14 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 11, 1994
Spikers hit the
road looking to
end long skid
By DAVID ROTHBART
Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan women's volleyball team
hopes to end a long losing streak as it travels
to Iowa and Minnesota for tough weekend
matches.
Tonight, the Wolverines (1-13 Big Ten, 5-
20 overall) take on the Hawkeyes, who are off to
their best start in school history. Iowa knocked
off 12 straight opponents earlier this season and
is fighting for a spot in the NCAA Tournament.
Sophomores Katy Fawbush and Jennifer
Webb lead the Hawkeyes (8-6,18-8). Fawbush,
a powerful outside hitter, stands fourth in the
Big Ten with 407 kills this season. Webb has
added 343 kills and 290 digs.
Tomorrow, the Wolverines face a streaky
Minnesota squad that is on the edge of the
tournament bubble. The Golden Gophers (7-
7, 15-11) beat Michigan in a close 15-10, 15-
10, 15-13 match Oct. 14 in Ann Arbor.
The force behind Minnesota's one-two scor-
ing punchofJean Schintz and Katrien DeDecker
is freshman setter Becky Bauer. Bauer has
amassed 1,157 assists this season and is fourth in
the conference with a 12.58 average.
The Golden Gopher's scoring attack has
helped them overcome a shaky defense that is
10th in the conference in digs.
Michigan enters tonight's contest mired in
an 11-match losing streak, but coach Greg
Giovanazzi said his team has played more
cohesively in the last two weeks. Last Satur-
day, the Wolverines lost to No. 3 Ohio State,
but surprised the Buckeyes with a 15-6 vic-
tory in game three.
"We've finally been nailing down posi-
tions," Giovanazzi said. "We've had less pass-
ing and communication errors."
4 'Women harriers set for districts
By DAN McKENZIE
Daily Sports Writer
According to the media guide for the Michigan
women's cross country team, the Wolverines are
going to be celebrating this month no matter what
the outcome of their final two meets. The guide not
only lists 10 team members as celebrating their
birthday in November, but it says that seven of them
fall on the 30th.
"That has to be a typo," coach Mike McGuire
said. "If it's true, we're all going out to buy lotto
tickets after the meet."
It is likely that the Wolverines would need
some unusual luck to win the lottery, but it hasn't
taken such strange circumstances for them to rise
to the No. 4 ranking in the nation.
Michigan has dominated its competition this
season, winning six of the seven meets it's run so
far, including the Big Ten Championships two
weeks ago.
The Wolverines will travel to Purdue tomorrow for
the NCAA District IV Championships. The top two
teams in the meet will automatically qualify for the
national championships in Fayetteville, Ark.
With Wisconsin and Notre Dame as the only
other two ranked teams in the meet, the Wolverines
appear to be a shoo-in to be one of the top finishers,
especially since Michigan has already beaten both
those teams earlier in the season.
"We anticipate that Wisconsin is going to bounce
back stronger than they were in the Big Tens," McGuire
said. "Even if we finish second, we'll qualify for nation-
als. But we're not loading up on the bus to go down there
and finish second."
Besides Notre Dame and Wisconsin, Michigan can
expect to see all the other teams from the Big Ten with
the exception of Penn State. There will also be a myriad
of other teams representing smaller conferences from
around the region.
Running for Michigan at tomorrow's meet will be
seniors Karen Harvey and Jessica Kluge, juniors Katy
Hollbacher and Molly Lori and freshmen Eileen Fleck
and Deanna and Pauline Arnill.
Although most of the runners have competedat
Purdue before, none of them have run the specific course
that they will be running on tomorrow.
"The difference is like night and day," McGuire said.
"The course that we usually run on is quite hilly and the
course that we run on Saturday is quite flat."
However, even without the hills, nature may find
another way to slow the runners up.
"If it's as wet as it is around here, it could slow us
down," McGuire said. "At this point in collegiate run-
ning, if you have a real good runner on mildly hilly but
dry course, it's going to slow them down less than a flat,
real real wet course.
"But if you have talented athletes that step up and
compete, they're going to rise to the occasion."
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The women's cross country team looks to continue its winning ways tomorrow.
Men's cross country moves toward season's second goal at Purdue
By CHAIM HYMAN
and DOUG STEVENS
Daily Sports Writers
At the beginning of the season, Michigan
men's cross country coach Ron Warhurst had
two primary goals for the 1994 season. These
were to repeat as Big Ten champions and to
finish in the top eight nationally.
Warhurst's first goal wasn't realized when
Michigan finished second at the Big Ten
Championships. However, the Wolverines
could move one step closer to helping him
attain his second goal with a solid perfor-
mance in tomorrow's NCAA District IV
Championships at Purdue.
Michigan's goal heading down to West
Lafayette will be to attain a top three finish;
this will enable it to automatically qualify for
next week's NCAA Championships in Ar-
kansas. The Wolverines are currently ranked
number six in the country and second in their
district. The only team competing in this meet
ranked ahead of Michigan will be Wisconsin.
The Badgers, ranked number two nationally,
defeated the Wolverines last week at the Big
Ten meet.
Big Ten champion Kevin Sullivan leads
Michigan. He captured his second consecu-
tive conference title with a course record time
of 24:15.4 on the eight kilometer course at
Iowa. In addition, Sullivan was the 1993 Dis-
trict IV champion and finished fourth at na-
tionals.
"I'm trying to defend the championship I
won last year; right now that is my biggest
goal," Sullivan said.
Also competing in the District IV Cham-
pionships for the Wolverines will be Scott
MacDonald, Theo Molla, Kris Eggle, David
Barnett, Ryan Burt and captain Ian Forsyth.
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By REBECCA MOATZ
Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan women's swimming
and diving team has not lost to North-
western since 1985, however, that is no
reason for the team to expect a win.
The No.4 Wolverines (3-0) face the
No. 10 Wildcats (2-0) at 3 p.m. today at
Canham Natatorium in their second
conference meet of the season.
The Wolverines are coming off of a
victorius weekend after winning the
Lady Mustang Classic in Dallas. Michi-
gan placed second at the Southern Illi-
nois Invitational.
The Wildcats won their first two
dual meets defeating Illinois-Chicago
and Ball State.
Michigan's wins should provide
the team with the motivation
neccesary to push it through the sea-
son and especially, today's meet. Ac-
cording to Michigan coach Jim
Richardson, the meet is not a sure win
for the Wolverines.
"This could be a very close meet,
it depends on where they are in their
training and if they have been rest-
ing," Richardson said. "We've com-
peted the way we've been training-
no surprises, and right on track."
Both teams lost comparable swim-
mers to graduation and the results of the
meet may lay in the balance that the
team has created with its freshmen.
Here the Wolverines have an advan-
tage. The Michigan newcomers are
ranked second in the nation and have
needed no time to adjust to their status.
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"They blended right in, as we say
in the South 'right from the get-go',"
Richardson said. "We have a more
highly regarded recruiting class ... on
balance we're ahead."
The Wildcats; strength lies in its
distance freestyle with freshman Joy
Stover leading the way. Stover was the
only Northwestern swimmer to win
two individual events last weekend.
She has better personal records than her
Michigan counterparts, but her times
last weekend were about one second
slower than those of herMichigan com-
petitors, freshman Kerri Hale.
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