Hockey vs. Kent Tomorrow, 7 p.m. Yost Ice Arena S 'TS Men's Swimming and Diving vs. Michigan St. Tomorrow, 7 pm. Canham Natatorium Michigan stays at home for recruits eWolverines' class called third best in nation by recruiting expert By RYAN HERRINGTON DAILY FOOTBALL WRITER For Gary Moeller and the rest of the Michigan football team, the theme of the 1994 national signing day was "Home Sweet Home." With nine of the 22 players sign- ing with the Wolverines yesterday coming from the state of Michigan, Moeller picked up more homegrown products than any of his previous re- cruiting classes at Michigan. "It was good that there were more people from Michigan," said Moeller, who only had three in-state players on last year's freshman squad. "As far as the recruiting in general, I think it went OK." Moeller might be modest in his *ssessment of his new class. Accord- ing to recruiting analyst Allen Wallace, editor of SuperPrep maga- zine, the Wolverines have the third best recruiting class in the country, behind only Tennessee and Florida State. But Moeller doesn't believe in these type of rankings. "I feel recruiting gets too much publicity anyway," Moeller said. "You never know (how good a class will be) until next Augustsometimes two years after that. On paper it looks to be a good class. We've got some good kids in there." The area that the Wolverines were able to help themselves the most was at linebacker, where five players signed with Michigan. Among them include Parade All-American Rasheed Simmons, a 6-foot-6, 240 pound out- side linebacker from Edison, N.J. who Moeller says reminds him of current Wolverine Trevor Pryce. "Sizewise, they are on the same scale," Moeller said. "He could be a guy that could play outside linebacker, but can also be the wide rush guy in the nickel package." In addition to Simmons, the Wol- verines also signed Jeff Holtry at out- side linebacker. The 6-foot-3, 225 pounder from Salt Lake City only verbally committed two days ago. Holtry will attend Michigan next fall and then leave for two years on a Mormon mission. The other defensive standout Moeller grabbed was lineman Juaquin Feazell from Fort Valley, Ga. At 6- foot-4, 245 pounds, Feazell had 84 tackles last year as a senior at Peach County High School. Despite his signings on defense, Moeller still has a few regrets with this year's class. "I'd like to have one big, big guy up front," Moeller said. "The two kids we got (Feazell and Nate Miller) I think are active kids, but we had a chance at a couple kids that would have been a big huge guy in there." Moeller was referring to 6-foot-8, 295 pounder Orlando Pace from Sandusky, Ohio. Pace signed with Ohio State yesterday. Another prominent recruit that got away from Michigan was quarter- back Peyton Manning, who commit- ted to Tennessee a week ago. Yet, Moeller was quite pleased with the quarterback he did sign, Indiana na- tive Scott Dreisbach. "Quite honestly, this kid was at our camp and we were very impressed with him," Moeller said. "He prob- ably doesn't have the stats some of the other people had because he isn't on that type of football team. He's on a football team that's a Michigan type of team. It's run the football, play great defense and throw the ball. He's got some great bloodlines. He's a very, very good kid." Moeller feels that recruiting in general will suffer due to a recent NCAA decision that eliminates a sepa- rate recruiting coordinator as an as- sistant. "What we do is everybody shares more work," Moeller said. "I don't think it's right. You do less things with less people to manufacture those things, you're going to have a poor See RECRUITS, Page 10 Gary Moeller recruited a class of 22 players for next fall, including five linebackers. All-American Rasheed Simmons tops the list of linebackers. I HOCKEY NOTEBOOK By PAUL BARGER DAILY HOCKEY WRITER The Michigan hockey team is moving closer and closer to the Central Collegiate Hockey Association regu- lar season title. The Wolverines hold a 12 point lead over second-place Michigan State and have already clinched I home-ice advantage.4 The magic number dropped to seven after Michigan defeated Notre Dame, 3-1, Saturday. With every Wolver-l ine victory or Spartan loss the number drops by two. Theoretically, Michigan can clinch the title this weekend with victories over Kent State and Ferris State and Michi- gan State losses to Ohio State and Illinois-Chicago. "We want to play our best hockey in the second half," Michigan coach Red Berenson said. "There is room for improvement. Games are getting closer and tougher, which should help us in the playoffs." SENIOR WEEK: Seniors David Oliver and Brian Wiseman reached major milestones in the win against thei Irish. Oliver became the sixth Wolverine to score 1001 goals in a career, and Wiseman broke David Robert's all-Y time Michigan assist record of 157. "It's a nice goal to have," Wiseman said, "but it's nothing to write home about or to get into an uproar about." Wiseman is fourth on Michigan's career scoring listt and Oliver is ninth.1 Senior goaltender Steve Shields added another honorr to his resume receiving the distinction of CCHA Defen-l sive Player of the Week. Shields stopped 88 of 91 shots for a .967 save percentage.1 For the season, Shields has a.911 save percentage and l a 2.28 goals against average in league play, good for firstr in both categories.1 'M' closing in on CCHA title FUTURE WOLVERINES: The Wolverines have already inked three recruits. Michigan went right after its defen- sive deficiency in signing Chris Fox of Grosse Pointe North high school. Fox is 6 feet 1, 180-pound. "He has Paul Coffey type skillls," Tom Wall, general manager of the NAJHL's Compuware Ambassadors, said. "He's an offensive defenseman." The other two signees are center Matt Herr of the Hotchkiss school and right wing Bill Muckalt of Colona, British Columbia. POWER OUTAGE: The usually potent Michigan power play has not lived up to its billing in the last couple of games. The team still leads the league in the power play scoring at a 34 percent clip. The team's goal production has dropped off as well The last five games have all been under the team's average output and the goals per game average has fallen to 5.36' The Wolverines are still dominating CCHA scor- ing, with 150 goals in all games. The second most potent offense is Lake Superior with 117 goals. These rankings discount afilliate member Alaska-Fairbanks who has tallied 162 goals on the year. POSSIBLE OPPONENTS: With the CCHA playoffs approachig, Michigan fans are probably wondering who the Wolverines will get at Yost in the first round. Michi- gan will more than likely decline the option of playing Alaska-Fairbanks. Therefore Michigan will probably play- last place Ohio State, who is five points behind UIC. - The first round format is a best two out of three series; played at the home arenas of the top six teams in the league. If the top two seeded teams advance they will receive second round byes. The semifinals and championship game will be played at Joe Louis Arena, March 19-20. MARK FRIEDMAN/Daily Michigan forward David Oliver became the sitxth Wolverine to score 100 career goals Saturday against Notre Dame. "Lone Wolverine star Brakus heads .to Dallas for Rolex Champi1onships By JOSH KAPLAN FOR THE DAILY If Michigan's Dan Brakus plans to reach the finals of the Rolex Na- tional Indoors Intercollegiate Tennis Championships in Dallas, he better not look too far down the road. Should Brakus defeat his first- ound opponent, Ian Williams of Texas, his second-round opponent will most likely be Mississippi State's Laurent Orsini. Orsini, a native of Nice, France, currently reigns as the No. I player on the men's college tennis circuit. Last October, Orsini captured the SkyTel National Clay Court Championships in Jackson, Miss. The tournament, which begins to- i1ay, is the third leg of four in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Grand Slam. Southern Meth- odist will host the event, which runs through Sunday. Former Wolverine All-American and 1994 Australian Open quarterfinalist Malivai Wash- ington won the prestigious tourna- ment in 1989. The ITA Grand Slam, in addition to this tournament, consists of the clay court championships, the ITA Men's All-American Championships, held last fall in Austin, Texas, and the NCAA championship to be hosted by Notre Dame in late May. Orsini is not the only obstacle for the Michigan senior, as the field fea- tures most of the top men's and women's players in the nation. None 'if (Brakus) gets off to a fast start he can do as well as anyone in the tournament.' - Brian Eisner Men's Tennis Coach of Michigan women's players will be traveling to Dallas for the tourney. Players were selected this fall in a series of regional tournaments, as well as by national rankings. Brakus was one of two finalists in the District Four Regional. This will be Brakus' first appear- ance in the competition. He failed to qualify for last year's field when he lost in the second round of the District Four Regionals. Seeded third, Brakus fell to unseeded Eric Shulman of Iowa. At the All-American Champion- ships, Brakus was defeated in the first round, 6-4, 6-1, by Gil Kovelski of Miami (Fla.). Michigan coach Brian Eisner be- lieves Brakus can perform well against the lofty field, but must play up to his capabilities. "With this kind of tournament, you can't afford to put a bad match together," Eisner said. Brakus, the No. 1 player on the Wolverines' squad, could fare well in the competition. He is ranked 18th in the nation and turned in a winning performance against North- ern Illinois last Saturday. Brakus topped Marty Engel, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 6-3. In addition, the indoor courts will be an advantage to the Ontario, Canada native. "If he gets off to a fast start," said Eisner of his star player, "he can do as well as anyone in the tournament." Read Safransisco Treat. Only in the Daily. 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