4B - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, September 18, 1995 g a m e s.t . v R . Yfi' ,. U /5; Ar .ll .' alt , 4<4 . . Offense stalls, then gets in gear Defense keeps Blue in game as Wolverine attack starts slowly GAME STATISTICS By Antoine Pitts Daily Sports Editor PASSING Player Dreisbach B'batuka R'ersma Totals RUSHING 4 Player Att B'batuk a 32 Floyd 4 Davis 10 Dreisbach 4 Hankins 1 Griese 2 i CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - The Michigan offense was going nowhere fast. The physical Boston College defense held the C-A Yds TD Int Wolverines at bay for their first six possessions of the game. -21177 0 1 Meanwhile, the Eagles took a 6-0 lead and had 0-1 0 0 0 success running the ball with tailback Justice 0-1 0 0 Smith. 0-1 0 0 0 The Wolverines took over the ball midway 123 177 0 1 through the second quarter and decided to get to work. Two big runs by tailback Tshimanga Biakabutuka seemed to get the offense rolling for Michigan. Instead ofrunning at the line, Dreisbach Yds Avg LgTD tossed the ball out to Biakabutuka and let him work outside. 117 3.7 19 1 Dreisbach pitched the ball to the right to 23 5.8 16 0 Biakabutuka for a seven-yard gain. The next play was a pitch to the left to Biakabutuka. This time he 151.5 10 1 scampered for 16 yards and a first down. 6 1.5 7 0 A three-yard loss on an Ed Davis run left Michi- gan with a second-and-13 situation from its own 44.0 0 0 34-yard line. That set up the Wolverines' first big (-)3(-)1.50 0 play of the evening. Dreisbach had thrown an interception to end the 1943.119 2 previous Michigan drive, but this time he dropped back and hit a sprinting Mercury Hayes over the middle for a 52-yard gain. That put Michigan in Boston College territory for the first time. rds Avg LgTD Four plays later, Remy Hamilton split the up- rights from 25 yards away to cut the Eagles' lead 76 19.0 25 0 in half. 68 22.7 52 0 The Wolverines moved the ball well on their next three possessions, scoring a touchdown and 33 16.5 27 0 field goal to take a 13-6 halftime lead. N'I we can htang in there dfesvey. our offense is going to comre around" - Jason Horn Michigan defensive tackle Michigan's early inability to move the ball not only meant plenty of appearances by punter Nate DeLong. It also meant that the Michigan defense spent a good deal of time on the field. The first five possessions resulted in DeLong punts, the sixth in Dreisbach's interception. DeLong's first punt - an1 1 -yarder - put the defense in a big hole. However, the Wolverines were able to get an interception to thwart a Boston College scoring chance. "We know if we can hang in there defensively ... our offense is going to come around," defen- sive tackle Jason Horn said. "It's been like that a couple of times this season but we know they're going to put the points on the board if we can hang in there." Michigan's defense was able to hold the Eagles the rest of the evening, but the effort definitely took its toll on the players. "I can just look at Horn - he had three sacks today - but if you saw him after the game he could barely move," Marinaro said. "He was dead tired. That's because he was on the field for too long making too many plays. We can't let that happen." Totals 53 RECEIVING Player No. Y Toomer 4 Hayes 3 R'ersma 2 Two runs by Michigan tailback Tshimanga Biakabutuka got the Michigan offense going in the first half after a slow start. Totals 9177 19.7 52 0 PUNTING Player ' nn EAGLES Continued from page 18 I No. Yds Avg Lg 7 '2A33A 7A '6 t I" t -143 04. t"140 run, Dreisbach finally got on track, hit- Totals 7 24334.746 ting Mercury Hayes for 52 yards. The play took the Wolverines to the Eagles' 14 yard line. PUNT RETURNS Up until that point in the game, the redshirt freshman had connected on just Player No. Yds Avg Lg TD one of his first 1 I passes. Dreisbach fin- Toomer 2 2412.016 0 ished the game 9-of-21 for 177 yards. "(Dreisbach) showedwhat he was made Hayes 2 1 .5 1 0 of because a lot of kids, after throwing Totals 4 25 6.3 16 0 that interception in the second quarter, would have lost their composure," Wol- verine coach Lloyd Carr said. "He is a KICKOFF RETURNS very, very tough kid, mentally and physi- cally." Player No. Yds Avg Lg TD Michigan was unable to punch the ball Hayes 1 20 20.0 20 0 into the end zone after the play and had to settle for a 26-yard Remy Hamilton field Williams 1 9 9.0 9 0 goal. B'well 1 0 0 0 0 That score, with 3:35 left in the second quarter, got the Michigan offense going Totals 3 29 9.7 20 0 andtheWolverinesputup 1 morepoints before the half was over. Thompson intercepted another Hartsell DEFENSE pass and gave Michigan the ball back at Playr Soo As Tot its own 44 with 2:47 left. Player Solo Ast Tot I don't think you can go into a shell," Horn 6 2 8 Henning said when asked why he didn't Irons 6 1 7 try to run the halfout. "Mark tried tomake a big time throw and they made a big time Swett 6 0 6 interception." On the first play after the turnover, King 4 2 6 Dreisbach hit tight end Jay Riemersma, Steele 4 0 4 who made a brilliant one-handed catch, for 27 yards to the Boston College 29. Thompson 3 0 3 Three plays later, Biakabutuka scam- Elston 2 1 3 pered 18 yards for the touchdown. The Wolverines got the ball back Ray 2 1 3 with six seconds to go in the first half, Winters 2 1 3 and after Dreisbach connected with Amani Toomer for 14 yards, Hamilton Copenhaver 2 0 2 kicked his second field goal of the half Sanders 2 0 2 as time expired. The 13 points in the final 3:35 of the Woodson 2 0 2 half gave Michigan momentum and con- Dreisbach 1 0 1 trol ofthegame, and itneverreally looked back. Hankins 1 0 1 The Wolverines jumped out to a 23-6 JONATHAN LURIE/Daily Michigan's Jason Hom had three sacks in Saturday's game against Boston College. lead in the second halfoR another Hamilton field goal (29 yards) and a one-yard Ed Davis touchdown run. Both scores came late in the third quarter. Going into the game, Carr had been worried whether Michigan would be able to match up against what he believed would be the best offense it had yet faced. Now, the offense is the concern for Michigan. "We can't afford to have any more starts like that because the defense is liable to have an off-day," Marinaro said. Mayes Noble Simmons Zenkewicz Anderson W. Carr Feazell 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 INTERCEPTIONS Player Winters King Swett Thompson Totals MICHIGAN A?97 VIRGINl No. Yds 1 44 1 22 1 20 1 7 4 93 TD 0 0 0 0 0 By Antoine Pitts and Ryan White Daily Sports Editors CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Joe Marinaro got the job done, and it had nothing to do with his work on Michigan's offensive line Saturday against Boston College. The task Marinaro, an Andover, Mass. native, had to accomplish was finding 60 tickets for family and friends who live in the area. It was the first time that Marinaro had gone home to play a game, and it was everything he had hoped it would be. "It was a great expel ience," he said after the Wolverines' 23-13 win. "I was hoping I'd be able to settle down after the first play and I did." Each player is only allowed four tickets per road game, so Marinaro was forced to search the lockerroom for teammates with extras. "Fortunately no one is from Boston," Marinaro said. Marinaro was on the team when it traveled to Boston in 1991, but he did not play. OUCH!: Michigan quarterback Scott Dreisbach suffered a slight concussion on one of his last plays Saturday night. Neither Dreisbach or the coaches knew which play caused the concussion, but Dreisbach wasn't worried about missing any games. oo "Yeah, I'm going to be all right," he said. "We've got two .va nf en , n Il Qallrut " Nnannka SCHEDULE All A A A A ? IlA 1 R..17 x-