Page 10 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 27, 1983 4 'M' sailors ride the tide By DOUGLAS B. LEVY. Shifty winds, bad luck, and a skilled Ohio Wesleyan crew thwarted the Michigan sailing team in its efforts to qualify for the National Championships in the Sloop division. Michigan sailors Scott Ferguson, Doby Byers, Ben Capuco and Scott Bird competed, along with seven other teams, at the Detroit Yacht Club on the Detroit River, last weekend. Michigan finished with seven more points than Ohio Wesleyan, good for a second place finish in the regatta but not good enough to qualify for the nationals. "THE WIND was really, really shif- ty," lamented Ferguson, the captain of the sailing team. "It was blowing around 10 knots. It was filling in (the sails) and dying," BOB DASCOLA and staff South U & East U are now of DASCOLA STYLISTS 668-9329 opposite Jacobsons There are five, divisions in NCAA sailing (Women's, Single Landed,, Team racing, Dingy championship and Sloop), and although the Sloop division is not considered to be the most' prestigious, Ferguson was down. "I'm pretty bummed out. We had some bad luck with the wind, and the wind is the whole variable," said Ferguson. DESPITE ITS second place finish at the Detroit Yacht Club, the sailing team is still a team to be reckoned with. Two weeks ago, seven team members journeyed to Kings Point, N.Y. and the' United States Merchant Marine Academy to compete in a 17-team regatta. Each of the 17 teams entered three teams in classes of 'A', 'B' and 'C'. The team with the lowest combined point total at the end of the competition would be the winner. GARY DANELIK (skipper) and Beth Borton (crew) represented Michigan in the 'A' division sailing in a "Tech Dingy", Danelik and Borton finished in 11th place. Where an individual team places is determined by competing in ten races, and adding up the point total after completion of all the races. The 'B' division raced in a boat called "420's", which also is manned by two people. Doby Byers (skipper) and Ellen Wefer (crew) finished in eighth place following the ten races. Team captain Scott Ferguson raced in the 'C' class in a boat named "Laser" (a one person vessel). Ferguson finished in third place. MICHIGAN FINISHED the regatta in sixth place overall, behind the Mer- chant Marine Academy, Navy, Tufts, Brown, and Cornell. Other teams com- peting from the Mid-West were Ohio Wesleyan and Miami (Ohio). According to Ferguson, the teams on the East Coast are the one's to beat. "Sailing on the East Coast is as good as it gets," said Ferguson. "The East coast is where the primo regattas are," admitted Ferguson. Michigan, who ranked fourth nationally last year in the most impor- tant division, the Dingy championship, is hosting the Cary-Price Regatta next weekend at Baseline Lake. Michigan has won this regatta the past four con- secutive years, but will be challenged this year by a very strong Navy team. Ohio State, Michigan State and Notre Dame will also' be among the 13 teams competing. Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Jim Soraghan heads the ball away as Bobby Paul takes a swing during a Michigan Scooer Club practice at Elbel field. Undergrad soccer scores J By SCOTT MCKINLAY The Michigan Soccer Club has three teams, which all fall under that heading. The Graduate team, Undergrad and Women's squad; of the three, the Un- dergrads are the team closest to varsity level and therefore warrant the most attention. The Michigan Undergrad Soccer Club is beaming with talent and poten- tial. Of the 23 members on the team, 13 earned All-League status or better in High School, with six earning All-State honors. In addition, the Soccer Club has Bobby Paul, a senior transfer from Aquinas who was the nation's leading scorer three years ago. Needless to say, this team is not short on talent. "WE ARE strong at every position and we are expecting big things," said coach Tony Almeida. "Talent wise, we're much, much better this year than we were last year," said Tony Park, who led the team in scoring last season. The biggest game on Michigan's schedule is today against Michigan State at East Lansing. Several players echoed the sentiments of co-captain Fatih Tezok, "we're looking forward to playing MSU, they play our kind of soc- cer and they beat us last year." The club lost four key players to graduation but have had some outstan- ding freshmen prospects show some early signs of picking up the slack. "The players we lost to graduation last year were all very good, but we've had some talented freshmen come in and easily fill their shoes," said Almeida. THAT NEW crop of freshmen in- played too sloppily and the refs wer letting the dirty plays go. ALMEIDA WAS happy they quit, "players get hurt that way, the officials were not doing their job." The clubs two] losses came at the hands of Illinois Chicago-Circle and to rival Central Michigan this past Saturday. The Chip- pewas won 1-04in overtime. " They controlled early on, but we dominated the second half. We had some tough breaks with Bobby Par and Tong Park each hitting the cros bar twice, but we couldn't punch it in," Almeida said. The issue of becoming a varsity team (as opposed to being a club) is big on everyone's mind. With Michigan State, Ohio State, Northwestern, Indiana, and Wisconsin already varsity and Iowa and Minnesota rumored for next year, that leaves Purdue, Illinois and Michigan still without varsity status. "We could be the last of the three,'' said a frustrated Almeida. "It makes it very difficult to get the really good players, when all you can offer them is a uniform, but we're lucky I guess because the strong academics draws some. We have got players on this team that were recruited by OSU and MSU," Almeida said with a smile. cludes fullback standout David Sarson from Dwight Morrow High School in New Jersey. Sarson was a National Select Team Try-Out Candidate. So far this season, the club has a 3-2 record. They beat Rosevelt University in Chicago and Western Michigan, who defeated Midwest powerhouse Ohio State. Michigan also won a bizzare kind of game last week against Macomb County Community College. In that game, with Michigan ahead 2- 1 midway through the second half, the Macomb coach pulled his players from; the field and forfeited the game. 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