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Michigan wide receiver Tai Streets was announced the
winner of the 1998 Bo SChembechler Award yesterd*
an honor given to the football team's most valuable
player.
Wednesday
December 2, 1998
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Penalties
no worry
for Blue
By Mark Francescutti
Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan hockey team rests in
second place in the CCHA, it is also
near the top in a not-so-prestigious
category.
The Wolverines are the second
most penalized team in the confer-
ence with an average of 24.56 min-
utes per game, just behind Ohio
State with 24.75.
"We've had games where we've
taken some bad penalties," Michigan
coach Red Berenson said. "But we're
scoring enough -----------
to stay in the Hockey
games." Nolehd
So is there
any particular---------
reason why the Wolverines spend so
much time in the box? Berenson
doesn't count officiating as the only
cause.
"Officials may call something one
night and not call it the second
tonight," Berenson said.
"I talked with coaches back from
the 40's and 50's complaining about
the same things we do today - offi-
ciating and scheduling."
Rominski, one of the team leaders
in penalty time said that sometimes
the strong intensity of the Michigan
Last season's disappointment.
should motivate Blue tonight
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Defenseman Bill Trainor and center Bobby Hayes have helped the Michigan penal-
ty-kill unit hold its opponents to only five goals in 58 opportunities.
defense leads to a few extra penal-
ties.
"Obviously I think our team needs
to be more disciplined and I think a
lot of (the penalties) are in high-
intensity games," Rominski said.
"You can't avoid them, but we're
playing strong defense and some-
times it translates into penalties."
But even if Rominski rests in the
box, the Wolverines still have one of
the top penalty-kill units in the con-
ference. Michigan's opponents are
only 5-for-58 with a man advantage.
"To start with we have some pretty
experienced penalty killers Bobby
Hayes and Dale Rominski have
killed a lot of penalties. I feel good
about the experience level."
Berenson also liked the progress
of Justin Clark and Scott Matzka,
whose line has performed well with
Michigan shorthanded.
IS THERE AN ECHO IN HERE?: It's a
new team with some new faces, but
the Wolverines find themselves in a
similar position in the CCHA as last
season.
About this time last year,
Michigan stood in second place with
the same 7-1-1 conference record.
"You don't have a target that you
want to be at every week, but we
evaluate our team every 10 games,
and I think we've done pretty well,"
Berenson said.
"If we can be in the hunt for first
place going into the winter break,
then I think we had a good first half
of the season."
By Rick Freeman
D~aily Sports Writer
Peoria used to be the benchmark
by which new ideas were measured.
'Will it play in Peoria?' was an old
saying, meaning, was an idea main-
stream and bland enough to catch on
with a mid-sized, Midwestern, mid-
dle-of-the-road town in Illinois?
But Michigan's basketball team
didn't play in Peoria last season.
The Wolverines were upset, 63-58,
by Bradley. This season, the game
will be played in Ann Arbor, a small-
ish, Midwestern town that fancies
itself on the cutting edge of society.
Michigan itself is only on the cut-
ting edge of a .500 record. But
Bradley is undefeated at 3-0.
While Michigan is having a sub-
par-for-Michigan, we're-usually-
much-better-than-this season,
Bradley has played second-tier teams
at best.The only opponent the two
have both played this season is
Athletes in Action. And the Athletes
pounded Bradley, 80-64, while
Michigan beat them 87-76.
The Wolverines expect to have
Brandon Smith back in the lineup
tonight. The sophomore forward
missed Monday's game because he
was attending the funeral of his
grandmother, who passed away
Saturday.
But as far as new ideas to try out
on the Peorians, the only one
Michigan is interested in is winning.
"Obviously, they feel like they can
win," Ellerbe said. "They beat us at
their place last year. So it's gonna be
a very difficult game."
The Brave most likely to ruin
Michigan's night?
Six-foot-4, 185-pound guard Eric
Roberson. Nicknamed "the
Predator" by an Peoria radio
announcer, the Pittsburgh native is a
unique find for Bradley.
Roberson seemed primed to go to
one of the many basketball schools
in western Pennsylvania until he
blew out his ACL in a high-school
tournament game and scared off
potential recruiters. Now the junior
is a returning all-Missouri Valley
Conference defensive team selec-
tion.
His backcourt mate, Rob Dye,
accounted for 47 percent of the
Braves' 3-pointers last season. He's
known as a streaky long-distance
dialer. When he's hot (5-for-9 against
Illinois, two 6-for-8 games last sea-
ion) he's hot.
Jillson selected to attend U.S. junior National training camp
By Mark Francescutti
Daily Sports Writer
Michigan defenseman Jeff Jillson
learned yesterday that he might be
wearing more than just maize and
blue this season.
His attire might also include the
colors red and white, because Jillson
has a very good chance to become a.
defenseman for the U.S. Juniors
team that will play in the World
Championships over the holiday
season.
"I'm thrilled to be a part of it. I.
hope it will be a good experience,"
Jilison said.
The freshman will join seven
other defensemen starting Dec. 13'
at the 1999 U.S. team training camp
where coach-I
es will "pick"
seven -out of
eight players
to play in the
c -h ampi -
onships. '.
might also get
a chance to
battle one of '; Jilson
his team-
mates, as sophomore defensemank
Mike Van Ryn is expected to play.
for the Canadian team. Canada's
,,official roster will be announced.
tomorrow.
One Michigan recruit, center
Andy Hilbert, also made the U.S.
team's training camp roster.
If Jillson and Van Ryn make the
cut, the World Championships will'
force the two Wolverines to take a
leave of absence until Jan. 5. The
duo would miss the CLI tournament
and a game at Ohio State.
For Michigan fans' interested in
seeing Jillson and Hilbert, the U.S.
team will play two exhibition games
against the Swedish national team
on Dec. 21 and 23 at the Ann Arbor.
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Michigan will have a chance to avenge last year's loss to Bradley tonight when
they take on Braves at Crisler Arena. Tipoff is slated for 7:30 p.m.
a
When he's not, well, he's not. His
funks last for days, even weeks at a
time. But his hot nights could come
at any time.
What's more, the Braves play a
kind of offense that concerns Ellerbe
just a bit, the way Towson did
Monday. A time-and-energy draining
ball-control game.
"They won't beat themselves,"
Ellerbe said. "But offensively,
they're better (than Towson). And
we'll have to play better defensively
and execute on the offensive end a
lot better."
Michigan's sloppy game Mond*
didn't play well with Ellerbe. But if a
mistake-riddled game leads to anoth-
er Braves upset, that would have to
play in Peoria.
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The all-Big Ten football first team as select-
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Ron Dayne, Wisconsin.RB
Michael Wiley, Ohio State. RB
Jasan Strayhorn, Michigan State, C
Steve Hutchinson, Michigan, G
Rob Murphy, Ohio State, G
Jon Jansen, Michigan, T
Floyd Wedderburn, Penn State, T
Jerame Tuman, Michigan, TE
David Boston, Ohio State, WR
D'Wayne Bates, Northwestern, WR
Matt Davenport, Wisconsin, K
Tom Burke, Wisconsin, DL
Rosevelt Coivin, Purdue, DL
Jared DeVries, Iowa, DL
Brad Scioli, Penn State, DL
LaVar Arrington, Penn State, LB
Na'il Diggs, Ohio State, LB
Brandon Short, Penn State, LB
Antoine Winfield, Ohio State, DB
Tyrone Carter, Minnesota, DB
David Macklin, Penn State, DB
Damon Moore, Ohio State, DB
Kevin Stemke, Wisconsin, P
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