The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 6, 1989 -Page 11 'M' WINS FOURTH CONFERENCE CROWN IN A ROW Swimmer BY ANDREW GOTTESMAN The Michigan's men's swimming team won its fourth consecutive Big Ten championship this weekend at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis. Michigan accumulated a total of 679 team points, to Iowa's 497.5 and Minnesota's 466.5. Four Michigan swimmers placed first in individual events: Mike Barrowman in the 200- yard breaststroke, Brent Lang in the 100- freestyle, Marty Moran in the 200-butterfly and Rick Wilkening in the 100-backstroke. "The Big Ten's are a little bit bigger than the dual meets," said Michigan head coach Jon Urbanchek. "The depth carried Michigan through it." IN ADDITION to retaining the conference title, the Wolverines added four new individuals to its compliment of NCAA qualifiers. Eleven Michigan swimmers have now qualified to compete in the NCAA's at the end of March. Senior tri-captain Moran made NCAA cuts in two events, the 100 and 200-butterflies. In addition to placing first in the 200, recording a take Big time of 1 minute, 46.15 seconds, he also took second in the 100 in 48.28. Wilkening, also a sophomore, qualified in the 100-backstroke with a time of 50.22. Sophomore Scott Ryan made his cut on the first day of competition, finishing the 500- freestyle in 4:22.61. The fourth Michigan qualifier was first-year swimmer and Ann Arbor-Huron graduate Eric Bailey. He qualified in the 500-freestyle, finishing in 4:22.60. Urbanchek feels three more Wolverine swimmers have a shot at making NCAA cuts in the two remaining pre-NCAA meets: Mats Nygren in the 500-freestyle, Zeb Esselstyn in the 200-butterfly and Ron Howard in the 200- backstroke. ALSO, two relay teams, the 4x100 and 4x200-freestylcrs, qualified for the NCAA's. The 4x100 team, consisting of Greg Varner, Wilkening, Bailey and Lang, finished in 2:57.36 and the 4x200 group of Nygren, Bailey, Steve Pancratz and Lang came in at 6:32.51. Ubanchek is happy with his NCAA qualifiers. Ten title "This is just a road to NCAA's," he said. "That's our goal." Two of Michigan's big guns, Barrowman and Lang, won their events without the benefit of shaving or tapering. Shaving the hair off a swimmer's body, and tapering, which is fine- tuning a training schedule to produce peak performance at a particular meet, are both edges commonly used in swimming. Michigan has tailored its training schedule this season to coincide with the NCAA's. Nonetheless, Barrowman took the 200- breaststroke in 1:57.34 and Lang the 100- freestyle in 43.51. According to Urbanchek, this was the first time four Michigan swimmers had gone to the Big Ten meet without shaving or tapering. "We were a little more confident this year," he said. Michigan's divers also put in a good performance, placing three competitors in the finals in both the 1 and 3-meter springboard events. Senior Lee Michaud finished second in the 1-meter. Wrestlers suffer setback in Big Ten finale Associateaness Indiana's Lyndon Jones has the ball stripped by Illinois' Lowell Hamilton, left, and Kenny Battle. 111ini shock Hoosiers, 70-67 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BLOOMINGTON, Ind.- Indiana got a taste of its own medicine yesterday when Nick Anderson hit a desperation 35- footer at the buzzer to give No. 8 Illinois a 70-67 victory over third-ranked Indiana, preventing the Hoosiers from clinching the Big Ten title and keeping alive the Illini's hopes for a share. Indiana defeated Michigan two weeks ago on a last-second three- point shot of its own by Jay Edwards. "(Anderson's) was a tough shot. Indiana did a good job covering him," Illinois coach Lou Henson said. "I never really thought it was going to go in when he put it up." Illinois, which can tie Indiana by winning its last two games if the Hoosiers drop their final two, over-came a 13-point deficit in the final 12 minutes as they snapped Indiana's 15-game home winning streak. "We won a couple of close games at the end and we lost one, so I don't have any complaints," Indiana coach Bob Knight said. After Jay Edwards' fallaway 12-foot baseline jumper had tied the score at 67-all with three seconds left, Illinois called time- out. Anderson, who led the Illini with 23, then took a three-quarter court inbound pass and hit his game-winning 3-pointer. Illinois is 25-4 overall and 12- 4 in the conference and Indiana is 24-6 and 14-2 in the conference. BY STEVEN COHEN Last weekend's Big Ten Wrestling Championships at Purdue were supposed to be a coming out party for fourth-ranked Michigan. The Wolvernes expected to unseat top-ranked Iowa for the first time since the Wolverines' 1973 victory. Instead, it was an anniversary party for the Hawkeyes, winning their 16th consecutive crown. "This is special, it definitely is," said Iowa coach Dan Gable. "This is the year we were supposed to be vul- nerable, it was a rebuilding year. It was also nice to win because we got .knocked off and lost our Big Ten dual meet streak to Michigan earlier this year and people started to doubt us. AS EXPECTED, the tourn- ament came down to Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota. The eleventh-ranked Gophers' second-place finish, with 113.75 points, ahead of Michigan, with 109, was somewhat of a surprise, as earlier this season Michigan defeated the Gophers. Iowa won with 125.25. "I think even though (Michigan) qualified eight people they're disappointed," said Michigan grad- uate assistant coach Will Waters. Iowa wins again, "They thought they could qualify all ten wrestlers and have at least four or five Big Ten champs." Michigan ended up with eight qualifiers and two conference champs. Said Gable: "I thought we could come in here and win it and we had to prove it. Thoughts are thoughts and actions are actions and we did the actions." The frustration lingering from last year's Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor primed Michigan to win this year. Last year's Iowa victory hinged on the somewhat controversial 3-2 loss t h e Wolverines' Joe Pantalco suffered to Iowa's John Heffernan. THIS YEAR'S championships had several things in common to last year's. The Wolverines again qual- ified eight wrestlers for the national championships, 150-pounder Sam Amine and heavy-weight Bob Potokar repeated as fourth-place finishers, and for the third season in a row, John Fisher was the Big Ten's 134-pound champ. But the significant re-occurrences were the close decisions which didn't M' finishes 3rd go Michigan's way. Pantaleo, the nation's top-ranked wrestler with a 35-1 record, again suffered a heartbreaking defeat. Pantalco's loss to Minnesota's Gordy Morgan was the difference between second and third place for the Wolverines. 167-pounder Mike Amine, last year's national runnerup, also lost a narrow decision. In Amine's first match against Northwestern's Brad Traviolia, Amine received the downside of a 4-4, 2-2, criteria decision. As a consolation to the disappointing third-place finish, Michigan can look to the performances of 142-pounder Larry Gotcher, who took top-place honors with a 10-3 victory over third-ranked Stacy Richmond of MSU, and Fisher, who was able to hang on to the title after his 11-3 lead to Iowa's second-ranked Joe Melchiore was whittled to a 13-10 margin. ..r... : ... : ."...... - i " goo 313-973-1188 - Computer prepared Income Tax Returns. " Electronic Filing for fast IRS processing. " Direct Deposit to your bank account for quick payment of refund. {f: ,. '; . {8,w;: % .",: : <;, .;rr . !f i ,J ?r, y,{I" i ?!yJ J:":".,. j . t: l ii' :' f J: J{. : :i''I1: i : :'. :"ta". 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