Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday - October 23, 1989 Michigan Sports Calendar A compilation of Michigan sporting events and information for the coming week. Monday, October 23 No events scheduled. Tuesday, October 24 No events scheduled. Wednesday, October 25 No events scheduled. Thursday, October 26 No events scheduled. Friday, October 27 Hockey at Lake Superior State, 7:30 p.m. Volleyball vs. Minnesota at The Varsity Arena, 7:30 p.m. Women's Swimming, Maize and Blue intrasquad at the Canham Natatorium, 5 p.m. Saturday, October 28 Football vs. Indiana at Michigan Stadium, 12 p.m. Hockey at Lake Superior State, 7:30 p.m. Volleyball vs. Iowa at The Varsity Arena, 7:30 p.m. Field Hockey at Ohio State, 1 p.m. Mens's and Women's Cross Country Big Ten Championships at Wisconsin, time TBA. Sunday, October 29 No events scheduled. Volleyballers and stickers each drop a pair this weekend, by Ryan Schreiber Daily Sports Writer Closing out the first half of the Big Ten season, the Michigan women's volleyball team lost this weekend to both Illinois and Purdue. On Friday night, the Wolverines were overwhelmed by a powerful Fighting Illini squad, 11-15, 5-15, 3-15. In the first game, Michigan opened a 10-6 lead, paced by the tough service game of junior Julia Sturm. How- ever, late mishits, service errors, and net and line violations blew the lead and the game. The mental mistakes continued as Illinois (14-3 overall, 6-2 in the Big Ten) charged to a quick 8-0 bulge in the second game. Michigan (5-12, 0-9) could not counter Illini senior Petra Laverman, whose 16 kills were tops for the match. Again Laverman spiked the Wolverines' hopes, as she and junior Laura Bush dominated the third game, closing out the match as Illinois reeled off the final 11 points. "We worked hard on serving and defense," Michigan coach Joyce Davis said, "and I am proud of the way we played. We were just overmatched." "This is the best Michigan team that I've seen since I've been here," Illinois coach Mike Hebert said. "They served better and have a very quick attack. The team in general is performing better. "I think if we play this way tomorrow night," Davis added, "we'll beat Purdue." Against Purdue, however, a lack of intensity level and concentration set Michigan back early in the match, as they went on to lose, 3-15, 15-12, 13- 15, 10-15. "I thought that Michigan played much better after the first game," Purdue coach Nancy Huliba said. "We served well, but we also had a lot of serving errors at critical times. We won some close games (against Michigan State on Friday) that we hadn't been able to do earlier in the season. We came from behind more, too." The Boilermakers (7-13, 2-7) had no need to come from behind in the first game, with Michigan making numerous service return errors. For the match, Purdue tallied a remarkable 13 service aces. Senior Debbie McDonald contributed a game-high 16 kills for Purdue. With a balanced attack from Sturm and Clover, Michigan won the second game, 15-12. The Wolverines took advantage of late scoring opportunities while the Boilermakers committed three straight service errors at the close of the game. The turning point of the match came after a Purdue timeout in the third game. With Michigan leading 12-10, the Boilermakers charged ahead to vict- ory, 15-13, despite Michigan's .451 attack percentage. Purdue went on to close out the match, 15-10, thwarting an early Wol- verine attack and leaving Michigan winless in the Big Ten schedule. I~A~ k ~ .iii:... JULIE HOLLMAN/Daily Michigan's loss Autumn Collins (left) sets a shot for Kim Clover during to Illinois at the Varsity Arena this weekend. - 1 N. Illinois and Iowa down 'M' in f by Jamie Burgess Daily Sports Writer Grlddes ain't no clowning around Red Skelton isn't just clowning around! He's thrilled that all of his pals decided to play Griddes with him this week. Skelton, a tired hackneyed vaudvillian, lost last week in a close race to Freddy the Freeloader. "I just can't believe that they would play with me," said an elated Skelton. "I know we'll win this week because I can use my fool proof method-when Bobo's nose turns bright red, we know we've got a winning pick." Sources say, however, that Bobo has a cold this week and his nose knows nada. So, you have a chance to win lunch or dinner for two at O'Sullivan's Eatery and Pub on South University (limit $12). Just drop off your picks at The Daily in the Student Publications Building on 420 Maynard. e \% \ h. - N 1. Indiana at Michigan 2. Pittsburgh at Notre Dame 3. Miami (FL) at Florida St. 4. Colorado at Oklahoma 5. Iowa St. at Nebraska 6. Tennessee at LSU 7. Houston at Arkansas 8. Stanford at USC 9. Alabama at Penn St. 10. Mississippi St. at Auburn 11. North Carolina St. at South Carolina 12. Wisconsin at Illinois 13. Washington St. at Arizona St. 14. West Virginia at Boston College 15. Iowa at Northwestern 16. Ohio St. at Minnesota 17. Michigan St. at Purdue :: It was a long last weekend for the Wolverine field hockey team as it was beaten in both of its final two home games by Iowa on Friday and Northern Illinois on Sunday. "It just wasn't meant to be," Sharon Cantor said dejectedly after the overtime 3-2 loss to Northern Illinois. "We were in there, but it just came to the last minute and they had more scoring oppor- tunities." Despite their usual penalty corner deficit (Michigan had four to Northern's fourteen), the Wolverines lead with just over a minute left in regulation when Huskie Laura Wehr- man evened the score. Huskie for- ward Jady Psek iced the game in the second overtime, intercepting a pass and tucking a crisp shot past goalie Joanne Green. But Green made the goal a tough target all weekend, turning away eleven Hawkeye strokes and seven- teen against the Huskies. Sweeper Patricia Maran was a solid back-up, batting down an airborne shot on goal versus Iowa and foiling a Northern player's break away. Still, coach Patti Smith would like to have seen less of the ball on her end. "It was a hard-fought game, but you don't want your goalie to go one-on-one a lot. When you do eld hockey that, you ask for trouble," she said. Both visiting coaches had prob- lems with their defense as well. "I think we came out very tentative and we just did not play well at all," said Iowa coach Beth Biglin, whose team won by a score of 3-0. "Our first half was horren- dous." Northern coach Laurie Bell's problems came both on and off the field. Storming the sideline through- out the first half, she carried a stick and seemed ready to clobber the next player to allow a penalty corner to 4 sputter out of the circle. But most of the miscues were due to those who were off the field. "We're very injured," she said in response to her team's numerous botched corners. "I don't think we're so physically tired, but we have some very key people out of our line-up. We had four people that were playing in different positions than they had before." Among those missing was Netherlands import Alice Wassman, who scored both goals to beat the Wolverines this season in Evanston. Interestingly, Bell chose to use only one stick stopper on penalty corners. Most teams go with two in order to keep the defense guessing as to where the ball will go and also to See FIELD HOCKEY, page 5 JUIUE HOLLMANIDaily Michigan's Josee Charvet rushes the ball upfield versus Boston College. Women's soccer beats Indiana, win streak at six Dan Zoch Daily Sports Writer The University of Michigan women's soccer team won their most challenging game of the season Saturday against Indiana, 2-1. In a hard- fought match, the Wolverines, led by first-year forward Molly Douma and senior Amy Stock, came back from a first half deficit to prevail in the second half. The win brings the Wolverine's winning streak to six. In the first half, the Hoosiers "were playing tough, but we were hanging in there with them," said team captain Stock. "You could tell that we really wanted it." However, Michigan's attitude was not enough to stop Indiana from taking the early lead. Though Michigan had their chances to score early on, the Hoosiers kept their momentum going through halftime. The atmosphere on the Michigan side of the field was hushed during halftime. "Something happened at halftime," Stock said. "We knew we could win it, we were hustling more, and we wanted to win." Forward Molly Douma assisted Stock for the first Wolverine score of the game with ten minutes gone in the second half. Michigan started to gain momentum and took advantage of it ten minutes later when Douma got a goal of her own off an assist by junior Crista Towne to give the Wolverines a 2-1 lead. Defense prevailed in the final twenty minutes as Michigan held Indiana scoreless. "There was solid defensive play from (sophomores) Maureen Scullen and Heather Marshall," Stock said. "They did a great job of keeping them to only one goal." Michigan retained control offensively with assistance from sophomore Lori Green who, along with Douma, Towne, and Stock, kept the Wolverine lead for the remainder of the game. "We had a lot more chances to score in the second half than Indiana," Stock said. "Both teams played really well. They were the best competition we've had as far as a passing game goes. It was really a great win." This game was somewhat of a grudge match for the Wolverines. In last year's match-up, Indiana slipped past Michigan during overtime in an equally competitive game. Saturday's game was a chance for the squad to put that earlier game behind them. The Wolverines hopes to continue their win- streak as they travel to Siena Heights College for their last regularly scheduled game of the season. § § § Sports Monday comments Cp§ Associate Editors Steve Blonder Richard Eisen Ni.vh Cr2-r i '-