4 Page 104- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 19, 1986 Philling it Up Hi IPhil %uswl l l T he Ohio State Buckeyes. Ohio Stadium. Woody Hayes. The Scarlet and Gray. Columbus, Ohio. Yes, I'm going to give you more of it. Jim Karsatos, Cris Carter, Chris Spielman, Vince Workman, Sonny Gordon, Eric Kumerow. The above is what keeps Michigan fans from buying those coveted Rose Bowl tickets. The above is what puts a solid lump in the stomachs of Wolverine faithful. The above is the enemy. They are bothersome. They are in the way. But like Jim Harbaugh, I guarantee a Michigan victory. The trouble is, it is not going to be easy. It's not going to be like an Illinois or a Purdue where the only worry is how many yards the Wolverines will yield. Indeed, Ohio State can beat Michigan fair and square. Worse yet, the Buckeyes can get lucky and win. They can settle for a tie. The worst nightmares are possible. Possible, but not likely. Here's why: OSU on offense, Michigan on defense - Ohio State's offense has big names like Karsatos, Workman, and Carter, but their attack is the epitome of boredom. Karsatos is no speed merchant and he even got benched earlier in the season in favor of Tom Tupa. His numbers got better after that, but he won't evade the Wolverine rush like a Rickey Foggie. When Karsatos throws, he will go to Cris Carter, who has 58 catches for 991 yards and nine touchdowns. The next best receiver, Nate Harris, has only 22 catches. No doubt, Michigan defensive back coach Lloyd Carr will key his secondary on Carter. The Bucks will run out of the I-formation and give the ball to Workman or Jim Bryant. Fullback George Cooper also gets to run. But as Michigan fans know all too well, the I-formation is terribly predictable and with the strength of linemen Billy Harris, Mark Trouble in Columbus... .'M'will survive Messner, and Dave Folkertsma, the running game will flounder. Michigan on offense, OSU on defense - This will be the game-deciding matchup. Ohio State's defense has the same kind of stats as Michigan's defense, but the real question is whether the Buckeyes are good enough to stop Harbaugh and company. Not thinking about the bonehead mistakes against Minnesota, Michigan should prevail here. When the offense wants to score, it does. After the Notre Dame win, Harbaugh said: "Our offense is the type of offense which can only be stopped if it stops itself. I really believe that." He proved it all season. It all comes down to execution and Michigan will execute. - Momentum - This scares me. Not only do the Bucks carry a nine-game winning streak into the game, they carry it into their home stadium. Michigan must hang tough in the first half. A tie at halftime would do just fine. Then the Wolverines must do their usual third-quarter blitz. They've outscored opponents 86-19 in that quarter. But wait, Ohio State has smashed its opponents in the third too, 77-28. Something will have to give Saturday. " Desire - After listening to Harbaugh guarantee a win two days ago, it's easy to understand the drive behind the Wolverines, who have not been to the Rose Bowl since 1983. "I know what kind of guys are on this team," Harbaugh said. "You can go up and down the line, but when the times are toughest, we play our best." Sure, the Bucks have just as much desire, but they went to the Rose Bowl in -'85. Harbaugh, Moeller, and all the other fifth-year seniors sat on the sidelines in '83. None of them played. They want to go more than anything they've ever wanted. They will get their wish - they being the Michigan Wolverines, Michigan Stadium, Bo Schembechler, the Maize and Blue, Ann Arbor, Mich. De MAAT PLUNGES INTO COLLEGE SWIMMING Freshman gets feet wet By CHRIS GORDILLO There's a new face at Matt Mann Pool making some big waves for Michigan women's swimming. But soon the face of freshman Gwen De Maat should become a very familiar and feared one around the Big Ten. The change from high school to Division I collegiate competition should be a smooth one for De Maat. She is more than familiar with national competition. In fact, she excelled in it. ASIDE FROM being named Michigan Class "B" Swimmer of the Year twice as a tanker at Grand Rapids Christian High School, De Maat recorded the best time in the country for the 200 freestyle event with a 1:49.39. She notched the nation's third best time in the 500 free with a blazing 4:51.09. The two marks stand as the fastest Michigan high school swimming times ever in those events. She qualified for seven individual events for the United States Swimming Senior National Championships and three events for the 1986 World Championship trials. And it doesn't end there. To top off her list of laurels, De Maat was a participant in the 1984 Olympic Trials. With those accomplishments, Gwen De Maat is considered one of the best swimmers ever in the state Freshman swimmer Gwen De Maat h will be a springboard to her ultimate g of Michigan. "GWEN WAS probably the top middle-distance freestyle recruit in the country," head coach Jim Richardson said. "She is the strongest female distance swimmer IS THE RIGHT TO YOURPAR 2 U Daily Photo by PETE ROSS opes that her career with Michigan oal-the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. I've ever been associated with in 4 my 17 years of coaching." The other Big Ten teams have reason to be afraid. Her best time in the 200 free would have won her a Big Ten championship last year. She would have placed in the top five in the 500 free, 200 I.M., and the' 100 butterfly with times that earned her All-American honors as a high school senior. She already leads the conference this year in the 500 free and 400 I.M., and the season has just begun. De Maat couldn't be happier about being a Wolverine. "I love it here," she exclaimed. She seriously considered Arizona State and Southern Illinois, but Michigan, with coach Richardson and the school's close proximity to home, was heads above the rest for De Maat. ALTHOUGH the freshman seeks many plateaus in her future as a Wolverine - school records, conference records, national rankings, team titles - De Maat doesn't want to lose sight of her ultimate goal, the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Already having experienced the intensity and excitement of an Olympic trials, De Maat feels more confident about her next attempt. "Scary" is the word she uses to describe her first experience. "I was so in awe of everything and so nervous. It was just incredible to see Tracy Caulkins walking around and Rick Carey," said De Maat of 1984. Since then, she has come to realize her swimming idols are humans too. "I know now they're just normal people like me." And normal is exactly the way De Maat feels about her life and the priority swimming takes in it. The motivating factor for her is that "it's just normal. I can't imagine not ever swimming at all," said De Maat. a) When you're stuck in your room because someone pennied" your door. b) When you spent all your money playing "Q-Bert" and you still have to buy books for Developmental Psych. c) When you just miss hearing their voices and telling them what you've been doing. One thing about parents: they love to hear what you've been up to. But you should call them anyway. And when they ask where you were last night, tell them that you always call using AT&T. When they ask how your studies are going, note that you can count on AT&T for consis- tently high quality service. And when, at last, they praise you for using AT&T, then- and only then-you might '~ want to mention those Psych books. Richardson and the swimming team don't imagine it either. women's want to Clemens bhonored ss AL sMVP NEW YORK (AP) Roger Clemens, who won 24 games in his first full season with the Boston Red Sox, capped aidream year yesterday by becoming the first starting pitcher in 15 years to win the American League's Most Valuable Player Award. The 24-year-old right-hander captured '19 of 28 first place votes for 339 points in easily E outdistancing Don Mattingly of the New York Yankees and Boston teammate Jim Rice in the balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Mattingly, the 1985 MVP, had five first place votes and 258 points as he failed in a bid to become the first to win the award in consecutive years since thej ' ,; ; ' ; 4