6B - The Michigan Daily e- SPORTSMonday - Monday, October 2, 1995 MICHIGAN 3 GAME S MIAMI Continued from page 18 uprights from 54 yards away, setting a new Miami distance record and making it a 31-6 game. Steele's sack knocked quarterback TATISTICS Neil Dougherty out of the game with a broken fibula. Michigan's next drive went even worse. On the first play, Griese, mak- ing his first start in place of the in- C-A Yds TD Int jured Scott Dreisbach, had his pass tipped and intercepted by Dee -24 192 2 1 Osborne. Miami got the ball at the 0-2 0 0 1 five-yard line. "They blitzed the linebackers from -26 192 2 2 outside and tipped it and made a good play." Griese said. "It's unfortunate - I've got to get the ball up a little bit." PASSING Player I Griese 14 J. Carr Totals 14 RUSHING Deland McCullough, who totaled 141 Player Att Yds Avg LgTD yards on 28 carries, broke into the end zone three plays later to make it 31-13. B'tuka 22 95 4.3 16 1 "We turned the ball over three con- C.W'iamsl1 53 4.8 14 0 secutive possessions in the third quar- ter," Carr said. "Not only did we turn it Floyd 8 45 5.6 9 0 over, we gave them great field position. That changed the momentum of the Toomer 1 1515.0 15 0 game. From then on Miami was a dif- Davis 4 12 3.0 4 0 ferent team." Miami got on the board once more in Anderson 1 5 5.0 5 0 the quarter. Quarterback Sam Ricketts took his team 80 yards in five J. Carr 1 1 1.0 1 0 plays to make it 31-19. The two-point Howell 1 1 1.0 1 0 conversion attempt failed but still left plenty of nervous folks in the stadium Griese 2(-)21(-)10.50 0 as the quarter came to an end. Michigan got its first break of the Totals 51 232 4.0 16 1 half early in the fourth quarter. Nate DeLong boomed a 65-yard punt, pin- ning Miami at the 10-yard line. When RECEIVING Miami's drive stalled and it had to punt, the Wolverines got another Player No. Yds Avg LTD break. Hayes 6 107 17.8 33 1 A bad snap forced Jason Cheney to field it on a knee, giving the Wolverines Toomer 3 40 13.3 22 1 the ball at the Miami 41. Michigan drove deep into Miami territory culmi- R'mersma3 33~ 11.0 13 0 nating inBiakabutuka'stouchdownrun. CW'iams 1 7 7.0 7 0 The drive nearly ended in an inter- ception by Johnnie Williams but pass Tuman 1 5 5.0 5 0 interference was ruled, giving it back to the Wolverines. Totals 14192 13.7 33 2 "Thatinterferencecallwasabigcall," Walker said. "I'm not going to com- ment on it. In my league, you get in PUNTING trouble making comments on officiat- ing." Player No. Yds Avg Lg Miami's finaldriveendedayardaway DeLong 3 146 48.765 from the end zone with 28 seconds to go, preserving the 38-19 final. Peristeris 1 0 0.0 0 Michigan got the jump on Miami, notching Remy Hamilton field goals on Totals 414636.565 the Wolverines' first two drives. Griese gained assurance in himself on Michigan's first play from scrim- PUNT RETURNS mage. He hit Mercury Hayes short over the middle for four yards and a big Player No. Yds Avg LgTD confidence builder. Toomer 3 3913.0 32 0 "We had worked on that play all week in practice and I knew those safe- ties were going to be coming up," Griese said. "(Hayes) runs that route great and we play faked and hit it and it was big. It gave me a lot of confidence." Griese continued moving the Wol- verines for the rest of the half connect- ing on 10 of 13 passes for 157 yards in the first half. "I thought he did an excellent job," Carr said. "He made one bad throw in the first half. Other than that I thought he threw the ball crisply. His reads were good and he threw the ball real well." Michigan's first touchdown came at the 7:34 mark ofthe first quarter. Safety Chuck Winters stepped in front of Mi- ami receiver Eric Henderson to inter- cept Rickets' pass. Winters returned it 35 yards for a touchdown. A two-point conversion made it 14-0. "My coach told me to line up out- side (Henderson)," Winters said. "When I did, he just ran a low flat route and I saw the quarterback. I went up, got the ball and went straight for the end zone." Griese threw his first career touch- down pass on the next drive to Amani Toomer to make it '21-0 after one quarter. Hamilton hit a 37-yarder and Hayes made a diving catch in the end zone to send Michigan to the half with a 31-0 lead. "They were definitely taking some chances and we burned them a couple of times," Griese said. "We could have thrown the ball all day but that's not what our game plan was. We did a good job of running the ball in the first half and mixing it up." Griese completed 14 of 24 passes for 192 yards in his first collegiate start. "I wasn't really nervous, I was just excited to get out there and play," Griese said. "I knew what I had to do. All I had to do was go out and play like I prac- ticed." The Wolverines scored on each of their six first-half possessions. "I like to come out and set the stage for the rest of the game," Griese said. "We did it today getting out to a 31-0 lead. You like to come out and stun your opponent and let them know that you've come to play that day." The game marked the end of Michigan's nonconference slate. Now the Wolverines can concentrate on their conference goals. "I think we're ready to go in the Big Ten," Carr said. "We better be because they're not going to cancel any games for us here in the weeks ahead." The Wolverines may be ready, but their second-half performance won't be forgotten. "We believe our defense is one ofthe top defenses in the country," Winters said. "We don't think that things like that should hapoen." Michigan's defense had a lot to cheer about in the first half against Miami. The Wolverines held Miami scoreless for the Neil Dougherty and Sam Ricketts to 140 passing yards on the day. The Wolverines also intercepted one pass and recove Butterfield2 9 4.5 9 0 Hayes Totals 1 6 6.0 6 0 6 54 9.0 32 0 KICKOFF RETURNS Player No. Yds Avg IgTD Toomer 2 35 17.5 18 0 Totals 2 3517.518 0 DEFENSE Player Irons Woodson Swett Solo 8 9 6 Ast 3 0 1 Tot 11 9 7 Ray Steele 5 2 7 MARK IED MAN/Daiy 5 . 0 5 Jay Riemersma caught three passes for 33 yards Saturday against Miami. / V _-_ J Thompson King Zenkewicz Copenhaver Elston Feazell Sanders Bolach Feely Griese Huff Winters Bowens Sword 5 0 1 3 3 4 1 2 2 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 4 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 MICHIGAN SCHEDULE A27 VIRGINIA 18-17 3-14 AA III 9 II1innfiS