fiti £chkgan 3Doig Scores Ha- MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL- [St roil 0t N0w YORK, inm LBjST(IN 3, TOronltO 2 hA iiMORE 4, Milwauke e 3 MINNE SOTA 1 :hi. Sex 9, M N aCITY 2 ANAHi lM~ 3 CHL CUBS 4, St. Louis 3 SAN FRANCISCO 6, Los Angeles 5 FLORIDA 8. Philadelphia 2 PITTSBURGH 12. Houston 3 CINCINNATI 6, Montreal 3 ATLANTA 11, New York 4 SAN DIEGO 7. Colorado 6 COLLEGE FOOTBALL P22) Miami (Fla.) at PITTSBURGH, inc. Friday September 19, 1997 11 1 .M spikers lose Chase for weekend By Tracy Sandier Daily Sports Writer . While the Michigan volleyball team prepares for tonight's match against North Carolina and tomor- *w night's meeting against Duke, the Wolverines will be without junior outside hitter Karen Chase. After missing last weekend's LSU iger Invitational, Chase had a bone scan Tuesday, which came up nega- tive. Michigan coach Greg Giovanazzi said that Chase has a disc problem and will likely not return to practice til next Tuesday. "That doesn't make her very prob- able for even next weekend," Giovanazzi said. "So maybe we'll enter the Big Tun season without her, the first weekend." For now, though, the Wolverines (5-4) have North Carolina on their minds, and they're working on set- ting their lineup. "We know that we'll start Sarah "chnke outside," G iovanazzi said. c'll use Anne Poglits a lot more iis weekend. Anne, every weekend. is getting better. So, we're going to use her front row and Jane Stevens back row." Looking at the Wolverines' two weekend opponents, the teams are around the same level. The differ- ences lie in their areas of expertise. "I think that we're going to find these two teams to be extraordinarily ,cn, maybe with different 1trengths," Giovanazzi said. "I think North Carolina will be a little bit more like us, as far as sonic good attacki g, mainly running people on the slide. "I think we'll look at Duke and see then as a good ball control team that we're going to have to have a lot of patience against, and maybe over- whelm them with a more powerful game." The Wolverines would like to return home with two victories, but winning is not Michigan's only con- cirn. The Big Tlen season begins Sept. 26 at Minnesota, with another match at Iowa the following day. This weekend's back-to-back matches will serve as a practice run. "It's very unusual for me, but I'm not very focused on the other two teams this weekend, because we're going in without Karen, and because our focus is to get two good nights in this weekend," Giovanazzi said. "One of the reasons we enlisted for this tournament is to prepare for what's a normal Big 'Tn weekend. It's exactly like this weekend. Two good matches. Back-to-back nights." St ill of concern to the Wolverines is their inability to come through in close matches. It has been a focus of practice this week, something that the team has worked on by practicing game situa- tions and by talking about the problem. "We haven't been doing much technical work," Giovanazzi said. "We've been doing a lot of work on sticking with one lineup and seeing whether or not the people mesh and then also giving people an opportu- nity to do a little more concentrated work on game situations." Part of the problem is a confi- dence issue, although Giovanazzi said it should not be a problem. "This is a team that's 5-4," Ciovanazzi said. "I don't think they should have at confidence crisis. I think they should be holding their heads pretty high and looking at fin- ishing the preseason at 7-4." Bears eager to take on Michigan By John Lroi Daily Sports Editor If Baylor coach Dave Roberts is trying to finagle a nice lunch out of the Michigan football coaches, he knows flattery goes a long way. Roberts spent most of this week gushing about how good the Wolverines are. He even said that after Michigan whipped fellow-Big 12 opponent Colorado, he threw up and then cried. While that may be an exaggeration on Roberts' part, the first- year coach left Waco yesterday puckering up, ready to lay i smooch on Michigan's boots when the Bears (1-1) take on l 8 Michigan (1-0) tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. in Michigan Stadiu "We just sat down and looked at the Colorado tape and sail 'woo!"' Roberts said. "We looked at their big ol'linemen and said 'Hey, we don't have any big ol' linemen. "We do a lot of the same things that Colorado does, and they pretty much shut down Colorado ... There's always a w to attack defenses, but I don't know how we're going to do iC Roberts may be feigning ignorance - he didn't just pick up a tape of Michigan for the first time. Roberts was the offensi coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Notre Dame from 199 96, so he has a good idea of what Michigan brings to the tabe "They are a good bit better than the Michigan teams f remember," Roberts said. "They used to just sit back and play defense, now they're attacking. I think their new defensiv coordinator (Jim Herrmann) has brought a new look f Michigan football, and it looks really, really good." The Wolverines held the Buffaloes to just 224 yards of total offense last weekend, only 49 of which came on the groundJ tDaay The passing game wasn't exactly successful either: Colora quarterback John Hessler completed just 15 of 40 passes a4 See BAYLOR, Page E Migan's dn Will Carr call for the play-action rolloi4 that Tuman and Griese performed fot# times last week? Count on it. Baylor's diminutive cornerbacks, foot-1l Matt Anderson and 5-9 Robert PASSING OFFENSE VS. Neal, are good news for 6-3 Michige G DEFENSE: A year ago at receiver Tai Streets, who should have i would have thought that problem using his height to his advanta M could ever be the eighth- EDGE: Michigan the nation? a 21-for-28, 258-yard, n game can do for you. s for the first time in his d with confidence, as are BAYLOR RUSHING OFFENSE backers are maybe a little MICHIGAN RUSHING DEFENSE: Afi Michigan safeties, mean- shutting down Herchell Troutman arlo nd Jerame Tuman should the Colorado running game for just Q ay for the second week. See MATCHUPS, Page SARA STILLMAN/ Baylor coach Dave Roberts said that he won't throw at Charles Woodson, who burned Colorado last week with an interception. The Matchups: Baylor Bears mere cu bs In By Alan Goldenbach Daily Spots Hitor A coach's use of reverse psychology does not have any bearing on the out- come of a football game. Michigan coach lloyd Carr and Baylor skipper Dave Roberts have each employed this tactic of exaggerating the differences between their teams in an effort to alter what is a clear mismatch on paper. Auler he finishes his well-documented episode of throwing up and crying, Roberts and his Bears, last year's whip- ping boys of the Big 12's south division, should receive quite a few extra lashes from Michigan. MICHICAN RUSHING OFFENSE VS. BAYLOR RUSHING DEFENSE: Like Michigan, Baylor employs a 4-3 defen- sive front chiefly aimed at stopping the run. Unlike Michigan, though, this setup has been ineffective in the Bears' first two contests this season, in which they have allowed 484 yards on the ground to two teams that do not rely on their run- ning games - Miami (Fla.) and Fresno State. Baylor can only hope that Michigan's running game is as inconsistent as it was last week. That should not be the case since the Wolverines will benefit from the return of center Zach Adami, who sat out last week with an ailing back. With Adami's return and the young oftensive line settling in, the backs can set their sights on 100-yard games. EDGE: Michigan MICHIGAN BAYLOR PASSIN this time, who Brian Griese c rated passer in That's what two-touchdowr Griese, perhap career, is loade his receivers. Baylor's line bit bigger than ing that tight e have a field d more"" U N IT E D STUDENT SPECIALS - Oil Changes $17.95 A U T 0 ."Winterizations $39.95 AND - General Maintenance Inspection $22.50 F L E E T " Foreign and Domestics R E PA R Serviced 2321 Jackson Ave. Ann Arbor 48103 (313) 665-7130 CO EPI Y M "i i i, " 0. ":Y # 4 : . t 111 -1 .9000 " ---.At i mlvi.comlfc FILE PHOTO The Wolverines will have setter Unnea Mendoza for this weekend's matches with North Carolina and Duke, but they will be without outside hitter Karen Chase. 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