Page 12-The Michigan Daily- Friday, March 13,1992 0 Women gymnasts face Minnesota, Missouri Keen hosts national gymnastics powers by Mike Hill Daily Sports Writer that kind of score to not only elimi- by Mike Rancilio Daily Sports Writer The much anticipated wait for May May Leung is over. The heralded rookie gymnast will compete as a Wolverine for the first time this weekend as the women's gymnastics team heads to Minnesota and Missouri for meets Friday and Sunday, respectively. Leung, who has been sidelined for the entire season, was deemed healthy enough to perform late Wednesday night. This unexpected news was a tremendous blessing for Michigan coach Bev Fry, as she assembled her roster of walking wounded. "It's a defenite surprise," Fry said. "We are looking forward to her performance on the floor. She will step into her sister's shoes." Her sister, Li Li, has also been hobbled by injuries the entire season. When it looked as if she finally was healthy, she suffered an achillies tendon injury in warmups prior to competition against Western Michigan last weekend. Leung is the latest addition on a long list of athletes sidelined due to injury, including returning Big Ten Freshman of the year, Wendy Wilkinson. These types of misfortunes have become second nature to the team this season. Although they hinder the Wolverines' performances, Mich- igan has still tallied team-record performances and is in contention for an NCAA tournament bid. The team's depth has prevailed. "The line-ups will be the same for both meets," Fry said. "I'd like to have the luxury of playing everyone, but I'm very confident with what we have." The team is not so confident about scoring well at Minnesota. The Gophers are the defending Big Ten champs, but Michigan fears the judges as much as its competitors. Visiting squads are notorious for leaving Minnesota with low scores. "Teams have a tendency to not score well in Minnesota," rookie Beth Wymer said, "only they score well." Coach Fry echoed her gymnast's concern, "I've heard they've had tight scores there before." One person looking forward to Minneapolis is Minnesota native, senior Laura Lundbeck. She is coming home to compete on the vault and balance beam in front of family and friends. The Wolverines defeated Missouri at home earlier this season, but the prospect of performing on the road makes the rematch more of a challenge. Michigan has not been able to break the 190 barrier since scoring 191.45 against Florida over spring break. The Wolverines hope to end that drought this weekend, and increase their statistical clout for Nationals. The vastly improved Michigan men's gymnastics team will be in for a dogfight when it hosts the Michigan Invitational at 7 p.m. to- morrow at Cliff Keen Arena. The six-team field includes four schools - Penn State, Syracuse, Michigan and Kent State - all ranked between seventh and 17th in the nation. Western Michigan and Gym-Quest of Toronto round out the competition. "It's going to be a heck of a meet," coach Bob Darden said. "Penn State's ranked the highest, but everyone's strong. Syracuse is scor- ing in the 275 range and Kent is in the low 270s. Toronto has a good team, too. They're only a club, but they have a couple of national-team members performing for them. So it's going to be really competitive." Darden feels this meet is key in order to boost Michigan's rankings going into the Big Ten Championships. The Wolverines currently boast a 274.67 average compossite score. "This is critical to our NCAA ranking," Darden said. "We've got nate. our 273 score, but to get ouO confidence to the next level for thq. Big Tens."l, The meet is headlined by mani of the country's top gymnasts. ThV, Nittany Lions are led by two-tif* NCAA champion and ring specialgf- Adam Carton. Gym-Quest features. Mike Inglis, a finalist at the World, Gymnastics Championship lat September. Michigan will again look to their senior/frosh tandem of Jim Round and Brian Winkler to set the pace. ."Those guys have really been 4[Y ing the job for us," Darden saiEC "Jim has really come on strong sinei. returning from his injury, anid Winkler's been doing it all year r us. We're going to need big perf&" mances from both of them." Darden feels a strong start cou- be the key to victory and is happy with Michigan's first two events. # Beginning with the floor exercise, followed by the pommel horse should bode well for the Wolverines:: because they are ranked No. 2 in the;: nation on the floor and No. 9 on the:i SLME.PAL.Y/aiy Michigan junior Debbie Geiger and the rest of the Wolverines will compete this weekend against Minnesota and Missouri. to break into the 28 "" ENV Sunday Special 1/3 lb Burger & Fries1 One third of a pound of lean ground chuck, charbroiled and served on our homemade French bread 0t.: w,:;. I MICHIGAN CO-ED (XERIAD TRYOUTS MARCH 16TH 6:30 P.M. IM BLDG. Women 's relay to by Rich Mitvalsky Daily Sports Writer Michigan's 3200-meter relay team will be the Wolverines lone entry at the NCAA track and field championships this weekend in Indianapolis. The relay team competes in the preliminary heats today against nine other teams. Heading into competition last week, the Wolverine quartet of Carrie Yates, Kristine Westerby, Jessica Kluge and Amy Bannister shared the 10th ranking na- tionwide. They emerged from competition in Ames, Iowa with the fourth-best time in the country, securing a spot in this weekend's national meet. Seeded only behind Villanova, Wisconsin and Texas, the Wolverines are a mere three seconds off the top seed, with an 8 minute 42 second time. "On Friday, we aren't really looking to drop much time but just make it to finals," Westerby said. "All we have to do is run like we have before and we'll be fine." While only ten relay teams qualified for nationals, the eight fastest relays out of today's preliminary heats 0 range. We need horse. challenge for title:, will qualify for tomorrow's finals. And the Wolverines, are expected to make the field of eight. Additionally, the Wolverines will run against the fastest teams in the country, something they did not do last week. "We are more focused now than ever," Westerby said. "Everything we do now is just above and be- yond, but running against the top teams in the country now, we should definitely drop some time." The Wolverine relay has in fact run a time:: equivalent to the top seed of 8:39. In Ames, the Wolverines won with exactly that time, but ran on an oversized track. Typically, indoor events are run on a 200-meter track, but in Ames the track measured 300- meters. The longer distance eased the sharp turns and:: allowed the runners to lengthen their strides. This weekend, races will be run on a 200-meter track. Bannister, the only other Wolverine to surpass na- tional qualifying standards in other events, scratched , from the field in the 800-meter race. Because both races are run within 90 minutes of each other, she will con- 4 serve her energy for the relay effort. 4:00 pm- 11:00 pm Bass Pitchers $8.50 4:00 pm - close 338 South State (at William) Ann Arbor " 996-9191 t. _ t' Itstime for a laptop. 101, Special Promotion 1 April 10 Apple, IBM, and Zenith laptop computers and several optional items- including Microsoft products-are available through the U-M Computer Sales Program during this special month-long promotion. If you are full- time U-M faculty, staff, or student, you are eligible to buy a laptop at educational prices, even if you've purchased a desktop computer or workstation within the past two years through the Sales Program! Stop by the U-M Computer Showcase any weekday between March 16 and April 10 to see and try out these laptops. Individual sales orders are placed at the Showcase and can be picked up at the Information Technology Service Center within 24 hours, if full pay- ment accompanies your order. Departmental sales orders are placed with the University Stores Computer Group (998-6200). Women's tei Ohio State, I by Sharon Lundy Daily Sports Writer The Michigan women's tennis team's Big Ten season will be in full swing this weekend when the Wolverines (0-2 Big Ten, 2-5 over- all) host Ohio State Saturday and Indiana Sunday. Last year, Michgan beat Ohio State fairly easily, but this year the outlook is more cautious. OSU re- cently lost a match to Miami (Ohio), 5-4 - a team that defeated the Wolverines 6-3. "They could be tough," co-cap- tain Freddy Adam said. "But they'll be a good team to beat." The Buckeyes rely on senior Kelly Story, who plays No. 1 sin- gles and pairs with Abigail Villena at No. 1 doubles. Michigan Union Ground Level Monday-Friday 10-5 * 763-6181 U-M Computer Showcase. Come Down And See Us! IAW Now Hiring Display Account Executives nis hosts- ndiana 2 "Kalei (Beamon) was telling me,! 'They're good, but they can break you just have to keep at them,'" Michigan frosh Jaimie Fielding said." Indiana, currently ranked at thel top of the conference, has been Big; Ten champion for eight of the past; ten years. At No. 1 and 2 singles for' the Hoosiers are Deborah Edelmni and Stephanie Reece, ranked 10th and, 27th in the country, respectively No. 3 singles player Jody Yin is ranked 52nd. "Indiana is the strongest team in, the Big Ten," coach Elizabeth Rit said. "I really don't think anyone can catch them." In doubles, Indiana is equally as impressive. Edelman and Reece are ranked as the fourth best doubles team in the country. CAGERS Continued from page 7 To succeed in stealing the sea, son's last dance, the Fighting Illini must use some of the Wolverines' own cologne: youth. Illinois' starting lineup reminds one of a junior colb lege team. Coach Lou Henson starts four sophomores and one rookie. Illinois (7-10, 13-14) has risen to great heights in whipping Michigan State last week, 80-71. Yet, it fell hard to Ohio State Wednesday night: 82-70. "The problem we had was to get the guys to play with confidence,", Henson said. "If we got.into:a tough~ game, they didn't believe they could win the game." The Illini faced that difficulty against the Wolverines in January Michigan beat the hosts ,in Champaign, 68-61. But Illinois ha recovered nicely from its early se son doldrums, winning five of Ai last seven games. Garnering this tourney seemed out of reach just two wes ago, but in that time Illinois pounded Iowa, Northwesterna Michigan State and lost a close 70 game at Indiana. "I think the thing that kept us go-! I i For Spring/Summer & Fall Terms Gain valuable business experience while selling advertising to local and regional businesses. You'll be responsible for managing your own account territory. 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