Page 10- The Michigan Daily -Tuesday, March 27, 1990
Southwestern coach wins elusive title
DETROIT (AP) - Seven times
Detroit Southwestern coach Perry
Watson had been to the mountaintop
of high school basketball. Finally,
he reached the other side.
The 38-year-old coach whose in-
ner-city school won its first state
championship since 1973 over the
weekend knows the streets around it
well. He grew up in the area show-
ing the wear of heavy industry and
hard times for the largely Black and
Hispanic population that lives there.
By contrast with many of his
suburban coaching counterparts,
Watson can't leave his job on the
hardwood of a sweaty gym. After-
hours work might include arranging
for physical exam or a hot meal for a
player who otherwise would go
without.
"You have to have a lot of com-
mitment. They are just like another
family," Watson said of the bond he
has with his players.
"I don't have the luxury of just
being a basketball coach. My com-
mitment to them is for life. It's
more to our team than just basket-
ball," Watson said, adding he strives
to encourage his players to apply the
same work ethic to academics as to
athletics.
The words "attitude" and "habits"
are lettered in gold on the team's
dark blue practice jerseys.
"If one stumbles later in life, I
don't take it personally, but it does
hurt," Watson said.
Watson graduated from South-
western in 1968 and coached his
alma mater to the Class A state
championship Saturday, defeating
Saginaw High School 67-54 at the
Palace of Auburn Hills. It was Wat-
son's first state title during a 12-year
career.
He doesn't measure his success
by the number of trophies in the ath-
letic department's showcase, but
how well players do - on and off
the court - after they leave South-
western.
"The majority of them graduate. I
can't recall any of coach Watson's
players not graduating since I've
been here," Southwestern High
School principal Betty Hines said
Monday. Five of the school's Na-
tional Honor Society inductees were
members of the basketball team.
Dumars out for four weeks
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Pis-
tons starting guard Joe Dumars will
miss at least four weeks after break-
ing the same hand he broke last year,
the team said yesterday.
Dumars, averaging a career-best
18.4 points per game, suffered a frac-
ture of the third metacarpal bone on
his left hand when he tried to break a
fall during Saturday's 105-98 loss at
San Antonio.
"When it first happened, I
thought, 'Oh my God!' It was the
same area of the hand that I hurt last
year," Dumars said. "I can't even
hold this piece of paper in this hand
- it's too heavy."
Dumars, 26, was the MVP of
last year's NBA Finals, which the
Pistons won in a four-game sweep
over the Los Angeles Lakers.
"The hand was placed in a cast
this afternoon and he is expected to
miss four weeks, which would take
you through the end of the regular
season," Piston spokesman Matt
Dobek said yesterday.
the Wolverines had hoped for a re-
peat. "We're obviously disappointed.
We had higher expectations,"
Hutchins stated. "We need to have
more intensity and focus. We are a
much better team than this, we just
aren't peaking early."
Adding injury to insult was the
loss of shortstop Bonnie Tholl.
Tholl dislocated her shoulder during
the tournament, and it is not known
when she will return to the lineup.
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Softball
team falls
short in
repeat bid
by Sarah Osburn
Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan softball team did
not garner the kind of results it had
hoped for on its trip to California.
The team finished the Bud Lite
Invitational with a 1-4 record, bow-
ing out of competition after drop-
ping its only two tournament
games.
The Wolverines finished pool
play with a 1-2 record. They defeated
Utah State, but suffered losses to
Massachusetts and to Berkeley.
The team then failed to score any
runs during tournament play, as they
were shut out by Creighton Univer-
sity and Central Michigan. Michigan
softball coach Carol Hutchins cited
this lack of offense as the team's
major problem.
"The defense was not good, but it
doesn't matter how many runs the
other team scores if you are not get-
ting any hits," Hutchins said.
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