The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - September 14, 1998 - 31 .Jet-lag, M combine to shoot down opponents By Rick Freeman Daily Sports Writer Back when Northwest Airlines was called Northwest Orient, they had a slogan: 'The world,' it went 'is going our way.' But now they're simply Northwest, and until yesterday, they weren't going any- one's way. Last week, their strike disrupted the best-laid travel plans of the Stanford field hockey team. After an 8 a.m. arrival in Detroit, Stanford coach Sheryl Johnson canceled her team's scheduled practices to conserve her players' jet-lagged legs. And for the first half of No. 11 Michigan's 4-0 vic- tory over Stanford yesterday, it worked. Michigan (5-1) spent much of the first half defend- ing their own side of the field, but in the second half, the Cardinal (3-2) seemed too slow, Smith said. And after Kelli Gannon scored on a penalty corner with 32 minutes remaining, the Cardinal's legs grew heavier and heavier, leading to three more Michigan goals, by Courtney Reid, Amy Philbrook and Jesse Veith. Lead-laden legs and all, the Cardinal still had a chance to ruin Katie Oakes' shutout with about two miiutes remaining, when Stanford's Monique Leroux broke in on Oakes. Oakes flopped to her left, but Leroux's shot rebounded right, and Leroux chased it and fired again. Into Oakes, again, for the final two of her 11 saves. I don't think about it" in goal, Oakes said of her foirth shutout of the season. She has someone else to do that - former Wolverine Amy Helber, who gradu- ated last year. She's been "a great support," Oakes said. Usually, Helber will call after a game and say "'you looked real- ly good,"' out there or'offer other encouragement. Oakes probably won't blow off her call waiting tomorrow. Courtney Reid had been waiting for a call all season - the one the PA. annoucer makes announcing the *goal scorer. But she flipped a rebound over Stanford's -sprawling Meg Crowley to hear her name for the third time that day. This time, though, it came before the assists were read. As she came off the field, dutifully smacking out- stretched hands, Michigan coach Marcia Pankratz came over to her. JIM ROSE I JOSH'. NBAUMi Daiy Michigan's Ashley Thomas controls the ball during Michigan's 4-0 victory over Stanford yesterday. "See, good things do happen when you rush the net" Pankratz told Reid. Reid also assisted on Gannon's game-winning goal, as well as freshman Jesse Veith's fourth goal of the sea- son. Although Reid had the breakthrough game yester- day, she pointed to Michigan's 11-0 drubbing of Central Michigan as the offensive breakthrough the Wolverines so needed. "That game was our breakthrough game" Reid said. That was a bit of an understatement for a game in which the Wolverines broke through like a Kool-Aid pitcher. Philbrook scored a pair of goals, to stay at her scorching goal-a-game pace. Sophomore forward Tamara Geryk scored a hat trick, and seven other Wolverines found their way onto the scoresheet. But as much as the Wolverines might have said 'Oh, ycah,; as they busted through Centrals deiense, the biggest benefits of such a trouncing came in the second half two days later. Pankratz said the luxury of rested starters was no small factor in her players' offensive flurry in the sec- ond half of yesterday's game. As Stanford's legs grew heavy, Michigan turned up the presure, and after Gannon buried the first goal in the net, Johnson said she could see her players begin to tire. Three goals later, and 2,000 miles from home, Stanford's players sat in the sun on the fake grass, munching apples. Michigan's began to graze on a postgame spread in the shade. "It's always easier at home." Pankratz said before going to join her team at the dinner table. The world, it seems, is going their way. Ausse rulesfield hockey: ,ui tefId oc'arenasand autoraphs n the other side of the world, in the Land Down Under the rest of civiliza- tion, field hockey is king. The sport is big across Europe, too, but in Australia, it's one of the few sports that garners major attention. There's cricket. There's Australian football. And there's field hockey. Entire stadiums are devoted to the sport. Pro players are sought out by auto- graph seekers. The Australians are the current world champions, and the sport is at a peak in terms of popularity. Michigan field hockey coach Marcia Pankratz, herself an experienced international player, says she's played in front of "40,000 screaming fans." Phyllis Ocker Field, home of Michigan's field hockey team, has a capacity of 500. Most games draw a few dozen people. The all-time record - when the stands were literally overflowing with fans - is 611. And Catherine Foreman, a Michigan freshman, decided to leave her home in Happy Valley, South Australia, and move to Ann Arbor. To play field hockey. That's a little bit like leaving America to play baseball in New Zealand. But Foreman did it. Packed her bags, got on a plane and flew the thousands and thousands of miles to the United States. All of which begs the question: Why? "It's something different," she says, in the understatement of the year. "Very different. It's an experience, is all." It's an experience that might never have materialized had Pankratz, along with Michigan assistants Tracey Fuchs and Peggy Storrar, not worked her connections abroad. "A good friend of ours just happened to be teaching math in a high school," Pankratz says. "And she knew Catherine was thinking about going abroad. So that's how we found her." Pankratz got in touch with Foreman, and the rest is history. Or, rather, the rest will eventually be history. Foreman's been here all of a couple weeks, and she's the first to admit she's got some adjusting to do. She's not simply getting used to college life, as all freshman must - she's also getting used to American life. "It's just different here," Foreman says. "Over there, you could talk to anyone, and they know what field hockey is. It's not really like that here," The fact that the two societies are so different is one of the reasons there's something of a bond between Foreman and her coach. Pankratz has been on the other side of the fence. She's played in Australia, and all around the world. She knows that the sport is bigger, internationally, than it is here in the United States. She knows, as Foreman does, that the American way is not necessarily the only way. "It just makes me smirk," Pankratz says with a shrug - and a bit of a smirk. "I think our country's very disrespectful to our sport. You know, they think it's stupid - and yet they're just a little bit ignorant of how graceful it is, and how exciting it can be." Field hockey can be described, for those who don't know what it's like, as a cross between soccer and hockey. It's played on turf or grass, and the players use wooden sticks to whack the lacrosse-like ball back and forth, theoretically into the opposing team's net. It gets awfully rough, which, Pankratz says, is part of its appeal overseas. See FOREMAN, Page 121 ENQ PARTHENON RESTAURANT DELICIOUS GREEK FOOD Home of the Original Greek Salad Dressing Chicken * Steaks * Pasta Lamb Chops * Lamb Shish Kabobs * Steaks Chicken * Pastas * Mousaka * Pastitsio Dolmades * Spinach Pie * Combination Platter Soups * Salads * Sandwiches Offense sends message with 4-goal flurry y Jennifer Yachnin Daily Sports Writer with 32 minutes remaining ond half. The Michigan field hockey team's A short 10 minutes later, offense didn't need a bullhorn yester- Reid assisted Amy Philbroo day'to send out a message. her sixth goal of the season. Scoring on four of seven attempts "We knew we just had t against Stanford said it loud enough. own game," the sophomore After a scoreless first half in their said. "We just picked it up victory over Stanford yesterday, the the second half. Wolverines shut out the Cardinal with Reid ended the game concentrated passing game and two assists and one goal, inc penalty corner conversions. assist on Gannon's goal It's tough to get the attack going at stood as the eventual game- the beginning of the season," said Veith said "going aroun M 41chigan coach Marcia Pankratz. and not through them," But with a crushing victory over Michigan started scoring go CeAtral Michigan earlier this weekend second half. and the shutout against Stanford, the "Our passes just started Wolverines seem to be on track. Veith said. After two missed attempts during Reid scored her first goal the first half, sophomore forward son in the final 10 minu( Ketti Gannon earned Michigan's first game to seal the victory. oal on a penalty corner conversion "Marcia's been trying to GOT AN EYE? * JOIN DAILY PHOTO CALL 764-0563. in the see- Courtney k to score 1. o play our midfielder a little, " in with two luding an - which winner. d Stanford is how gals in the clicking," of the sea- tes of the get me to go with the ball up the middle ... and to rush the goal more," Reid said. The Michigan offense increased pressure on the Cardinal during the latter half of the game by focusing on its passing game more, Philbrook said. "It's always hard to try to figure out what's missing," Philbrook said. "During the second half we brought back the passing game. We pretty much executed everything." Earlier this weekend, the Wolverines trampled Central Michigan, 11-0, with nine Michigan players scoring. The offensive breakthrough includ- ed multiple goals from sophomore forward Tamra Geryk, who scored three times during the second half. "It definitely gave us the confi- dence that our team is going to score," Veith said. "We needed a game that picked up our team a lot more and it definitely did." Reid said the victory over Central was a breakthrough for the Wolverines, who needed something positive to build their confidence. "It was a good game for our heads,' Reid said. Philbrook, who scored two against the Chippewas, was one of three Wolverines to score multiple goals. "Central was an amazing game, it was a complete team effort," Philbrook said. Sophomore defender Ashley Thomas said the I th-ranked Wolverines are improving their repu- tation this season. "I really think we need to send a message, because Michigan doesn't get the respect it deserves because it's not an East coast school," Thomas said. "By scoring a lot and keeping out goals, we're sending that message." 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