Men's Basketball vs. Minnesota today, 4:00 p.m. Crisler Arena SPORTS Big Ten Track Championships today, 11:45 a.m. Track and Tennis Bldg. 44 , rhe Michigan Daily Saturday, March 3, 1984 Page 7 .... ...... . .. . ................ Netter By LARRY FREED Maybe Ollie Owens should rethink his practice schedule. After returning from a hectic South- s dumj western trip, which saw his women net- ters win just one of six matches, the well-rested Wolverines proceeded to promptly upset the 14th-ranked Duke Blue Devils, 5-4, in their home opener. MICHIGAN, WHICH only practiced once this week due to weather, found it- self tied at 3-3 following the singles. They then locked up the match on the strength of its first two doubles teams. Paula Reichert and Juliet Naft fought off the feisty Blue Devil combo of Sue Taylor and Megan Foster 7-6, 7-6, The second tandem of Mary Magtaggart and Maryanne Hodges registered a split-set victory. "Paula and I were playing with more confidence than we were during our spring trip," commented Naft, who also had a straight-set victory at number four singles. "We stayed aggressive and kept closing in on the net, which gave us the edge." The third doubles team of Jane Silfen Duke, 5-4 s e .. 4 and Karen Milczarski fell 5-7, 7-5, 6-4, however the Wolverines' victory was secured by that point. Despite the set- back, Silfen, who is on the mend following a semester bout with ten- denitis, was pleased with her perfor- mance. "ALTHOUGH I lost, this is the first match where I was starting to play with more confidence as I saw my game coming back," said the two-year let- terwinner. Aside from Silfen the rest of the squad appeared to regain form following the five-game skein. Reichert (second singles), Naft (fourth singles), and Hodges (sixth singles) all notched victories in straight sets. The latter's two wins helped her to remain perfect for the season at 8-0. Hodges and company will have little time to savor their victory, as Michigan plays host today against Big Ten cham- pion Indiana in the conference opener at Huron Valley Tennis Club at 4:30. If the Wolverines can complete the' weekend sweep maybe Owens will give his squad all of next week off. Hodges ..undefeated in '84 O w ens ..1oks for weekend sweep 'M tankers strong at Big Tens Daily Photo by CAROL L. FRANCAVILLA Shown here on his record leap,' Michigan's Derek Harper set a new fieldhouse record in the long jump and qualified for the Olympic Trials. 'M' leads Big Ten track on record leap INDIANAPOLIS - The Michigan men's swimming team was sitting in a comfortable third-place position and was only 19.5 points behind the first- place Iowa squad (179 points) after Thursday night's action at the Big Ten Championships in Indianapolis. Benoit Clement had the best place finish of the night for the Wolverines. The sophomore distance swimmer finished second in the 500-yard freestyle with an NCAA qualifying time of 4:25.29. Freshman Jeff Gordon also Wolverines in third place after second day's events By CHRISTOPHER GERBASI Michigan literally lept to the lead in the Big Ten Indoor Championships, as their trio of long jumpers finished one, two, three. The long jump was one of two finals held yesterday. Derek Har- per, Vince Bean, and Scott Crawford turned in personal bests for the Wolverines to capture 24 big points. Harper's distance of 25' 103/4" was an oor school record, a fieldhouse record, and also qualified him for the Olympic Trials. The old school record was 25'814" set by James Ross in 1981. BEAN JUMPED 25'51/?" to qualify for the NCAA championships next week in Syracuse, and Crawford's mark of 24'73" was four inches further than his previous best. "We needed a good effort from everyone," said Harper. "It was the rst scoring event and we wanted to set the pace. We knew we could finish one, two, three." IN THE OTHER final, Indiana's Terry Brahm overtook Bill Shuey of Purdue on the gun lap of the two-mile run and went on to win in a time of 8:45.04. "In the first mile he started to get away from me," said Brahm, "and I thought it could go to anybody. Then the pack came up, but it helped because they brought me closer to Bill (Shuey)." Brahm will come back today to challenge Michigan's Ron Simpson in the mile run. Simpson had the best preliminary time, 4:06.93, while Brahm had the third best time, 4:07.56. The Wolverines, Hoosiers, and Illini qualified the most athletes for today's finals and appear the teams to beat. Currently Michigan leads with 25 poin- ts, Indiana has 12, and Illinois has eight. placed for the Wolverines, finishing eighth in the 500. MICHIGAN ALSO placed two swim- mers in the top ten in the 50-yard freestyle. Freshman Joe Parker finished sixth in his first Big Ten meet while Andy Montague finished seventh to pace the Wolverines. Alex Wallingford touched the wall in the 200-yard individual-medley first for the Wolverines with a time of 1:52.4; good for third place. The 800-yard freestyle team of Clement, Dave Kerska, Kirstan Van- dersluis, and Mark Noetzel also finished strong with a time of 6:34.6; a new Michigan varsity record. In the one-meter diving competition, Michigan's Kent Ferguson and Bruce Kimball both qualified for the NCAA championships. Ferguson finished second overall, while Kimball took fourth place. IN LAST NIGHT'S action, three more Michigan swimmers qualified for the NCAA championships as the Wolverines held onto third place with 360.5 points. Indiana took over first place with 393.5 points while Iowa drop- ped back to second place with a score of 383 points. Alex Wallingford swam to a new Michigan varsity record and a second place finish in the 400-yard individual- medley with an NCAA qualifying time of 3:56.27. Clement made the NCAA cut in the same event with a fourth place finish in a time of 3:58.34. Michigan's best showing of the night came in the 200-yard freestyle where the Wolverines placed four swimmers in the top seven places. Included in that group was Kirsten Vandersluis who finished second in the race and qualified for the NCAAs with a time of 1:38.36. Gmnasts at EMU Michigan's women gymnasts have one final meet prior to the Big Ten meet at Ohio State March 9-10. This last chance to "warm-up" is today at Eastern Michigan's Warner Gym- nasium against Eastern and Kentucky. Since Michigan's highscore of 175.5; tops bothEastern's and Kentucky's, the Wolverines are optimistic for a wi r : Kentucky sports a 3-6 record with a high team score of only 170.15, while Eastern, 3-4, trails both schools, with;a team highscore of 165.90. The Hurons have already lost to Michigan once this~ season, 170.45 to 157.45, and now suffer from injuries. So "warming up" i§ precisely what the Wolverines will be doing at Warner Gymnasium. Michigan head coach Sheri Hyatt said that the Wolverines are "looking for a good week and a half of practice aiming towards the Big Tens.' Healing their "aches and pains" and getting over the flu before the Big Ten meet is highest on the Wolverines priority list. Junior Dayna Samuelsob did not compete in the All-Around At Louisiana State last week due to an in- jured foot. The Wolverines hope to sO her back in the line-up for their Corf- ference meet. Also, several other team members, including Coach Hyatt her- self, have come. downwith the flu. "We'll try to keep healthy and heal the aches and pains before the weekend," said Hyatt.UEE - SUSIE WARNER Ferguson ...grabs 2nd place ARCH 27 & 28 RUN FOR THEF MICI//GAN STUDENT ASSEMBIY 4s PR ESIDENT, V/CE PRESIDENT, OR AS A REPRESENTATIVE FROM 4 COLLEGE. 0 INFORM A TION & EL EC TION FORMS A T 3909 MICHIGAN UN/ON. -_ - - - -