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SPORTS
Football
vs. Michigan State
Saturday, 3:30 p.m. (ABC)
Michigan Stadium
The Michigan Daily
Wednesday, October 7, 1992
Page 8
MSU memories linger
1990 loss to Spartans still stings Wolverines
by Josh Dubow
Daily Football Writer
The last time the Michigan State football
team came to Ann Arbor, the Spartans walked
off the Michigan Stadium turf with a 28-27 up-
set over the then No. 1-ranked Wolverines.
The Spartans moved the ball effectively on
the ground that game, garnering 222 yards
rushing. On the go-ahead touchdown drive,
Michigan State drove 70 yards in two minutes
against a tired Michigan defense.
However, the Wolverines still had a chance.
They drove 71 yards in 1:51 to draw within
one on an Alexander touchdown reception
from Elvis Grbac with six seconds remaining.
Michigan coach Gary Moeller then decided to
go for the two-point conversion and the win.
Desmond Howard lined up to the left of
Grbac, faked to the outside and cut inside
Spartan cornerback Eddie Brown. Grbac de-
livered the ball, but Howard was pulled down
on the play and could not hold onto the ball.
However, the referee did not call pass interfer-
ence on Brown.
"He did the only thing he could do - try
and grab me because it was do or die," Howard
said after the game. "The referee made the no-
call and I can't question that. I felt as if I
caught the ball.
"I felt myself being tackled throughout the
route. I was looking for (the official) to raise
his hands (to signal the score) but he didn't."
The Wolverines have not forgotten that
game or that play and are looking for revenge
when the Spartans return to Ann Arbor.
"I don't think that two weeks go by where I
don't still think about that football game in a
lot of respects," Moeller said. "Did I have the
team prepared well? Should I have gone for
two? Shouldn't I have gone for two? You can
talk about officials' calls but in life there are
no excuses. It's the actuality of what happens.
"You second-guess yourself a lot. What
could I have done to help us win that game?
That's the way you have to look at every de-
feat, as a coach and as a player. There are a lot
of memories from that game. That was a sad
couple of weeks for Michigan football."
INJURY UPDATE: Starting outside;
linebacker Martin Davis will miss Saturday's
game with a sprained knee. Moeller said Davis
is week-to-week. Freshman Shawn Collins
from Patterson, N.J., will start in Davis' place.
DIALING LONG DISTANCE: Tyrone
Wheatley won his second straight AT&T Long
Distance Award by virtue of his 82-yard
touchdown run against Iowa. Four hundred
dollars will be donated to the NCAA's Degree
Completion Scholarship Fund, and Wheatley
will receive a plaque commemorating his per-
formance. The sophomore earned the award
against Houston by returning the opening
kickoff 99 yards.
TV TIME: Saturday's game against
Michigan State will be broadcast by ABC-TV
at 3:30 p.m. The Oct. 17 game at Indiana is
also a 3:30 start on ABC.
Former Michigan wide receiver Desmond Howard looks for an explanation after the referees missed a pass interference call which
led to the Wolverines' 28-27 loss to Michigan State two years ago. Michigan is looking for revenge Saturday vs. the Spartans.
'M' netters show promise at Harvard
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by Vivek Jayaraman
and Mike Miller
After returning from last week-
end's tournament at Harvard,
Michigan men's tennis coach Brian
Eisner is optimistic about this year's
squad. The team sent eight players to
Cambridge, Mass., to compete
against the top players from
Harvard, Notre Dame, and
Northwestern. Eisner was pleased
with the results, even though no
player made it past the semifinals of
the main draw.
"I'm happy with our perfor-
mance," Eisner said. "In the first day
of the tournament, we won more
matches than we had won in all three
days of the tournament last year."
Michigan's contingent competed
in both doubles and singles with
players making their marks in both
the A and B flights. Competing in
the A singles flight, junior Dan
Brakus had a strong showing before
exiting due to injury in the semifi-
nals. After receiving a first-round
bye, he defeated Harvard's Richie
Lee, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. In the third round,
he defeated Northwestern's Jeff
Giraldo, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1. However, in
the third set of the match, Brakus
pulled a muscle in his back. Not
considering this injury serious, he
began his semifinal match against
Harvard's Andrew Rueb. Unfor-
tunately for Brakus, the injury was
worse than initially thought, and he
was forced to retire down, 3-6, 0-3.
"I'm disappointed with my re-
sults," Brakus said. "If I hadn't been
injured I feel that I could've beaten
Rueb and won the flight."
Other strong performances were
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Grady Burnett and Mike Nold, and
Geoff Prentice and Peter Pustzai.
After a first-round bye, Costanzo
lost in the second round of the main
draw, but went on to win the A con-
solation flight. In the finals he de-
feated Jason Pun from Notre Dame,
7-5, 6-0. This marks the second time
in two weeks that Costanzo has
bounced back to win the consolation
flight.
Michigan also showed promise in
its doubles teams. In the A doubles
flight, freshmen Geoff Prentice and
Peter Pustzai played exceptionally
well despite having never played
together before the tournament.
(Pustzai also won his first match in
the A singles flight.) In their first
match, they defeated Harvard's No.
1 doubles team of Rueb and Umesha
Wallooppilla, 6-3, 6-4. The two
fought hard in the semifinals, finally
surrendering to Harvard's Adam
Meister and Todd Meringoll, 1-6, 6-
3,6-0.
"The freshmen played extremely
well," Eisner said. "In their first
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4. Indiana at Northwestern
5. Minnesota at Purdue
6. Miami (Fla.) at Penn St.
7. North Carolina at Florida St.
8. California at Washington
9. Clemson at Virginia
10. Notre Dame at Pittsburgh
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14. Rutgers at Syracuse
15. Oklahoma St. at Nebraska
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20. Brown at Princeton
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match they managed to overcome
adversity and beat a strong team
from Harvard."
In the B doubles flight, sopho-
more Grady Burnett and senior Mike
Nold defeated Harvard's Chris
Laitala and Tim Murshed, 6-3, 4-6,
6-1. In the semis, Harvard's Daniel
Chung and Howard Kim beat the
pair 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.
After two tournaments, the team
has shown promise.
"Only time will tell," Eisner said.
"The kids are working hard this
year, and the whole attitude seems to
be positive. As the season pro-
gresses, things can only get better."
Despite strong showings, these
tournaments emphasize the indi-
vidual, and therefore, are not an
accurate barometer of how the team
will perform as a unit. These
tournaments help to give the
freshmen and other young players
experience which will prove in-
valuable in the spring season.
"We're focusing on improve-
ment," Eisner said. "Along with im-
provement, we want to create a team
concept."
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Lynda Hart and the Michigan women's soccer team defeated Central
Michigan yesterday, 7-0, in Mt. Pleasant.
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by Thom Holden The second half opened with
MT. PLEASANT - Yester- Michigan continuing its domi-
day, the Michigan women's soccer nance over Central. Steinhebel and
team dished out a licking and kept Treadway scored to complete the
on kicking. Michigan, behind the scoring in the 7-0 debacle.
strength of a hat trick from Alicia The relentless play of the of-
Treadway and additional scores fense pleased Wolverine coach
from Jenny Steinhebel, and Lisa Peter Manning.
Ashton routed Central Michigan, "I was encouraged with the
7-0, in Mt. Pleasant. way we finished," Manning said.
With the victory, the "We haven't scored four goals all
Wolverines upped their record to season. We've played teams that
8-5-4. While the game marked we've had down in their end as
Michigan's busting out of a scor- much as this, but we haven't been
ing slump, it also was the club's able to finish the goals all season."
third consecutive shutout. The Last week against Schoolcraft,
Maize and Blue blanked Indiana the Maize and Blue cranked out a
and Bowling Green by identical 3- 38-5 shots-on-goal advantage, but
0 scores last weekend. managed just one score in a 1-1
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ally at will against the hapless
Chippewa defense, opening the
offensive onslaught early when
Ashton found the back of the net
at the 5-minute mark. Later in the
half, Steinhebel, Treadway and
another Ashton tally widened the
lead to 4-0.
Treadway capped the first
half's scoring and sealed CMU's
fate with her second goal of the
game, this one coming off a de-
flection. Steinhebel fired a shot
from 20 yards off a direct kick that
But Manning did find room for
improvement in the midst of his
team's goalfest.
"We have a very particular way
of playing defense, and we
stopped playing when we realized
we had better players, better ath-
letes, better skills," he said. "We
stopped doing the team kind of
things that we have been working
on. Otherwise, it was fairly en-
couraging."
It was not fairly encouraging,
or encouraging at all for that mat-
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