Hockey vs. Michigan State Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Yost Ice Arena The Michigan Daily Blue to wrestle Badgers SPORTS Women's Gymnastics vs. Missouri Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena Friday, February 17, 1989 Page 9 M, MSU to put rivalry on ice BY DAVID HYMAN The Michigan men's wrestling team will finally receive a long overdue period of rest as they have only one match this weekend, versus visiting Wisconsin on Sunday. "We've had a full week between competition which allowed us to get a little more training and this will help the kids," said Michigan coach Dale Bahr. "It was real tough on (Joe Pantaleo and John Fisher) to make weight three different times last week." Pantaleo and Fisher wrestled in an All-Star meet last Tuesday requiring them to make weight one extra time. Even with a full week off before competition, facing the seventh- ranked Badgers will be no easy task. Despite their No. 7 ranking, Wis- consin coach Andy Rein feels his team has not wrestled well recently. "I THINK we've been overrated all year, but I think we can change. things around and I feel it will be a good dual meet," Rein said. Rein said he has confidence in his team, especially returning Big Ten champion Dave Lee at 167 pounds. Lee improved his two-year unbeaten streak against conference opponents to 19 last weekend, defeating Ohio State's Paul Reinbolt. Mike Amine, who has been struggling recently, will face Lee. "He's just a step off as he's thinking too much," Bahr said. "He just has to go out there and let it happen. When the money is on the line, I'll take him. I expect to see him in the winners circle at the end." "Mr. Amine has had his problems this year, but I think he can change things around," Rein added. ANOTHER key matchup will feature the other Amine, Sam, at 150 pounds against Matt Demaray. Amine returns to the lineup after sitting out the past couple of weeks. "I want to get him more acclimated making 150 week after week at the end of the year," Bahr said, referring to his decision not to wrestle Amine every week during January and February. Bahr said Amine The 167-pounder has not been wrestling up to par as of late. He will face Wisconsin's Dave Lee. Amine would have been weaker now had he wrestled during those months. "This will be my test," Amine said when asked where he feels he'll be seeded in the Big Ten Championships. "I feel like I can place in the top two in the Big Ten if I get that seed." BY RICHARD EISEN The Michigan hockey team can make history this weekend as they are only one point away from clinching their first CCHA home-ice playoff series. And which team do they have to beat in order to accomplish this feat? Michigan State. You've just got to love this rivalry thing. One of college hockey's finest rivalries will take place when the puck drops at the Spartans' Munn Ice Arena on Friday night. The two teams will play at Yost Ice Arena on Saturday. These two teams, to be blunt, do not enjoy each other's company. In addition, Michigan is fighting for the home ice. So, what should a fan expect this weekend? "I THINK you'll see another classic college hockey confrontation," Michigan coach Red Berenson said. "We've got a lot at stake, maybe a little more than they do. They've clinched first place now, and sure, they want to maintain a high level of play. "It should be an interesting weekend." Anytime these two teams play, the games are always interesting. In fact, they're downright intense. The series is on par with the Michigan-Ohio State football rivalry. The players on both teams are always geeked up for this game. So are the fans. Yost Ice Arena will be sold out for this game. And why not go a bit crazy? The Wolverines are on the verge of the home ice advantage. "The crowd's the big thing when you play Michigan State," defenseman Alex Roberts said. "The fans all pumping. There's nothing else like it." "When you fill (Yost), the players seem to come up a notch and the quality of the game seems to come up a notch," Berenson said. MICHIGAN STATE'S game, however, does not need to come up another notch. As a matter of fact, they've run out of notches. They are the not only the No. 1 team in the CCHA, but they are also ranked first in the country. State is filled with CCHA statistical leaders. Junior center Kip Miller leads the league in scoring with 56 points. The Spartans also have the league's top goalie, Jason Muzzati, who has a 2.57 goals against average. Junior Steve Beadle is also the league's top scoring defensman with 42 points. Normally, this lineup would scare the most rock steady of all opponents. But Michigan captain Todd Brost remains unphased. _i Badgers and Wildca Swimmers look t BY ANDREW GOTTESMAN The Michigan men's swimming team will return to Canham Natatorium Sunday against Ohio State for the first time since January 11. This is the last dual meet for Michigan before the important postseason meets, the Big Ten's and NCAA's, beginning in March. "This may be the last chance for guys to swim their best events," head coach Jon Urbanchek said. Ohio State (2-4 overall, 1-2 in the Big Ten) should present little problem for the Wolverines, especially after Michigan (9-1, 4-1) had its 45-dual meet winning streak ended by Indiana last weekend. Urbanchek felt this streak only added unneeded pressure, since his primary concern is a good showing in the postseason meets, not a perfect dual meet record. "Now we can concentrate on NCAA's and Big Ten's," Urbanchek said. A good indication of the disparity between these o sink Buckeyes two teams is the number of competitors each will send to Indianapolis for the NCAA's. The Buckeyes have not qualified any swimmers yet, whereas six Wolverines have already made their cuts, with more expected. Also, the Buckeye wins have come over Big Ten cellar-dweller Northwestern and Kenyon College. Their losses have included Michigan State and Purdue, both of whom Michigan defeated easily. One segment of the competition which should be interesting, however, is the diving. Ohio State will compete sophomore David Pichler, who has lost only once this season in 1 and 3-meter springboard competition to teammate Jim Quinlivan. Both have qualified for the NCAA's next month. As a first-year diver last year, Pichler finished 6th and 9th, respectively, in the 1 and 3-meter events at the Big Ten meet. He also placed 15th in the NCAA's 3-meter competition. BY LORY KNAPP The stage will be set for the Michigan women's basketball team to improve upon its 1-10 Big Ten record as they take on seventh-place Wisconsin and sixth-place Northwestern at Cris- ler Arena this weekend. Coming off a miserable weekend including road losses to both Indiana and Ohio State, the Wolverines are lacking in con- fidence right now and looking forward to playing lower division teams on their homecourt. "Our confidence is at a low point right now...the biggest question for us is 'how do we re- gain the confidence level of the Purdue-Illinois weekend?"' said Michigan head coach, Bud VanDeWege in reference to his team's near upset of Purdue and victory over Illinois. WISCONSIN, (9-9 overall and 3-7 Big Ten) will be a good test for the Wolverines since they beat the Wolverines in their last meet-ing, 66-59. "Wisconsin is on its way to perhaps a .500 season and comes into our place with confidence because they have beaten us once this season," said VanDeWege. "I feel we are a better team than Wisconsin and I want to see Michigan approach the game with that attitude." The Wolverines will have to go with their big defensive line- up of Val Hall and Joan Rieger against Wisconsin in order to ts, oh my! contain Badger center, Janetta Johnson. Johnson leads the Big Ten in both rebounds (8.6 per game) and blocked shots (4.3 per game). THE WOLVERINES also lost to the Northwestern Wild- cats, 58-51, the last time the two teams met. Defense will once again be the key as Wildcat forward Carrie Lawless needs to be stopped. Lawless, who is the Big Ten's leading scorer, is averaging 20.6 points per game with a 60 percent field goal percentage. She scored 18 against Michigan in the January 20th matchup. "We had a good game with Norhwestern in January," said VanDeWege. I 'M' set to tame Tigers TANNING CENTER 9 Ph. 747-8844 BY MARK KATZ The Michigan women's gymnast- ics team looks for its first win and an improved overall score against Missouri tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at Crisler Arena. The squad returns from a dis- appointing loss at Michigan State last weekend, in which the Wol- verines dropped from an overall point total of 181.65 to 179.9. Nevertheless, Coach Dana Kemp- thorn is still optimistic about the team's chances in their second home meet of the season. "We should do pretty well," Kempthorn said. "This will be a stronger lineup for us. We have a few kids who just got healthy and that should improve our performance in the all-around." THREE key competitors return to full action this weekend for Mich- igan. After being limited to two events against the Spartans, senior Janne Klepek and sophomore Christ- ine Furlong will compete. Senior Angela Williams will not be com- peting this weekend. "We have really got to concentrate on hitting our routines," Kempthorn said. "Our goal again is to shoot for a point total of 182. We can't afford to score lower if we want to keep up our chances for Regionals." Kempthorn thinks that this week-I end's meet against the Tigers will be a close one. "Missouri will come in with a real strong lineup, but they have been getting scores very similar to us, in the 177-181 range." Men are still No. 11 The mens' team hosts Michigan State, Western Michigan, and Air Force this weekend. It is the last home meet for the Wolverines, who maintained their number eleven ranking, but have failed to improve on their top score of 265.6. Coach Bob Darden continued to stress consistency as the team's main goal. He is resting first-year all-arounder John Mains and will increase the number of events in which upperclassmen Shawn Martin and John Mains will compete. -JEFF SHERAN i Campus location. 216 S. 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