14 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 15, 1997
CHASE
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and sand doubles volleyball and some
more running, left her in the best
playing shape of her life,
After her workout, Chase would
take a shower and head to the local
video store, where she worked.
But four months of hard work is
nothing compared to a month of inac-
tivity.
"It was disappointing to lose that
preparation," Chase said.
Chase has seen very little action
since returning from her injury. She
made a cameo appearance on Oct. I
against Northwestern, where she
came in for one play to block for
Linnea Mendoza and didn't touch the
ball. Then she watched from the side-
line as 2,000-plus fans cheered the
Wolverines past then-No. 16
Michigan State on Oct. 3.
"It's pretty hard to sit on the side-
line and watch your team," Chase
said, "but it's a lot easier when their
playing well. Even when you're sit-
ting on the sidelines, you're partici-
pating with the team."
What's been more difficult for
Chase has been the team's road trips.
Her injury was serious enough that to
prevent her from travelling with the
team. She tried to occupy her time,
finally attending a football game and
doing simple drills the team doesn't
do in practice. But one thing was
always in the back of her mind.
"I'd look at my watch and think,
'God, they're playing now,," Chase
said. "I couldn't do anything. It's
much more difficult to not be there."
Chase returned to the lineup last
Friday against No. 10 Wisconsin, only
to play miserably. She played in one
game, recorded one kill and mustered
an attack percentage of only minus-
.600 as the Badgers swept the
Wolverines.
But Saturday, the real Karen Chase
showed up.
The junior exploded, recording 14
kills with only two errors to lead the
Wolverines past No. 25 Illinois. Her
.480 attack percentage was a full
point higher than it was the previous
day.
Chase has not lost her starting job
flat-out but is rather in a platoon role.
While Giovanazzi has committed to
starting Jane Stevens and Sarah
Behnke on Friday against No. 1 Penn
State, Chase will see plenty of playing
time and could start at any time this
season.
"You have to prepare to start every
time," Chase said. "It would be really
hard emotionally to not prepare that
way.
"I'm not disappointed (that I'm not
starting), just because I can see the
depth on this team. I really want to
see us doing as well as we can, and
the passing stability the other outside
hitters can give is incredible. I can't
give that as much."
While Chase doesn't have the solid
passing of Stevens and Behnke, she is
more explosive than the other two and
provides a more potent attack.
"If Karen had been healthy, she
could have been first-team All-Big
Ten this year," Giovanazzi said.
"She's that good."
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Marli~ns
get 1st
Series bid
ATLANTA (AP) - Mission
accomplished.
The Florida Marlins, who spenti
nearly $100 million last winter with
the expressed goal of shucking their
label as expansion losers and buying
a team to beat the Atlanta Braves,
earned their way into the World
Series last night.
The wild-card Marlins, not even in
existence when the Braves began
their record run of playoff appear-
ances in 1991, defeated Atlanta, 7-4
behind Kevin Brown's complet'
game and Bobby Bonilla's three RBI
to win the NL championship series,
4-2.
The victory over the two-time NL
champions made the five-year-old
Marlins the fastest expansion team to
reach the World Series, surpassing
the eight years the New York Mets
needed to get there in 1969, and made
them baseball's first wild-card club tt
make it.
Game 1 will be Saturday night in
Miami against either Cleveland or
Baltimore. It will mean the first trip
to the World Series in 34 pro seasons
for manager Jim Leyland, whose
emotional ride may make him this
October's version of Joe Torre.
Leyland's teams in Pittsburgh lost
Game 7 of the NLCS to the Braves in
1991 and 1992, but there was no need
to worry this time because o
Bonilla's hitting and Brown's second
win of the series.
The Marlins' win came five years
ago to the day that Braves rallied with
three runs in the ninth inning to stun
Leyland and his Pirates on Francisco
Cabrera's single in Game 7.
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