The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - January 13, 1997 - 9B Two netters fall early at Milwaukee Classic By Jordan Field Daily Sports Writer Taking the courts for the first time since November, the Michigan men's tennis team traveled to Wisconsin this past week for the Milwaukee Tennis Classic. "The main purpose of this tourna- ment is to get back playing tennis," Michigan assistant coach Dan Goldberg said. "After being off for quite a while, I think we were all pretty pleased with our results." The Milwaukee Classic, hosted by Marquette University, is an individual tournament played at 10 separate local tennis clubs. Michigan sent eight play- ers to the classic, competing in both sin- gles and doubles draws. In singles play, junior David Paradzik and freshman Matt Wright both won their first two matches before both los- ing in the round of 32. Wright fell to Stanford standout Ryan Wolters, who was the eventual singles champion from that draw. "Matt was excellent," Goldberg said. "He is a very strong player, who is just seeing how he is capable of playing and realizing his potential. A lot of freshmen come into these tournaments a little apprehensive, but Matt is very confi- dent, and he is only going to get better." Also in singles play, junior Arvid Swan, who lost in the first round to third-seed Thomas Blake from Harvard, succeeded in the consolation draw, sur- viving to the finals, until he fell to Illinios' Jakub Telpy, 4-6,3-6. Telpy had entered the consolation draw after los- ing in the first round of the main draw to Michigan freshman Brad McFarland in three sets. Michigan sophomore Jake Raiton, who had been sidelined earlier this sea- son because of shoulder surgery over the summer, made his return for the Wolverines in the singles draw. He won his first match in three sets, before los- ing to Tyler Jimenez of Texas Tech. "Jake did a really nice job coming back in his first competition," Goldberg said. "We were a little uncertain how he would be, but he played well and is right there with the rest of the team again." In doubles play, all four Michigan teams won their first-round matches. "The brightest spot for us at the tour- nament may have been the play of our doubles teams,"Goldberg said. "We lost a couple of tight matches, but really we thought everyone played great." Junior Brook Blain, teaming with Wright, were the Wolverines' most suc- cessful duo. They survived until the third round, where they fell to a pair from BYU in three sets. Goldberg said that the team was test- ing new doubles pairing at the Classic. Three of Michigan's four doubles team were playing together for the first time. McFarland, who had originally been Wright's doubles partner, paired with Swan for the first time and lost in the second round. Despite losing early, McFarland felt the new pairing worked well at the Classic. "Just about everyone on the team is so close in talent, it's hard to figure out who teams up best together," McFarland said. "Coach was trying new combina- tions to see who clicked best. The results weren't great, but everyone played well together and all the losses came to very good teams. I think every- one liked who they played with, and it is just a matter of time until everyone is totally comfortable." BUSSEY Continued from Page 1B bye. "He always kept that big smile on his face, and he never asked, 'Why me?' I guess we all wonder why, but the only thing I can come up with is that God needed a pass rush. Now he's playing for the best team there is." Over and over again, Neuheisel and others told stories of Bussey's loving personality - he was born on Valentine's Day, after all - and his determination.There was the time last week, when Neuheisel was recruiting in Tucson, Ariz., and received word that Bussey had died. Bussey would never again be at the other end of the phone, holding the same conversation he held with Neuheisel every week: "Hey, Tiger, how you feeling?" "Just fine, coach." "You sure?" "Yep. I'll be back soon?' Tiger saidthatto the end, "I'll be back." He was set on it, lifting light weights in the hospital, trying to get stronger. After religion and family, foot- ball was the most important thing in his. life. He just wanted to play, but leukemia wouldn't give him the chance. "There was no question Tiger was going to be a good player, but he was already a great person," Neuheisel said. "I'm supposed to be the teacher, but I learned more from Tiger than I ever taught?' And so did many others. "I'll never forget Tiger; he never gave up," said T.J. Rickey, who played with Bussey at De Porres. "The last thing he told me was, 'Never say die. I'll see you later."' Always a Tiger. - Nicholas J Cotsonika can be reached over e-mail at cotsonik@umich.edu. Get UfPLUGGED A s - s *" Beginning January 1997, you will need sufficient funds to continue to use all UMCE (UM Computing Environment) services. k your UMCE subscriptions and account balances regularly to make sure you have enough funding for the computing services you need. JOSH BIGGS/Daily Michigan sophomore Jake Raiton returned to action this weekend after having been sidelines with a shoulder Injury earlier in the season. .Women gymnasts place second in opener By Nita Srivastava Daily Sports Writer The No. 5 Michigan women's gym- nastics team began its season with a disappointing second-place finish behind host, No. 20 West Virginia in Saturday's tri-meet. Towson State also competed, finishing third. 'Sophomore Nikki Peters demon- *rated a top performance, capturing first place with a score of 39.000 in the all-around competition. It was the first time in her career that she has competed in all four events. Peters tied for first in the balance beam (9.750) and won the uneven bars (9.850). She was the only Wolverine to place in the top six of the balance beam competition, aiding e Michigan team in its overall sec- d-place finish, as the balance beam and the floor exercise were its two weakest events. "I was proud of the way Nikki Peters performed," Michigan coach Bev Plocki said. "She accomplished a lot in her first all-around competition as a Wolverine, but I know she has potential to do even better." Michigan dominated the vault and the uneven bars with a three-way tie ,4 firstplace in vault (9.900) by Caverines Beth Amelkovich, Sarah Cain, and Peters. Peters and Cain took first and sec- ond place in the uneven bars respec- tiv~ely (9.850, 9.825). ","ust because I hit the vault and the unreven bars this time, doesn't mean that I will in the future; I still have to cdidtinue working on everything," -lin said. * nrm ended up with an impressive sUih-place finish in her first all-, artnd competition (38.200), show- inpromise for a great career at M gigan. flespite good performances from iddtiiduals, the Wolverines did not get'The luck of the draw in the order of tlid events. They began the competi- tiar with the floor exercise, which is tl weakest event, and finished on ebeam. Michigan was leading West irginia by .3 points going into the fa event. Tnding on beam is difficult," Plocki said. "It is such a pressure event, and we had two breaks (falls) right at the end." The Wolverines also had to deal with a few injuries in this competi- tion. Junior Heather Kabnick was not able to perform due to a pulled ham- string, and sophomore Kathy Burke sprained her ankle in the competi- tion's warm-ups. Senior Andrea McDonald compet- ed with a stress fracture in her back, filling in for Burke, and managed to place 15th (9.375) with a "watered- down" routine in floor exercise. Twenty-two of the 24 routines were performed by freshmen and sopho- mores, so inexperience and nerves played a definite role in the Wolverines' performance. "With such a young team, there is inexperience, and with inexperience comes mistakes," Plocki said. "We were the superior team in the compe- tition, but we just had too many mis- takes - mental mistakes." With the first competition under their belts, the Wolverines are looking forward to a challenging season. "I am excited because I think that we will be really good," Cain said. "And it also helps to have something to look back on and learn from." "It's not the performance that we were hoping for, but it made us real- ize the work that needs to be done," Plocki said. "I predict a big difference in our second meet against Minnesota this Saturday." 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