The Michigan Daily-Friday, March 5, 1982--Page 11
WOLVERINES LOOK AHEAD TO REGIONALS:
Gymnasts state champs
By JESSE BARKIN
-11was undoubtedly the smallest state
meet in history, as it turned out it was a
dual meet, but it didn't matter as the
Wolverine women's gymnastics team
claimed the Michigan State Champion-
ship at Crisler Arena last night.
The Wolverines outpointed Northern
Michigan 138.85-120.10 in their final
meet , before regionals and Kathy
Beckwith emerged as the state cham-
pion in the all-around with a 35.5, but
something was missing-competition.
CENTRAL Michigan was the third
team scheduled for the meet, but could
not make it , due to bad weather.
Michigan State, runner-up in the Big
Ten, was also absent but this was due to
a provision which prohibits NCAA
schools, like MSU, from competing at
the meet. Michigan is in a unique
position of having dual status in the
NCAA and the sponsoring AIAW, and is
permitted to compete. Coach Sheri
I yatt said she will find out today if the
team is invited to NCAA regionals; they
lieve already qualified for AIAW.
As for the meet itself, it was a chance
foi the Wolverines to improve their
scaores to qualify for both regionals. "It
vas just not great competition," said
coach Sheri Hyatt. "We knew we had to
get up for the meet, and we knew what
we had to do."
BECKWITH, who led a four-woman
Wolverine sweep in the all-around, took
firsts in the vault (9.0) and the balance
beam (9.2), and added an 8.9 on the
floor. Freshman Dayna Samuelson was
equally impressive taking two firsts, a
9.0 to tie Nancy Papows on the bars,
and an 8.8 on the uneven parallel bars,
en route to a 35.3 all-around.
Papows finished third with a 33.95
and freshman Christy Schwartz, who
was nursing a hurt ankle, placed fourth
despite re-injuring her ankle when she
fell on the next to last event, the balan-
ce beam.
Though injuries have nagged Sch-
wartz all season, she has been a critical
member of .the team, which is
somewhat surprising because when she
applied to Michigan as a senior at An-
dover High School in Birmingham,
gymnastics was not the reason.
"I CAME HERE for academics,"
Schwartz said. "I thought about the
team, I wanted to be on the team, but I
wasn't sure if I'd make it."
But Hyatt decided she was good
enough, and made her one of the team's
four all-arounders. Swartz has im-
proved all season and was runner-up in
the uneven bars at the Big Ten Cham-
pionships.
"I'm doing better than I expected,"
she understated, but she explained that
it was a real surprise for her to be doing
all-around. "I hadn't competed all-
around since my sophomore year in
high school, but because there were so
many injuries on the team, I was the
only one left."
After a slow start, Schwartz has
become a consistent performer,
reaching the 34 all-around mark on
many occasions. But injuries have been
with her all season (earlier in the year
she hurt her knee and it has not been 100
percent since, Hyatt said) and her bad
ankle seems to have come at a very bad
time for her, just intime for regionals.
"We're keeping our fingers crossed,"
she said in reference to her chance of
healing in time (March 19-20). I'll do it
(compete) if it kills me. I just don't
know if I'll make it to next week's prac-
tice."
Daily Photo by BRIAN MASCK
MICHIGAN'S CHRISTY Schwartz, the Big Ten runner-up on the uneven parallel bars, performs her routine at Crisler
Arena last night. Schwartz scored an 8.65 and placed second in last night's meet.
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'leers face Irish in
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By MARTHA CRALL a
The Michigan hockey team embarks
upon its "second season" tonight as the
first round of the Central Collegiate
Hockey Association (CCHA) playoffs
gets underway in four different cities.
The Wolverine icers take on the
Fighting Irish of Notre Dame in the
two-game, total-goals, single
elimination series in South Bend.
THE IRISH gained the home-ice ad-
vantage by winning the tie-breaker
(head-to-head competition) after
finishing deadlocked with the
Wolverines for fourth place.
To achieve the tie, last weekend
Michigan lost twice to regular-season
champion, Bowling Green, while Notre
Dame split with ninth-place Western
Michigan. It took a'noble Irish effort to
take Saturday's game, a 10-8 shootout.
High-scoring Notre Dame suffered a
crucial knee injury to leading scorer,
Dave Poulin, in that game. His status
for this weekend is questionable. The
Irish, however, are quite able to score
without him, as no less than nine
skaters have scored 25 points or more.
No more than three Wolverine icers
have done as much.
NOTRE DAME is quite dangerous at
home; since November the Irish are 9-
4 in the Athletic and Convocation Cen-
ter. Two years ago, when the two teams
last met during post-season play, Notre
Dame invaded Yost Arena and wiped
out the Wolverines, 11-7, in the first
round of the Western Collegiate playof-
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The Irish hold the season edge over
Michigan, winning one game and tying
another during regular conference
play, and adding another win during the
Great Lakes Invitational Tournament
in Detroit over Christmas time.
BOTH TEAMS boast depth in goal,
with two goalies per squad seeing ac-
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Namara (4.13 gaa) and senior Dave
Laurion (4.13 gaa), while the
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Elliott (3.33 gaa) and senior Peter
Mason (3.03 gaa).
Leading the Michigan scoring corps
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29-35), and linemates Ted Speers (21-
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Michigan (18-13-5 overall; 14-12-4
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and tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m.
In other first-round CCHA action,
Bowling Green hosts Northern
Michigan, Lake Superior travels to
Michigan State, and Ferris State visits
Michigan Tech.
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A LITTLE
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LISTENING,A LITTLE I
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If you're going to write anything, know
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