I Page 1C - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 2, 1986 WOLVERINES PREPARE TO DEFEND TITLE 'M' Sailing Club takes off Red Wings demote Murphy to minors i By JULIE HOLLMAN Will, experience, and a little bit of luck are the elements the Michigan sailing team will draw upon this weekend when they battle the best racers from the Midwest and East Coast in the Cary-Price regatta. Michigan seeks to retain last year's title and improve its national, ranking. THE WOLVERINE club will defend its championship on home waters at Baseline Lake. The Naval Academy and eastern powerhouses Georgetown and Connecticut College will provide tough competition. But team captain Jay Dunwell said he's optimistic about his crew. "This will be a tough race, but we do have a chance to win. This is a great time for us to show the East that the Midwest can be a respectable rival," commented Dunwell. Since Michigan is hosting the race have to provide the boats for everyone. Michigan uses 470's, two-man boats with a main sail and a jib, or smaller sail. The number 470 stands for centimeters. THE TEAM competed in the Notre Dame regatta September 13. Michigan handily won the contest. Like every regatta, the Notre Dame competition consisted of 15 short races in two divisions which lasted about 20 minutes. Each boat completed a run through the three-sided course turning around buoys placed at each corner of the triangle. Each leg was a1/4 mile. Michigan's victory in South Bend helped elevate it to the 20th slot in the national standings. Despite the ranking, Dunwell views this year as a rebuilding period. "OUT OF our 35 members there are only 10 seniors, however they represent the bulk of our strong racers. I hope to build up the team this year so when the seniors graduate, the team won't go with them. Three years ago we were ranked within the top five teams in the nation and I would like to see the team reach that height again," explained Dunwell. Dunwell and women's captain Holy O'Brian feel the team can reach 15th this year. In fact, after winning the Midwest Sloop Elimination regatta last weekend, Michigan stands as the strongest in the Mid- West for that category of boats. The victory qualifies the team for the Sloop Nationals in November at the Detroit Yacht Club. The sailing team practices three times a week atthe Michigan Sailing Club on Baseline Lake. The Club governs the team, which the students run. EACH TEAM member must become a club member and pay dues for boats and equipment. The women's and men's teams are considered separate, but both groups practice and race together. Michigan's season will continue until Thanksgiving. After a winter hiatus, it resumes as soon as the ice melts. For the fall finale, Michigan will compete in the Timmie Angsted Memorial regatta at the Chicago Yatch Club. The regatta is the Midwest's biggest and teams consider it the fall championship. Following an elimination race, the Timmie Angsted will host the top 10 teams from around the country and the top 10 from the Midwest. ALTHOUGH HE looks forward to this challenging contest, Dunwell can't forget his past experiences in the cold race conditions. "I remember last year my feet got so wet and heavy I felt like I was wearing ski boots," reflected Dunwell. Like any outdoor sport, the sailing team must contend with mother nature's whims. Many times the team drags out all the equipment only to discover there is no wind. This minor detail hampers the practice schedule and promotes water fights. During a calm practice last week freshman skipper Debbie Hopkins and her crew Laura Gregory were hit by a hurricane provided by their teammates. HOPKINS AND Gregory came to Michigan with intentions of joining the sailing team. They both had read about Michigan in Sail Magazine and were impressed by the high ranking. Hopkins and Gregory combined to win the Western Michigan regatta in the A division last weekend. The team as a whole however, captured third place. Veterans on this year's team who will contribute leadership, experience, and skill are captains Dunwell and O'Brian, skippers Josh Kerst, Jody Swanson, and Ben Capucl. Sophomore transfers Rick Wright and Chris Carrol will add to Michigan's strength. Dunwell urges any interested students to attend meetings on Thursday nights at 7:00 pm in the West Engineering Building. DETROIT (AP) - The Red Wings sent two players to the club's American Hockey League affiliate at Glens Falls, N.Y., for disciplinary reasons and assigned two other players there, the NHL club announced yesterday. Demoted for disciplinary reasons were left wing Warren Young and center Joe Murphy, the No. 1 overall pick in the June NHL entry draft, Detroit coach Jacques Demers said in a written statement. YOUNG WAS sent down after receiving major penalties and a game misconduct for spearing and then fighting with Edmonton's Jeff Buekeboom during the second period of Tuesday night's 3-1 exhibition loss at Dallas, the Red Wings said. "Right now there are four left wings ahead of Young , and the spearing penalty last night precipitated the move to Adirondack," Demers said. "He's subject to recall at any time." Murphy, who helped lead Michigan State to the NCAA championship last season in his freshman year, was demoted for being late for three team-related functions last week, the club said. Murphy missed the Red Wings' Tuesday morning flight to Dallas and arrived on a later flight, going scoreless against the Oilers, the Red Wings said. Demers did not elaborate on the two other functions for which Murphy was late. Also sent down to the Adirondack club were defenseman Rock Zombo and right wing Chris Cichocki. The moves left Detroit with 24 players in training camp as the club prepared -to open its regular season October 9 at Quebec. Cherry Bowl hits pits The Cherry Bowl neared formal extinction yesterday when organizers of the postseason college football contest missed an NCAA-imposed deadline for posting a letter of credit and showing proof of corporate sponsorship. Bowl organizers said they planned to appeal. THE NCAA had set a 6 pm EDT Wednesday deadline for Cherry Bowl officials to post a $1 million letter of credit out of 4 4 I which participating teams would be paid, spokesman Jim Marchiony said from NCAA headquarters in Mission, Kan. Organizers of the Pontiac Silverdome contest also missed the deadline for showing proof of $1 million in corporate sponsorships, he said. With those deaclines having lapsed, "the Postseason Football Committee will recommend to the NCAA Council that the game be decertified," Marchiony said. The 44-member council, comprising university administrators nationwide, planned to meet October 13 to rule on the decertification request, the spokesman said. "Cherry Bowl Inc. is continuing to work toward securing corporate sponsors so that it may appeal to the NCAA Council...for recertification," bowl spokenan John Johnson said from Lansing in a statement read to the Associated Press. Barfieid homers twice NEW YORK (AP)-Jesse Barfield hit two solo homers to take over the major league lead with 39 home runs, and Jimmy Key and Tom- Henke combined on a six-hitter last night, leading the Toronto Blue Jays past the Yankees, 3-0. Toronto ended its four-game losing streak and snapped New York's three-game winning streak. The Yankees finished the season with a 41-39 record at home, their worst since 1968. BARFIELD LED off the second inning with a high drive just over the left field fence for the first run of the game. Two outs later, Ron Shepherd doubled and scored on a single by Buck Martinez against Ron Guidry, 9-12, who allowed seven hits and pitched his fifth complete game. Barfield, who also leads all major league outfielders in assists, got his 20th of the year in the fourth inning when he threw out Don Mattingly from right field trying to stretch a single into a double. Barfield hit his second homer of the game in the ninth. Key, 14-11, who struck out four and walked three, took a three-hit shutout into the eighth, but he was relieved by Henke after giving up a two-out single to Wayne Tolleson and a double to Rickey Henderson. Henke, who earned his 27th save, got Randolph on a fly ball to right field to end the threat. Mattingly, trailing Boston's Wade Boggs in the AL batting race, went 2-for-4 and raised his average to .350. Mattingly's two hits gave him 230 for the season, one behind the all-time Yankees' record set by Earle Combs in 1927. 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