9 j I Page 12 -The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, April 19, 1988 M' women net two Big Ten victories I By STEVE SCHLUSSEL The Michigan women's tennis team continued its assault on the cellar dwellers of the Big Ten last weekend by drubbing winless Purdue and Illinois, 8-1 and 6-3, respec- tively. Regardless of the opponent's record, the wins were crucial, espe- cially after last week's heartbreaking loss to Michigan State. "We needed both of these matches to be seeded in the top six," said Michigan head coach Bitsy Ritt. The top six that coach Ritt refers to is the seeding in the Big Ten tournament which takes place at the end of April. Ritt expects to be in that top six which would enable the team to have a chance at a top four, finish, a far cry from last year's last place disappointment. LOWER ECHELON squads such as Purdue must be dealt with in order to improve Michigan's ranking. Saturday, in a duel between last year's ninth and tenth place teams, the Wolverines showed their drastic improvement by steamrolling the Boilermakers, 8-1. In what coach Ritt labeled the "best overall performance of the year", Tina Basle (6-0, 6-3) led a singles lineup that coasted to five out of six victories. Usually the doubles teams give Ritt headaches, but against Purdue all three teams won in straight sets. Na- talie Butler and Kristin Ashare sub- stituted at number two and won 7-6, 6-2. Following Saturday's lambasting of Purdue, the team travelled to Champaign for a date with the Fighting Illini. Using the same po- tent singles line up, the Wolverines took five out of six matches but stumbled in doubles by losing two out of three, making the match score 6-3. "The windy conditions got us off to a slow start," said Ritt. "We were down in five of six at one time, but no one panicked." THE CONFIDENCE paid off as Tina Basle (4-6, 6-1, 6-0), Stacy Berg (3-6, 7-6, 6-2), Leslie Mackey (6-0, 4-6, 6-3), and Anna Schork (6- 1, 3-6, 6-2), all took three sets to knock off their fiesty foes. Coach Ritt was especially pleased with a new found addition to Michi- gan's arsenal which she discovered this weekend. "We saw how much depth that we actually have," said Ritt. "That will help us a lot at the end of the sea- son." Throughout this turbulent season the one constant has been number one singles player Tina Basle. In her senior year, Basle has pieced together a career streak. She has won ten con- secutive singles matches and sixteen out of her last seventeen. She has also won ten consecutive doubles matches with partner Stacy Berg and fifteen out of sixteen overall. Golfers shankh tourn ament This past weekend the Michigan golf team participated in the Kepler Intercollegiate in Columbus, finish- ing a disappointing 12th out of a 23 team field. The host team, Ohio State, won, followed by Kent State and Ball State at the difficult field and demanding course. Leading the team was Hersh Patel (83-80-77-240) followed by Scott Chipokas (79-82-80-241), Erich Kuhlman (82-79-84-245), Bob Papp (77-84-85-246) and Tom Paton (87- 89-84-260). If each individual continues to shoot scores of 80, the Wolverines, according to coach Jim Carras, will not be as competitive as he would like them to be in the upcoming Northern Intercollegiate and Big Ten Championship. After accomplishing one of its goals by finishing in the top half of last week's Marshall Invitation, Michigan did not gain any confi- dence going into the next few tour- naments. "We have to keep getting better week after week," said Carras after last week's meet. This weekend's showing does not show any signs of improvement. If anything, it shows that the team is slipping." 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