The Michigan Daily - Wednesday October 12, 1994 - 11 Wolverine stickers fall to Ball State, 2-1, in double overtime By MARC DILLER Daily Sports Writer Everything you could have expected from a game between two teams streak- ing at the same time came to fruition yesterday at Oosterbaan Fieldhouse. The Michigan field hockey team (6-7) ended a two-game winning streak with a heart-breaking 2-1double-over- time loss to No. 8 Ball State (11-1-1). "100 minutes of hockey is a tough thing," Wolverine attacker Gia Biagi said. "(The loss is) just really disap- pointing." The Cardinals' freshman defender Jennifer Brown trickled the ball past Michigan goalie Rachel Geisthardt for the game winner, 11:53 into the second overtime. Ball State started the play with a corner pass to defender Gina Lucido. Lucido, who was trapped in the left corner, centered the ball to midfielder Melanie Herkins in the Wolverines' red zone. Herkins slapped a shot off of Geisthardt'spads and Brown was there to put home the rebound. "We didn't react quick enough to the rebound off of the initial save," Michigan coach Patti Smith said. Geisthardt saved 17 of 19 shots on the day but it wasn't enough. Michigan had plenty of its own opportunities to wrap things up dur- ing the two overtimes. Eight minutes into the first overtime. Wolverine de- fenderJen Lupinski took a harddriving shot from 25 yards back that slipped past the diving Ball State goalie, Mindy Pretzman, and narrowly missed the net wide right. Less than two minutes later, Michi- gan defender Aaleya Koreishi single- handedly took the ball past midfield and slappedacentering pass toastreak- ing Biagi. Biagi failed to control the ball and the Wolverines had missed on their two best scoring opportunities of the day. "Aaleya really started to turn it on towards the end," Smith said. "She started to take more chances and be more aggressive with the ball." Aaleya's efforts were not enough. The Cardinals' defense stopped virtu- ally everything that came into their backfield and Pretzman only had to- save eight shots on net all afternoon. "Their backs played really strong," Smith said. "They beat us to the ball and they were low, aggressive and smart." Michigan managed only one goal against the Ball State defense. The Wolverines took a 1-0 lead with 12:58 left in regulation when freshman de- fender Sandra Cabrera picked the ball off one of the Cardinals' defenders and scored her first collegiate goal. The Wolverines' excitement was ephemeral, however. In the transition, after the goal, Cathy Basso moved the ball past the Michigan defense and put a shot past Geisthardt to tie the game, 1-1. "It's the next five minutes after you score that are the most impor- tant," Biagi said. "We really needed to ice it and get the ball in their end, but they just used our momentum against us. DOUGLAS KANTER/Daily Michigan defender Aaleya Koreishi looks on as Cardinal Jennifer Brown's game-winning goal rolls past. .Bowden: Saturday's Auburn, Florida game is "Sugar Bowl" for Tigers AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - No bowl, no problem. As Terry Bowden sees it, this is bowl week in October for No. 6 Auburn. The Tigers' coach didn't mince . words Tuesday when asked what im- portance he places on this weekend's game at top-ranked Florida. "If we do somehow find a way to in, I think we're in the driver's seat as far as the AP poll," he said. "I don't feel like they'll give it to a team that goes 11-0 and doesn't play a game in January. But I do feel like they'll give it to a team that has a 22- 0 record." Auburn has won 17 in a row, the longest winning streak in Division I- , but Bowden's team is barred from ostseason play as it completes the second year of NCAA probation. Lastyear, the Tigers' season ended in November with an 11-0 record. It was only good enough for No.4 in the Associated Press rankings. "Sooner or later," Bowden said, "a team has got to be recognized just on its ability to win." "How can you overlook a team that goes 11-0 two times in a row," defensive tackle Mike Pelton said. "I'm not into the voting thing ... but if I controlled it, I would have voted for us last year." This is the first realistic chance for Auburn to become a serious national contender - playing on the road against the top-ranked team in the country, a team that has won its first five games by an average score of 51- 12, and a team that has won 17 straight Southeastern Conference games at Florida Field. Even though Auburn (6-0) is a 16- point underdog, Bowden is happy to have the Gators on the schedule. "We can't go to a bowl this year, so this is our Sugar Bowl," he said. "If we're going to win the national cham- pionship without playing in January, you have to have a No. I team on your schedule. We should be thankful for this chance." Bowden, searching for ways to convince his players that an upset is not inconceivable, turned to his usual reference point-Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, his father. In the Orange Bowl last season, No. 2 Nebraska was a huge underdog to the top-ranked Seminoles, but the Cornhuskers were in position to win on a field goal at the end of the game. It missed. "We plan on making our field goal," Terry Bowden said slyly. "I definitely don't envision my- self missing it," added Auburn place- kicker Matt Hawkins. The Tigers appear confident. They grumble about the point spread but say it doesn't matter. They would rather look back to this point last season, when unbeaten, fourth-ranked Florida came into Jordan-Hare Sta- dium and was shocked, 38-35. "That was the turning point in our season," Pelton said. "After that, we felt like we wouldn't lose anymore. That probably turned our whole pro- gram around." 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