Page 12-The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, February 14, 1990
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BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK
Spartan wins
player of week
by Steven Cohen
Daily Sports Writer
Michigan State's Kirk Manns,
the conference's leading scorer at
20.8 points per game, earned the
conference player of the week award.
Manns, who scored 30 points Mon-
day night at Iowa, tied a Big Ten
record for three-pointers with eight.
Manns has connected on a league-
leading 50 percent of his shots from
three-point land, nailing 44 of 88
trifectas.
"We're very pleased for Kirk,"
Spartan coach Jud Heathcote said.
"He's a guy who worked to make
himself a good player, not a great
player, but a great shooter. There are
a lot of great shooters sitting at the
end of the bench."
'PEP' ADDS SPARK TO
SPARTANS: At the beginning of
the season, Heathcote said his team's
hopes would ride on Mike Pep-
lowski. Without the 6'10", 270-
pound Peplowski, Heathcote said the
team would resemble a doughnut -
a team with no center.
Yesterday, Heathcote spoke about
the oft-injured 6'10", 270-pound
center from Warren DeLaSalle High
School. "We're elated over Mike
Peplowski. The last two games he's
taken up space on defense and has
been in the right place at the right
time on offense," Heathcote said.
WELCOME TO THE JUN-
GLE: Minnesota's Williams Arena
is widely viewed as one of the
toughest places to play at in the
country. On Thursday, Michigan tra-
vels to the Gophers' home turf,
where Minnesota has won 25 of its
last 26 home games. The other
coaches sympathized with Michigan
coach Steve Fisher's task.
"It's mainly the floor. You go in
with a different perspective," Wis-
consin coach Steve Yoder said.
"It's just not on the same level,
you're looking down into the bench.
I know you people who know every-
thing will say that the floor is still
94 feet and the basket is still 10 feet
high, but it is a tough place to
play."
Added Heathcote: "I said for us,
the two toughest places are (Pur-
due's) Mackey Arena and Williams
Arena because of the raised floor. We
do a lot of communicating from the
bench." He likened the bench to a
"dugout at a baseball game."
BIG TEN BIDS TO TOUR-
NAMENT: Three teams have a legit-
imate shot at the conference crown
- Purdue at 9-2, Michigan State at
9-3 and Michigan at 8-3. Illinois at
7-5, Minnesota at 6-5 and Indiana
with a 5-6 slate all are expected to
make the NCAA tournament. Purdue
plays four of its next seven games at
home while MSU has four of its
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"They have two of the grey
Center. in the country in Smith and Manns,
and they're not only winning on the
haveroad, they're winning big."
have Added Purdue coach G e n e
great Keady: "With their schedule, Mich-
untry igan State has to be favored."
Ins...0 ROAD WORRIERS: North-
enson western, which plays at Illinois to-
coach night, has lost 34 consecutive game
on the road, and that's starting to get
to coach Bill Foster.
avor the "I was glad somebody asked
se. (about the winless streak) because I
aying as haven't heard it since about ten
league," minutes," Foster said. "It certainly is
on said, a great concern. It's been difficult to
t guards handle."
WRESTLING NOTEBOOK
Lehrke earns Big Ten
honors for January
by Jeff Sheran
Daily Sports Writer
Junior co-captain Fritz Lehrke (190 lbs.) captured Big Ten wrestler of
the month honors for January. During the month, Lehrke compiled an 8-0
record, including two pins, a technical fall, and three major decisions.
Lehrke boasts a 28-6-1 record this season (9-0-1 in dual meets), while
maintaining his No. 6 national ranking throughout the dual meet season.
"Fritz is everything I could want in a captain," Michigan coach Dale
Bahr said. "He doesn't get down on himself and always thinks of the
team first. (The awards) are well-deserved."
"I didn't even know I won until (basketball player Mike) Griffin told
me the other day," Lehrke said. "It's kind of cool."
Despite winning the award, Lehrke stated that his goals for the
remainder of the season remain unchanged.
"I want to win a national championship. But right now, all I'm
concentrating on is the Big Tens."
WORLD CLASS: Wolverine assistant coach Joe Wells has been
selected to coach the United States national team at the world champion-
ships in Tokyo, Japan this summer. The championships rank second in
significance to the Olympics, where Wells served as an assistant coach for
the 1988 U.S. team.
"It's a great honor, especially
since now I'm the head coach,"
Wells said. "It's going to be a lot of
work, but I'm excited about it."
Wells has long been regarded as
one of the premier coaches in wrest-
ling, despite the fact that he remains
an assistant under Bahr.
"It just goes to show you that
people inside the wrestling world
recognize that Wells is a great coach,
and we're lucky to have him at
Michigan," Bahr said.
Trying to crack the U.S. team
will be Michigan assistants Kirk
Trost, John Fisher, and Joe
Pantaleo. Trost (220 lbs.) and WeIIs
Fisher recently returned from the prestigious Tibilisi Tournament in the
Soviet Union. Fisher placed fifth in the 136.5-pound class, while Trost
failed to place.
However, Trost, the 1986 heavyweight national champion, holds a
number two national ranking on the U.S. national team, and defeated the
top-ranked 220-pounder in the world, Iran's Achmed Atovov, 1-0, earlier
this year.
NEW RANKINGS: Michigan dropped from ninth to thirteenth in the
latest national rankings from the Amateur Wrestling News. However, the
Wolverines expect to be higher by the time the next poll comes out, after
beating Northwestern (No.15), Iowa State (No. 6), and Minnesota (No.
11) consecutively. Oklahoma State is the top team in the land.
Several Wolverines placed in the individual poll in addition to Lehrke.
Joey Gilbert (134 pounds) ranks ninth, and Larry Gotcher (150)
eighth. Sam Amine (158) holds the eleventh spot, while heavyweight
Phil Tomek is ranked ninth.
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It's official: Buster awarded heavyweight
NEW YORK (AP) - Now, the
boxing world agrees: Buster Doug-
las is heavyweight champion.
And there apparently is agreement
on another front: His first challenger
will be Mike Tyson.
Douglas-Tyson II came close to
clearing the final hurdle yesterday
when Evander Holyfield's manager,
Ken Sanders, said, in Atlanta, that
his boxer probably would step aside
to allow the rematch.
Billionaire developer Donald
Trump says Douglas-Tyson II will
be June 18 in Atlantic City, al-
though Douglas has not signed a
contract.
In fact, Douglas only learned
hours earlier that he was undisputed
champion when the World Boxing
Association became the last of the
sport's three major governing bodies
to recongize his 10th-round knock-
out of Tyson on Sunday in Tokyo.
"We don't have a rematch now,"
Don King, Mike Tyson's promoter
and adviser, said yesterday at a news
conference. "We're trying to get one.
The first thing we have to do is get a
rematch. As you know, the catching
comes before the hanging."
Tyson, who appeared with King
at the news conference, said his loss
was "a temporary, minor setback. I
don't take it to heart. I'll be the
champion again. I'm still one of
best fighters in the world and when
the rematch comes, I'll prove it."
"We've been approached to make
a deal, by Don King, to step aside
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title outright
and make way for the rematch,"
Sanders said. "We're waiting for the
contract from him. If it's what they
said it would be, we probably would
do it."
"They're just asking us to move
it three or four months," Sanders
said. "It's a very good deal for us.
We know we'll be fighting for the
championship."
In his hometown of Columbus,
Ohio, Douglas said the main thing
for him "is that I am now looked
upon as the heavyweight champion
of the world. It was a lifelong dream
come true, and I thank God for that."
The International Boxing Federat-
ion recognized Douglas as champion
immediately, and the World Boxing
Council extended recognition Mon-
day night, after King, who promotes
Tyson, dropped a protest of the
result.
"I never asked anybody to change
ther decision," King said. "We just
want a first shot at a rematch."
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