0 Women's Basketball vs. Minnesota Friday, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena SPORTS Wrestling vs. Indiana Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena Page 8 The MichiganDaily Tuesday, January 14, 1986 WOMEN GARNER FIRST VICTORY OF NEW YEAR Tankers splash to win a 0 By DEBBIE deFRANCES By beating Oakland University 82-56, the women's swim team is one notch closer to its New Year's resolution. First year head coach Jim Richardson said this year's "ultimate goal is to do very well in the Big Ten Champion- ship meet. We'd like to place our team in the top couple in the Big Ten." BEHIND A 6-4 record, Richardson is confident that the Wolverines have trained hard enough over the Christmas break to keep them en route to meeting their goals. "I think that we have done what we needed to over Christmas," said Richardson. "We know what we need to do, and I think we're doing fine now." Michigan's fine qualities came through when it swam against Oakland last weekend. The foursome of Cecilia Sheehan, Candice Quinn, Lisa Lundsford and Becky Fen- sen won the medley relay with a time of 1:52.08. To add to their team effort, each one of the four swimmers also had at least one individual victory in the meet. FRESHMAN Becky Fensen had a pair of wins in the 50- yard and the 100-yard freestyles with times of :25.48 and :55.80, respectively. Lundsford recorded a victory in the 200-yard butterfly with 2:12.61, while Quinn won the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:30.33 minutes. Rounding out the quartet's individual vic- tories was Sheehan who pulled off a win in the 100-yard backstroke. Richardson noted there were no individual standouts, but that the win was an overall effort. "Everyone put in a solid performance," he said. "To highlight one swimmer would be wrong." THAT SORT of teamwork is what Richardson feels it will take to win, especially in the Big Ten. Spending the holidays together, training in Indianapolis made the girls stronger not only in their racing times but also in their ability to swim together successfully, according to Richardson. "I feel good about our intensity right now and if we can 'keep going by the end of February (when the Big Ten Championships are held) we should come up with a good Big Ten season." Associated Press SPORTS OF THE DAILY: Alvie and kicking Edmonton Oiler goaltender Grant Fuhr makes a pad save in the first period against Boston last night. Fuhr and the Oilers won the game, 5-3. Womenti By DOUGLAS VOLAN The 1986 version of the women's gymnastics team opened up its season at home with a victory over Western Michigan at Crisler Arena on Sunday. The Wolverines dominated the meet, winningrthree of the four even- ts. Their only setback was on the vault, but even there a bright spot emerged in the form of Angela Williams, a sophomore who finished first with a 9.45. WITH THAT score and another first place finish on the floor exercise, Williams placed first overall with a total of 35.45 points. "Williams came through as a consistent performer as she has been doing since her fresh- man year," said coach Dana Kem- pthorn. Michigan had other outstanding in- dividual performances as well. Freshman Amy Meyer captured first place on the balance beam with a 9.05, and then followed that up with an 8.85 on the uneven bars to finish third in that event. "I was very pleased with Amy's performance" said amblers roll in opener Kempthorn. "She showed total men- tal readiness and her hard work paid off." Junior Heidi Cohen also had a strong meet, finishing second overall, with 35.25 points. Another freshman, Janne Klepek, finished first on the uneven bars with. a 9.0. Men take fifth Michigan's men's gymnastics team travelled to East Lansing last weekend for the Spartan Invitational. However, this group of athletes tum- bled out of East Lansing with a little less success than most Wolverine teams are accustomed to when ven- turing into Spartan territory. The team finished a disappointing fifth out of six teams, but head coach Bob Darden saw some good individual performances and believes the team is close to becoming more com- petitive. "THE TEAM attitude is good as a team, however some of the parts are greater than the whole," said Darden. "I wish the players would balance off each other more to give the team more motivation." The individual highlight of the meet belonged to Brock Orwig. The junior from Winnetka, Illinois scored d overall 9.3 and finished an impressive first place in the entire competition. Other Wolverine gymnasts also had some- impressive individual feats. Scott Moore finished first in the vault and fourth overall. Mitch Rose gar- nered first place on the still rings and third on the horizontal bar. Gavin Myerowitz had a second on the vault,0 and freshman Steve Yuan placed second on the pommel horse. The Spartan Invitational was won by the host Spartans, Wvho edged Wisconsin by a mere two points. - GREG MOLZON Thinclads compete Although the Wolverines were not scored as a team, last Friday's EMU versus Michigan men's track meet revealed a solid Michigan squad. The meet, which was the first of the .season, got the individuals who com- peted back on track for the rest of the season. "It's a way for everybody to get back into things after break," said assistant coach Mike Shea, whose outlook for the team was high. "If we can get the big point production out of the big men, we have a good chance of having an excellent seasonO "WE'VE JUST always been a strong team all around and it shouldbr. be a better year then last year." One of the big men Shea will be counting on will be junior Butch Starmack, who set a meet record Friday, triple jumping 49'9", bet- tering all his previous jumps from the '85 indoor season. That jump was short of his mark from the intra-squad met, where Starmack sprang close to 51 feet* displaying his great potential. Showing equal potential in the intra- squad meet was J.J. Grant. The freshman put the shot nearly 53 feet, donning his football attire after a workout with the football team. - EMILY BRIDGHAM Blue Linos , - . l }r \ r 1 ., : . n / r I . v r r Falcons soared to the top .. . ... 'M' brought them back to earth By RICK KAPLAN LOOKING for an argument? Try mentioning college sports polls. There is the controversy of the mythical national championship in football, the clash of AP and UPI, and the meaningless basketball rankings. But the good folks of Bowling Green, Ohio, learned the hard way about college hockey polls. Yes, there are college hockey polls. Three of them, in fact. And entering last Friday's game against Michigan, the KB- JR-TV Coaches Poll from Duluth, Minn., the WMPL-Radio Coaches Poll in Hancock, Mich., and the WMEB-FM Media Poll out of Orono, Maine all ranked Bowling Green number one in the nation. But the Falcons fell from their lofty rankings after Friday's game at Bowling Green Ice Arena. Michigan trailed 4-1 in the second period before storming back to beat the CCHA leaders, 7-4. Aside from two wins at Oxford over last-place Miami of Ohio, the win at Bowling Green was the Wolverines' first away from home. The Falcons lost their concentration and that lost them the game. The recent rise to the top of the rankings and Bowling Green's Friday night collapse were not coincidental. The Falcons had read their clippings, and ended up with their wings being clipped. Bowling Green coach Jerry York also blasted his team's effort. "We've got to be more concerned about playing the game," York said, "and less concerned about where we are in the national rankings. "We haven't had a problem so far," said York about dealing with the acclaim. "This is the first poor effort we've had." It was also the first time his team was ranked number one. Moving from number two to number.one may be only one notch in the polls, but it's three notches in the hat size. Falcon goaltender Gary Kruzich was set to notch his 16th win of the year when he lost his poise in the third period. The Wolverines deserve credit for a clutch team effort, but Kruzich was not the same goalie he was at the start of the game. He admitted that the loss may have been caused by excessive ego inflation. "We were just too lackadaisical out there," said the con- ference's third-rated goalie. "We can't go out there and think when we put on a Bowling Green jersey we're going to win the game.' It just doesn't work." Bowling Green right winger Jamie Wansbrough worked his way into a tie for the league lead in scoring, but he and his teammates were shut out in the decisive third period. "Because we were ranked number one," Wansbrough said, "guys may not have been up for the game as much as they would have been." The Falcons returned to form Saturday night, defeating Michigan 7-3 at Yost Ice Arena. After they had insured a split, Bowling Green's players and coach backed down a bit on their stance about the number- one syndrome. "The whole team was working harder tonight, offensively and defensively," said Kruzich. The Falcons also gave Michigan the credit it deserved. "I think Michigan is a legitimate top four team," York said Saturday. Bowling Green fell to number two in all three polls this week, as Denver took the top spot. But that does not diminish Michigan's weekend efforts. "If they are (the number one team), we proved we can beat them two out of four games," said Michigan center Todd Brost. "I think that says something about our team, too." Women cagers split road trip By LIAM FLAHERTY With most of us still writing 1985 on our checks, the Wolverines' women's basketball team has done in 1986 what it could not do all of last year. Michigan's 71-68 win over Purdue Saturday gave the Wolverines a 2-2 record in Big Ten play. The two wins doubled last year's not-so-grand total of one Big Ten win. Their overall record now stands at 8-6, which also tops last year's total output of vic- tories. IT WAS a tight game, with the Wolverines' biggest lead being six points at halftime. Michigan was led by senior co-captain Wendy Bradetich, who had 22 points, shooting 16 for 19 from the foul line. Bradetich iced both ends of. a one- and-one with eight seconds left, to put the game out of reach. Sophomore forward Lorea Feldman had 16 points and 14 rebounds. Michigan shot 50 percent from the field for the first time in Big Ten play this year. However, the weekend was not all victorious for the Wolverines as they also lost to Illinois on Friday night. The Fighting Illini had an easy go of it, trouncing Michigan 92-61. Feld- man led all scorers with 19 points. The Wolverines continue their record-setting Big Ten tour with Min- nesota and Iowa at home this weekend. Bradetich ... 22 against Purdue LOOK.*. We realize that the papers are gone by early morning. Unfortunately for the late risers, The Michigan Daily can't afford to print more than 10,000 copies. 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