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." O x IUNYA BROAD/Daily 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. Women tankers open home season against Wildcats I QUIZSHOW Present This Coupon 51 A ROBERT REDFORDfi im When Purchasing A * ................. 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"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. I I ' The Psychology Peer Advisors Present FOCUS GROUPS ' "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. 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