Baseball
vs. Eastern Michigan
Saturday, 1 p.m.
Ray Fisher Stadium
SPORTS
Men's Rugby
vs. Detroit and Windsor teams
Saturday, noon
Mitchell Field
The Michigan Daily
Friday, March 24, 1989
Page 9
SEVEN OF NATION'S TOP 20 GYMNASTICS TEAMS MEET AT BIG TENS
Numbers don't faze Michigan
BY JEFF SHERAN
4,5,6,8,10,15,18.
No, this is no arithmetic sequence. It's the
assemblage of national rankings present at the
Big Ten Men's Gymnastics Championships
today in Madison.
Michigan (15th) has been outclassed all
season by conference foes Illinois (fourth), Ohio
State (sixth), and Minnesota (fifth), but pos-
sesses one final chance to surpass their power-
house rivals. The Big Ten is unquestionably the
strongest gymnastics conference in the nation, so
placing highly in the tournament would com-
mand nationwide prestige.
Wolverines' coach Bob Darden, perhaps as
optimistic as Sparky Anderson, approaches the
meet with great zeal. "We look forward to hitting
our crescendo in Wisconsin. The Big Tens are a
real dog race, but we can make a run with the
best."
WISCONSIN assistant coach Mike Dutelle
sees Michigan's chances differently. "The
tournament is certainly not a free-for-all. There's
little or no chance of anyone even coming close
to Illinois, Ohio State, or Minnesota. But the
other competition (between the remaining four
teams) should.be a great race."
The "other competition" includes eighth-
ranked Iowa, tenth-ranked Wisconsin, Michigan,
and 18th-ranked Michigan State. Although the
Wolverines have not beaten any of the other
teams in regular-season meets, they can overtake
them in the standings with a strong showing
today.
"We are bursting with untapped capacity, so
there's no telling what we can or cannot do. The
rankings are determined by this last tourney, so
we're going to make a go of it," said Darden.
Untapped capacity is a term with which Dut-
elle agrees. "Michigan has an extremely strong
freshman class. They're still young, so it is
difficult to do well in the Big Ten, but they can
be outstanding within one, probably two years."
THE WOLVERINES must compete with-
out standout Jim Round, which undoubtedly
hinders their overall performance. But other detri-
mental injuries seem to have all healed in time
for the meet.
Glenn Hill, the Wolverines' best pommel
horse performer, had cracked a toe on the parallel
bars in practice two weeks ago, an injury which
sidelined him for two meets. But he returns for
the Big Tens, an addition which Darden refers to
as "money in the bank."
John Mains, a steady all-arounder, has been
bothered by a tender ankle. He missed a meet and
then competed in only certain events up until last
weekend, but now enters the tournament at full
strength.
LIZ STEKETEE/DaRy
Sophomore Stacy Berg has regained the form that made her
Michigan's top singles player. Her play has helped Michigan to four
consecutive wins after an 0-7 start.
M'netters trip is
notakehoetest
BY JEFF SHERAN
With four straight home victories to boost its confidence, the
Michigan women's tennis team leaves the friendly confines of the Track
and Tennis Building to face Miami of Ohio today, followed by Ohio State
and Indiana.
Ohio State hosts Michigan's first conference match since February 17,
when the winless Wolverines lost to Northwestern at home. The
Wolverines then proceeded to compile an 0-7 record. Now, however, with
a 4-7 record, Michigan must gear up for the to battle Big Ten opponents
and improve last season's fifth-place standing.
"We were still shuffling our singles and doubles around a few weeks
ago," said coach Elizabeth Ritt. "Now we're set in our rotation and set
upon moving up in the conference."
Defeating Indiana, last season's Big Ten champions, would be a giant
step in the right direction. The team can do so when they travel to
Bloomington Sunday for a tough match with the Hoosiers.
"A win here would really establish us among the Big Ten, and do
,wonders for our confidence. These players need to know they can win,"
Ritt said.
Confidence has apparently been a great impetus to the recent success of
the team. After beginning the month with wins over Bowling Green and
Toledo, Michigan last week defeated Western Michigan and Eastern Mich-
igan, to whom they had lost in October.
The team has regained the services of sixth singles player Jennifer Lev,
who returns from a back injury, and first singles player Stacy Berg, who,
after struggling earlier in the season, has been winning of late.
Bo blasts former stars
The battle for supremacy in Washtenaw
Bragging rights to the winner of Michigan-Eastern baseball weekend series
BY DAVID HYMAN Still looking to improve in verines swept a doubleheader from Second baseman Matt Morse has
The Michigan baseball team almost every area of the game, the Grand Valley State as Mid-daugh been another offensive leader with a
continues its non-conference sched- Wolverines biggest problem might used nine different pitchers in only .370 average, including two round-
ule with back-to-back home and be replacing last year's pitching rot- 14 innings. He did not let anyone trippers.
home twinbills with Eastern Mich- ation, which saw three pitchers leave throw too long, enabling the However, the Wolverines will
igan tomorrow and Sunday. to try out for major league teams. manager to choose who he wants face some tough pitching this
The Hurons, 7-4, travel west Michigan head coach Bud Mid- during the weekend. weekend in Huron starters Doug
down Washtenaw Avenue to take on daugh is in search of some consis- Offensively, rightfielder Phil Martin and Steve Irwin. Martin has a
the Wolverines with a 1 p.m. start at tency and steadiness, looking to see Price has been one of the leaders. 3-0 record with a 4.30 ERA and
Ray Fisher Stadium tomorrow. On who will be part of this year's carrying a .432 average and having Irwin has a 1.80 ERA to support his
Sunday, Michigan, 8-4, will travel starting rotation. reached base 13 straight times head- 2-0 record.
to Ypsilanti at 1 p.m. ON WEDNESDAY, the Wol- ing into tomorrow's games. FIRST BASEMAN Mickey
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Smerek contributes. much to the
Huron offense. He is hitting .333,
leading the team with 10 RBI's and.
11 runs scored batting from the
cleanup position.
Lead-off and steady contact hitter
Ron Smith is batting .500 (8-16)
while playing in eight of the 11
games.
These are the first games Eastern
will play since March 11, when they
defeated Lewis University, 6-5, on
their spring trip in Florida.
Tomorrow's and Sunday's games
will be different from those games
played in Florida as the Hurons will
need to adjust to a 30-degree drop in
temperature expected this weekend.
The Wolverines have already had
some time to get accustomed to the
colder climate, playing in 35 degree
weather on Wednesday, and this may
prove to be to their advantage.
CHICAGO (AP) - Michigan
football coach Bo Schembechler on
Wednesday called players Garland
Rivers and Robert Perryman a dis-
grace for signing with agents while
they still had college eligibility.
Schembechler told federal jurors
in the trial of agents Norby Walters
and Lloyd Bloom that he would have
thrown the players off the team had
he known they signed contracts and
took money from the defendants in
violation of NCAA rules.
Bloom, 29, and Walters, 58, are
charged with fraud, racketeering and
extortion in signing college players
as clients and allegedly threatening
some to keep them from jumping to
other sports agents.
Schembechler, also the athletic
director at Michigan, said when he
learned in the spring of 1987 that the
two players had lied to him about
their eligibility, he told Rivers:
"You could have cost us a Big Ten
championship and Rose Bowl game.
"I told him he was a disgrace to
Michigan football, that he would get
no grant-in aid, he was suspended
from the team, his locker is cleaned
and his picture taken off the wall."
DAVID LUBLINER/Daily
Michigan shortstop Chris Gagin avoids a tag from Grand Valley State first basemen Tim Fritz in
Wednesday's the Wolverines sweep of the Lakers at Fisher Stadium. Michigan, now 8-4 on the season, will
try to continue their winning ways against Eastern Michigan.
When Rivers returned to Ann
Arbor in 1988 to finish college, the
University cut off his scholarship.
Earlier in the trial, Perryman and
Rivers testified they had taken loans
and signed pro representation con-
tracts with the agents before their
senior season in 1986.
NCAA rules forbid athletes from
signing with an agent or accepting
any payments, even loans, until
their eligibility is over. .
Defense attorneys contend the
agents were victims of money-hun-
gry athletes, and have attempted to
challenge the collegiate athletic
system.
The government contends Walters
and Bloom defrauded seven univer-
sities by signing student athletes
before their eligibility had expired,
in violation of NCAA rules.
The agents are also accused of
using cash to persuade the athletes to
sign postdated contracts, and of
threatening players with physical
harm if they tried to back out of the
deals.
-Staff reports contributed to
this story.
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