0 Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 10, 1989 Blue cagers drop two Blue Lines BY LORY KNAPP Turnovers will kill you every time. Giving up the ball a combined 54 times in t games last weekend, the Michigan women's baskett team dropped its first two Big Ten matchups of t season to Iowa and Minnesota. Committing a costly 25 turnovers and shootinj miserable 32 percent from the floor (which included percent shooting in the second half), Michigan lost Minnesota Sunday night, 84-69. "When you go on the road, you have to shoot bel than that," said Michigan head coach Bud VanDeWe; The Gophers, who finished eighth in the Big ' last season, were led by sophomore Ellen Kramer, ws had 24 points and 13 rebounds. Carol Szczezhowski led the Wolverines (6-6) w 15 points and seven assists. Tanya Powell had points and 11 rebounds, and Leslie Spicer added points. Guard Tempie Brown, who usually starts, has b( Duderstadt BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Michigan President James Duderstadt doesn't mind football coach Bo Schembechler getting all the national attention, but he worries a bit about how the faculty perceives it. "When people think of us first, they think of those winged helmets. It is just a fact of life," Duderstadt said of the Wolverines, whose Rose Bowl victory over Southern Cal on Jan. 2 put them and their coach in the national spotlight. "That's why it's important that we run an struggling of late and did not start either game this weekend. However, she came off the bench to score 11 points for Michigan. Turnovers were also crucial Friday night, as Michigan gave the ball up 29 times en route to losing to seventh-ranked Iowa, 82-42. "They played a man-to-man, pressure defense that created a lot of turnovers, and we were not able to create any thing offensively," said VanDeWege. Leah Wooldridge, who started in place of Brown, led all Michigan scorers with just seven points. Powell, Spicer and Char Durand added six points each. The Hawkeyes had no problems offensively, shooting 61 percent from the floor, including 76 percent the first half. Senior guard Robin Christian was perfect from the floor, converting seven-of-seven field goals and two-of-two free throws, for 16 points. "Iowa is one of the nation's elite," said VanDeWege. Wolverines play like a." broken record at Yost Wooldridge ... replaces Brown speaks on 'M'athletics athletic program with the highest standards - Duderstadt, a former football player himself one that produces as much excellence as anything during his undergraduate days at Yale, says that else on our campus." he aims to work closely with Schembechler and "But if you talk to our faculty, you'll find a Associate Athletic Director Jack Weidenbach. paranoia that when you say the word 'Michigan' "I tried to be more visible, and I must say that outside of Ann Arbor, the first thing that comes Bo and Jack have done their bit to pull everyone to mind is the football team. I can understand together," Duderstadt said. that ...," said Duderstadt. "What I want to do is to create a tighter bond "I think a division has been built up between so that our intercollegiate athletes really feel like the athletic department and the folks on the part of the university ... not something separate (academic) hill," Duderstadt said. they do on their own," he said. BY TAYLOR LINCOLN The song remains the same. With 30 seconds remaining in Friday night's game versus Lake Superior, Michigan's Rob Brown made a bid to break a 2-2 tie, but his shot sailed wide right. Seconds later the Laker's Mike de Carle sailed in unobstructed on Warren Sharples and beat the Wolverine goalie. Lake Superior 3, Michigan 2. Another loss at Yost for a team that has already lost its complement of home games for one season. Afterwards, Wolverine coach Red Berenson pointed out that if Brown had scored, it would have been "a great win" instead of a defeat. He said that it was just a case of the breaks going the other way. BUT THE breaks have been going the other way for the Wolverines at Yost since their. second home game of the season. The last nine times the Wolverines have taken the ice at home they have skated off the ice with a loss or tie. Of Michigan's seven losses at home, four have been decided by one goal. Hockey is a game of bounces, and close losses can frequently be explained merely by "breaks." But over a season, the luck should even out. The good teams characteristically win more than their share of tight games, while lesser teams generally find themselves frustrated by a repeated near misses. This doesn't necessarily condemn the Michigan team. Michigan has shown itself to be a dangerous and formidible opponent many times this season. This is a team which swept Lake Superior in St. Ste. Marie, a team which won the Great Lakes Invitational, and a team which has a 6-2-1 CCHA road record. IT IS also a team which beats itself at times. Saturday night, with Michigan trailing 4-0 in the second period, Sharples strayed 10 or 15 feet out of his net intent upon clearing a loose puck out of the zone. Sharples never gained control of the puck, * though, and the Lakers' de Carle did. Sharples dove back towards his net, but he got there just after de Carle's shot made the score 5-0. This was just one goal in a game which was pretty well decided already, but it was symbolic of the opposite fortunes of the Lake Superior and Michigan. It was Michigan making a careless error; it was Lake Superior capitalizing. The Lakers are not an explosive team. Their 78 goals place them fifth in the league, but they don't beat themselves. Their 58 goals- against are second fewest only to Michigan State. Michigan only managed three goals in last week- end's two games. LAKE SUPERIOR, coming off of a national championship season, slumped early when Michi- gan was streaking. When the Wolverines swept the Lakers in November, they had lost four out five games. Since then they are 13- 2-3. I The University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society invites you to AUDITION for Gilbert and Sullivan's ~ THE MIKADO January 10, 11, 12, & 13 beginning at 5 PM Brown Bag Room in the Michigan League For more information call 761-7855 i Become a WHAT'S HAPPENING Berenson calls them the second best team he has seen and Laker head coach Frank Anzelone, while conceding the regular season title to Michigan State, thinks he has his team geared for the post-season. "We realize that the way we play now is the growth of the way we'll play in the playoffs," said Anzelone. "We seem to have our priorities back in order. We're playing good defense and not letting people slip around us." For Michigan, the pivotal weekend of the season is coming up. The Wolverines slipped into fifth place after last weekend, one point behind red-hot Bowling Green. This weekend, the Wolverines and Falcons will play a home-and-home series. If either team sweeps the series, it will gain the inside track on fourth place and home ice for the .playoffs. Early in the season these two teams split. Michigan won the second game, in Bowling Green, but the win was overshadowed by a fight after the first period which caused a total of 10 players to be ejected. WEEKEND MAGAZINE Fridays in The Daily 763-0379 0 Daily Photographer!. RECREATIONAL SPORTS CHILDREN'S SPORTS-O-RAMA PROGRAM Saturday morning program designed for children ages 4-10 providing time for structured, supervised recreational activities in gymnastics, ball skills, and swimming. For more information and fees, call 763-4560. Registration begins Thursday, January 12 at the North Campus Recreation Building. P/j 1 "' oi Detroit to Europe ! 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