Ice Hockey vs. Lake Superior State Tonight and Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Yost Ice Arena SPORTS Men's Basketball vs. Ohio State Sunday, 1 p.m. Crisler Arena _ w The Michigan Daily Friday, January 31, 1992 Page 1Q' Women cagers head for osU, IU by Ryan Herrington Daily Basketball Writer While the Big Ten season is only six games old for the Michigan women's basketball team, the Wolverines have reached what are aruably their most important games of the season - Ohio State and Indiana. After coming oft its first Big Ten victory of the season last Friday against Minnesota, Michigan (1-5 in the Big Ten, 5-10 overall) is still in serch of its first road victory. If the Wolverines hope to stay in shouting distance of the conference leaders, Friday or Sunday's contests would be ideal times to break into th road victory column. "Our goal is a split this week- end," Michigan coach Bud Van- DWege said. "We have got to pick some road wins up sometime. Any- thing past this is icing on the cake and anything worse is agoing to be disappointing." Michigan's hope of achieving its goal rose with the news that it will regain the services of sophomore forward Michelle Hall, who had boen sidelined since early December with a broken bone in her foot. 'Ohio State (1-4, 7-8) comes into the weekend having struggled thus far in the Big Ten. The Buckeyes have dropped four of their five confer- ence games, their worst start ever in the Big Ten. Despite this, Van- DeWege feels that Ohio State might b a dormant ogre, just waiting to be disturbed. -"Their 1-4 is aas misleading as our 15," VanDeWege said. "We're both btter than that." VanDeWege believes that the similarities between the Buckeyes and his team go beyond simply a slow start. "Ohio State has two outstanding players in Averrill Roberts, who has hurt us every time we've played against her, and Nikki Keyton, who's having a great year," Van- DeWege said. "After that, they're not unlike us at all. It's like, who's going to play well that day. For us, we've had a lot of inconsistency past (center) Trish (Andrew). They're the same thing, past those two, there is some inconsistency." Roberts, a junior guard, is fourth inethe Big Ten in scoring, averaging 19.7 points per game. Despite suffer- ing from a stress fracture, Keyton, a junior forward, is the second leading scorer for Ohio State, averaging 14.1 points. Indiana, fifth in the Big Ten, is led by Shirley Bryant and her 17.1 points per game, good for seventh in the conference. "The Wolverines have not had much success against Indiana. The Hoosiers (3-2, 11-4) hold a 21-3 se- rids edge against Michigan, which last beat Indiana in 1987. Indiana leads the Big Ten in scor- ing, averaging 77.8 points per game and also claims the top spot in scor- ing margin with a 15.1 point advan- tage. Home at la 'M' opens homestand vs. 10th- by John Niyo Daily Basketball Writer A schedule that at first did not look favorable for the Michigan men's basketball team suddenly looks a lot better. Especially after Wednesday's 89- 79 overtime victory over Michigan State in East Lansing, a victory that upped the Wolverines' record to 12- 4 overall, and 4-3 in the Big Ten. Michigan has played five of its first seven games on the road, win- ning three of those five contests in very hostile arenas - Carver- Hawkeye (Iowa), Assembly Hall (Illinois) and then in front of an ex- tremely vocal Breslin Center crowd at Michigan State, much to the de- light of coach Steve Fisher. "This makes up for losing at home to Purdue," Fisher said after Wednesday's game. "That's three road wins for us, which is kind of amazing." Now Michigan can look forward to five consecutive home conference games, interrupted only by a non- conference trip to play Notre Dame Feb. 9. The first of those, however, will not offer much of a breather, as 10th-ranked Ohio State storms into Ann Arbor after taking on Illinois in Champaign last night. The Buck- eyes stood at 4-1 in the Big Ten and 12-3 overall entering that contest, after losing last Sunday to Seton Hall. Ohio State is led by all-Ameri- can Jimmy Jackson, who averages 23.9 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. Down the stretch, Jackson has cariied the Buckeyes on several occa- sions this season. Jackson keyed a furious Ohio State comeback in the Buckeyes' only Big Ten loss, a 91-83 defeat to league-leading Indiana. He poured in 31 points that night, as Ohio State erased a 19-point deficit with 26-2 run midway through the second half, before faltering in the final minutes. OSU coach Randy Ayers consid- ers that type of streaky play a Buck- eye weakness. "Being a veteran ballclub, we should be able, number one, to sus- tain leads, and not be so inconsis- tent," Ayers said. "I think that's something we have to go back and work at. Whenever we get at it from a defensive standpoint, our offense takes care of itself. When we have problems from an offensive stand- point, it's because of a lack of effort on the defensive end." Ayers has looked to much-publi- cized transfer Lawrence Funder- burke, who left Indiana two years ago and has since enrolled at Ohio st ranked Bucks State, for a spark off the bench. Sinceegr becoming eligible during th& semester break, Funderburke's playa has been impressive. "I think he's helped us from the: standpoint of blocking shots," Ay-; ers said. "That has really helped usl We've never had that presence in the middle yet." But Ayers still plans to keep us- ing Funderburke off the bench. Jack son is joined by guards Jamaal Brown and Mark Baker, forwa.. ? Chris Jent, and center Bill Robinson in the starting lineup. "We feel at this time that our $ five starters have earned that by tie way they practice everyday,". Ayers said. "We feel that Lawrence gives, us a nice spark off the bench, and for that fact alone, that's why we're; staying with our starting lineup." Fisher will counter with ,a.. Michigan lineup that has come on ins, its last two gamnes. The inside punch of Juwan Howard and Chris Webberj, has forced opposing defenses intq zone situations. That in turn opens up opportuni- ties for Michael Talley, Jimnmy e King, Jalen Rose and Wednesday's hero, Rob Pelinka, who caine off the-" bench to hit two clutch three-point-') ers in the victory against the Spai- tans. Junior forward James Voskuil, shown elevating against Ohio State superstar Jim Jackson, hopes to repeat the feat Sunday when the Wolverines meet the Buckeyes at Crisler Arena. Wrestlers seek Crisler victory by Shawn DuFresne Daily Sports Writer While it might not be a road match for the ninth- ranked Michigan wrestling team (3-0-1 in the Big Ten, 7-0-1 overall) tomorrow night when it hosts Indiana (2-8, 0-3), the Wolverines will be away from the friendly confines of Cliff Keen Arena. A special event at the Wolverines' usual lair has forced the team to move to Crisler Arena for this weekend's matchup with the Hoosiers. While the change of venue might phase sum, the Wolverines don't feel awkward about the move. "We enjoy Crisler because it's where we train," Michigan coach Dale Bahr said. "With the (Cliff Keen) national team duals coming up next weekend (at Crisler), the match will get us acclimated to the place." Bahr will start Matt Stout at 118 (pounds) to give regular starter Dan Leemaster time to prepare for the team duals next weekend. "Matt wrestled (Indiana's Frank) Ingalls earlier in the season, and did real well," Bahr said. Overall, Michigan is older and more experienced with "balance up and down the line," according to Bahr. The Wolverines will be led by all-Americans Joey Gilbert, who ranks third in the country at 134 with a 30-3 record, and Lanny Green (20-6), who is ninth in the nation at 177. The Rawls brothers also hope to con- tinue their impressive seasons - James is 21-5, while younger brother Jesse sports a 18-4 record. Sophomores Brian IHarper (150) and Sean Bormet (158), who are both ranked ninth in their respective weight classes, will be competing for their 20th per- sonal victories of the season. As Indiana coach Joe McFarland is in the process of rebuilding his squad, eight of the ten Hoosier weight classes are filled by rookies and sophomores. Senior Jeff Lyons (142) was an all-American two years ago and provides leadership for the team. It will be a homecoming of sorts for McFarland, who had an impressive wrestling career for Michigan under Bahr. He was a four time all-American (1981, '82, '84, '85) and was the '84 Big Ten champion at 126. As coach of Indiana's grapplers, he is 1-3 against the Wolverines. Michigan leads the all-time series with the Hoosiers, 45-19-3. FILE PHOTO/Daly. Michigan's Amy Malik, doing her best Gabriela Sabatini impersonation, prepares for Eastern Michigan. The Wolverines face the . Eagles this weekend in their home opener at the Indoor Track and Tennis Building. Tennis fans anticipate Sabatini vs. EMU by Sharon Lundy Daily Sports Writer When Amy Malik last checked, her name wasn't in the Women's International Tennis Association (WITA) rankings. However, Malik's presence on the court has stirred Michigan's tennis fans, many of whom have the senior co-captain confused for tennis star Gabriela Sabatini. But Malik deserves part of the blame for the confusion. She and several team- mates have been circulating posters pictur- ing Malik, identified as Sabatini, which promote Michigan's home opener against Eastern Michigan. tomorrow. Malik said the posters, which were spread throughout the Fishbowl and other campus locations, were meant to draw fans to the Eastern Michigan match, at which Eagle fans traditionally outnumber sup- porters for Michigan. "People have come over to me thinking I might be her and ask me for my auto- graph," Malik said. "So we thought this would attract our fans' attention." Frequent calls to the athletic depart- ment and other confusion prompted Malik and her teammates to remove the posters, but they seemed to have created the reac- tion the players wanted. "Women's sports need support too," co-captain Freddy Adam said. "We work just as hard and it really helps to have peo- ple there cheering us on." After a fall season of individual tour- naments and practice, this match against Eastern will open Michigan's 1992 season with its first dual meet of the year. Due to new NCAA rules, the Wolver- ines stopped practicing as a team in November and started up again in January. "It (Saturday) will be a big test - our first competition as a team," senior Jen- nifer Lev said. "The meet will most likely set the tone for the whole season." Ranked in the middle of the MAC con- ference, EMU's competition will stein from the local rivalry between the teams. "They (Eastern) are always gunning for us, so I'm sure it will be a very competi- tive day," Michigan senior co-captain Freddy Adam said. Although Michigan's lineup is not fi- nalized, six returning letterwinners are competing for the singles spots, including seniors Adam, Lev, Malik, Kim Pratt, and junior Kalei Beamon. 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