Page 8 -The Michigan Daily-Sports Monday- November 4, 1991 1 I i t t Wisconsin runners sweep Big Tens Yates' strong performance spurs women to third-place finish by Bruce Inosencio Daily Sports Writer more Chris Szabo placed fourth for be able to take a little confidence very good times, and the Wolverines Senior Carrie Yates picked up the the Wolverines and 23rd in the meet into the NCAA districts," Foster were eager to shower them with slack for Michigan Saturday, help- with a time of 18:54. Yates rounded said. "Now we know who to look praise. "Wisconsin was simply un- ing the women's cross country out Michigan's top five by tying for for, and there's an added incentive to beatable Saturday," Nortz said. squad place third in the Big Ten 28th place in 19:03. beat certain people at districts." "They really came together and sur- Championships at Purdue. Wiscon- Although Michigan was gearing Disappointment, however, is to prised us." sin and Penn State claimed the top for a victory in Saturday's race, .the be expected. "It's always a disap- The gap between the Wolverines' two spots. third place finish doesn't tarnish its pointment when you think you have first and fifth runners was only 41 Coach Sue Foster was ecstatic season. Instead, the defeat may prove the capabilities to win," senior cap- seconds, but, "Ideally, we would about Yates' performance. to be helpful. tain Megan Nortz said. like to close the gap even more for "She was probably the highlight "After the Big Ten meet we'll Wisconsin's team turned in some districts," Foster said. of the meet for us," Foster said. "She knew she had to run hard dur- ing the race and she gave it her all." "We talked all week long about running our hearts out," Yates said. "We wanted to make sure that when we finished the race we had given it all we could." Due to the injury of redshirt frosh Jessica Kluge, Yates' efforts made a difference. "Jessica's been fighting off an in- jury," Yates said. "And when I passed her early in the race I knew I'd be our fifth person, so I had to -dig down and hold my position as well as I could." Junior Amy Bucholz, who placed first for the Wolverines and ninth overall, also praised Yates, saying, "Thanks to Carrie's great run we were able to pack it in really well." Bucholz, who finished in 18:22, was just ahead of teammate Karen Har- vey, a first-year runner who finished 11th overall in 18:32. Another first-year runner, Kelly Chard, placed third for Michigan and 18th overall in 18:47. Sopho- Men top MSU to by Bruce Inosencio Daily Sports Writer Braving a chilly 28 degrees and 25 mph winds, the Michigan men's cross country team placed second atI Saturday's Big Ten Championships.1 However, the weather in West1 Lafayette wasn't the Wolverines' biggest problem - Michigan's toughest adversary proved to be the; Wisconsin Badgers. Wisconsin finished with 25c points to take the conference title. The Badgers were followed by Michigan, with 61 points, and1 Michigan State, with 83 points. "Wisconsin ran so well that it probably wouldn't have mattered how well we did," senior co-captain Tony Carna said. "It wasn't our type of race," se-i nior co-captain Matt Smith said. "We maybe should have gone out harder to start off the race." Carna agreed, "We probably should have run harder in the middle part of the race, but there's nothing finish second behind Badgers we can do now." The Wolverines posted a strong run as a team, running in a pack like they have done all season. Senior Dan Oden paced Michigan, placing fifth overall with a 25:11. Close on his heels was Carna, finishing sev- enth in 25:13. Senior Matt Smith took 11th in 25:21, sophomore Shawn MacKay finished' 13th in 25:37, and senior Joe McKown crossed the line in 25:54 to capture the 25th spot. Although the times were less than spectacular due to the weather, Michigan's runners were in the race until the last 1,000 meters. "Our top four were together and we thought we had it, but that last 1,000 meters was pretty insane," Carna said. "I've never seen so many people kicking to the finish line in such a tight-knit group." In a meet Michigan was hoping to win, the Wolverines came up short but do not want to dwell on a second-place finish. "We may have put too much pressure on ourselves to win Big Tens, but we'll pull together and run strong at the districts meet," Smith said. "Hopefully we can have a repeat of next year; we lost to Wisconsin at the Big Ten meet last year but we rebounded to beat them at the NCAA district meet." "We ran pretty well even though our team finish isn't what we wanted," Carna said. "Nobody's worried too much about not win- ning. We've had a great season and we can't let it take away the suc- cesses we've had all year." Rather than making excuses, Michigan had nothing but praise for the Badgers. "We underestimated Wiscon- sin," Smith said. "They knew what they were doing; they let us go out and break the wind and they caught up to us to take it away at the end. cold, 3-2 to the conditions." Michigan was plagued through- out the game with yellow cards. Hillary received one for showing dissent to the linesman early in the first half. Michigan midfielder Jim Lacey also received a yellow card when he took down Western mid- fielder Steve Morrison, who lay motionless on the field for some time. Michigan midfielder Dave Rind- fusz received the final yellow card given to the Wolverines late in the game. The frigid conditions froze pre- cipitation on players' uniforms. The Michigan women's soccer club v this weekend in Minneapolis. CHAMPS Continued from page 1 gan faced the second-place team from Group B, Purdue, in the first semifinal game. Illinois played Marquette, the team that replaced the absent Minnesota, in the second semifinal match. In their most recent meeting with Purdue, the Wolverines won, 6-1. Yesterday, proved to be much the same, as Michigan again had lit- tle trouble in prevailing, 4-0. Ash- ton tallied her second hat 'trick of the season, and Loper scored the fourth and final goal. In the other semifinal game, Illinois defeated Marquette, 1-0, to advance to the final. ~e e HEATHER LOWMANIDaily von the Big Ten Club Championship Loper started things off for Michigan in the final with her third goal of the tournament. Douma added the Wolverines' second goal with an assist from Steinhebel, and* Michigan headed into halftime with a 2-0 lead. The Wolverines continued to dominate in the second half, but were unable to score as several shots hit the cross-bar. Illinois provided a scare with a goal late in the game, and it looked as if the Illini might pull off some more last-minute How ever, Michigan shut Illinois down the rest of the way to win the "We've waited a long time for this," Marshall said. "It feels re- ally great to finally wmn it. Mistakes leave M' by Shawn Daily Sports DuFresne Writer KALAMAZOO-The Michigan men's soccer club fought harsh ele- ments during its match with West- ern Michigan yesterday. The wind- chill factor was ten degrees below zero, and a blanket of snow and ice on the field caused sloppy perfor- mances by both teams. The Broncos endured the in- clement weather, prevailing over the Wolverines, 3-2, as Michigan ac- cidentally scored twice in its own goal. "Defensive errors cost us the game," Michigan midfielder Frank Karabetsos said. The Broncos jumped out to a 1-0 lead when forward Dan Edwards re- ceived a corner kick from Kevin Bird, and headed the ball past Michigan goalkeeper Piercarlo Ro- mano. Michigan tied the game when Bronco goalkeeper Matt Borkowski misjudged a lofty kick by Wolver- ine forward Jaan Douma and watched the ball land harmlessly in the net. Nine minutes later, Michigan forward Sam Stewart scored when he kicked in a rebound that Borkowski could not handle, and gave the Wolverines a 2-1 lead. Western tied the game courtesy ckers in the of Wolverine sweeper Brian Rose- warne, who deflected the ball into his own net after Karabetsos at- tempted to clear the ball from the Michigan end. At halftime, Michigan coach Aaron Smith told his team to pass the ball quicker and keep it down because of the windy conditions. 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