The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday - January 27,1992- Page 7 $K ' Men's swimming whips MSU, 137-106 ,X4# :5 '4/"r by Chad Saf ran Daily Sports Writer A race car needs to be finely tuned before a big race. Minor ad- justments are made to make sure it is in the best possible condition for all to go smoothly. The same can be said of the. Michigan men's swimming team as they head into the Big Ten Champi- onships after their victory Friday over Michigan State. The No. 4 Wolverines showed the No. 20 Spar- tans who still rules the waters in the state of Michigan with a 137-106 triumph. Michigan (9-1 overall, 4-0 in the Big Ten) jumped out to an early lead by taking two of the three places in the 200-yard medley relay. The team of Eric Bailey, Steve West, Tom Hay and Gustavo Borges captured the top spot in 1:32.19, outdistancing MSU by 1.8 seconds. The combination of Steve Bige- low, Drew Hansz, Dan Abruzzi and Matt Jaffe earned two more points for the Wolverines with a third-place finish. In the one-meter diving, State's John Maxson captured the first posi- tion, but Rob Silverman, Matt Jozwiak and Eric Lambert finished second through fourth. In the three- meter, Eric Lesser was the victor with a score of 310.95 and fellow teammates Jozwiak and Silverman filled out the top three. Gustavo Borges anchored the medley relay, won the 50 freestyle and swam a 19.72 as the final swimmer in the 200 freesyle relay. Michigan's Brian Gunn, who was not told until Wednesday that he was going to swim because of an ongo- ing battle with the flu, showed his third-place finish against S ford last week was not typical o ability with a victory in the butterfly in :50.05. Teammate Tom Hay fini right behind Gunn .14 seconds k He later finished third in the freestyle, an event he did not ex to swim in originally. The Wolverines, who are air for their seventh consecutive coi ence crown move on to the Big championships in 12 days, are actly where Urbanchek wants th "We have made signifi progress on our times," he said. are right on target. The next weeks we are just fine tuning an pering (lowering the mileag workouts). Endurance is no loi the emphasis." omen HEATHER LOWMAN/Daily Wolverine backstroker Jim Hume swims a leg of the individual medley in Friday's victory over Michigan State at Canham Natatorium. tanker Michigan's Chris Pierce spikes in the Wolverines' defeat of Iowa. Men's volleyball spikes Iowa, Northwestern. by Rich Mitvalsky Daily Sports Writer Getting there was half the battle. Early Saturday morning, the Michigan women's swimming team left Ann Arbor for a trip to Columbus. Not without ner- vous anticipation, though. In one of the most devastating tragedies of the young year, two members of the Notre Dame women's swimming team were killed - and another critically injured - late last week when the team bus flipped over just miles from the South Bend exit while return- ing from a dual meet. The tragedy had more than a subtle effect on the Wolverines. Many members of both the men's and women's squad had personal ties with the victims. Once in Columbus, the Wolverines put any distrac- tions behind them and swam to a 144-114 victory over Ohio State, preserving their perfect conference record at 6-0. Michigan pounced on the Buckeyes early, sweeping the top three places in the first race, the 400-meter s top Buckeyes medley relay. Michigan led, 60-12, following identical 1-2-3 sweeps in two of the next three events. The Wolverines and Buckeyes then scored fairly evenly in the remaining events, capped by an Ohio State victory in the 800-meter freestyle relay, the final race. "Part of our team is in the middle of taper right now, so some of our times were really good," senior co-captain Jen Love said. "Others are swimming pretty average, though, because they haven't rested yet." As the meet progressed, the swimmer's times re- vealed a current in the pool. "In some lanes, like lanes 1 and 8, there was a cur- rent in the pool," Love said. "Times going down the pool were as much as three seconds faster than those coming back." Senior Katherine Creighton, junior Kirsten Sil- vester, and rookies Alecia Humphrey and Melissa McLean also had top performances. Humphrey led off the winning 400 medley relay, and won the 100-meter and 200-meter backstrokes. McLean took first in the 50-meter freestyle. by Dan Linna Daily Sports Writer Neither Iowa nor Northwestern could win a game Saturday as the Michigan men's volleyball team cruised past both squads at the IM building. rWolverine Stan Lee led Mich- igan with 16kills against the Hawk- eyes. Senior Mike McCune added 11 kills and Jack Behar led the Michigan defense to a 15-12, 15-8, 15-10 victory. I-"We played pretty well," co- captain Keith Baar said. "There were some spots where we were down, but it's difficult to play against teams that you don't see as a threat." Iowa and Northwestern squared off in the second match of the Tri- match. Northwestern beat Iowa and hoped to give the Wolverines a fight. But Michigan quickly dashed those hopes as they disposed of Wildcats, 15-5, 15-8, and 15-8. McCune keyed Michigan with 14 kills against Northwestern, while Rico Latham and senior Norman Hu led the serving attack. "We stuck to our game plan against Northwestern and really drilled them," co-captain Latham said. For an improving Wolverine squad the matches provided another step in their quest for the Big Ten Championship. "This was just one of many in- portant weekends," sophomore Tony Poshek said. "We're going to need a couple more weekends like this. 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