Men's Tennis vs. Michigan State Today, 2:30 p.m. Liberty Sports Complex dSPORTS Friday, April 17, 1992 Softball at Indiana Today, 3 p.m. (EDT) Bloomington Page 11 The Michigan Daily Purdue next stop for 'M' women's track Farrell-Ovenhouse says farewell with diving title by Bernadette Ramsey Daily Sports Writer The Michigan women's track team looks to shift into high gear this weekend in West Lafayette. Michigan will take on Purdue and Kentucky along with a smattering of Division II schools at the Purdue Invitational. The Wolverines are looking to improve on a second-place finish at Virginia last weekend. "We had some strong perfor- mances at Virginia," assistant coach Mike McGuire said. "What we are concentrating on now is building on those performances and figuring out the best way to get everyone going at their maximum ability." One method the coaching staff will implement in hopes of helping the team obtain this goal will involve moving some runners into different events. With the exception of Kristi Westerby; middle-distance and dis- tance runners will run in races shorter than they have been compet- ing in this season. "We're going to try moving some people around to tune-up for the Penn Relays," McGuire said. "The Penn Relays start in the middle of -the week, so we don't want people to be burned out." In spite of some bersonnel shifts,. the Wolverines are looking to score big and win the meet. The team will have to do so, however, without the help of runners Amy Banister and Amy Bucholz. Banister, a stabilizing force on the team, has been given the week- end off to concentrate on academics. Bucholz is being rested, so she will be at full strength next week. "Amy will be running her longest race of the season at 10,000 meters at Penn." McGuire said. "It's her first time at this distance and I think she will do fine, but I don't want her tired. I think racing this weekend 'and then racing the middle of the week will be too much." Sprinters Richelle Webb and Suzi Thweatt have consistently finished well and the coaching staff would like to witness continued success. "Suzi and Richelle are looking strong," McGuire said. "They could really gain momentum going into Penn with a good showing at Purdue." In the field events, the Wolverines will face some brutal competitors from Purdue. Michigan's Julie Victor, currently with the fifth longest discus throw in the Big Ten, will square off against Purdue's Sami Jo Williamson. Williamson presently has the third- longest throw. Javelin thrower Carrie Stewart will also be pushed to her limit. "Carrie has been throwing in the 150 feet range and Purdue has one or two throwers who are capable of that, so it should be close," McGuire said. Stewart has recorded the third- best throw of the season in the Big Ten with a distance of 153 feet. She is really just beginning to compete. Stewart, who also plays on the by Chad Safran Daily Sports Writer Julie Farrell-Ovenhouse was far enough ahead on the one-meter springboard going into the 10th and final dive that she was already guaranteed a third-place finish. Yet, she decided to take one more acrobatic plunge into the pool. The result was an inward one and one-half somersault that clinched her second Phillips 66 National Indoor Championship last night at Canham Natatorium. Farrell-Ovenhouse, diving for the Kimball Divers (the team coached by Michigan diving coach Dick Kimball), blew away the field with 485.61 points. Her nearest competitor, Krista Klein of Mustang Diving, could only manage a total of 440.43 points. Melisa Moses of Jacksonville, Fla., came away with 433.38 points, good enough for a bronze medal. Farrell-Ovenhouse had qualified for this event with the highest score. Two other Kimball divers were in the finals. A. Jill Schlabach, the 1991 Pan- American Games champion, scored 409.14 points which gave her a sixth-place finish. Former Michigan diver Cokey Smith ended the one-meter in a disappointing 10th place after qualifying for the finals in third. In addition to her individual title, Farrell- Ovenhouse, a member of the 1991 World Championship Team, won two other honors in the event. She was awarded an artistic honor for her first five dives. That was followed by an award for athletic excellence, given as a reward for her final five dives. This was the final competition in the one- meter springboard for Farrell-Ovenhouse, once known as "the one-meter diver," and she is looking toward tomorrow's three- meter competition. "I'm very confident with my dives," she said. "But I'm not so comfortable that I am overconfident." With the strong performances of all the Kimball Divers thus far in the meet, the squad is inching closer and closer to the team title. "We are really kicking some rear," Farrell-Ovenhouse said. "I think Dick Kimball is very satisfied. Our team total is continuing to multiply. He puts each individual first." The women's and men's three-meter finals will be held today at Canham. The favorite in the women's event is Wendy Lucero-Schayes, also of the Kimball Divers. She will be trying to defend her three-meter title of a year ago. Former Wolverine diver Mark Lenzi will also attempt to defend his 1991 national crown. Alison Brothers took 13th-place in the one-meter event at the Phillips 66 Indoor National Championships. women's basketball team, joined the team after completing the basketball season in March. With good weather and track conditions, the team hopes to gain some extra momentum before next week's festivities - the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. Tigers take three of four from Tribe S - *as veer's no CLEVELAND (AP) - Rob Deer ,homered twice, giving him four in four games, and Mickey Tettleton hit a thr.ee-run homer Thursday as the Detroit Tigers beat the Cleveland Indians 13-4. 2 Detroit won three of four games In Cleveland after starting the season with six straight losses. The Tigers were 0-6 in Cleveland last year. Deer led off the third with a homer off Dennis Cook (0-1), then hit a two-run drive off Scott Scudder shortly after an 18-minute rain delay interrupted the sixth inning. Tettleton homered run off Rod Nichols during the Tigers' seven-run mers pace 1 seventh. Detroit had eight hits in the inning, including a double and a triple by Milt Cuyler. Deer has hit a team-leading five home runs in six games. He missed four games because of a stiff neck. Bill Gullickson (1-2), a 20-game winner last year, gave up four runs - one unearned - and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings. Cleveland, which has lost four of five and seven of 10, had a 2-1 lead entering the fifth and momentarily preserved it when shortstop Mark Lewis threw Travis Fryman out at home as he tried to score from first 3-4 triumph on Cuyler's double to left. Cuyler, however, went to third on the play and scored the tying run on Cook's wild pitch. Dan Gladden then doubled and scored on Tony Phillips' single for a 3-2 lead. The Tigers didn't trail again. Kenny Lofton scored twice for Cleveland, setting up both runs with stolen bases. He walked, stole second, and came around on consecutive groundouts by Glenallen Hill and Carlos Baerga in the first, then singled, stole second and scored on Hill's single in the third. Laettner. threatens Duke's title DURHAM (AP) - Duke's pris- tine image was called into question Thursday by a taped diary Christian Laettner kept for GQ magazine after the university determined the project wouldn't violate NCAA rules. 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