Men's basketball vs. Grambling State Wednesday, 7:30 p.m Crisler Arena SPORTS Women's basketball vs. Youngstown State Tonight, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena The Michigan Daily* Tuesday, November 28, 1989 Page 7 Mike Gill U< Rumeal's mother Helen Sfuels her son's success BOSTON - The clock showed 12:15, lunchtime for some students at Cambridge's Rindge and Latin High School, as Helen Ford walked the first floor hallways. "Hrm. Hrm," she gargled, in an intentional move to grab the attention of three boys sitting at the end of the floor. "Either lunch inside the cafeteria or go outside," she said as she pointed in the accompanying direc- tion. "Bust your moves," she added to get them out. It would be a little more than seven hours later when she would watch her son, Rumeal Robinson, "bust" some of his own patented moves on the parquet floor of the Boston Garden. It's a time she had eagerly anticipated. And a time she didn't believe she would see occur when she found out that Rumeal would head west, and away from their Cambridge residence. "We were right here," Helen exclaimed, now waving her finger up and down a second floor hallway, recalling the day Rumeal told her where he would attend college. Helen was making her rounds as a security guard while Rumeal changed classes. "He said, 'come on ma, walk with me down the hall,"' Helen recalled. "We walked right down that hall (she points). When we turned the corner he said, 'I'm going to Michigan.' "I went (an awful look) and the tears started coming down." Helen wanted her adopted son to attend Villanova. Close to home. Close for her to watch. They called last night's game between Michigan and Boston Uni- versity a homecoming for Rumeal. Now Helen Ford could watch her son. In the Garden. On the parquet. "Very exciting," she said about what would occur a little later. "I'm very proud. I've been waiting for this for a long time. I never thought he would come and play. It's going to be like a homecoming for him." When you go home, the first thing you want is some home cooking. Rumeal got that. So did the entire Wolverine team. Helen invited them over to her "Ford Hotel." Preparing the team's cuisine kept her neighbors and herself busy. Dinner for 50. Forty pounds of ribs. Thirty pounds of ham. Twenty pounds of Caribbean rice. Twenty pounds of potato salad. And cake. "I thought I had to do this because I'd gone to Michigan, and they have treated me like family," Helen said. "And I say 'well, here's an opportunity for me to repay the favor.'" Helen acts as if it's nothing out of the ordinary. For her it isn't. Understand that Helen has been well- known long before Rumeal became a star back in high school. Due to her community involvement and open door policy, the entire neighborhood knew this talkative lady who's quick with a laugh. "There's always plenty of food at the Ford Hotel," Helen said. "We always receive the community kids. It's a place somebody knows they'll Loy scores 23 as Blue beats BU, 73-65 by Steven Cohen Daily Basketball Writer BOSTON - In the second game of Michigan guard Rumeal Robinson's homecoming doubleheader, the Wolverines beat Boston University, 73-65, to even their season record at 1-1 last night in the Boston Garden. Actually Michigan, which shot 26 of 64 from the field, just simply missed fewer shots than the Terriers, who hit 26 of 75 shots from the field. After Michigan's loss to Arizona in Saturday's Tip-Off Classic, the Wolverines first opening game loss since 1982, Robinson returned home to Boston where he led Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School to the 1986 State Championship. His homecoming, however, took a back seat to his desire to even Michigan's record at .500 "You see, we lost Saturday night so I'll probably be trying to take out my frustration against BU," Robinson said Sunday. None the less, BU used Michigan's motivation to their own advantage. "We knew they would come on strong because they lost to Arizona," said Terrier center Ron Moses, who led BU with 16 points and 9 rebounds. "We used that to try and even things up. I thought we played real tough; we didn't give up at all." As the game began, both teams seemed a bit tentative and missed several simple shots. BU forward Fred Davy opened up the scoring after 58 seconds on a follow-up of a missed shot. The teams traded baskets as the score was tied 10-10 after 4:16 elapsed. Michigan, led by its frontline of Loy Vaught, Terry Mills and Sean Higgins, went on a 9-2 run to take a seven-point lead. But BU didn't quit and tied up the score at 19. After this splurge, Vaught's reverse lay-up off a Robinson pass kicked off an eight point spurt which gave Michigan a lead that it would never relinquish. With the score 29-21, Boston.coach Mike Jarvis called a timeout. Before the half ended, the regrouped Terriers outscored the Wolverines 10-7, led by Moses and forward Jason Scott. Michigan led at the half 36-31, as the Terriers left the parquet floor to a standing ovation from the 10,032 that attended the game. "Boston University is a good team," said Vaught, who led the Wol- verines with 23 points on 7-13 shooting. "They made us turn the ball over. I could tell they were real prepared." Said Jarvis: "The only thing we could learn from the Arizona game was that they are not shooting well and you could only hope they would continue to miss." But Robinson, who missed all three of his shots in the first half, came out smoking and scored all of his 15 points in the final 20 minutes. Robinson's shooting along with Vaught's helped the Wolverines to open a 13-point bulge with 13:41 left in the game. Michigan was able to stave off continuous Terrier runs through the steady play of Robinson, Vaught and frosh Michael Tally. 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