8B - The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - April 13, 1998 No holiday in Iowa for Michigan golfers Wolverines to participate in extra event today By Tracy Sandler Daily Sports Writer Iowa can wait. A slight change of plans occurred this weekend for the Michigan women's golf team. The Wolverines Easter weekend in originally planned. Since the trip ...--........----- Goff Notebook tomorrow. did not spend Iowa as they had was canceled, Michigan will be participating in a to-be-announced event taking place today and Michigan's five participants - Sharon Park, Nicole Green, Laura Hess, Jennifer Baumann and Amy Talbot - shot a combined 320. Park led the team as she tied for ninth place overall, shooting 78-78- 77/233. The rest of the Wolverines did not fair quite as well. Team captain Green ended the tour- nament in a tie for the 39th place, while both Hess and Baumann tied for 57th. Talbot finished in a tie as well but for 64th-place. Going for the average: Park is the only Wolverine competing whose average has broken 80. She is averaging a score of 78.88. Green is next on the team with 81.81, while she is followed by Trish Watkins, who brings an average score 84.71. Talbot is next in line with 85.50. She leads Hess (85.15) and Baumann (86.07). As a whole, the Wolverines are averaging a team score of 327.2. The only Michigan player who has not broken 80 this season is Baumann. Her lowest score has been 81. Nonetheless, the Wolverines will still get a trip to Iowa. Michigan, which finished 10th out of 15 teams at last weekend's Indiana Invitational, will make it to Iowa City on,April 18 and 19 for the Hawkeye Invitational. In both tournaments in the coming week, Michigan will look to continue a trend of strong play started by the Wolverines in Indiana. While in Bloomington, the most impressive round of golf for the Wolverines came in the tournament's third round. The Michigan : women's tennis team had few reasons to celebrate during the weekend split. The biggest cause for celebration was the Wolverines' first upset of the season against Minnesota on Friday. ADRIANA YUGOVICH/Daily HAWKEYES Continued from Page :B Moon and Jen Boylan falling in a 9-7 tiebreak. At No. 3 doubles, Michigan's Tumeka Harris and Erryn Weggenman won a 9-7 tiebreak. The doubles matches sent the Wolverines into the singles matches trailing 1-0. Michigan senior captain Sora Moon quickly evened the score at one point a piece with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Iowa's Megan Kearney at No. 5 singles. The Hawkeyes took a 2-1 lead when Shera Weigler took out Harris in straight sets, 7-5, 6-0. But again Michigan tied the match when Erryn Weggenman won in straight sets, 7-6, 6-2. With the score deadlocked at two points per team, Michigan sophomore Danielle Lund gave the Wolverines their first lead of the match as she outlasted Iowa's Emily Bampton in three sets, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. The victory was Lund's 20th of the sea- son. Michigan only needed one of the two remaining flights to secure a victory. Sophomores Boylan and Brooke Hart each dropped the first sets of their matches; but rallied to force a third set. At No. 6 singles, Boylan could not hold on, and fell 4-6 in the third set to tie the team score at three points each. So the Wolverines needed a victory from Brooke Hart at No. I singles to finish the come from behind victory. Hart and Iowa's Natalya Dawaf battled back and forth in their final set, and the match went to a tiebreak. Hart could not hold on in the tiebreak, though, and Iowa stymied the Michigan comeback, securing a 4-3 match victory. The scene was similar to that which took place on Friday in Minnesota. Coming into the match, Minnesota was 4-0 in the Big Ten, after dropping several of the conference's lower teams. Michigan did not fare well in doubles, dropping all three matches, one in a tiebreak, to fall behind 1-0 in the team standings. The Wolverines fought back with Lund drop- ping Alice Rangsithienchai, 6-2, 6-0, at No. 2 sin- gles. Minnesota then rallied to take both the No. I and No. 4 singles matches in straight sets. With the Wolverines facing an early loss, Tumeka Harris took out Tarah Elkins, 6-2, 7-5, at No. 3 singles, keeping the Wolverines hopes of their first upset of the year alive. Things still looked to be in Minnesota's favor as Gopher Jana Hrdinova took the first set of her No. 5 singles match against Moon, 6-3. Moon staged an impressive comeback, however, and took the second set in a tiebreak before pouring it on Hrdinova in the third, winning 6-3. Michigan had battled back to a 3-3 tie with these two victories. Only Jen Boylan remained on the court for the Wolverines. Boylan took her first set against Helen Wang, 6-4, but fell 4-6 in the second. The match went to a tiebreak in the third set, and Boylan delivered for the Wolverines, earning a 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 victory in the match and completing Michigan's first upset of the season. Derr, DeWildt. lead 'M' track in field events By Nick Koster Daily Sports Writer There is no guaranteed formula for success in athletics. Many believe that your best odds lie in hard work and deter- mination. Cynics may say that effort and conviction can only take you so far, and if you are talented enough, it doesn't matter what you do. But try telling that to a couple of guys like Andy Derr and Charles DeWildt, whose desire can make a believer out of even the harshest skeptic. Derr and DeWildt are the future of Michigan track and field, or so their coaches say. The two freshman have made the adjustment from high school athletics to NCAA Division I competition with a surprising grace. Derr, a Lititz, Pa., native, has already thrown the javelin 184 feet 2 inches, almost 35 feet farther than any Wolverine in more than two years. DeWildt jumped 16 feet 7 1/2 inches in Arizona two weeks ago, making the pole vaulter from Grand Rapids a valuable point scorer for No. 18 Michigan. The ease of their adjustment to college life and competi- tion comes as no surprise to Derr. "To adjust really wasn't a problem, and I am sure Charles feels the same way," Derr said. "You just go and do what you do. You are here because you worked hard and you hav4 shown the dedication, so you just transfer that from high school to college." To what do these freshman phenoms attribute their suc- cess? The answer may surprise you. In the age of the self- ish athlete, DeWildt is quick to pass the credit elsewhere. "My dad vaulted for Western and his coach, Jim Gardener, got me started in fifth grade," DeWildt said. "Without him, I wouldn't be here. He still coaches me now." Derr's mentor is both his coach and father. After intro- ducing him to the javelin in the seventh grade, Derr said his father's support was instrumental to his accomplishments iir athletics. "He wasn't overbearing," Derr said. "He always support- ed my decision to do what I wanted. He was always there to help me. If I needed help with my athletics, he would find the time out of his busy schedule to help me." Derr and DeWildt do take some credit for their achieve- ments, however. Both have been weight training regularly for years, and say their time in the weight room is a key fac- tor for their success. "I started lifting in eighth grade after I broke my ankle," said Derr. "I went in there and I saw all these huge intensO guys, and I wanted to be like them. So, all during high school I was in the weight room four days a week, five dur- ing the summer. Now, I lift three or four days a week. "If I had never broken my ankle, I would've never taken the weights so seriously and I probably wouldn't be here." Injury also propelled DeWildt towards a strength-building program. As a sophomore he broke a vertebrae in his back during a vault and then began lifting more seriously. DeWildt has improved his vaults more than two feet since his injury occurred, and he feels that this is directly related to weightlifting. As key components to a strong freshman class, Derr an DeWildt are optimistic about the Wolverines future. Confidence is one thing neither of them lack. "I think that by our senior year we will win Big Tens and have a shot at nationals," Derr said. DeWildt was even more obstinate. "We'll win Big Tens when we are juniors," DeWildt said. NOTHING TO DO THUS SUMMER? WORK FOR THE DAILY. CALL 76-DAILY FOR DETAILS. True or False? 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