NHL PLAYOFFS Detroit 3, ST, LOUIS 2 CHICAGO 4, Colorado 3 (2 OT) PHOENIX 4, Anaheim 1 NY Rangers 3, FLORIDA 0 Dallas at Edmonton, inc. PRO BASKETBALL Detroit 124, INDIANA 120 (OT) Washington 85, CLEVELAND 81 PORTLAND 100, LA Lakers 96 NEW JERSEY 108, Atlanta 92 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL DETROIT 9, Oakland 2 CHI. WHITE SOX 8, NY Yankees 7 CLEVELAND 6, Milwaukee 4 Baltimore 11, BOSTON 1 NY METS 8, Chicago 2 Chicago 4, NY METS 3 COLORADO 9, Atlanta 2 SAN FRANCI$0 2 Florida 0 Monday April 21, 1997 13 Netters' loss is Northwestern's gain Suspension of Paradzik and Raiton hurts Michigan in 4-3 loss to Wildcats By John Friedberg and Andy Latack Daily Sports Writers After learning that two of its top five players would not be competing for the rest of the season, the Michigan men's tennis team faced a decision. It could give up, or it could deal with the adversi- ty. Apparently, the Wolverines chose the latter. After suffering a hard-fought 4-3 defeat at the hands of conference leader Northwestern, Michigan evened its weekend record by blanking Wisconsin, 7-0. The matches occurred on the heels of the decision that junior co-captain David Paradzik and sophomore Jake Raiton would be suspended for the remainder of the season. Citing a violation of "team rules," Michigan coach Brian Eisner elected to suspend the pair indefinitely. As of yesterday, there was no talk of Paradzik or Raiton returning for the Big Ten championships, which begin Thursday. With the status of its two stars known Saturday, Michigan battled No. 22 Northwestern, which had yet to lose within the conference. Unfortunately for the Wolverines, the revamped singles lineup was unable to complete the win, taking only two of the six singles matches. The match of the day, however, belonged to junior Arvid Swan, who eventually lost to Northwestern's Marc Silva, 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (8-6), in a match in which both players owned match points. Paradzik played No. 1 singles for the Wolverines this season and was named a co-cap- tain before the season. He ranks second in victo- ries with a 21-14 mark at the No. 1 spot. Raiton played out of the No. 5 spotfor Michigan and was improving quickly. Just a week ago, assis- tant coach Dan Goldberg was raving about his play. "Jake's playing some of the best tennis of his career lately," Goldberg said. ROB GILMORE/Daily Michigan softball players Pam Kosanke (left) and Melissa Gentile were all smiles yesterday; the Wolverines swept Minnesota in a three-game serIes. Holmes, Blue softbali *bury Golden Gophers By B.J. Luria Daily Sports Writer Savior. That might be the only appropriate way to describe Michigan softball play- er Kelly Holmes. In the 14 games since Sara Griffin's injury, the senior has car- ried the No. 12 Wolverines on her shoulders. * On Saturday, she celebrated her 22nd birthday in grand fashion, picking up two complete-game victories in Michigan's doubleheader sweep of No, 14 Minnesota, 2-1 and 10-2. The senior allowed only one earned run in 14 innings of work. Holmes continued her heroics yester- day, blanking the Gophers, 1-0, to run her record to 18-5. Holmes has embraced her role as the go-to player. "It's sort of an honor to be considered No. I on the Michigan softball team," Holmes said. In the first game Saturday, the Wolverines struggled at the plate, man- aging only six hits, as the game went into extra-innings with the score tied at one. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Michigan loaded the bases with one out after a walk to Tammy Mika, a single by * Melissa Gentile and an intentional walk to Jen Smith. Pam Kosanke was then hit by a pitch from. Jennifer Johnson, forc- ing home the winning run. The second game could not have been more different from the first. In the first inning alone, the two teams combined for four runs on only one hit, surpassing their total run production from game one. Michigan rallied for a big inning in * the third, totaling its run production from the previous two games. Kellyn Tate started the rally with a single and was sacrificed to second by Traci Conrad. Cathy Davie walked and the two runners pulled off a double steal. Mika singled to score one run, chasing Minnesota pitcher Wendy Logue. The Gophers brought in Johnson, the Big Ten pitcher of the week for the past two weeks, to pitch to Gentile. The fresh- man greeted the new hurler with a tow- ering home run to left center field. The Wolverines scored another run to push their lead to 7-2. Michigan picked up two runs in the fourth and one more in the sixth to end the game due to the mercy rule. Michigan coach Carol Hutchins was impressed with Gentile's performance. . "I'll tell you what, she has really come on this part of the season," Hutchins said. "We needed it, and she's playing great softball." Yesterday, the Wolverines completed the series sweep of the Gophers as Holmes picked up her fifth shutout of the season, allowing only three hits and striking out five. Michigan scored its lone run in the third inning when Davie drove Lisa Kelley in with a sacrifice fly. Minnesota threatened in the top of the seventh, loading the bases with none out. But Holmes shut the Gophers down, retiring three batters in a row. The Wolverines now get set to face Big Ten power Michigan State. After losing to Purdue in the first game of a doubleheader Saturday, the Spartans are in second place in the conference. They come to Ann Arbor tomorrow for two games, contests that will be important if the Wolverines want to qualify for the Big Ten tournament.. "This is the stretch of the season that you always talk about," Hutchins said. "We don't have to win all our games, but we need to win a lot of them. The more we win, the more pressure it takes off us." 'M' gymnastics' quest for first title falls short By Jacob Wheeler Daily Sports Writer Winning its first NCAA womens gymnastics champi- onship Friday night was... The news bulletin over the radio would please fans of the Michigan women's gymnastics team -- at least until the last word. ... UCLA. Friday night's NCAA championship in Gainesville, Fla., went to a first-time recipient but it wasn't the Wolverines, the owners of the best regional performance who dethroned highly favored Georgia for the first time. Instead it was the Bruins, who looked into their past and found the ability to defeat the Bulldogs, posting an all- around score of 197.15. Arizona State finished a surprising second, tallying a 196.85, and Georgia and Michigan were, close behind at 196.6 and a 196.5, respectively. UCLA was the top-ranked gymnastics team in the coun- try last December, before Georgia earned that distinction in early January and galloped through the entire regular season. Only a dismal performance two weeks ago at the Southeast Regional left the stables open for another team to come in and snatch away the NCAA title. It happened - but no Wolverines stood on top of the awards podium this weekend. "I don't know if we were ever favored to win it," Michigan coach Bev Plocki said. "All along, people have talked about Georgia being the favorite and UCLA and Michigan being teams that could take it away from Georgia if they faltered. Basically Georgia faltered and UCLA stepped up there and won the championship.' The Wolverines made it close, but slowed to a trot on the last apparatus. Michigan was running neck and neck with UCLA going into the last event, when the Wolverines finished with a sub-par 48.875 on the floor exercise to wind up fourth overall.- Still, the lower finish did little to diminish Michigan's' See GYMNASTICS, Page 15 JOHN KRAFT/Daily The Michigan women's gymnastics team failed to win its first-ever national championship this week- end in Gainesville, Fla., despite being the No. 1 seed. I University of Michigan I, ii 1 Engine Counci having ering l is its annua... i; ~ Join us on April 22 (last day of classes) on the North Campus Diag for a stress-free day of Volleyball, Velcro Olympics, Tu of War. AUCTION MAy 3Rd AT 10:OOAM UNIVERSITY Of TOLEdO CORNER Of DORR & SECOR " OVER 1000 COMPUTERS, SOME NEW (AppLE, GATEWAy, IBM's & MORE) " COMpUTER Equip. * RESTAURANT Eouip. " MISC. ITEMS CALL fOR TERMS & bROCNURE. DAVId M. ROSE, AUCTIONEER ROSE AUCTION CO. 419-867-3468 1 _ ! 9 U I su44en1 s usa 4 ,eaf eld ie nds he n aked ~t'ut4h NBC THURSDAY NIGHT. 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