Scoresc MAJOR LEAGUE BaIrnore , BASEBALL TORONTO 2 DETROIT 6, Minnesct-a 5 Boston 0 C. WHITE SOX 3 Texas 14, A naheim at OAKLAND 6 SEATTLE, ic. MILWAUKEE 7. Atlanta 6. Kansas City 4 PHILADELPHiA C CLEVELAND 10. Florida 6, N.Y. Yankees 9 MONTREAL 3 Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. METS 4 HOUSTON 5, C. Cubs 3 Cincinnati 8, ST. LOUIS 6 San Francisco at COLORADO, inc. San Diego at LOS ANGELES, inc. NHL PRESEASON Detroit 3. CAROLINA 0 Pittsburgh 5, BOSTON 4 FLORIDA 6. Tampa Bay 3 TORONTO 3. Buffaio2 3 Wednesday September 24, 1997 11 - - Look out, Bik Ten lust myk t IDon't everybody look at once, cause the rest of the country might catch us, but the Big Ten looks like it just might be returning to prominence as the nation's most domi- t football conference. It's early in the season, and polls don't mean a whole heck of a lot right now, but it is undeniable that the Big Ten has found the Lions' share of early season success. Five Big Ten teams are ranked in the Associated Press top 25 4 N (No.2 Penn LROI State, No. 6 Michigan, No. 7 Out of Ohio State, No. Bounds 1l Iowa and No. 12 Michigan State) for the fhr( time since hell froze over back in 'f3. 1873. For the first time in about that long, the Big Ten is scary. Aside from the top *e teams, Purdue beat Notre Dame (yeah, they lost to Toledo, too), Indiana put a scare into North Carolina (though Kentucky whipped 'em), and Minnesota blew out Iowa State (OK, that means very little). The Big Ten will likely get six teams into bowl games this year, and maybe even seven, if Wisconsin and Northwestern, both ranked at one time, luve up to their ends of the bargain. s for the top five, all look strong, look invincible and all look poised t4m ke a run at the Big Ten title, and riaybe even a national championship. This is great for the conference, gobd for enthusiasm and for national exposure" Michigan coach Lloyd Carr sad. But we have to start playing each ote pretty soon, so the likelihood that we'll all stay highly ranked is pretty low. *'We have some great rivalries in this conference, and it's going to be a battle every week." Carr is one who believes that the Big Ten is always great - not just good - it's just that teams are so competitive in the Big Ten that they all beat each other and only one squad emerges the confer- ence season unscathed. Obviously, some teams are going to lose. Penn State, Ohio State and Michigan won't all be undefeated at 1son's end - they have to play each other. But that doesn't mean that two or three Big Ten teams can't be ranked in the top 10 in late November. And unlike the past few seasons, Big Ten teams look impressive - no, astounding - on offense as well as on the defensive side of the ball. The Wolverines have pitched two near shutouts and have scored 27 points ore in both of their games. Penn te is recording 50-point games like Florida, and Iowa is truly giving the Gators a run for their money, averaging 60 points per game. Even Michigan State has contributed to the cause, whipping Memphis and Western Michigan, and when Wisconsin's won it's won big. "It's amazing to look at the stats offensively in this league" first-year See LEROI, Page 12 O I I re' In new-look league, Michigan among several young teams WARREN ZINN/Daily Not even Michigan's star goaltender, senior Marty Turco, can guarantee that the Wolverines can top the soaring Spartans. For the past four years, Michigan has dominated the CCHA. The Wolverines won 17, -z-, ithe league title each of those years - three times outright. But now, with the loss of nine seniors and an influx of freshmen, the coaches and the media predict COL LEG IATE - -that a new No. 1 team will take Michigan's crown this season. Here are ... ThePolls By Pranay Reddy Daily Sports Writer DETROIT - There was one underly- ing theme during yesterday's CCHA media conference at Joe Louis Arena - youth will be served in 1997-98. On a Michigan hockey team replacing nine departed seniors with nine incom- ing freshmen, inexperience is obviously key. However, the Wolverines won't be alone in the youth movement = this season in the CCHA. Fast Lake Superior coach Scott at i Borek emphasized his team's W relative inexperience yester- SfueWh day but welcomed the chal- mae lenge as well. The Lakers wiww ( field 10 freshmen on their e roster. Arena . "We will be extremely Tickets: young and I'm certain we will salet $. make a lot of mistakes" the $1 second-year coach said. "We're very excited - I think the youth and the enthusiasm that comes with youth is always fun to coach." And while the Lakers have their work cut out for them, Northern Michigan also seems to have its hands full in deal- ing with inexperience. But coach Rick Comley begs to differ. "We will have 21 freshmen and sophomores on our team, but that's almost irrelevant," he said. "I think today's good player plays whether he is a freshman, sophomore or junior." The Wildcats have issues other than youth to deal with this season. Northern Michigan is returning to the CCHA after 13 years in the WCHA, following its first eight years in the CCHA. "We're very pleased to be accepted back in the CCHA for the upcoming sea- son,' Comley said. "We are excited about renewing past rivalries with the members of the CCHA." So aside from an experienced Michigan State squad that returns 16 let- terwinners, the rest of the conference seems in limbo after four years of Michigan dominance. The Wolverines are in an unusual position to begin this season. Michigan was voted No. 3 in the CCHA coaches' pre-season poll. In fact, the same could be said for Michigan State. The Spartans were voted as the No. I team in the confer- ence in both the coaches' and media pre- season polls. It was the first time since the 1990-9! season that Michigan State has earned the top spot. While the Spartans captured nine first-place votes in the coaches' poll, Miami received the other two, ending up at No. 2. NOT SO FAST: A hot issue rs discussed at the conference annu~al was the recent trend of college e scrim hockey players leaving early to play in professional miner r, 4 leagues. Both Michigan: st Ice coach Red Berenson and Bowling Green coach Buddy qow on Powers raised the issue it i dits, their statements to the medial "Players are going to have opportunities to move on, and ... you can't really hold them back, Powers said. "Its something that might even get worse as you have expansion in the NHL. I certainly hope it doesn't reach epidemic proportions.: Berenson echoed his colleague's state- ment and added his own anecdote about. former Wolverine Harold Schock. Schock began as a walk-on for the Wolverines and played for four years before graduating. And while he attempts to join a professional team for. the next two years, he also has made plans to attend medical school. "That's the kind of story people need to hear" Berenson said. "Hopefully, there are a lot of winners like Schock out there." THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES: While every CCHA coach spent time yesterday discussing his respective team's prospects for the upcoming season, no one failed to thank CCHA commission- er Bill Beagan for his accomplishments over the past 12 seasons. Beagan, who is retiring after this season, made huge strides during his time as commissioner, increasing publicity among other things. In addition, Beagen led the efforts to bring Alaska-Fairbanks, Notre Dame, and now Northern Michigan into the CCHA. The Rank 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 9. 11. coaches' Team (first-place votes) Michigan State (9) Miami (Ohio) (2) Michigan Lake Superior Western Michigan Bowling Green Notre Dame Ohio State Ferris State Northern Michigan Alaska-Fairbanks Points 99 90 83 69 62 54 43 42 26 26 11 The Rank 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. media's Team (first-place votes) Michigan State (33) Michigan (10) Miami (Ohio) (3) Lake Superior (1) Bowling Green (1) Western Michigan (1) Ohio State Notre Dame Northern Michigan Ferris State Alaska-Fairbanks Points 371 351 311 299 242 225 143 138 108 107 81 Upcoming games Oct. 4 Blue-White Game, Yost Ice Arena Guelph at Michigan State Oct. 9 Western Ontario at Western Michigan Oct. 10 Michigan vs. Minnesota, Hall of Fame Game, Minneapolis Laurentian at Northern Michigan Michigan State vs. Boston University, Dane County Col. Toronto at Ohio State Waterloo at Bowling Green Western Ontario at Notre Dame Oct. 11 Alberta at Alaska-Fairbanks Bowling Green at Western Michigan (non-conference) Michigan State vs. Clarkson/Wisconsin, Dane County Col. Waterloo at Miami (Ohio) Windsor at Ferris State M' tennis s best struggle on clay By Uma Subramanian For the Daily United they stand, divided they fal- tered. This one statement describes the results of Michigan men's tennis players Brook Blain and Arvid Swan at the T. Rowe Price National Indoor Clay Courts tournament underway in Baltimore. This past weekend was the qualifying singles for this week's tournament. As Swan expected, the tournament has been challenging. "This tourney will be competitive," Swan said prior to the tournament. "It's one of the four major events of the year." As it turned out, the singles qualifying events proved to be a tough challenge. Blain lost in the first round. But, accord- ing to men's tennis coach Brian Eisner, the match against Alex Cole of Farleigh Dickinson was very competitive. "Brook came very close;" Eisner said. "He had several match points which did- n't play out" On the other hand, Swan experienced success in the qualifying rounds on Saturday. He defeated J.P. Gingras of St. Bonaventure (3-6, 6-2, 6-0) in the first round. In his second round match the same day, Swan defeated Damion Ciacca of East Tennessee State (6-2, 7- 5). Sunday dawned promising; however, at the start of the match Swan experi- enced several problems. "He came out stiff" Eisner said. "This often happens when you're not used to clay courts. The points play longer, so it wears you out more. Since he played two matches the day before, he was stiff at the start of the match. That was why he didn't perform as well" Swan lost the third match (6-2, 6-0) to Esteban Carril of Texas Christian. "Overall, Arvid felt very positive about the matches," Eisner said. "Though they. (Swan and Blain) were disappointed they lost, they were very glad they played in the singles qualifiers because it gave them clay experience." Clay is a tough surface for the Wolverines to compete on. Since this is the only tournament they play on the sur- face, they do not have much experience on it. But, although they lost the singles matches, Swan and Blain are still alive in See TENNIS, Page 12 Q uestions about LSA Student Government? Find out how LSA-SG can be a resource for you or your student group. Come to the LSA Student Government mass meeting on Tuesday, September 30 at 5:30 pm in room 2003 LSA Building. Pizza and pop will be served. Topics will include the budget and appointment process.s.II/ Questions can also be answered at the LSA-SG office at 4152 Michigan Union or by phone at 647-8636. 1E \)7fr-AU STu~t,7T O Vtfi7/ILII TISCH HUMANITIES SEMINAR . 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