Football vs. UCLA Saturday, 12 noon Michigan Stadium SPORTS Field Hockey vs. Ball State Today, TBA Tartan Turf The Michigan Daily Friday, September 21, 1990 Page 9 -- gu- by Josh Dubow Daily Sports Contributor This week's Big Ten schedule is highlighted by No. 1 ranked Notre ame traveling to East Lansing to ace Michigan State. Two intrastate rivalries, Iowa State at Iowa and Southern Illinois at Illinois, also are scheduled for this weekend. Here's a closer look at this week's Big Ten match-ups. Notre Dame (1-0) at MSU (0- 0-1) This will be the game of the week in the Big Ten. MSU's of- fense is led by senior quarterback an Enos and second team All-Big Ten receiver Courtney Hawkins. Notre Dame All-American corner- back Todd Lyght is doubtful after suffering a hamstring injury against Michigan. The Spartans defense is surpris- ingly vulnerable this year especially at defensive back, so it will be up to Rick Mirer and Raghib Ismail to exploit this weakness for the Irish. ith Notre Dame coming off an emotional victory, and Rick Mirer facing his first road game, do not be surprised if MSU jumps out early and hangs on for the upset. So. Illinois (2-1) at Illinois (1- 1) This battle of Illino turn out to be much Illinois is coming off a 23-22 victory over C week and faces a weak AA team at home. L Illini to roll to an easy Minnesota (1-1) a (2-0) Nebraska has nati onship aspirations, an for Minnesota to pu them. Nebraska's tale will be led by quarter Joseph and tailback Le While the offensei points, the Cornhu defense should easi Gopher offense. Iowa St. (1-1) at This in-state rivalry m decided last week wh star running back Blais quarterback Chris Ped Minnesota game w Bryant will be ques week while Pedersen Look for Iowa's front fense to dominate quarterback Matt Rodg enough offense for a H Missouri (1-1) at MSU hosts Big Ten's big game is should not 0) Both Missouri and Indiana are of a battle. coming off big wins against weak n impressive opponents. Look for Missouri run- olorado last ning backs Ronnell Layhill and k Division 1- Michael Jones to provide the offen- ,ook for the sive punch for the Tigers, but Indi- victory. ana should prevail as underrated ju- at Nebraska nior running back Vaughn Dunbar onal champi- slices through a porous Missouri d do not look defense. t an end to Temple (1-2) at Wisconsin (1- nted offense 1) Former Notre Dame assistant back Mickey coach Barry Alvarez notched his odis Flowers. first victory last week against Ball is piling up State. Even though Temple is sker's tough coming off a 28-0 whitewash of ly stop the Austin Peay, look for Wisconsin to win this battle of ineptitude behind Iowa (1-0) a superior (relatively speaking) ay have been defense. en Iowa State Northwestern (0-1) at Rice (1- se Bryant and 1) This is one of those games that ersen left the someone has to win and it should ith injuries. be Rice. Both teams have good tionable this receivers in first team SWC receiver is doubtful. Eric Henley and second team Big seven on de- Ten receiver Richard Buchanan. The and junior Owls should have the advantage ers to provide with quarterback Donald Hollas awkeye win. handling the chores against a Indiana (1- typically weak Wildcat defense. Spikers start season Two road games to open Big Ten schedule by Sarah Osburn Daily Sports Writer The Michigan volleyball team opens its Big Ten season on the road this weekend, taking on North- western tonight and Wisconsin Saturday night. The Northwestern contest will be the team's first game with starting setter Tarnisha Thomp- son. Thompson, a sophomore, had her season-best game last year against Northwestern with 27 assists. Though she saw only limited action last year playing in 22 games, coach Peggy Bradley-Doppes was im- pressed with her spring season. "I am hoping she will have a big impact," Bradley-Doppes said. "We have a tendency to lose it. We will be leading and we will let the oppos- ing team catch up, and instead of re- alizing that is normal, we let it get to us." The Wolverines are 1-7 thus far and assistant coach, James Smoot lists the team's problems as: weak side-out offense, bad choices in at- tacking and weak offensive choices. "It's a new team and a new sea- son, but there is still residual from last season that needs improvement," he said. "Two middle blockers, Julia Sturm (senior) and Chris White (sophomore) have played really well. Andrea Lucadam, a freshman, has played well, especially on defense. We need consistency, but our defense has been strong and we have had good serving." Michigan has a young squad this year, with Sturm being the only se- nior. "During one match we had five first-year players on the court at the same time," Bradley-Doppes said. Last year Michigan finished last in the Big Ten with a 1-17 record. "We graduated our three best players, there was little or no recruiting and most coaches would probably expect an even weaker season," Bradley- Doppes said. "But I don't. I feel that we can establish ourselves, not just in style, but in our record as well." Northwestern has traditionally had a strong volleyball program. White Stickers face young BSU foe I 1 I THE DAILY - %SAP CLASSIFIEDS ARE A GRE WAY TO GET FAST RESULTS m m 0 MA A Aftwom by Matthew Dodge Daily Sports Writer The Michigan field hockey team may be in for a long weekend. Playing two difficult games in three days is a lot to ask of any young squad. But with a little luck, the Wolverines will be walking around Monday with smiles on its faces. Friday afternoon, Michigan plays Ball State at home in a non- -i TONIGHT 8 PM - MICHIGAN THEATRE TICKETS AT TICKETMASTER OUTLETS INCLUDING HARMONY HOUSE. GREAT STUFF. MICHIGAN UNION AND THE MICHIGAN THEATRE BOX OFFICE. TO CHARGE BY PHONE CALL 6456666. T-SHIRT PRINTERY * QUALITY GARMENT PRINTING AT REASONABLE PRICES ONE WEEK DELIVERY ON MOST ORDERS " OUR ARTISTS WORK WITH YOU TO PRODUCE SHIRTS YOU CAN BE PROUD OF " COMPLETE LINES OF 100% COTTON & 50/50 QUALITY WEARABLES conference matchup. The game had been scheduled for 3 p.m., but is being changed to a new time because the football team has a practice scheduled at Tartan Turf at the same time as the hockey game. Who would you guess has been given priority? The match had not been rescheduled by the time this article was printed. This game is a rematch of last season's game in Muncie, Indiana, where the Cardinals shut out the visitors 3-0. "We lost to them last year. This year we'll hopefully have the upper edge," said coach Patti Smith. And they should. Ball State is 1- 4 this year. Both teams are extremely young. The Michigan roster includes six first-year players. But Ball State has six frosh in the starting lineup. As the newcomers get their feet wet, two Cardinal veterans are keeping the team afloat: senior right midfielder Kelly Vrooman and right back Angie Pendleton. They have been struggling to help the team survive a very difficult early-season schedule. It won't be out of the fire until after Friday. Ball State coach Karen Fitz- patrick pointed to the schedule as the reason for the 1-4 slump. "It's been against tough, competi- tion, like Northwestern, Iowa, and Massachusetts, three Top-20 teams," said Fitzpatrick. "We have six freshmen starting. It's tough because we have less experience." 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