2 - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, March 14, 1994 1994 CCHA Here is how the top 25 teams in college basketball fared this weekend. Championship Lendl falls at Lipton WHO: Kristine Westerby, Richelle Webb, Molly McClimon, Courtney Babcock TEAM: Women's Track WHY: At the 1994 NCAA championships in Indianapolis, the distance medley relay team of Westerby, Webb, McClimon and Babcock won the national title with a time of 11:08.60. They beat second-place Georgetown by almost five seconds. BACKGROUND: The quartet also won the Big Ten Championships earlier this season. KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) - Todd Martin and Ivan Lendl were eliminated in third-set tiebreakers Sunday at the Lipton Championships. Martin, who will play for the U.S. Davis Cup team at India in two weeks, lost 4-6, 6-2,7-6(7-5) to Byron Black of Zimbabwe in the second round. Lendl squandered two match points, including one on a disputed call, and lost to Jan Siemerink of the - -' Men, women divers find different results in Zone s 1C meet in Cleveland Netherlands 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 Top-ranked Pete Sa Steffi Graf won easily. C her 28th consecutive vict ing Ginger Helgeson 6-2 No.3 seed GabrielaSa nated Chanda Rubin 6-3 Jana Novotna swept McGrath 6-2,6-1. No.7 L enport beat Michelle Nobrega 6-3, 1-6, 6-1. Spain's Javier Sanch brother Emilio 3-6, 6-2, went into the match 0-7 th 0-9 lifetime against his ob Sampras, the defen pion, swept Diego Nargi No. 8 Cedric Pioline be Spadea 6-3, 6-3. No. Chesnokov won in a against 1992 runner-i Mancini, who hurt his in the first round. Lendl, at 34 the older the tournament, battled1 kid. The two-time titlist ai several calls and received lation for an audible obsc With Siemerink servi ing match point at 4-5 in set, Lendl hit a cross-cc return that he thought Iaj Championshins i(7-5). sideline. A linesman ruled the shot@S mpras and wide, and Lendl protested in vain. Graf posted Lendl saved three match points in ory by beat- the tiebreaker, but at 6-5 he hit a sitter , 6-1. long to give the victory to Siemerink, batini elimi- ranked No. 102. 6-2. No. 4 Martin, a finalist at the Australian Meredith Open, continued his recent slump by indsay Day- losing for the third time in the past Jackson- five matches. The American, ranked ninth in the world, said he's weary* iez beat his from playing in six tournaments al- 6-4. Javier ready this year. is year, and "I think Ijust need a few days off, lder brother. and hopefully I'll get the energy back ding chain- in my legs and in my head," Martin so 6-2,6-2. said. "I'll just donsomething other eat Vincent than run around on a piece of ce- 19 Andrei ment." twalkover In the tiebreaker, Martin gave away up Alberto two points by double-faulting and rotator cuff netting an easy volley. He tried to hit' a cross-court forehand on match point, -st player in and Black intercepted it with a lung- like a feisty ing forehand drop volley for a clean irgued about winner. dacode vio- "I would have done anything at cenity. that point," said Black, ranked No. ing and- fac- 92. "1 was going to dive, because I n the second knew he was going to go cross-court. ourt service I took five or six steps and made a nded on the little stab, and I was so happy." * By CHARLIE BREITROSE and MARC DILLER DAILY SPORTS WRITERS The Michigan men's and women's diving squads had two different atti- tudes going into the Zone C NCAA qualifying meet in Cleveland, Ohio this weekend. Senior divers Eric Lesser of the men's team and co-captain Cinna- mon Woods of the women's team, as well as sophomore Carrie Zarse, all qualified for the NCAA Champion- ships with their performances this weekend. The women divers had a relaxed attitude about the qualifying meet given that the NCAAs are less than one week away. The team's main focus was to save its energy for the upcoming NCAA Championships in Indianapolis, Ind. "Part of the way we went into the qualifying meet was not to try to do our best, but just to qualify and save our best for nationals this week," Zarse said. The men's competition was very intense, with a number of the nation's top collegiate divers competing. A sixth place finish on the three-meter was a key to Lesser's qualifying for NCAAs. "I knew that I had to be in the top eight on the three-meter to have a legiti- mate chance to qualify," Lesser said. Lesser also finished third on the tower, his specialty. "I was happy with how I dived," Lesser said. "I got some consistency down and I was able to do the dives well when I needed to in this meet." The divers in attendance were scored in two of the three diving com- petitions: the one-meter and three- meter spring board events, and the 10-meter platform. Each diver's indi- vidual finishes were then ranked and the two events combined. The top 10 finishers advanced to the Nationals. Woods finished second in the 10- meter and 12th in the three-meter, and- Zarse finished second in the one-meter and eighth in the three meter. Both diver's composites were good enough to send them to the NCAAs. Woods, who finished a close sec- ond in the 10-meter last year, hopes to improve to first in this year's compe- tition. Zarse also hopes to emerge victorious in the one-meter. "Both Cinnamon and Carrie will have a chance to do well this week- end," diving coach Dick Kimball said. "Cinnamon on the tower and Carrie more on the spring board." Lesser placed in the-three-meter and the platform at last year's NCAAs and Kimball said that Lesser could do well in nationals. Two other Wolverines,juniorAbel Sanchez and sophomore Alex Bogaerts,just missed qualifying. Both divers needed a fourth place finish on the platform, but Sanchez finished fifth and Bogaerts sixth. "Ten-meter is my best event andI should have been top four, at least," Sanchez said. "It just wasn't there. Sometimes you wake up on the wrong side of the bed." Although he didn't qualify, Bogaert's performance pleased Kimball. "That was a real good job for Alex," Kimball said. "Much better than he did at Big Tens against the same competition." Other Michigan women compet- ing were senior Martha Wenzel and freshman Sharon Wong. Wenzel per- formed well with a 13th place finish in the three-meter and a fourth in the 10-meter. Wong scored a 19th place finish in the three-meter and a sixth in the 10-meter. Barkley and KI lead Suns past A/ ASSOCIATED PRESS Charles Barkley and Kevin Johnson scored 19 of Phoenix's 21 points in the fourth quarter to finish with 30 each as the Suns withstood a 39-performance by Shaquille O'Neal to beat the Orlando Magic, 100-93, Sunday. Johnson's jumper broke an 89-89 tie with six minutes left, and he also scored the Suns last four points. Barkley had nine points in the deci- sive period and also grabbed nine rebounds to finish with 20. O'Neal made 10 of his first 11 shots and was the only Orlando player to score from the field in the final 10:40. He made two free throws to tie the game for the last time with 6:51 remaining, but missed a dunk and watched Barkley convert a three-point play on the other end for a 96-89 Phoenix lead. Lakers 90, Timberwolves 88 Rookie George Lynch scored five points during an 11-2 run at the start of the fourth quarter Sunday as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Minne- sota Timberwolves, 90-88. The Lakers, who trailed through- out the third quarter, turned a 70-66 lagi~c deficit into a 77-72 lead by holding the Timberwolves without a basket for 5:02 early in the fourth, then held on for their third consecutive victory. Christian Laettner of Minnesota missed his third consecutive game with groin and back injuries, and Doug West sat out with muscle spasms in his neck. Vlade Divac had 18 points and 13 rebounds for the Lakers. 76ers 114, Bullets 97 The Philadelphia 76ers ended 15-game losing streak - the second- longest in team history - by beating the Washington Bullets, 114-97, Sun- day as Clarence Weatherspoon scored 28 points. The Sixers held an opponent un- der 100 points for the 28th time this season. The victory kept Washington from moving past Philadelphia out of last place in the Atlantic Division. Tom Gugliotta scored 23 point* and Rex Chapman scored 20 for the Bullets, who had won three straight against Philadelphia. Jeff Malone scored 21 points for the Sixers, who broke a nine-game road losing streak. Weatherspoon made 11 of 16 shots and grabbed 12 rebounds. EVAN PETRIE/Daily head to NCAAs this week. The Michigan men and women diversI Trivia Answer In 1989, Michigan was a No..3 seed in the Southeast. The Wolverines went on to defeat Seton Hall, 80-79, for the national championship. - - - - - -- - - - - - -- - - - -- - - -- - - -- - - -- - - - -- - - -- - - -- - - -- - - - -- - - -- - - -- - - -- - - -- - - - -- - - -- - - -- - - -- - - - -. . .. . . . . . .. . . . Use your coin the way tlr-" ~bTrTY!1' P u t,, , tid lV '- y I .......... ;!; _ '