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SPORTS .93 Boston Sunday Globe November 12, 1972 comeback, 121-118 1 sJiiEes IB Celtic Fluke I. v. By Neil Singelais, Globe Staff 'i Big Hank Finkel proved to 11,101 roaring Garden fans last night that statistics sometimes are a lot of bunk. I finkel, you see, scored only seven points while playing a total of 2 5minutes, but ask anyone who watched the Celtics' 121-118 comeback victory over the physically tough Detroit Pistons who was the hero. It was Pinkel, of course, who received the plaudits of the crowd, and the seven foot back-up center deserved the It was Pinkel who came off the bench with the Celtics trailing, 72-63, with 7:12 remaining in the.

third period. He took over for Dave Cowens, saddled with his fifth personal foul i From that point on it was an uphill battle all the way, with John Havlicek pumping in 37 points his high for the season. It was juit good enough to offset the Then the Celtics gave their followers heart failure by turning the ball over to the Pistons on a backcourt violation with less than a minute to Lanier showed his appreciation by scoring on a drive, but missed a bid for a three-pointer when he missed his free throw. This left he Pistons breathing down the Celtics' back, 119-118, with 29 seconds remaining. But a sigh of relief fell over the Garden when Detroit's Chris Ford backed into Havlicek, giving Hondo the opportunity to drop in two free throwi, and give the Celtics a hard-earned three-point victory.

Time after time Finkel cleared the defensive boards, and set up the Celtics fast break. He forced Lanier to pull off Nelson, and follow Hank into the lane. Then Nelson, left alone when a Detroit forward was slow in picking him up, started popping in field goals galore. Detroit's Willie Norwood was the culprit in the first half. He scored Id points, 13 of them in the second period on driving layups, hitting a perfect 6-for-6 field goals during this stretch.

The Celtics left the floor at intermission trailing, 64-55. The third period was strictly a personal scoring duel between Havlicek and Lanier. Hondo had the better of it. He connected on seven field goal attempts in as many tries, while Lanier was recording five field goals and a free throw. John made it possible for the Celtics, -trailing by 13 early in the quarter, to close within four points, 94-90, at the end of the third period.

And when it was over, the key to the Celtics win was plainly spelled out by the fact that Finkel hauled in 11' rebounds to six for Lanier. "Related story, Page 110 37-poiht scoring barrage unleashed, by the fabulous hook-shooting of 6-11 Bob Lanier. But it was Finkel, with 11 of his 14 rebounds coming after he replaced Cowens for the final time, and Don Nelson, scoring 12 of his 18 points in 1he final period, who made the whole wonderful thing possible. The Pistons were up, 108-105, when the Celtics ripped off a splurge that sent the visitors reeling. Over a five-minute span, the Celts outscored the Pistons, 14-4, to fnrge ahead, 11 9-) 12.

Nellie popped in three successive field goals during that span hitting from the right corner, swishing a one-handed push, and connecting from the right baseline. However, the Pistons didn't fold. Far from it. Lanier" came thrbugh 'with a field goal, and Dave who finished with 28 points, followed up with a jumper to cut the Celtics' lead to three, 119-116. ii UP setting Princeton 10 i Harvard 7 Peim48 30 Nebraska 23 St 23 Mich St 19V.

Ohio St 12 Tex Tech 7. TCU31 Wash 30 UCLA 21 16 "Holy Cross 28 Northeastern 29 19 not so i Alabama 35 21 are Greg Aunget, Ralph Hudson and Gordie Browne who suffered through 42-10 defeat. (Frank O'Brien photo) I lVx-V'tl A LNG DAY Boston College players sit dejectedly "'2f v' I on late in game against Georgia Tech. -Included Michigan 31 i Georgia Tech puts it together, Oklahoma 17 6 Air Force N. )anie 21 BC bursts at the seams, 42-10 -1 Pein St 37 State 22 8 Dartmouth 38 Rutgers 51 By Ernie Roberts, Globe Staff ATLANTA Boston College still isn't ready to be competitive on the road against these good, or even average, Southern football teams.

In a surprising exhibition, which never resembled the script, Georgia Tech outran the slower Eagles, 42-10, before 36,114 sunswept customers at Grant Field. The Engineers scored in about every method possible including a pass interception. But basically this Georgia 7 BRIGHT LIGHT One of the few bright moments for Boston College yesterday was this 20-yard jaunt on a flair pass by Phil Bennett being grabbed from behind by Georgia Tech's Steve Putnal. Tech routed BC, O'Brien Photo) Tufts 6 Bowdoin 41 aas, jWilspn spark 28-16 HC upset of UMass 2 a 8 Pete Vaas threw the ball well and so we won what to us is a 'big' game." UMass came out winging for Metallo's 48-yarder at 1:00, following a jaunt of 18 yards by Pennington on an option sweep, and Mark Palau's 31-yard field goal at following another long Pennington sweep, 29 yards. From there on Holy Cross contained 'em with great aggression and pursuit, and simply tore up the UMass defense with 335 yards of offense.

By Jerry Nason, Globe Staff WORCESTER Holy Cross, a team that is coming on late in the. season" with a dagger between its teeth, hung a 28-li5 defeat on JMass on Fitton Field yesterday. The Doherty AC spotted the Yankee Conference champs 10 points inl the first" 10 minutes, then tan up four touchdowns without a reply until the dying minutes of the contest. ks entertainment it was a Christmas-eve' game for the Spectators, among the 16,321 being that prominent Coach Eddie Doherty of Holy Cross summed it up by commenting, "Offensively and defensively, this is the best game we've played since I came here (second season). "We planned to' put double coverage on Steve Schubert, their outstanding receiver, and did a good job there.

We didn't want 'to kick to him in punting situations, either, and Rich Pelletier did a good job keeping the ball away from him. "We got some good blitzing from the defense and Summary, Page. 103 Tech team, which had to throw the ball against previous opponents, just ran it down BC's throat yesterday. At halftime, for example, the score was Georgia Tech 28, BC, 3, and the Engineers had gained an astounding 203 yards On the ground. "That first 30 minutes was the poorest we have I played defensively this year," said BC coach, Joe Yukica.

"Tech tested with the running plays to the out- side, got it going, then stayed with it. We just couldn't get out there, got no defensive support on the outside." The game turned around on one big play in the first quarter, a play which cost BC the ball on the Tech 10 and also took ace runningback Mike Esposito out of a game t. with an injury for the first time in the sophomore's foot- 1 ball career. The score was 7-3 Tech, but BC was moving. An 18- I yard pass from Gary Marangi to flanker Dave Bucci brought BC to the Tech 19.

Three plays later BC had fourth and two at the 11. The Eagles tried a power sweep right with Esposito carrying. He tried to cut in and was stacked up at the 10, bruising his left thigh in the process. not sure what happened on the play, but I got a good shot between the pads. I tried to go back in later but couldn't do it," said Esposito.

Taking over on its own 10, Tech promptly marched jj the length, Df the field, running 12 straight plays on the ground, mostly on pitchouts to rugged Greg Home around the BC flanks. Finally, from the 14, Tech's quar- terback Ed McAshan threw to flanker Jim Owings mov- ing right "to left along the back goal line. And the Engi- neers had all the momentum they needed for the rest of the afternoon. Another fine McAshan pass to little Jimmy Robinson i for 41 yards had set up Tech's opening TD. But the irre- pressible Esposito almost nulhfied that on the subsequent kickoff.

The 6-1 running Wilmington ace took the kick on his goal line, darted left at the 15 to avoid traffic and cut down the middle of the field. The only man left was Tech's little sophomore Randy Rhino, who had made eight previous touchdown-saving tackles this season. Es- posito tried to swivel-hip around Rhino on the 32, slipped a bit and was nailed there. BC finally settled for a line drive field goal of 33 yards by young Fred Steinfort at 5:19 And those were the last Eagle points until Phil Bennett swept six yards around right end at 10:04 of the fourth period, climaxing an 80-yard drive against Tech's subs. The Eagles were hurt by a couple of bad breaks, a quick whistle on a Dave Ellison fumble recovery at his own 20 in the second period and a close decision on a pass play by back judge Joe Hicks.

"Those officials were terrible," grumbled Marangi. "That one man kept yelling, you Eastern guys shut up. As Yukica admitted, "Our inability to handle Tech's drives on the ground hurt us a lot more. There were no officiating decisions that took any momentum away from us." BC is 3-5 with Penn State coming to Alumni Stadl um next Saturday. Georgia Tech has a 5-3-1 record.

Related story, Page 164 r-? lit SS 'y diamond merchant, Yogi Berra, whose offspring Tim per-forms with distinction in the UMass backfield. "he teams rocked and socked for 43 minutes without a turnover (there were only two in 60 minutes) and gave 'em some "long ball" plays "with. Paul Metallo sprinting 48 yards for a UMass scorer in the first minute of play and Holy Cross 'subsequently getting a 51-yarder on a Pete Vaas pass io wide-receiver Joe Neary and a headhunting 45-yarf touchdown run Buchanan. The Neary-Buchanan epics came back-to-back at :03 and 3:58 of the second quarter to get the Crusaders over the scoreboard hump by 14-10 and 21-10. Joe Wilson, running without the gimps for the first time in five weeks, had himself a day with the two other touchdowns two-foot wedge play that he set up late the opening period on a screen pass from Vaas, the Same play on which he was to score the final HC touchdown at 3:30 of the last quarter.

The HC defensive secondaries, who have been com- ing on like Gangbusters in the past three weeks, gave the Crusaders a big effort. Getting a lot of blitzing up front on Peil Pennington, they held up the UMass passer's primary receivers long enough to scrambled Pen's timing, holding him to five completions and a career low of 55 yards. Defensive safety John Provost, a late comer in the scene at Pakachoag HilL made two interceptions on Pennington one at the UMass 25 to set up the final touchdown and another that was eliminated from the summary by an HC penalty on the paly. Mark Sheridan (twice), Bernie Galeckas and Tony Koniecyny of the front also made big sacks on the harrassed UMass star. The Crusader defense forced the opposition to attempt field-goal failures of 27, 39 and 40 yards after UMass penetrated inside their 20-yard line three times in the third quarter.

makes desperation lunge to no avail. Crusaders upset UMass, 28-16. (Danny Goshtigian photo) LONG GONE Steve Buchanan (35) of Holy Cross heads for end zone as UMass defender Bob Parrott i i.