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Scoreboard NATIONAL BASKETBAL ASSOCIATION
MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL MIAMI 125, Pheonix 97
G'TOWN 78, No. 14 Vilanova 67 Vancouver at GOLDEN STATE, inc.
No. 21 Tulsa at No. 4 UTAH, inc.
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKET8ALL Chicago 2, N.Y. RANGERS 1
No. 5 ALABAMA 78, Jackson St. 44 Colorado 5, TORONTO 2
No, 6 N. Carolina 75. No. 8 UVA 71 Home teams In CAPS
Tuesday
January 28, 1997
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teams are getting the same result with each: success.
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track
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Daily Sports Writer
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cint of the team score.
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team at meet
sophomore Marcy Akard.
Akard finished right behind Kampfe
- Fifty-three per- with a time of 17:28.86. Junior Eileen
Fleck rounded out the Michigan sweep,
35 total points. giving the Wolverines 24 points for the
t it, the distance single event.
n women's track Kampfe, Akard and many of the
eir fair share of other Michigan distance runners are
Wolverines' suc- used to competing with each other.
y's . Michigan Their cross country season ended just
onships. more than a month ago, providing them
lose to Eastern with a sense of unity and chemistry
its, 143-135, but beyond that of the track team.
red the Eagles, "It's always nice to have a teammate
vents. so you can run it together," Kampfe
at distance races said. "We've been practicing together
of the 15 events since August, so you get to know
through practicing who's your speed
at we were able and who you can race with, so that
arry our load," helps"'
ampfe said. "As The distance runners have been train-
part, then we'll ing especially hard in practice for the
im), eventually.' past couple of weeks. As impressive as
rst in her only they have been, they expect and
)00, with a time demand improvement of themselves
ay marked the before the Big Ten and NCAA champi-
i ever competed onships.
was pushed by Sophomore Katie McGregor placed
ed teammate, See TRACK, Page 12
'Michigan
looks to
avenge
'96 defeat
By Danielle Rumore
Daily Sports Editor
Penn State basketball has never been a
symbol of success.
The Nittany Lions have never had a
consensus first-team All-American.
They have had just one first-team All-
Big Ten selection. There have been zero
NCAA titles and zero Big Ten titles.
But then there was last year's success.
In just its third season as a member of the
Big Ten, Penn State, which for so many
years barely clung
by its claws to the :>C ';
lower rung of any m
national ladder,
surprised the :
nation.IX
The Nittany
Lions finished tied
for second place in
the conference,
achieved a nation-
al ranking for the
first time in 31 Whewe:30rpce
years a hdwere Wee rc
year andwere Jordan Center,
listed in the AP sMate Colege
Top 25 poll for a Notable: Penn
school-record 10 State is in last
straight weeks. place in the con-
First-year coach fere
Jerry Dunn com-
bined with solid role players and a new
arena - the 15,300-seat Bryce Jordan
Center - made the Lions one of the
nicer stories of the 1995-96 season.
But this year, the Lions (1-6 Big Ten,
8-8 overall)eare struggling and have
regressed back to the way things used to
be in the pre-Bryce, pre-Dunn era. They
are struggling mightily in the Big Ten,
tied with Northwestern at 1-6 in last
place, and will host No. 16 Michigan (4-
3, 14-5) tonight at 7:30.
"They're going to come out as hard as
they can," said Michigan forward Maceo
Baston, who had seven points and four
boards in last year's game at Penn State.
"It's their home court, and it's always
rough there on the road."
A good point, indeed, considering that
although the Lions are sitting at .500 and
are a paltry 1-6 in the Big Ten, they hold
a special advantage at home.
The Lions are 6-3 at games played at
Bryce this season and were undefeated
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Robert Traylor and the rest of the Wolverines are still looking up at four teams in the Big Ten race. Michigan hopes to get
back into the thick of things with a win tonight at Penn State.
there last season (8-0) after their previ-
ous arena, Recreation Hall, closed. Penn
State defeated Michigan, 67-57, at Bryce
last season.
But that was last year, and the Lions
are missing a few key ingredients from
the 21-7 team that advanced to the first
round of the NCAA tournament.
For one,. Glenn Sekunda and Matt
Gaudio are gone, leaving a hefty gap in
the middle. The two combined for 26.1
points and 12.3 rebounds per game.
Sophomore Calvin Booth has stepped
in to fill the gap left by Sekunda and
Gaudio. He averages 9.4 points per game
and leads the team in blocks with 63..
But one of the Lions' biggest prob-
lems is undoubtedly the loss of senior
guard Dan Earl, who, paired with Pete
Lisicky in the backcourt, comprised one
of the most potent one-two punches in
the nation last season.
Lisicky averages 16.9 points per
game, the only Penn State player cur-
rently averaging double figures. Last
season, he averaged 13.3 points and was
ranked eighth in the nation in 3-point
percentage, while Earl led the confer-
ence in steals (1.86 per game) and was
second in assists (5.25).
But throughout the 1995-96 season,
Earl began experiencing back prob-
lems and has not played a minute this
season.
"Penn State was a very competitive
team last year, but they're missing one of
their key players," Michigan forward
Robert Traylor said.
The Wolverines are currently in third
place in the Big Ten, behind Minnesota
(7-1) and Iowa (5-2).
Their last conference game was a 72-
70 loss Jan. 21, at Indiana. The loss pit-
ted the Wolverines at 4-3, after kicking
off conference play at 2-2.
Saturday, they played at Michiga
State in a non-conference game. Tonign
the Wolverines will play in the Big Ten
for the first time in a week.
"We should beat them," Michigan
guard Travis Conlan said. "They're in the
lower part of the league right now.
They're not doing very well this year so
this is a must-win.
"Actually, (all conference games) are a
must-win if we want to win the Big Ten
championship."
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By Jordan Field
Daily Sports Writer
Although snow and wintry weather
delayed the Michigan men's tennis
team's bus on its way back from
Champaign, nothing could stop the
Wolverines over the weekend.
Four of Michigan's six competitors in
the main draw won their first match.
Matt Wright had the most impressive
first round match, a 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (7-4),
6-3 out-dueling of Northwestern's Alex
Witt, the second seed in the draw.
After knocking out Witt, Wright then
beat Wisconsin's John Thomsen in three
sets before defeating 14th-seeded Tom
Chicione from Minnesota in the round
of 16, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2. In the quarterfinals,
Wright lost to 15th-seeded, Gavin
Sontag of Illinois, the eventual champi-
on of the main draw.
Other Michigan success came from
Brook Blain and Will Farah.
Both Blain, who lost in the first round,
and Farah, who bowed out in the second
round of the main draw, survived until
the semifinals in the consolation draw.
Blain won his semifinal match against
David Chang of Wisconsin in straig*
sets, before defaulting to Northwesternst
Ry Tarpley in the finals.
In his path to the semis, Blain defeat-
ed fifth-seeded Ben Gabler of
Minnesota. Last year, Gabler lost to then
Michigan senior Peter Pusztai in the
championship game of the main draw.
Carrying on his older brother's suc-
cess at the Big Ten singles champi-
onship, Miki Pusztai rattled off five
straight wins in the No.7 and No.8 co
solation bracket to capture the champ-
onship of that draw. In the finals, Pusztai
dropped Wisconsin's Tony Pederson in
three sets, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.
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