4 Lacrosse vs. Hillsdale College Today, 7 p.m. Tartan Turf SPORTS Baseball vs. Adrian Sunday 1 p.m. Ray Fisher Stadium The Michigan Daily' Wednesday, March 26, 1986 Page 8 YOUNG SWIMMERS ADD TO EXCITEMENT Sync swimmers nab fifth Martin ( brv'ntclrs ; :j i t it T 4 f t t ""'' ttt ' By Ada Martin II 'I _____________________________________ I By DUANE ROOSE Overcoming inexperience has been no problem for the Michigan Women's Synchronized Swim Club this year. And after placing fifth in the Inter- collegiate National Championships in Tuscolusa, Ala. last weekend, the team continues to impress coach Laura LaCursia. Sandy Pawelak and Penny Hershey captured sixth place in the Duets enabling them to advance to zone competition in Milwaukee April 10-13. Shauna Roberts and Kim Singletary also performed well in Duets, placing eighth. PAWELAK AND HERSHEY Thomason placed sixth and seventh respectively. All three earned the right to advance to the finals. Also in Second Level Figures competition, Singletary and KellyeFitzpatrick placed in the top 12, earning team points for Michigan. The Club's fine performance in Tuscolusa was indicative of the suc- cess they've enjoyed all season. Such success has come unexpectedly, hnwever "We lost five seniors last year to graduation," said LaCursia, who was worried how much inex- perience would hurt the team this year. "Swimmers who were B-level last year, however, have come up and done an exceptional job," said LaCur- sia. "We're a small group, but the girls have been very dedicated this year and I'm very proud of them." The younger swimmers have injec- ted a great deal of energy into the team this year, according to LaCur- sia. The team has so impressed the coach that she called this season her "most enjoyable." For now, the swimmers will concen- trate on zone meets and other com- petitions. Those who place will in the zone meets will advance to the national finals in Santa Clara, California. Duily rnoro y MAT I rt Members of Michigan's synchronized swim club showing their routine that earned them a fifth place finish at the Intercollegiate National Championships last weekend. Then there were four... ...unsung Louisville has edge D ESPITE the Michigan basketball team's failure to make the Final Four (and this writer's confidence that the Wolverines would make it), it's time again to make a prediction for the weekend in Dallas. Duke should win the National Championship, but the Blue Devils won't. Nor will Larry Brown's Kansas Jayhawks (even if the clock fails to work for 40 minutes). The cinderella LSU Tigers could take it, but coach Dale Brown's foolish comparisons with the USA Hockey Team will counteract his club's chances. That leaves Louisville. The Cardinals are not the most talented team of the NCAA's four finalists, but perhaps the most experienced. Denny Crum has carried his team to the Final Four six times in his 15 seasons at Louisville, and he captured the National Championship in 1980. Game experience hardly helped Michigan, but then the Wolverines hardly had any NCAA tournament experience. They seemed to know the formula for consecutive Big Ten Championships. What they didn't know was how to win, or better, survive an early-round dog fight. Lousiville doesn't have that problem. The Cardinals are unlikely to succumb to any Final Four pressure and it doesn't take Dick Vitale's brain to figure out that the team which makes the fewest mistakes will win. Aside from the NCAA tournament, some thoughts for the beginning of the spring sports season: " Bo Schembechler's 1986 campaign does not begin for six months, but that doesn't mean Bo isn't busy. Spring football practice began last week. Not that it really matters, but the prospect of quarterback Jim Harbaugh improving his game over last year might help quell agonizing over Michigan's player losses. * It's tough for one member of the press to criticize another, but I can't resist, especially when its network sports. James Brown and Verne Lun- dquist of CBS aptly demonstrated their keen grasp for the obvious when Brown told Lundquist that Danny Manning's early departure from Friday's Michigan State-Kansas clash "should give the Spartans an ad- vantage." Really, Jim. " The Detroit Free Press reported Monday that ratings were significan- tly down from last weekend's college basketball games. It could have been the teams themselves, but does anyone think CBS's announcers have something to do with the less interested audience? " It's a travesty. Broadway Joe's contract was bought out by ABC for $850,000. Whither Joe? Maybe he'll go the Jim Brown route. Nah, that's a silly joke. " Talk about silly jokes, how about Peter Ueberroth? His self-righteous attempt to removing drugs from baseball have resulted in unnecessary press and punishment for Keith Hernandez, et. al. Why can't Ueberroth and the players association agree to a confidential solution? " Surely the fiasco the New England Patriots suffered after the Super Bowl has some lessons. When the players' names were smeared on the newspapers, they were needlessly help up to public ridicule. Granted, drugs are a serious problem in professional sports, but they are more a personal problem than anything else. The players should be treated with decency, not deprivation. " The question of parity has been tossed around in sports for several years. Thankfully, college basketball has it, which makes for many a fan- pleasing upset. Parity in the NBA is a scam. The upper echelon (the Lakers, Celtics, Bucks, 76ers, and maybe Houston) dominate, and then Boston and LA battle for the championship. Same old song. Needs new tune. " Last fall in this space, I lambasted the Michigan band for its taste in popular music. I heard about it and thanks. No criticism this time but still more band talk. After three years of Michigan football, it's not difficult to say the Michigan band probably plays the school's theme song more often than any other band plays their school's. Alas, this may be false. In Min- neapolis at the opening rounds of the NCAA tournament, NC State's band and cheerleaders must have done the Wolfpack chant every 45 seconds for the full 40 minutes. Even more amazing, the NC State cheerleaders may perhaps have the most plastic smiles of any in the country, Despite a warm Metrodome and edge-of-the-chair finishes, these cheerleaders never failed to exhibit cheerleading's patented brand of phony ecstacy. Hey, it's all part of sports. Sampson recovers after s erin freak back injury SPORTS OF THE DAILY: Oilers too much for Wei By RICK KAPLAN Special to the Daily DETROIT - The Edmonton Oilers never expected to gain an advantage when Esa Tikkanen was whistled for a holding penalty at 8:33 of the second period against the Detroit Red Wings. Less than a minute later, however, the Oilers' Mark Messier had scored two short handed goals and Edmonton was well on its way to a 7-2 win last night at Joe Louis Arena. THE GOALS broke a 2-2 tie. Detroit scored twice early in the second period to deadlock the score. "We knew we had to kill the penalty," said Messier. "We didn't, expect to come off that well. It was a big kill for us." Messier's first tally came right off the face off following Tikkanen's in- fraction. Edmonton defenseman Paul Coffey passed to Messier streaking down the right wing. The Oilers center beat Detroit goalie Ed Mio to the glove side for the game-winning goal at 8:43. THIRTY seconds later Messier slid the puck inside the left goal post. Ed- monton center Wayne Gretzky assisted on the play for his 200th point of the season marking his third straight year with 200 points. "I'm happy about the 200th," said Gretzky, "but I'm just trying to help the hockey team." Before the night was out, Gretzky added another assist on a Coffey goal in the third period. EDMONTON turned the jets on af- ter a lackluster first period which saw 18 Red Wing shots on goalie Grant Fuhr. "We were sloppy," said Oiler coach Glen Sather. "We gave (the Red Wings) a lot of chances that we shouldn't have. "But when we need to put it in another gear, we seem to click." The two-time defending Stanley Cup Champions jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period. Gretzky got his 199th point on a Mark Napier goal from the right circle. It was also Napier's 200th career goal. Edmonton's Glenn Anderson also notched a milestone. The right winger scored a goal at 11:36 of the third period for his 100th point of the season. The biggest milestone of the night, though, was earned by Detroit. The Red Wings clinched the number one draft choice in June's entry draft. The loss guarantees them the worst NHL record this season. Detroit 9, St. Louis 8 LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - Home runs by Chet Lemon and Mike Laga helped the DetroitTigers to a 9-8 come- R7-2 from-behind victory yesterday over the St. Louis Cardinals. With the score tied 8-8 in the Detroit eighth inning, Darnell Coles singled off loser Mark Ross and scored the winning run on a triple by Laga. ST. LOUIS, 8-8, scored four runs in the fourth. Brian Harper started it with a single and went to second when Frank Tanana hit John Morris with a pitch. Shortstop Doug Baker's error resulted in two runs to key the inning. But the Tigers answered with four runs in their half of the inning. Laga led off with his seventh homer. Lemon hit his first home run of the spring following two walks. TITO LANDRUM started a three- run St. Louis fifth with a triple and scored on Harper's double. Jerry White tripled Harper home and Tom Nieto sacrificed White across. , The Tigers got two in the bottom of the inning with Darrell Evans and Dave Engle getting run-scoring singles. TheCardinals got their final run in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by White. But the Tigers, 13-6, came back in the bottom of the inning with a single by Coles and a sacrifice fly by Evans producing the runs. Danny Cox started and worked fivec innings for the Cardinals, giving up six runs on five hits while walking four. SUMMER JOBS EARN $3000 - $4500 THIS SUMMER " Exterior House Painting " 14W eek Minimum Season e Management opportunities in 1 st Year " 40 Hours Per Week__ " Great Career Experience L @ @d * Starting $5 Per Hour Wage - ingy RR !Jobs I H URRY Fil Quickly TEAM HOUSEPAINTERS AppNcaoon lNon: Minneapolis. 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THE FORMER Virginia All - American was not with the team when it arrived in Indianapolis for tonight's game with the Pacers and was retur- ning to his home in Harrisonburg, Va. The Rockets said he would not play agianst the Pacers or against Detroit on Friday, ending his streak of 236 consecutive games played during his 6 three-year career in the NBA. Houston public relations director Jim Foley said Sampson might be able to rejoin the team for Saturday's game at Washington. The bruise is in the thoracic area of Sampson's back - the cavity that contains the heart and lungs. News that Sampsondwould be lost for only two games drew sighs of relief.g because the early reports Monday night were much ominous. He initially had no feeling and movement in his right leg, raising fears that he may have suffered a fractured back. 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