Items from this morning's NYT College Hockey Report:
 
MICHIGAN - U. Michigan has signed 3 recruits from New England for the
class of 1999: Andrew (Bubba) Berenzweig (current captain at Loomis
Chaffee); Sean Ritchlin (from Hotchkiss); Greg Crozier (a big scorer for
Lawrence Academy; a 3rd round draft pick for Pittsburgh last year)
 
Matt Herr also came to Michigan from Hotchkiss.  Coach Red Berenson says
he has "size, speed and skill in a center, something we haven't had in a
long time."
 
Bill Muckalt is the leading freshman scorer, with 9 goals, and came to
them from the Merritt Centennials in the British Cjolumbia Junior League.
 
Michigan has won 3 straight games, in cluding "an 11-2 trouncing of its
oldest rival, Notre Dame."
 
Notre Dame has won only 3 of 16 games, almost as dismal as Ohio State,
with hasn't won a CCHA game yet.
 
BOSTON UNIVERSITY - The Terriers "went on a tear against two ECAC teams.
They hammered Vermont, 11-1, and then routed Dartmouth, 10-2"  D Chris
O'Sullivan got 4 goals.
 
Mike Grier had 2 goals and is 3rd in Division I with 17 goals.
 
Jay McNeill of CC has 20 gaols in 16 games and Michigan State's Anson
Carter has 18 goals.
 
Mike Grier "attracts attention because he throws his weight around, all
235 pounds.  His father, Bobby Grier, is the pro personnel director for
the New England Patriots, but Mike's game growing up in Holliston, Mass.,
was always hockey and not football.
        The St. Louis Blues drafted him when he was still in high school
at St. Sebastian of Needham, Mass., and he will play with the United
States national team at the world junior championships, Dec. 26-Jan. 4,
in Red Deer, Alberta."
 
DARTMOUTH WOMEN - They're undefeated after 7 games.  Coach Crowe said,
"I'm surprised because we lost much firepower from last year."  The
current teams's strongest player may be Sarah Tueting, a freshman goalie
from Winnetka, IL, who has a .990 save percentage and a 0.49 gaa.
 
HE rookie of the week - F Mark Mowers of UNH for "starting the comeback
in a 5-2 victory over Harvard after the Wildcats trailed by 0-2."
 
SLAP SHOTS:
1) bad ice at the Mullins Center pjostponed the UMass-Amherst game
against UNH.
 
2) HE and ECAC are tied with 12 wins apiece in interconference play, but
HE has won the last 7 games.
 
3) Maine in the only unbeaten team in Division I
 
4) Clarkson beat St. Lawrence for teh 7th and 8th straight times, with
scores of 8-4 and 9-2.
 
They also printed the standings for all 4 Division I conferences.