The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, September 12, 1994 - 9 Hockey fans camp out for tickets Z By DAVID ROTHBART For The Daily A full season of Wolverine hockey is worth the wait for a number of Michigan students. The line for hockey season tickets tarted Saturday evening and contin- ued to grow yesterday afternoon with 20 people queued as of 4 p.m. Last year's line trailed from the Union past the Cube to the Student Activities Building, and students ex- pected this year's line to stretch even longer. Matt Moore, an LSA senior, was first in line for the second consecutive ear. He set up his beach chair outside "he doors of the Union after the foot- ball team's victory over Notre Dame Saturday afternoon. Moore, a veteran line-sitter who camped out five days before last December's basketball game against Duke, believes the in- crease in the popularity of Michigan hockey over the last few years is unde- niable. "There were never lines like this before," Moore said. "Getting the best seat is important." Amy Kranz, an LSA sophomore, says the atmosphere at Yost Ice Arena is what makes attending the games so exciting. "I've been to a lot of cities, a lot of stadiums, but our crowd is the best. Our crowd is the loudest," Kranz said. Whether Wolverine fans will have a lot to cheer about this year is still to be decided. The team, which lost goaltender Steve Shields, forwards Brian Wiseman and David Oliver to graduation and sophomore Ryan Sittler, who chose to forego his final two years at Michigan to enter the NHL, may be aided by a fine crop of incoming freshmen. Still, students waiting in line were confident about the Wolver- ines' chances this year at a CCHA title. "We graduated a lot of people, but we're always able to reload," said Dan Korn, an Engineering student. Korn believes replacing Shields in goal will be difficult, but he is excited about Michigan's highly-rated freshman goaltender, Marty Turco, and the tal- ents of the Wolverines' returning play- ers. "Lake (Superior) State will be tough, but this could be our year," Korn said. Last night's temperature was ex- pected to dip below 60 degrees and some students came prepared with sweatshirts andsleeping bags. Acouple of students leafed through newly-pur- chased textbooks, while most chatted amongst themselves, exchanging battle stories of waiting in line. Rob Frangione, an Engineering jun- ior, talked about last fall's wait for basketball tickets in 40-degree weather. "I had a broken wrist, a cast up and down my whole arm with just three fingers sticking out. They were numb. I thought I might lose them." This year, it is doubtful if anyone will lose body parts, but certainly a lot of students will lose some sleep. MOLLY iSEtS/. Karl Gruenberg, Woody Meyer and Chris Morgan wait outside the Union yesterday for today's hockey ticket sale. Randle, Viking defense smother Mitchell, Lions; Raiders crushed again .. Associated Press John Randle and Henry Thomas up the middle, James Harris and Roy Barker around the ends. They were relentless, punishing. They drove Scott Mitchell to the turf and tore the football wom his grasp. "I think Mitchell brings a new di- mension totheir team. There's no ques- tion they're more potent," linebacker Jack Del Rio said after his Minnesota Vikings beat Mitchell and the Detroit Lions 10-3. "But today, he met John Randle." Randle had two sacks, as did Harris and Barker. Thomas wasn't in on any f Minnesota's six sacks, but his pres- re from the nose tackle position con- sistently freed his linemates to attack; he also was the main force that let the Vikings (1-1) hold Barry Sanders to 16 yards on 12 carries. "We couldn't block them up front," Lions coach Wayne Fontes said. "We resorted to a passing game and our quarterback was running for his life." Mitchell threw three touchdown s lastweekwhenthe Lionsopened ith a 31-28 victory over Atlanta. This week? No time, no TDs. Randle, Thomas, Harris and Barker made sure of that. "If I had my druthers," Mitchell said, "I'd rather they weren't there." He completed 18 of 40 passes for _.. 212 yards, fumbled three times and was intercepted once. Warren Moon completed 22 of 35 passes for 221 yards and a touchdown in his Vikings home debut. Though he outplayed Mitchell, he wasn't happy with his performance. "It shouldn't have been as hard as it was, especially the way our defense was playing," Moon said. "We're not where we want to be on offense." Moon was knocked "woozy" when sacked by Broderick Thomas late in the first half and spent much of the third quarter trying to clear the cobwebs out of his head. Nevertheless, he felt sorry for Mitchell. "He was under pressure all day long from our line," Moon said. "I'm glad I don't have to go against them." One of the few times Mitchell es- caped the defense to find and open receiver, Herman Moore dropped a pass that probably would have gone for an 81-yard touchdown play. "It was a classic case of running before you catch the ball," Moore said. "It cost us, but we had several opportu- nities to win this game." Bills 38, Patriots 35 Jim Kelly airmailed a message to doubters of the Buffalo Bills: Our of- fense is just fine. The Bills still need some work on defense, however, after blowing a 14- point halftime lead built on Kelly's four touchdown passes. Steve Christie saved them with a 32-yard field goal with 52 seconds left that beat the New England Patriots 38-35. The Bills, shocked aweek earlier in a 23-3 loss to the New York Jets, evened their record at 1-1. The Patriots scored 35 points for the second straight week but fell to 0-2 as the game ended with New England on the Buffalo 37. Falcons 31, Rams 13 Andre Rison backed his boast, and then some. The Atlanta Falcons receiver prom- ised histeam would beat the Los Ange- les Rams, and Rison made sure they did, catching two touchdown passes in a 31-13 victory. Rison caught 12 passes-for 123 yards, and Jeff George was 29-of-38 for 287 yards and three TDs. Chiefs 24, 49ers 17 InJoe Montana's firstgame against the team he took to four Super Bowl victories, Montana threw two touch- downs passes to lead the Kansas City Chiefs over the 49ers 24-17. Montana, 19 of 31 for 203 yards, got a big boost from Derrick Thomas and the defense. Thomas had three sacks, one of them for a safety, against a banged up San Francisco line. David Whitmore got in the act, too, making a touchdown-saving tackle of Steve Youngwith under six minutes to go and forcing San Francisco (1-1) to kick a field goal. But overall, it was Montana's vic- tory as the Chiefs moved to 2-0. He had a 1-yard TD pass to Joe Valerio and an 8-yarder to Keith Cash. Steelers 17, Browns 10 Darren Perry had three of Pittsburgh's four interceptions and the Steelers overcame a horrible start to win at Cleveland for the first time in the 1990s, beating the Browns 17-10. Vinny Testaverde was intercepted on both of Cleveland's third-quarter possessions, and Cleveland (1-1) never recovered. The Steelers (1-1) started miser- ably but turned it around when Neil O'Donnell hit wide-open Yancey Thigpen with a 33-yard scoring pass to close to 10-7 midway through the sec- ond quarter. Dolphins 24, Packers 14 Rookie Irving Spikes has already made a career out of beating the Green Bay Packers. Spikes set up two first-half touch- downs that triggered the Dolphins' 24- 14 victory over the Packers (1-1). After punting on their first posses- sion, the Dolphins (2-0) scored on their next four drives, including a pair of touchdown passes by Dan Marino, in boosting their regular season record against the Packers to 8-0. Buccaneers 24, Colts 10 The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who have had trouble scoring from short range, went long distance on the India- napolis Colts. Craig Erickson threw for313 yards, including scoring passes of 50 yards to Charles Wilson and 48 yards to Jackie Harris, as the Bucs weathered another big day for Marshall Faulk to beat the Colts 24-10. Faulk was impressive against the Bucs (1-1), running for 104 yards on 18 carries and catching seven passes for 82 yards. The Tampa Bay defense kept him out of the end zone, though, holding the Colts (1-1) to Dean Biasucci's 26- yard field goal and an 8-yard touch- down run by Roosevelt Potts. Chargers 27, Bengals 10 Stan Humphries threw for 299 yards and two touchdowns, Natrone Means ran for 107 yards and a TD, and San Diego's defense forced three turnovers deep in its own territory as the Charg- ers won their home opener 27-10 over the Bengals. The Chargers are 2-0 for the first time since 1981. Cincinnati fell to 0-2. Jets 25, Broncos 22, OT Nick Lowery kicked a 39-yard field goal 3:57 into the extra session after Boomer Esiason guided the Jets 45 yards with the overtime kickoff. Art Monk made the key play on the drive with a 24-yard reception. Rob Moore was the hero of the fourth quarter, putting New York ahead 22-19. He caught a 35-yard touchdown pass and a two-point conversion pass from Esiason with 4:15 to go. Last week in their opening win at Buffalo, Moore caught five passes for 83 yards. This time, he had nine catches for 147 yards. Redskins 38, Saints 24 Brian Mitchell scored on a 74-yard punt return and set up another touch- down with an 86-yard kickoff return, and John Friesz threw four touchdown passes in the Washington Redskins' 38-24 victory over the New Orleans Saints. Mitchell's punt return gave Wash- ington (1-1) a 14-3 halftime lead. His runback with the second-half kickoff helped the Redskins to a 21-3 lead that New Orleans (0-2) could not over- come. Friesz threw two touchdown passes to Henry Ellard, one to Cedric Smith and another to Desmond Howard. Seahawks 38, Raiders 9 Rick Mirer threw three touchdown passes following Los Angeles Raid- ers' turnovers in a nine-minute span of the second half, and the Seattle Seahawks routed the Raiders 38-9. The Raiders fell to 0-2 and had their eight-game winning streak against the Seahawks (2-0) snapped. Mirer completed 19 of 25 passes for 242 yards without being intercepted. Warren rushed for a game-high 62 yards on 21 carries and caught three passes for 51 yards. Cowboys 20, Oilers 17 The Cowboys held off Bucky Richardson in his first NFL start and beat the Houston Oilers 20-17. While Richardson had the Cow- boys worried, Dallas still managed four sacks and two interceptions in their home-opener. Richardson was subbing for Cody Carlson, who wasn't acti- vated after sustaining a separated left shoulder last week. Emmitt Smith, who had 171 yards lastweek in going for his fourth straight NFL rushing title, had 90 yards on 27 carries on Sunday. Darren Woodson and Charles Haley had interceptions for the Cowboys (2-0), who beat Hous- ton (0-2) in the regular season for the first time since 1985. MAST's SHOES I GOLD RING I BEST SEIECTiON 0 PRICES * COORS IN TOWN 619 E. LibERiy 662-0266 AP PHOTO Houston's Chris Dishman snatches an interception from the hands of Dallas' Michael Irvin in the Oilers' 20-17 loss to the Cowboys.