Micigan Soccer Men hope to rebound with second-year coach iy Shawn DuFresne Daily Sports Writer Karabetsos will also be essential The Michigan men's soccer club parts of Michigan's offensive had a disappointing season in 1991, frame. but under the guidance of Michigan Kuehne and Seabolt will Iead a coach Aaron Smith, the club hopes high. pressure defense that will be t) rebound from its 7-104 record. aided by .Brian Rosewarne. Defenders Scott Seabolt and Kelley Kuehne are the captains of t tet Big enClub Tournament .last season, the phis year's squad. Wolverines tamed Minnesota, 4-0, "~We've had three differen Whe intve as three d and handily clipped Iowa, 9-0. ioaches in the pasl threeseasons' H.owever, Michigan tied Purdue 3- Seabolt said. "That makes it diffi- H , p icy g tied Pre 3- :xult to establish a sense of continu- 3, and played to scoreless tie with oit on th tea s Illinois, enabling Purdue to win the ay tournament with its 3-0-i record. Howevet, eabolt added that he Boilermakers went on the win with Smith returning for his second year at the helm, the teaim will be the National Club Tournament in improved. Austin, Texas. The Wolverines will look to "We felt we had a better team to ;forwards Jonas Saunders, -John qualify for the national tourna- Sunderman and Reza Sadjadpour ment," Seabolt said, "but we let it for offensive production. Returning slip through our fingers. We won't halfbacks Dave Rindfusz and Frank let that happen again." "Wome wncference, finsh second at Nationals by Tim Rardin, Daily Sports Writer This time, with Minnesota ab- Everyone knows about the sent as a result of a snow storm in Michigan men's basketball team - Minneapolis, the Wolverines re- the Fab Five who darted through sponded. Michigan went 4-0-1 for the NCAA Tournament only to lose the weekend, tying Illinois in the to Duke in the final game. first day of action, and then holding But not many people remember the Illini off, 2-1, in the final game - or are even aware of - another to capture the Big Ten title. Michigan sports team that took sec- In so doing, Michigan achieved end in the nation. its third goal, and was confident The women's club soccer team that it could go further and bring notched the best season in its his- home a first-ever national tory, compiling a record 24-win championship. season on its way to a 24-4-3 mark, The Wolverines started off well including a 20-game unbeaten at the tournament in Austin, Texas, streak to start the season. shutting out Wisconsin-Lacrosse At the beginning of the season, and Air Force with respective 4-0 Michigan coach Phil Joyaux's and 2-0 scores. However, Michigan squad had three major goals, lost its third match, falling to UC- The first was to beat Michigan Polytech, 2-1. State, which fields a varsity pro- Despite the loss, the Wolverines gram. Although the Wolverines advanced to the semifinals, where played the Spartans close through- they met Big Ten foe Illinois for the out their match in Ann Arbor, the fourth time of the season. Though Spartans eventually proved to be the Illini had tied with Michigan the stronger team, prevailing. 2-0. twice in three previous games, the Michigan's second objective of Wolverines rolled, 4-2, to move the season was to win the Big Ten into the championship game with Tournament. Because they had fin- UC-Polytech. 'ished second to Minnesota the two The results were much the same pprevious years, the Wolverines did as the first game, as Michigan fell, not qualify for the national club 3-0, just one game shy of a national tournament. club title. The Michigan Daily/New Student Edition-Sports --Thursday, September 10, 1992-- Page 7 'M' tennis struggles at Big Tens Iniuy-plagued men fail tofulfill preseason hopes of greatness k ; . i , E ,' ; . C: C by Todd Schoenhaus Daily Sports Writer Before the season, Michigan men's tennis coach Brian Eisner said he thought his team had a chance to "go undefeated in the Big Ten and be a nationally-ranked team. But Eisner never predicted that a major obsta- cle would stand in the Wolverines' way - injuries. Captain David Kass played with forearm tendinitis during most of the season, and Dan Brakus missed time with a shoulder injury. John Lingon suffered from tendinitis in both of his knees and Eric Grand fractured his toe. Both were side- lined for the latter portion of the season. These injuries proved to be dev- astating. Michigan finished with a record of 6-4 in the Big Ten, 6-13 overall. But once Kass and Brakus were healthy, the team closed out the year scoring decisive victories over three consecutive Big Ten opponents. "Unfortunately, key people came down with important in- juries," Eisner said. "We didn't get a fair evaluation of our team because we hardly played with our best lineup. Our record does not reflect our ability and this is what I had to get the guys to understand. With ev- eryone healthy, we are a champ- ionship caliber team." A recurrence of Kass' tendinitis KENNETH SMOLLERDaly Mitch Rubenstein and the men's tennis team finished eighth in the Big Ten. Womenf iwi fiSJI Mike Hill Daily Sports Writer It would be hard to say that the Michigan women's tennis season was a complete disappointment. The Wolverines won six of their last seven matches, but the players and coaches were far from impressed by their showing. "I'm not disappointed," captain Amy Malik said, "but I'm certainly not pleased. We could've played much better." The Wolverines were picked to finish third in the Big Ten in the preseason. But things just didn't work out that way. After being upset by Northwestern, 5-4, in the Big Ten opener, the Wolverines were pasted by Wisconsin, 7-2. The defeats put Michigan in a deep hole. Even a for- feit victory over Indiana, the Big Ten's best team, did not change condition, combined with inclement weather in Madison, added up to a disappointing postseason for the Wolverines. For the second straight year, Michigan lost all three of its matches at the Big Ten tournament. The Wolverines, who entered as a No. 5 seed, finished eighth. If one positive came out of all the injuries, it's that several rookies r conference things. The Wolverines then won two of' three at the Alabama Invitational. But they were dismantled by Illinois 8-1 the very next weekend. "It's hard to understand," Michigan coach Bitsy Ritt said. "We played pretty well in Alabama. Those were top-ranked teams and we played them tough. But then we just get destroyed by Illinois. We weren't expecting that." Led by Kalei Beamon and Kim Pratt, Michigan coasted through the rest of the season losing only to Notre Dame. But the Wolverines lost to Northwestern in the first round of the Big Ten Championships. They came back to defeat Ohio State and Iowa. The victories gave Michigan a fifth-place showing at the tourna- ment and concluded its season. ..W: got a chance to compete. Greg Artz, Grady Burnett, and Scooter Place all gained experience filling in for their teammates. Michigan will need the experi- ence next year, losing seniors David Kass and Mitch Rubenstein. Kass went undefeated at first singles this year in the Big Ten. He was ranked ' T -SHI RT PRINTERY * A2s MULTI-COLOR PRINTING CHAMPS! * STAFF ARTIST SUPPORT. * 2-DAY RUSH SERVICE AVAILABLE. " U-M P.O.#'s ACCEPTED. 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