12- The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 29,1993 'M' field hockey hopes to bounce back into polls with weekend pair 1 By BRENT McINTOSH DAILY SPORTS WRITER Down and out. That's where the Michigan field hockey team dropped in the NCAA poll after losses to Northwestern, 4-3, and Ball State, 3-1. The Wolverines hope that wins over Michigan State (0-7 Big Ten, 5-10 overall) today and Maine (3-2-1 North Atlantic, 11-3-1) Sunday are enough to catapult them back into the poll. The Wolverines' fall from the top 20 was frustrating for the team and curious to observers. "Why should they drop out?" Spartan coach Michele Madison demanded. Michigan's last two losses were in close games against quality oppo- nents. Northwestern is ranked second and Ball State is 11th. The Wolverines' (2-5, 10-6) only losstoateamnotrankedinthetop 12 was an overtime loss to Ohio State. Four of its six losses are to top-five teams. w "It is incredibly disappointing," Wolverine assistant coach Meri Dembrow said. "I guess it goes with the territory ofonly having acoaches' poll. I don't agree with it and most of the other coaches we've talked to don't agree with it. Now we can't lose to another unranked team." The two games this weekend pose achallenge for the Wolverines. Michi- gan will need to win both games, coupled with victories next weekend against No. 1 Penn State and North- western, in order to be one of the 12 teams to qualify for post-season play. Michigan State has yet to prevail in aBig Ten contest. Michigan rolled, 3-1, in the season's first meeting, but the Spartans have shown signs of improvment in recent weeks. "State is playing better than they were at the start of the season," Dembrow said. "I think they've settled in with their new coach by now." Maine has only three losses, yet it is unranked. That's another quirk of the polls if you ask Dembrow. She summed up Maine in three quick words: "Maine is good." Maine coach Terry Kix is looking to the game as a chance to test her squad against what she calls "a tough team and a respectable program." "This is a great opportunity to play some top teams and get some games on turf," she said. The Black Bears play around 70 percent of their games on grass. That should be an advantage for Michigan, which plays most of its games on turf. However, Maine's one victory against a ranked team came against No. 10 Boston University on turf. The Wolverines will have to deal with Black Bear junior goalkeeper Mary Lou Winstel, who is leading the NAC in every category. She has an outstanding 0.50 goals against aver- age. The Michigan field hockey team dropped out of NCAA poll after two losses to ranked opponents last weekend. Women swimmers begin quest for yet another Big Ten title day at noon, the team will be looking to defend its championship in the Northwestern Relays. The Wolverines -- attempting to win their eighth consecutive Big Ten title this season -are looking for an exciting meet as they go up against the Wildcats. In fact, some consider Northwestern to be the favorite to win the Big Ten this year. "Northwestern is a great team," Michigan coach Jim Richardson said. "They are better and stronger than last year. They'll probably be the fa- vorite in the Big Ten. They brought in three good freshman, two with big scoring ability. The question is whether our 12 freshmen are going to make up the points we lost and then some." Unfortunately for Northwestern, Michigan has also improved from a year ago. The freshman class is the stron- gest ithas everbeen.Freshmen Rachel Gustin andAnne Kampfeare expected to make some noise this year in not only the conference but at the NCAAs as well. "We're abetter team than we were The most complete arsenal of test prep tools in the world. Over 50 Years Of U $ MONEY! MONEY! LSA-Student Government is currently accepting applications for STUDENT GROUP Funding. If.your group has an event, activity or any need for funding then come to 4003 Michigan Union and pick up a request form. LSA-SG SERVES YOU! $ last year, despite losing some key people," Richardson said. "We're very deep in breaststroke and backstroke, but we are a little shallow in middle distances and butterfly, although we have improved on this over last year." The divers are another key to win- 0 ning this year. "I wouldn't trade our divers for any in the world," Richardson said. "We're a diving powerhouse, and we're going to have to do some dam- age in order to make up some points." The trio of Martha Wenzel, Cin- namon Woods and Carrie Zarse will be the focal point of the diving team. Sunday's opposition in the North- western Relays consists of Northern Illinois, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Big Ten teams Wisconsin and host Northwestern. 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