s 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 101 ,,,. Lions can't 0 restore the roar s country. Track. Same thing? Nope. But for Michigan, the women who run for teams are getting the same result with each: success. Blue track I Chris Farah Daily Sports Writer .EAST LANSING - cint of the team score. M Seventy-one out of 1 Any way you look a runners of the Michiga t6am had more than th riponsitility for the V cess ft Saturday Iftercollegiate Champi r:True, Michigan did Michigan by eight poin tie Wolverines outsco ~1-40, in the distance e SAlso keep in mind th krcounted for only five contested at the meet. K"1lce to know th to .do our part and c fresh Elizabeth Ke png as we can do our ome together (as a tea Kampfe finished fi ice of the day, the 5,0 Of 17:27.51. Saturda frst time Kampfe had Si the 5,000, but she 4 r more experienc -_ ham [ers spark 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 JOE WESTRATE/Oo 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." t~ I I ~I h I~d Two 5-week sessions More than 75 quality education courses French Immersion 3-week Program College Preview High School Program Pont-Aven Art Program or information: 'M' netters ice Illinois The American University of Paris Summer Programs, Box S-4 60 East 42nd St., Suite 1463 New York, New York 10165 Tel. (212) 983-1414 Fax (212) 983-0444 Web site -http://www.aup.fr Email - Summer@aup.fr r - I I I I 13 I I I I I I ------ - -- - --rn-rn-----, XA II I I I I I I BAGEL SANDWiCH & SMALL Sour I I Accredited by the Middle States Association 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. A e GRADUATE LIBRARY INTERNET CLASSESz Subject Resources on the World Wide Web Subject Date Time Location The Healthy Alternative i Low-Fat and Fat-Free Foods 1 715 N. University 1 ....662-4 00. Anthropology Classical Studies Economics Education English Language & Literature Grants History (European) History (U.S.) Philosophy Politics and Government (U.S.) Psychology Romance Languages & Literature Sociology & Demography Theatre & Film Jan 29 Mar 21 Apr 4 Feb 18 Jan 31 Mar 11 Mar 3 Feb 10 Mar 7 Feb 25 Mar 28 Feb 28. Feb 21. 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