Women's Volleyball vs. Illinois Thursday, 7:30 p.m. IM Building SPORTS Hockey vs. Western Michigan Friday, 7:30 p.m. Yost Ice Arena The Michigan Daily Monday, November 16, 1987 Page 9 Blue icers split with rival Spartans BY KEN GOLDBERG One Wolverine went to the showers early. One o Wolverine was first star. And one Wolverine hockey coach was very happy to put two points in the stand- ings after an intense 6-4 Michigan victory over bitter rival, league-leading Michigan State Saturday night. A loud crowd of 8,102, a majority of which had blue, not green loyalties, rocked Yost Ice Arena. Michigan gave a complete efffort Saturday to gain a split after suffering a tough 6-3 defeat Friday night. "Our kids played with a lot of heart and hustle for all three periods," said Michigan head coach Red Berenson after Saturday's win. "It wasn't pretty but we stuck to our game plan, made our chances count and Igot a few timely goals." MICHIGAN was about to take a 2-1 lead into the locker room at the end of Saturday's first period when Michigan State's Jeff Harding took offense to a check thrown by Michigan defenseman Alex Roberts on State's Bobby Reynolds. Harding charged Roberts and instigated the ensuing brawl, which resulted in roughing penalties for eight players and game disquali- fications for both Harding and Roberts. "Harding came over to push me around, trying to intimidate me," said Roberts. "The two of us started wrestling, and it just escalated into a fist-fight. "The Spartans feel that they can get away with cheap stuff just because they're Michigan State, and in the NCAA (Tournament) almost every year. But over the past year and a half we've gained more confidence. We're more experienced and know we can beat them. We won't back down from them. You won't see us get intimidated by State anymore." With all those bodies in the penalty box to start the second period, both sides skated three-on-three for the first four minutes. A traditionally quick team with solid defense, State could have held an advantage. But Michigan kept pace and continued hitting, while avoiding penalties which might have let the Spartans back in the game. BRAD McCAUGHEY'S second goal of the game, at 8:18 of the second period, gave the Wolverines a commanding 5-2 lead. The senior winger earlier added an assist to earn the game's first star. McCaughey games. now has seven points over the past four "We didn't let up (Saturday)", said McCaughey, an assistant captain. "After the fight, Coach told us to keep hitting hard and just stay away from them after the play is whistled dead. We stayed with our game plan, got good goaltending from (Warren) Sharples, and when we had the chance to score, we made good shots." On Friday night, Michigan did not play at peak level for the entire game. Michigan State capitalized on three of five power-play opportunities. After taking a 3-2 lead in the first, Michigan allowed Spartan forward Kerry Russell to walk in and slide the puck past Wolverine goaltender Glen Neary with less than three minutes expired in the second frame. State defenseman Brad Hamilton scored the game- winner in heartbreak fashion, as he beat a screened Neary from the point on the power play with 18 seconds left in the second period. "ON THE power plays, State had Harding (6-3, 215 pounds) standing in the slot," said Neary. "With his big body and our big defensemen trying to clear him out of the crease blocking my vision, it was tough to see the puck. I didn't see Hamilton's shot until it was three feet away from me. He was definitely a big factor in the game." Early in the second period, the Michigan defense suffered a serious loss when junior Myles O'Connor, who Berenson calls his "best defenseman," slid hard into the boards behind the Michigan State net and in- jured his rotator cuff. O'Connor missed Saturday's game, and his future status is questionable. With the split against State, Michigan remains tied for third place in the Central Collegiate Hockey Asso- ciation with 12 points, five points behind the league- leading Spartans. Overall, Wolverine captain Todd Brost was satisfied with the weekend split. "We knew we had to play 60 minutes to beat State on Saturday," Brost said. "Friday our play kind of staggered as the game went on, but everyone showed up on Saturday, for the whole game. We're learning how to win." Doily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Spartan goalie Jason Muzzatti is rudely welcomed to the Michigan-Michigan State rivalry by Wolverine defenseman Randy Kwong. The fight first broke out after Alex Roberts and Jeff Harding battled at the end of the first period. Redskins tame Lions comeback, 20-13 GRANT EARNS PRESEASON HOOP KUDOS: 'Knight steals the show + By SCOTT SHAFFER Special to the Daily CHICAGO - You can make Bob Knight show up, but you can't force him to be pleasant. That was the lesson learned at the Big Ten basketball coaches' press conference in Chicago yesterday. Knight, the head coach of the national champion Indiana Hoosiers, showed up for the first time since 1983 after a rule was passed last year invoking automatic one-game suspensions for no-show coaches. Unlike the other nine coaches, Knight did not talk about his team's prospects for the season. Instead he used his time as a chance to attack Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke and the news media in general for staging what he considered to be a waste of time anct money. "If my .presence here is news, there can't be much happening here that's worth a damn," said Knight. Besides hearing the coaches speak, the reporters voted on the preseason All-Big Ten team. Michigan guard Gary Grant was voted preseason player bf the year by a wide margin. Joining Grant on the first team were Purdue's Troy Lewis and Todd Mitchell (second in player- of-the-year voting), Indiana's Dean Garrett and Iowa's Roy Marble. Michigan's Glen Rice was named to the second team, while teammate Terry Mills was runner-up t o Illinois' Ken Battle in the voting for newcomer of the year. Much of the coaches' conversation centered on h e possibility of the Big Ten adopting a 7 post-season playoff tournament for win ruiwis IF YOU WANT TO BE A PHYSICIAN, WE'LL PAY FOR IT. If you're willing to invest your skills and knowledge as an Air Force medical officer, we'll invest in you and pay your way through medical school. It's the Armed Forces Health Professions the 1988-89 season. The Big Ten is the only major conference in the nation that doesn't have one. Most of the coaches endorsed the tournmaent as long as the Big Ten schedule is reduced from 18 to 14 games. While some coaches expressed mixed feelings, the general sentiment was that the benefits of such a playoff would outweigh the costs. "I'm for a tournament because all schools can use the extra $500,000 or more that it would generate," said Illinois head coach Lou Henson. Other benefits mentioned by the coaches were the added exposure for the teams and the extra excitement for both players and fans. The only coach who strongly criticized the proposed tournament was (surprise!) Knight, who claimed that his players felt like they would be exploited for the sake of earning extra money for the school. Basketball commentator Dick Vitale graced the press conference with his presence. Vitale, who picked Michigan as the top team in the nation, kidded Wolverine coach Bill Frieder for complaining that his team wasn't as good Vitale thinks. As for the upcoming season, the consensus seemed to be that Indiana, Iowa and Purdue would vie for the Big Ten championship with Michigan and Illinois being talented but lacking in experience. WASHINGTON (AP) - Red- skins quarterback Doug Williams could hardly believe it yesterday when Coach Joe Gibbs told him to get ready to play. But it didn't take him long to make a believer out of Gibbs. Williams became 2-0 as a reliever this year when he replaced an ineffective Jay Schroeder and quickly threw two touchdown passes to pro- pel Washington to a 20-13 victory over the Detroit Lions. Both scores came in the first half as the Redskins built a 17-3 lead before holding off a Detroit comeback. "When Gibbs told me to warm up, I thought he was talking to someone else," Williams said. "My heart darn near jumped out of my gut." WILLIAMS will not have a chance to duplicate the relief effort next Monday night against the Los Angeles Rams. "Doug will start next week," Gibbs said. 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