Hockey Field Hockey vs. Alaska-Fairbanks vs. Ohio State Friday, 11 p.m. Friday, 7:30 p.m. Fairbanks Oosterbaan Fieldhouse The Michigan , Women's soccer drops Siena Heights, 2-1 lailing spikers fall to No.13 Irish.- By BOB ABRAMSON DAILY SPORTS WRITER When a team is in the midst of a winning streak, things just seem to fall into place no matter what the circum- stances. TheMichiganwomen'ssoccerteam (15-1) played with only 13 players for the first part of the first half, yet still went on to defeat Siena Heights, 2-1, for their 14th consecutive victory. "We had some people who arrived late because they had classes this after- noon," senior Alicia Stewart said. "Some of them happened to be starters, so we had people playing positions they hadn't played before. Consider- ing the circumstances, we still played pretty well." Before some of the Wolverines had a chance to get adjusted to their new positions, Siena Heights jumped out to an early 1-0lead on a fluke goal. Only a few minutes would go by, however, until Michigan would respond with a goal of their own. Michigan senior Karen Jones broke through Siena Heights' pressing defense and put the ball into the farcorner of the goal for her ninth tally of the year. "SienaHeights plays with an offside trap, so we always have to concentrate on what they are doing defensively," Stewart said. "With this defense, we can't play the way we're used to playing. But somehow Karen broke through their offsides trap and shot it into the oppo- site comer of the goal." Freshman Nicola Armster would add her 12th goal later in the first half, supplying all of the offense the Wol- verines would need. "It was areally tough game, and we didn't play as well as we could of," senior captain Carrie Taylor said. "We were just rushing everything. We were all playing individually and inconsis- tent throughout the game. "It's a victory, though, and we'll take it. It's good to get a bad game out of our system. This was kind of a wakeup callbecause we actually had to earn the victory. If we play like we did today, though, we are not going to win many games." Even with their performance, the Wolverines said they feel that playing varsity teams such as Siena Heights will prepare them better for the Mid- west Club Championships. "Playing Siena Heights helps a lot because this is a higher level team that plays physically," Stewart said. "Nor- mally, when we play the club teams, we can take our time. But when we played Siena Heights, we couldn't take our time. We were constantly under pressure." By JEREMY STRACHAN DAILY SPORTS WRITER The Michigan women's volleyball team was riding a tidal wave of mo- mentum coming into Tuesday's game against Notre Dame. The Wolverines were coming off of one of their better performances this season Saturday af- ter sweeping Wisconsin. But Michigan's wave hit a pier in the No. 13 Fighting Irish (15-3) losing 15-9, 15-8, 15-4. The Wolverines (3-3, 7-8) had a season low hitting percentage against the Irish, -.037; the negative percent- age reflects more hitting errors than kills. Ironically, Michigan's season best percentage (.280) came against Wis- consin Saturday. Michigan head coach Greg Giovanazzi said he wasn't exactly thrilled with his team's effort Tuesday. "When you see a box score like (tonight's)," Giovanazzi said, "the hit- ting breaks down because the passing was horrendous, and the setting was equally as bad. We never had a chance to get in a groove." Michigan had quick starts in both games one and two, earning early leads over the Irish. The teams were knotted at 7-7 in game one when Notre Dame outscored the Wolverines 8-2 to earn a 15-9 decision. Game two was aimir- ror image of the first with teams tied at 6-6 and the Irish rattling off nine of the next eleven points for a 15-8 score. In the final game, Notre Dame jumped out to an 11- 1 lead and never looked back, manhandling Michigan 15-4 for the sweep. "I'm disappointed with the way we playedtonight," seniorJoAnnaCollias said, "Our defense was definitely not as aggressive as in the past weekend." Senior Fiona Davidson and sopho- more Shannon Brownlee led the Wol- verines with seven and six kills respec- tively. Collias, second on the all-time Michigan dig list, led the team with 10 digs. Collias now only needs 51 digs to take over the top spot on-the list. Yet, sophomore Suzy O'Donnell was the e only player to have a positive hitting percentage (.308). Notre Dame was led by first-year player Jenny Birkner who hit a phe- nomenal .833 percentage and led the teamwith 10killsandninedigs. Middle blocker Julie Harris nailed seven kills and wassecondonthe team with a.313 hitting percentage. Notre Dame's team percentage (.175) was way below its .237 season@ average. Irish coach Debbie Brown echoedMichigan'sGiovanazzi by say- ing that her team played poorly and has proven they can play much better. REBECCA MARGOLIS/Daily Suzy O'Donnell and the Michigan volleyball team struggled against Notre Dame last night, falling in straight games. VOLLEYBALL NOTEBOOK Collias garners Big Ten Player of Week honors TRIVIA NIGHT AT Feutarin 12-inch P Pitchers HTH ri ll$TAURA0T0V SPORTS BAR -'a1M Pizza W/1 Item...$4.89 of Coors Ught...$325 via Competition 1220 S. University' Call 665-7777 for deliveries_ By BRETT JOHNSON DAILY SPORTS WRITER Afteradominating weekend ofplay that led the Michigan volleyball team to two victories, JoAnna Collias got her just desserts. Collias, a senior outside hitter, was named Big Ten Volleyball Player of the Week. Collias had career highs in kills (22) and aces (4) in the Northwest- ern match. "It's an honor tobe named player of the week in the Big Ten," Collias said. "But itshould go to the whole team, not just one person. I think the whole team played really well this weekend." For the weekend, Collias had 41 kills for a 5.9 kill average. The average was more than twice her season aver- age of 2.29. MORE ON COLAS- In addition to the honor she received this week, Collias is nearing the Michigan career COPIES] record for digs. With 165 digs this season, Collias is currently second on the all-time list and only needs 51 more digs to break Lisa Vahi's mark of 1,041. Collias also holds the Michigan records for digs in a season and digs in a conference season with 403 and 258, respectively. SETTING SEr: After what her coach and teammates called a "great" effort last weekend, first-year player Erin McGovern earned the starting role at setter. McGovern had 105 assists last weekend with only two ballhandling errors. The team also reached its season high in hitting efficiency with a mark of .280. The previous high was .264 against Washington in the third match of the year. "She had a great weekend," Michi- gan coach Greg Giovanazzi said of McGovern. "She set her assists record on Friday and broke it Saturday. She's just now adjusting to the speed of the ball and size and strength of the oppo- sition in collegevolleyball. She's gained a half of a year of experience and is taking her game to a new level of play. She may have some tough times still, but she has definitely taken the starting position." Those tough times surfaced yester- day against No. 13 Notre Dame, as McGovern had just 14 assists, and the team's attack percentage dropped into the negative range. INJURY UPDATE: Two key injuries have plagued the Wolverines for much of the year. Outside hitter Aimee Smith was back into the full swing of things both in terms of practice and in actual matches this past weekend. However, she was replaced in the third game of the Notre Dame match after aggravating the shoulder injury. Michelle Horrigan has been out for three weeks and was reexamined on Monday. 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The chubby, balding 39-year-old from eastern Germany said he never intended to kill Seles during a changeover at a Hamburg tournament April 30, only to disable her briefly so Graf could regain the top ranking. "I didn't want to kill her," he tes- tified. "Ijustwanted tohurtherslightly so thatMonica wouldn'tbe able to play for a couple of weeks. "I didn't want to hurt the head or the neck under any circumstances. I couldn't reach the arm. Then came the. shoulder. I aimed at the shoulder and struck." Seles suffered a half-inch deep wound in her back and has not played since. She has fallen to No. 4 in the rankings and is expected to resume her career in January, with the Australian Open her first major tournament. Graf has reclaimed the No. 1 rank- ing. The attack has intensified security at tournaments. Parche, who is charged with caus- ing grievous bodily harm and could face five yearsinprison, saidhe thought about the attack for several weeks be-, fore coming to Hamburg. 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