February 1, 1999 - SportsMonday - The Michigan Daily - 38 'Wrestling takes fight out of No. 6Illinois SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN f j h r staff The Michigan wrestling team took a Whig step towards establishing itself amoung the Big Ten's and the nation's elite teams yesterday. The No. 10 vW~erines rebounded from a disap- o inting loss to Central Michigan on hursday by upsetting No. 6 Illinois, ;2616 at Cliff Keen Arena. This weekend's meet was a chance for redemption for the Wolverines, who were beaten by Illinois just two weeks ago at the Virginia Duals. In that meet, as well as in Thursday's ,ss; Michigan tied its opponent with five individual victories apiece, but both time the Wolverines fell short in points. Not the case yesterday, when the AVolverines won six of the 10 matches. "All year long we've been winning five'matches, but we needed someone to step up and get that sixth match," Michigan coach Dale Bahr said. "We g'6t that today." The meet started in the 174-pound weight class, which pitted Michigan's sixth-ranked Otto Olson against 20th- ranked Ben King of Illinois. This was the third meeting of the ason between the two, with King winnng at the Las Vegas Invitational, and Olson winning at the Virginia Duals. This time Olson decisioned Ip.g 6-4 and upped his untarnished V dual-meet record to 10-0. The meet was highlighted by the wrestling of freshman Andy Hrovat and senior Corey Grant. Hrovat, ranked 15th in the country in the 184-pound weight class, scored a major decision against 10th-ranked Nate Patrick of Illinois by a score of 10-2. Hrovat took charge of the match in the second period scoring a five- point near-fall, which could have led to a pin, but time expired. Hrovat secured the major decision with a takedown, just 20 seconds before the match ended. Grant supplied the surprise of the afternoon by upsetting fourth-ranked Adam Tirapelle of Illinois 5-4. Trailing after the first period, Grant shut out Tirapelle 4-0 in the second, and brought the entire Cliff Keen crowd to their feet as he held on for the victory in the third. "The difference in the match was the takedown I had in the second period," Grant said. "I give a lot of credit to the coaches for getting us physically pre- pared and mixing things up in practice. This is a real turning point in my senior year." "Andy and Corey really turned things around today," Bahr said. "Both kids have raised things up a level. Andy put us in a position to win the meet and Corey put them away." Not to be outdone were the JIM ROSE Rose Beef [4)1/yball teams come from all around for their sport sand maybe to bean writers DAVID ROCHKIND/Daily Chris Viola won his match here, and the Michigan wrestling team scored an upset victory over No. 6 Illinois at Cliff Keen Arena yesterday, 20-16. Wolverines' fantastic lower weight trio of Chris Viola, Joe Warren and Damion Logan. It was just business as usual for these three with Viola winning 4-1 over 14th- ranked Steve Doerrer, Warren scoring a major decision over Dave Stoltz and Damion Logan squeaking out a decision over seventh-ranked Carl Perry 5-4. Illinois coach Mark Johnson ques- tioned his team's attitude yesterday. "Our guys came in here and just expected to win," Johnson said. "You can't do that. We weren't prepared. The bottom line is that Michigan just wanted it more today." Men's tankers drop first dual since 1991 By Jon Zemke Daily Sports Writer There was a blue moon out on Friday night, at least for the Michigan men's swimming and diving team. The Wolverines lost to Indiana on Friday, 137-106, which snapped a conference dual meet winning streak that stretched back to 1991. "Indiana was really psyched," Michigan men's swimming coach Jon Urbanchek said. "They took advantage 2 of the fact that they knew we were miss- ing some of our key personnel." Michigan started out the meet quickly, winning three of the first five events including a sweep of the 1,000-yard freestyle with Mike McWha taking first, T Joe Palmer second and Chuck Kennedy third. But the second half ofthe meet proved to be fatal, as Indiana took the majority of wins in the races, including a sweep of the 100 free. "Indiana swam extremely well. Their times were extremely good for this time of the season. We could not match them in some areas," Urbanchek said. Sophomore Scott Meyer recorded a TO career best 50 free to win in 20.97. Chris Thompson also won the 500 freestyle as the Wolverines swept the event, with McWha and Kennedy filling out the last spells succe two places. "Scott Meyer had a good swim,' Michigan senior Andy Potts said. "That was unusual that we won the 50 (free), but yet we still couldn't pull out the meet." Michigan's diving team was solid, tak- ing first in the oae-meter springboard and second in.the three-meter. Indiana's top diver, all-American and Big Ten diver of the year in 1998 Mike Collier, won the three-meter. A lot of Michigan's top swimmers have fallen to the wayside sickness and injury. Senior all-American Tom Malchow missed his second consecutive meet because a bout with pneumonia and John Reich also missed the meet due to illness. Two of Michigan's best freshmen were lost for the season before the meet. John Mallory is having his anterior cru- ciate ligament in his knee repaired today while Jon Arndt is recovering from shoulder surgery. "A lot of our outstanding swimmers could not make this trip," Urbanchek said. "My thought was that it's more important for them to be healthy for the Big Ten Championships three weeks down the road than go and swim a dual meet. Nobody's going to remember a dual meet in two days. Who cares?" s for Blue t really was my own fault, so I can't complain. I had my head down to begin with, and at the time, I certainly wasn't paying atten- tion to what was going on around me. I was in the Central Campus Recreation Building, and I was studying a little event program, when all of a sudden ... SMACK! The pamphlet was knocked to the ground, and my hand very nearly went with it. I never did see exactly what it was that had broken in on my reading (and nearly broken my hand in the process), though I had a pretty good idea. At thatHow 11 moment - and really, w for most of the weekend world - there were volleyballs they 9 flying all over the place, Anzon in all directions, at what Florida seemed close to the come ! speed of sound (or Arbor maybe faster, since I cer- dub tainly didn't hear that particular one until it drilled me). tOuran When I'd made certain ~~-- my hand was still attached (I could tell from the pain), and had gathered my program (and senses), a close look at the pamphlet confirmed what I'd already suspected: There was a volleyball tournament going on inside the CCRB. Yes, I'm a regular sleuth. It didn't take a genius to figure it out (or even a sports writer, for that matter) -- the three main-floor bas- ketball courts were monopolized by six already-in-progress volleyball matches. Several other teams of play- ers lined the walls of the gym, wait- ing for their team's next turn. Fans and family also watched from up against the walls. And if you've ever been inside the CCRB, you know that there isn't a whole bunch of extra space to begin with. The place was packed. But that, in itself, wasn't all that surprising. I've waited many a time for a pickup hoops game on those very same basketball courts. What was surprising was that according to the program, these were men's club volleyball teams from all over the country. Here it is, well into the sec- ond semester for most colleges, and there were teams -- not even varsity teams, mind you - from every cor- ner of the United States. Right here 1? dl e an in the CCRB. The program listed competing squads from the University of Arizona, U. of Virginia, Utah Valley State, Cal-Berkeley, U. of Florida, Sacramento State ("Sac State" to opponents) and Navy. There were 30 teams in all, and only five of them (Michigan State, Western Michigan, Oakland U. and two Michigan teams) were schools from the state of Michigan. The first thing I thought was: How in the world did they get Arizona and Florida to come to Ann Arbor for a club volleyball tournament? The sec- ond thing I thought was: the How in the world do they plan to accommodate 30 d teams in this building? ' The third thing I thought 7 and was: Man, my hand still to hurts. D Ann But somehow, Reeder or a Singler, the coordinator of the "Michigan ail Collegiate Classic," was able to lure teams from nent? all over. ------- Things got a little more complicated when 30 teams showed up at the gym. But the tour- ney was structured to keep the action moving. On Saturday, the teams were divid- ed into six pools of five teams each. Round-robin pool play determined the top four teams in each pool; those teams advanced to a single- elimination playoff. By the end of the first day, the field was whittled down to 16 teams. Those teams battled yes- terday to determine the champion. The end result? A long weekend for Singler, presumably, and the rest of the CCRB and tournament staffs. And not everybody left entirely happy. Poor Western Michigan, for example, was particularly discour- aged after Arizona - armed with last year's tourney MVP, Mike Stowell - made mincemeat of the Broncos. But theirs was an extreme case. Other teams were more successful. The whole event brought people from all over the country to Michigan's own CCRB. And if nothing else, there was plenty of fun to be had by the players warming up between games - sports writers, after all, are excellent for target practice. - Jim Rose can be reached via e-mail at jivrose@umich.edu. ToM Malchow missed another meet with pneumonia, and his presence was sorely lssed. Indiana defeated Michigan in a dual meet, 137-106. It marked the first tme -Michigan had lost a dual meet, dating back to 1991. Return of swimmers s By Ryan C. Moloney Daily Sports Writer ..-When you are on the same team as Shannon -Shakespeare, there isn't always enough left- over spotlight, no matter how deserved it is. Not that anyone on the Michigan women's wimming and diving team is complaining. rhe ninth-ranked Wolverines handled No. 22 Notre Dame on Saturday, beating the Irish 162- 136 at Canham Natatorium. The victory was the last dual meet of the season for the team, and it served further notice of another star on the Michigan team--- Jenny Crisman. The sophomore captured the 100-yard back- stroke (55.99), the 100 butterfly (56.32) and the 50 freestyle (23.78). Crisman snagged the 50 free by one one- hundreth of second, reaching for the tap before Notre Dame's Carrie Nixon. Michigan coach Jim Richardson wasn't sur- prised in the least about Crisman's competi- tiveness or her three-win performance. "Shannon's ranked No. 2 in the country in a couple of events, but Jenny's ranked number two in the country in the 100 backstroke," Richardson said. "We certainly haven't over- looked her. "She loves close races. She loves to race and she is a competitor. She's probably the swim- ming equivalent of a gym rat. She loves a good, old-fashioned tussle where every swim counts. She loves to push off the wall, look'em in the eye and challenge them - who's gonna get there first?"' For her part, Crisman was satisfied with her performance and the team's. "I was happy with my performances," Crisman said. "They were decent times for me for now. Jim told us we needed to step up and I think we did that as a team." For Shakespeare, it was just another day at the office. The junior won the 100 breastroke (1:02.55), the 100 freestyle (51.07) and the 200 breastroke (2:20.26). Yet the most encouraging aspect of Saturday's meet from the team's perspective was the return of Kerianne Kalbko and Jenni Eberwein. Kalbko was stricken with the flu for most of last week and Eberwein has not swam com- petively for most of January because of her battle with Epstein-Barr syndrome. "It's huge to have them back," Shakespeare said. "It's really nice to have Eberwein back. She's a senior and she's had some bad luck. Kerianne is on the upswing of things too and it felt really good to have a full team." DAILY SPORTS. WE PLAY THROUGH THE PAIN. 747-9400 1220 S. University SPRING BREAK Above McDonalds SPECIALS ~SUPERHYANS 2Sessions One month unlimited $29.95 $39.95 No service fees. Expires 2/2 8/99 C8 No service fees. Expires 2/28/99 CIO0 DAVID ROCHKIND/Daiy The Michigan women's swimming team downed Notre Dame 162-136 at Canham Natatorium on Saturday. 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