The Daily Libels (Football) vs. The State News Friday, 4:30 p.m. Palmer Field 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 I 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 RESTAURANT - BAR & GATHERING PLACE OPENING SOON IN- turned in by freshmen John Costanzo and the doubles teams of 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 Griddes! Drop off your picks at the Stu- dent Publication Building by noon Friday to win a $15 gift certificate to O'Sullivan's Eatery & Pub. 1. MSU at Michigan 2. Illinois at Ohio St. 3. Wisconsin at Iowa 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 11. Alabama at Tulane 12. Louisiana St. at Florida 13. Stanford at UCLA 14. Rutgers at Syracuse 15. Oklahoma St. at Nebraska 16. Georgia Sthrn. at Georgia 17. Georgia Tech at Maryland 18. Auburn at Mississippi St. 19. Arkansas at Tennessee 20. Brown at Princeton Tiebreaker: MSU at Michigan Total points: Name: Phone: 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." Basketball Tix From ~noon ~until 3 P.. 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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 The Wolverines scored virtu- tie. *1 Brewhouse * Servers . Ra12 - Grill Cooks . Pnntrv, ks " .l0 <,; y 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- I