8 -The Michigan Daily Graduation Edition - Thursday, April 13, 2000
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Field Hockey falls short
Edior s Note: This article originall appeared in the Nov 22.
1999 issue of The Michigan Daily
By David Roth
Daily Sports Writer
BOSTON --Tenths of seconds determined the fate of the
Michigan field hockey team. Maryland edged Michigan in
the NCAA Championship game yesterday, preventing them
from becoming the first Michigan women's team to win a
national title.
With less than one second to play in the first half,
Maryland freshman forward Carisssa Messimer took a pass
from sophomore forward Dmina Rizzo and scored to give the
Terrapins a 2-0 lead they would never relinquish.
Though the Wolverines will settle for second place in the
NCAA Tournament, Michigan coach Marcia Pankratz feels
the Wolverines gave Maryland all they had to offer.
"We're proud of our team for continuing to fight after
going down 2-0,' Pankratz said. "They fought really hard to
come back and make it interesting. It was a good hockey
game, right down to the last second. What I'm most proud of
is that we just we nt out and played as hard as we could. We're
very disappointed, of course, because our players are all
champions - they want to win - and to lose the last game
is a tough one."

'M' tumblers 0.3 away
Editor s Note: This article origmuall app red i/i the Mav 4.
1999 issue of The Michigan Daily Summner Wekly
By Stephen A. Rom
Daily Sports Writer
SALT LAKE CITY -- Michigan's bid to attain its first
women's national championship fell just .300 of a point
short last week at the NCAA women's gymnastics champi-
onships.
That slim margin was all that stood between Michigan and
last year's national champion, Georgia, who won the meet
196.850 - 196.550 to secure its first back-to-back title. In addi-
tion, the Lady Bulldogs went undefeated for the second straight
season, pushing their consecutive win streak to 64.
The last time Georgia lost was at the 1997 NCAA cham-
pionships when UCLA took the honors. Michigan, who had
survived the opening day of competition on April 22 to
advance to the Super Six, kept things close the whole way
through.
So close in fact that Georgia coach Suzanne Yoculan
found it necessary to keep abreast of the Wolverines' run-
ning score throughout the meet.
"I have our little spy Sandi Karchmer (Georgia's Sports
Information Director) get me all the scores. I need to know,"
she said.

Softball 0-3 in Oklahoma
Editor s Note: This article originallv appeared in the May 26,
1998 issue of The Michigan Daily Summer Weekly
By TJ. Berka
Daily Sports Editor
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Wolverines have been
here before.
In fact, the Michigan softball team has been here the
last three years. The Wolverines rationalized that their
previous experience in the College World Series would
pay dividends for them this year. It didn't.
After a seven-run first inning in their first-round vic-
tory over Texas on Friday, the Wolverines performed as if
they had never been to the College World Series before.
While Oklahoma City is not exactly the tourist hotspot
of the United States, it is the mecca of American softball,
and getting there is the goal of every collegiate team.
With that said, it's clear that Michigan craved its trip to
the heartland of America.
So why does Michigan tend to melt in the heat of the
southern plains every May? It has been said that the
southern way of life is more stress-free and relaxed.
After four years of failure in Oklahoma, maybe

Michigan should take
approach to its game plan.

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With an NCAA runner-up finish, it was a memorable 1999 for
the Michigan field hockey team.

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Hockey wins national title, 3-2, in Beantown

Editor's Note: This article originally
appeared in the April 6, 1998issue of
The Michigan Daily
By Pranay Reddy
Daily Sports Writer
BOSTON - With Michigan and
Boston College about to head into over-
time in Saturday's NCAA championship
game, Michigan assistant coach Mel
Pearson approached the dry-erase board
in the FleetCenter lockerroom and
scrawled two words-- d6ja vu.
Pearson was referring to the 1996 title
game, in which an overtime goal gave the
Wolverines the national championship
and a 3-2 victory over Colorado College.
A short while later, Michigan forward
Josh Langfeld went out and fulfilled
Pearson's prophecy, scoring a goal with
2:09 left in overtime to give the
Wolverines another 3-2 victory and their
ninth NCAA championship in school
history.
Dji vu - all over again.
"When we finally won it (in 1996) it
was a monkey off everyone's back at
Michigan," Michigan coach Red
Berenson said. "This game, we shouldn't
have been here, we shouldn't have won -
yet we did. It's an even greater feeling."
Langfeld's goal was set up by a pass
from Michigan defenseman Chris Fox,
who sent the puck from the left corner of

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the rink. Langfeld then wristed a low
shot that slipped by Boston College
goaltender Scott Clemmensen. But it
almost never happened.
The Eagles, who ended the season 27-
9-5, almost scored on several occasions
during overtime, firing shots off the
crossbar and the left post during the sud-
den death period.
"If a few bounces would have gone
our way it would have been a different
game," Boston College forward Marty
Reasoner said. "Sometimes you don't
get those bounces."
Although the victory was eerily remi-
niscent of Michigan's championship vic-
tory in 1996, this"group of national
champions has an identity all its own.
While the 1996 team was led by sea-
soned veterans, this season's Michigan
hockey team, which went 34-11-1, was
best defined by youthful exuberance -
and on Saturday night, it showed.
Michigan's three goals were scored by
freshmen - on a night when seniors such
as captain Matt Herr and assistant cap-
tain Bill Muckalt were bottled up by a
stingy Boston College defense.
"This team is something special,"
Herr said. "This was a total team effort.
Billy and I didn't score a goal tonight --
everybody else did. That's what wins
championships - great teamwork."
On Saturday night, it was a combina-
tion of strong play by Michigan's fresh-
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men forwards, such as Mark Kosick (2
goals) and Langfeld, as well as superb
goaltending by senior Marty Turco, that
pushed the Wolverines to victory.
Turco, named the most outstanding
player of the NCAA Tournament, kept
the Wolverines in the contest giving their
offense time to get on track.
Falling behind 1-0 after the ope g
period, Michigan finally broke thr j
in the second when center Kosick
evened the score for the Wolverines.
Kosick banged away at a Bubba
Berenzweig rebound and deflected the
puck off Clemmensen's mask - after
the netminder went down to block
Berenzweigs initial shot.
After Michigan's goal, it was Turco
who took over for the Wolverines, as the
goaltender virtually stood on his he
keep the score tied at one. On two p-
ticular occasions, Turco erased mistakes
by his blueliners on what should have
been go-ahead goals for the Eagles. But
even Turco could not thwart Boston
College's final scoring chance of the sec-
ond period.
Holding the man advantage after a hit-
ting-from-behind penalty on Herr, Boston
College's Bobby Allen faked a shot, freez-
ing Michigan's defense before sending
the puck on net. Teammate Jeff F4js
intercepted Allen's shot and flipped e
puck toward forward Mike Lephart, who
put it past Turco for a 2-1 lead.
Gymnasts
dance in
Lincoln
Editor's Note: This article originally
appeared in the May 4, 1999 issue of
The Michigan Daily Summer Weekly
By Dan Dingerson
Daily Sports Writer
LINCOLN, Neb. - For the Ost
time since 1970, Michigan is at the top
of the gymnastics world. On April 23,
the Wolverines used their best perfor-
mance of the year to secure the coveted
title of'national champion.'
Joining Michigan at this year's
NCAA Championships were Ohio
State, Penn State, Nebraska, Brigham
Young and Stanford. The three Big pn
teams, who had traded the No. 1 ip-
ing throughout the year, were all
favored to advance past the qualifying
round on April 22. The Wolverines
placed first in the qualifying round
with a score of 230.5, scoring more
than 230 points for the fifth straight
competition. Ohio State placed second,
and Nebraska used the home crowd
advantage to claim third, edging out
Penn State in the final rotation of the
evening.
Those three teams advanced t~c
team finals on April 23. Because of its
top qualifying score, Michigan earned
the right to choose its first event in the
finals - the pommel horse.
"It was a very strong event for us,
and I was very confident that we could
get off to a real good start on it,
Michigan coach Kurt Golder said. "It
was really important to start strong."
The championship was almost -r
as soon as it started. The Wolvernes
did start strong on the pommel horse
and jumped out to a quick lead. The
next two events would give the team a
nearly unrelinquishable lead.
On rings, the team scored 38.975,
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