2 - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, October11, 1993 I Here is how the top 25 teams in college football fared this weekend. First place votes are in parentheses. Team 1. ' Florida State (61) 2. Alabama (1) 3. Notre Dame 4. Florida 5. Ohio State 6. Nebraska 7. Penn State 8. Miami 9. Oklahoma 10. Tennessee 11. Arizona 12. Washington 13. Texas A&M 14. North Carolina 15. Virginia 16. Wisconsin 17. West Virginia, 18. Michigan 19. Auburn 20. Colorado 21. California 22. UCLA 23. Louisville 24. Syracuse 25. Michigan State Record 6-0-0 5-0-0 6-0-0 5-0-0 5-0.0 5-0-0 5-0-0 4-1-0 5-0-0 5-1-0 5-0-0 4-1-0 4-1-0 6-1-0 5-0-0 5-0-0 5-0-0 3-2-0 6-0-0 3-2-0 5-1-0 3-2-0 5-1-0 3-1-1 3-1-0 How they fared beat Miami, 28-10 idle beat Pittsburgh, 44-0 beat LSU, 58-3 beat Illinois, 20-12 beat Oklahoma St., 27-13 idle lost to Florida. St., 28-10 beat Texas, 38-17 beat Arkansas, 28-14 idle beat California, 24-23 beat Houston, 34-10 beat Wake Forest, 45-35 idle beat Northwestern, 53-14 beat Louisville, 36-34 lost to Michigan State, 17-7 beat Mississippi St., 31-17 beat Missouri, 30-18 lost to Washington, 24-23 beat Brigham Young, 68-14 lost to West Virginia, 36-34 idle beat Michigan, 17-7 VOLLEYBALL Continued from page i her shoulders and has been our 'stud' on the left side," Giovanazzi said. "I'm really impressed with that." The team finally seems to be click- ing after a tough first half of integrat- ing younger players into the team's mix. All the hard work appears to be starting to pay off.> "We started tpe year off with these young people in the lineup," Giovanazzi said. "I think the experi- ence they gained early on has really. paid off now. "The first year is such an adjust- ment - the speed of the ball, the strength of the individuals playing. There's a lot of adjusting going on. Now we're almost at the midpoint of , the season, and we're seeing this team getting better and better." U j Runners cruise at Intercollegiates Men take third despite absence of top six runners By BARRY SOLLENBERGER FOR THE DAILY Led by junior Jim Finlayson, the No. 9 Michigan men's cross country team raced to a third-place finish Fri- day at the Michigan Intercollegiates on the campus of Ferris State Univer- sity in Big Rapids, Mich. Hillsdale College finished first and Eastern Michigan was runner-up. The Wolverines obtained thisrela- tively high finish despite the absence of the team's top six runners, whom Wolverine coach Ron Warhurst held out of action. If we would have put our top six runners in there we would probably have had six people in the top 10, but I wanted to see rounded out Michigan's top five (26:39). "All in all, I thought they per- formed very well. They started off slowly, got back and moved up really well which is an indication that they can run faster," Warhurst said. Warhurst said he was especially pleasedwithFinlayson, who had been out of action thus far this season be- cause of injury. "We're going to need him in our top five or six if we're going to conm tend for the Big Ten championship," Warhurst said. Next weekend the Wolverines host the Michigan Interregional. The meet features nationally-ranked teams Stanford, Colorado, Tennessee, Dartmouth and Notre Dame. The Wolverines' top six, spear- headed by freshman Kevin Sullivan, will be back in action. Women set personal bests in easily beating 18-team field I JONATHAN LURIE/Daily Erin McGovern (7) and the Michigan volleyball team defeated Northwestern and Wisconsin this weekend at Cliff Keen Arena. VOILIFYBI ALL NOTAEBOOK ImproNvd offlensekey i sp Is Small Classes. Big Scores. Free Extra Help. Live, No Tapes. Guaranteed. The Mi~eto Reviewis asaitedwneilr EdrcaMdi"sig'SMo. By JEREMY STRACHAN DAILY SPORTS WRITER Probably the most impressive as- pect of the Michigan women's vol- leyball team's victories over North- western and Wisconsin last weekend was the team offense. The Wolverine offense seemed to be lagging as of late but, in the last two games, team passing and team setting greatly improved. Coming into this weekend Michi- gan was ranked last in the Big Ten in team hitting efficiency. However, in the Wisconsin match the Wolverines topped their season best percentage (.264 vs. Washington) with a .280 mark. The Wolverines tallied only their third clean sweep of the season with their 15-5, 15-9, 15-13 victory over the Badgers Saturday. The best contested game of the match was the third game.After lead- ing, 10-4, in the middle of the game, the Wolverines had trouble connect- ing and Wisconsin stormed back to within one, 13-14, as Michigan failed on three previous match points. Fi- nally, Aimee Smith's ace gave the nervous 1,381 standing Michigan- faithful something to cheer about. Seeing Green: Four lucky fans got to participate in the "Dash for Cash" Sunday between the second and third games of the "Rock The House Match 2." Sports department officials spread $1,000 (mostly $1's with a few big bills) on the court for the four participants to gather as many bucks as possible in thirty seconds. Lee Duke grabbed $25, Jill Blakemore snatched $74, and Brian Doyle scooped up $93 but the big winner was Dan Jacobs who took home $411. Compact discs, airline tickets and Ohio State-Michigan football tickets also were given away. Seeing Red: Wisconsin head coach John Cook got a red card from the head referee after getting in a shouting match with the net referee over a substitution he was trying to make early in the first game. Earlier he received a yellow warning card. Had Cook persisted he would have been asked to leave the court. The Wolverines took advantage of the rest and outscored the Badgers 10-2 after the incident. In game two, the Badgers also received a yellow warning card for slamming the ball on the court. how my seven through 12 runners would run.' -Ron Warhurst, Michigan men's cross country coach Michigan used the meet as an op- portunity to give some of the team's younger runners experience. Gaining experience is critical for the team in preparation for next week's Michi- gan Interregional and the Big Ten Championships Oct. 30. Of the nine runners Warhurst raced, six had never seen varsity ac- tion. "If we would have put our top six runners in there we would probably have had six people in the top 10, but I wanted to see how my seven through 12 runners would run," Warhurst said. Finlayson, racing in his first meet of the season, finished in a time of 25:31 for the 10-kilometerrace, good enough for thirdplace overall. Sopho- more Kristopher Eggle and redshirt freshman Ryan Burt finished second and third for the Wolverines with times of 25:58 and 26:04, respec- tively. Redshirt freshman David Barnett finished fourth among the Wolver- ines (26:26) and junior Robert Lee By TIM SMITH FOR THE DAILY The Michigan women's cross country team made short work of Friday's competition at the Michigan Intercollegiate meet held at Ferris State. Wolverine coach Mike McGuire said he hopes the-meet is only a stepping stone to bigger and better things to come. "I want to emphasize thatit's been a total team effort," McGuire said. "All nine of (the runners) are equally important in trying to get done what we want to get done, which is winning the Big Ten again and doing well nationally." Michigan dominated the race which included Big Ten foe Michi- gan State and the smaller Calvin Col- lege. Five out of the top eight finish- ers were Wolverines, and three out of the top four. Michigan defeated the 18-team field with 21 points, and was followed by Calvin College with 76 points and Michigan State with 105. Big Ten women's cross country Athlete of the Month, Molly McClimon, once again paced the Wolverines. McClimon won the race with a time of 17:00. McClimon was followed by Wol- verine sophomore Courtney Babcock, who finished second with a time of 17:02. Rounding out the top five were Junior Karen Harvey who finished fourth with a time of 17:21, Chris Szabo who finished sixth with a time of 17:21, and junior Jessica Kluge 'We've run solid throughout. We're getting it done across the board. That's the important thing' -Mike McGuire , , Wornx ' r 'M' women 's cross country coach who finished eighth with a time of 17:49. "I think this collectively that this was our best match of the year," McGuire said. "We gotpersonal bests from McClimon, Babcock, Kluge, (Katy) Hollbacher and (Heather) Grigg." Harvey, who has been having a standout season, said that the team is well on its way after such a greatrace. "The course was challenging, but everyone ran really fast. The whole team ran really well," Harvey said. "Some people ran PR's (personal records). That's really impressive because that course is really tough. It's harder than the course we'll see at the NCAAs and Big Tens." "We've run solid throughout,". McGuire said. "I was real encouraged by the performance of Kluge, Hollbacher, and Grigg. We're getting it done across the board. That's the important thing." MA A.0 THE PRINCETON REVIEW -wlo Atllete f thW16-fte I Snoe More mm" Department of Recreational Sports INTRAMURAL SPORTS PROGRAM WHo: Rachael Geisthardt TEAM: Field Hockey Homuow: Kelowna, B.C., Canada YEAR: Sophomore EuGIBIWy: Sophomore WHY: Aided by a stringent defense, Geisthardt notched her fourth and fifth shutouts of the year, blanking St. Louis, 3-0, and Stanford; 1-0. BACKeRoUND: Had 1.45 goals against average and .822 save percent- age last year as a starter in 12 games ... gold-medalist of 1990 British Columbia summer names. I ,I