The Michigan Daily-Friday, January 29, 1988-Page 11

Women cagers
to tangle with
Northwestern
BY PETER ZELLEN
This weekend, the Michigan woman's basketball
team goes on the road to try to make up some
ground in the Big Ten race.
Tonight the Wolverines (1-4 Big Ten, 8-7 overall)
travel to Evanston to take on Northwestern. The
Wildcats went to the NCAA tournament last year but
this season has been a different story. They lost four
senior starters as well as two reserves. They've
become a young team and have so far produced a 5-9
record, 1-5 in the conference.
Northwestern is led by forward Carrie Lawless.
Off the bench, the junior is averaging12.5 points a
game. The Wildcats also have senior guard Laura
Arnold. Their captain is scoring 11.3 points a game.
Even with Northwestern's record, Michigan head
coach Bud VanDeWege does not take this game
lightly. "They're the best executing half-court team
in the conference. We've got to force the game's
tempo because we don't want to get caught in a half-
court game. If we can do that I feel good about our
chances," stated VanDeWege.
On Sunday the Wolverines face Wisconsin (2-4
Big Ten, 3-12 overall) The Badgers will face
Michigan with forward Lisa Bonnell. The senior
leads the conference in scoring with 21.3 points a
game.
"I'm expecting a tough match," said VanDeWege,
"They've had a tough start but they're very tough at
home."
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Peres rejects Packerdollars

Coach decides to stay with Spartans

EAST LANSING (AP) - Fi-
nancial security for life and the
chance to win a fifth Super Bowl
ring almost lured Michigan State
head football coach George Perles to
Green Bay, but he said yesterday he
didn't want to leave his alma mater.
Perles, in a statement issued by
the university, said the chance to
land his first head coaching job in
the NFL was a "challenge I wanted
in the worst way."
"But when it came time to make
the decision to actually tell people at
MSU that I was leaving, I got cold
feet and simply couldn't get myself
to make the move, " Perles said.
"I have tremendous loyalty to
MSU. I simply can't leave the
school."
His decision ended 24 hours of
speculation in which published re-
ports said Perles would accept a re-
ported five-year, 1.8 million dollar
offer.
FANS, PLAYERS, and
alumni already had begun to mourn
the loss of a coach who delivered
Michigan State's first Rose Bowl
victory in 22 years. Their comments

ranged from understanding to open
hostility.
Silence by Perles only served to
fuel the reports. Meanwhile, two
Wisconsin newspapers reported
Wednesday that Perles was the NFL
team's first choice.
His decision to stay was warmly
welcomed by the Spartans and their
followers.
"I'M GLAD he decided to stay
at Michigan State. I'm not surprised.
I know how loyal coach Perles is to
the team. He's something big here
and I know we mean a lot to him,"
said Percy Snow, a sophomore mid-
dle linebacker, who led the Spartans
defense. "He's had too much success
here to let things end here."
"I'm elated with that," said
Chuck Webb, executive director of
the Alumni Association. "Our
phones have been ringing off the
hook...with the concern of his leav-
ing."
He said once the "good news"
got out, phones continued to ring.
Webb said one alumnus called and
said: "We knew George Perles would

never leave Michigan State and he
hasn't."
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by
Perles came after he huddled with
friends and Athletic Director Doug
Weaver and President John DiBiag-
gio Wednesday night at his home.
In his statement, Perles said
Packers president Robert Parins and
vice president for football operations
Tom Braatz "have been honest and
straightforward with me and I sin-
cerely regard both of them and the
Packer organization as top quality."
"Going to Green Bay was a chal-
lenge I wanted in the worst way.:I
wanted the opportunity to get a fifth
Super Bowl championship and I
know I could have gotten top quality
people to achieve that goal in Green
Bay," said Perles, who was a defen-
sive assistant from 1972-81 for the
Pittsburgh Steelers when they won
four Super Bowl championships.
"I thank the Packers for consider-
ing me for a job that I regard as one
of the very best in the National
Football League."

George Perles announces at
yesterday in East Lansing that
coach at Michigan State.

-Associated Press
a pressrconference
he will remain head


M' tankers I
BY TAYLOR LINCOLN
Michigan's men swimmers will take another
step this weekend on the road to becoming one of
the preeminent swimming programs in the
country, when they participate for the first time
in the SMU invitational in Austin, Texas.
Only the top six finishers in the previous
,year's NCAA meet are invited to Austin. The
field includes most of the superpowers of college
swimming. Joining Michigan will be California-
Berkley, Texas, Florida, and Stanford - all of
which have national championship aspirations.
"This is a very good opportunity for the
team," said senior breaststroker Jan-Erick Olsen.
"We've stepped into the arena of the best teams
in the nation. We've been climbing the ladder
pretty remarkably in the last couple of years. If
we can beat the top teams now, we'll feel a little
more comfortable going into the NCAAs."
THE SMU invitational differs from most
regular season meets in that each school will
only send eight swimmers. Because teams will
use only their top swimmers, the format is

W face top te
somewnat like that of the NCAA meet, which
limits schools to 16 swimmers.
"This is going to be an excellent overall
gauge of what we'll be able to do in the
NCAAs," said head coach Jon Urbanchek. "Our
best events will be the breaststroke, sprint
freestyle, and the medley relay."
Olsen and rookie Mike Barrowman have
teamed to form one of the most formidable
breaststroke tandems in the country. And sopho-
more freestyler Brent Lang has emerged as one of
the nation's top sprinters.
MEANWHILE, the Wolve-ine 400 meter
medley relay team of Olsen, Lang, Alex Alvizui
(backstroke) and Marty Moran (butterfly) is cur-
rently ranked number one in the country, based
on its 3:19.54 performance versus Stanford.
The other Michigan participants this weekend
will be backstroker Mike Creaser, distance
freestyler Scott Ryan, and sprint freestyler Greg
Varner.
"It's really a prestigious contest, and we're

inms in Texas
going down there to see this through," said Bar-
rowman. "It's a longshot, but we really want to
win."
This weekend's match-up with the nation's
top swimmers won't be a new experience for the
Wolverines. Two weeks ago, Michigan stunned
second ranked Stanford 61-42. Last weekend, the
Wolverines swam against the U.S. International
team (a team composed of graduated NCAA
swimmers who are priming themselves for the
Olympic trials) in an unofficial meet.
Michigan fell to the Olympic hopefuls, but
they didn't go down easily. "We held our own,
but we lost it on the last relay," said Urbanchek.
The swimmers not going to Austin will host
defending MAC champion Eastern Michigan
tonight at Matt Mann pool at 7:30 p.m.
Next weekend the Wolverines will resume Big
Ten action when they host Iowa. It should be the
toughest dual meet of the season, according to
Urbanchek.

PRO HOCKEY
Nanne resigns as North
Stars General Manager

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP)
- Minnesota North Stars General
Manager Lou Nanne resigned
yesterday, saying he feared the
effects that the continuing stress of
working with the team might have
on his health.
"I couldn't divorce myself during
the game from the stress o f
winning and losing," Nanne, 46,
said at a news conference.
"This gives me an opportunity
to enjoy hockey a lot more, and a
lot longer," he said of his decision
to resign.
Nanne said he would stay on
until the North Stars find a
replacement.
North Stars co-owner Gordon

Gund said prior to the news
conference that he accepted Nanne's
resignation with regret.
Nanne has been with the club
for more than 20 years as a player,
coach or general manager. He
became general manager in 1978.
The club had a 324-318-130 record
during his tenure, including a 16-
28-8 mark this season, going into
yesterday night's game at S t.
Louis.
He underwent two days of tests
last spring as an outpatient at the
Mayo clinic in Rochester, after
losing 12 pounds in 10 days as the
North Stars failed to make the
playoffs for the first time since
1979.

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