Page 10- The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 10, 1989 Irish,? High stakes for 'M' in face-ois with ND BY TAYLOR LINCOLN The hockey team will take a vacation from the rigors of its battle for second place in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association with a home- and-home series versus Notre Dame this weekend. But it is not expected to be a stringent test. Despite their fabled history in football and basketball, the Irish do not field a nationally powerful hockey team. Notre Dame downgraded its program to "club sport" status for one year in 1983. The next year, the school reclassified it as a varsity sport, but have been slow to award scholarships which could bring them to competitive status. THIS YEAR, the Irish improved their schedule to include such teams as Western Michigan, Illinois-Chicago, and Boston College to go along with Michigan. The impact has shown in their won-loss record as they are 9-23-2 and suffered a 14 game losing streak at one point in the season. If the Wolverines win both games this weekend they will extend their unbeaten streak to 10, but will not gain significantly in the polls. A loss in either game, however, would be damage their hopes of gaining one of the twelve bids to the NCAA tournament. "When the NCAA seedings come in, we can't have lost to Notre Dame," coach Red Berenson said. "We have nothing to win and everything to lose." Berenson said right winger Kent Brothers will not play because of a bad back. He added that Jeff Urban and Todd Copeland will not dress. In their places will be first-year players Vaclav Nedomansky and Franz Herbert, neither of whom have seen significant playing time this year. BERENSON dispelled conjecture that Urban and Copeland are sitting because of involvement in the alleged January 3rd harassment incident. "It's just a matter of who sits out," he said. "I don't want to sit out Alex (Roberts) because he's working well with (Doug) Evans, and I want to play Myles (O'Connor) because he's going for a point record. "We need to get (Herbert and Nedomansky) in there because we need to see how they play. We're an injury away from having to use them." Notre Dame's top scorer is first-year center David Bankiski, who has 11 goals and 33 assists. Irish Goalie Lance Marlear has been invited to represent the United States in the World University Games in Sophia, Bulgaria. The team primarily consists of players from schools not in the NCAA tournament. Blue needs higher scores all-a-Round BY JEFF SHERAN The Michigan men's gymnastics team squares off against Iowa State this weekend, but the team is competing against more than just the Cyclones. The Wolverines will be battling to stay afloat among the elite teams of the nation. This contest is not a Big Ten conference meet, which may be of some relief for Coach Bob Darden. The Big Ten, after all, features four top ten teams. Ohio State is ranked first, Minnesota stands at third, followed by Illinois at fourth, and Iowa in the tenth spot. Michigan is eleventh. The Wolverines were ninth as of last week, but Navy and UCLA advanced, squeezing Michigan out of the championship-qualifying group. Therefore, the team can not relax just because Iowa State happens to be in the Big Eight. Darden views the upcoming meet as a testing ground for his young Wolverines, whose starting lineup showcases four first-year competitors in the all-around competition. Newcomer Jim Round, who as a high school junior won the Illinois High School All-Around Championships, anchors the lineup. He topped all Michigan scores last weekend at Illinois, and his relentless training schedule has prompted Darden to refer to him as,"one of the pillars of this team." Accompanying Round on the roster are first-year gymnasts Ruben Ceballos, John Mains, and Louie Ball. Ceballos, Ball, and Mains finished 15th, 20th, and 30th overall in the 1988 Junior National Championships, respectively, as high school seniors. "The guys definitely have the talent; otherwise they wouldn't have been recruited," Darden explained.'But they'll be under a lot of pressure to prove themselves." In addition to reclaiming a top-ten ranking, Darden is seeking to develop a new attitude. He wants to instill in his players' minds that Michigan belongs there. "Our previous top ten ranking was no quirk." Leaping efforts such as this one against Ohio State has hurtled rookie 1 John Mains into a ninth-place ranking among U.S. vaulters. Gymnasts travel to MSU I , L BY MARK KATZ For the thirdstraight weekend, the Michigan women's gymnastics team takes on one of the powers of the Big Ten when it battles Mich- igan State Sunday in East Lansing. The Spartans, who attended the NCAA National Championships last season, should be "just as strong as they were last year," according to Michigan senior all-around gymnast - ; {;. rif Sf j t i Angela Williams. The Wolverines hope to improve on last week's performance against Minnesota, when they recorded their best score of the season with a 181.65. "If we're going to improve on that score, we're going to have be more consistent onhbeam and bars," said sophomore Christine Furlong. "We had quite a fewsfalls there in last week's meet." A strong showing this week will propel Michigan closer to their goal: an invitation to the regional finals. The Wolverines must compile a score at the end of the season which ranks among the top seven teams in their region to qualify. That score is then subtracted from the average of the team's two best home scores, two best away scores, and the next best score either home or away. "Obviously, we'd like to win, but our real goal is to try and get the highest team score possible," first year gymnast Diane Armento said. "We've been up against some really good teams this season, so our record really doesn't show our scoring progress." Cagers try for success on road BY LORY KNAPP The Michigan women' s basketball team has a tough weekend ahead with games at Indiana University (12-7 overall, 5-4 Big Ten) and Ohio State (14-5, 7-2). The Wolverines nearly upset Purdue and scored a come-from- behind victory against Illinois for their first Big Ten win last weekend. Indiana, currently in fourth place in the Big Ten, upset OSU last Friday and will be geared up for the game. Michigan will have to rely on their big, inside game this weekend in order to contain players such as Hoosier guard Ann Mooney and Buckeye center Nikita Lowry. 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