4 - The Michigan Daily - SPQRTSMonday - Monday, November 22, 1993 E2 M I C N 4 l. H a_ -:, GAME STATISTICS PASSING Player Collins 1 R'mersma ..Ca rr Tot. I RUSHING Player A Wheatley3 Davis R.Powers Blue's bigplays bring mnuo C-A Yds 4-20 140 0-0 0 0-0 0 L4-20 140 TD 2 0 0 2 Alexander B'butuka Foster Ritchie Collins Totals 5 ktt 16 22 8 1 2 3 1 3 56 Yds 105 96 37 21 15 8 1 -2 281 Avg 6.6 4.4 4.6 21.0 7.5 2.7 1.0 -.7 5.0 nt 1 0 0 1 Lg 43 14 a9 21 14 4 1 4 43 RECEIVING Player No. Alexander 3 Foster 3 Jones 3 Davis 2 Burkholder 2 Hayes 1 Totals 14 Yds 64 17 12 19 3 25 140 Avg Lg 21.350 5.711 4.0 8 9.513 1.5 7 25.025 10.050 By KEN SUGIURA DAILY FOOTBALL WRITER There was no arguing with John Cooper's logic. The Ohio State coach had a great vantage point from which he could watch his team get dismantled by archrival Michigan, 28-0. As best he could tell, the game came down to one factor that his team could not master. "They throw it deep, they catch it for touchdowns," said Cooper, refer- ring to the Wolverines. "We throw the ball deep and they intercept. Basi- cally, when you go right down to it, that's the difference in the game." Those plays epitomized Ohio State's cursed fate and Michigan's fortune Saturday at Michigan Stadium. "Give them credit," Cooper said. "They made plays when they had to." Michigan was able to deliver the home run plays, and Ohio State, though it boasted big hitters like wide re- ceiver Joey Galloway and Dan "Big Daddy" Wilkinson, struck out look- ing. With each catch, sack or broken- up pass, Michigan pushed Ohio State pushed further and further into a hole that it never even came close to escap- ing. "I think that their guys just made plays today, plays that we didn't make," said Galloway, limited to three catches, or one more than Michigan corner Ty Law. "We were ready to play today. Things just happened to- day and things didn't go our way." Things like Law, who delivered perhaps the performance of his life. Galloway entered the game averaging 4.2 catches per game and 21.0 yards per reception. With two more rushing touchdowns to his credit, he was hit- ting paydirt every 3.8 times he touched the ball. Law and the Michigan secondary stalked Galloway closer than his own shadow this sunny afternoon. "They knew where I was on every down," Galloway said. "There was a guy that was watching me." "I felt I had something to prove because I really didn't have a chal- lenge like this all season," Law said. "I really was looking forward to play- ing against Joey Galloway." It was obvious. Law, who said he 'I think that their guys just made plays today, 'plays that we didn't make. We were ready to play today. Things just happened today and things didn't go our way.' -oey Galloway Ohio State wide receiver had pored over film in preparation for the game, picked off two passes and generally provided admirable cover- age on the dangerous Galloway. The same could not be said for the members of the Ohio State defense, who allowed Michigan receivers the .space needed to corral quarterback Todd Collins' passes. Two receptions proved most memorable. The first came courtesy of Mercury Hayes and was made pos- sible by another big play, a 43-yard slashing run by Tyrone Wheatley that brought Michigan to Ohio State's 30. Three plays later, Hayes first looked over his left shoulder for the ball then readjusted, turning to his right to make a fingertip grab in the corner of the south end zone to give Michigan a 7-0 lead. The catch came on a third-and-five situation that, if it had failed, would have left Michigan facing a 42-yard field goal attempt into the wind. Derrick Alexander provided the second. Trying to get under a pass from Collins while eluding the cover- age of safety Walter Taylor, Alexander made a spectacular dive to make the catch at the Ohio State 1. The play led to a touchdown by freshman fullback Jon Ritchie and pushed the lead to 14- 0. "Face it, you saw two great catches," Michigan coach Gary Moeller beamed. "The one by Mer- cury Hayes was unbelievable and Derrick Alexander made another great catch." PUNTING Player Stapleton Totals No. Yds 4 160 4 160 1 e PUNT RETURNS Player No. Yds Alexander 2 9 Hayes 1 8 Totals 3 17 Avg 40.0 40.0 Avg 4.5 8.0 5.6 Lg 45 45 Lg 9 8 9 Michigan wide receuver rcu ayes celebrates after scoring a first quarter touchdown in Saturday s 28) Michigan £6 K TI KICKOFF RETURNS, Player No. Yds Avg Lg Toomer 1 30 30.0 30 Totals 1 30 30.0 30 By ANDY DE KORTE DAILY FOOTBALL WRI DEFENSE Player Winters Morrison Johnson Stanley Burch Law Peoples Dyson Horn Dudlar Irons Anderson Pryce Noble Freedman Thompson B. Powers Tac 6 4 4 3 4 4 3 3 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 Ast 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 Tot 7 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 FIRST QUARTER: M - Hayes 25-yard pass from Collins (Elezovic kick) Drive: 3 plays, 47 yards, 1:01 SECOND QUARTER: M - Ritchie 1-yard run (Elezovic kick) Drive: 5 plays, 95 yards, 1:24 M - Foster 3-yard pass from Collins (Elezovic kick) Drive: 6 plays, 31 yards, 3:06 THIRD QUARTER: M - Davis 5-yards run (Elezovic kick) Drive: 4 plays, 32 yards, 1:05 M-OSU 7-0 140 21-0 28-0 Stopping the rush a long been a big key to winning footbail games. Beating Ohio Stae has become a tra- dition for the Mich igan foetil team. Saturday one tradiic fed the other -58 yards rushing led the Buckeyes to zero peints and a 28-poirt defeat. Ohio State had not been shutout since a 6-0 loss to Wiconsin in 1982. Michigan had not blaked the Buck- eyes since a 22-0 game in 1976. The highly toted Ohio State rush- ing duo, Raymont 1 arris and Butler By'not'e only ga ine d 65 an d 29 y ards respectively. Quarterback woes rav- aged the rushing tally. "In practice we just told every- body, 'You take care of your posi- tion,"' defensive lineman Buster Stanley said. "We told the DBs, You take care of the receiver, and we'll take care of the line and we're going to pull it off."' The defensive backsave credit to the line for stopping the ush and for the bounty of passes they grabbed. "We were good up front," Ty Law said. "We knew we could hold the receivers once we contained the run."7 With the run contained, Law and his counterparts benefited. Law had two of his team's four interceptions, the second consecutive four-intercep- tion performance by the Michigan defense. Before the game, stopping the Buckeye rush and establishing his own team's rush concerned Michigan coach Gary Moeller. Surely, allowing just 58 yards pleased Moeller. However, 281 yards gained by his own runners impressed him even more. "I thought our backs ran hard," Moeller said. "Eddie Davis, God bless his soul, did a good job. I guess Tyrone (Wheatley) had close to 100 yards and then you know he gets dinged." Wheatley shrugged off his injury after the game. "I could have played in the second half," Wheatley said. "But what was the need?" No need indeed. The offensive line made holes for everyone. And while the Michigan defense had four sacks, the highly- touted Ohio State line never caught Collins. "We tired (Ohio State standout defensive linemen Dan Wilkinson) out," Michigan lineman Joe Marinaro said. "At the beginning of the game he was kicking and punching but not at the end." Davis had 96 yards on 22 carries. Ricky Powers even made a trium- phant return to the backfield, He car ried eight times for 37 yards. THEWONDER OF WHFATLEY: Ever though Michigan tailback Tyronc Wheatley only played in the first half and rushed 16 times for 105 yards, he still caused headaches for an oppo coach. "He presents problems becaust he's 6-foot-1, 225 pounds and is a sprinter on the track team," Ohio State coach John Cooper said. "He's ont of the all-time great backs." Wheatley 's 105 yards gave hirr 1,005 rushing yards for the seson - the 20th time in Michigan history that has been accomplished -the peru mance also gave Wheatle y his l game with over 100 yards. Last season, Wheatley became the 13th Wolverine rusher to gain over 1,000 yards. Combined with his 1,35 yards last year, he became just the sixth Wolverine to go over 1,000 yard twice. He joined Jamie Morris, Butet Woolfolk, Rob Lytle, Gordon Bell and Ron Johnson in the elite rin. Wheatley's 2,900 career rus yards ties him for fifth with Gordor Bell on the all-time Michigan rushinp list. By virtue of his performance sat- urday, he also slid past Desmond Howard into fourth-place for careec all-purpose yardage with 3,967. FOURTH QUARTER: No scoring PASS Player Law Winters Burch Tot. DEFENSE Int. Yds1 2 0 1 19 1 2 4 21 B TEAM STATISTICS MICH First Downs 22 Third Down 7-16 Rushing 281 Passing 140 Total Offense 421 Plays 76 Tuarnoers 1 3rk-Up 2 0 2 4 osu 14 2-12 58 154 212 58 A SHUTOUT Continued from page 1 In fact, almost anything that could go wrong for Ohio State eventually did. Two Buckeye defenders shad- owed senior wide receiver Derrick Alexander down to their goal line in the second quarter, but bought his head fake and left him alone to reel in a 50-yard Collins strike on the 1-yard line. Freshman fullback Jon Ritchie punched it through on the next play for a 14-0 Michigan advantage. On the first play of the next drive, Powers looked left for Galloway but instead found freshman safety Chuck owwm Winters. Interception No. 3 led to a pass two plays later from Collins to Foster in the right flat, which Foster took three yards to give Michigan a 21-0 lead. Finally, a third-quarter punt that traveled to the Michigan11was called back because punter Tim Williams had inadvertently touched his knee to the ground while retrieving a low snap, giving the Wolverines the ball on the Buckeye 32. Three plays after a reverse by Alexander that saw the senior recover his own fumble, Davis converted on a five-yard sprint for the game's final score. ache. The yardage gave Wheatley 1,00 on the year, for his second consecu tive 1,000-yard season. He is only the fifth Michigan player to run for ovei 1,000 yards at least twice in his col- lege career. In addition to Wheatley's gains Davis had 96 yards, senior co-captair Ricky Powers gained 37 in a crowd. pleasing fourth-quarter appeara rookie Tshimanga Biakabutuua notched 15, and Foster had 8 Alexander's 21-yard reverse anc Ritchie's touchdown dive round oui the total. In addition to his interception AN4i mooK .z.