Page 12 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 11, 1988 SPORTS OF THE DAILY Spikers Go-pher league win BY STEVEN COHEN Michigan's women's volleyball team has been the most consistent team in the Big Ten in- two areas. The Wolverines, led by a tall front line, boast the best blocking team in the conference. Unfortunately, they have also been consistent in losing all 12 of their Big Ten matches. The Wolverines look to use their excellent blocking to reverse their losing ways against Minnesota to- night and Iowa tomorrow night. "Though we are facing the fourth- and second-place teams in the conference, we are still the No. I blocking team in the conference," said Michigan coach Joyce Davis. "We are counting on our ability to block to score some points for us." The Wolverines will have to perform a lot better than they did in their last match to score points on two of the Big Ten's better teams, Minnesota (16-8, 7-6) and Iowa (20- 6,9-4). ON TUESDAY night, Michigan (10-18, 0-12), lost its 15th straight contest in a .match against Mid Amer-ican Conference foe Central Michigan (11-9). The trip to Mt. Pleasant was not at all pleasing as the Wolverines were shellacked 15-1, 15-7, 15-5. "We prepared a lot for Michigan,," said Chippewas coach Marcy Weston. "If you get on the Big Ten schedule you like to play well and get a win. We hit real well and forced a lot of errors." As a perennial leader in the MAC, Central Michigan has always had a great deal of success with Michigan, winning 22 of the past 25 matches. "We play them every year and I know a lot of the Michigan players," said Weston. "I saw them play earlier and they looked much stronger, but with the injuries and the loss of two players (Wendy Raber, Laura Melvin) I can understand that they would be much weaker. "They seemed very disheartened. They were playing poorly. It's difficult to play a non-conference match in the middle of the season, (particularly) if you are not even doing well in your own conference." BUT non-conference matches have provided only a portion of the difficulty that the Wolverines have faced this season. "Anything is difficult when you're not showing success," said middle-hitter Kim Clover. "We are particu-larly different in that respect- we keep our heads up and keep on going. Everyone keeps asking 'Aren't you looking forward to the end of the season?' It's just the opposite." Michigan's chances against the Gophers is encouraged by their perfor-mance last month at Minneapolis. Minnesota won a close match 15-5, 13-15, 17-15, and 15-6. Against Iowa, however the Wolverines could not even have gained the moral victory of playing well and still losing. The Hawkeyes defeated Michigan in three straight games, 15-9,15-9, and 15-12. "I always noticed Michigan teams- they seem to want to play well," said Stewart. "They're trying to play well to overcome their obstacles. M' swimmers open defense of Big Ten titlet The Michigan's women's swim-1 ming team, defending Big Tent champs, will open their league sche-i dule today against Iowa, seventh inI the conference last year. Thisr meeting at Canham Natatorium will involve two teams coming from different directions. Michigan coach Jim Richardson is excited to get the league schedules underway. "We're definitely looking forward to it," Richardson said. "Thef competition in the Big Ten is solid.3 Everyone wants to do well against the conference teams. It's special." The Hawkeyes though are not so enthusiastic. Iowa head coach Pete Kennedy isn't expecting to pull off the upset. "They're way too powerful for us right now," Kennedy said. "At this point they don't have any weaknessses." Iowa is winless in the Big Ten this year, losing to Wisconsin and Minnesota. Michigan defeated Bow- ling Green in its only meet. Richardson is satisfied with the way the team has swum thus far. Although he would have liked to have seen more. speed against the Falcons, he said it "should be tempered with the fact that our training has been very good." Since the Iowa meet falls within Richardson's 'preparatory phase' of the season, during which endurance 4 is stressed just as much as speed, he plans to use his best swimmers in multiple events. This is not to imply that Michigan is taking Iowa lightly. "We're not going to pull back. We have too much respect for them," said Richardson. "They're good in. the sprint freestyle and have a goodt freshman butterflier (Beth Janis).,- They'll be pretty solid." 4 Iowa is led by Janis in the 100. and 200-yard butterfly, team captain Becky Anderson and Stacey Gilleo in the 50 and 100 freestyle and Louise Keough in the breaststroke. -ERIC LEMONT Waltzing to No. 1 JESSICA GREENE /Daily Pre-season All-Americans John Fisher (right) and Mike Amine (left), have helped the Wolverines dance their way to the Amateur Wrestling News No. 1 pre-season ranking. This- weekend, Michigan opens their season at the Eastern Michigan Invitational in Ypsilanti. Michigan's chances against the Everyone wants to do well against I ____________ The University of Michigan I UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES CENTER Soundstage, Fully Loaded TONITE U-Club, 10:00pm., $3.50 Impact Dance Theatre, Dance Workshops Nov 10, Anderson Rm. Michigan Union 7-8:30pm. 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