Page 8 - The Michigan Daily -- Tuesday, October 15, 1985 'M' tries to best By DARREN JASEY If you want to get a good look at every midwestern volleyball team ranked in the top 20, the CCRB is the place to be this week. That's where the Wolverines will face the 15th- ranked Broncos of Western Michigan tonight at 7 p.m. and Purdue and Illinois, ranked 9th and 12th respec- tively, this weekend. If those rankings are not enough to give the Wolverines the willies, Michigan coach Barb Canning is worried about the effects of her team's most recent experience, a two-loss road trip to Iowa and Northwestern last weekend. ALTHOUGH the loss to North- western occurred Saturday, Canning said her team may not have had enough time to recover. "It might be a problem getting mentally prepared," said Canning. "It was a tiring road trip and they might use that as an ex- cuse." They might not need one, because the Broncos come in with a 13-1 overall record (9-0 in the MAC), with their only loss coming against first- ranked Stanford. They return five starters from a team that made it to the second round of the 28-team NCAA tournament last year. Western's student coach, Jeff Powell, calls Michigan a short team. "They should not be terribly tough ... though they'll probably be fired up," he said. POWELL downplayed the impor- tance of the Michigan game by saying that this weekend's Toledo and Bowling Green contests are impor- tant in the MAC standings, and that next weeks Northwestern game is one that Western is shooting for. Canning knows Michigan will have to execute well to beat the taller, well- skilled Broncos. And though the Western Wolverines might not win, she likes the team's competitive spirit. "I wouldn't give in to Western," said Canning. "It will be a good match if we're playing well." Western is definitely playing well, according to Powell. He says he is pleased with the way the Broncos have "been improving all year." They looked especially sharp in their weekend victories over Ball State and Miami (Ohio), according to Powell. WESTERN is led by All-American candidate Sarah Powers, who last year was instrumental in the Broncos defeat of Michigan at Kalamazoo. "Sarah's just consistently strong," said Canning. Powell calls Powers the "big hitter" in their 6-2 offense. At this point in the season the Wolverines have been somewhat of a disappointment, with records of 9-9 overall and 1-5 in the Big Ten. Can- ning, though, thinks the team has worked hard to be competitive and that a win this week is not out of the question. Maybe new uniforms she handed out to the team after yester- day's practice will help. After the dust clears at the CCRB this week, Michigan can look forward to a visit from cross-state rival Michigan State next week, but by then the poor Wolverines will probably be out of breath. By MARK BOROWSKY H OCKY GOALIES are said to have a recurring nightmare in which every time something passes them - the mailman, a car on the road, Fido on the way to the water dish - a red light goes off in their head and they get pulled from the game of life. Hockey coaches have a recurring nightmare in which his team outplays the other - outshoots, outhustles, outchecks - and still manages to lose because the goalie thinks the puck will explode on impact with his chest protector. In the same nightmare, the other goalie decides he's Ken Dryden for a night, stopping everything in sight. Welcome to the nightmare, Bill Davidge. Davidge is the first year hockey coach of the Miami (OH) Redskins, and in the two weekend games with Michigan, Miami played even with, often better than, the Wolverines, but still managed to lose both games by a cumulative score of 13-3. "We played well," emphasized Davidge Saturday night after Michigan stuffed the Redskins, 7-3. "We outshot them, we dominated, we didn't get any goaltending." Fortunately, Michigan did. Friday night Tim Makris stopped 18 shots in recording his first career shutout, and Saturday night, freshman Bob Lingren stopped 18 shots in the second period to net his first collegiate vic- tory. Lindgren faced 38 shots in all, including numerous breakaways, two-on-one's and three-on- two's thanks to a porous Wolverine defense. Meanwhile, Brent Smith and Tim Hall, Miami's goalkeepers, played well at times but overall looked lost. Hall in particular played as if "Sieve" was tatooed on the back of his jersey. Hall stopped 4 out of 7 shots in the first period, 2 out of 5 in the second before being pulled in favor of Smith. Worse, the goals weren't pretty. They didn't even have a good personality. Hall was pulled after Jeff Ur- Blue Lines .# , ", I Miami's nightmare. .. e.is dream for 'M ban's goal at 14:09 of the second period, Urban having managed to score from an angle almost behind the goal. Urban appeared to be centering the puck, but it bounced off the back of Hall's left leg and into the net. Hardly a memorable goal, except to Hall, who may be having some nightmares about it. "I'm not 100% pleased with the way they played," said Wolverine head coach Red Berenson after Satur- day night's ugly victory. "Sometimes you win and you don't deserve to win. I don't think scores were indic- ative of the games, but we put the puck in the net. "I thought we gave up too much tonight. I thought we were looser defensively than last night and we have to tighten up on that. We can't expect our goalkeepers to have to make those kind of saves." Lindgren, however, wasn't complaining. "It was a normal game for me," said Lingren, a soft-spoken freshman from Minneapolis. Not only did Lindgren face 19 shots in the second period, but half of those were in front of or around the net. "If it was a great game, it would have been a shutout." It was a shutout Friday night, when a tougher defen- se only allowed 18 shots on goal the entire game and Tim Makris stopped them all in Michigan's 6-0 win, earning player-of-the-game honors in the process. "I kept saying to myself it will happen sooner or later," said Makris of the shutout that eluded him before. Friday's was a game in which goalkeeping played a prominent role, as the score was tied at zero until the third period when Michigan exploded for five goals in four-and-a-half minutes. Michigan then, comes out of its first weekend of hockey 2-0, goalies saving everything in sight, and the offense scoring from angles unbeknownst to the game. One wonders if the Wolverines can keep up such feats of daring-do, but such feats are the substance coaches' dreams are made of. Canning ...rough road ahead Wolverine wins Free Press marathon By JON HARTMANN Liz Watch says she did the Detroit Free Press International Marathon as a training run: "I did it on a whim," she said. "You know, whatever hap- pens, happens. Three weeks ago, I wasn't in shape." But the Elementary-Education senior from Royal Oak trained hard enough to win Sunday's race, finishing with a time of 2:51:49. It was her first marathon victory and her second best time ever; she took fourth with a 2:48 in the 1982 Philadelphia marathon. WATCH HAS run against stiffer competition than the "low-key field" which she said turned out for the Free Press race. She qualified for the 1984 Olympic marathon, but had to with- draw because of a leg injury. Watch said she didn't run well as a member of the 1984 and 1985 Michigan track teams, preferring to run on the roads. Injuries were partially respon- sible for her taking much of 1984 off. "It was getting to a point where I didn't enjoy it" she said. But "after four or five months," she said, she missed running: "I paid for it (not running). I'll never do it again." Watch plans to run another marathon this spring and try out for the '88 Olympic team. Although she may not always be able to manage her current 60-70 miles a week, Watch is determined to keep up her training. 4 4 :.."""...-.-"-..-"".-..--"-...o-"". .. .r"-.:""-.I:: : -" ""-..: :".."."--" . HILLEL PRESENTS ALLEN GINSBERG Poetry Reading/Performance WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16 RACKHAM AUDTIORIUM 8:00 P.M. Without a doubt, the best known poet in America! "Mystic, Realist, Jew, Beat ... In Allen Ginsberg all things meet." - VI I (A; EVOICF Tickets available at Ticket World in the Michigan Union and Hudsons. CALL 763-8587 Sponsors: Hillel, U-M English Dept., Alice I loyd Pilot Project 4 Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Miami defenseman Rob Robinson (21) helps goalie Brent Smith clear the puck against Michigan last weekend. The Wolverines swept the weekend series by scores of 6-0 and 7-3. 4 4 I ... N,-' .4 I Z uLJ z Q 0 0 TUESDAY STEAK NIGHT E4 /2 8 // .,,. 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