Hockey vs. Bowling Green Friday, 7:30 p.m. Yost Ice Arena 'P ORTS Football vs. Purdue Saturday, 1 p.m. Michigan Stadium The Michigan Daily Tuesday, October 31, 1989 Page 9 FI ' nut rssuitsj 'M' Spikers motivated to first conference win 'Nervous' Bo won't take Purdue lightly by Steve Blonder couldn't catch," Schembechler said Daily Football Writer of Hunter. "He's so quick. and he by Theodore Cox Daily Sports Writer They won! And not only did the 1-10 Wol- verine volleyball team win, they beat the first place Minnesota Gol- den Gophers, who now stand at 8-2. How? Michigan committed just as many service errors as they usually do. Their hitting percentage was be- low average at .168. No one player stood out and played exceptionally. The squad's backcourt defense was mediocre at best. Granted, Minnesota was missing their two star players, but the rest of their squad played admirably. So what was the difference between this win and the other ten Wolverine losses? Michigan coach Joyce Davis. For the first time this season Davis was a coach and not just a spectator. When asked what Michigan's biggest weakness is, Minnesota coach Stephanie Schleuder gave the same response many other Big Ten coaches have in the past: "Believing they can win." MICHIGAN has been craving motivation and confidence all sea- son. Friday, Davis filled the void. She was intense the whole match. He eyes rarely left the playing surface. Her concentration seemed to tell the team, "I know you can do it, and this time I'm going to make sure you win." Usually in the course of a match, the Wolverines become sluggish, lose their concentration, and sur- render clusters of points at once. But not this night. Every time the team started to let down, Davis called a time-out. Normally, if a player's concentration drifted from the game, Davis would pull the player out. This match, however, she actually talked with the player on the bench. ALSO noticeable were the adjust- ments Davis made during the course of the night. Michigan was burned several times when Minnesota lofted the ball over the fingertips of the Wolverine front line. Early on, the backcourt defense would miss the digs, but later, the backrow moved closer to the net and made the plays. Davis also shouted offensive sets throughout the match. The plays worked, producing several Wolverine points. First-year setter Tarnisha Thomp- son was put in early in the first game. She made a few nervous errors initially, but Davis stuck with her. "At first I was shaking," Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler did everything he could yesterday to disguise the lowly Purdue Boilermakers as a quality football team. He even went so far as to say they give him chills. "I look at the film and I get nervous. I always figure if I get ner- vous, the kids do the same thing," Schembechler said. "An underdog will come in and let it all out... It's how we think that will determine if we win the game." Winning the game would put Michigan into record-book territory, as the Wolverines would be the only Division I-A school to win 700 football games. And Schembechler refuses to take that lightly. "Seven hundred wins is very im- pressive. It just points to the great winning tradition of Michigan foot- ball," Schembechler said. "It shows how insignificant a contribution I've made with my victories." But then again, Purdue makes Schembechler nervous. The antsiness is at least in part the result of the Boilermakers (1-6, 0-4) being able to put 21 points on the scoreboard in less than six and one half minutes in a losing effort against Michigan State. The Boil- ermakers used frosh quarterback Eric Hunter to scramble past confused Spartans, while the Wolverines used a statue standing tall in the pocket to score ten against the MSU. "This last guy, Michigan State vii ~ a~ . 1 J J lLi1, Q/ 1 can run. "It was a hell of a show, it really was."a Maybe that's what makes Schembechler nervous. Schembechler's most recent of- fensive show wasn't exactly lack- luster itself, putting 38 points orf the board against Indiana. But he noted that his special teams need improvement. "I think it was a good win. We played well offensively, and we; played well defensively," Scherft' bechler said. "We didn't play well in the kicking game." Frosh Chris Stapleton will have an entire week of practice to regaint his punting job from Eddie Azcona, but otherwise Michigan enters the week with no major lineup changes. Consistency was also evident from Schembechler when he refused to discuss his travel plans to Pasadena. "Our feeling is we have to win all of our games to win the champ- ionship outright and go to the Rose Bowl," Schembechler said. "We cannot afford to lose a game." In other Michigan news, the Wolverines showdown with Illinois will start at 3:30 EST, and will be televised on ABC. The Big Ten agreed to waive the rule in the contract limiting each school to six network appearances, and ESPN, which was to televise the game, deferred to ABC. Michigan volleyball coach Joyce Davis offers advice to her team in Friday's match vs. Minnesota. The Wolverines captured their first Big Ten victory in that match. Thompson said. "I was shaking through the whole game, but I just kept looking on the bench to the coaches, and they gave me a lot of encouragement and I did the job." With Davis instructing Thomp- son throughout the final game, Thompson ran the offense flaw- lessly, giving the Wolverines their first win. If Davis was into every game as she was in this one, Michigan would be a competitive squad, guaranteed. Iowa coach Ruth Nelson summed it up best: "They (Michigan) don't believe they can win. Anybody's capable of winning. It doesn't even matter who you are; it's however you get your momentum going. I spend 80 percent of my time coaching their minds, and I spend 20 percent with their skills. "There are better athletes on Michigan than we have on our team, total, all the way around." Michigan has the talent. Let's see if they continue to have the motiv- ation. Soccer clubs meet with weekend success Women take second at OSU Men sweep conference foes Ay San oitr Daily Sports Writer Michigan's women's soccer team took three of four games this week- end to place second in an inter- collegiate tournament held at Ohio State. The Wolverines took care of Bowling Green, 3-1, and shut out Sienna Heights, 2-0 on Saturday. The squad then blanked Miami of Ohio, 2-0, on Sunday before losing to Sienna Heights, 1-0. Fatigue was a factor for the team in their late Sunday loss to Sienna, 'Whenever we meet, three or four people walk away injured. That game (against Sienna Heights) was really intense, and we wanted revenge for losing to them last Thursday.' - Michigan forward Crista Towne worth it because we finally beat Sienna," echoed sophomore mid- fielder Heather Marshall. The game was marked with injuries, and Sienna was charged with three yellow cards. First-year forward Shannon Loper was sent to the hospital with muscle spasms when she went up for a head ball and was taken out. "Whenever we meet, three or four people walk away injured. That game was really intense, and we wanted revenge for losing to them last Thursday." said junior Crista Towne. For the tournament, Towne and forward Lori Green led the Wol- verines with three goals apiece, and senior Heidi Seiffert chipped in their other score. Midfielder Amy Stock contributed four assists throughout the weekend, splitting them between Bowling Green and the first game against Sienna Heights. Towne, sophomore Sandy Najarian and first- year forward Molly Douma also recorded assists. On defense, junior Kari Andrews and first-year student Leslie Martin kept the opposition away from the goal for the majority of the weekend. Goalkeeper Crissy Rice allowed two goals during the tournament. "Crissy' came out of the net a lot and she took care of some key players," said Towne. "It was really tough playing games back to back, but it was good getting to the finals. We really wanted to do well, so it could help us at the Big Ten tournament," she added. Michigan plays Schoolcraft on the road this Wednesday before closing out their season at Indiana University, November 5-6, at the Big Ten tournament. by Phil Green Daily Sports Writer After more than 89 minutes of soccer the score remained 0-0, and it looked as if the Michigan men's soccer team would finish another weekend without a sweep. Then, with 20 seconds remaining in regula- tion, junior forward Eric Moore split three defenders, drew out the goalie, and knocked the winning goal into the empty net. Final score: Michigan 1, Purdue 0. Moore, who also had two goals in Saturday's 3-1 victory over Iowa, was one of many heroes in this weekend's sweep. He said the goal against Purdue "was definitely one of the highlights of my career." And according to senior defenseman and team secretary Dave DiGiuseppie, "Moore played out of his mind this weekend." Other standouts included rookie Kelly Kuehne who DiGiuseppie said "did a fantastic job," sophomore Dick Hillary, and junior goaltender Marc Kuiper. "It's just a matter of getting motivated for the game. We got our forwards to score and our defenders to hold them off and this enabled our' midfielders to control the game," said sweeper and team president Dave Auer. Coach Mike Ruddy believes "the team showed a lot of character in both matches." He was also very pleased with the team's intense play for the full 90 minutes of each game without suffering any mental breakdowns. "This was the first time we've played well the entire game...in all of our losses we allowed two or more goals in a short period of time." Auer agreed. "We showed up to play and were really intense when we needed to be. A lot of times we play only 60 minutes of good soccer and we don't get up until we're scored upon and that's too late." This lack of consistency and motivation combined with the squad's very difficult schedule has prompted their 7-7-4 record. Al- though this is a club team, it com- petes mainly against varsity teams, including Oakland University and Wisconsin both of which are na- tionally ranked. "We had a real tough middle of the season, and we're seeing some of the rewards now," Ruddy said. The main reward is a probable invitation this week to the National Collegiate Club Sports Association Tournament in Kansas City. 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