The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 16, 1992 - Page 11
Kickers
cruise past
Western
Michigan
by Mike Hill
Daily Sports Writer
Once they got the game under
way, it was a good one. Getting it
going was the problem.
The Michigan women's soccer
club waited almost an hour last night
for Western Michigan's goal keeper,
Heather Combs, to join her team-
mates. Combs, who was given
wrong directions to Mitchell Field,
probably should have stayed home.
The Wolverines got started early
* with a goal by Alicia Stewart at 12
minutes and continued to cruise to a
5-0 victory.
"Technically the game should
have been a forfeit because of the
delay," Michigan coach Peter Man-
ning said. "But I would have felt bad
taking it. I really wanted to play. I
think the circumstances really got us
fired up."
The Wolverines jumped to a two-
* goal lead when senior Shannon
Loper hit forward Lisa Ashton
streaking toward the goal. Ashton,
the team's leading scorer, beat the
Broncos' Combs and capped an ag-
gressive first half of play.
"I was happy with the way we
started the game," Manning said.
"We've had trouble all year really
getting into the game from the very
start. We came out with real good
intensity, going hard to the ball, and
winning the 50-50 balls. That's what
we try to do to start a game, to set
the tone. We did a real good job of
that"
Michigan dominated the second
half as well, despite playing through
fog on a soggy field. Jenny Stein-
hebel's left footer at 51 minutes just
curled around the right post for a 3-0
* lead. Nine minutes later, after
Western threw an elbow during a
Michigan corner kick, the senior
converted a free kick for her second
goal of the game. The final nail in
the coffin came with another Ashton
from Loper goal. The assist was
Loper's third of the contest.
"The damp air kind of helped,"
Manning said. "It makes you feel
like you can run forever. You stay
cool. And we obviously handled (the
weather) pretty well. I certainly can't
be disappointed with a 5-0 win."
The Wolverines don't have much
time to celebrate. They travel to
Chicago this weekend for a game
Saturday against Northwestern and
another on Sunday against Depaul.
Icers open with ND
Wolverines look to feast on young Irish
by Brett Forrest
Daily Hockey Writer
The odds of Saturday evening's opening game end-
ing up in a 17-17 tie are slim and none, and slim left
town. When the Michigan hockey team takes on Notre
Dame at Yost Arena, Lou Holtz will not be the oppos-
ing coach. Instead, Ric Schafer will be behind the Irish
bench, leading the team into its debut season in the
Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA).
Notre Dame, voted last in both the CCHA coaches
and media polls, opens its schedule against one of the
top teams in the nation. Michigan, 1992 CCIIA regular-
season champion, is ranked first ir numerous hockey
polls, including those in which Notre Dame brought up
the rear.
"It should be a great tune-up for us," Schafer said.
"We are definitely starting with one of the top teams.
We want to gain more respect and prove the coaches
wrong in the poll."
The Wolverines are not shaken by the lavish praise.
"We're flattered that people think what we're doing
is positive," said Michigan coach Red Berenson.
"We're getting some respect, but that doesn't mean a
thing. We have to go about our business and pay the
price to play well."
"It's just a number (the ranking)," said junior de-
fenseman Aaron Ward. "When you go out on the ice,
the other team doesn't know you're number one. We
have to go out there and prove something this year."
Michigan is anxious to begin the season, one of the
most anticipated in recent years. For a team that went to
the NCAA semifinals last season and returns 17 letter-
men, anything short of the pinnacle would be a letdown.
This year's team proves to have a different complex-
ion as well. With Denny Felsner's 94 points erased
from the roster, the team now lacks the go-to player.
This could turn'out to be a plus, though.
"Last year, we had a player who could turn the game
around by himself," said Berenson. "This year we can't
be carried by two or three players. We are going to have
to be more of a team.
"Every year I have coached here, I have been able to
say that this is the best team Michigan has ever had.
This season we have to make it happen. It should be an
exciting year."
After having gone through dry-land training, a few
weeks of skating and the Blue-White intrasquad scrim-
mage, the Wolverines are ready to go up against another
team and see where they stand.
"We looked a little rusty in the Blue-White game,"
said Berenson. "We want to get rid of the early-season
jitters. The game mentality is different than the practice
mentality. I hope we're nervous. We want to find out
what kind of team we'll be. You don't know when
you're playing against each other. We won't know until
we have a game under our belt."
CCHA RULES: This weekend's game will not
count in the CCHA standings. New league rules stipu-
late that teams may play each other in only three games
which count towards their league records. The Irish and
the Wolverines will meet four times this year.
The league also will revert to a policy of allowing
teams to substitute for players involved in coincidental
penalties. This will reduce the amount of four-on-four
and three-on-three play. The NHL recently adopted the
opposite policy.
NEW LOOK: The Wolverines will skate in new uni-
forms Saturday. The home jerseys are much the same,
with the addition of a block 'M' on each shoulder.
MICHELLE GUY/Daily
The Michigan hockey team begins its 1992-93 season tomorrow night at
Yost Ice Arena against Notre Dame. The game begins at 7:00 p.m.
'M' stickers to face
tough weekend test
Men runners face new course
by Brett Johnson
Daily Sports Writer
In an 18 game season, every
game is important. However, this
weekend the Michigan field hockey
team has a chance to show the nation
just where it stands as it travels to
Iowa City to challenge two of the
nations elite teams.
Tomorrow, the Wolverines (2-2
in the Big Ten, 6-3 overall) take on
No. 3 Penn State and Sunday, they
play No. 2 Iowa. Michigan is com-
ing off two straight conference loses
to the Lady Lions and Northwestern.
"We're hungry for a win,"
Michigan coach Patti Smith said.
"No one likes losing. If we play
smart, we'll be successful."
The game against Penn State is a
chance for immediate revenge. The
Wolverines last game was a 2-1 de-
feat at the hands of the Lady Lions
here in Ann Arbor.
Smith feels the team needs to
shoot more on offense and tighten
up the defense by pressuring Penn
State's players harder. The Lady
Lions are led by Chris McGinley
who has 13 goals this season includ-
ing one against the Wolverines.
Forward Kalli Hose agreed on
what her team needs to beat Penn
State.
"Offensively, we have to put
pressure on their freshman goalie,"
Hose said. "We have to put the ball
in the cage. We haven't scored as
much as we would like to.
"Defensively, we watched the
video tapes and we were playing off
their man. We have to step up to
prevent them from getting the bll."
Iowa comes into the weekend
leading the Big Ten with a 4-0
record (11-0 overall). Not only do
the Hawkeyes possess great talent,
but they also are playing at home.
Since their move to Grant field in
1989, Iowa has never suffered a loss.
The Hawkeyes' Kristy Gleason
and Jaime Rofrano are the confer-
ence's top two scorers, with 24 and
18 points respectively. And with all-
American goalie Andrea Wieland,
Iowa presents a formidable foe.
"We have nothing to lose," Hose
said. "We can go in there and pull
off an upset. If we beat Penn State,
people may think it's a fluke. But if
we beat Iowa too, it will show peo-
ple that Michigan is here."
by Antoine Pitts
The Michigan men's cross coun-
try team returns to action this week-
end for Sunday morning's Michigan
Invitational. This meet represents an
important moment in the season for
the Wolverines.
"This is a key time for us be-
cause I have to start making deci-
sions on who's going to run in the
Big Ten meet," Michigan coach Ron
Warhurst said. "I can take nine to the
Big Ten meet and I can see there are
probably fourteen kids who have a
possibility."
The Invitational, originally sche-
duled for Saturday, was moved to
Sunday at 10:45 a.m. to allow for a
larger turnout. High school runners
whose meets take place on Saturdays
will be able to attend.
Despite running at the U-M golf
course Sunday, the Wolverines will
not have the home-course advantage.
Construction on the University links
has changed the route that the run-
ners will take.
"Usually the home-course advan-
tage is you know where you're go-
ing," Warhurst said. "At this point
though, we don't know where we're.
going."
The Wolverines will practice on week's meet because of the GRE
the new course today and tomorrow exam. He joins sixteen other runners
to get acquainted with the layout. A who will compete for the Wol-
wrong turn in last week's Michigan verines in Sunday's field against
Intercollegiate Meet cost the Wol- nine teams from around the nation.
verines a few points. The top competition should come
Matt Smith returns to the from Kansas and Tennessee, both na-
Michigan lineup after missing last tionally-ranked squads.
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Home sweet home for
women's cross country
by Rich Mitvalsky races, and senior Amy Buchholz,
Daily Sports Writer who won in East Lansing.
After roasting highly ranked While most of Michigan's ear-
squads during a series of road meets, lier races were held on flat courses,
the Michigan women's cross country this weekend's home course should
team returns to the comfort of home prove significantly different, a
this weekend. The Michigan In- pleasant change for the Wolverines.
vitational, held at the University "Our team is much more com-
Golf Course, serves as the Wol- fortable running the hilly courses,"
verine's lone home meet this season. head coach Mike McGuire said ear-
The Wolverines are coming off a lier this season. "The flat courses re-
four-meet sequence away from semble the course at Illinois where
home, including victories at Mich- the Big Ten's will be held."
igan State, Notre Dame and Central While conference and NCAA
Michigan while claiming second standards regulate the number of
place at Indiana. Each meet was athletes allowed at away meets, the
dominated by Michigan runners, Wolverines expect to field their full
including sophomore Karen Harvey, compliment of runners this week-
who took team honors in three of the end.
* Tankers look to go the
distance this weekend
by Jaeson Rosenfeld
Daily Sports Writer
This weekend's double-distance
meet against Michigan State may
not be the Big Ten Championships,
but that does not diminish its impor-
tance in the eyes of Michigan wom-
en's swim coach Jim Richardson.
"There's kind of a rule of thumb
in swimming that a happy, rested
team in October is an unhappy, slow
team in March," Richardson said.
"This meet gives us a chance to look
at the level of our aerobic condition-
ing."
The meet, which features events
at twice their conventional distance,
is scheduled early- in the season to
supplement the team's training
schedule. While sprints are empha-
sized in the winter and spring, the
fall features distance training, which
means nine two-hour workouts a
week for the swimmers. Richardson
said that this rigorous schedule has
prepared the Wolverines well for
Saturday morning's meet at Canham
Natatorium.
"We've never had any problems
with the double-distance in the
past," Richardson said.
Senior co-captain Mindy Gehrs,
who may swim both the 800 indi-
vidual medley and the 400 butterfly
this weekend, agreed with her
coach's analysis
"We have the distance back-
ground. I think we're prepared."
Gehrs said. "I think it will be fun. I
may change my mind after the 400
fly."
Richardson is looking for a re-
peat of last weekend's intrasquad
meet, which featured some stellar
performances.
"We had a couple of very good
swims." Richardson said. "Lara
Hooiveld had an excellent 200
breaststroke. I was also really im-
pressed with Beth Jackson."
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