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The Michigan Daily
SPORTS
Volleyball
vs. Indiana
Friday at 7:00p.m.
CCRB Gymnasium
Wednesday, September 26, 1984
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'M' spikers shoot down
Falcons
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Quick on the Draw
B Mike NicGraw
By SKIP GOODMAN
The Michigan's women's volleyball
team recovered from a lackluster start
to march over the Falcons of Bowling
Green last night at the CCRB. The
Wolverines took the match in four
games by scores of 15-8, 7-15, 15-0 and
15-4.
In the first game, the two teams felt
each other out, exchanging points until
the score reached 7-6 Michigan. The
Wolverine then capitalized on Bowling
Green's serving errors and lack of
communication with five successful
spikes to take the game.
GAME TWO, featured an early
collapse by the Wolverines, but Bowling
Green had to survive a late comeback
attempt to take a 15-7 victory and tie the
match. The Falcons pummeled
Michigan's Andrea Williams and Kathy
Arnold with hard shots while the
Wolverine offense suffered from
disorganization.
Coach Barb Canning blamed the poor
play on a slow start. "Neither team was
moving well at the start," she ex-
plained. "We were a little too slow and
got caught out of position."
The Wolverines rebounded to crush
Bowling Green 15-0 in the third game.
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Cathy Arnold began the game by ser-
ving three straight points. After ex-
chaning side-outs, Andrea Williams
took advantage of two Jenny Hickman
spike kills to serve for seven straight
points and a 10-0 Michigan lead. After a
Williams kill made the score 11-0, the
organized Wolverine spikers forced the
Falcons to make fundamental errors en
route to the shutout.
BOWLING GREEN quickly marched
out to a 3-0 lead in game four. A Jayne
Hickman block followed by spikes from
Jenny Hickman and Heather Olsen
allowed the Wolverines to knot the
score at three. Cathy Arnold made two
diving saves in a lengthy volley to tie
the score once again at 4-4.
After two more Wolverine points, a
Joan Potter spike and a tip by Lana
Ramthun made the score 7-4. From
there Andrea Williams took over. The
transfer student from Scarborough, On-
t. produced several saves, a block, and
two brutal spikes while Michigan mar-
ched untouched to a convincing 15-4
win.
After the game, Canning attributed
the turnaround to a change in strategy.
"We changed the location of our serves
and concentrated more on blocking,"
she said. The move obviously paid off
and the prospects for the upcoming Big
Ten games against Indiana and Ohio
State are good.
"Jenny-(Hickman) is still at about 50
percent," said Canning of her star out-
side hitter. Her progress from an ankle
injury has been gradual and she is ex-
pected to be in better form this weekend
when the Hoosiers and Buckeyes visit
the CCRB. Z
When choosing a college..
... first look at football
There was a lot of extra space in today's paper, so it is being filled
with sportswriter McGraw's life story.
E VER SINCE I was old enough to follow sports, I wanted to go to a Big
Ten University. The Big Ten had it all. It was located in the Midwest,
where I have spent 19 of my 20 years. And it had big schools with good sports
programs and as I would discover later, fine academic reputations.
So as a senior at Adlai Stevenson High School in Prarie View, Ill., I chose
to send applications to Illinois, Purdue, Wisconsin, and Miami (Ohio)
because that was where my sister went. Later I got one out to Michigan after
I learned there was a chance my family would move to Detroit and I figured
it would be helpful to pay in-state tuition. However, that never happened.
The first school to visit was the University of Illinois, located ideallyin the
happy cities of Urbana and Champaign.
If you have never been to this area of the Land of Lincoln, you are lucky.
There is nothing for miles around but flat fields of agricultural development.
and Champaign-Urbana is about the ugliest metropolitan area you'd ever
want to see.
The school itself was very unimpressive. The nightlife is quite good, but I
didn't discover that on this trip sponsoredy the National Honor Society.
During the Christmas holidays of 1980, I toured Purdue and Miami. West
Lafayette, home of PU, has the charm of Leon Burtnett and the beauty of
Jackson, Mich. all packed into several square miles. If your not going there
to be an engineer, forget it.
Miami had the nicest architecture of any school I had seen, but it wasn't
Big Ten.
Illinois-sometimes good, sometimes bad
By this time, though, I had made my decision. Illinois was the place for me.
It was ugly, but all of my friends were going there.
As the excitment built over my becoming a Fighting Illini supporter, I
took great interest in this guy named Tony Eason, who was supposed to be
better than Dave Wilson, and in Lou Henson's efforts to recruit Uwe Blab.
But as I sat down to watch the ten o'clock news one night, I heard
something very disturbing. The Big Ten conference had just slapped a three-
year probation on the Illini in all sports for their mishandling of the Dave
Wilson eligibility case. A few months later the penalty was shortened to one
year.
I knew right then that I had to get out while I still had the chance. Imagine
going to college that had no hope of going to a bowl game or appearing in the
NCAA basketball tournament for three years. While all of Champaign was
rallying in infuriation around the dropout-of-the-conference sentiment, I
decided that this wasn't the place to enjoy a fulfilling and exciting college
career.
Several days earlier, I had been accepted into Michigan, but I didn't care
at the time, I was going to Illini Land. But now I thought to myself, "Hm-
mmmm. Michigan has a good football team, doesn't it?"
I quickly envisioned being a fan of a winning sports entity. For 10 years I
had been a die-hard enthusiast of the Cubs, Bulls and Bears and had few vic-
torious moments to speak of. I was such a home-towner I even rooted for
Northwestern and listened to them play Notre Dame on the radio in hopes of
hearing the biggest upset in college football history.
Now, though, I was headed for a winner - Michigan football. My anticipa-
tion grew when I noticed Street and Smith's had chosen the Wolverines as
the top team in the country. My timing couldn't have been better, I thought.
And despite a staggering loss to Wisconsin in my first game as a student
and the mega-depressment suffered when the hated Illini went to the Rose
Bowl last season, it has been about as successful as I could have hoped for.
Nebraska - the most desireable school
Now what I should have done was go to Nebraska. I don't know what the
school looks like or what kind of curriculum it has to offer, but its football
team is amazing.
The Huskers non-chalantly travelled to the Orange Bowl in 1982 and 83;
then come up with the most awesome team college football has ever seen
last season despite losing to Miami. After they lost Mike Rozier, Turner Gill
and Irving Fryar, I expected little of them this year, but they're as powerful
as ever. If only Bo Schembechler could develop such a dominating unit every
year.
But look at the bright side. Instead of witnessing 11 blowouts, Michigan
fans get to sweat out games like last Saturday's when the defense gives up
300 yards to the opposition, yet comes up with six turnovers to win the game.
So don't complain that Schembechler never wins the national champion-
ship and runs the ball a lot. You don't realize how lucky you are. Things could
be much, much worse.
For example, Illinois is on probation again this year.
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Daily Photo by STU WEIDENBACH
Michigan freshman Heather Olsen goes up to block a Falcon netter's shot at
the CCRB last night. The Wolverine's Jayne Hickman looks on.
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BOSTON (AP) - Ralph Houk, the
dean of major league baseball
managers, retired yesterday after four
years as field boss of the Boston Red
Sox.
Houk, who turned 65 last month, an-
nounced he was stepping down at a
news conference just two hours before a
game with the Toronto Blue Jays.
IT MARKED the third time during a
professional baseball career that star-
ted in 1939 that Houk voluntarily quit as
manager of a major league club.
In 1973, Houk resigned as manager of
the New York Yankees to accept a
challenge to rebuild the Detroit Tigers.
After five years there, satisfied that
the Tigers were on their way with such
young talent as Alan Trammell and Lou
Whitaker, he "retired" in 1978.
However, he became bored with
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lured out of retirement to become
manager of the Red Sox in 1981.
Now, after four years of rebuilding
the Red Sox in the wake of the loss of
Carlton ' Fisk, Fred Lynn and Rick
Burleson during the winter of 1980-81,
Houk has elected to return to a more
leisurely lifestyle once again.
Bowie signs pact
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Por-
tland Trail Blazers have reached a con-
tract agreement with 7-foot-1 Sam
Bowie of Kentucky, 4e National
Basketball Association team announed
yesterday.
"The contract is still to be drafted,"
Blazer spokesman John White said. "It
should be prepared and signed in time
for Bowie to be at the first official prac-
tice Saturday."
Terms of the six-year contract
weren't revealed, but White released a
statement saying it is "the third-largest
ever agreed to by a rookie in the NBA."
Mc rory turns pro
DETROIT (AP) - Steve McCrory,
who won the Olympic gold medal in the
112-pound boxing class, signed a
professional contract with Escot
Boxing Enterprises Inc. yesterday.
McCrory, who was 126-15 as an
amateur, will make his pro debut Oct.
19 in Madison Square Garden against
Leonardo Alvarado of Mexico City.
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BOSTON (AP) - Mike Easler drove
in five runs, and Jim Rice had four of
Boston's 18 hits last night as the Red
Sox rode a six-run fifth inning to a 14-6
victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.
Stunned by Manager Ralph Houk's
announcement Sunday that he will
retire at the end of the season, the Red
Sox spotted the Blue Jays a 3-0 lead, in-
cluding George Bell's 25th homer in the
first inning, then stormed back to hand
15-game winner Dave Stieb his eighth
defeat of the year.
Mets 6, Phillies 4
NEW YORK (AP) - Pinch-hitter
Rusty Staub belted a two-run homer to
cap a four-run rally in the bottom of the
ninth inning last night that lifted the
New York Mets over the Philadelphia
Phillies 6-4.
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Staub's homer, his first of the season,
made him just the second player in
major league history to hit home runs
as a teenager and as a 40-year-old. Ty
Cobb is the other player to accomplish
the feat.
Pirates 7, Cubs 1
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Jose DeLeon
broke his nine-game losing streak by
pitching a four-hitter against a reserve
filled Chicago lineup last night as the
Pittsburgh Pirates downed the National
League East champion Cubs 7-1.
The Cubs, who captured the division
title by beating the Pirates Monday
night, did not play any of the starters
they used in the title winning game.
DELEON, 7-13, won for the first time
since July 12, a span of 13 starts. He
struck out eight and walked two.
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