining in the game. Young led all scorers with 27 points and Russell scored 26. Former Wolverine guard Eric Turner also con- tributed to the Spirits' victory with 13 points and 12 assists. RPI 7, Lake Superior 3 TROY, N.Y. (UPI) - Rensselelaer Polytechnic Institute scored four third period goals last night to defeat Lake Superior State 7-3 in the first of a two- game total goals NCAA Division. I college hockey quarter final series. RPI scored first when at 3:48 of the first period senior defenseman Ken Hammond rushed the length of the ice and lifted the puck over the right shoulder of Laker goalie Randy Exelby b Y EARS 41