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Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 3, 1986
'M' pulls curtains
on vacation foes
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against UAB. The Blazers stayed with
Michigan throughout the first 20
minutes of play, trailing by two at the
half, but finally lost their way and fell,
62-54.
Silencing Tarpley throughout the
frame was the key to UAB's success, as
it held the 6-11 center scoreless. The
Detroit Cooley High graduate managed
just two field goals on the day.
"They're sagging in on Roy," said
Michigan head coach Bill Frieder.
"So we tried to find the open spots on
the perimeter. We did a pretty good
job. They're sagging in on him and
making us shoot."
ANTOINE Joubert woke the
Wolverines up in time to answer the
challenge. The 6-5 guard scored 12 of
his 20 points in the second half, in-
cluding Michigan's first eight points
after intermission.
"Joubert played well and shot well,
and Gary was tough down the stret-
ch," Frieder said. "Gary did a great
job defending UAB guard Steve Mit-
chell the entire game."
"Obviously Grant and Joubert just
played phenomenal games," said
UAB head coach Gene Bartow. "I
think Michigan's guards rank right
there with the best of them.
"EVEN THOUGH we felt we con-
trolled the tempo pretty well and
played the game as we wanted to play
it, we still couldn't (win). We had a
seven-point lead at one time, but just
couldn't get over the hump with it."
The Blazers were up 45-38 at 10:13 of
the second half before Michigan's full-
court press deflated the margin.
BIG TEN STANDINGS
But Kniht and his
Hoosiers lie ahead
good at 5:25, when a Glen Rice jump
shot gave them a 50-48 lead. The
freshman forward, who is seeing
more playing time as the season
progresses, fared well in 21 minutes at
Northwestern. Rice scored 14 points
on seven-of-14 shooting and ripped
five rebounds against the Wildcats.
"Rice off the bench has given us a
big lift," Frieder said.
"When it looked like we were going
down the tubes we surged and made
big plays to hang in there," Frieder
said. "We got a good timeout and we
responded with a couple quick baskets
to get us back in the game. I think that
was the crucial, most important part
of the game."
"From that time on, we were the
aggressor and the momentum came
our way."
THE Wolverines went ahead for
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Indiana .................
Michigan State ..........
Purdue .................
Illinois ..................
Iowa ....................
Ohio State ..............
Minnesota ..............
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Northwestern ...........
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Daily Photo by JAE KIM
Richard Rellford drives past Alabama-Birmingham's Michael Charles
in Michigan's 62-54 win over the Blazers. Rellford scored the Wolverines'
first four points in the contest, but finished with only six.
SPORTS OF THE DAILY:
Celts rip Pistons, 129-109
BOSTON (AP) - Danny Ainge scored a career-high 27
points and joined Kevin McHale to spark a surge late in
the third quarter that boosted the Boston Celtics to a 129-
109 victory that ended the Detroit Pistons' franchise-
record 10-game NBA winning streak yesterday.
The Celtics broke open a close game by taking a 98-89
lead after the third quarter. A 16-0 spurt helped them run
away from the Pistons in the final period, when Larry
Bird got 11 of his game-high 35 points.
THE LEAD had changed hands 30 times before Boston
went ahead to stay by closing out the third quarter with an
11-2 run. It capped a 21-6 burst that began with Bird's
scoop shot with 6:01 left in the period after the Pistons had
gone in front 83-77.
Seldom-used center Greg Kite gave Boston a lead it
never lost with a layup off an offensive rebound, making
the score 89-87 with 2:41 to go in the third quarter. McHale
hit two free throws before Detroit's Bill Laimbeer sank a
jumper.
The Celtics then reeled off the last seven points of the
quarter on a layup and a medium-range jumper by
McHale and a 15-foot shot and free throw by Ainge, who
shook off a slump in which he had averaged 6.2 points in
his previous 11 games.
Boston finished off the Pistons by scoring 16 consecutive
points, seven of them by Bird, to turn a 110-101 lead into a
126-101 bulge.
The victory was the Celtics' fifth in a row and 17th
straight at home, four shy of the club record. They are 26-1
at home this season.
Duke 82, North Carolina 74
DURHAM, N. C. (AP) - Senior David Henderson scored
11 points during a late 14-4 run for top-ranked Duke as the
Blue Devils beat No. 3 North Carolina 82-74 yesterday and
won the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season
basketball title.
It was the first time the Blue Devils, 29-2 for the season
and 12-2 in the ACC, had won the conference title outright
since 1966. They tied with North Carolina for the crown in
1979. The victory also gave Duke the No. 1 seed for the
ACC tournament which starts Friday.
The Tar Heels, losing for the third time in the last four
games, dropped to 10-4 in the conference and 26-4 overall.
Louisville 70, Memphis St. 69
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Senior guard Milt Wagner
nailed two free throws with one second remaining as 13th-
ranked Louisville defeated seventh-ranked Memphis State
70-69 yesterday to take the 1985-86 Metro Conference
regular season crown.
Louisville upped its record to 24-7 overall and 10-2 in the
conference in winning its ninth straight game and its
seventh Metro Conference title. Louisville will have a fir-
st-round bye in the Metro postseason tournament, to be
played in Louisville March 7-9.
Daily Photo by DAN HABIB
Ponder. Tarpley's recently-
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Gary Grant holds Roy Tarpley back from Alabama-Birmingham's James
menacing play has led Michigan to three straight wins.
Indianarga-i-s tie for fir-st
Icers bow twice to end season
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conference, 12-26 overall) and expect
them to come up here and take two out
of three."
MICHIGAN'S best chance at taking
one came in the opener. The
Wolverine defense frustrated the
Sweep, not sweet
(Second game statistics)
FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: None.
Penalties: MSU-Cole (roughing) 10:07; M-Goff
.roughing) 10:07; M-Brost (roughing) 13:29; MSU-
Shibicky (roughing) 13:29; M-Stiles (tripping)
15:09.
SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 1. MSU-Donnelly (Messier) 5:46; 2.
MSU-Rendall (Beck, McSween) 8:00; 3. MSU-
Rendall (Beck, McReynolds) 8:55; 4. MSU-Parker
(Clement, McReynolds) 14:20.
Penalties: M-Cusack (roughing) 3:18; M-Baker
(high sticking) 3:18; M-Baker (roughing) 3:18;
MSU-Fernandez (roughing) 3:18; MSU-Arkeilpane
(high sticking) 3:18; MSU-Arkeilpane (roughing)
3:18; MSU-Clement (elbowing) 6:54; M-Downing
(elbowing) 6:54; MSU-Miller (hooking) 9:21; M-
Carlile (hooking) 12:04; M-Sties (roughing) 18:45;
M-Norton (roughing) 18:45; MSU-Cole (roughing)
18:45; MSU-Beck (roughing) 18:45; MSU-Beck
(roughing) 18:45.
THIRD PERIOD
Spartans' top-scoring line featuring
left-winger Mike Donnelly, whose 53
goals lead the nation. Donnelly not-
ched just one assist, and was held
without a goal for the first time in the
last seven games. Spartan freshman
Joe Murphy (24-35-59) did not play in
the series.
Michigan goaltender Tim Makris
bothered the Spartans who did play,
stopping shots on more than a dozen
breakaways. Despite being over-
shadowed by Foster and Essensa,
Makris made 22 saves Friday and 36
kept the game close, and with a break
either way it could have been a dif-
ferent score.
"It's a first-place team against a
last-place team, but there is not a big
difference between their team and
ours. There's a difference, but not a
huge difference."
Mason agreed. "Michigan is not an
eighth-place hockey team when they
play Michigan State," he said.
Like most Michigan-Michigan State
series, emotions ran high, and several
fights resulted. Wolverine defen-
BLOOMINGTON (AP)-Guard
Steve Alford scored 25 points yester-
day as 16th-ranked Indiana survived a
second-half rally and beat Iowa 80-73,
gaining a first-place tie with Michigan
going into the final week of the Big
Ten Conference basketball race.
The Hawk eyesrallied from a 19-
point deficit and trailed by only one
point with possession of the ball with
three minutes remaining. But Iowa
missed two shots, Alford made two
baskets and Indiana's Winston
Morgan clinched the victory with a
pair of free throws.
ALFORD HAD 15 points in the first
half, including six during a 15-4 spurt
that gave the Hoosiers a 40-22 lead
with three minutes left before inter-
mission.
Indiana took its biggest lead, 64-45,
seven minutes into the second half
before a 24-6 burst brought Iowa back
into contention. The key baskets by
Alford and free throws by Morgan
pushed the Hoosiers' lead to 76-69 with
44 seconds left.
Rick Calloway had 16 points. Andre
Harris 15 and Darryl Thomas 14 for
Indiana. Iowa was led by Gerry
Wright, Jeff Moe and Ed Horton with
12 points apiece.
Iowa, which had beaten Indiana in
each of their past three meetings, fell
to 8-8 in the Big Ten and 18-11 overall.
The Hoosiers are 20-6 overall and
tied with Michigan at 12-4 in the con-
ference.
Michigan State 84
Wisconsin 71
MADISON (AP)-Scott Skiles
scored 28 points and backcourt mate
Darryl Johnson added 18 to give 17th-
ranked Michigan State an 84-71 Big
Ten basketball victory over Wisconsin
yesterday.
Michigan State improved to 20-6
man guard who had been sidelined for
most of the season with an ankle injury,
gave Wisconsin a 30-30 tie with four
seconds left. But Vernon Carr conver-
ted two free throws that enabled the
Spartans to take a 32-30 halftime lead.
The Spartans opened the second
half with a 15-10 run to move into a 47-
40 lead with 12:56 remaining. John-
son, a junior guard, had 10 of
Michigan State's points in that streak.
Ohio St. 68, Minnesota 55
COLUMBUS (AP)-Dennis Hopson
scored 26 points and Brad Sellers
added 20 as Ohio State pulled away in
the closing minutes to defeat Min-
nesota 68-55 in a Big Ten Conference
college basketball game yesterday.
Minnesota, 15-14 overall and 5-11 in
the conference, led throughout the fir-
st half.
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I wasn't surprised we
won the series. You
can't take a team with a
record like theirs
(Michigan's) and ex-
pect them to come up
here and take two out of
three.'
-Ron Mason
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