The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 14,_1994 - 11 Indoor track teams stay close to home Women host Michigan Relays Men travel to Eastern Michigan By BRIAN SKLAR and DOUG STEVENS DAILY SPORTS WRITERS Last Saturday, the Michigan women's track and field team proved to itself what it was capable of by performing well in an intrasquad meet. Tomorrow, the Wolverines will have their first opportunity to show their opponents just how much they have improved as they compete in the Michigan Relays in the Indoor Track and Tennis Building. The Wolverines will be coming into this meet with a team that has experience in the distance and sprint- ing events, as well as in the field events. Michigan coach James Henry hopes that the Wolverines will "step up from the intrasquad meet" and defeat a couple of intrastate rivals such as Michigan State and Eastern Michigan. Michigan has a distance corps led by Molly McClimon and Courtney Babcock, both of whom achieved All- American status this fall in cross coun- try and won the 3000 meters and mile races, respectively, in the intrasquad meet. Another group of runners who expect to be weapons in the Michigan Relays will be the sprinters. Richelle Webb, who was last year's runner-up in both the 100 and 200 meters at the Big Ten Champi- onships, is coming off victories in. both the 400 meters and mile relay in the intrasquad meet. Tearza Johnson, who coach Henry describes as "an up and coming sprinter," also is coming off two wins last Saturday. In the field events, high jumper Monica Black hopes to further improve on her performance last Saturday. Black said that she is "as ready as ever to handle the competition." Shot putter Rhonda Meyers, considered one of the better throwers in the Big Ten, also figures to do well this weekend. After his team's impressive perfor- By TOM SEELEY DAILY SPORTS WRITER The early season provides many coaches with an opportunity to see exactly what kind of team they have and then tinker with the lineups be- fore the real season starts. Michigan men's indoor track coach Jack Harvey is presented with just such an occasion as the team travels to Ypsilanti today to participate in the Eastern Michigan Invitational. With the first scoring meet looming on the hori- zon one week from tomorrow at Michi- gan State,.Harvey is keeping today's meet in perspective. "This meet is kind of a tune up," Harvey said. "It's another opportu- nity to run, and it gives us a chance to run some guys in some different events to give us an idea of what we got." In today's meet, the Wolverines will, however, be posed with a situa- tion they definitely did not anticipate going into the season and hope does not repeat itself again. Today will witness the distance runners, the true strength of the team, unusually short- handed. Distance runners Kevin Sullivan and Scott MacDonald will both be attending an invitational meet in their native country of Canada, leaving them unavailable for the Wolverines. Sullivan is coming off of an All- American performance during this year's cross country season, as well as a winning time of 1:50 in the 800 meters during last week's intrasquad meet. MacDonald was last year's Indoor Freshman of the Year in the Big Ten. The distance squad will also be without Senior Matt Schroeder who has been slowed by an arch problem. Today will mark the first appear- ance of the season for sprinter Felman Malveaux. He quit the football team this fall and is now placing his full concentration on track. He has been slowed by about with the flu but should be at full strength today. 'It's another opportunity to run, and it gives us a chance to run some guys in some different events to give us an idea of what we got.' - Jack Harvey Men's Track Coach Today's meet could also be a coming out party for freshman Neil Gardner. At last week's intrasquad meet, Gardner was one of the stars, in winning both the 55-meter sprint and the 55-meter hurdles. However, today marks Gardner's debut in the long and triple jumps, the events that he will be counted on to score well in for the Wolverines. Senior distance runner Molly McClimon leads the pack during last weekend's Michigan intrasquad meet. The Wolverines face intrastate rivals Eastem Michigan and Michigan State SANFORD Continued from page 1 the country, you always do a little bit better than you think you can." Sharp has been reinstated to swim in this weekend's meet after being un- able to compete at UCLA or USC last 9weekend for academic reasons. Urbanchek said that Sharp is currently eligible for only home meets and that his status is up to periodic reviews. Sharp is above the NCAA academic standard of a 1.6 GPA, but is below the Michigan standard of a 2.0. Stanford's squad includes a who's who of the 1993 NCAA champion- ship. The Cardinal returns 100-yard breaststroke champion Tyler Mayfield, 100 backstroke champion Derek Weatherford and 200 butterfly cham- pion Ray Carey. All-Americans Bill Schell, Joe Hudepohl, Trip Zedlitz, Dan Kanner, J.J. Freitag, Kurt Grote and Ed Parenti all return from last year's national cham- pionship squad. In addition, All-American Brian Retterer is returning from a redshirt season to give Stanford depth in indi- vidual events as well as relays. This depth can be matched by few schools, if any. "We think we can repeat as NCAA champs," Carey said. "The good thing about Stanford is that we have a lot of talent, and this year (Stanford) has good depth. I think the combination of those two things is what's going to help us 1Out at NCAAs." Stanford coach Skip Kenney feels that Retterer's return gives this year's team a stronger lineup. "We get Brian Retterer back so I think that makes us just a little better than we were last year," Kenney said. "We can put Brian in more places so we're a little more versatile." Despite the obvious talent level of the Cardinal, Michigan expects to give *them strong competition. Gustavo Borges, Tom Hay, Rodney VanTassell, Marcel Wouda and Sharp are All- Americans returning from last season's swimming squad. In addition, the highly touted fresh- men Tom Dolan, Chris Rumley and John Michael Piersma have started to show just why they were the top re- cruiting class of last season. 0 "This is going to be a tough meet," Dolan said. "They are by far the best team in the country. I think it will be a good meet and all of the races will be among other teams tomorrow. close. You never know which way it is going to go." The one area that the Wolverine squad is stronger, and gives them a chance of pulling off the upset, is the, diving team. The Wolverines have two All- Americans - Eric Lesser and Abel Sanchez. Along with sophomore Alex Bogaerts, they give the team a solid one-two-three combination. In last season's dual meet, the divers kept Michigan close before Stanford pulled out the victory (129-114) during the last relay. "Diving is oneof those things where you have to do it at thetime," diving coach Dick Kimball said. "They're good enough to beat us if we don't come out and perform well." Although the overall matchup is the main focus of the weekend, there should be some outstanding head-to- head competition as well. Sharp will face off against Weatherford, and Borges and Hudepohl will dual each other in the sprint freestyles, just as they did at last year's NCAA champi- onships. "I'm excited to swim against Hudepohl but am more excited to swim against Stanford as a whole," Borges said. "They're No. I and this is where we should swim our best times and see where we are at." - Daily Sports Writer Charlie Breitrose contributed to this story. Babcock mance last Saturday, Coach Henry is excited and confident about this sea- son. "I want to get in there and start competing against some otherschools," he said. hndiana QB Dreisbach verbally commits to Blue MISHAWAKA,Ind. (AP)-Quar- terback Scott Dreisbach, who led Penn High School to the state's No. 1 rank- ing the past two years, plans to sign with Michigan. The NCAA football signing pe- riod begins Feb. 2. "I've committed, and I don't plan on changing my mind unless some- thing drastic comes up. But I don't see that happening," Dreisbach said. "I fit their offense and style. I think they were looking for someone who can make the reads and check off the defense, someone who can find the open man. Michigan wants a quarterback who is a coach on the field," he said. Dreisbach helped Penn to a 10-1 record last season. He was 68-of-113 passing for 1,240 yards and 17 touch- downs in the regular season and was intercepted only four times. "Scott made all the throws, the deep, the touch, the hard ones," Penn coach Chris Geesman said. "He takes charge. He runs the show." Dreisbach helped Penn extend its regular-season winning streak to a state-record 67 games. He was named to the honorable-mention Class 5A All- State Team. Another high school quarterback, Payton Manning, son of former New Orleans Saint star Archie Manning, is also considering Michigan, but has not officially selected a school. 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