Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday - November 19, 1990 XD wins IM football crown A day in the life of an . Last minute drive captures title for second 6y Ken Davidoff There was no Goodyear blimp. Keith Jackson was nowhere to be found. And the crowd didn't number much more than 100. Yet the intensity and excitement of the Intramural Fraternity AA Football Championship was tantamount to that of any professional or college match. With a last minute seven-yard touchdown run, Chi Phi quarterback Mitch Hesson led his squad to an 18-14 victory over Sigma Alpha Mu, Chi Phi's second consecutive championship. Hesson's scoring run culminated a 43-yard drive that thwarted a "Hail Mary" touchdown catch by Sigma Alpha Mu receiver Michael Yaker on the previous possession. Paul Schwartzman scored the conversion for a 14-12 lead, and it appeared that victory was imminent for SAM. With time running out, Chi Phi took the kickoff to its 47-yard line. After two incomple- tions, a crucial pass interference call took Chi Phi all the way to the Sammy 17. Two plays later, Hesson was in the end zone celebrating. The winning play was successful due to the quick-thinking of Hesson. "The play was a roll- out to the left, but the guys we sent out were covered," Hesson explained. "I saw the hole and just kind of dove for the end zone. At first, I wasn't sure if I had made it, but then I saw the flag was there." The game at first seemed destined to be a XD blowout. On the first play from scrimmage, Hes- son passed for 44 yards to Frank Woronoff for a score. The conversion failed, but Chi Phi quickly regained the ball as Gordie Cross intercepted EAM quarterback Dan Yaker on Sammy's first play from scrimmage. Cross later picked off two more passes, and Hesson added one of his own. straight year Defense dominated the game until late in the second quarter when Hesson and Woronoff con- nected again for a 45-yard scoring strike. EAM opened the second half with a 51-yard drive, scoring on an 8-yard pass from Yaker to Schwartzman, cutting X(D's lead to 12-7. The two teams then quieted down until the dramatic finish. Sigma Alpha Mu attempted to mount a last- second drive, but time ran out. Hesson's excel- lent performance made his teammates forget about the absence of starting quarterback Jamie Cohen, who was away. "I had big shoes to fill, but I was able to do it thanks to the team. It was a total team effort," Hesson said. "Our defense played excellent, as always. It was the key to our season." The brothers of Chi Phi were heard yelling "Three-peat" as they exited Bo's Building. M' volleyball player Cross Country teams comnete in NCAAs Men's team enters Knoxville with season-high confidence by Kevin Sundman Daily Sports Writer Women are in the running for a top ten finish in final meet Twenty-two teams will be com-, peting today for No. 1.j This is not a reference to the nextj AP football poll, but rather the NCAA men's cross country champi- onships in Knoxville, Tennessee. Michigan, ranked seventh, comes into the meet fresh off its second place finish to Notre Dame at the district meet last week. Despite the, disappointment of losing by two to, the Irish and by three to Wisconsin at the Big Ten meet, confidence is at a season high. , "We're very confident," coach, Ron Warhurst said. "We've gotten, better for every meet this season, and there's no reason to believe this, meet will be any different.", Arkansas and Iowa State, the top two ranked teams in the nation, are the clear favorites and are expected to dual for the top spot. Just underneath them is a group of seven teams, anyl one of which could be capableof winning the title in the event that the first two should stumble. Michi- gan is joined by Notre Dame, Wis- consin, Florida, Washington, Ore- gon, Arizona, Tennessee, and Con- necticut in this group. "We definitely hope to be in the top three," Warhurst said. "We just have to reach down a little further ifl we want to achieve.our goals." But there are more than just team honors at stake this weekendl for the Wolverines. The top 25 fin- ishers in the meet, excluding runners from foreign countries, will earn All-American honors. Such a large number may appear to the casual ob- server to lessen the prestigious na- ture of this achievement. If you con- sider, however, that there are 10,000 runners around the country, then this certainly is quite an accomplish- ment. The Wolverines believe they have three runners very capable of attain- ing this status in senior Brad Bar- quist, third at districts, junior Tony Carna, and senior Jeff Barnett. The team will go with the same roster it employed at the districts last week. Joining the top three will be junior Matt Smith, junior Dan Oden, frosh Shawn Mackay, and sophomore Jason Colvin. "Nobody's afraid of running the big race anymore," Carna said. "The team is much more confident in what we can do now than we were earlier in the season." This display of confidence seemed to be contagious this week in prac- tice and coach Warhurst seemed to be the culprit. "If I don't believe in them, then they certainly are going to have a hard time believing in themselves," Warhurst said. "We really think this week we have saved our best for last." by Jim Foss Daily Sports Writer As the final race of the 1990 cross country season is run today in Knoxville, Tennessee, many teams will be striving for the honor of being called the top team in the nation. Though maybe a year or two away from realistically winning the national tide, Michigan has already proven that they are worthy of com- peting in a race of this magnitude. Ranked tenth in the nation, a young and hungry Michigan women's cross country team will compete in the NCAA National Championships, hosted by the Uni- versity of Tennessee. The Wolver- ines have set a goal of finishing in the top ten and being the second best team in the Big Ten Conference. Led by Sonjia O'Sullivan, Vil- lanova is the favorite to win the team title. Big Ten and District IV Champion Indiana, paced by Michele Dekkers, is ranked second in the nation, and is expected to challenge the Wildcats for the title. Coach Sue Foster hopes to have strong individual performances from all of the Michigan runners, and expects the top two Wolverines to place among the top 25 Americans, earning them all-American status. "I think that Molly (McClimon) and Amy (Buchholz) are capable of running in the low 17's, around 17:15," she said. With the large quantity of racers, the Michigan runners, accostomed to going out slow and moving up in the pack as the race progresses, will probably have to force themselves to speed up during the first part of their races in order to avoid the problems bunching can cause. "We have to get out faster than before," Foster said. "The first mile will probably be really fast." by Matthew Dodge Daily Sports Writer What might possess an 18-year-old volleyball star to leave the friendly confines of California beaches for the indoor, insulated, heated gymnasiums of the Midwest? What's that you say? It would never happen. Sorry. This scenario is anything but fiction. Andrea Lucadam, the rookie defensive wizard of the Wolverine volleyball team, actually arrived in Ann Arbor this fall of her own free will from her native San Fernando Valley home. Those of us who grew up here can only wonder what sort of delusions she was under. But her trek to this barren land found somewhere between New York and LA has satisfied her thus far. Lucadam was in the midst of wining (not literally, of course) and dining Michigan volleyball recruits last week. On Thursday evening, she and her entourage of high school guests went bowling and rented the movie, "Weekend at Bernie's". All day Friday, she allowed a reporter to follow her around, and observe a day with Andrea. 8:30 A.M. - Breakfast at West Quad with a tall recruit from Pittsburg* brought Lucadam to comment upon her short frame - as far as volleyball players go - of only "Five-foot-eight with my shoes on, five-seven-and-a- half without." Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't most women do anything to be 5' 8"? But in the world of college volleyball, that is positively puny. "I didn't know until I came here that I had short arms," Lucadam added about her frame. "And now I always get teased about it." Short arms? Who else even cares about arm length. Eric Riley, maybe, but no one else. 9:20 A.M.- Lucadam sits in an East Engineering basement classroono with three recruits. The teaching assistant for this Introduction to Fiction class does not show up. Five minutes later, the slew of spikers give up on their pursuit of scholarly excellence. As they walk out the door, one recruit says, "Hey, I can handle this." 3:15 P.M. - The rookie arrives at Keen Arena to decorate the lockr- room for that night's game against Bowling Green. The lockerroom is quickly transformed into a sea of school spirit. Maize and Blue balloons cas- cade from the ceiling, and inspirational quotes from Goethe to Bart Starr adorn the walls. 5:00 P.M. - As she walks into the cafeteria for her pre-game meal someone says, "Great game the other night, Andrea." "I don't mind people asking me about volleyball, except when we lose," Lucadam said. "But I just love the game so much, it doesn't matter." During the light dinner, she admits to feeling pregame jitters, despite the fact Michigan will be playing a nonconference squad in Bowling Green. The former 1989 First Team All-California player knows she will see extensive playing time. "I didn't know what to expect when I came here," Lucadam said. "But I didn't expect to play this much. I just love Ann Arbor." 10:00 P.M. - The Wolverines have been pasted by the upstart Bowling Green team. Another loss sends Lucadam, bundled up in sweats, out into th* cold - far away from home. Read Sheran My Thoughts 1 UNon C6 R7stauraI r.t S t T.=afSm. a. . s . VOLLEYBALL Continued from page 1 we like to be able to be very patient and chip away point by point by point. "I was a little upset that we were down 7-1, that we weren't digging more balls and that our transition game just didn't look that good, but I was very pleased that our emotion out on the court did not get the best of us." Despite the loss, VanDeWalle is optimistic for the Wolverine pro- gram. "I thought Michigan made a lot of unforced errors tonight and that probably took them out of their game plan a little bit," she said, "but I see the growth and the athleticism on that team." Bradley-Doppes said, "The big- gest thing right now is when we get tentative, we do things like look at the score, and not get into position. We get into a mode where we're ahead, and then relax. It's not a relax like 'Ha, ha, we've got it won' but a relax like 'We had to work so hard to get here', and mentally we can't push anymore." After the big victory Wednesday over Michigan State, which Bradley- Doppes acknowledged "may have taken more out of us than I realized," the team earned a day off. But after Friday's loss, she still felt that it was a necessary move. "If you look at the kids, they're dead tired," she said. "We needed the day off, but, good God, it'll be a long time before we get another one. Even if they can't do anything physical, we're going to bring them in and look at films or something." The Wolverines started slow, looking sloppy during pre-game warmups. This translated into an 8-3 deficit and three quick lineup changes in the first game. Brought to the bench was setter Tarnisha Thompson, who later re- turned to play better for the rest of the evening. "Tarnisha had a bad warmup. She'll be the first to tell you and from the bad warmup came no ex- ecution with our offense," Bradley- Doppes said. "It was very, very frustrating. 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