A- ~ Sports Monday Trivia Name the two pitchers who led the league in ERA in their final seasons. Inside Sports Monday Sports Calendar 2 IM Fraternity Top 20 2 Women's gymnastics coverage 2 Get Rich Quick 3 NCAA tournament coverage 3 Wrestling coverage 4 Men's swimming coverage 4-5 Baseball coverage 5 Hedging My Bets 5 (For the answer, bottom of page 2) turn to the The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday - March 26, 1990 Wolverines bitten by Cardinal Stanford edges 'M' for third at NCAAs. by Mike Gill Daily Sports Editor INDIANAPOLIS - Ten minutes after competition ended at the NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships in Indianapolis, Michigan coach Jon Urbanchek stretched out his hand to swimmer Brent Lang. "I'm sorry," Lang said while shaking his coach's hand. "It's not your fault, you gave us a helluva lead," Urbanchek replied. Urbanchek and Lang had just witnessed Stanford grab third place in the final team standings from the Wolverines by placing third in the championship final of the 400-yard freestyle relay. Michigan finished seventh in the event. The Wolverines overtook Stan- ford for third place with a strong showing in the platform diving event, leading 327.5-322 and needed to finish only two spots behind Stanford in the final event to clinch third. After Lang, who swam the first leg of the relay, grabbed first place and Stanford stood in seventh, Michigan seemed right on track. By the time Noel Strauss had fin- ished the third leg for Michigan, the Wolverines saw their lead over Stan- ford shrinking (they held third; Stan- ford fifth), but Michigan was still in control. The conclusion saw Cardi- nal Byron Burson overtake Michi- gan's Jarret Winter to place third, while the Wolverines finished sev- enth, sinking Michigan's third place tournament hopes, 354-351.5. "We knew after this morning that it would come down to the relay," Urbanchek said. "Whoever was go- ing to win the relay was going to win the meet. All we had to do is stay two spots behind Stanford in the relay. We didn't do it." The disappointing conclusion stole some of the thunder the Wolverines had garnered in the events leading up to the finale. Lang won the 100-yard freestyle, while See SWIMMERS, page 4 JOSE JUAREZ/Daily Michigan swimmer Mike Barrowman waves to his teammates after winning the 200 breaststroke with a winning time of 1:53.77, a new American record. Fellow Wolverine, Eric Wunderlich, to the right of Barrowman, finished third. Women gymnasts improve, take sixth at Big Ten meet.....F by Sarah Osburn Daily Sports Writer performance Michigan women's gymnastics coach Beverly Fry were rankeds had one goal for this season: to improve the team's do the best f standing in the Big Ten. The team achieved this goal by count two fa finishing sixth in the Big Ten Championships Friday and they wer night. Last year A sixth place finish out of seven teams is usually place. The not something to get excited about, but last year the performances Wolverines finished last in this competition. "Anything final total. better than seventh I am happy with," Fry said. "I told Wisconsin my team that coming into the meet, and I still say that. competition I'm happy and I am proud of them." pectively. Illinois walked away with the meet, scoring 188.75 Michigan1 points and winning two out of the four events. The this meet. T Illini's most impressive performance was the uneven the floor exe bars where they scored 48.25 out of a possible 50 place finish. points. routine, scorn Michigan State edged out defending Big Ten champs The Wol Minnesota by .05 to take second place. The Spartans where they ca were the top scorers on the balance beam with 47.15. her handspri "We knew that this was going to be a really close finals with a! meet," State coach Jill Hough said about her team's Wrestlers shutout at national meet "Coming into the meet this evening, we second in the Big Ten. We were striving to loor routines we could, and we still had to ills. Our girls went out their to compete, e really mentally prepared. 's winner, Minnesota, dropped to third Gophers had some strong individual s, but major breaks on the floor hurt their .n, Ohio State, and Iowa rounded out the finishing fourth, fifth, and seventh, res- recorded three of its highest event scores in he Wolverines began the competition on ercise, and totaled 46.95 points for a third Laura Lundbeck did a very clean floor ing a 9.55 to qualify her for the finals. verines were also successful on the vault, ame finished second. Diane Armento nailed ng front-salto vault, and qualified for the 9.5. See GYMNASTS, page 2 .JUU I1JLLMAWaily Tina Blair of Michigan's women's gymnastics team is shown here on the uneven bars in this weekend's Big Ten Championships. The Wolverines showed improvement over last year, finishing sixth. HORSING AROUND --am by Jeff Sheran Daily Sports Writer COLLEGE PARK, MD.- In a wrestling tournament with 330 competitors and 780 matches, it is easy to get lost in the shuffle. Such was the fate of Michigan's four qualifiers, as they all failed to place among the all-Americans. Oklahoma State captured the title with 117.75 points, 13 points ahead of Arizona State. Iowa, North- western and Nebraska rounded out the top five. Michigan finished a distant 31st, its worst finish since 1973. Advancing the furthest for the Wolverines was tenth-seeded frosh Joey Gilbert. Gilbert (134 pounds) wrestled to a 3-2 record, but was eliminated by Ohio State's Mark Marmnelli (No. 8 seed) one match before clinching all-American status. Both defeats came at the hands of Big Ten opponents: Marinelli and Tony Hunter (No. 7) of Indiana. Marinelli defeated Gilbert, 12-7, by countering the Wolverine rookie's single-leg shots and converting them to defensive takedowns. This was because the Buckeye junior, who defeated Gilbert in their dual meet Michigan gymnast Glenn Hill leadership with flair on the p provides team Marinelli fourth, and Gilbert fifth, while Marinelli placed fourth again last weekend. Incidentally, confer- ence 134-pounders accounted for the two top placers, where Iowa's Tom Brands defeated Minnesota's Dave Zuniga for the national champion- ship, avenging his loss to Zuniga in the Big Ten finals. Justin Spewock (167), who also remained alive into the second day of competition, was ousted by Edin- boro's Frank Zelinsky, who pinned his Wolverine opponent in 3:40. "What can you say when you lose?" Spewock said. "It's a tough tournament, and Zelinsky's a tough wrestler." Spewock finished with a 1-2 mark in the tournament. Spewock and Larry Gotcher (158) both completed their Michigan car- eers last weekend, as they graduate in May. Gotcher (No. 12) posted a 1-2 record, losing to Cal State- Bakersfield's Jeff McAllister (No. 5) and Purdue's Dave Walter, who placed seventh and eighth, respec- tively. Fritz Lehrke, Michigan's junior 190-pounder, held the highest seed of any Wolverine at fifth. But Lehrke drnnned , A .1 X-1oertme erki-nn I 9'mmel horse Spewock NCAA Wrestling Championship Finals 118 lbs Jack Griffin (Nor'western) major dec. Zeke Jones (Arizona St.), 12-4. 126 Terry Brands (Iowa) dec. Jason Kelber (Nebraska), 3-2. 134 Tom Brands (Iowa) dec. Dave Zuniga (Minnesota), 9-7. 142 Joe Reynolds (Oklahoma) dec. Thom Ortiz (Arizona St.), 7-3. 150 Brian Dolph (Indiana) dec. Gary Steffensmeier (Northern Iowa), 11-5. 158 Pat Smith (Oklahoma St.) dec. Scott Schleicher (Navy), 11-7. 167 Dan St. John (Arizona St.) A-Rn.rnv.nln by Albert Lin Daily Sports Writer What most athletes strive for, Glenn Hill may already have. When asked aboutaHill, coaches and teammates all describe him with the same word: consistency. And he is consistent in many facets of life. "He's a consistent performer," co-captain Shawn Martin said. "He trains real hard. Everything he does, he does really well. He doesn't do some of the huge tricks a lot of guys do, but the ones he does, he does almost perfectly." Hill himself said, "if I do the routine as well as I can, the score is going to be there... it's not necessarily shooting for a score, it's just aiming for perfection." And this excellency which he shows in the gym as an athlete is matched by his personality. "He's the best man we have in the clutch, and he's a good team player," co-captain Jim Round said. "Only doing a couple of events, some guys might get away from the team part of it a little, but he's a big help to the team." to the team athletically and in attitude, and Glenn is a leader in that category," he said. His high school coach, Gary Greening had only the best things to say about Hill and agreed with Darden. "As far as a high school coach is concerned, Glenn is probably the most giving, the most helpful athlete that I ever coached," Gre- ening said. "People would coach forever if they could always have athletes like Glenn," he added. A sophomore in the School of Physical Education, Hill chose the Wolverines following a storied high school career at Jefferson High in Bloomington, Minnesota. He had already told several schools that he intended to take a year off, but after having a talk with Darden, the two "decided that maybe it was in his (Hill's) best interest to continue his academic profile at Michigan." He began his athletic career as a diver, but after trying gym- nastics on a suggestion from his diving coach, Hill switched to gymnastics full time because he liked it better. Hill's older brother, Ron, Minnesota's high school all- around champion his senior year, played a big part in convincing Glenn to come out for the high school team though he was only a seventh grader. A six-letter career with numerous accomplishments soon followed. In his sophomore year, Hill was state all-around champion. He took first on the floor exercise at the United States Gymnastics Federation's Junior Olympics in his junior year. And at the National High School All- American Gymnastics Champion- ships, he won both the parallel bars and pommel horse, and placed fifth in the all-around. Unable to compete in the state meet because of inurv in his W------m........