Men's Tennis vs. Toledo Thursday, 11:30 a.m. Track & Tennis Building The Michigan Daily *Wolverines suffer Big Ten humiliation, lose two on the road TSPybrTS Tuesday, February 14, 1989 Women's Basketball vs. Wisconsin Friday, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena Page 9 . I More- Noise! Two basketball fans petition to create new student section BY LORY KNAPP The road is often an unpleasant place to be. Such was the case this past week- end as Michigan's women's basket- ball team (7-14 overall, 1-10 Big Ten) dropped another two Big Ten contests on the road, this time to Indiana, Friday, and Ohio State, Saturday, Indiana, (13-8, 6-5) and Ohio State (16-5, 9-2) beat the last-place Wolverines 86-51 and 89-51, respectively. The weekend immediately caused trouble for the Wolverines when just 11 minutes into Friday's game they were down by a score of 22-9. "(Indiana) jumped out to an early lead and poured it on," Michigan head coach Bud VanDeWege said. "Then it was difficult to create momentum." IT WAS NOT just Indiana's defense, however, which led to the loss; Michigan's lack of offense was equally responsible. The Wolverines did not have one player score in double figures. Forwards Mary Rosowski and Torie Shaw came off the bench to be Michigan's high scorers with nine and eight points, respectively. Starting guard Tempie Brown, who is leading the team in scoring, was held to just four points. Brown only shot the ball four times in 28 minutes of play. The Wolverines' low score can be attributed mainly to a miserable shooting percentage, which was under 37 percent for the game. "We didn't show up ready to play," VanDeWege said. INDIANA did not have the same problem, having five players score in double figures. Hoosier center Pam Fritz led all scorers with 18 points and eight rebounds. Michigan's 22 turnovers did not help their cause either, especially when combined with only three steals. Indiana had 14 steals. As VanDeWege put it, the Ohio State game Sunday was "the exact same script. Two and a half minutes into the game we were down 10-0." "We were so discouraged after getting beat up Friday night that we just weren't up to it," he said. The individual perfor-mances were better against Ohio State as soph- omore guard Carol Szczechowski came off the bench to lead the team with 14 points. She also added two rebounds. Szczechowski broke the 12-0 beginning run by Ohio State when she hit a driving lay-up and converted the foul shot to put ALEXANDRA BREZ/Daiy Tanya Powell, seen here at home against Purdue, added nine points and six rebounds against Ohio State, but Michigan still lost, 89-51. Michigan on the board. TANYA POWELL also added to the Michigan performance with nine points and six rebounds. Powell is seventh in the Big Ten in rebounding, averaging 7.8 rebounds per game. The Wolverines out-rebounded Ohio State, 30-29, but just did not convert their chances into points. And, while Michigan's shooting percentage (40 percent) was a slight improvement over the Indiana game, the Buckeyes shot the lights out. Ohio State shot 65 percent from the floor which included a 71 percent first half. Besides being offensively pro- ficient, the Buckeyes shut down Michigan's inside game. Val Hall, a center who started at the forward position, and center Joan Rieger were held to just three rebounds each. On the offensive end, Rieger had six points and Hall was held scoreless. BY JOSH MITNICK Two petition drives were mounted last week in an effort to try and prod the Michigan Athletic Department into changing their season ticket policy with regard to students. An anonymously circulated petition by a concerned fan calls on the Athletic Department to "question seating assignments at Crisler Arena" and asserts that it is time to replace blue section ticket holders with "young enthusiastic students and super fans." The petition, dated Feb. 4, reasons that this is "in the best interest of the remainder of the 1989 basketball season." "People in the blue section seem to be comfortable with their seats and that comfort doesn't do anything towards agitation for the team," said the author of the petition. THE FAN, WHO owns season tickets in the blue section, criticized other blue-section fans for reading newspapers and books during basketball games, adding that the blue section often has many empty seats. He said that by circulating the petition, fans would be able to speak for themselves. "All we're asking is that the alumni consider having their seats reassigned," said the fan. "This is my answer to people who complain about fan involvement at Crisler compared with other arenas." Another drive is led by LSA senior Erik Kittlaus. Kittlaus hopes to drum up support for his petition by canvasing the campus. He plans to reach the student body by setting up sign-up desks in dorms and the fishbowl, and circulating the petition at basketball games. Kittlaus said that initially he wanted to get the issue discussed on campus and to present the Athletic Department with a list of students interested in getting a student section. Kittlaus' ultimate goal is the creation of a "clearly defined student section - a specific block of students down low where they'll have a great impact." ACCORDING TO the Athletic Ticket Office, 1002 students, approximately one-third of all student season ticket holders, have seats in the blue section. However, Kittlaus claimed there is no clearly defined student section in the blue seats. Michigan Ticket Manager Al Renfrew said that he doesn't foresee any changes with the athletic departments' ticket policy. "Some years we get a lot of students that want to buy basketball tickets, some years we have problems filling the blue section," Renfrew said. Renfrew described Crisler Arena as a "theater-type building." He explained that to increase the noise levels they would have to, "make it so fans don't have a tendency to relax so much. The fans are not on the edge of their seats." Ohio State Assistant Athletic Director Paul Krebs said a significant number of students were moved closer to courtside in the Buckeyes' St. John Arena around five years ago. Krebs said that the athletic department had received a lot of complaints from people that were displaced. "I'M NOT sure having students sitting on the court is the answer to the problem of noise. There's no one magic formula for any school," Krebs said. At Purdue's Mackey Arena, notorious for the level of crowd noise, only 750 students have seats in the lower arena. Unlike Crisler, Mackey only contains bleacher seats. Purdue Ticket Manager George Ade said that the students sit in a corner which extends from midcourt to halfway behind the basket. However, he couldn't account for Mackey's rowdy reputation. Kittlaus described the difference between Chrisler and Mackey arena as "unbelievable." He explained his reason for taking action: "I just want to do it because it's my senior year and my last chance to contribute. Something must be done about the lameness." Our specials start with a fresh salad and end with a whole lot more! * Tuesday. Feast on a salad bar and barbequed chicken wingers. Wednesday. Salad bar and some irresistible lasagna. GoodTime Specials good until 9 p.m. Daily. Chaley's No other discounts or coupons apply. Sorry, no carry outs. Track team recovers at Red Simmons BY MICHAEL SPIRO With the Big Ten and NCAA championships coming up within the next month, the women's track team set out to achieve some specific goals during the Red Simmons Invitational last Saturday. Although the home meet was not scored, the Wolverines used the competition to improve on mental toughness and their overall per- formance. "Overall we did okay," Michigan coach James Henry said. "The team worked hard; they worked together; and they did their very best. I think we would have won if the meet had been scored." AMONG THE ten schools competing in the invitational were Notre Dame, Eastern Michigan, Toledo, the University of Detroit, and Central Michigan. I CLASSIFIED AD Eastern Michigan, who placed ahead of the Wolverines at the Lady Buckeye February 4, provided some of the toughest competition for Michigan. Michigan has been struggling to recover from a rash of the flu and from several minor injuries in the recent weeks, but still managed to turn in some strong individual performances. Distance runner Mindy Rowand won the 3000-meter race in 9 minutes, 20.24 seconds and beat the qualifying mark for the NCAA Championship in that event by over four seconds. "I KNEW she had it in her to qualify, and she just had to do it," distance coach Sue Foster said. "She ran a really smart competitive race." Foster is confident in Rowand's chances of placing high in the 3000- meters in the Big Ten Cham- pionship, which is held two weeks prior to the NCAA's. "(She is) a lot stronger than last year and mentally tougher," Foster said, adding that Rowand still wants to qualify for the 5000-meters as well. Kim Haluscsak ran in the 5000- meter race for the first time in her career and pulled out a first-place finish in 17:09.67. Dana Davidson also took first place in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 7.91 seconds, but missed qualifying for the NCAA's by .001 seconds. Commendable efforts were turned in by Megan Nortz, who ran a season and collegiate best in the 800-meter run (2:13.79), and by Starry Hodge in the shotput, who took second place with a throw of 47-feet, 2 1/2 inches. The 2-mile relay team of Amy Bannister, Carrie Yates, Chris Tyler, and Megan Nortz, also notched a first-place finish by winning the event easily in 9:30.54. 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