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By Steven Kyritz out the season, finishing with a 15-6 On defense, Michigan will have to
For The Daily record. make up for the loss of leadership and
An old metaphor attested "Close in fact, the team's play throughout experience that will come with the loss
only counts in horseshoes and hand the season was so consistent that mid- of Lorenson.
grenades," and while the wordsmith fielder Catherine Foreman would barely Losing the seniors "will definitely
probably wasn't talking about the change her game plan. have a big effect, but it will also give oth-
NCAA field hockey tournament, he "Maybe we couldhave puta bitmore ers a chance to step up and fill their
might as well have been. importance on early games against Big spots, Foreman said.
For the past two years, Michigan has Ten teams ' Foreman said. "But there's The Wolverines made great strides
excelled in the regular season and has really very little I would change." this season, due in part to an all-around
,advanced to the Big Ten championship, With the Wolverines not receiving a team effort.
but received no bid to the NCAAs. tournament bid, seniors Lindsay Babbitt, With the loss of so many talented
Penn State is most responsible for Erika Lorenson, Amy Philbrook and seniors, this year could be a hard act to
this shutout, ending Michigan's season Loveita Wilkinson played their final follow, but if recent history is any indi-
by taking the Big Ten tournament title games for Michigan, closing out produc- cation, the Wolverines shouldn't have
and the automatic bid that comes with it tive careers. too much trouble. Since coach Marcia
in both seasons. The offense must replace Babbitt, Pankratz took over four years ago, the
One thing the Nittany Lions couldn't whose nine assists tied for the team lead, Michigan program has steadily
take away from Michigan is the success and Philbrook, who paced the improved.
the Wolverines have experienced this Wolverines with 12 goals. Still, the question remains: What will
year, both at the team and individual lev- At midfield, a huge hole exists with happen if the Wolverines meet Penn
els. Wilkinson's departure. Not only did the State again in the Big Ten championship
While Michigan failed to capture the senior tally six goals and 15 points, but game?
Big Ten regular season and tournament she was Michigan's lone representative "Hopefully, we'll get 'em," Foreman
titles, the Wolverines did shine through- on the all-Big Ten first team. said. "We'll be fired up and ready"
tourney
LOUIS BROWN/all
After falling to Penn State for the second consecutive year in the Big Ten tourna-
ment, the Michigan field hockey team must figure out a way to topple the Nittany
Lions.
'M' just can't seem to shake bad luck
Volleyball will try to turn luck around on road trip that begins Friday the 13th@
By Jon Zemke Tracey Marshall led Illinois with 16 kills Purdue is in much the same position in
Daily Sports Writer in the Indiana and Northwestern matches in the Big Ten as Michigan (4-10 in the Big
Bad breaks, unfortunate occurrences and the later end of the road trip. There were Ten, 12-12 overall) with a 5-9 Big Ten
just plain bad luck have had a hand in the five different Illinois spikers who registered record and 11-12 record overall.
Michigan volleyball team's season so far, at least 13 kills over the two-game weekend Collecting 65 kills over the past weekend
Therefore, it would stand to reason that the trip including sophomore Betsy Spice, who against Northwestern and Indiana, Purdue
Wolverines open up the second half of a contributed a .478 attack percentage and outside hitter Bev Krapa will be an impos-
four-game road trip on Friday the 13th. nine block-assists against Northwestern. ing force for Michigan to deal with.
Michigan will take on Illinois in Tracey Marshall "has been a star the She broke her own school record with 38
Champaign tomorrow, and Purdue on whole time she's been there," Michigan vol- kills against Indiana. Krapa also avers-
Saturday in West Lafayette. Both matches leyball coach Greg Giovanazzi said. "She's 7.2 kills per game and a .383 hitting
will begin at 7 p.m. one of the elite players of the league." centage.
The Fighting Illini humbled the Michigan, on the other hand, lost a two- "She's a physical specimen," Giovanazzi
Wolverines in three quick games at Cliff game road trip this past week as well. After said. "We are just wondering how good of a
Keen arena earlier this season. The first dropping a tough five-game match at No. volleyball player she's at this point."
game decided the entire tempo for the 16 Michigan State, the Wolverines lost at Michigan opened the Big Ten season
match after the Wolverines lost in a hard- No. 23 Minnesota in four games. against Purdue back in late September. The
fought contest, 17-15. The other two games Michigan senior outside hitter Karen situation was similar to the Illinois game as
featured an Ilinois rout of Michigan, 15-3 Chase has been on fire lately, continuing Michigan won a closely fought first game,
and 15-4. her impressive kill average of 4.38, and has but lost an equally closely fought game two.
The Illini are coming off a rough four- become Michigan's all-time kill leader Purdue took the last two games of
match road trip during which they beat only against the Spartans. match easily for the win.
Ohio State. Illinois dropped a three-game "Two-eighty (.280) batting practice (attack "I'm looking forward to these matches,"
sweep to No. 2 Penn State, which was percentage), she's also one of the top kills Giovanazzi said. "We've been practicing
expected, but was upset by Indiana and per game' in the league too," Giovanazzi said. hard and competing. There are still some
Northwestern, each in four games. "She should be all-Big Ten again." spots that are left open."
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Friday the 13th.
DAVID ROCHKIND/Daily
Lawrence will be
important for repeat
By Raphael Goodsteln
Paily Sports Writer
The Michigan men's cross country
team is going into this weekend's
~NCAA District meet with one goal on
its mind - extending the season.
"We're going down there to qualify
for nationals," said Michigan coach
Ron Warhurst, recently voted the Big
Ten coach of the year for the fourth
time. "We're really just looking to
nationals."
On Saturday the Wolverines will
travel to Terre Haute, Ind., to try to
defend last year's title. The team needs
to finish in the top two to qualify for
the NCAA Championships. Last year,
Michigan finished with 22 points.
"We placed first, second, fourth,
seventh, and eighth last year," said
Warhurst. "That would be unbeliev-
able if we could repeat that."
This race could possibly be the last
race for senior All-Americans John
Mortimer and Todd Snyder. But one
key to this year's team has been Steve
Lawrence. The junior has been the
glue keeping the team a pack.
"Jay (Cantin) and Don
(McLaughlin) key off of me. I give
them a gauge of where they should
'be," Lawrence said. "The team should
run as a group, and I help keep us
together. I push the pace. Cantin and
McLaughlin see me ahead and they
know where they should be."
If Michigan is to keep its season
alive, Lawrence will have to play his
role to perfection.
Only this time, he will need to play
it under the toughest conditions the
team will face all year.
Districts are run on a 10 kilometer
course rather than the eight-kilometer
race that the Wolverines ran every
other race on. What's more, like last
year, snow is a likely possibility.
"It's a flatter course than here at
Michigan," Lawrence said. "But it's a
10-kilometer at Nationals and
Districts, not like every other meet we
ran."
The Wolverines will run longer
practices through the Arb to get used
to the longer course.
"We have trained for the 10-kilome-
ter race, so it won't be as big of a
shock for us;' Lawrence said. "We'll
adjust well."
The Wolverines will try to repeat
last week's Big Ten title performance.
Even though they won the title, the
Wolverines feel that they could run
better.
"We came up a bit flat. There was a
lot of pressure on the guys alums here
and my 25th anniversary," Warhurst
said. "Our workouts have been good. I
hope it will carry over into this week-
end."
By Ryn C. Moloney
Daily Spoyts Writer
In any sport, few things are as satisfy-
ing as revenge.
Teams may wait an entire year for one
opportunity to avenge a loss to a hated
rival; the animosity becomes more
intense if that rival employed question-
able tactics in order to win.
Fortunately for the Michigan women's
cross country team, the chance for
redemption comes two weeks after the
defeat when it faces Wisconsin on
Saturday at the NCAA Regionals in
Terre Haute, Ind.
The Wolverines lost the Big Ten
Championships by a total of five points
to Wisconsin on Oct. 31.
Even worse, Wisconsin provided a
trick ofits own on Halloween, disguising
in uniforms which obscured the school
name in an effort to throw the
Wolverines for a loop.
Though some on the team question
themotives ofsuchamove, no oneholds
it against Wisconsin.
"They won fair and square," senior
co-captain Katie McGregor said.
Coach Mike McGuire also down-
played Wisconsin's strategy.
"It's a whole lot of nothing," McGuire
said. "They didn't win because of their
jerseys."
The top two teams from regionalswill
automatically advance to the NCAA
championships. The third and fourth-
place finishers stand the chance for an
at-large bid, when factors such as record
and performace against non-reg
teams ae taken into acc'ount.
The Wolverines will likely challenge
the Badgers for their first regional title
since 1995.
"We would definitely like to heat
Wisconsin, but the top two teams
advance" McGuire said. "You don'tgo
into a meet to get second, but sec nd
advances us to the next meet in this case."
McGregor, cross-country's Big
athlete of the year, would like to cloe
outhercross country careerwithanindi-
vidual and team crown.
"I think we are experienced and this is
(Michelle) Slater's and my last season,"
McGregor said. "We know that gs. a
team, we are capable of winning it.
McGuire thinks that the regional
course will provide a welcome change
from the monstrous Michigan ,Golf
Course they have run on for the past two
meets. McGuire said that while
Michigan Course rates "a 9 oran 8.5 n
a one to 10 scale of difficult, the
Indiana course constitutes a mere "5" in
comparison.
"We'll be a little more aggressive;"
McGuire said. "We can't 'have
Wisconsin put three in front of our sec-
ond like last time."
The rest of the field consists of teams
Michigan has handled easily throughwt
the year, although McGuire undere
mates no one.
"Bowling Green had a good confer-
ence meet and they could go with the at-
large criteria," he said.
LOUIS BROWN/Daiy
Don McLaughlin and the Michigan men's cross country team are trying to defend
their Big Ten championship. To do so they will probably have to rely on a big per-
formance from Steve Lawrence.
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By Chris Grandstaff
Daily Sports Writer
The younger half of the Michigan
wrestling team hopes to gain some extra
experience this weekend when it travels
to Muskegon for the Ben McMullen
Open.
The fres en-and-sophomores-only
event is an open tournament format,
meaning the Wolveinea will have to
fend for themselves this weekend.
Because of NCAA rules, collegiate ath-
letes are not allowed any assistance
F , '; from, or any affiliation to, respective
schools for scrimmages.
Consequently, the Wolverines will be
finding their own rides and paying their
scials. 19+ own ways this weekend - a relatively
small price for the valuable experience
the McMullen has to offer.
t "The tourament gives our younger
kids a chance to wrestle and get some
it D. 21+ experience," Michigan coach Dale Bahr
' said."It also gives me a chance to see
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Parties Where the Wolverines are is smack
dab in the center of "the best wrestling
M. 21.. conference in the country, bar none;"
i~mre '98' Bahr said.
,Rev. 13 & 25 The Wolverines are looking to finish
usd. Joim "l anywhere from fourth to sixth this year
in the conference, chasing Penn State,
Minnesota, and perennial national
championship contender Iowa.
"Fourth place in this conference could
mean we are in the-top 10nationall"
said Bahr. "We're a lot younger than last
year's team after losing four All-
Americans, but I think as a team you are
only as strong as your weakest link, and
we're pretty balanced."
The strength of the Wolverines this
season will be in the first four or five
weight classes.
"We have three players who could be
ranked in the top eight of their classes
nationally by Christmas in Joe Warren,
Otto Olsen and Damian Logan."
Without Warren, Olsen, Logan and
the rest of the upperclassmen, it seems
obvious what Bahr's expectations are for
this weekend.
"The goal is to gain experience q
continue to come along so that we can
challenge for fourth place in the confer-
ence. It willbe fiunto watch our younger
players continue to improve week .by
week."
Bahr expects true freshman Andy
Brovat to lead the young grapplers into
Muskegon this weekend. Hrovat is look-
ing to improve upon his second-place
finish in last weekend's Michigan S
Open in the 184-pound division.
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