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Webber undergoes
surgery for appendix
Women's soccer wins
record 11th straight
By TIM RARDIN
DAILY BASKETBALL WRITER
After experiencing abdominal
pains earlier this week, former Michi-
gan basketball standout Chris Webber
underwent a "routine appendectomy"
yesterday afternoon at Detroit Henry
Ford Hospital.
Webber was taken to Henry Ford
onan emergency basis Monday night,
and then tested for abdominal pains
Tuesday before being officially ad-
mitted, according to hospital spokes-
person Doreen Saputo. Dr. Ray
Chung, a trauma and emergency sur-
geon, performed the operation, which
lasted just over half an hour.
"Chris underwent a routine ap-
pendectomy this evening," said
Chung, in a statement issued by the
hospital. "He's in good condition and
is expected to be discharged from the
hospital in two days."
With the surgery complete,
Webber will begin about a month-
long road to recovery.
"His prognosis is excellent and
he's expected to resume normal ac-
tivity within two to four weeks,"
Chung said.
That's good news for the Golden
State Warriors, who traded Anfernee
Hardaway and three future first-round
picks for the 6-foot-9 power forward
in last summer's NBA draft. Webber,
the No. 1 overall pick in the draft, has
not yet reached contract agreements
with the Warriors, but was apparently
preparing to make the move to Oak-
land because he expected to sign soon.
According to Golden State offi-
cials, the emergency surgery will have
no effect on negotiations between
Webber and the team.
"The surgery will not have an im-
pact on contract negotiations. We're
hopeful that we can reach an agree-
ment in the near future," said assistant
director of media relations Mike
Nelson. "We expect he'll be out a few
weeks at least.
"It'salittle too early to tell, but we
hope to have him back by the begin-
ning of the season."
Golden State doesn't kick off the
season until Nov. 5 at San Antonio,
but training camp starts Friday, and
head coach Don Nelson knows the
delay could hurt Webber's adjust-
ment into the NBA.
"It's important for rookies to be at
training camp," Nelson said at apress
conference in Oakland. "Those who
miss camp can be set back. That's not
always the case, though."
In both of his two seasons atMichi-
gan, Webber led the Wolverines to
the national title game.
By BRIAN OBERMILLER
FOR THE DAILY
History is being made courtesy of
the Michigan women's soccer team.
With its 2-1 victory yesterday over
Schoolcraft, the Michigan squad es-
tablished a club record by winning 11
straight contests.
Fourteen games into their final
season as a club team, the 13-1 Wol-
verines are making a strong case for
their promotion to varsity status next
year.
Michigan coach Linda Hamilton
played down the record'simportance.
"The winning streak isn't impor-
tant," she said. "We must stay aggres-
sive and continue to play to win, rather
than battling notto lose for the sake of
the streak."
Michigan kicked off the scoring
against Schoolcraft on a picture-per-
fect backdoor goal by freshman for-
ward Nicola Armster. Her score
proved to be the only highlight for the
Michigan in the first half. Armster's
tally was her 10th goal on the season,
making her the team scoring leader.
"In the first half, we were 11 indi-
viduals with no team flow," Hamilton
said. "It was pretty windy and we
started slow."
After a rousing halftime speech
from Hamilton, Michigan began to
move the ball more effectively. Its
improved play paid off with a goal by
junior midfielder Lynda Hart.
"Lynda's goal was setup by a nice
pass from Nicola," senior captain
Carrie Taylor said. "Schoolcraft's
goalkeeper made a dive for the ball,
but the shot was too hard to handle."
The game became a tug-of-war
for field position until Schoolcraft
scored its only goal of the contest
with a minute left to play.
"Although we won, today's game
exemplifies our inability to secure the
shutout," Taylor said.
"I'm satisfied with the victory,"
Hamilton added. "However, against
better opponents, we can't afford a
letdown at the end of the game like we
had today."
Today at 5 p.m., the team hosts
Eastern Michigan at Mitchell Field.
The Eagles come into the game as
underdogs, and that is a point of con-
cern for Hamilton.
"The fact that Eastern is strug-
gling may cause our team to underes-
timate this game," she said.
With the Midwest Tournament
looming on the weekend of Nov. 5,
the Wolverines have about two-and-
a-half weeks to ready for the playoffs.
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Lynda Hart and the Michigan women's soccer team defeated Schoolcraft
last night, 2-1, to set the school record for consecutive victories with 11.
Hart scored a second-half goal for the Wolverines. The 13-1 Michigan team
hosts Eastern Michigan today at 5 p.m. at Mitchell Field.
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Women's golf
By MELANIE SCHUMAN
FOR THE DAILY
After not playing last weekend
theMichigan women's golf team trav
els to Ohio State this weekend t
participate with all the other Big Ter
teams and four additional norther
schools in the Lady Northern Inter
collegiate tournament.
"We have a lot of work on ou
hands to have a good performance
this weekend," first-year coach Kath)
Teichert said.
TeichertwilltraveltoOSU's Scar
let Golf Course with six players to
play a three-day, 54-hole eventon the
6,037-yard layout, which Teicher
described as a long and tough course
Coincidentally, it was designed b)
the same man who was the architec
forMichigan's original course, Aliste
MacKenzie.
Juniors Jenny Zimmerman an
twins Tiffany and Tegan McCorkel
sophomore Shannon McDonald, an
freshmen Molly Vandenbark an
Wendy Westfall will participate it
this tournament.
"We need our number four, five
and six girls to come in strong for u:
to be competitive," Teichert said.
aiming for improvement at Lady Northern
Vandenbark recognized that the McCorkel share the best scoring av- competed in two meets thi
tournament this weekend is "prob- erage on the team right now at 83.66 Spartan Invitational, wh
ably the most important of the fall strokesperround,althoughbothcoach placed 12th out of 22,
- season because it determines your and players agree there is room for Hawkeye Invitational, wi
0 seed in the Big Ten Championship improvement, placed 8th out of 10.
n next spring." "I'm notlookingnecessarily where However, Teichert f
n OSU's courseis also slated to host we place, but how much we improve Hawkeye tournament was n
- the Big Ten Championship scheduled from the last two tournaments." indication of the team's pla
for May 6-8 at the conclusion of the Teichert said. "Making strides towards rain allowed only one round
r spring season, and Teichert is "hop- improvement will make me happy; be completed.
e ing that they learn to start playing this otherwise we need to make some In addition to good wea
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By RAVI GOPAL
FOR THE DAILY
Michigan men's golf coach Jim
Carras is looking forward to this
weekend's Northern Intercollegiate
Golf Tournament.
But it'snot necessarily because he
thinks Michigan is going to win.
It's because his team is hosting the
tournament.
"I'mabsolutely delighted we have
the opportunity to host this tourna-
ment because we can now showcase
our golf course," Carras said. "I'm
more excited about hosting it because
the tournament is really a prelude to
the Big Ten Championship, which
we'll be hosting in May."
The Michigan men's golf team
will host the Northern Intercollegiate
Golf Tournament this weekend at the
newly renovated University Golf
Course. The 54-hole event features
24 teams, including the entire Big
Ten Conference.
Other squads participating include
Akron, Ball State, Bowling Green,
Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Michigan,
Kentucky, Louisville, Marshall, Mi-
ami (Ohio), Northern Illinois, Notre
Dame, Ohio, and Toledo. Teams will
play 18 holes each day with tee times
this weekend
beginning at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow and
Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday.
The multi-million dollar renova-
tions to the University Golf Course
have returned the course to its origi-
nal design when it opened in 1931.
The course was designed by famed
golf course architect Alister
MacKenzie, who was named Golf
magazine's Golf Architect of the Cen-
tury for the first 100 years of golf.
MacKenzie's designing acumen is
evidenced in his other highly-ac-
claimed layouts - Cypress Point,
Crystal Downs, and AugustaNational,
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The Michigan men's soccer team competes this Saturday against
Wisconsin-Parkside, a strong Division 11 opponent.
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DAILY SPORTS WRITER
The Michigan men's soccer
team's match with Wisconsin-
Parkside Saturday presents several
interesting dilemmas for the Wol-
verines.
First, Michigan has to find a way
to regroup in this contest after its
disappointing tie to Ferris State
Tuesday.
Although the team had been play-
ing well up to that point, Michigan
demonstrated a lack of cohesive-
ness against the Bulldogs.
"I think we'll come out with
unity," Michigan coach Steve Burns
said. "I think this game (Ferris State)
will give us a lot of fuel for the fire,
a lot of motivation to come out strong
against Wisconsin."
Secondly, even if the Wolver-
ines do come out playing strong as a
team, the powerful Wisconsin-
Parkside team will nevertheless be
an immense challenge for Michigan
to overcome.
"Wisconsin is aDivision II team
and they are ranked nationally and
very high regionally," Burns said.
"They are a strong team. Parkside is
a team that probably has us physi-
cally outgunned."
Fortunately, though, the Wolver-
ines have already had their share of
tough games this season. Although
a club team,,Michigan's schedule is
sprinkled with varsity squads, and it
has fared well against several of
"We are going to see
now If In the last seven
weeks of pretty hard
work we picked up
enough mental things
to make us a better
team."
- Mike Burns
Michigan soccer coach
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have learned a few lessons from these
games that they hope can prove ben-
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"We had a game earlier this year
against a strong Ohio State team,"
Burns said. "Ohio State was a little
stronger than us, a little smarter than
us - as far as soccer sense goes -
a little faster and a little quicker
than us. I recognized in that game
with Ohio State that we need to do
the little things. We need to be a
mentally better team than a team
that has us physically outgunned.
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