Hockey vs. Wisconsin Friday, 5 p.m. at College Hockey Showcase S t^-J as . -°sr , S+ L e . Men's Basketball vs. Arizona StJTexas A&M Today, TBA at Maui Classic Cross country teams finish among nation's best Women take home second Men race to seventh place By DAN McKENZIE Daily Sports Writer At first glance, the Michigan women harriers' finish in the NCAA Cross Country Championships at Arkansas might appear to be a disappointment. The Wolverines were just one spot *away from being crowned the top team in the country. However, if you had told team members at the end of last season that they would be without the ser- vices of senior All-American Courtney Babcock or that their top two runners would be freshmen, they probably would not have been too optimistic about improving on last year's sixth-place finish. But Michigan overcame the odds and a No.4ranking going into the final meet to barely scrape past Arkansas on its way to claiming the No. 2 position out of 22 teams. Villanova won the championship by placing three runners in the top 15, including the No.1 and No.3 individu- als. The Wildcats' low score of 75 gave them a convincing victory over the *Wolverines, who scored 108. Villanova appeared to have an ad- vantage over many other teams in the field due to its experience at Arkansas. Wildcat Jennifer Rhines, the over- all champion, conceded, "It helped to have seen this course before." "This is the toughest course I've been on this year," said Providence runner Amy Rudolph, who placed sec- ond overall. Freshman DeannaArnillledMichi- gan for the sixth time this season. Her time of 17:19.3 placed her 10th among the 152 final scorers. She was followed by her twin sister, Pauline (17:32.9, 16th). Seniors Karen Harvey (17:45.4) and Jessica Kluge (17:46) placed 22nd and 24th, respectively. Freshman Eileen Fleck's (17:57.5) 36thplacefinishmade her the final Wolverine to affect the score. However, even though sophomore Jennifer Barber's (18:10.7)48th place finish and junior Katy Hollbacher's (18:22.8) 65th place finish were not factored into thefinal score, their strong showings helped the Wolverines by displacing scores from other teams. Michigan wasn't quite sure what to expect going into the meet. Earlier in the season, Colorado easily beat the Wolverines in the Rocky Mountain Shootout. At the time Michigan coach Mike McGuire blamed Colorado's high altitude for his team's worst perfor- mance of the season. "We'll be racing them again at a lower altitude in the National Champi- onships," McGuire said after the race. His optimism was confirmed by the Wolverines' 18-point edge over the Buffaloes yesterday. Michigan also reaffirmed its top position in the Big Ten for the third time in less than a month. After winning the Big Ten in late October and then beating most of the conference teams again in the district championships two weeks later, the Wolverines beat their two biggest con- ference foes. Wisconsin placed eighth, 125 points behind Michigan, and Penn State placed ninth. By DOUG STEVENS Daily Sports Writer Two factors can heavily influence the outcome of a cross country compe- tition in a major way - the weather and fieldconditions. Atthe 1994NCAA Cross Country Championships, rain and ahilly course played tricks with the runners, as many teams finished in unexpected positions. The Wolverines fulfilled pre-meet expectations by placing seventh at yesterday's race in Fayetteville, Ark., with a score of 222. Other ranked teams weren't as fortunate as Michigan. Arkansas, Georgetown and Dartmouth, all of which came into the meet seeded higher than Michigan, placed 10th, 13th and 15th, respec- tively. Northern Arizona was a major sur- prise, finishing fourth. Big Ten and District IV champion Wisconsin fin- ished fifth. All of these team's performances fell short of Iowa State, which was able to overcome the sloppy condi- tions to win the national title. The Cyclones' finishers placed eighth, 11th, 12th, 15th and 19th for a vic- torious score of 65. "Our goal was to have five All- Americans, and we had five of the top 21 so we accomplished that. We ran as well as could be expected," Cyclone coach Bill Bergen said. Michigan coach Ron Warhurst stressed the fact that the rain and the hilly Arkansas course influenced the final results. However, he was happy with his team's performance. "I was hoping for a closer finish, but we had a great season and the kids worked real hard," Warhurst said. On an individual basis, Kevin Sullivan - who was victorious at both the Big Ten Championships and last week's District IV Championships - finished in third place with a time of 30:22.4 on the 10 kilometer course. Sullivan's performance earned him All- America status for the second time in his career. He placed fourth at last year's meet. Sullivan, a sophomore, was hoping to attain his first national title as a collegian. However, Arizona's Martin Keino, who had defeated Sullivan ear- lierin the season atthe Wolverine Inter- regional, took top honors with a time of 30:08.7. Adam Goucher of Texas passed Sullivan on the flats with about 2,000 meters remaining to lock up second place. "The race was a little slower than I thought it would be. Other than that, it unfolded about like I expected," Sullivan said. Scott MacDonald achieved All- America status for the Wolverines as he followed up a fourth place finish at the District IV meet by finishing 17th in 30:55.4. Captain Ian Forsyth, running in the final cross country meet of his Michi- gan career, ran a 31:27.4, good for 34th. Other finishers for the Wolverines were Theo Molla (67th place, 32:10.0), Ryan Burt (101st, 32:39.1), David Barnett (121st, 33:21.7) and Kris Eggle (134th, 33:52.8). Theo Molla and his Michigan teammates grabbed seventh place at NCAAs. Women cagers snack on Danish, 58-52 By RODERICK BEARD and RAVI GOPAL Daily Basketball Writers The Michigan women's basketball team is already drawing comparisons to its male counterpart. It's not because the women have gone to two NCAA championship games in three years, but because ofatop recruiting class this season and a new trend - winning. The Wolverines opened their sea- son with a 58-52 exhibition victory over Denmark's Horsholm Club team last night at Crisler Arena. "There's a lot of things we need to work on," Michigan assistant coach Sandy Thomas said. "They did exactly what the coaches told them to do." Thomas and assistants Kathy Miles and Carol Owens coached the Wolver- ines. Head coach Trish Roberts served aone-game suspension for questioning a referee's call during a game last year. Sophomore forward Amy Johnson led Michigan with 16 points, and was three of five from beyond the arc. Fresh- man guard Akisha Franklin chipped in 10 points. The Wolverines started the game in much the way they finished last season -cold -as the Denmark team began with an 8-0 run. Michigan finally got on the board when Catherine DiGiacinto hit a layup four minutes into the game. "The first part of the game, it didn't seem like everyone was in the game," Johnson said. "We definitely needed more intensity." The Wolverines roared back be- hind a pair of threes from Johnson and tooka 12-11 lead on aspinninglayin by freshman forward Tiffany Willard with 10:05 remaining in the first half. After Thomas put in Franklin and another freshman, Pollyanna Johns, MARK FRIEDMAN/Daily Catherine DiGiacinto and Michigan held on to beat the Horsholm team. Michigan went on an 11-4 spurt. Keyed by Johns' two blocks, a Franklin steal and stifling defense, Michigan took a 26-23 lead. Denmark closed with an- other 8-0 run, for a31-26 halftime lead. Michigan went to its low-post game to open the second half, and exploited its size advantage. Willard, DiGiacinto and Silver Shellman helped the Wol- verines to a 15-5 explosion, putting them in front for good. Thomas said that Michigan's front- line performed well, but needs to im- prove heading into conference play. HORSHOLM (52) FO FT REB MN M-A M-A O.T A FPTS Henningsen 10 0-1 0-0 0.0 0 1 0 ; Thorus 36 3-10 3.6 0-6 1 4 9 Heegaard 11 0-1 0-0 0-1 03 0 Shea 40 13-18 7-7 3-7 1 3 34 Caroe 30 2-8 0-0 1-4 01 4 Kronquist 29 2-9 0-0 2-2 1 2 4 Daigaard 20 0-9 0-0 1-2 1 1 0 Antvortskov 17 0-3 1-2 3-9 0 2 1 Gildulm 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 200 20.5911-15 10-31 419 52 FG%:.339. FT%: .733. Three-point goals: 1-20, .050 (Shea 1-5, Dalgaard 0-7, Kronquist 0-5, Thorius 0-2, caroe 0-1). Blocks: 4 (Caroe 3, Heegaard). Turnovers: 29 (Thorius 7, Caroe 6, Daigaard 6, Shea 5, Antvortskov 2, Heegaard 2, Forsberg). Steals: 17 (Shea 8, Antvortskov 2, Thorius 2, Caroe, Daigaard, Heegaard, Henningsen, Kronquist). Technical Fouls: none. MICHIGAN (58) FO FT REB MIN WiA hi-A O-T A F MY Shellman 23 3-12 0-0 4-7 3 2 6 DiGlacinto 22 2-9 0-2 2-8 0 1 4 Brzezinski 16 2-4 1-5 1-4 1 4 5 Johnson 35 5-10 3-4 0-5 1 0 16 Murray 26 2-9 0-0 36 21 4 Willard 36 3-5 1-3 3-5 0 3 7 Elverton 20 2-6 0-0 0-0 1 3 4 Franklin 16 2-4 6-8 1-2 3 0 10 Johns 6 1-1 0-0 1-2 0 0 2 Totals 200 22460 1122 15.39 1114 58 FGk .366. FT%: .500. Three-po nt goals: 3-10, .300 (Johnson 3-5, Shellman 0-2, Elverton 0-1, Famklin 0.1, Murray 0.1). Blocks: 4 (Johns 2, Brzezinski, Johnson). Turnovers: 26 (Murray 8, Johnson 4, DiGiacinto 3, Franklin 3, Shellman 3, Johns 2, Willard 2, Elverton). Steals: 10 (Brzezinski 2, Murray 2, DiGiacinto, Elverton, Franklin, Johnson, Shellman, Willard). Technical Fouls: none. Horsholm. 31 21 - 52 Michigan.. :2632 - 58 At Crisler; A: 371 "We need to work on boxing out and toughening up in the post," Tho- mas said. But Denmark would not fold. The visitors closed to within two points but never regained the lead. Franklin's six free throws in the last 37.4 seconds sealed the victory for the Wolverines. Eileen Shealed the Denmark squad with 34 points, seven rebounds and eight steals. Shea, who played the en- tire game, has played for Horsholm professional team since graduating from Michigan State in 1991. Wrestlers feeling confident after Md By DANIELLE RUM Daily Sports Writer The Michigan wrestli used this weekend's Michi in East Lansing in the s tourists use vacations - *the surrounding sights an Coach Dale Bahr said verines used this meet as garner match experience a a look at other teams to Michigan stacks up again and national competition. "We did pretty good," "There were 300 to 350 wres 'We did pretty go There were 300 t wrestlers In the tournament and s just get a lot of matches In. You g see a lot of peopl - Dal Michigan wr [ORE tournament and so you just get a lot of matches in. You get to see a lot of ing team people." igan Open The Michigan Open is a non-scor- ame way ing tournament. It offers individual to take in scoring by weight class, but does not d sounds. offer an overall team score, and each the Wol- weight class contains a consolation a way to bracket. nd to take Bahr said the format of the tourna- see how ment is ideal to see where his wrestlers st Big Ten stand physically at this early point of the season - especially considering Bahr said. the plethora of past injuries and the stlers in the addition of young wrestlers. "It's a good developmental tour- od. nament and shows us what kind of to 350 strengths we have," Bahr said. "There were probably 10 or 12 All- Americans (in the tournament) and it showed us where our depth was." .o you Junior Jesse Rawls, Jr. is finally rid of the knee injury he battled for et to most of the 1993-94 season. Despite the problem, he mustered up 20 match e.' wins last season and earned All- e Bahr America status. After having his knee scoped for torn cartilage recently, he estling was cleared to wrestle approximately coach a week ago. Rawls finished second and made it to the finals of the 177-pound weight class at the tournament, be- fore succumbing in the last second to Rohn Gardner of Northwestern, 10-8. Freshman Brandon Howe (1261bs.) wrestled for the first time in 10 months after injuring an anterior cruciate liga- ment last January. He was cleared to wrestle only a week and a half ago, yet managed to win six out of eight matches in his weight class and con- solation brackets. He finished fifth in the 126-pound class, losing only to Kent State's Joe Boardwine - first 3-0 and then 3-2 in the consolation. "He's one of the best guys on our team," junior Jake Young said. "He showed a lot of heart." "I was proud of him and really impressed," Bahr said. " He did real well. I was really pleased." Redshirt freshman Jeff Catrabone gan Open (158 lbs.) placed third in his weight class, after losing 6-5 to Brent Shiver of Northwestern and 5-1 in the conso- lation match. Redshirt freshman Airron Richardson placed fourth in the heavyweight division before los- ing in sudden-death overtime, 7-6, to Jeremy Tate of Ohio State. Other results included a third place finish by Young (150 lbs.) and a sec- ond place finish by senior Chad Biggert (167 lbs.). "I'm happy, but I'm never satis- fied," Young said of his performance. "Until we all take first place, we shouldn't be satisfied." Bahr said he is impressed over- all by the weight classes above 150 pounds. 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