p Looking for help Michigan football coach Gary Moeller will be looking over the next few weeks to fill the two vacancies on his coaching staff. Defensive backs coach Bill Harris left the Wolverines to be the defensive coordinator at Stanford Friday and offensive line coach Les Miles took the offensive coordinator job at Oklahoma State last month. Page 8 Tuesday, February 7, 1995 Sprinters struggle again at Invitational By Dan Stillmnan For the Daily For the second straight week, the Michigan women's indoor track and field teamcontinued its success in long- distance and field events. The Wolver- ines, however, struggled in sprints and short-distance races last Saturday at the unscored Meyo Invitational. Senior shotputter JaynaGreiner and high jumper Monika Black accounted for two of the Wolverines' three first- place finishes. Both won their events for the second straight week. "My goal was to have a better atti- tude and stay focused, as well as jump- ing higher than last week," said Black, whose jump topped out at 5-foot-10. "I achieved all of those goals." Distance runner Karen Harvey grabbed Michigan's other first-place finish with a 4:48.78 in the mile run. Freshman Deanna Arnill had a strong showing in the 3000-meter, finishing first among collegiate ath- letes and third overall with a time of 9:34.9. "I actually didn't run as well as I had wanted to," Arnill said. "I can't really blame it on the oversized track, but the last lap seemed longer than I'm used to." Sprinter Lamika Harper also com- plained about Notre Dame's track, which has longer straightaways and shorter curves than most college tracks. "We thought the long straightaways would allow us to catch up at the end," Harper said. "Unfortunately, it was hard to make the adjustment. You weren't exactly sure whereyou wereon the track.'" TaniaLonge is still unable to hurdle after twisting her knee last weekend. Nevertheless, she did participate in the 200-meter and finished third (26.88) out of five in her heat. "I didn't feel anything during the race, but I don't think the knee is any better," Longe said. "I'm still icing it and giving it treatment everyday. I'm going to try hurdling in practice this week." Michigan's sprinters and short dis- tance runners did not fare as well, as they failed to win any events. "The sprinters are still struggling," Michigan coach James Henry said. "We need them to be a factor in Big Tens and they need to improve a lot to do that." f k ':'..- .:. 'L . Tournament victories give Plocki 100th win By Michael Joshua definitely deserves the recognition." Daily Sports Writer The triumph over Michigan State There was only one surprise as the gave Michigan its 24th straight vic- Michigan women's gymnastics team tory over a Big Ten opponent. won the five-team State of Michigan "We look for higher scores for Classic in Kalamazoo Sunday. ourselves each time and are not wor- By defeating Michigan State, Cen- ried about what the other teams do," tral Michigan, Western Michigan and Carfora said. "In a way we look ahead Eastern Michigan, the Wolverines (4- of the Big Ten teams to the better 0 Big Ten, 9-0 overall) gave coach teams in the country - that is who we Bev Plocki her 100th and 101st career are trying to beat." victories. For the fourth time in as many The surprise is that Plocki had no meets this season, the Wolverines had idea of her accomplishment. the top placer in all the events. "It feels great," Plocki said after a Freshman phenom Heather moment of silence to contemplate her Kabnick started off the charge with a achievement. perfect 10 in the vault. Carfora won It was quite a feat considering that the floor exercise (9.775) and all- the gymnastics coach with the next- around (38.75), while fellow captain highest amount of victories for the Beth Wymer topped the balance beam Wolverines was Sheri Hyatt, who (9.875) and uneven bars (9.95). finished with 53 wins in five years. Michigan next hosts Ohio State Plocki's six-year record at Michi- Sunday. The Wolverines hope to turn gan improved to 101-34 after the Wol- it up one more notch against the Buck- verines scored 193.125 to beat the eyes. fellow state schools. The Spartans "195.35 was our high score of last finished second . Eastern, Central and year," Plocki said. "If we get close to Western rounded out the field. that in the middle of the season it "I think it is great what she has would be great." done here," senior co-captain Kelly "We don't even have Wymer in the Carfora said. "Not many people are all-around," Carfora said. "When we capable of doing that so fast. She get her we should be even stronger." Regular se.las-on fails short of postseson eXCitement MARK FRIEDMAN/Daily Wendy Marshall and the women's gymnastics team defeated four teams to win the State of Michigan Classic. Northwestern upsets Wolverine netters By Marc Ughtdale Daily Sports writer After an impressive showing at the Big Ten Indoor Singles Tournament at Illinois last week, the Michigan men's tennis teamopened its conference sched- ule losing to a surprising Northwestern squad, 5-2. "The fact of the matter is we sim- ply did not win the close matches today," Michigan head coach Brian Eisner said. "In general, we just did not play a good match." Even though the 5-2 score ap- pears to be decisive, two of the matches came down to decisive third sets. In the first singles match, Carl Von Schantz of Northwestern outlasted John Costanzo, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3. In the other three-set affair, Northwestern's Wyeth Goodenough edged highly touted Michigan fresh- man David Paradzik, 7-6, 2-6, 6-4 at third singles. "We had a lot of close matches so we should have won," Paradzik said. Although the overall result was disappointing, the Wolverines had some highlights. Peter Pusztai de- feated Jeff Giraldo, 7-6, 6-2. Giraldo, a senior from the Detroit area, won the Michigan high school title before Pusztai's two-year reign as the state high school champion. Eisner also found solace in Michigan's two double victories, pro- viding the Wolverines with the doubles point for the match. "I was very pleased even though we did not play well in the doubles," Eisner said. "At least we got the doubles point." The Wolverines defeated Northwest- ern twice last year in addition to an earlier victory this year at Tennessee. However, the Wildcats, who finished a close third in the Big Ten last year behind the Wolverines, proved to be formidable opponents. "A team that on paper is not quite as good as you are, but is capable of beat- ing of you," Eisner said. "That is ex- actly the kind of team that sometimes you will come out tight against." The Wolverines did just that, and Eisner indicated that theirplay appeared to have an effect on the result of the match. "When you come out tight and ner- vous, then you will make errors in areas where you would normally not make errors," Eisner said. "Many of our players were making errors in areas that are their strongest." Although any loss is disappoint- ing, the Wolverines find this one hard to swallow after destroying North- western at a tournament a couple weeks ago. However, the Wildcats were missing their No. 1 singles player, Carl Von Schantz and one of their top doubles players, Martin Stigh, at that time. The Wolverines, however, continue to play without freshman Arvid Swan. The return of Von Schantz and Stigh appeared to be pivotal in the Wildcats' victory. "They played much better against us today than they did two and a half weeks ago," Eisner said. "It was more really what we did to ourselves than what they did to us." By Michelle Lee Thompson Daily Sports writer At the close of the dual meet season for the No. 1 men's swimming and diving team (9-1 overall, 3-0 Big Ten), spectators have realized what head coach Jon Urbanchek knew all along - that the entire season's re- sults do not matter. Throw away the meet sheets, the times, the records, the results. Throw it all away until March 16 - the NCAA meet, the only real competi- tion the Wolverines will face all sea- son. Between now and then, all they have to worry about is a rubber-stamp meet to confirm their No. 1 status in the Big Ten, and getting ready for the three-day national championship meet. "We have a taper program," Urbanchek said after Friday's meet at Michigan State, where the Wol- verines defeated the Spartans, 148- 87. The Wolverines didn't even bother to take senior co-captains Marcel Wouda and Gustavo Borges to East Lansing. But Tom Dolan made the trip and he managed to break pool records in the mile and the 1,000 free on his mile split. Oh, and he also broke the 500 free record in Charles McCaffree Pool. Dolan swam two of the most de- manding events and set pool records in all of them -- on the same night. But even that didn't tire the Olympic medalist, so he decided to paddle through a leg of the 400 free relay. "(Urbanchek) was trying to kill me a little bit but it didn't work," Dolan said. And Michigan took first place in 10 of 11 swimming events. "It really doesn't mean anything," Urbanchek said of the dual meet sea- son. "But it would be a long season for five months - train, train, train and no competition." But even the Big Ten meet will mean little to the Wolverines, whose only real competition lies in No. 2 Stanford and No. 3 Texas. Although Michigan lost to Stanford, many of Stanford's strengths will be neutral- ized byTexas - who beat Stanford earlier this season - at the NCAAs. "The winning attitude is surfacing slowly. Hope always arrives on March 23," Urbanchek said. "You want to be totally focused, totally psyched on that day, not the day before. "(The national championship) was like more of a wish. This time it's not a wish. This time it's like a will to win. Everything is in order." ATop 25 Here is the new Associated Press men's college basketball *I WING IT! AT RtiAYA~ 4 P FOTSDA 200 Wings $3.25/Pitcher Any Bud Family 1220 S. Unive'sity w * 4" ENo. ~~ Coe e! 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