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DETROIT FREE PRESSTHURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1990 3D Michigan Tech's new coach wants a Spartan lool Brown, a center at Michigan State 7 Style and substance don't necessarily go together, but don't be surprised next season if Michigan Tech's hockey team resembles Michigan State in both. Tech's new coach, Newell Brown, was an assistant to Michigan State coach Ron Mason. "After being associated with Ron for the last eight years," Brown said, "I know the importance of playing defen- in iysi-84 and assistant coach for three seasons, is going to Houghton at a time the community of 10,000 is looking for a return to the glory days of Maclnnes, whose teams won three NCAA titles CIi Senior forward tztl (Hud3onvS: Unity Christian) was sccted third-team A8-Anwrica by the National Association of r-ecJ Coaches for NCAA and sacond-team by r-Eaetbtl Times magazine. Sail avsred 17.3 points and 7.0 rbounda. Freshman center Steve -isndmni (Grand Rapids Christian) was to the Division aU-tTurp- itt jh.

I lor tram. 1. for ttosacond strait year. She fe the only MCC player in In double fijures for points and rebounds (10.9). mT-Senior g-jard 1 11.

(Covert) wrs votod ILe' "I'm a young coach, but I'm an experienced coach," said Brown, who has coached and played for Canadian teams in international competition. "I've been teaching the game since I've been 13 years old, and I've always aspired to be a coach." Mason said Brown would be able to handle the high expectations. "When a team is underachieving, a lot of people look at the coach and put the blame on the coach when there might be several factors involved," said Mason, second in all-time college victories (574). He passed Maclnnes last season. "But when Newell gets the program reestablished and the players start reacting to his philosophy and he starts recruiting and bringing in his own players, then things will turn around." Brown, a native of Cornwall, Ontario, said he planned to spend the summer finding assistant coaches and get meeting.

Now Madonna has 24 players and a 9-4 record. Madonna, which plays its first 26 games on the road because it rents Ford Field in Livonia for home games and can't use it until after April 15, opens its first NAIA District 23 season at Sienna Heights on April 12. "The atmosphere is totally different now," said Jim Boucher, a senior leftfielder from Livonia Stevenson. "I was on the club team in '87 and there were only 3-4 guys that played baseball before. It's pretty surprising the progress that's been made for a new program." Madonna, which has a 3-1 ratio of women to men in its 4,064 enrollment, also competes in women's basketball and volleyball.

Softball will be added next season, and men's basketball is planned for 1992 or 1993 in a roughly $100,000 budget. ting acclimated to the Upper Peninsula. "One thing I learned under Ron Mason was how to recruit hockey players," Brown said. "You can't win without talent. "But the thing we need to focus on here is defensive hockey.

Our goalies are facing 40 shots a game. We've got to cut those shots down. We'll be patient. We know that not everything is going to happen overnight, but we are hopeful of a turnaround. "The people have really welcomed me warmly.

It's exciting because there is a great hockey tradition here. To me, this is Hockey Town USA." STARTING FROM SCRATCH: If enthusiasm is related to success, coach Mike George has the Madonna baseball program pointed in the right direction. In November 1988, only five players showed up for George's first team Newell Brown JANIE REILLY Michigan colleges sive hockey. There will be some similarities between Michigan Tech and Michigan State, especially at first. "I have my own ideas I'd like to bring in, too.

We're not going to be a carbon copy, but Lnft'sy vandsJretsdtofreAlt-' (1962, '65 and 75). Hockey is Michigan Tech's major revenue sport and the only sport that competes in NCAA Division but the Huskies haven't had a winning record since 1983. Brown replaces Herb Boxer, forced to resign after a 66-129-8 record in five seasons. it will be close, Brown, 28, became the II ZX ri i ru i i 1 youngest West i j. UntiH team.

Tuck r- i20.3?t,.:ts,s3condlnthe xx' -rse. mf.z: 2. Junior guard Eric C'ott 'Hudsonr: j) was selected third- team Ail-America by the National of r-etberl Coaches and tzjic.a Times, 20.9 points and set a school 8irJ9-see3bn record for three-poifiijrs (42). Senior center Elll Lpn (Muskegon) was selected to the National Small College Athletic Association All-America team, the school's first All-America In any sport tynn ted Nazareth in scoring 16.6), scooting (.559) and rebounding (7.3). KCr.r.r'OCS: Senior forward Urtanut (Bear Lake) Is the Mconrtrjiriinn stuvat In wihnnl em Collegiate Hockey Association coach when he signed a four-year contract Tuesday.

Michigan Tech, which finished last in the WCHA at 6-22-0, most recently I WC I on LAizn you'll I won the WCHA in 1976. III 111-, -u. 1 A i 4 I "We were looking for the best hockey coach we could find in North America," said Bert Whitten, Tech's vice president for student services, I history and honorable mention on who hired Brown over 30 other candi i i I 1 1 I Mill 'LJJrLJy i I NAIA A8-America team. dates. "When Shawn Walsh took over ii "-iif 71 if 1 rf i II 171 YOU CUY CI I the Maine program, he was 28, and Urbamjsficored Infour seasons, set five team records, shares the single-game scoring record of 37 points and is seventh when John Machines started at Michi career reoounomg with 667.

OKLAHOMA CITY: Junior guard (Devon ismo co- gan Tech, he was 31. 1 don think age necessarily says a lot about the capabilities of an individual. If you look at Newell's track record, he has the experience of some people 35 or more." Walsh was an assistant to Mason when Brown played at MSU. Brown also is the second of Mason's players to player of the year In the Sooner Athletic Conference. Wrby is, a porns ana u.4 rebounds and led the team in Km (m )l Byjanie Reify, special writer become a head coach, following Mich n-f Mill Ik a 9 rww va rvtMJi gan-Dearborn coach Tom Anastos.

sports in jeopardy for Michigan-Dearborn By Scott Walton Free Press Sports Writer TMichigan-Dearborn hockey coach Anastos is in limbo. 'snt sure whether he will have a team to coach next season. report by three consultants rec-C lommends three options for the univer- 'Sity's athletic programs, one of which is to drop varsity sports altogether. Hockey is the most visible of the school's three snorts, and Anastos IfJT BBS. RES.

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The school dropped men's basketball and fencing three years ago. John Devlin, an associate professor of physics who chairs the Faculty Advisory Committee on Campus Affairs, said athletics cost too much. "Dearborn is a very underfunded community," he said, "and we have to be careful where we allocate our funds. I'm not sure going to NCAA status is what's best for the campus as a whole. I can see where it's good for individuals, but I'm not sure dumping lots of money into a program to benefit 40 to 100 individuals is best.

We have a campus of 7,600 students, and their needs and interests have to be addressed also." The report, commissioned by the board of regents, warned that seeking NCAA affiliation might force the school to quadruple the current student activity fee ($30) charged each term. The consultants "recommended that if we do decide to move toward NCAA status, that we should work to get in compliance with their rules and set aside two years for restructuring," said Steve Wasko, director of university relations. "In other words, we shouldn't apply for NCAA membership the week after a decision is made." Anastos prefers the NCAA option. "We're a program without sanctioning," he said. i-fears the worst.

A decision is expected 2hls" spring. I couldn't hear something soon vynpugh for my tastes," said Anastos, j-jwhose three-year record is 67-38-7. 2'It's impossible to recruit, it's difficult schedule games against competitive Jeams, and it's hard to keep my play-ZtS. Many have talked to me about leaving." Women's basketball and volleyball 'are the school's other varsity sports. Other options listed in the report, prepared by Colorado State University Consultants: Upgrade athletics through sanctioning by the NCAA.

Maintain the status quo, with and volleyball affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the hockey team unsanctioned by the NCAA or rjNAIA. Athletic director Sid Fox said some iL Michigan-Dearborn administrators and faculty members want to kill inter- follegiate athletics. "I think there's just not a high regard for the role of athletics on this campus," Fox said. "On this particular they're very academically We cater to a very select group Students, which is great. I "But I think we've demonstrated that on those terms we can perform "'quite well.

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