TUESDAY, AUGUST 34, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE IMEVEN TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1986 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE ELEVEN 'F a " may ulv f 4J E etmen Take Ninth Title in 2 By BUD WILKINSON It takes depth to win a Big Ten tennis championship, and depth is what the Wolverines had last spring as they ran away with the title-the second straight crown and the ninth in twelve years for Coach Bill Murphy. The Big Ten tennis champion- ship is determined by combining results of a round robin dual meet schedule with the results in - the championship tourney. One point is awarded for every match won in the dual meets, one point for first round tourney matches and three points for all other tournament matches. Competition is conducted at six singles and three doubles positions so that the play of every man on the team is equally important, and a team must have strength all the way down the lineup to win. Strong at All Positions The Michigan netters had this strength in all positions as every player had a winning record in the dual meets for a combined 72-9 match record. In the cham- pionship tournament at East Lansing every Wolverine made it to the semifinals and Michigan had finalists at all but one posi- tion, wrapping the team title up before the final matches were played. The season started with the net- ters' annual spring irtp to Florida. The trip gives the netters a chance for outdoor play and gives Coach Murphy an opportunity to evaluate each member of the team. Michigan lost two meets by identical 7-2 scores to a tough Miami team but Coach Murphy felt that the netmen "did a good job, especially in the second meet where most of the scores were close." 'M' Trounces Two The first conference action came in a double dual meet with Min- nesota and Michigan State in the only home meet for the Wolver- ines because of the installation of new varsity courts. The home meet was a success as the Michigan netmen blasted both visitors with twin 8-1 victories. After a break for final exams, the squad traveled to Champaign where they faced Purdue and Il- linois. Purdue was blasted off the court 9-0, and the Illini were onI the bottom end of a 4-1 score when rain washed out the remain- ing four matches. These matches were made up just before the con- ference meet with the Wolverines and Illini splitting for a 6-3 total. The team next traveled to Bloomington where it took on Iowa and Northwestern, and then the Hoosiers of Indiana. Indiana was the runner-up in the '65 race and was expected to give Michi- gan a battle for the '66 title also. Three Big Wins However, after smashing North- western 8-1 and whitewashing Iowa 9-0, the Wolverines came through to down Indiana, 6-3. On the final weekend of dual meet play Michigan blanked two more conference foes as neither Ohio State nor Wisconsin could pick up a match against the powerful Wolverines. After shutting out Western Mi- chigan in non-conference play, Michigan entered the Big Ten tournament with a 10-point bulge over surprising Michigan State. In the first day of competition every Wolverine advanced into the semifinals. Michigan drew byes in all but three single positions in the first round and won them with ease, then took all nine second round matches to go 12 for 12 for the day and pick up three more points on State. Only One Semifinal Loss In the semis only Jim Swift in third singles failed to pick up a victory. He dropped a three-set contest to Dave Holden of Illinois. With the other victories however, Michigan scored enough points to clinch the title, even if everyone lost in the finals. One of the biggest upsets of the day was the victory of Karl Hed- rick, Michigan captain and num- ber one singles player, over top- seeded Dave Power of Indiana. Hedrick completely changed his style of game, playing cautiously and using passing shots, to down the cannonball-serving Hoosier, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5. Hedrick lost the final match to Todd Ballinger of Wis- consin. Four Individual Titles In the finals, Michigan picked up titles at four positions. In number four singles, Ed Waits dumped Paul Bishop of Wisconsin, 6-2, 6-4; and at sixth singles Bill Dixon took the crown with a 6-4, 6-3 walloping of Illinois' Rick Wurtzel. In doubles, the dynamic duo of Hedrick and '67 captain Jerry Stewart combined to whip Rich Monan and Mickey Szilagyi of Michigan State, 9-7, 9-5. In third doubles, the Waits-Dixon pair out- lasted Steve Levenson and Jerry Johnson of Illinois, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. In the final standings Michigan Years wound up with 138 points to 113 for Michigan State. Third-place Indiana trailed far behind with 88 %. Seventh in NCAA The final action for the Wol- verines was the NCAA tournament in Miami where only one singles and one doubles title are decided. Hedrick and Waits advanced as far as the third round in singles and the Hedrick-Stewart doubles combination also made it to the third round but that was the fi- nal step for the Michigan squad which ended in a seventh-place tie behind winnerkUCLA. This year looks like another strong year for the Wolverines. Al- though Hedrick and Swift have graduated, Stewart, Waits and Dixon will be back as seniors, and Bob Pritula and Ron Teeguarden, Big Ten runner-up at fifth singles, will return for their second sea- son of action. Top Sophs Besides this strong nucleus, Coach Murphy will have one of the strongest sophomore groups he has ever fielded. The first-year varsity men are Dick Dell, Pete Fishbach, Brian Marcus and Gil- bert Ebotton. Dell, Fishbach and Marcus are all ranked among the top 20 juniors in the country. According to Murphy, "This year's squad won't be any worse than last year's, and may even be better. We expect stronger competition in the Big Ten this year, however. Wisconsin and Michigan State will both be tough." Wrestlers Win String Broken (Continued from Page 6) sophomore. Keen regards sopho- mores Dale Kestle, Jeff Hansen, Tom McCaslin, Charlie Riley, Don Nichols, Tim Hird, and Pete Cor- nell as the most likely to battle for the open jobs. Strong Freshman Team "We had a fine freshman team last year and have a strong group of returning veterans," Keen em- phasizes, "and next year, as al- ways, we'll be looking for a cha- pionship. But Michigan State could be hard to beat. They only lost one regular through gradua- tion and had an outstanding freshman team." One certain prediction can be made about this year's wrestling team, however, and that is that they will be instilled with the Keen spirit to win, which seems to manifest itself in a quiet confi- dence and winning attitude among all the wrestlers he coaches. Quoth one grappler, exuding with the op- timism that accompanies a win- ning attitude, after the loss to Minnesota: "Well, we didn't do so badly. We came in second to- night, while they came in second to last." ON STATE STREET IT'S WILD'S for LEVI'S 4 1WDLD S WA State Street on the Campus We have WHITE LEVI'S from sizes 27 through 42 with a wide range of colors. Also the NEW scrub denim, and stretch Levi's. 6nt -*6 0k'h *t 113 S. Main Jack S. Fagin, Prop. r JERRY STEWART, MICHIGAN TENNIS captain; follows through on a backhand shot while warming up during the Big Ten tournament last spring. Stewart placed second at the number two singles spot and teamed with graduated captain Karl Hedrick to win the number one doubles title. FINISH SECOND TO OHIO STATE: jinx. Plagues Wolverine Golfers The Michigan golfers took a page from Arnold Palmer's book 'this year as they watched the re- sults of three good rounds and a chance for victory disintegrate in one nightmarish round in each of the four turonaments they played. Like Palmer's fading finishes in the last three rounds of the U.S. Open, the Wolverine linksmen would keep pace with the best in the field and then-because of one bad round-watch the others go by. The first time the jinx struck was on the golfers' southern trip in the Miami Invitational Tourna- ment. Good First Round, But ... After the first round of the tourney the linksmen held fourth place in the 26-team field with a four-man total of 295. At this time in the tourney Michigan sophomores John Schroeder and John Richart were tied for third in the individual race with 71's. The second round was even better as Richart carded a 68 to trail Florida's National Amateur cham- pion Bob Murphy by four, and the Michigan team leaped into second behind Florida with a 585. After a good third round which saw the Wolverines slip into third, disaster struck on the first hole of the final round. The hole, a, par 5 that doglegged to the right, was "played unbelievably bad" in the words of Coach Bert Katzen- meyer. The Wolverines registered a 6, a 7, two 8's and a 10 on the hole to lose all chance of over- taking the leaders and had to settle for sixth place. Schroeder paced the squad with a 290 total. Lead Lost Again In the next tournament the Wolverines entered, the Northern Intercollegiate Invitational, the bad round was not the last but the second. After shooting a 373 total to lead the field after the first round, the golfers slipped to a 384 and a third place standing that they could not improve on. Michi- gan finished with a 1523, 15 strokes behind winner Ohio State. Schroeder again paced the Wol- verines and tied Ohio State's Alex Antonio for medalist honors with: a 296 total. The second-round jinx hit Michigan again in the Big Ten championship meet at Blooming- ton. Ofter taking the first round lead, the linksmen slipped to third in the rain-soaked second round. This time, however, the Wolverines came back to finish second and win a berth in the NCAA tourney. The team had a 72-hole total of 1502 strokes, 22 behind Ohio State's winning 1480. Newton Takes Third Captain Bill Newton, the 1965 Big Ten medalist, placed third in the individual competition with a 292, trailing Northwestern's John Seehausen by six strokes. On the basis of their second- place finish in the Big Ten meet, the golfers received a bid to the NCAA tournament at Stanford, but the jinx hit again. In the two round team com- petition, Michigan finished 10th after holding sixth at the end of 18 holes. A bad second round did it again. Houston won the tourney for the ninth time in 11 years with a 582 total while Michigan finished at 617. The top four scores counted toward the team totals rather than the, top five as in the Big Ten tournament. Newton, Schroeder Make Cut The linksmen with scores of 152 or better after the second round were eligible to play two final rounds for the medalist crown. Newton with a 145 and Schroeder at 152 were the only Wolverines to make the cut. Newton shot an excellent third round 71 to come within two strokes of the 54-hole leader, Arte Dokke of Los Angeles State. In Newton's fourth round the Michigan plague hit again. While Murphy of Florida was starting his surge to the title, Newton fell two strokes over par after the first nine of the final round. He bogeyed the 13th and 15.and then disaster struck on the 17th.. After 70 holes of fine golf New- ton shanked his drive on the par three hole, found himself flank- ed by the out of bounds fence and a steep slope into a water hazard. He had one shot out through the trees in front of him but hit a branch and the ball was lost. New- ton had to settle for a seven on the hole and a 15th place in the final standings with a 295. Schroeder finished at 305. Newton graduated last year asl did Chuck West, Bob Bond and Jim Evashevski but the linksmen have a strong returning nucleus plus two sophomores. Returning this year will be Schroeder, Ric- hart, Chip Groves, Captain Bob Barclay, and Dave Graff. Coach Katzenmeyer feels that JOHN SCHROEDER the team may be weaker this year, especially because of the loss of Newton. Katzenmeyer feels that Newton "has all the ingredients necessary to become a touring pro if he wanted to," but Newton has decided to forego golf and enter medical school. L READ AND USE DAILY (LASSIFED ADS HEADQUARTERS For Levi s Kl11ine's 306-10 S. MAIN' BILL NEWTON M' Splashes in Indiana's Wake (Continued from Page 6) Windle, another Olympian who had been ineligible for the two teams' first meeting of the year. A week later, Michigan closed out its dual meet schedule with a disappointing 65-58 victory over Ohio State. Carl Robie won three events, but captain Rich Walls called the team's general perform- ance "lousy." Then, on March 4-5-6, the Mi- chiganders tangled with the Hoo- siers again, this time in the con- ference meet, and once more came away with second-place standing -the sixth consecutive year they had done this. Second Once More Michigan kept pace with India- na in the first-place department 4 during the meet, matching the Bloomington boys' total of seven wins in the 18 various events, but bowed 471-4061/2 to the pressure of Indiana's superior depth. Three weeks later it was India- na again-coupled with Roy Saari and his supporting cast from Sou- 4 thern Cal-that posed a problem for the Michigan tankers. The meet was the NCAA champion- ships, and the place was the 7,- 060-foot high citadel of the Air Force Academy. Saari Scores for USC Indiana and Michigan pulled 4 into first and second place on the composed of Kingery, Scheerer, Wiebeck and Tom O'Malley took first in the final event of the op- ening day's competition, but the Wolverines weren't able to finish higher than second in any of Fri- day or Saturday's races. How About Next Year? What do things look like for this winter's tankers? Well, for one thing, they'll be doing without the services of Far- ley, Hoag, Walls, Rees Orland and diver Bruce Brown, all of whom were seniors last year. For another thing, they will have the services of Groft, King- ery, O'Malley, Scheerer, Tom Schwarten, John Vry, Tom Wil- liams and Robie, all of them jun- iors last year and all lettermen. They will have Wiebeck, John Salassa, Alan McDaid, and diver Fred Brown (no relation to Bruce), four sophs that scored consistent- ly for the Wolverines last winter, Wiebeck and Brown especially. And they will have Gus Stager and Dick Kimball, both former coaches of U.S. Olympic squads (Kimball is the diving coach), both Michigan alumni, and both men who have shown they know how to use good, hard work to get the most out of their team. You could do worse ... and it's a cinch that not many will do better. All Levi's Available Sta-Prest.. Corduroy.. . Stretch Levi headquarters for the campus 1209 S. UNIVERSITY Hockey Team Features Excitement, Experience (Continued from Page 7) beating them 1-0 in overtime the last game of the year, and then leading most of the way in the playoff game. Like I said, it's in- dicative of this league." While the new Wolverines are, expected to improve on last year's mark, they will be hard pressed to improve on last year's excite- ment. 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