The Michigan Daily/New Student Edition --Thursday, September 7, 1989 - Page 9 Previewing the Wolverines I m i m - Michigan's Glenn Hill, who made the pommel horse his speciality during the 1988-89 season, is one of the returning gymnasts who should help the team vault higher in the standings in the 1989-90 season. Although the Michigan women's Cross Country team lost three of its top runners to grad- uation, the squad should still be strong for this fall . Senior Mindy Rowand should again prove to be a capable leader. She placed fourth at the 1988 Big Ten meet, earning All-Big Ten honors, and has been a proven contender on the national level. In addition, junior Karen Welke and sophomore Kim Haluscsak have made great improvements since their first season and are expected to be even better during the 1989 season. Incoming students Molly Mc- Climon and Colleen Yuhn are also looking to become important parts of the squad. McClimon, a four-time high school state champ from Madison, Wisconsin, "should be a great ed- ition to our team," head coach Sue Foster said. Yuhn, who's from Milford, Michigan, placed second at the high school state meet last fall. As for the women's track team, head track coach James Henry said its premature to guess how the team will fare in 1989-1990. The 1989 indoor squad finished seventh at the Indoor Big Ten Champ- ionships and the outdoor squad was in the midst of their season at press time. The Michigan men's gymnastics team suffered the three I's throughout the past season - inexperience, inconsistency, and injuries. Darden maintained all season long that his 'fresh faces' - the name he gave his team of six first-year competitors and one transfer student - comprised "the best team I've been associated with in my 16 years with SMichigan." The assemblage of young talent was on the verge of fulfilling great expectations. But because of the three I's, they are still on the verge, but not there yet. The most serious blow to the Wolverines' chances was the loss of top all-around competitor Jim Round, who fractured his hand on the parallel bars during Michigan's Spring Breaktrip to the West Coast. His sidelining prompted Darden to start a virtually unproven lineup. - The injury to Round came just as all-arounders Louie Ball and John Mains were returning from injuries of their own. During the West Coast competition, however, the spotlight shined on Michigan's Ruben Ceballos, who consistently produced all-around scores in the 54 range. His heroics were complemented by Glenn Hill, who commanded steady 9.6's on the pommell horse, one of the more difficult events in men's gymnastics. Strong last-minute performances by "supersubs" Matt Harrison, Shawn Martin, Tony Angelotti, and Troy Fabregas helped net the Wolverines a successful road trip. Following the trip, Michigan repeatedly scored in the high 260 range, its season high thus far. Although Darden had initially sought scores in the 270s, he defended the Wolverines' performances by saying, "The results aren't bad when you consider that of our thirty counting scores, 23 are (often) recorded by freshmen." The Wolverines carried a high of 267.35 and a national ranking of 15 into the Big Ten Championships, where they were projected to finish sixth in a field where the five teams ahead of them were among the top ten teams in the country. The team finished sixth, as expected, but did so with a 268.80, the new 14season-high. Angelotti reached the finals in the floor exercise with a 9.7, and Ball(14th) and Ceballos(16th) topped all first-year competitors in the all- around. For his efforts, Ball was named the Co-Big Ten Newcomer-of-the- Year. :Michigan returns its entire team, so for Darden, the three I's are no *onger the problem. "The problem is patience."U -Jeff Sheran F goster Henry's squad will benefit from strong cross country runners, like Rowland, who is an All-American in the 3,000 meter indoor, as well as improving distance runners such as Amy Bannister and Jennifer McPeck. Senior Sonya Payne is considered one of the nation's best shot putters, earning All-American honors in indoor and outdoor track. Also bolstering the team's scoring will be Senior high jumper Lisa DeVries. First-year student Julie Victor, who competes in both the discus and the shot put, is one of several recruits that should step in and immediately help the Wolver- ines. -Jodi Leichtman The men's cross country team will have dig deep inside and go the extra mile this fall if they hope to match the 1988 squad's success. Last season Michigan placed third at the Big Ten Championship meet. With the loss of John Scherer, a three-time All-American runner, and head coach Ron Warhurst plans to red-shirt three of the returning members from the 1988 pack - in order to gain a fifth year of com- petition from .them - the Wol- verines will have to find new run- ners to lead the pack. The red-shirting of Brad Barquist, who consistently paced the pack as the number one runner for most of the 1988 season, will allow him to compete nationally in hopes of making the United States Cross Country team and run in the World Championships. Barquist and his red-shirted team- mates Jeff Barnett and Tony Carna will still train with the team and compete in events without a Michigan jersey. Warhurst will look forward to a team composed of seniors Karl Welke, Kraig Watkins, Rob Rinck, Darryl Eddy, junior Joe McKown and sophomores Wayne Qom and Chris Childs. Additionally, in- coming student Jason Colvin along with other new recruits, walk-ons and transfer students will help lead the team through the season. "We'll be adequate," Warhust said. Michigan won't be the only cross country team looking at new faces to lead the team. Big Ten rivals Michigan State lost three of its top seven runners to graduation and Wisconsin lost six of its seven. Besides losing Scherer, the indoor and outdoor track team will miss All-American Omar Davidson. During his four years at Michigan, Davidson set a number of Michigan records in both indoor and outdoor events. Also graduating were pole vaulter Dave Irvine, distance runner Ryan Robinson, and thrower Jeff Watson. Michigan placed fourth at the 1989 Big Ten Indoor Champion- ship meet. Though he knows Scherer's and Davidson's shoes will be definitely hard to fill, head coach Jack Harvey hopes the additions of incoming students Toby VanPelt (pole vault), Dan Reddan (high jump), and Jason Colvin (distance) will play an important role in the future success of Michigan track. Coach Harvey mentioned juniors Brad Darr, Greg Duffy, Brad Holw- erda, Neal Newman, Rudy Red- mond, Rory Stace, and soph- omores Jerry Douglas, Dan McGin- nis as promising returning team -r -Jodi Leichtman .1 Both the men's and women's golf teams got off to a sluggish starts last spring. Much of the problem could be traced to the bad weather that plagued the Wolverines early on. Once the sun came out though, Michigan began to shine. The men's squad finished 7th and 12th in their first two tournaments. Co-captains Hersh Patel and Bob Papp both got off to tremendous starts according to coach Jim Carras. Both players led Michigan in scoring all season as Patel captured several Big Ten Honors. Chris Pond and Tom Paton gave the team solid balance. The problem for Carras was working in a fifth player that could score consistently below eighty. As the season progressed, the team captured an impressive fifth place finish at the U.K. Johnny Owens Invitational in Kentucky. The next weekend Patel played brilliantly on one of his favorite courses, pacing Michigan to a fourth place finish out of nineteen squads at the Marshall Invitational in West Virginia. In the last tournament before the winter semester ended, the team slipped to ninth in the Kepler Intercollegiate at Ohio State. It was the team's first confrontation with most of the Big Ten, and the linksters finished behind Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa. First-year students and sopho- mores dominated the women's golf team last year with Erica Zonder, Mary Hartman, and Rebecca Hayes establishing themselves as the low scorers. The women got off to a sub-par performance in their first spring tournament. 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