The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, April 20,1993- Page 17 Spikers 11 by Jeremy Strachan Daily Sports Writer TheMichiganmen'svolleyballteam finished its season ledger with a 1-5 match record at themen's National Club Volleyball Tournament held at the Uni- versity of Texas. The Wolverines bowed out during pool play in the consolation bracket, losing to Maryland, without the help of their starting setter, Stan Lee, who was out with the flu. "(The National Tournament) was the epitome of our season," sophomore Chad Engel said. "We had an up and down season and we played like wehad all season." Michigan coach Pam Griffin said her team ended the season on a high note against the Terrapins. "That was the highlight of the tour- nament," Griffin said. "We lost, 15-13, in that last game and we just played defense like I've never seen us play defense like before against Maryland." The Wolverines were seeded low and began pool play against a strong California team, Sacramento State, Thursday. Griffin saidshewaspleasedwith the team's first match of the tournament. "We really played well against Sac- ramento State," Griffui said. "Here we are 'littleMichigan' and wealmostbeat a California team" The Wolverines then lost to Florida in their next match. The team finally earned avictory, albeit over Binghamton College, in their last battle of pool play. "Actually we barely beat Binghamton,"Engel said."Welowered ourselves to their level of play like we always do and made it close. 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Coming off a three-meet win streak, consisting ofimpressive home victories over lesseropponents such as Michigan State, the Wolverines (10-9 overall)left town on a mission to prove they be- longed among the league's elite. However, the trip got off on the wrong foot in Saturday morning's meet at Madison. Of the six singles matches, only No. 1 Kalei Beamon and No. 5 Allsion Schlonsky were able to notch Michigan victories. Even those came with a struggle, taking a full three sets each. In perhaps the premier matchup, pitting Wisconsin's nationally-ranked Marija Neubauer aganst Wolverine sophomore co-captain Jaimie Fielding, the Big Ten Player of the Month for March, the Badgers took a decided vic- tory. Neubauer took the match in im- pressive straight set fashion, winning 7- 5,6-3. The Badgers continued their domi- nance into the doubles matches, taking two of three from the Wolvernes. Only the No. 2 pairing of senior Beamon and sophomore Simone Lacher was able to save face for Michigan, taking a6-3, 6- 3 decision from the tandem of Lauren Gavaris and Shannon Tully. Entering the weekend, Michigan knew the importance ofperforming well in both matches and how difficult a task that could be, given the intense emo- tional baggage that necessarily accom- panies topmeets. Shaking offSaturday's memories, no matter what the result, would be key to the proper focus for attacking Northwestern. "We have to block Saturday out of our minds for Sunday's meet," Lacher said last week. "We just have to come back fighting harder. We talk about it but we don't get into details about Sat- urday. We wait to talk about it until both meets are over. We don't dwell on it and we just focus on the next match. We try to pinpoint our mistakes and go back out fighting for the next match without dwelling on it." Unfortunately, the Wolverines were notable to come out with enough inten- sitytooverpowerNorthwestem'sgame. The Wolverines hung close during the singles matches, with another victory at No. 1 by Beamon along with a No. 6 tirumph from Liz Cyganiak. Those two wins, however, were the only tallies on the Michigan side of the scorecard for the day, as the Wildcats went on to sweep the doubles competi- tion, bringing the final score to 7-2 and sending the Wolverines home empty handed. The Wolverines conclude this year's campaign at the Big Ten champion- ships at Indiana in two weekends. IE~ 11 EUZABETH LIPPMAN/Daiy Michigan captain Kalei Beamon and the rest of the Wolverines wrap up the season in the beginning of May at the Big Ten Championships. WE MADE IT ! setter, though." Michigan then lost to Colorado State in the first round of the championship bracket Friday and took advantage of the time after their early morning match to lounge around the Austin campus. 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