S c o r e b o a r d . ,, , , , , ;' AMERICAN Anaheim 4, LEAGUE TAMPA BAY 2 BALTIMORE 1, N.Y. YANKEES 3, fTexas 0 Boston 0 CLEVELAND 6, Seattle 10. Toronto 3 MINNESOTA 3 Chicago 17, NATIONAL DETROIT 16 LEAGUE Milwaukee 2, CINCINNATI 1 ATLANTA 4, Philadelphia 2 N.Y. Mets 7, HOUSTON 4 SAN DIEGO 4, Chicago 3 NFL FOOTBALL San Francisco 45, WASHINGTON 10 UrteAidtun iau Tracking 'M' teams Getting out of classes early today? Make a road trip to Ypsilanti, where the 14th-ranked Michigan soccer teanW will be playing Eastern Michigan at 4 p.m. Who knows, it might be a preview of the football game Saturday. Tuesday September 15, 1998 THE HOME RUN McG WIRE VS. CHASE: SOSA Women's golf takes fifth at Spartan Invitational By Philip Maguran For the Daily The Michigan women's golf team began its fall season on a positive note, finishing tied for fifth out of 12 teams at the Mary Fossum/Spartan Invitational this past weekend in East Lansing. By posting an overall score of 953 for the 54-hole event, the Wolverines tied Notre Dame and Illinois State. Host Michigan State won the tournament, post- ing a score of 895, 34 strokes better than second-place Wisconsin. The Wolverines were led by senior Sharon Park, who posted a 233 to tie for ninth individually out of the 89 women competing. Park has been the team leader for Michigan the past three seasons, fin- ishing seventh in the Big Ten tournament the past two years. She is aiming to finish higher this year. Sophomore Trish Watkins also per- formed well, posting a career-best 54-hole total of 235 to finish in 14th place. Michigan coach Kathy Teichert said she was impressed by her teams perfor- mance, despite the lack of preparation time. Team practice began on Labor Day, just one day before classes started, "We had some definite bright spots to build upon, and I know that this team will continue to improve," Teichert said. "I like the fact that we had four players score in the 70s in the first round and two play- ers finish the tournament with average scores in the 70s." The fifth-place finish for the Wolverines already represents an improvement over last season's, when the Wolverines finished last in the Big Ten. Included in this tournament were victories over Big Ten rival Illinois and local foe Eastern Michigan. Overall, the Wolverines finished third out of four Big Ten teams, losing only to Michigan State and Wisconsin. The young Michigan team also fea- tured good showings by four other com- petitors. Freshmen LeAnn Wicks and Bess Bowers both had solid first tourna- ments, finishing with scores of 242 and 245 respectively. Wicks' score tied her for 28th overall and Bowers ended up tied for 37th. Sophomore Amy Talbot shot her way to a three- round total of 247, which put her in 40th place and made her the fifth Wolverine to finish in the top half of the tournament. Rounding out the players and just missing the top half was sophomore Jennifer Baumann, whose 250 put her i 45th place. The Wolverines will take a break from competition this coming week, and will resume play Sept. 25 in West Lafeyette at the Lady Northern Intercollegiate. The Big Ten Championship will be held at the same location this spring. Curses and confoundment- AP PHOTO Mark McGwire went 2-4 with two RBI last night, but he did not hit a home run, leaving him tied with Sammy Sosa at 62. McGwire, Sosa held homerless ST. LOUIS (AP) - Mark McGwire was back in the d lineup. He just didn't look like a home run king. A day after leaving a game at Houston early because of minor back spasms, the St. Louis Cardinals' slugger was a.quiet 2-for-4, taking few healthy swings last night in a 7i3 win over Pittsburgh. McGwire had a two-run single in a four-run second inning off Jason Schmidt (I1- 12). He has just three singles in The Ho e 1f at-bats in six games since hit- ting homer No. 62, and has been Run Chase cught by the Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa. Mark McGwire (98) 62 Against Schmidt, McGwire Sammy Sosa e9S 62 struck out in the first on a Roger Maris (61) 61 checked swing and grounded out to first on a checked swing Babe Ruth ('27) 60 im the fourth. In the sixth, he had Mark McGwire ('97) 58 4 rare single to right off Todd Van Poppel on another awkward, incomplete swing. As a precaution, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa skid he probably won't use McGwire in both games of tpnight's doubleheader against the Pirates. In batting practice, McGwire appeared to be his old self with eight homers in 16 swings. Two of them reached the upper deck and a third banged off a window in the Stadium Club just below the top deck. Still, he was probably happy just to be playing. The last time McGwire had back spasms, on June 1 in San Diego, he missed three games. Jose Jimenez (1-0), making his first career start, held the Pirates to four hits and one run in seven innings. He walked five, including Abraham Nunez three times, and struck out three. SAMMY UPDATE: Sosa, who went 0-for-4 in the Cubs 4- 3 loss to the San Diego Padres yesterday, was pretty busy off the field, too. He took calls from President Clinton and Mark McGwire yesterday and issued a plea: How about someone giving back historic home run ball No. 62? Not for him to keep, though. "If he comes and gives it to me, that ball's not going to go to my house," Sosa said. "That ball's going to the American people and the Hall of Fame." Getting it back could be a whole other matter, though. Sosa tied McGwire in stunning fashion on Sunday, hit- ting Nos. 61 and 62 out of Wrigley Field onto Waveland Avenue. Three people claim to be the rightful owner of historic ball No. 62, Chicago police said, and there may be no real way to prove who has it. After McGwire broke the record last week in St. Louis, major league baseball stopped putting a secret mark on balls pitched to him and Sosa. Both homers set off wild scrambles, and Sosa was asked what he thought about fans practically beating each other up to get to the ball. "If that were the situation and I weren't a ballplayer, I'd probably be doing (it) the same way," he told about 100 reporters and cameramen crammed into the San Diego Chargers' locker room at Qualcomm Stadium. Lost games, lost players leave Blue A at a loss A By Mark Snyder Daily Sports Editor Around Schembechler Hall these days, an unfimiliar four-letter word is prevalent: loss. To the general masses, the intona- tion is obvious. After falling to Notr Dame and Syracuse in consecutiv weeks, Michigan carries an 0-2 record for the first time since the 1988 sea- son. So the initial concept of loss is in the actual game situations. Both weeks the scoreboards read more for the other team - problem No. 1. But the reality is buried much deeper than that. The greater concern lies in the loss of personnel. At his weekly press conferen4 yesterday, Lloyd Carr made another subtraction from the rapidly depleting depth chart. Justin Fargas - the tailback Carr praised at great length a week ago - i hampered by a bruised shoulder and his status for Saturday's game against Eastern Michigan remains uncertain. In addition, fellow backfield mates Aaron Shea and Clarenc Williams are also questionable for two game. Not that they would have anyone to run behind. - Center Steve Hutchinson, still aggravated by an injury suffered in the third quarter of the Notre Dame game, was replaced by Steve Frazier for much of the Syracuse loss. Carr's reluctance to discuss his fallen players is somewhat under- standable, for it's probably difficult- for him to keep track of them. TV bulk of his linebacking corps - Ian Gold, Sam Sword and Clint Copenhaver - is also hobbled or sidelined. So excuses exist for this plummet- ing national champion, but the Wolverines are not ready to pass them off as reality. "Instead of looking at what's wrong with the team, as individua (Sunday) we looked at what's wron with each of us "captain Jon Jansen said. "We need to look at each of ou- selves." With the past supposedly forgotten - Jansen said the Wolverines will focus on "the next two weeks" - attention from the past is hardly - See LOSS, Page 12 WARREN ZINN/Daily Clarence Williams and the Michigan football team have been running on fumes this season. The Wolverines have dropped their first two games for the first time in 10 years and are not ranked In the polls for the first time In nearly five years. The Princeton Review April MCAT schedules are here. 0 8 point average score improvement # Expert instructors -......-..- - .. ----- oo* . -------.----------.----.. ------------* " Preparing for a career in academe? Plan to attend the....... . 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