Women's Swimming vs. Michigan State Friday, 7:00 p.m. Matt Mann Pool SPORTS Men's Basketball vs. Northwestern Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena The Michigan Daily Tuesday, January 28, 1986 Page Michigan matmen maul Northwestern By PETE STEINERT If anyone was second guessing the wrestling team after its 1-2 start, they better take a second look. Michigan, 6-2 overall and 5-0 in the Big Ten, wonn its fifth straight last Saturday, beating a good North- western team, 26-14, in Evanston, TRAILING 9-4 after the first three matches, wins by Rickey Moore (142 pounds) and Tony Latora (150) put the Wolverines back on top, 10-9. Michigan's finishing trio of Kevin Hill (177), Scott Rechsteiner (190), and Kirk Trost (heavyweight) put the match away by outscoring their op- ponents, 10-0 in the final matches. "The turning point in the meet came at 142 aand 150," said Michigan head coach Dale Bahr. "Those two guys (More and Latora) were the key to the victory. If we were to lose a a couple of those middleweight mat- ches, it would have been much closer. "In addition, I always feel comfor- table if it's close coming into those last three matches. If we're within six to ten points, I feel we have a faily good chance of winning." BAHR HAS good reason to have so much confidence in Hill, Rechsteiner, and Trost. The three are a composite 15-0 in the Big Ten annd are all ranked in the top ten in the country in their respective weight classes. Rechsteiner leads the team in wins (30) as well as pins (13). At 126, Doug Wyland had his hands full with Northwestern's All- American, Steve DePetro. DePetro has wrestled at 134 as well as 126 and was much larger than Wyland. Despite losing the match, 7-3, Bahr Wyland wrestled an excellent match. 134 continues to be the Wolverines' achilles heel. Ron March replaced an inconsistent Kyle Garcia (1-8), but the results were the same. March lost to the Wildcats' Joei Bales by a technical fall. AT 167, senior Steve Richards may have emerged as the Wolverine star- ter. "He's doing a fine job for us," Bahr said. "He tied a good kid in Mike Kraft. We may be better off with Richards in there and (Joe Pantaleo and (Mike) Amine it out at 158." Despite the Wildcats' Number 10 ranking by Amateur Wrestling News and a 9-2 record, Bahr felt confident coming into the meet. "We thought our team had been coming along the last couple of weeks and felt pretty good about eating them. "Conditioning has a lot to do with it, We're winning matches in the last period when other teams are getting tired, and that is a tribute to how hard the kids are working. The extra workouts they're putting in are paying off with victories." Michigan continues its road trip this week with stops at Jowa State on Thursday and Minnesota on Satur- day. Latora ... gives Wolverines lead Moore ... "key to victory" Blue Lines n* Jones lacks confidence... ... but not talent By ADAM 9CHLIS H E WILL finish this season as Michigan's leading scorer for the second consecutive year, his 60 points place him third in the CCHA in total points, and the fact that he is only a junior makes his accomplish- ments even more impressive. But for reasons that do not show up in the scoresheets, Michigan center Brad Jones is having only an average season. When you mention Jones's name around the Wolverine hockey program, empectations reign supreme. After all, the Sterling Heights native was an honorable mention selection on the CCHA All-Rookie team ,his freshman year and followed that last season with 21 goals and 27 assists. With no less tha 10 games left in this season, Jones already has more points (23-37-60) than any Wolverine since 1979. But a lack of consistency has spawned many critics of Jones, who claim that the 6-0, 193 pounder should be posting Gretzky-like numbers. "He's already one of the top players in the league and I think he can be even better than that," said Michigan head coach Red Berenson, perhaps the biggest critic. "He could be a dominant force in the league." Both Jones and his coach believe that the problem is confidence and the fact that Jones does not possess much of it. Jones claims that Berenson has more confidence in him than he does in himself, but the Wolverine "head man thinks otherwise. "What I'm talking about is 100 percent confidence; to do what he's; capable of doing each and every shift," said Berenson. Indeed, a lack of intensity goes gand in hand with not believing in one's -own abilities, and while Jones has dominated games at times throughout the season, he has seemed to sleep walk through games at others. Such was the case this past weekend when Michigan split a series with Michigan State. Friday night in East Lansing, it was hard to tell Jones was even on the ice except for the three penalties he accumulated. His one meaningless assist late in the third period did little to combat a 7-5 Spartan victory. Saturday night, however, behind a Yost Arena record crowd, the Brad Jones who Michigan fans know and cheer showed up. With three goals and one assist, Jones was unquestionably the best player on the ice as he led the Wolverines to a 5-3 win. On one occasion, he out-skated "the great" Joe Murphy to a loose puck and went in uncontested to score a crowd pleasing short-handed goal. While he acknowledges that it was his finest moment as a hockey player, Jones realizes that he has to perform that way every night, especially with the loss of fellow centerman Chris Seychel for the balance of the season with a knee injury suffered Friday night. "It comes down to me. It's something within me that I'm having a ;challenge with that I've got to learn to work 100 percent game-in and game-out, and until that happens I'm not going to be satisfied," saia Jones. "He had a good game but he's capable of doing it every game instead of in peaks and valleys," said Berenson. While his own stats do not necessarily tell the true story, his importance ot the team shows up in the numbers. Consider the following: eMichigan is 11-6 this season in games Jones has scored at least one goal, 3-1 when he scores at least two. bMichigan is 7-3 in games he has tallied at least three points (he is currently averaging 2.54 points per game) and 6-0 when he notches four points or more. *(Most importantly) The Wolverines have a dismal 1-11 mark when ,jtheir star center has not scored a single goal, and 0-6 when he fails to not- 'ch a point. When Michigan needs a big goal, everyone looks to No. 11. "It's quite obvious from his stats that he's our leader out on the ice. When he's going, the team's going and when he is scoring we're not going to lose," said winger Billy Powers who has obviously done his homework. "Like Brad has said, he'd like to be more consistent and I think with his consistency we're going to win a lot more games." Time are tough for the Doug Flutie look-alike. It is rare for an athlete of his caliber to be criticized for not doing better than he has. Jones just ~ hopes this past week is a step in the right direction. "I hope this gets me over the hump," he said. "I've been struggling the past few games (only two goals in six games prior to Saturday). I just have to come into every series like I did coming into this game." Nothing Jones does in his career, however would impress the highly respected but arrogant Ron Mason, Michigan State's head coach. I've never been a Brad Jones fan," said Mason who will talk about the fine attributes of his own squad forever if you let him. "To me, Brad Jones looks good when he's skating down the ice with lots of skating room but that's the only time I ever see him." How fitting it would be for Jones and Michigan to face Mason and his Spartans in the CCHA playoffs that are just around the corner. 'M' drops to eighth in UPI poll After being upset by cross-state rival Michigan State, 91-79, Saturday night, Michigan has fallen four spots to eighth in this week's United Press International Coaches Poll. The Wolverines, 17-2, have lost two of their last three, but still lead the Big Ten by one-half game over In- diana and Purdue. North Carolina, 21-0, retained its top ranking and became the first team this season to be unanimously chosen No. 1 in the UPI poll. Michigan, 5-2 in conference play, will be home for two games this week after playing its last three games on the road. The Wolverines will host Northwestern Thursday and Wiscon- sin Saturday afternoon. Indiana and Purdue are both 5-3 in the Big Ten. UPI Top Twenty 1. North Carolina (41) (21-0) ......615 2. Memphis State (19-0)...........509 3. Georgia Tech (16-2) ............459 4. Duke (17-2) ....................458 5. Kansas (19-2) ..................452 6. Oklahoma (18-1) ...............381 7. St. John's (19-2) ...............332 8. MICHIGAN (17-2) ..............280 9. Kentucky (16-2) ................275 10. Syracuse (15-2) ...............241 11. UNLV (19-2) ..................228 12. Georgetown (15-3) ............179 13. Bradley (20-1)............107 14. Texas-El Paso (17-3)........66 15. Louisville (11-6)............59 16. Indiana (13-4).............56 17. Louisiana State (16-3).......51 18. Notre Dame (12-3)..........33 19. Virginia Tech (16-3) ........... 20 20. Pepperdine (16-3) (tie).........16 Purdue (16-5) ................. 16 Gophers edge Blue netters in regionals Special to the Daily Paced by strong singles play, the Michigan Tennis team took two of three matches in the regional tour- nament competition over the weekend. The regional meet qualifies teams for the National Indoor Team Championships. The Wolverines defeated Wisconsin, 9-0 Friday and Purdue, 7-2 Saturday, but dropped a 5- 4 decision to Minnesota in the finals. Leading Michigan's sweep of Wisconsin was John Morris, who trounced John Zerweck, 6-2, 6-2. Other singles winners for the Wolverines included Dan Goldberg, who defeated Chuck Swayne, 7-6, 7-6 and Jum Sharton, who edged the Badgers' Tim Klein, 7-6, 3-6,7-5. MICHIGAN ALSO swept the Badgers in doubles competition as Wisconsin won only one set. Michigan's strong play continued Saturday, as the Wolverines pounded Purdue, 7-2. The Wolverines won five of six singles matches and took two of three doubles matches en route to the victory. "I'm very pleased with our perfor- mance," said head coach Brian Eisner. He added that the team seemed to be playing better and looked forward to playing Minnesota in the finals. DESPITE another strong showing in singles competition, the Wolverines lost to Minnesota 5-4 in the finals. Michigan took four of six singles mat- ches but dropped all three doubles matches against the Gophers. Doily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY Michigan State's Larry Polec drives by Robert Henderson Saturday night during the Spartans 91-79 upset of Michigan. As a result, the Wolverines fell to eighth in this week's UPI Coaches' Poll. Gophers charged in rape ease (Continued from Page 1) when she was brought by police to the Dane County Airport as the team was about to fly back to Minneapolis. THE ARREST was the second for Lee, and came only 10 days after the 6-foot-9 sophomore forward was found innocent of sexually assaulting a co-ed in her Minnesota dormitory room a year ago. Keller ordered the team to forfeit its scheduled game at Northwestern Sunday to allow time for an in- vestigation. Dutcher, shouldering the burden of his players' actions on and off the court, disagreed with the University's decision to forfeit the game, feeling it penalized the other players. He resigned as coach Saturday but will finish the year as an advisor. DUTCHER'S Minnesota teams compiled an overall 190-112 record and won the Big Ten title in 1981-82. The Gophers were 13-6 under him this season. Prior to taking the Minnesota job 10-and-one-half years ago, he was an assistant coach at Michigan and head coach at Eastern Michigan. Michigan head coach Bill Frieder believes Dutcher made the wrong decision in leaving the program. "I think he should have stayed at Minnesota and suspended the three players," said Freider. "He's been a credit to their program and I'm sorry, he's gone. His loss will affect the con- ference because the team won't be the same." ATHLETIC director Paul Gitl, Keller, Dutcher and other school of- ficials met for a half hour Sunday with the eight remaining members of the team. Keller questioned the athletes to be sure they understood their roles representing the University. Giel and Dutcher both were upset by the Madison incident but said they opposed . the idea of ending the season. Players from the Minnesota football team may be used to fill out the team. Frieder agreed that ending the season would not be proper. ' , x~ <