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Wales all-stars win Page 2 Athletics sign Baylor Page 2 Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday, February 1 0, 1 988, Section 2 Moneystock listings Pages 6-8 I v. r. rs By Jay Greenberg Johannson survives final Team USA cut in Calgary. The other defensive pair, Greg Brown and Jeff Norton, looks like it can do the job. The U.S.

team is seeded seventh, strictly on the basis of the crash and burn in Sarajevo four years ago. Realistically, it deserves to be ranked about fifth. The Soviets have the best players and the deepest 18-man roster, but are a precarious favorite because of their goaltending. The Czechs are usually good and, in Dominic Hasek, might have the best goalie in the tournament If Hasek isn't then Peter Lindmark could be, and the skilled Swedes, who play a patient, confounding style, cannot be taken lightly. Canada beat the Soviets at the Izv-estia tournament The Canadians have a goalie, Sean Burke, who is not only of franchise potential to the New Jersey Devils but would make for a great national hero on home ice.

Yes, they believe in miracles in Canada, too. The Finns and West Germans play the sport well enough to be dangerous on a given night But so do the Americans, if they get the break or two they didn't get at Sarajevo. The medal round is a realistic goal As long as the U.S. sandwiches victories against Austria, then later Norway and West Germany, around the expected losses in Games 2 and 3 vs. the Soviets and Czechs, the Americans will qualify to go on.

But since the preliminary-round record against the other two medal-round qualifiers from the U.S. pool likely the Czechs and Soviets carries over into the second round, the Americans probably will have to win one of those two games. Otherwise, they will have to do an unlikely amount of winning in the six-team, cream-of-the-crop medal round, to get enough points for one of the top three spots. "Media and fan expectations are things we have to live with," Peterson said. He has soft-pedaled the hype and cracked the whip since July.

He has had to both condition his team and joust with the ugly dragon that comes out of its cave once every four years. It doesn't know much about hockey, but it chants, "USA! USA!" And it breathes fire if somebody it never heard of, such as Dave Peterson, doesn't give it a winner. "We're just going to do the best we can," said Corey Millen, who did that in Sarajevo, too. "The real hockey people know what we're up against We've worked very hard. And no matter what happens, we won't have any reason to be embarrassed." A longshot named Jim Johannson and two other former University of Wisconsin athletes, forward Tony Granato and goalie Mike Richter, officially made the United States' Olympic hockey team Tuesday.

Team USA coach Dave Peterson trimmed his roster to 22 athletes who will leave Colorado Springs, today for the Olympic Village in Calgary. Cut were Tom Chorske, a forward from Minnesota; and Brad Jones, a forward from Michigan. The cuts were good news to Johannson, a forward who was on the bubble with Chorske and Jones. Peterson conducted a team meeting Monday night and informed the players of his decision. Johannson couldn't help but think about the pending decision the last couple weeks.

"You knew it was coming and you find yourself worrying about it" Johannson said. "You keep thinking 'What's going to happen, what's going to but you really can't control what's going to happen." In a way, Johannson did that playing his best in the big games during Team USA's six-month pre-Olympic tour. In 60 games, Johannson accounted for 28 points (15 goals, 13 assists). By Andy Baggot Team USA has a player of game-breaking potential defenseman Brian Leetch, something even the Lake Placid gold medal team lacked. It might have enough hands up front Corey Millen, ex-Badger Tony Granato and Craig Janney to get the puck into the net enough times to have an outside shot at a medal Whether it is good enough on defense is another question.

Leetch is a reach-out-and-hope-for-the-best poke checker. His partner, Guy Gosselin, looks less than sure-handed. Peter Laviolette and his partner, Eric Wein-rich, will have to play better than this Knight-Ridder News Service DENVER The best year of Mike Richter's life has gone too fast and not fast enough. His Olympic experience has been eight years in the dreaming, four years in the making, eight months in the touring. And now it is just four days away.

"You take it day by day for so long," he said. "You have a two-hour skate tomorrow and then the next day we're playing Team Canada. And then all of a sudden you turn the calendar and it's February. "It hit me when I was watching the Super BowL They said, 'Next Saturday, USA vs. Austria in the first Olympic And I realized they were talking about us.

"I want the Games to get here, but I want them to go on forever. This is the best group of guys you could hope to be associated with. And in three weeks we're all going to go our separate ways. "If you're not careful, you can catch yourself reminiscing before it even starts. But the opportunity is too wonderful for that Calgary's stage, glaring with floodlights beamed from around the world, will be too bright for any mood of real wilfulness.

The odds of a kid from the University of Wisconsin being in goal for a U.S. Olympic hockey team are too long for Richter to get all choked up about this whole thing now. That is why, after sharing a workload almost equally with Chris Ter-reri through Team USA's 60-game tour, Richter does not seem particularly anxious about who will get the start Saturday night "I anticipate they will both play (during the Olympics)," coach Dave Peterson repeated after the final tuneup, a 3-2 loss Monday night to Sweden. "It's just a question of when." Richter, the pride of Flourtown, Northwood Prep in Lake Placid, N.Y., and the University of Wisconsin, and the post-Olympic property of the New York Rangers, takes Peterson at his word. But Richter also said he realizes any coach usually will stay with a hot goalie.

Peterson only hopes he has to make that cruel decision. Goaltend-ing has to be one of the big questions tempering the U.S. medal hopes. This team will be able to skate on a world-class level It also appears well-coached enough to be able to come up with an adjustment as a game goes along, and smart enough to be able to carry it out, too. uclcs win Associated Press Middleton's Marc Hoernke grabs ball in crowd of Stoughton State players.

Story on Page 3. Journal photo by Carolyn Plasterer couldni'f" canswr when opportunity Lucos rod nijtc3 aries paid by NBA teams. There were three reasons the trade was nullified: if The Bucks are over the salary cap, so they can't trade for a player making more money than the player traded away. Even though Vincent's salary was said to be somewhat less than Lucas' $575,000, the salary limit in Lucas' case reverted back to the minimum $75,000 he was paid after signing with the Bucks as a free agent during last season. The rules permit teams to exceed the cap in order to retain their own free agents, and that's what the Bucks did when they signed Lucas in the last week of preseason training.

Part of the technicality was that the Bucks signed Craig Hodges and Lucas pie same day this season, but signed Hodges first Had they signed. Lucas and then Hodges, the technicality may have been averted. Cleveland 17 13 1M Milwaukee Jl IS 111 CLEVELAND West 3-9 1-1 7, Williams 3- 0-0 6. Dauahertv 6-15 7-t 19, Harper 6-16 4-t 16, Price 5-10 0-0 11, Hubbard 1-2 0-0 2, Curry 6-14 13. Carbln 1-1 l-l Johnson 5-9 1-5 Dudley 5-9 4-4 14.

Totals 41-93 20-27 104. MILWAUKEE Cummings 11-21 7-10 29, Slkma 5-1 2-2 12, Breuer 64 3-6 15, Moncrlef 9-16 0-0 18, Pressev 2-6 3-4 7, Pierce 5-10 0-0 10, Krystkowiak 4-6 5-5 13, Reynolds 1-4 1-1 3. Hodges 2-4 0-0 5, Stroeder 04 04 0. Totols 4543 21-28 112. Three-point goals Price, Curry, Hodges.

Rebounds Cleveland 52 (Dougherty 10), Milwaukee 52 (Slkmo 12). Assists Cleveland 2t (Horper 10), Milwaukee 29 (Moncrlef 11). Total fouls Cleveland 25, Milwaukee 25. Art. 11,052.

Terry Cummings scored 29 points and Sidney Mon-crief added 18 as the Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers, 112-104, in a National Basketball Association game Tuesday night in Milwaukee. The victory, which opened the second half of the season, included the return of guard Ricky Pierce. Earlier in the day, a league technicality nullified a trade that would have sent Bucks' guard John Lucas to the Seattle SuperSonics for guard Sam Vincent Pierce, who missed the first half of the season because of a salary dispute, scored 10 points, including two baskets in a key fourth-quarter run that saw the Bucks outscore the Cavaliers, 17-6. Cleveland whittled a 10-point Milwaukee lead to 93-88 with 9 minutes left The Bucks countered with the run that gave them a 110-94 lead with 2 minutes left Cummings scored two baskets and Larry Krystkowiak made a basket and three free throws during the Bucks' surge. Milwaukee pulled away in the third quarter with a 25-15 run to take an 84-73 lead with 2:12 remaining.

Mon-crief scored 8 points in the run, as did Jack Sikma. Bucks' coach Del Harris said the NBA office disallowed the deal because of rules covering the total sal knocked turn a one-point UW lead into a nine-point edge for Minnesota. Wisconsin was in a matchup zone and the Gopher wing players were penetrating and dishing the ball to Gaffney for open shots. The loss means that Wisconsin, facing a decidedly tougher second-half schedule, will be hard-pressed to reach its goal of eight Big Ten victories, or double last season's total "It was the biggest game we've played since we've been here," said Yoder, whose UW teams finished in 10th place for two seasons, then in ninth for the next two and finally in eighth last year. "It meant so much to us because it was probably going to assure a seventh-place finish and give us a shot at sixth or fifth.

Now we're going to have to really hustle our butts off to win four (in the second half)." Yoder worried about Jones: Jones' status for Thursday night's home game against Michigan has Yoder worried. "It's on a day-to-day basis and I don't think it looks good for Thursday," Yoder said. "I think he'd have to make a big recovery to play Thursday. But it's one of those injuries where you might play the next day with it and I might play the next week. It all depends on how well he takes the rehabilitation." trous quarterback from Carson, to Arizona, and running back Ricky Blocker and nose guard Dave Brooks to Oklahoma State.

Blocker and Brooks are from Tulsa, Okla. So who did Morton get anyway? The best appear to be: Lionel Crawford, a 5-11, 180-pound quarterback from Aldine High School in Houston, Texas. Crawford, named one of the top 10 quarterbacks in Texas by the Dallas Morning News, also was recruited by Syracuse and Southwest Louisiana. Chris Ballard, a 5-10, 180-pound quarterback from Texas City, Texas. National recruiting observer Max Emfinger rated Ballard above Crawford in a preseason ranking of Texas football talent Gary Casper, a 6-2, 220-pound linebacker from Mount Carmel High School in Chicago.

Casper was consid- By Tom Oates Sports reporter When you're the University of Wisconsin and in the Big Ten Conference, opportunity only knocks about once a basketball season. Usually, it gets no answer and moves oa Opportunity made its annual appearance Monday night in Minneapolis when the Badgers had a chance to tie for sixth place halfway through the Big Ten season. All they had to do was beat a supposedly inferior Minnesota team. They blew it Wisconsin fell behind by nine points in the first half and never recovered, losing to the Gophers, 71-62. "I felt like (it) was a really big game for us," UW coach Steve Yoder said.

"We've gotten so close at times to playing that one game and getting over that little mountain we've been trying to climb and we just couldn't get it done. That was a very disappointing loss." It was disappointing because the Badgers are 3-6 and tied for seventh place instead of 4-5 and tied for sixth. A 4-5 record would have been their best start since the Big Ten went to an 18-game schedule 14 years ago. It also was disappointing because Minnesota entered the game in last By Andy Baggot Sports reporter It's impossible to tell which of Don Morton's newest football recruits will thrill you in the coming seasons at the University of Wisconsin, but there are some you may want to keep an eye on from the start. Morton's second recruiting effort will reach its fruition today when 19 high school athletes are expected to sign national letters of intent How the Badgers fared depends on your perspective.

If you put a lot of stock in landing top in-state talent you probably aren't too thrilled. Morton failed to land the three most sought-after talents in Wisconsin Rapids linebacker Rocky I Biegel Green Bay Preble tackle Ted Velicer and Oconomowoc nose gujcd Darin Vande Jnde. four place and was statistically the worst shooting team in the conference. "We thought it was a game on the road that we could win," Yoder said. It was.

The Badgers just didn't realize it in time. They didn't play with the necessary defensive intensity until they trailed by 14 points early in the second half. Consequently, Minnesota, a 41-percent shooting team, shot 54 percent. "We didn't have (the intensity)," Yoder said. "You've got to stick people in the first 5 minutes.

We traded baskets with them." Once the Badgers began to play with enthusiasm on defense, they closed the gap even without their second-leading scorer, Danny Jones, who was on the bench with a twisted ankle. Wisconsin rallied to within two points before it ran out of gas in the final minutes. "First of all, (the Gophers) played at the top of their game," Jones said. "Second of all, we didn't play like we needed to play to get them out of it When they started getting some rhythm offensively, we didn't get tenacious enough to get them out of their flow." The chief beneficiary was Minnesota reserve guard Ray Gaffney, who sank four consecutive three-point shots at the end of the first half to sc If you think filling critical needs is the prerequisite, you should be satisfied. Morton helped himself in the secondary and front lines.

He also stockpiled more skill-position talent Morton's recruiting effort rounded into shape Tuesday when Sean Wilson, a 5-foot-ll, 170-pound quarterback prospect from Norman, and Dave Denson, a 6-1, 175-pound defensive back from Phillips High School in Chicago, confirmed they had made verbal commitments. Wilson was recruited by a variety of top schools, including Louisiana' State, Missouri and Arkansas. Denson, meanwhile, is an unknown commodity. The Badgers were recruiting Denson's teammate, 6-5, 210-pound tight end Omar Helm, until he committed Sunday to Iowa State. On the down sjde Tuesday, Morton lost George Maoiuulu, an ambidex- nd Badger football recruits Hgt.

Wgt. Chris Bollard 5-10 1B0 Charles Belln 6-4 285 Eric Benzschawel 6-5 220 Jim Bourne 6-4 220 Gary Casper 6-2 220 Tvwin Claypool 5-9 175 Lionel Crawford 5-11 180 Dave Denson 6-1 175 Damone Freeman 6-0 175 Jim Gnacinskl 6-4 260 Pat McGettigan 6-3 215 ErikOlsen 6-7 225 Duer Sharp 6-2 220 Pat Thompson 6-4 270 Rich Thompson 6-0 185 Dennis Tillman 6-1 190 Robert Williams 5-10 170 Sean Wilson 5-11 170 Troy Vincent 6-1 170 They'll start signing today Pos. Hometown QB Texas City, Texas OT Milwaukee Vincent DE Monroe TE Whitefish Bay LB Chicago Mt. Carmel RB Kankakee, III. QB Houston DB Chicago Phillips RB Austin, Texas Cudahy LB Darlington OTDE Williams Bay LB Camden, N.J.

Oak Park, Mich. P-K Skiatook, Okla. DB Columbus, Ga. RB Columbus, Ga. QB Norman, Okla.

DBWR Yardley, Pa. school athletes can sign national at major colleges. ered the top linebacker available in the Chicago area. Duer Sharp, a 6-2, 220-pound linebacker from Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, N.J. East Coast observers had great respect for Sharp's talents.

He picked UW over South Carolina, Virginia Tech and Tennessee. Troy Vincent a 6-1, 170-pound defensive back and flanker from Pennsburry High School in Yardley, Pa. Vincent was a two-way all-Philadelphia area selection by the Philadelphia Inquirer. He passed over Syracuse, North Carolina and Temple. Pat Thompson, a 6-4, 270-pound, all-state tackle from Oak Park, Mich.

Some considered Thompson the top defensive lineman in Michigan. He had 53 solo tackles and 10 quarterback sacks in just six games as a senior. A Today is the first day high letters of intent to play football.