Baseb at CentralP Today, Th Mount Plea ; The Michigan Daily rt 4.. ball Michigan 3 p.m. asant, Mi. SPORTS Softball vs. Central Michigan Today, 3 p.m. Varsity Diamond Wednesday, April 22, 1992 Page 19 Golers' progress CUldkey -victory 3y Dan Linna aily Sports Writer After getting back on track with a fifth-place finish at last weekend's 17-team Purdue Boilermaker Invita- I'ional, the Michigan women's golf , eam will have the rest of the month lo prepare for the Big Ten ,Conference Championships in Sav- vy, IL, May 1-3. The tournament begins with 36- holes friday, followed by 18-holes In Saturday and Sunday. "I think we are where we want to Ve," Michigan coach Sue LeClair ,said of the progress her team has ,nade. "We are hitting the ball well. It's just a matter of improving our :hipping and putting." Senior Erica Zonder is encour- aged by the team's improved play. "We're looking to win, but ,realistically we'll have to play ,xcellent to do it," Zonder said. "But a why not? We've got nothing to lose we're going for it, "(In the past) we have always seemed to have one bad round, we'll need to have four consistent rounds." R Michigan will be paired with Wisconsin when play begins. The Badgers have proven themselves as one of the better teams in the Big :Ten and the Wolverines feel playing with good competition will only help them play better. "I think it helps us concentrate better when we are playing with a team that is of equal ability rather than one that is below us," LeClair =said. Zonder, Wendy Bigler, and eKristen Beilstein all look to be back ,on track and Tricia Good is follow- ing close behind. "I'm hitting the ball well, I'm just ,not scoring well," Good said. "I'm hoping to put it all together at Big Tens. I'm so close. It's just the finer points I need to work on." 'M' softball awaits: sun, Iowa, Central by Shawn DuFresne Daily Sports Writer A fortnight ago, the Michigan softball team's doubleheader with Eastern Michigan was postponed be- cause of rain. The twinbill was rescheduled for yesterday, but once again the weather did not cooperate with the Wolverines, forcing a sec- ond postponement with the Eagles. Michigan hopes for sunny skies today as it squares off against Central Michigan in a pair of con- tests at Varsity Diamond. "This is the biggest intra-state ri- val of the year," Michigan coach Carol Hutchins said. "We look for- ward to it and hope we can get a win." Last year the Wolverines swept the Chippewas in Mt. Pleasant, 3-0 and 6-3. Today's games will give assis- tant coach Cathy Wylie a chance to show off her new team to former coach Margo Jonker. Wylie was a four-year starter at first base for the Chippewas, earning All-Mideast Regional and All-Mid-American Conference honors three times. Michigan continues Big Ten play this weekend, attempting to build on its first-place position in the confer- ence when Iowa flies into Ann Arbor for a pair of doubleheaders. The Hawkeyes are in third place in the Big Ten, sporting a 9-3 record. Last season, the Hawkeyes swept . & e two doubleheaders from the Wol- verines in Iowa City, but Hutchins hopes the results will be different this year. "It's always been a tough series with Iowa," she said. "But right now we're playing confidently, we're swinging our bats, and ready to go."' The Iowa series will also give Michigan assistant coach Carol Bruggeman a chance to brag whdi the Wolverines play against her col; legiate squad. Bruggeman was an All-Big Ten and Mideast Regional infielder for the Hawkeyes, and served as a graduate assistant coach for Iowa before coming to Michigan in 1989. Overall, Hutchins is impressed with her team's accomplishments, particularly when it scored first in three of its four games against Indiana last weekend. I "It has been a total team effort Right now my team is fearless: They have fire in their eyes, and it's exciting to watch them." Although Michigan sits atop tht Big Ten, there are numerous games left in the season. "It's still anybody's conference it this point," Hutchins said. "North- western has six losses (in the Big Ten) but swept Ohio State lash weekend. They're still in it. They'rd waiting to see what happens (with the other conference games)." BA LL L EADE RSi First-year infielder Ryan Van Oeveren takes a cut at a pitch last week. The Wolverines travel to Central Michigan today to take on the Chippewas before returning to Fisher Stadium to host Michigan State Saturday. Rain postpone ments make Michigan hitters anxiously await home game by Tim Rardin Daily Baseball Writer After losing three of four games to Indiana last weekend, dropping its road record to four games below .500, the Michigan baseball team thankfully returned home to Fisher Stadium, yesterday. However, the Wolverines (8-8 Big Ten, 18-21 overall) did not get what they had hoped for, namely, a game. Rain reigned, once again, postponing for the second time Michigan's home clash with Eastern Michigan (14-21). Michigan split its two previous meetings with the Eagles - a 9-8 loss during its spring trip to Florida, and a 3-2 victory in Ann Arbor three weeks ago. Today's 3 p.m. non-conference game at Central Michigan (18-17) lies between the Wolverines and their next home game, scheduled for this weekend against Michigan State. The Chippewas, who went 33- 27 and finished sixth in the Mid- American Conference last year, have split four games with the Wolverines since Michigan coach Bill Freehan has been at the helm. Despite their eighth-place Big Ten finish last year and Freehan's unblemished 8-0 record against them, the Spartans (11-5, 25-11), should provide considerably stiffer competition than the Chippewas in their doubleheader 1 p.m., Saturday. Michigan State, after sweeping all four games from Northwestern last weekend in Evanston, finds itself in a first-place tie with Ohio State (11- 5, 25-14) in the conference, three games ahead of Michigan. Indiana (10-6, 29-12) holds down second place in the conference, while Iowa (9-7, 21-15) owns sole control of third. The Wolverines are locked in a three-way tie for fifth with Purdue (8-8, 23-17), Illinois (8- 8, 25-14), and Minnesota (8-8, 22- 16). Following Saturday's double- header with the Spartans, Michigan will close out its season almost en- tirely with Big Ten games, and al- most entirely at home. A double-doubleheader series with Ohio State next weekend at Fisher Stadium precedes a rare mid- week Big Ten confrontation, as the Wolverines wrap up their series with Michigan State in East Lansing. May 6. Michigan's road season concludes with a non-conference matchup against Notre Dame two days later. The Wolverines' final series be- fore the Big Ten tournament will be against conference newcomer Penn State (4-12, 17-19) May 10-11. The tournament is scheduled to be played at the home field of the regular-sea- son champion May 14-17. 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