ft A"4,im Baft MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Minnesota 7, DETROIT 3 Florida 1. CHI. CUBS 0 Toronto 4, CHI. WHITE SOX 0 Texas 2, MILWAUKEE 0 Houston 5, ATLANTA 3 Baltimore vs. KANSAS CITY, ppd. PRO BASKETBALL MIAMI 93, Detroit 83 Orlando 105, TORONTO 69 NEW JERSEY 93, Milwaukee 88 Chicago 105, NEW YORK 103 Seattle 90, DA LLA S 82 HOUSTON 102, Vancouver 94 Portland 98, SAN ANTONIO 81 PRO HOCKEY N.Y. Rangers 6. PHILADELPHIA 3 TAMPA BAY 4, Pittsburgh 3 WASHINGTON 3, Montreal 2 ST. LOUIS 5, Toronto 1 Friday 19971 April 11, A LAST HURRAH OMMUM4 Morrison honored at Hobey Baker banquet By Andy Knudsen Daily Sports Writer BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - As Brendan Morrison stood at the podium delivering his a'cceptance speech at last night's Hobey Baker Award banquet, he stood between his past and his future. Sitting at the table to his left was Red Berenson, his coach at Michigan for the l past four years, a time during I which Morrison arguably had _e tmost remarkable career in Michigan's storied history. At the table to his right sat - Lou Lamoriello, general manager of the NHL's New Jersey Devils - who drafted Morrison in 1993. Lamoriello was in attendance to receive the Legend of College Hockey award, but allusions to the future were inevitable. "Brendan, hopefully in the very near future we can get you to trade that Michigan uniform for a Devils uniform," Lamoriello said. The two didn't talk business, Morrison said, but guest speaker Keith Magnuson, a former NHL standout, did some playful bar- tering on Morrison's behalf. "Your words about Brendan" Magnuson aid to Lamoriello, "we have them recorded, and he would like 12 million over three years." Morrison, apparently liking the num- bers he heard, continued the joke by asking Magnuson to represent him. Lamoriello said that he hadn't seen Morrison play when the Devils drafted him but trusted a scout who praised Morrison enough to make him a second-round pick. : . :r.:, " Now, having seen Michigan's all-time scoring and assists leader play, Lamoriello is look- ing forward to adding Morrison's natural hockey sense to the Devils. "It's something you can't teach anybody," Lamoriello said. "He sees the ice well, he makes the people around him better, and he anticipates well." Lamoriello thinks Morrison will fit in well with the Devils,= assuming they can sign him. "He's the type of player we don't have a lot of," he said. "With the other players we have Brendan! and the way the pro game is, night inA he'll get a lot of support in the areas that aren't his strengths. And that's what makes a team. And that's what makes him a top prospect." With the Decathlon Athletic Club filling its banquet hall - at $80 a plate - in his honor and former great players praising his accomplishments, the evening easily could have been an ego trip for Morrison. But for Morrison, it was more like the ful- fillment of a childhood dream. "These are guys I remember watching growing up," Morrison said of his company at the head table. "To actually see them up here and be associating and talking with them - it's just a huge thrill and it's really humbling. "It's an experience I'll remember for the MARK FRIEDMAN/Daily Morrison, recipient of the 1997 Hobey Baker Award, attended a banquet in his honor last Minnesota. The New Jersey Devils hold Morrison's rights and are attempting to sign him. rest of my life." Also humbling are Morrison's statistics. He led the nation in scoring this season with 88 points (31 goals, 57 assists). His 284 career points put him in seventh place on the all-time NCAA Division I scoring list. But as Berenson said, team stats were always more important to Morrison. "He's doing the things to win games - not to score points or to look good," Berenson said. This season, the Wolverines won a school-record 35 games, and the senior class finished with a record of 132- 26-8, also a school-best. But what will stick in everyone's mind is Morrison's overtime goal against Colorado College last season - Michigan's first national championship in 32 years. The announcement of Morrison as the 17th Hobey Baker Award recipient capped a sea- son filled with awards for the senior. He was named a West All-American for the third consecutive season and became the first player in the CCHA's 26-year history to be named conference player of the year two consecutive seasons. Last night's speakers focused on why col- lege hockey is a better option for young men than playing in the major junior leagues. And Berenson said that players like Morrison are what have made college hock- ey thrive. "If you continue to bring in more players like this," he said, "Then college hockey will be in good shape" Perry to take. top job at E. Kentucky By John Leroi Daily Sports Editor With all the hubbub over Maurice Taylor's decision whether to leave Michigan for the NBA, another Wolverine got away without much notice. Michigan assistant coach Scott Perry said yesterday that he will take the head coaching job at Eastern Kentucky, a Division I school in the Ohio Valley Conference, about 25 miles from Kentucky's Lexington cam- pus. "Obviously, it is difficult to leave Michigan," Perry said. "I have many strong ties here: My father is an alumnus; my grandfather is an alumnus; I grew up here. "But being a head coach has been a goal of mine ever since I got into this Perry profession. Eastern Kentucky represents interesting opportunities and challenges for me to demon- strate my ability to run a major program." Perry will accept the position at a 10 a.m. press conference today in Richmond, Ken. Eastern Kentucky Athletic Directo Robert Baugh did not return phone calls placed to his offic yesterday. Perry, 33, replaces Mike Calhoun, who tendered his resig- nation in February. Calhoun had little success in Richmond last year: the Colonels were just 8-18 overall and shared the conference cellar with Morehead State at 6-12. Eastern Kentucky doesn't exactly have the basketball-rich tradition that in-state rivals Kentucky and Louisville enjoy. But Perry sees that as an opportunity not a limitation to build the Colonels' program. "People must remember that I started at the Universityo Detroit, so I learned what it's like at that level," Perry said. "We're certainly not going to compete with Kentucky or Louisville, but Kentucky is a basketball-crazy state. There are no professional sports teams there at all, so if we can make something happen, we'll have no problem getting some atten- tion." Perry said what he will miss most about Michigan is the relationships that he built with coaches, administrators and players in his four years under Michigan coach Steve Fisher. "I will always keep in contact with coach Fisher (and assis- tant coaches) Brian Dutcher and Scott Trost' Perry said. "And I'm sure I'll keep in touch with a lot of the players, becase recruited them, and I've gotten to know them and their fami- lies very well." The Wolverines are losing a talented recruiter, who played a major role in landing Detroit-area recruits Taylor, Robert Traylor, Albert White and Willie Mitchell as well as Clinton, Miss., native Jerod Ward, the No. I-rated high school player in 1994. He also helped construct the Wolverines' 1994and 1995 recruiting classes, regarded many as the best classes in the nation. The loss of Perry, who grew up in Detroit and attende University of Detroit Jesuit high school, leaves Fisher without an assistant from Detroit. The Detroit area is vital to Michigan's recruiting success. Former Wolverines Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Michael Talley and Leon Derricks all played high school basketball in Detroit. Michigan's recruiting prowess used to hinge on getting the best players from Detroit before tapping out-of-state recruits, but no Detroiters were in the 1996 class, nor are any as yet signed for the 1997 class, "It's certainly very important to get the good players from Detroit, so it's vital to have a coach who knows the Detroit area," Perry said. "But whether or not the next assistant i from Detroit, I don't know. "Fisher's been around for a while. People know him, people respect him. I think he'll do fine either way." Perry was an assistant at California for a season before tak- ing the Michigan job in 1993. He was an assistant under Ricky Byrdsong for five seasons at Detroit He was also an All-State guard as a senior at Detroit Jesuit, scoring 16.5 points and dishing out seven assists per gameJe played his first two years of college basketball at Oregon before transferring to Wayne State in Detroit for his final two seasons. i -M M' softbal - y Josh Kleinbaum .aily Sports Writer The Michigan softball team has- -'t done much in the late-inning ° eroics department this season. until yesterday, that is. The Wolverines (4-3 Big Ten, 33- 41-1 overall) used an extra-inning lly to beat Notre Dame, 2-1, in the rst game of a doubleheader then -;ored two in the bottom of the sev- > nth to win the second game, 5-4. The opener was the first extra- ining game of the season for Ziichigan and only its third victory *,' hen it's scored less than three runs. The nightcap marked only the eccond win for Michigan when it -4vas trailing after six innings. Tammy Mika had a dominant day t the plate for the Wolverines, col- 1 plunders Irish luck, sweeps doubleheader lecting the game-winning RBI in the first game and scoring the winning run in the second. Kelly Holmes also turned in an excellent performance, giving up only three hits and no earned runs in 10 innings pitched over both games. Holmes earned both victories. Michigan got on the board quick- ly in the first game, scoring a run in the first inning on an RBI single to shallow left by catcher Jen Smith. And for a while, it looked like that would be all the run support Holmes would need. The Michigan senior pitched masterfully, shutting out the Fighting Irish through the first five innings and looking to be well on the way to the victory. But after Holmes surrendered a leadoff walk to Irish first baseman Kelly Rowe in the sixth inning, Kara McMahon reached base on an error, putting runners on first and second for the Irish. A failed sacrifice later, Elizabeth Perkins hit a bloop single to left field, scoring McMahon and knotting the game at one. This set the scene for Mika's first stint of the day as hero. Kellyn Tate worked a one-out walk in the bottom of the eighth for Michigan. After a sacrifice and a walk, Mika ripped a 1-1 pitch to left field, scoring Tate and giving Michigan the 2-1 victory. From the outset, the second game looked to be the polar opposite of the first - a poorly-pitched and poorly-fielded game by both teams. By the middle of the third inning, seven runners had already crossed the plate - more than twice the total of the first game. The Irish scored three runs in the top half of that inning, taking a 4-3 lead. They loaded the bases on a walk, an error and an infield single before Perkins hit a bases-clearing double, driving in all three runners. But then the pitchers settled down on both teams. Jamie Gillies pitched two scoreless innings for Michigan before being relieved by Holmes, and Notre Dame pitcher Joy Battersby, who relieved Kelly Nichols in the third, held Michigan to no runs through the sixth. "Jamie (Gillies) wasn't throwing poorly, but she wasn't hitting all of her locations," Michigan coach Carol Hutchins said. "We didn't want to let up any more runs, and we knew (Holmes) was throwing well." When the seventh inning came around, Mika had her second chance to play hero. Lisa Kelley led off the inning for Michigan with a triple down the left field line, putting the tying run 90 feet from home. After Cathy Davie was retired on a short fly ball to left field, Mika singled up the middle, scoring Kelley. But Mika wasn't done. With Smith at the plate, Mika stole second base, putting herself in scoring posi- tion. 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