Ice hockey vs. Ohio State Friday, 7:30 p.m. Yost Ice Arena SPORTS Volleyball vs. Northwestern Friday, 7:30 p.m. Keen Arena The Michigan Daily Wednesday, November 21, 1990 Page 8 oSU hockey: the other battle by Matt Rennie Daily Hockey Writer This is what college sports are all about. Michigan vs. Ohio State. Maize and Blue vs. Scarlet and Gray. A knock-down, drag-'em-out, back- yard brawl between two teams that just don't like each other much. Oh, wait. This is hockey. While it's true this rivalry may not be as intense on the ice as it is on the gridiron, there still is no love loss between these teams. Ohio State (4-5-1 in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association; 6-5- 1 overall) are off to a sluggish start this season while the Wolverines are flying high, but that doesn't mean this the series will be lopsided. Last year, the Wolverines were unable to beat Ohio State, tying two and los- ing two against the fifth-place Buck- eyes. "Ohio State always seems to play well against Michigan," Wolverine coach Red Berenson said. "They cer- tainly want to beat us." The rivalry may be more impor- tant to the Buckeyes than to the Wolverines, who list Michigan State and Bowling Green as their most- hated opponents, but Berenson knows the importance of these BARQUIST LEADS HARRIERS TO 13TH Michigan falters at 9 NCAA's Roberts games from experience. "In the past, these have been cru- cial, turning-point games," he said. "There's a lot of emotion in this series. These will not be quiet games." The Wolverines may have to go without starting left winger David Roberts. Roberts cut the bottom of his right foot in an accident after last Saturday's game with Lake Superior State, and as of yesterday, he was still questionable for the weekend. The Ohio State attack is led by both the old and the young. Senior left winger Paul Rutherford and frosh right winger Mike Merriman are 1-2 in scoring on the team. Sophomore goaltender Mike Bales has been trying to keep the Buckeyes afloat on the other end of the ledger. Bales has allowed 3.56 goals per game and boasts a save percentage of .900. Last weekend, the Buckeyes were swept by Western Michigan, which dropped them into a sixth-place tie with Michigan State. by Kevin Sundman Daily Sports Writer On Monday, the Michigan men's cross country team headed into the NCAA Championships in Knoxville, Tennessee with high hopes. Confident and ready to run, the Wolverines knew they could perform well, but had no room for error. "We can finish as high as 3rd," coach Ron Warhurst said last Friday, "and as low as 15th." Unfortunately for the Wolverines, the latter of the two proved to be more prophetic. The team finished 13th in a field of 22 and came away from the meet un- happy with their effort. "We are a little disappointed with our performance," said Warhurst. "We know we could have done better." Arkansas and Iowa State dominated the meet as ex- pected finishing first and second respectively. Particu- larly discouraging for Michigan was the third place fin- ish of Notre Dame, a team the Wolverines nearly de- feated in the districts a week ago. Also Texas, who fin- ished fourth, and Wisconsin, the Big Ten champions who placed ninth, were teams that the Wolverines had defeated this season. The team's performance could have been attributed to the nature of the course. The opening mile was entirely downhill and created a hectic early pace. "We just went out too fast," said Warhurst, "and we couldn't hold the pace." On a bright note, the Wolverines' top runner, senior Brad Barquist, finished 31st running a career best time of 30:08 to earn the team's lone All-American honor. Junior Dan Oden and sophomore Jason Colvin also turned in impressive performances, but overall, the team did not run as well as expected. The finish did little to damper what was an excep- tional season for the Wolverines. Three invitational vic- tories and a seventh place ranking in the polls were indications that this was one of the team's best seasons ever. Barquist Hoops Time s here 'M' men face Athletes In Action at Palace by Theodore Cox Daily Basketball Writer Athletes Out of Action make up Athletes In Action. This is the team the Michigan basketball squad will be in action against tonight in the Wolverines final exhibition game at the Palace of Auburn Hills. AIA is a professional team comprised of former college, NBA, and CBA players. Playing AIA should preview how Michigan will fair against the better teams in the Big Ten. AIA (3-1) will play six Big Ten teams in their 1990-91 schedule, with all their games on the road. AIA barely lost to Indiana, 107-96, on Sunday. And last week, AIA beat fourth-ranked Michigan State, 94-9 1. Player/coach Lorenzo Romar is the team's leading scorer, averaging 19.5 ppg. Playing along Romar is forward Zack Jones (16.7 ppg) and center Ronnie Grandison (12.2 ppg). Grandison played the 1988-89 season with the Boston Celtics. "We play 26 games in November and December and we would like to win 20-plus," Romar said. "If we stay healthy and can come together as a team, I think that goal can be attained." Michigan coach Steve Fisher will not be as concerned with winning the game, as in getting a solid look at different Wolverine lineups. "I don't care if we win our exhibition games," Fisher said. "But when we open our season against Central Michigan (Nov. 28 at Crisler), I want the best possible lineup." The key players Fisher needs to look over one more time are forwards Chris Seter and Sam Mitchell. Both are competing for the last starting spot on the Wolverine roster. Center Eric Riley and guard Demetrius Calip were the only two definite starters early on, but Michael Talley and Tony Tolbert have stepped forward since. Seter saw action last year when Sean Hig- gins was forced to sit out with an in- jury ankle. Mitchell is a 6-foot-9 forward that attended Brewster Academy in New Hampshire last season. Judging from last week's sparse crowd of 5,800 at the Palace for Michigan's first exhibition game, there should be plenty of seats to get a first look at the Wolverines in the plush arena. College News Top Fifteen The Cornell Sun compiles a weekly college hockey poll, voted on by the sports staffs of 12 different college newspapers nationwide, including The Michigan Daily. Team (First-Wlace votes) Record Points 1. Minnesota (8) 9-0-2 2. Lake Superior* 9-1-1 3. Northern Michigan (2) 8-1-2 4. Boston College 4-1-0 5. Maine 6-1-1- 6. North Dakota (2) 8-3-1 7. Michigan* 8-3-1 - Boston University 3-2-1 9. Clarkston 6-0-1 10. Cornell 3-0-1 11. Michigan State*4-5-3 12. Harvard 3-1-0 13. Wisconsin 7-3-1 14. Providence 6-0-1 15. Bowling Green* 6-4-2 - Colgate 4-2-1 Others receiving votes: St Lawrence New Hampshire, Alaska Anchorage. *Denotes CCHA Member 164 135 131 128 117 105 103 103 101 94 45 39 38 28 22 22 University, University of Women eye host Auburn in Dial Classic by Matthew Dodge Daily Basketball Writer The season on the brink begins for the Michigan women's basket- ball team Saturday afternoon in the Deep South - the haven of national women's hoop powerhouses. The Wolverines, coming off their most successful season ever, need to prove that the program has risen to a new level; a level on par with the peren- nial winning programs. Michigan continues its quest for respect this weekend at Auburn, Al- abama in the Auburn University Dial Classic. The squad will play a warmup game versus Grambling State on Saturday at 1 p.m. If all goes the Michigan way, the Wolver- ines will tip off for the tourney championship Sunday against the second-ranked team in the country, on Auburn's home floor. "It's always a thrill to play a ranked team," senior captain Carol Szczechowski said. "It gives us something to gun for. We have nothing to lose, and they have every- thing to lose." Traveling 1500 miles over the Thanksgiving weekend to take on last season's NCAA tournament runners-up is a daunting road trip for any team. But the leader of the expe- rienced Wolverines looks forward to the two games. "We played them my sophomore year, and kept with them," Szczechowski said. "I look at it as an exciting opportunity, not as say- ing 'Oh, no we're playing Auburn."' Season after season, the Lady Tigers hover at the top of the na- tional polls, due in large part to the phenomenal talent that matriculates at Auburn. "They get lots of talent," Szczechowski said. "They are so tall, and so quick. They can all dribble, no matter how big they are." At the eye of this annual hurri- cane of hoop hysteria is national player-of-the-year candidate Carolyn Jones. The 5-8 senior guard averaged 20.1 points and 5.7 rebounds per game as a junior. She is accompa- nied by three other returning starters from last season, when Auburn was 28-7. But Michigan head coach Bud VanDeWege has decided not to prime his team for the upset bid at the sake of taking Grambling State too lightly. "I haven't given Auburn a bit of thought," VanDeWege said. "It's not one of those cliches where you take it one game at a time. We have just been working on our own things. I won't look at their tape until Fri- day." Grambling State, straight from Louisiana, may not give Michigan much southern hospitality. The Lady Tigers won the SWAC in 1990 with a 13-1 league record. osU Continued from page 1 surrounding his first season with a win over the Buckeyes. The Wolverines (5-2 Big Ten; 70 overall) could even claim a share of the Big Ten title with a win and an Iowa loss. But to do so, the Wolverines will have to get past a tough Ohio State squad (5-1-1; 7-2-1) which has won five in a row - including a 27-26 upset of Iowa two weeks ago. "I know this is an important game for us," Moeller said. "For n, personally, it would give me a lot 6 satisfaction. I know this is the best Ohio State team we've faced in the last few years." Leading the Buckeyes is senior quarterback Greg Frey and his youthful backfield. Frey has completed over 52 percent of his passes for 1795 yards. But the real billing for this game could lay in who Elvis Grbac ai Frey hand the ball off too. Tw frosh, Ricky Powers of Michigan and Robert Smith of OSU, will duel each other in a battle of the running backs. Smith has averaged 6.5 yards per carry, racking up 1021 rushing yards. Powers has just recently became the main cog in the Wolverine backfield. While Jon Vaughn lost a step due to an ankle injury, Powers has see@ increasingly more action, including Saturday's career-high 127 yard output. Powers now has 508 yards on the year. "I could play either one of them," Moeller said when asked who would start. "What I really like about Ricky Powers is that it bothers him when he makes a mistake." But make no mistake about i Regardless of bowl implications, th Ohio State showdown looms big in Michigan's mind. "It feels the same, whether it comes down to a Big Ten Championship or a Rose Bowl," Jarrod Bunch said. "The fact of the matter is that it's Michigan and Ohio State. If we could win only one game all year, this would be it. If you lose it, you feel terrible." U-M vs. OSU Kickoff: 12:10 TV: ABC (Channel 7 in Detroit) Radio: WJR (760), WWJ (950) WPZA (1050) Stakes: Most likely, winner to Gator Bowl, loser to Liberty Bowl. Spikers finish up regular season at home by Matthew Dodge Daily Sports Writer Consistency has been a grave concern of the Michigan volleyball team. But this trait has be- come just as piercing a thorn in the sides of the Wolverines' opponents. A team will never know when Michigan will lay down and lose, or when it will rise up to knock off a Big Ten power. This dual personality is especially pronounced within the home con- fines of Keen Arena, where Michigan meets Wis- consin and Northwestern this weekend. The Badgers (26-7 overall, 14-2 Big Ten), who sit at the'pinnacle of the Big Ten standings, will kick off the final weekend of the regular sea- son against the last-place Wolverines (6-23, 2- 14) Friday at 7:30 p.m. The Wildcats (16-16, 7- 9) arrive for Julia Sturm's retirement party Satur- day night. "We want to go out in style so Julia can see that Michigan's play has improved in her four years," Michigan coach Peggy Bradley-Doppes. "We want to show that she, as a player, has im- proved dramatically." Wisconsin has heard the news that Michigan beat both Illinois and MSU at home in the last two weeks, and has taken notice. "We are focusing on Michigan, and I expect a good match out of them," Badger coach Steve Lowe said. "I see them as an improved team that will battle us and play us tough. "We are in first place right now. We need to win both matches this weekend against Michigan and Michigan State. The only way we can do well is to win the first match." Northwestern, mired in the middle of the con- ference pack, has less incentive than Wisconsin, which is vying for a top NCAA Tournament seeding. But the Wildcats know that the young Wolverines will be good. "Anytime you play on the road, you expect tough matches," Northwestern coach Jerry Angle said. "We expect to have to play good volleyball to beat Michigan." 1-1 ll a i Volunteer Donors Needed $60.00 Compensation Healthy volunteers are needed forthe donation of bone marrow for research purposes at The University of Michigan. To be eligible, you must be in good general health, between 18-65 years old, not pregnant, and not taking aspirin or anti-inflammatory drugs (such as Motrin) or antibiotics. Approximately two tablespoons of bone marrow will be removed, and some blood will be drawn. For details, call Charles R. Dibb, M.D., at 936-1020 or 936-5281, 9:00-5:00, Monday-Friday (Investigator: C.R. Dibb, M.D., Division of Hematology-Oncol- o gy, 3119 Taubman Center, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1800 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109). 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