urieAtctfIwn Jtg Scoreboard NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE WORLD SERIES Tampa Bay 6, NY ISLANDERS 3 New York 5, ATLANTA 2 PHILADELPHIA 3, Anaheim 0 Atlanta leads series, 2-1 TORONTO 4, San Jose 3 Colorado at CALGARY, inc. Pittsburgh at EDMONTON, inc. St. Louis at PHOENIX, inc. home teams in CAPS Wednesday October 23, 1996 9 Ven' s crew solid at Regatta 'Fred Link the Daily EAST LANSING - The Michigan men's crew team took three of the top four spots Sunday in the varsity eight race at the Head of the Grand Regatta in East Lansing. Michigan coach Gregg Hartsuff's strategy of racing three relatively even boats rather than focusing on one best boat paid off for Michigan its second race of the season. it was clear from the beginning that the Wolverines' stiffest competi- tion would come from Grand Valley. By the midpoint of the race, the two boats from Michigan State had faded from contention, leaving just Michigan and Grand Valley to battle for first place. Michigan's top boat completed the 1 1/2 mile course in 7:22, 10 sec- tonds ahead of second place Grand Olley. The two other Michigan boats fin- ished third and fourth, 22 and 25 seconds behind the leader. Both of Michigan State's boats finished well back, in fifth and sixth place. Although this race was Michigan's only chance to compete against intra-state rivals Grand Valley and Michigan State this season, it was ill not Michigan's main focus. aDuring the fall season, the team's attention is on preparing for the spring season when it will be com- pdting in the Big Ten and for a berth in the national championships. "It's good to race in the fall for the purposes of keeping yourself men- tally sharp," Hartsuff said. "You want to go out and test yourself." Overall, Hartsuff has been pleased with the team's fall season, calling it e best and smoothest fall" in his ve years at Michigan. One major factor in Michigan's success this year has been its depth. "'(To do well) you need two or three strong eights to push each other in practice," Hartsuff said. "The 1-3-4 finish shows me that we have a lot of depth on this team." . . . Michigan swims without Gustin By Nancy Berger Daily Sports Writer Senior Rachel Gustin won't be accompanying the Michigan women's swimming team when it travels to Champaign and Evanston this weekend. The All-American and NCAA champion won't be traveling with her teammates anytime soon, either. This weekend, Gustin will be home in Cincinnati, where she is scheduled to undergo arthroscopic shoulder surgery next Tuesday. Gustin, who will be out of the pool for six months, is taking a medical redshirt this season. "The doctor wants to shave the bursa down and alleviate some of the pressure on the top of the shoulder," Michigan swimming coach Jim Richardson said. After a healing period of six to eight weeks, Gustin will supplement her pool training with aerobics and biking. By losing Gustin, Michigan will have to replace one of the best breaststrokers and individual swim- mers in the country. While one vital Wolverine may be down, Michigan (1-0 Big Ten, 1-0 overall) is certainly not out of the Big Ten race. As one of the favorites for the national championship, the Wolverines hope to improve on last year's third-place finish in the NCAA tournament. "There is a real positive outlook right now," senior captain Anne Kampfe said. "Everybody came back from the summer to race." Michigan will do plenty of racing this weekend, when it competes against Illinois on Saturday and then travels to the Northwestern Relays on Sunday. Illinois will be the Wolverines' sec- ond straight conference opponent. Although the Wolverines have dominated the conference - not los- ing a Big Ten meet since 1993 - they will not take the Illini lightly. "Illinois is a much improved team," Richardson said. "I have known (Illinois coach) Jim Lutz for a long time, and they are not going to roll over. When you swim against a quality opponent, you want to swim your best." Even though the Illini lost their first meet of the season last Saturday to No. 10 Tennessee, 139- 104, they lost by just nine points in the swimming portion of the meet. This allowed the Tennessee divers to dominate the rest of the meet, beat- See TANKERS, Page 10 FILE PHOTO/Daiy Michigan swimmer Rachel Gustin will not travel with the Wolverines to meets at Illinois and Northwestern this weekend. She will undergo arthroscopic shoulder surgery Tuesday in Cincinnati and be sidelined for six months. Not dead yet: Yankees defeat Braves, 5-2, trail in series, 2-1 ATLANTA (AP) - Now this was what the New York Yankees were sup- posed to do all along. Get six good innings from David Cone. Get a home run from Bernie Williams. And then let the bullpen do the rest. It all came together for the Yankees last night, and not a moment too soon. Their 5-2 win over Atlanta cut the Braves' lead to 2-1, and put the drama back into a World Series that was on the verge of becoming a walkover. Relievers Mariano Rivera, Graeme Lloyd and John Wetteland finished off a victory that made the Yankees the first team ever to win six straight road games in the postseason. The win ended New York's six- game losing streak in the World Series that dated to 1981 and stopped a five-game winning streak by the Braves during which they had outscored opponents, 48-2. New York will try to make it 7-0 away from Yankee Stadium tonight when Kenny Rogers pitches against Atlanta's Denny Neagle. Rogers orig- inally was dropped from the rotation, but restored when a rainout took away the travel day and forced the Yankees to use four starters. No team in baseball has overcome a 3-0 deficit in the postseason, and New York won't have to, either. After losing twice at home, the Yankees shook up their lineup, benching slumping Tino Martinez and hobbling Wade Boggs and Paul O'Neill, and manager Joe Torre's moves worked. Darryl Strawberry, Cecil Fielder and Charlie Hayes stepped in and each made contributions that helped the Yankees take a 2-1 lead after six innings. The Yankees broke it open with a three-run eighth, highlighted by Williams' homer, his sixth tying the postseason record set by Bob Robertson of Pittsburgh in 1971, and Fielder's double off Greg McMichael. Williams had been hitless in the first two games before an RBI single in the first inning against Tom Glavine. Cone stayed ahead with nasty breaking pitches, buckling the knees of several Braves hitters for six innings. He gave up four hits, the same total allowed by Glavine in seven innings. Cone's key moment came in the sixth, when the Braves loaded the bases with one out. He got Fred McGriff on a popup, walked Ryan Klesko to force home a run that drew Atlanta within 2-1 and retired Javy Lopez on a foul popup. It was Cone's biggest win since missing four months this season after surgery for an aneurysm in his pitch- ing arm. The Yankees showed they expected it to be a low-scoring game when they had Derek Jeter, the second batter of the game, bunt following a leadoff walk by Tim Raines. New York, sec- ond in the majors in fielding, got sur- prisingly good defense from Fielder. Playing first base for only the 10th time since being acquired from Detroit on July 31, Fielder held his own with the glove. He started a dou- ble play in the first and handled a couple other difficult chances, although he wasn't able to catch a foul pop near the tarpaulin later in the game. Ahead 2-1, Jeter hit a leadoff single in the eighth and Williams homered. Fielder followed with a double and pinch-hitter Luis Sojo had an RBI single. The Braves scored in their eighth on a triple by Marquis Grissom and a single by Mark Lemke, both hits off Rivera. AP PHOTO David Cone kept his team within striking distance of Atlanta in the World Series last night, pitching New York to a 5-2 victory. The Braves still lead the series, 21. The Depaineniof ComumicanSts TheUniwerndtyof[ichigan IoawdR. I ha erfOrtheStudyoftourn aticPerformane will host a roundtable forum on the 1996 presidential debate process Confirmed Participants: E SELF-SERVE COPIES J 50 COPIES -U7 "" U 4 , Preside Russell Verney National Coordinator for the Reform Party (Perot/Choate) Sidney Kraus Doflaaftesnt f~nmuniatin I I I I I m