The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 5, 1999 - 13
4M' gymnasts ready
for 1-2 showdown
Lund's game to be
tested at Rolex Indoors
By Dan Dingerson
Daily Sports Writer
The battle between No. 1 and No. 2
is what every sports fan waits for. Most
*asons, the battle never happens, leav-
ing fans with "what if."
This season, the showdown has
arrived.
The No. 2 Michigan men's
gymanstics team travels to State
College today to face No. I Penn State.
The dual meet is the culmination of the
first part of the season.
In gymnastics, unlike many other
sports, there is no voting by polls. In the
Lrly part of the season, rankings are
termined by best overall perfor-
mance. This season, Penn State and
Michigan have posted the two best meet
scores so far.
By looking at individual rankings,
and the teams' performance in each
event, it isn't hard to see why these two
teams are ranked first and second in the
country.
Michigan boasts top team scores on
rallel bars and the high bar. The
Wolverines are also tied for first in the
pommel horse. The team they are tied
with? None other than Penn State,
which also owns first on the still rings.
. The Wolverines have been led by
sophomore co-captain Justin Toman.
He holds first place on the parallel bars,
and third in the high bar.
Helping out Toman is a trio of fresh-
men - Scott Vetere is third in the par-
allel bars, while Josh Levin and Daniel
Diaz-Luong rank third and fifth,
respectively, on the pommel horse.
In addition, Diaz-Luong ranks fourth
in the all-around, the composite of all
six events. As recently as last week, he
led the nation in the event.
LaLo Haro and Kenny Keener pro-
vide some experience as both rank
fourth in an event - Haro on vault and
Keener on the still rings.
The Nittany Lions also have stars to
brag about. Brandon Stefaniak ranks
first in the pommel horse, while Ron
Roeder is first in rings and second on
the parallel bars.
Michigan will be looking to step up
its performance of a week ago, when
the Wolverines slipped on their last
event to lose to Ohio State.
Michigan may have a psychological
advantage over the Nittany Lions, since
it has already faced Big Ten competi-
tion, while Penn State is competing in
the conference for the first time this
season.
The strength of the Big Ten is unpar-
alleled in gymnastics. The conference
is represented in the rankings with Nos.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 12.
Michigan has faced a No. 1 team
already once this season, when it lost to
Iowa in the Windy City Open.
By Dan Williams
For The Daily
Junior Danielle Lund will become
the first Michigan woman ever to
compete in the Rolex Intercollegiate
Tennis Indoor Championships, start-
ing today at the Brookhaven Country
Club in Dallas.
Lund qualified for this tournament
in November, when she made it to
the finals of the Midwest Regional
Championship.
The Rolex, hosted by Southern
Methodist, is the third part of the
Collegiate Grand Slam. It has a field
of 32 players, 16 of which were
finalists from the eight regional tour-
naments.
Lund's competition will come
from some of the top tennis schools
in the nation, including San Diego,
Stanford, Georgia, Wake Forest,
UCLA and Florida.
Lund is a co-captain of the
Wolverines and ranked 28th nation-
ally. Still, she was a surprise qualifi-
er for the tournament.
"The region is very competitive,"
Lund said. "I wasn't expected to get
that far."
Lund compiled a 5-1 record in the
Midwest Regionals to make it to
Dallas.
Two of her victories came over
Notre Dame players competing at
home, including a 2-6, 7-6, 7-6 upset
of Jennifer Hall, who was seeded
fourth in the region.
Lund was defeated by Ana
Fernandez of Marquette 6-4, 6-4 in
the finals.
"It meant a lot to qualify. I worked
real hard in the fall, and I felt like I
was rewarded for the time I put in,"
Lund said.
Lund describes herself as having a
complete tennis game. Although she
spends most of the time at the base-
line, she picks her chances to
approach the net and volley.
Michigan assistant coach Terry
Zawacki agrees with Lund's assess-
ment.
"She can play at both the baseline
and the net," Zawacki said. "She hits
the ball hard, she's aggressive, and
she doesn't have a lot of weakness-
es."
Zawacki said that Lund earned the
privilege to be the first woman rep-
resenting Michigan in the Dallas
Championships by dedicating herself
to improving during the last three
years.
In 1996, Lund played at No. 6 sin-
gles for the Big Ten champion
Wolverines.
Last season, she moved up to No.
2 singles, and now she competes in
the top slot for the team.
"Danielle has a very good attitude
on and off the court," Zawacki said.
"She knows what she has to do to
keep improving."
Lund's work ethic, along with her
attitude, may be a key factor in the
Dallas Championships. She has been
practicing extra for the tournament.
But Lund said she isn't going to put
pressure on herself when it isn't nec-
essary.
"I'm not expected to win, so I'm
just going to take it one match at a
time," Lund said. "It's sort of the
same situation as the regional tour-
nament."
MARGARET MYERS/Dail
The Michigan men's gymnastics team is In State College today to face Penn
State, currently the No. 1 team in the nation.
Blue hits roadfor pair
REVENGE
Continued from Page 12.
Last week, the Minnesota substi-
tutes outscored the Illinois bench 28-
19, and buried Northwestern's 47-8.
For the season, Minnesota's bench
has a scoring advantage of 543-340,
an 9.7 points-per-game surplus from
the bench.
Sunday, the Wolverines head to
West Lafayette for their only regular-
season meeting with second-ranked
Purdue.
Junior Stacey Thomas said earlier
in the season that the Wolverines
were ready for the "big dogs." But
she proved to be mistaken when the
Wolverines got manhandled by
Louisiana Tech. Michigan, though,
has been playing tighter defense and
its turnover ratio has improved.
Purdue features one of the best
teams in the country, and Michigan
will have to stop Stephanie White-
McCarty to improve its shot at a road
victory.
White-McCarty was selected one
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the Associated Press, and she has
played like one all season long. She
paces Purdue in scoring - tops in
the Big Ten with 21.2 points per
game and 6.1 rebounds.
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