', MARCH 14, 1954 THE MICHIGAN DAILY MARCH 14, 1954 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Rensselaer Michigan Pucksters Crush Takes Puck Grown I Boston in Consolation Game Philpott Pulls Hat ' MacFarland, Lucieri By HANLEY GURWIN Special to The Daily COLORADO SPRINGS-Michi- gan salvaged what little glory was left for them at this year's NCAA hockey tournament as the Wol- verines skated to an easy 7-2 vic- tory over Boston College in the consolation game here yesterday afternoon. The win was little consolation, though, for the six seniors who were playing their last game for the Maize and Blue. The seventh senior, Willard Ikola, did not dress for the game. * * * BILL LUCIER handled the net ' minding chores for Vic Heyliger's sextet and turned in a brilliant performance to ring tlown the Michigan hockey curtain for an- other year. After losing the right to de- fend their championship against Minnesota by losing Friday night to RPI, the Wolverines came back yesterday to win consola- tion honors for the third time in the seven year history of the playoffs. The one bright ray in the Wol- verine camp was the performance of sophomore Bill MacFarland, who tied a tournament record by picking up nine points in the two games. MacFarland scored one goal and four assists yesterday to go along with his, hat-trick and an assist Friday. IT WAS MacFarland's second line that paved the way to victory over Boston just as it kept the Wolverines in that game against the Engineers on Friday. Linemate Doug Philpott tal- lied three times against the Eagles yesterday and also as- sisted on a goal by Captain Jimmy Haas, both of whom were also playing their last game as a Wolverine. In fact, the only two scores that were not made by the second line in the tournament were made when Michigan had an irregular line-up on the ice because of a man advantage or a man short, r s s FOR SENIORS George Chin, Doug Mullen, and Pat Cooney, Michigan's number one line throughout the season, the tour- ney was a nightmare as far as hockey was concerned. Although one of the highest scoring lines in Wolverine his- tory, the trio--was only able to for Wolverines; Star in 7-2 Win BILL MACFARLAND . .. ties record pick up two goals, one each by Chin and Mullen. Both in the final period when Michigan tal- lied four times to sew up the contest. As in Friday's game, the officials were whistle-happy against the hard-checking Wolverines and they handed out nine penalties to Michigan and only four to Boston College. Burt Dunn, the remaining sen- ior on the squad, played both games with a badly bruised ankle which he suffered in practice be- fore tl, tournament. The only members of this year's team who are expected to return next fall for the 1954-55 season are Lucier, MacFarland, wings Jay Goold and Yves Herbert. and de- fenseman Neil Buchanan. HOCKEY STATISTICS FIRST PERIOD: Goals: 1. Michi- gan Philpott (Goold), 6:10; 2. Boston dempsey (Gagliard) 12:32; 3. Michigan,- Haas (Philpott, MacFarland) 13:13. Penalties: Boston: Sibo (boarding) 2:10, Forgues (holding) 16:51. . SECOND PERIOD: Goals: 4. Michi- gan, Philpott (MacFarland), 15:58. Penalties: Boston: Smith (tripping), 7:37; Michigan: Cooney (tripping) 1:14, Buchanan (elbowing), 3:38, Mul- len (slashing), 9:10. THIRD PERIOD: Goals: 5. Michi- gan, Philpott (MacFarland), 1:25; 6. Michigan, Chin (Mullen), 1:41; 7. Michigan, MacFarland (Chin), 11:32; 8. Boston, Cisternelli (Quinn, Sibio), 12:22; 9. Michigan, Mullen (MacFar. land), 14:31. Penalties: Boston: Kiley (tripping), 2:46; Michigan: Mullen (tripping), 6:15 Mullen (tripping), 11:06, Dunn (holding), 11:13, Philpott (tripping), 12:25, Philpott (holding), 1621, Dunn (holding), 18:05. RPI Dumps Minnesota In Overtime Special to The Daily COLORADO SPRINGS - RPI played giant killer for the second night in a row as an overtime goal netted a 5-4 victory over Minneso- ta here last night to give the En- gineers their first NCAA ice cham- pionship. Gordon Peterkin scored the win- ning tally at 1:54 of sudden death overtime to clinch the most bril- liant victory in the seven year history of the tournament. * * * THE SCORE came out of a scramble in front of the net when Peterkin casually flipped the puck over the prostrated form of Go- pher goalie Jim Mattson. Sparked by center Abbey Moore, who was voted the tour- nament's most valuable player, and goalie Bob Fox, who turned aside 40 shots in last night's victory, the Engineers put on an inspired performance to outhus- tle Minnesota all the way. Just as it did the night before, RPI jumped into an early 3-0 lead and then saw it wither away as NCAA HOCKEY ALL-STAR TEAM Bob Fox, RPI-Goalie Jim Pope, RPI-Defense Ken Yackel, Minn.-Defense Frank Chiarelli, RPI-Center Gordon Peterkin, RPI-Wing John Mayasich, Minn.--Wing the game progressed. At 4:39 of the third period, Gopher center, Johnny Mayasich beat Fox to tie; up the game at 3-3. * * * LESS THAN four minutes later Dick Daugherty finished off a set- up pass from Mayasich to put Minnesota into a 4-3 lead. The underdog Engineers apparently were through despite their gallant effort. However, Moore surprised the capacity gathering of 2600 by beating Mattson with a close in drive at 16:10 to again tie up the contest. Fox, playing brilliantly, turned aside Minnesota for the remainder of the period to send RPI to its overtime victory. The classy Fox had 20 saves in the final stanza. Mayasich, by picking up two points against Rensselaer tied the tournament scoring record of nine points, also tied by Bill MacFar- land of Michigan in the afternoon, contest.I By The Associated Press Holy Cross scored its second straight upset and captured the National Invitational Basketball Tournament championship by de- feating top-seeded Duquesne last night, 71-62. Thursday night the Crusaders surprise second-seeded Western Kentucky, 75-69. * * * THE CROWD of 18,496, which established a new Madison Square Gargen record, saw All -American Togo Palazzi play his last and one of his best games for Holy Cross. Palazzi didn't reach the upper scoring brackets he usually hits but he did everything else so su- perbly that the Dukes hardly had a chance. Not only did he score 20 points, but he did such a job both on offense and defense and defense against Dick Rick- etts, Duquesne's All-American, that Ricketts scored only 13 points before he fouled out aft- er two minutes of the last quar- ter. In the first game of the double- header, Western Kentucky suffer- ed its second upset loss in a row, going down before Niagara, 71-65. 'Bo' Erias led the Eagles to third place in the NIT as he tallied 21 points and gave a fine all-around performance. * * * IOWA CITY, Iowa - Notre Dame, which surprised Indiana on Friday night, was itself the vic- tim of an upset last night when unsung Penn State smashed the Irish 18-game winning streak, 71- 63. The Nittany Lions, the last team invited to the NCAA basket- Thomson Out ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - (/P) - Bobby Thomson, the for- mer New York Giants' outfield- er whom the Milwaukee Braves were counting on so heavily, fractured his right ankle slid- ing in an exhibition game yes- terday and may be lost to the Braves for as long as three months. ball championships thus reached the semi-final round. In the first game on the bill, defending champion Indiana settled for third place in the Iowa City NCAA regional tour- nament by whipping Louisiana State, 73-62. STILLWATER, Oklahoma-Un- heralded Bradley University, the at-large representative, surprised Oklahoma A&M last night, 71-57, to win the western regional NCAA basketball crown.. Bradley scored the most points ever tallied against the Aggies at home as it gained the NCAA semi-finals. In the opening game Rice snap- ped to life after a slow start and THIRD STRAIGHT: High School Tank Title Won By Fordson; Records Broken By LEW HAMBURGER Holy Cross Upsets Dukes; Garners NIT Championship ran over Colorado, 78-55 to take the consolation final. PHILADELPHIA - LaSalle's scrappy Explorers ran away frm Navy in the second half to score an easy 64-48 victory and qualify for the NCAA semi-final round March 19 at Kansas City. While talented Tom Gola led the LaSalle offensive as usual, it was Bob Naples who early in the third per- 4 iod got hot and broke a low-scor- ing, close-to-the-vest defensive contest. North Carolina State, led by its all-time scoring ace Mel Thomp- son who tallied 26, captured the consolation game by beating Cor- LEE KRUBHOLZ hell, 65-54. . . . best of Wolverines Six state and two national rec- ords fell as Fordson-Dearborn, rated by many the nation's top high school swim team, captured the State Class A meet for the third consecutive time here at the Varsity Pool last night. Coach Gus Stager's outfit was led by a tall, stout boy by the name of Ken Gest. In the preliminaries in the afternoon Gest established a new national 50 yard freestyle record of 22.9 seconds and went on to successfully defend his title in the finals last night. * * * THE FORDSON medley relay trio added another national rec- ord to Stager's collection. Gest came from behind as anchor man to win after teammates BillButz- laff, backstrker, and breaststroker Tom Kwasney completed their legs of the relay a yard behind a strong Jackson team. 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