TENNIS women close in on 1st league title, pick up 3 victories on road The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - April 7, 1997 - 7B r B By Alan Gomez Daily Sports Writer Unlike the Michigan students who were walking a few steps slower after ash Bash, the Michigan women's ten- is team picked up speed this weekend as it blew past Ohio State, Indiana and William & Mary. 7 The last stop on No. 19 Michigan's (12-4) weekend tour was South Bend, where the Wolverines took on the sev- enth-ranked Tribe. William & Mary (14-6) was stunned by xMichigan's senior Sarah Cyganiak and the Michigan freshmen. Cyganiak won her singles match in straight sets . -d teamed up with junior Sora Moon f tr a doubles victory, their 25th this season. Cyganiak's 13th victory was matched by freshmen Brooke Hart and Danielle Lund. Hart had to battle through three sets to get her team-leading victory while Lund coasted through two sets. The victory capped off an incredible weekend in which the Wolverines also eat up on two Big Ten opponents. Michigan's second stop of the week- end was Bloomington on Saturday, where the Hoosiers have not been the kindest of hosts to Michigan. The 32nd-ranked Hoosiers (11-6) have dominated Michigan in the past. indiana's all-time mark against Michigan was 22-8. The last time the Wolverines beat Indiana in the regular season was when Indiana forfeited in 1992. In fact, the Hoosiers have domi- *ated the Big Ten, winning all but three Big Ten championships since 1982. All this translated into a very big match between two teams undefeated in the conference. And for the first time ever, Michigan beat the Hoosiers in Bloomington. As usual, the pace was set by Cyganiak's performance at the No. 1 spot, as she pushed her conference record to a stellar 7-0. She also teamed p with Moon to improve their doubles record to 6-1 in the conference. Aside from Cyganiak's singles win and her pairing with Moon for the dou- bles win, the match came down to the play of the freshmen. Moon and sopho- more Tumeka Harris lost both of their matches in straight sets, so it was up to the youngsters to seal the victory. Hart kept pace with Cyganiak as their identical conference and dual- *latch records (7-0, 12-3) lead the team. She didn't drop a set all weekend and is now 18-9 overall. Freshman Erryn Weggenman won both her matches of the weekend and got her 10th dual-match victory against Indiana. She is now 5-1 in the confer- ence and is two victories shy of her 20th overall. Lund also kept up with the team leaders with 12 dual-match wins. In her six Big Ten matches, she has only lost one. Lund needs one victory to reach 20. The play of the doubles was also very consistent throughout the weekend. Only one loss against Ohio State on Friday and a clean sweep of the Hoosiers gave the Wolverines the dou- bles point in both matches. The Cyganiak-Moon combination is now tied with the duo of Weggenman and redshirt freshman Jen Boylan for the team lead with a 6-1 Big Ten record. Cyganiak and Moon are now 11-4 in dual matches, while Weggenman and Boylan picked up their 10th overall vic- tory against Indiana. Before the Wolverines were able to defeat Indiana, they had to stop in Columbus and face the struggling Buckeyes. Michigan was carrying a 5-0 Big Ten record, while the Buckeyes were reeling at 1-3. So it was no sur- prise that Michigan dominated the match, winning 7-0. The Wolverines won every singles match in straight sets. The only loss for Michigan was in No. 2 doubles, where freshmen Danielle Lund and Brooke Hart lost, 8-6. Cyganiak cruised to earn her 20th victory. The wins against Indiana and Ohio State left the Wolverines alone atop the Big Ten. With a 7-0 record in the conference and only three Big Ten matches remain- ing, the Wolverines can breathe a sigh of relief when they look at the standings and see Indiana with a 4-1 record in the conference with more than half of its matches still to be played. Michigan is trying to win its first- ever Big Ten championship. Fab frosh critical to M' success, providing a depth once lacked The Fab Five. The Greatest Recruiting Class Ever. The five crazy freshmen that wanted nothing to do with seniority and began dom- inating their opposition as soon as they got to Ann Arbor. No, not the basketball players that made it to two national cham- pionship games. They are the five newcomers on the Michigan women's tennis team. The Wolverines' roster is made up of one senior, one junior, one sophomore and five freshmen. The leader for Michigan is clearly the senior, Sarah Cyganiak. But the play of the freshmen has given Michigan depth, which has helped: the Wolverines get off to their best-' ever start in the Big Ten - 7-0. Two of the freshmen are current- ly tied for the team lead in dual- match victories. Brooke Hart and Danielle Lund are both 13-3, tied with Cyganiak. Hart is undefeated in the Big Ten with a 7-0 mark, while Lund has only dropped one conference match. Lund and Hart are also the pair- ing in Michigan's No. 2 doubles team. They have an 8-6 dual-match record and have been consistent in the conference with a 5-2 mark. Another freshman, Erryn Weggenman, has been playing in the No. 5 spot this season and has compiled an 11-4 dual-match record to go with her 5-1 mark in the conference. The pairing of Weggenman and redshirt freshman Jen Boylan has proved to be a good one. They are now 6-1 in the Big Ten and have put together a 10-6 mark overall. Rounding out the group is Tenley Hardin. Only 5-5 overall, Hardin is undefeated in dual-match competi- tion at 1-0. The play of these freshmen has made the Wolverines solid all the way through the lineup. This weekend against Indiana and William & Mary, junior Sora Moon and sophomore Tumeka Harris were struggling. Both of them dropped their matches, but the freshmen were there to pick them up. The rookies settled things down for Michigan as they swept by their opponents and secured the victory for the Wolverines. Even though the big guns for the Wolverines - the first three singles spots - are represented by the upperclassmen, the freshmen are still doing their own bit of damage. Two of the three doubles tandems are made up of freshmen. And with half of the singles lineup made up of freshmen, every match can be swayed by the performance of the freshmen. The first Fab Five had to deal with the ordeal of players leaving early for the draft. 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