;t Basketball vs. Illinois Saturday, Crisler Arena SOLD OUT SPORTS Wrestling vs. Iowa State Friday, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena 6. ;The Michigan Daily Tuesday, February 5, 1985 Page 9 IN->i B DANCING ON THE DIAMOND 'M' nine forms aerobic line By DAVE ARETHA An *oldtime baseball player would gag on his chewing tobacco if he peered into the Michigan Fieldhouse these days. The oldtime would see that the modern off-season con- vieniences of indoor astro-turf, a weight room, and four sheltered batting cages are not enough for the 1985 Michigan baseball team. He would find something that totally defies old-fashioned baseball tradition. He would discover that the Wolverines have gone (gasp) aerobic. "ONE, TWO, three, now four," ordered a young, slender woman in a black and purple leotard Thursday. "Press down, pull up, feel the beat." The Wolverines pressed, pulled and snapped their fingers to the tune of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love". "What foot are you going with?" asked one Wolverine to another. "I DON'T know," said the other, laughing. "Press two, three, and four," said the woman. "Now put your forehead to the floor." It all seems silly, but it's not. At least not to the players who must endure twenty continuous minutes of the hardcore stretching and flexing. For them, instructor Stacy Wenson is not just a pretty brunette with a lot of pep.She is more like a female drill sargeant. "THEY TREAT her with respect," said assistant coach Danny Hall. "They don't razz her. They moan and groan from time to time. But in terms of razzing her, no." "She's in a lot better shape than we are," added outfielder Kurt Zimmerman. "She makes us look really bad." "She pushes you pretty hard," catcher Matt Pattullo said with a confirming nod. HEAD COACH Bud Middaugh does not think aerobics are silly either. Middauagh said the only reason he hired Wenson two weeks ago was that the workout might get the players in- to better physical condition. We do aerobics for flexibility, balance and conditioning," he said. "Those are the areas we need to improve most at. If (aerobics) make some improvement, I'll continue it. If not, then I'll discontinue it." While he has had his team aerobicizing about every other day, Middaugh said stretching to "Soft Cell" can't replace pitching from the stretch. "WE'RE STILL doing other things," he said. "I've decided just to add aerobics to (practice). It's part of practice, an ad- dition to it." That means the traditional Wolverine workout continues - at a steady pace.Six days per week, three hours per day, the Wolverines field grounders, play pepper and take their licks in the indoor batting cages. The pitchers also fine tune their arms, and to conclude practice, the whole team runs. Michigan trains outdoors from early September until Thanksgiving break. After taking a month and a half off, the Wolverines bring their workouts into the fieldhouse. There they practice until mid-March, when they drag their bats and gloves down to Edinburg, Texas for an official spring training. It adds up to about five months of pre-season conditioning, and Middaugh said the work is necessary. "YOU'VE GOT to perfect a skill," he said "Why do you eat three times a day? Because you want to? No. You do it because it's good for your health. You've got to practice to improve your skill, and you don't do that by sitting in your dorm." Nevertheless, five months of basic baseball training can be monotonous, so the novelty of aerobics may be one of its best features. "That's the best thing about it," Pattullo said. "Practice gets to be a pain in the neck." "IT BREAKS up the routine of practice," said Hall. "It gives them a different form of stretching than they're used to." Even Middaugh strayed from his hard-line approach after spotting a couple of his players smiling and snapping their fingers. "It's fun for the players too," he said. MICHIGAN is not the first sports team to do aerobics, and Middaugh said they are probably not the first college baseball team to do them either. Yet something seems strange. about a large group of male athletes being aerobicized to death by a slender, young female. "Ready, and a hop," said Wenson. And the Wolverines shuffled three steps to the right. They moved forward, clapped their hands and did the twist. "Billy, Billy, you're a dancin' man," said a young man on the sidelines. The oldtimer would not believe it. Wolverine baseballers now do other things besides hit and field grounders. Under the recent command of Stacy Wenson these guys aerobicize. Women cagers hit cell By DAVE ARETHA The Wisconsin Badgers, now ninth in the Big Ten, buried the Women's basketball team Sunday, 81-72, and left the Wolverines all alone in the con- ,.erence basement. Michigan, losers of five in a row, are now 1-8 in the conference and 7-12 overall. "If you want to call it a low point, we're at it," head coach Bud Van De Wege said. The Wolverines led 33-30 with two- and-a-half minutes left in the first half Sunday, but then things fell apart. Wisconsin's Faith Johnson and Sheila Driver combined for 10 quick points before the intermission to push Wiscon- sin ahead 40-33. The Badgers never relinquished the lead. "We're so streaky," Van De Wege said. "We play in spurts. In two minutes we go from three up to seven down, and that just kills you." THE WOLVERINES narrowed the Badger advantage to 42-40 early in the second half, but a 12-point Wisconsin streak put the game out of reach. Van De Wege said he hoped his players would use the embarrassment of last place as a source of motivation. "I hope they're down," he said. "I hope they're getting sick of this. They're going to have to hate to lose. They need to get mad at themselves." AN ANGRY attitude, however, would probably not have cooled off Wiscon- sin's sizzling shooting. The Badgers, who normally shoot 39 percent from the field, shot 55 percent from the floor on Sunday. "We tried to change our defense to of- fset their hot shooting, but nothing worked," Van De Wege said. Johnson, who hit on eight of 11 field goals, and forward Chris Pruitt paced Wisconsin with 20 points apiece. Kelly Beninfendi led the Wolverines, pouring in a career-high 16 points. Wendy Bradetich added 15, but scored only four in the last 30 minutes. A month ago Van De Wege said he would like to finish with at least a 6-12 conference record. Now at the midpoint of the Big Ten season, the Wolverines need to finish 5-4 to reach the coach's minimum standard - a feat that seems highly unlikely. ar., 81-72 76ers 106, Hawks 92 PHILADELPHIA (AP)-Julius Er- ving moved into fourth place on pro basketball's all-time scoring list with a 23-point effort as the Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Atlanta Hawks 106-92 in a National Basketball Association game last night. 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