10 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 25, 1996 STICKERS Continued from Page 9 including two game-winning scores. It was the first three-goal game of Flachs' career and the first of the sea- son for the Wolverines. SENIOR SURGE: Senior attacker Michelle Smulders has unleashed 15 shots in five games, scoring a game- winning goal and an-assist. She is third on the team in scoring and has started all five games this season. Along with fellow senior co-cap- tains Bree Derr, Meredith Franden and Selina Harris, Smulders provides lead- ership and maturity to the team, Pankratz said. "(The seniors) have shown a lot of character this season," Pankratz said. "They have been willing to work and willing to learn. "They've been like sponges, soak- ing it all up." Franden and Derr are tied for the team lead in scoring, with four points each. HOCKEY HELBERS: Goalkeeper Amy Helber is keeping the hockey tra- dition at Michigan alive for her family. Helber's brothers Mike and Tim both played ice hockey for the Wolverines. Amy, a junior, benefits from the addition of U.S. Olympian Peggy Storrar as an assistant coach. Storrar was a goalie for the U.S. field hockey team, which also included Pankratz and fellow assistant coach Tracey Fuchs. "(Having Storrar on staff) is great for Amy and Katie (Oaks)," Pankratz said. "It'is kind of like having a mentor or a personal coach." CCHA Continued from Page 9 ences allowed unranked teams to steal the Falcons' invitation. Last year's regular-season co-cham- pion, Lake Superior, will not look very familiar to anyone who saw it last year. The Lakers not only lost their four top scorers and their goalie, but they also lost their coach. Scott Borek takes over the hot seat this year from former coach Jeff Jackson, who left to coach USA Hockey. "All of that change brings a real sense of energy, and that's exciting," Borek said. The U.S. World Cup Hockey cham- pionship was hailed as a victory for college hockey because of the number of college products on the national hockey squad. "Thirty-five years ago, they told me you'd never be a pro if you went to school,' said Berenson, who rooted for the U.S. team over his native Canadian team because of its college hockey influence. "Times have changed." Since Morrison put the finishing touches on last season, it was fitting for him to be at Joe Louis Arena yes- terday to help usher in the new year. He has been encouraged by his team- mates' attitudes - or the lack of them. "It doesn't look like anyone is still living off of last season," Morrison said. "We realize that's done." The Michigan captain said the team also realizes that there will be added pressure on them every night as the defending national champions. "Everyone understands teams are going to be gunning for us more this year," Morrison said. "I think it will be good for our team, (keeping) us on our toes and ready." Meanwhile, Alaska-Fairbanks is still gunning to become more compet- itive with the rest of the conference. The Nanooks finished tied for ninth place in their inaugural year with CCHA last year. Alaska-Fairbanks coach Dave Laurion provided one of the more humorous notes of the day when he described his team's need to get big- ger and stronger. "It's hard to tell a guy that's 5-10, 175 pounds, 'Don't get outmuscled in front of the net by (Michigan's 6-foot- 4, 209-pound) Jason Botterill,"' he said. Women's rugby, whips itseWf K'zoo in 57-0 blowout Spartans reeling after loss to Louisville By Josh Kleinbaum For the Daily The Michigan women's rugby team's game against Kalamazoo College on Saturday was close. For about five minutes. Then the Wolverines woke up and routed a short-handed Kalamazoo squad, 57-0, at Mitchell Field. When the Hornets arrived in Ann Arbor on Saturday morning, they had only six players with them, nine short of the usual 15-player team. So Michigan coach Erica Melnykowycz had six Wolverines put on Hornets uni- forms to play for Kalamazoo. The play- ing rosters were lowered to 12 people in a match that seemed more like a scrim- mage than an official game. "They just split us up and said, 'These people go over here, and these people go over here,"' said Michigan freshman back Sarah Alvers, who played on the Kalamazoo team. "There was no order to it at all. "None of us played with the level of intensity that we would have if we had played against another team, because we didn't want to hurt our own team. It was fun, but it wasn't as rough as it usu- ally is." Scrum half Lorien Wenger pointed out that the Michigan players are much better than the Hornets. "If they had all of their own players," Wenger said, "we probably would have killed them by more." For the first five minutes of play, the Hornets controlled the ball, keeping it in the offensive half of the field. Kalamazoo almost scored early on, when one of its players broke down the sideline and beat most of the Wolverines, but Amy Copeland tack- led her on the 10-yard line to save the try. On the next Michigan drive, Kimberly Lee broke free and streaked down the sideline before being tackled at the five-yard line. The Wolverines won the ensuing scrum and punched it in for a try to take a 5-0 lead. Flannery Cambell connect- ed on the conversion to give the Wolverines a 7-0 lead. That optned the floodgates. Michigan began to play as if there was- n't even a Kalamazoo defense on the 1If they had all their players, we would have killed them by more. - Lorien Wenger Michigan rugby player field. The Wolverines scored eight tries, including two from both Copeland and Lee. Cambell completed four-pf-eight conversion attempts. "There weren't any standout players in this game," Wenger said. "We all played really well as a team. Even though it seemed really disorganized, we played really hard and kept our con- centration on what we needed to do an1 did it." Kalamazoo was not able to do the same. "The teamwork was not there," Alvers said. "When you play with your team, you know how the other people play, how the other people run, how they pass and the kind of game they play. It's difficult to play with someone when you first meet them and you don't know what they're going to do" Despite the romp, some Wolverinn felt that they hadn't played as well as they could have. "We tend to go down to our oppo- nents' level," Wenger said. "When we play better teams, we play a lot better and look a lot tougher. Also, we have a lot of new players that haven't played in a game before, and they're still learning the game and the teamwork." Michigan will compete in t1 National Qualifiers on Oct. 19-20. They will play against eight to 10 teams from the Midwest Region, two of which will move on o the national tournament. "If we keep working hard the way we've been doing, we expect to be one of the two teams to go to nationals," Wenger said. The Wolverines increased their record to 3-1, having lost only to Chicago. Their next match is Mitchell Field this Saturday agains Columbus at noon. London 215 Paris 299 Rome 349 Cancun 149 FAM ARE EACH W AYoFOMC DETBASED ON A1RO5D9RI PURCHASE. FARES DO NOT INCLUDE FEDERAL TAXES OR PFCS TOTAING BETWEEN $3-$45, DEPENDING ON DESTINATION OR DEPARTURE CHARGES PAID DIRECTLY TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. Study Spanish in Honduras among Mayan Ruins from $29/per day Including Accommodations 1220 S. UNIVERSITY., STE. 208 (ABOVE MCDONALDS) 998-0,200 http://www.ciee.org/travel.htm EAST LANSING (AP) - Michigan State football coach Nick Saban said Monday that he's still waiting for his team to step up to the line and do what it has to do to win. "We don't react very well to adver- sity," Saban said during his weekly news conference. "It's a mentality.... It's something they have to be taught." Fresh off a 30-20 loss to Louisville, Michigan State (1-2) faces Eastern Michigan (1-3) this Saturday at home It will be the fourth time the two teams have met on the football field, but the first time this century. Michigan State won the previous three games. Saban said whether his team learns any lessons from Louisville will have more to do with Saturday's outcome than how well the Eagles do against the Spartans. "We did not get the results we wanted in the (Louisville) game. How we handle the results that we got will say a lot about how the rest of our sea- son will go," he said. Saban had said before the Louisville game that his team was not doing well in practice after having a bye week following their 55-14 pounding by Nebraska. That showed at game time, he said. "Our best drive on offense was the first drive. Our best half on defense was the first half," he said. "Our level of play went down as the game progressed, and we still had a chance to win that game up until the last play of the game." Saban has complained before that his team gets discouraged too easily. But it had seemed that last week's announcement of relatively light sanctions imposed by the NCAA against Michigan State's football pro- gram might have given the team some energy. Instead, Saban said he's still wait- ing for the players to take ownership of the team and set a standard they can hit consistently. "We've done it in spurts," he said. "There are a lot of guys who try to do what we want. "(But) when you hold a team to 100 yards in the first half and then give up 300 yards in the second half, you aren't performing up to your abil- ity for 60 minutes." 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