0 Page 10-Thursday, March 17, 1983-The Michigan Daily WOLVERINES TO FACE KALAMAZOO IN SECTIONAL OPENER 'M'netters look to bounce back By PAUL RESNICK Starting sectional play today against Kalamazoo College, the Michigan men's tennis team sports a 4-7 record. Normally, that would not be much cause for optimism but tennis coach Brian Eisner is talking about winning a 16th consecutive Big Ten champion- ship and reaching the NCAA tournament at the end of the season. "To say that we've started out with a demanding schedule is an understatement," said Eisner. 10 of the 11 teams Michigan has played are or have been ranked in the top 20 in the nation this season. Since many of the matches were close, Eisner estimates that with a little luck the Wolverines could be 7-4 or even 8-3 right now. THE TOUGHEST part of the season is now over for the Wolverines, as they start to play other mid- western teams. Michigan is the only Big Ten team to consistently rank in the top 20 nationally and, accor- ding to Eisner, no other team in the nation has been able to dominate play in its region the way Michigan has. "I look for a very positive rest of the season," he said. Looking to challenge Michigan for the Big Ten title this year will be Minnesota, Northwestern, Wisconsin and Illinois. Minnesota shared the championship with the Wolverines two years ago and continues to field strong teams, while Northwestern has split two mat- ches against the Gophers this season. Wisconsin returns the same team that finished third in the con- ference last year, with an extra year of experience. Illinois coach Brad Louderback has worked with the U.S. junior Davis Cup team the last two summers and that has payed off in recruiting, according to Eisner. With the addition of freshmen Dave Goodman and Mike Meyer, the Illini could be a contender. "Everyone knows we're the team to beat," said Eisner. "It's always tougher to be expected to win. In the Big Ten, we're always expected to, and I wouldn't have it any other way." Being on top may be tough, but it's better than not being on top. TODAY'S OPPONENT, Kalamazoo College, will be playing its first match of the season. The visiting Hornets return two of the five Division III All- Americans that led the team to victories over Michigan State and Notre Dame on the way to a second place NCAA Division III finish. Coach George Acker received the Division III Coach of the Year award last year. "To be a good team," said Eisner, "you have to play good people. There is no reason for us ever to play a weak team. They (Kalamazoo) have been year in, year out, the best team in Division III. They are an outstanding team." Acker, however, was not too optimistic when asked about the Hornets' chances of winning today. "Well, I hope not," said Acker, whose school is not allowed to give athletic scholarships. "We would probably be investigated if we did. If we ever beat them (Michigan) the NCAA would be here the next day." "WE'VE HAD some close matches with them," said Acker. "We lost a couple 7-2. We're just trying to stay on their schedule." Michigan's top singles player, Mark Mees, although nursing a hip injury, is expected to play and will take on Ven Johnson. The other five Wolverine singles players will be Ross Laser, Tom Haney, Jim Sharton, Rodd Schreiber and Hugh Kwok, while Kalamazoo will field Tim Corwin, David Higdon, Adam Battorff, Chris Yates, Eric Trautmann, and Fred Fischer. Michigan's Kurt Lichman will take on Butch: Gebhardt in an exhibition match. Doubles matches will feature Mees-Haney vs. Johnson-Korwin, Laser-Sharton vs. Yates-Higdon and Kwok-Schreiber vs. Battorff-Fischer. Today's match will start at 1:00 p.m. at the Liberty Racquet Club. Real football at 'M' Stadium? Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Mark Mees' shows his top singles form in a match last season. Although he is just recovering from a hip injury, Mees is expected to play today against Ven Johnson from Kalamazoo in the number one singles match. 4M1 nine nips Rollins to remain a undefeated By MIKE MCGRAW Are you sitting here in southeastern Michigan downcast over your relative unimportance in the world? Well con- sider this: in 1986 Ann Arbor could be a site for the biggest single-sport event on the globe - the World Cup of soccer. That's right. In three years you could be watching Cameroon and Argentina battling it out in front of 100,000 delirious Argentinian soccer fans in Michigan Stadium. THE UNITED STATES Soccer Federation has put in a bid to host the '86 World Cup in this country and Michigan Stadium was submitted as one of the sites. Should the United States be selected as the host country, there will definitely be three first round games played in Ann Arbor. There is also a strong possibility of Michigan Stadium hosting second round matches and a slim chance of it hosting the final championship match. Yesterday a meeting was held at Metro Airport between representatives of the U.S. Soccer Federation, Phil Woosnam and John Carbray, and spokesmen from different parts of the Detroit area including Ann Arbor Mayor Louis Belcher. According to Michigan assistant athletic director Will Perry, the meeting was to bring the community together with this project and to see if there was enough interest to support the idea. Athletic director Don Canham indicated that the University is very in- terested in hosting the event and Perry said that it would mean "a tremendous thing to the state of Michigan." FOUR MEMBERS of the FIFA (Federation International of Football Association) will tour all the proposed sites between April 15-20 and will hold a meeting May 18 in Sweden to award the World Cup to a host country. The other nations in the running for the event are Mexico and Canada. The Cup was originally to be held in Columbia in '86, but that country decided it did not have the facilities to handle the expanded field. After Columbia declined the tournament, Brazil was considered to be the leading candidate, but it recently withdrew from consideration for unknown reasons. The World Cup tournament consists of 24 nations that are divided into six divisions of four teams. The format that was used in Spain last year consisted of Special to the Daily The Michigan baseball team took its seventh straight win yesterday, downing Rollins College, 5-4. The victory gives the Wolverines their best start since 1966, and puts them in the lead of the Rollins Invitational Tournament. Pitcher Rich Stoll won his second game, raising his record to 2-0. The junior right-hander scattered 10 hits over his nine-inning performance, and walked two. MICHIGAN took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when freshman shortstop Barry Larkin drove the game's second pitch Action SportsWear FACTORY CLOSEOUTS Swimwear Footwear Bodywear 419 East Liberty 2 blocks off State Street 663-6771 375 feet over the left field fence. Rollins went ahead, 3-1 in the fourth on a double, a single, and a two-run home run by Jon Cullen. Freshman center fielder Dan Disher, playing his first season in the outfield, got a glove on the ball. But when he smashed into the wall, the ball dropped out of his glove and over the fence. Cullen paid the Wolverines back in the fourth inning however. Chris Sabo was safe on an error and Ken Hayward singled. Jeff Jacobson followed with another single, scoring Sabo, and when the ball got past Cullen in left, Hayward scored to tie the game. Rollins went ahead again, 4-3, in the fifth with a two-out rally. After a single by Steve Altier and a walk to Todd Bar- ton, Dave McCoy doubled to score Altier. Barton tried to score, but a per- fect relay from Disher to Larkin to Rich Bair nailed him at the plate. With two out in the eighth and Michigan having gone hitless since the fourth, Hayward and Jacobson drew walks from losing pitcher Tad Slowik (3-1). Senior Fred Erdjnann, a pinch- hitter, hit a two run double to the left- center field fence, giving the Wolverines the tying and winning runs. Michigan will meet Virginia at 9:30 a.m. today and Yale at noon, weather permitting. Needham strikes Gold EX-'M' STAR FINDS FAME IN USFL: By MIKE MCGRAW Its a sunny afternoon at Denver's Mile High Stadium-and a large crowd is taking in an afternoon of USFL football. The crowd is pleased with the occuren- ces on the field thus far since the home- town Denver Gold has just marched down the turf against the Boston Breakers and are about to attempt a short field goal that would give it an early lead. The ball is snapped cleanly but a strong when a trade to another USFL team fell through, he was cut by Michigan and the Breakers picked him up the next day. "IT WAS A convenient move, I just went from Daytona Beach (site of the Panthers' camp) to Orlando (winter home of the Breakers)," said Needham. "I spent three weeks at the Breakers camp and have started both games at right-outside linebacker so far. So things have worked out well, I think we have a good team." Not only has Needham found a foot- ball home, last Sunday in Denver he became a USFL superstar with his long touchdown run. "Scoring was a big thrill. The game was 0-0 at the time and that play helped us to our first win," said Needham. "When I got to the 20-yard line, I got pretty excited because I knew I was going to score. But I was pretty tired too." AFTER LEAVING Michigan last year, Needham was drafted in the sixth round of the NFL draft -by the Cincin- nati Bengals and lasted until the final cut. He was waiting for an NFL team to pick him up during the season but the strike ended those possibilities. However, the new league has given him another chance. "Things are more basic here than they were in Cincinnati," said Needham. "But that's understandable since everyone's together for the first time. The Bengals have guys that have been there for ten years and already inside rush by the BreaKers gets in and defects the kick up in the air. The ball lands in the hands of a Boston lineman who bolts 68 yards down the field for a score that turned the game around. "WHO WAS that guy?" the Denver fans ask themselves. A quick check of the program reveals that the player is none other than Ben Needham. Ben Needham? He played at Michigan.Why isn't he playing for the Michigan Panthers like Anthony Car- ter, Marion Body and the rest of the USFL Wolverines? Well, as the story goes, Needham was playing for the Panthers and was in their training camp about ten days. But know what's going on. But I'm sure that the defense will get more complex as time goes on. "As far as the camp itself goes, everything's almost identical," added the Groveport, Ohio native. "Our coach here, Dick Coury, was with Philadelphia for a long time so he knows how to run a camp. We've had a little more practice time here but the meetings and everything have been the same. Except that in Florida we stayed in a hotel instead of a dorm. All the schools were in session so they had to put us in a hotel, which is much nicer." The field of play, though, is one thing that won't be identical to Needham's * Needham ... scores 68 yard TD past football experience. He spent four years at Michigan Stadium in front of 100,000 people but the Breakers will play at Boston University's Wilkerson Field, which has a capacity of about 25,000. "After playing our first two games on the road, we finally came to Boston this week and there has been a lot of op- timism about the team and the press is excited about it," said Needham. "If we keep winning, that will build. I think the USFL has a great chance of surviving. The quality of play has been very sur- prising, even to those that expected it to be very good." DASCOLA STYLISTS HA IRCLUTS by PROFESSIONALS Liberty off State ........669-9329 East U. at South U........662-0354 Arborland ..............971-9975 Maple Village ...........761-2733 the countries playing a round-robin schedule within the division for the first round and the top two finishers in each section moving on to the second round. In that round there are four divisions of three teams and again they play a round-robin schedule. THE WINNERS of each division in the second round then play single elimination semifinals to determine the two finalists. The U.S. Soccer Federation has drawn up potential sites for the first round, but the hosts of games past the first round will be chosen at a later date. If the World Cup is held in America there is an excellent chance of more than the first round games being played in Ann Arbor. Being the largst field in the country along with the Rose Bowl, Michigan Stadium is a prime candidate for more action, and according to Woosnam, would be in consideration for thea semifinal and championship games along with theRose Bowl, Giants Stadium in New Jersey and maybe the Orange Bowl in Miami. FIFA RULES require that all games in the tournament be played on natural grass, so the artifical turf at Michigan Stadium would hve to be covered with sod. Also the games could be played at night. But with the portable lighting systems available, Perry said that neither case would be a problem. On the whole Perry was very excited about the possibilities. "There is plenty of room to acccommodate visitors through the hotels in the area and the university dorms and the transpor- tation is no problem," he commented, "Due to the number of games, the World Cup could dwarf the Super Bowl as far as income to the community." Gamecocks advance in NIT tourney COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Jimmy Foster and Kenny Holmes combined for 55 points to lead South Carolina to a 100- 90 basketball victory over Old Dominion in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament last night. Foster, a senior center, scored a career-high 31 points and holmes had 24, 12 of them midway in the second half when South Carolina built its largest lead, 67-49. Texas Christian 64, Tulsa 62 TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Texas4 Christian forward Doug Arnold hit a jump shot with five seconds left to lift the Horned Frogs to a 64-62 win over Tulsa in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament yesterday. 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