20 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, April 11, 1994
SPRING
Continued from page 15
11:10 mark of the second quarter -
that gave the White a 10-0 margin.
Moeller was pleased with what he
saw from Lovell.
"If he keeps concentrating, he'll
be a pretty good kicker," Moeller said.
"I was more concerned with the punt-
ing than the place kicking."
Punters Nate DeLong and Paul
Peristeris combined for a 37.4 yard
average on their seven kicks.
While the kicking game may have
been off, one player who looked on
was Wheatley.
The junior tailback continued
where he left off in the Wolverines'
Hall of Fame Bowl victory over North
Carolina State, accumulating 94 yards
on 16 carries in about 20 minutes of
action.
Wheatley began the game in his
familiar starting position but then
looked on from the sidelines and
signed some autographs for a major-
ity of the second and third quarters.
"Everybody thought I'd take the
game off because I'm a senior,"
Wheatley said. "But I got to get some
work just like everybody else."
One player not in his customary
position was tight end Jay Riemersma.
A backup to Collins last season,
Riemersma moved to tight end this
spring as a result of an injury to Pierre
Copper and Damon Jones' dismissal
from the team.
The Zeeland native hauled in four
passes for 57 yards, including two re-
ceptions on the White's first posses-
sion. Later Carr zipped one through the
tight end's hands and the football ended
up in the arms of Blue defensive back
Chuck Winters, who raced up the left
sideline to the White 18 for a 30-yard
return.
Michigan quarterbacks threw two
interceptions on the day (Ty Law
picked one off as well) and the teams
combined for four fumbles with three
being turned over. The errors were
more prevalent on the Blue squad
than anywhere, as it committed seven
penalties for 47 yards in losses.
"The turnovers killed us," Collins
said. "We were in the scoring zone a
lot. We need to be more consistent.
We'd be on one day and off the next."
With the exception of summer
conditioning, the Wolverines will now
be off until mid-August, when they
begin full preparation for their season
opener with Boston College.
'M' tennis dominates Lions
RIEMERSMA
Continued from page 15
"He'll be a good player," Dyson
said. "He's earned his respect from
us. He came in this spring and worked
really hard. He wants to play."
Injury and graduation left head
coach Gary Moeller with no incom-
ing tight ends this spring. Marc
Burkholder graduated after starting
all 12 games at tight end last year for
the Wolverines. Pierre Cooper saw
action in 11 games but an injury forced
him to miss spring practice. Damon
Jones no longer remains on the team
following problems with the law.
"Hopefully, Riemersma can be a
tight end," Moeller said. "He's really
been a tremendous bonus this spring.
"We went into the spring with no
tight ends and you come out with a
guy like him. It's kind of like a lottery
hit."
Incoming freshmen Mark
Campbell and Jerame Tuman join the
Wolverines at tight end in the fall.
By JOSH KAPLAN
DAILY SPORTS WRITER
The Michigan men's tennis team is
quickly becoming a team nobody wants
to play.
Against a tough Penn State team,
the Wolverines (3-1 Big Ten, 7-5
overall) demonstrated their strength,
blanking the Nittany Lions, 7-0.
The Lions (3-3, 9-3) came to the
Liberty Sports Complex yesterday on
the heels of a big road win in East
Lansing, beating Michigan State, 4-3,
Saturday. They also brought with them
an eight-match winning streak.
They would not leave with the streak
intact. The Wolverines dominated ev-
ery aspect of the match, winning all but
a single set.
"It's very difficult to beat any rela-
tively good team, 7-0, because usually
you're going to lose a match or two
somewhere along the line," Michigan
coach Brian Eisner said.
The outcome of the meet was ap-
parent from the outset. In the doubles
sets, an aspect of play the team has
struggled with recently, Michigan won
all three matches.
In singles the results were equally
convincing. All six Wolverines won
their first set, leaving Penn State with
little room to breathe.
Michigan kept the pressure on the
Lions from then on, with only Grady
Burnett needing a third set to win,
battling to a 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 victory over
Chad Skorupka.
Eisner was not surprised with his
team's margin of victory.
"Where they have some strength in
their lineup happens to be where we're
relatively strong also, in number one
and two singles," Eisner said. "If you
beat a team where they're strong be-
cause you're stronger, what could be a
close match turns out to be a very
decisive match."
At number one singles, senior Dan
Brakus topped Penn State's Ivan Spin-
ner, 6-3,6-3, avenging aclose three-set
loss in last year's meet at Penn State.
Spinner had upped his personal record
to 9-1 Saturday, beating Michigan
State's Mashiska Washington, before
falling to Brakus.
"This was a very challenging match
for Dan, and he won the match deci-
sively," Eisner said.
At number two singles, sophomore
John Costanzo stopped the Lions' Greg
Gaunt, also by the score of 6-3, 6-3.
The most consistent spot in the
Michigan lineup lately has been Adam
Wager in the number five slot. The
junior came up big once again, shutting
out Penn State's Chris Cahill, 6-0,6-0.
"I'm getting on top of my opponent
right away, putting the pressure on
early," Wager said. "I make my oppo-
nents feel that they can't win a game
even. Mentally I'm getting tougher the
more matches I play."
The Wolverines have improved as
a team to the level of a Big Ten con-
tender.
"This was our best match of the
year," Eisner said. "We are getting
better every match. Every one of our
players has brought their game up an-
otherlevel. The most importantthing is
that we are really competing very hard
and controlling matches, andthat'show
you get a score like this."
BASEBALL
Continued from page I8
Gels in the second game.
Shortstop Ryan Van Oeveren also
had two hits for Michigan in the sec-
ond game.
In the opener, the Wolverines took
a 1-0 lead in the sixth inning when
designated hitter Matt Ferullo scored
Kevin Crociata from third with a
groundout.
The Wolverine advantage, how-
ever, was short-lived.
In the bottom of the sixth, the
Nittany Lions scored the only two
runs they would score all day.
They were well placed, however,
because it was enough to give them
the victory.
With the bases loaded, Derek
Bochna singled to left and Lance
Rathmell scored from third base just
ahead of the throw from Weaver to tie
the score at one.
Dave Hall then scored the win-
ning run on a fielder's choice.
Heath Murray took the loss for
Michigan, despite allowing only two
runs in five and one-third innings of
work. His record fell to 2-4 on the
season.
"Everyone was pretty disap-
pointed," Simmons said. "To give up
two runs in two games and only come
away with one win is disappointing.
"Our pitching was strong, but our
hitters just didn't get the job done."
Weather permitting, the two teams
will play a second doubleheader start-
ing today at 11 a.m.
WEATH ER
Continued from page 18
The NCAA is considering a plan
to push the season back to where it
would start in late spring and end in
mid-summer. This would effectively
eliminate the advantage that warm
weather schools possess.
The problem is that the majority
of the season would then be played
after the school year ended.
The NCAA is not considering
any immediate changes in the
schedule of the season.
Despite these troubles, Freehan
said the Michigan baseball program
is better off than many other
northern programs.
"Michigan supports the baseball
program extremely well," he said.
"With the push towards gender
equity, you see a lot of programs in
the North being eliminated
primarily because of the weather
and lack of success."
Such schools as Wisconsin,
Wyoming and Colorado no longer
have teams.
Even though the Michigan
baseball program is doing .
comparatively well, it is not ready
to compete on a national level, as
evidenced by its current 12-14
overall record.
So how can the Wolverines
really compete evenly with the
warm weather schools?
Until the NCAA makes changes
that limit the effect of the weather
on college baseball, the answer is
simple.
They can't.
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sweep Northwestern. This time,
Holmes went the distance to record her
eighth victory of the season.
Alison Ward, who had only pitched
three games this season and recorded a
2.68 ERA, took the loss for the Wild-
cats.
Michigan put a run on the
scoreboard in the first inning after
Campana reached on an errorand scored
on a wild pitch.
In a four-run second inning, North-
western replaced Ward with one out.
Still, that couldn't stop Michigan,
which, with Campana, Carr, Silver,
Gleason and Erin Martino each notch-
ing two hits apiece, thumped the Wild-
cats, 9-1.
Silver, Carr and Campana all had
five hits in the series.
"Throughout the weekend, we took
advantage of offensive situations and
Northwestern errors," Hutchins said."
Our defense played very well all four
games, never falling apart."
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