12A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 3, 1997
Men's tennis needs
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consistency against
Hawkeyes, Gophers
Netters look to
continue rivalry
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By John Friedberg
Daily Sports Writer
If the last two weekends are any
indication, no one will know which
Michigan tennis team (2-2 Big Ten,
4-9 overall) will come to play tomor-
row at Iowa and Sunday at
Minnesota.
Will it be the Michigan team that
swept Ohio State and narrowly beat
conference leader Indiana? Or will
the Wolverines revert back to the
team that lost eight straight matches?
Michigan had lost five of the eight
matches, 4-3.
According to Michigan coach
Brian Eisner, fans should look for
the team of the past weekend.
"I think the two matches gave
everyone a lot of confidence," Eisner
said. "We played very, very well."
For a change, Eisner will not have
to change the lineup going into the
weekend.
Junior David
Paradzik will
stay at the No. 1 Min n
singles spot for
the weekend. been our
He is the only
Wolverine to + ompetI
play in the same pas e1
slot for every p
match. e r
He will be y r
followed by
freshman Matt
Wright, playing Michigan mer
No. 2 singles for just the fourth time
all year.
Wright has a 1-2 record in his pre-
vious three' matches at the No. 2
spot.
Junior Arvid Swan, who has
played most of the matches at No. 2
this season, moves down to the No. 3
spot, where he is 2-1. Swan has won
his last two matches.
Will Farah will play No. 4 this
weekend.
Farah is tied with Paradzik for the
team lead in wins this season with 19
and looks to improve on his 4-1 Big
Ten singles record.
The top four will be joined by
sophomore Jake Raiton and fresh-
man Brad McFarlane.
Raiton has struggled at the No. 5
spot posting a 3-6 record. He has
missed two of the conference match-
es due to injury.
McFarlane, on the other hand, is
coming off his most successful
weekend.
McFarlane earned his first two
dual match victories of his Michigan
career, including the match clincher
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against Indiana's Andrew Held, 5-7,"
6-3, 6-1.
The doubles pairings will also be
the same, as Eisner struggles to find
combinations that can string some
victories together.
Only one pair playing this week-
end, Swan and McFarlane, has a .500
record. The doubles point could be
the difference if the matches are
close.
Michigan faces injury-depleted
Iowa (1-3, 7-7) that has only one
conference win this season, yet
Eisner refuses to take the Hawkeyes
lightly.
"They (Iowa) have had a lot of
problems this year," Eisner said.
"But when teams play well in this
conference, anyone can beat any-
one."
Minnesota (1-3, 5-8) has been
Michigan's main rival at the top of
the conference
recently, but
this season the
so fa as Gophers have
struggled a bit.
ch ef "Minnesota
thehas been our
chief competi-
tion the past
eight to 10
years," Eisner
said. "We have
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s tennis coach teams in the
conference."
That should change starting this
weekend with the return of Lars
Hjarrand.
Hjarrand has played some events
on the pro tour this year and has con-
sequently not played with the
Gophers all year.
But Hjarrand has re-enrolled at
Minnesota and has rejoined the
team.
"They really get a boost with the
return of Hjarrand," Eisner said.
Hjarrand's return provides
Minnesota with another advantage.
The rest of the singles players will
have a chance to move down a spot.
That should enable the Gophers to be
more formidable than they have all
season.
"We can't worry about what is
going on with other teams," Eisner
said.
"We know that if we can play the
type of tennis that we are capable of,
we can make a run at the conference
title."
The run at a repeat conference title
begins in Iowa City tomorrow.
By Alan Gomez
Daily Staff Writer
The rivalry between Michigan and
Ohio State is legendary. What most
fans aren't aware of is that the
Wolverines have beaten the
Buckeyes in 22 of their 30 total
meetings.
In women's tennis, that is.
Michigan just finished a hard-
fought trip to Florida last weekend.
The Wolverines picked up a win
against Miami, but their trip ended
with a loss to South Florida in
Tampa.
With that weekend out of the way,
the Wolverines will continue their
Big Ten schedule tomorrow against
the Buckeyes. The last time Ohio
State beat Michigan in a regular sea-
son match was in 1986, a span cov-
ering 10-straight matches.
Considering the Wolverines are
dominating the Big Ten this year
with a 5-0 record, the Buckeyes
shouldn't pose much of a threat with
their 1-3 conference record.
Leading the Michigan attack are
senior Sarah Cyganiak and freshman
Brooke Hart.
Cyganiak, currently ranked No. 49
in the nation, has won all five of her
matches in the conference while
playing in the No. I spot. If she
picks up a victory against Ohio
State; it will be her 40th career vic-
tory in the Big Ten.
Hart sports the same record as
Cyganiak in the conference, and her
10-3 overall record is also tied for
the team lead. Hart, and the rest of
the freshmen, have gotten off to a
good start this season.
Freshman Danielle Lund has man-
aged a 4-1 record in the conference
and is also tied for the overall team
lead at 10-3.
Erryn Weggenman, the other
freshman singles player, sports a 3-1
Big Ten record and an 8-4 record
overall,
Junior Sora Moon and sophomore
Tumeka Harris have had a rougher
time in the conference, playing at
No. 2 and No. 3, respectively.
A sign that the Wolverines have
been playing well is that Moon and
Harris, who have the two w
records in the conference, are b
over .500 with a 3-2 record.
The doubles teams have been as
dominating as the singles. All three
of the doubles tandems have a 4.-1
record in the conference.
The top-ranked duo of Cyganiak
and Moon are currently ranked No.
34 in the nation and lead the team
with an overall mark of 9-4. The
other two duos are composed off
freshmen. The pairing If
Weggenman and redshirt freshman
Jen Boylan are also 8-5 overall.
The performance of the upper
class members of the team has
brought the Wolverines together,
most notably that of Cyganiak in the
No. I spot.
And along with the strong perfor-
mances from the four contributing
freshmen, who have combined fo a
12-2 singles mark and an 8-2t-
bles record in conference play, the
Buckeyes might be in for a long
afternoon tomorrow.
FILE PHOTO
Tumeka Harris and the Michigan women's tennis team will continue its Big Ten
schedule tomorrow against Ohio State.
' crew in San Diego Classic for 1st time
Ginger L Zabel
For the Daily
The Michigan women's crew team
will be traveling to San Diego for the
San Diego Crew Classic on Saturday.
The Wolverines will be competing in
Heat A of the Whittier Cup division -
the premier event of the regatta.
Only 12 teams in the nation are invit-
ed to attend the highly selective event,
and Michigan will be looking to be one
of the three teams from its heat to con-
tinue into the finals.
The Wolverines will face
Washington, Massachusetts, Yale,
Stanford and Georgetown in Heat A.
Heat B will consist of Wisconsin,
Virginia, Washington State,
Pennsylvania, Oregon State and
California.
"It's going to be highly competitive,"
Michigan assistant coach Pamm Carroll
said. "These are the best crews in the
country. We're going to be facing some
stiff competition, and it's going to be
really exciting.
"If the seeding
ends up right, we
could be a surprise
out there. Getting
out of the heats and
into the final with
the top schools will
be a great chal-
lenge."
The Wolverines
will face some
tough competition
in their heat, espe-
cially from
Washington and
UMass - two of th
country.
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out there.
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he best teams in the
last year's Whittier
Cup winner, followed by Wisconsin and
Washington State.
As a newly formed varsity program,
Michigan will be competing in the
regatta for the
first time.
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Wolverines will
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a surprise loss to Virginia
last weekend with
its first boat and a
solid win over
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higan assistant Washington with
crew coach all four boats
competing.
"It was really
exciting to have that race last week,"
Carroll said. "Virginia has a good pro-
gram that's up-and-coming. It was great
to see that we were so close to such a
good crew.
"The girls have known that they
fast all year, but now they can startio
believe it. Everything is starting to pay
off."
The Wolverines are concentrating
on being one of the teams to make it to
the finals of the Whittier Cup, as well
as improving their record against
national powers such as Washington,
Wisconsin and Virginia, in order to
secure a place at nationals at the end of
the year.
"We have a heavy schedule, and we
will have to perform well at all of our
races to go as far as possible this year,
Carroll said. "It's a lot of pressure for
the girls with such a schedule.
Michigan's two top boats will com-
pete in San Diego, while the two novice
boats will compete in a meet at home.
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