4 Page 10 '-The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, October 13, 1987 SPORTS OF THE DAILY Spartan spikers could cure 'M' blues By PETER ZELLEN The Michigan volleyball team is tired of being kicked around by the Big Ten and tonight it's going to try to remedy the situation. Last-place Michigan State (0-5, Big Ten) is in town for tonight's 7:30 matchup (cable channel 9). Michigan, 1-5 Big Ten, has really been down in the dumps because of recent events. In the last two weeks the Wolverines have lost their last four Big Ten matches. They also lost their top setter senior Lisa Vahi. She suffered a serious ankle injury two weeks ago during practice, not during a match as previously reported. Vahi will likely be out for the remainder of the season. The Spartans have been having the same problems that Michigan has lately. They too lost their setter, junior Judy Doles, who suffered a stress fracture a few weeks ago. Doles was among the Big Ten leaders in assists and digs per game before she went down with the injury. "Michigan State also has a tough time getting rythym on offense and passing," said Michigan coach Joyce Davis, "we'll try to create the plays we want and see what develops." ONE OF Michigan State's healthy players is freshman Becky Belanger. Their best all around player, Belanger is one of the conference leaders in hitting and is second in digs per game. "We'll want to know where she is on the court," said Davis. Michigan State could cheer up the Wolverines. They certainly need it after this past weekend's performances against Iowa and Minnesota. Last Friday Michigan lost to the Hawkeyes by the scores of, 17-15, 15-4, and 15-10. The first game was a long and see- sawing match where the only thing that beat the Wolverines was a lack of players. With injuries to Vahi and junior Carla Hunter, Michigan is basically playing with 10 players on a 12-woman roster. "Depth has hurt us in that people are having to play out of position," Davis said, "every time it's a gamble when you're dealing with substitutions." NEWCOMER Cindy Maloney has been pressed into service more often than usual but has met the challenge well. "Cindy has done a good job," the coach said. "She's passed, dug, and assisted well." The second game was a 15-minute blowout. Nothing went right for the Wolverines as they lost 15-4 to Iowa, barely getting a chance to serve. The third game was vintage Jekyll and Hyde. In the beginning Michigan played poorly and was down 5-2 but junior Julie Marshall served four straight points to give the Wolverines a 6-5 lead. Soon after, Michigan took a 10-7 lead. Then the Michigan serving went ice cold. Iowa took advantage by grabbing the remaining eight points to win the game 15-7 and the match. Junior Marie-Ann Davidson and sophomore Karen Marshall had 12 digs apiece with senior Heather Olsen contributing 10. The team's kill percentage, however, was a lowly .028, compared to Iowa's .151. Michigan also committed 27 hitting errors. Iowa's Toni Zehr and Kari Hamel led the game with nine kills each. Olsen led the Wolverines with seven. GRANTED, A loss is a loss, Davis had a positive outlook after the Iowa match. "The outcome was not as critical as the performance," she said. "I'm pleased with the effort that we've shown. It's been more than in the last 10 days. We've had no major breakdowns and we're creating the situations that we want. We have to work with a new team now and it's looking a lot better." Minnesota, on the other hand, took no prisoners last Saturday. Michigan was soundly beaten by the Gophers, 15-4, 15- 7, and 15-6. The first game was just bad all around for Michigan. It lasted a little under 14 minutes and Michigan spent very little time on offense. The closest the Wolverines got in the game was in the first minute when they were tied 1-1. Ten minutes later it was 13-1. Sophomore Wendy Raber served Michigan to 13-4 but Minnesota ended it quickly. Michigan showed spunk in the second game. The Gophers' Missy Larsen served eight straight points, including three aces and gave Minnesota an 11-2 lead. Towards the end though, Michigan came alive. The Wolverines took away a lot of the opposition's serves and made them earn their points. Key blocks by Michigan were abundant but Minnesota pulled it out 15-7. The third game started off well for Michigan as sophomore Kim Clover and freshman Julia Sturm combined with good serving and blocking, respectively. The Wolverines led 5-4, then they hit the iceberg. Minnesota served seven straight points to go ahead 11-5. Rabor helped Michigan to another point but the Gophers got the last four to take the victory. "This match was just a disaster. We errored ourselves out (12 receiving and 13 hitting errors,)" Davis said. "We were too inconsistent. We'd make a great play and then a boneheaded one. You just can't do that." Michigan State may be just what the doctor ordered. Harriers run second The men's cross country team finished second in the 12 team Indiana invitational at Bloomington on Saturday. Illinois won the meet with 45 points, while the Wolverines finished with 71, edging out Indiana by a point for second place. Michigan State and Iowa rounded out the meet's top five. Michigan's top runner was All- American John Scherer who finished second overall with a time of 24:05.3. He was beaten by two-tenths of a second by Western Kentucky's Kevin Banks who finished in 24:05.1. The second place finish ends an impressive two meet winning streak for Scherer. Other Wolverines who finished well were Brad Barquist in eighth place, Joe Schmidt in 18th, Tony Carna in 26th, and Dave McKay in 27th. The Wolverines will next compete in the Central Collegiate Cross Country Championships on October 24th. -BILL ZOLLA Kichers boot BGSU, 2-0 The women's soccer team beat Bowling Green State, 2-0, Sunday at Mitchell Field. The win avenged an earlier 1-1 tie with the Falcons. Both goals were scored in the second half. The win evened the Wolverines record at 4-4- 4. They play today against Central Michigan at Mitchell Field. The game starts at 4:30. -Associated Press The Twins' Tom Brunansky is out at third on the relay to Detroit's Tom Brookens. But the damage is done as two runs score on the play, giving Minnesota a second-inning lead. Twi s end 22 year drought (Continued from Page 1) 15. A single by Steve Lombardozzi and doubles by Dan Gladden and Greg Gagne added two more runs. Jeff Reardon, stopper of the Twins bullpen, got the final four outs to clinch the title, although he was touched for a run in the ninth on Kirk Gibson's' run-scoring single. Brunansky's fourth double in the playoffs sparked the Twins' big inning as Minnesota knocked out Alexander after only one and two-thirds innings. Alexander, 9-0 since joining the Tigers in an August 12 trade with Atlanta, is 0-5 in post-season play. Bert Blyleven, the winner of Game two, allowed five hits through the first six innings for the Twins and got the victory. Gary Gaetti started the Twins' second with a single, his sixth hit in 16 series at- bats. Randy Bush walked on a 3-2 pitch and Brunansky hit the first pitch into the left- field corner, driving in Gaetti and Bush. Brunansky was thrown out trying to stretch the hit into a triple. Lombardozzi singled, then Alexander got Tim Laudner on a grounder that moved Lombardozzi to second. Gladden singled Lombardozzi home. After Gagne was hit by a pitch, Kirby Puckett singled home Gladden for a 4-0 Twins lead and Eric King relieved Alexander. King got Kent Hrbek, the ninth batter ii the inning, on a grounder for the third out. The Tigers cut the deficit to 4-3 in the fourth. Gibson doubled and scored on Alan Trammell's single. Then Nokes, who hit 32 homers during the regular season, hit a 1-1 pitch off Blyleven into the lower right-field seats for his first playoff homer. It was the 13th homer of this series, tying a playoff record equalled twice in the National League and most recently in the AL last year by California and Boston. Detroit first baseman Darrell Evans, the goat in the Tigers' 5-3 loss in Game 4, got a standing ovation from the Tiger Stadium crowd when he came to bat in the first. SEBAGO Campsides 4 Four eyelet tie. The specially molded rubber sole offers sure footedness in the out-of-doors. Highly water resistant and flexible. Made in Maine. MAST'S "We take the time to fit you" NFL STRIKE; DAY 22: Angry ana ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) - Striking NFL players, in their attempt to defuse the free agency issue rebuffed by the owners, met Monday in what one union official descibed as an angry mood as the walkout completed its third week. The meeting of the 28 player representatives took place at the Visa MasterCard Discover Am Ex DOWNTOWN 217 S.Main Open Fri.'til 8:30 ion reps meet to form strateg CAMPUS 619 E. Liberty Open Fri.'til 8:00 NEW EDITION-FINEST FILM COLLECTION EVER ASSEMBLED THE BEST OF Date: T UES., OCT. 13 PLUS ALL THE BLOOPERS AND MORE 4 Place: * ANGELL HALL * * Times:er 6:00 A... same hotel where a week ago the players voted not to let one issue stand in the way of an agreement. But that one issue - free agency - surfaced again Sunday when management broke off six days of talks after declaring that a new union proposal on the issue was not a solution. THAT LEFT the players, who had hoped to return in time for last week's games, looking at a third week of replacement games and a fourth without a paycheck. If the replacement players play a third game this weekend, they would be entitled to a share of playoff money if their teams make it to postseason competition. But union officials vowed to remain silent. "Management a l w a y s underestimates our strength, and in this case, they underestimate player anger," Doug Allen, the assistant executive director of the NFL Players Association, said before the meeting. "That anger means it's going to get uglier and it's going to get messier before it's over." DURING THE talks at Tysons Corner, Va., that broke off Sunday, the union claimed it was dropping it's demand for unrestricted free agency. It substituted a plan that would provide right of first refusal to a team when its player receives an offer from another team and the player receives compensation from his new team based on the player's old salary. But Jack Donlan, chairman of the NFL Management Council, rejected that plan and walked away from the table, claiming that basing compensation on the old salary would mean no compensation at all.; He said that was because the salaries of most players ending their first contract were making too little money to be worth draft choice compensation. The players, meanwhile, maintained that Donlan's rejection indicated that free agency wasn't the issue. "THEIR suggestion was to liberalize the system and we did that," Brian Holloway of the Los Angeles Raiders, the NFLPA's' assistant executive director, said before the meeting. "We've called their bluff." Marvin Powell of Tampa Bay,' the union's president, said the owners had walked away in hopes that frustrated players, who will have lost a quarter of their yearly salary if they don't play next weekend, will return to camp by Wednesday's deadline. Monday, one player, rookie nose tackle Gerald Nichols of the New York Jets, crossed the picket lined _(eq TUESDAY 10-CLOSE % m4 A !