16 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 13, 1999


Reese's memory lives
through scholarship

Field hockey cruises
into game with CMU

REESE
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student and an athlete," Potts said.
"People who are financially
strapped are sitting between a rock
and a hard place. It's not an easy
thing to do. It's almost a full time
job with athletics - most athletes
put in 30 hours a week with every-
thing that goes into their sport -
and that doesn't include the 15 cred-
it hours."
The SAAC needs to raise
$100,000 in order to meet the crite-
ria for an endowment.
Since the start of the funding in
March of 1998, students, alumni and
others have contributed just over
$16,500.
The money came from a car wash,
the selling of T-shirts ' bearing
Reese's name, a magazine that
salutes the 1997 football season and
raffle tickets, the latter of which
have been the most successful.
The raffle began last November
just before the Michigan-Penn
State football game, where the win-
ners stood at the tunnel entrance
and held the 'M Go Blue' banner as
the football team raced onto the
field. The raffle brought in over
$4,000.
To surpass the success of last
year's raffle, the SAAC began sell-
ing tickets much earlier. After only
two events - the football game
against Purdue and volleyball's
annual "Rock the House" game

against Iowa - it has already col-
lected about $1,400.
Raffle tickets will be sold at this
Saturday's hockey game, along with
upcoming field hockey, soccer,
men's and women's basketball
games and the home football games
against Illinois and Northwestern.
SAAC is also planning to sell
tickets in the Diag on Friday, Nov. 5
- the first day of Parents' Weekend.
The 'M Go Blue' banner will be out
there as well so everyone can get a
closer look.
Ten winners will be notified on
Nov. 7, and their names will be pub-
lished in The Daily on the next day.
The winners will again raise the
banner in Reese's memory as the
Wolverines take the field in their
final home football game against
Ohio State.
Although $100,000 is a great deal
of money, the SAAC hopes to raise
the rest of the money by the end of
the year.
This year would have been
Reese's final at Michigan, so the
SAAC wants it to be the year the
scholarship is established.~
"It's the last year that people
would be around to remember him,"
Potts said. "So we're trying to do as
much as we can this year to solidify
the scholarship. We want to keep his
memory alive, and the closer we can
keep it to when he was here, it would
just carry more weight and more
meaning for anyone who received
the scholarship."

By Sarah Ensor
For The Daily
After firmly establishing its position
at the top of the Big Ten standings, the
No. 7 Michigan field hockey team will
take a break from conference action
today to face in-state rival Central
Michigan.
The Wolverines are coming off of a
successful weekend, in which they hand-
ed then-No. 3 Iowa its first loss of the
season and defeated rival Northwestern,
2-1. Their confidence level is high after
proving their merit in the tough confer-
ence schedule.
"It was a great weekend," senior cap-
tain Ashley Reichenbach said. "Coming
out Friday (against Iowa) and playing
like we did was awesome. Anytime you
sweep in the Big Ten it's a great accom-
plishment."
Junior forward Courtney Reid agreed.
"We're glad we could sweep the
weekend, especially Iowa," she said.
"We're still in the running for the Big
Ten championship, so that's good."
The team needs to carry this momen-
tum into today's game in Mt. Pleasant.
The Chippewas are 2-9, with a 2-3
record in the Mid-American
Conference. Michigan has won the last
nine matchups against Central, dating
back to 1990. Last season, they domi-
nated the game, winning I 1-0.
Despite this recent success against
the Chippewas, the Michigan stickers
recognize the need to avoid complacen-
cy.
"We have to be ready for them," Reid

said. "Any team can beat any team on
any given day, so we just hax e to go out
and play well."
Central Michigan's poor won-loss
record is deceptive, as it is a strong team,
and players and coaches aike believe
that this game may be a close one.
"Going up to Central is always diffi-
cult," Michigan coach Marcia Pankratz
said. "Any time you're playing a team on
the road, they're emotionally going to be
up for it, and they're trying to seek
revenge from last year's game. We have
to be focused and on top of our game to
really play well"
The Chippewas are led offensively by
junior Brianne Tallinger, who has six
goals and 13 points on the season.
Another key member of the team is
senior Cheryl Eglin, who is eight points
away from tying the CMU record for
career points.
A loss to the unranked Chippewas
would be devastating to the Wolverines'
hope of maintaining their top-10 nation-
al ranking, so Michigan has to make sure
not to overlook this game.
"Central is unranked," Pankratz said.
"We have to play our best hockey against
them because they could be really dan-
gerous."
While this game is important for the
Wolverines, it also provides them with a
good opportunity to practice their strate-
gy in a game situation.
"This is a good chance for us to work
on our game plan and to really focus on
the things we've been working on in
practice," Reichenbach said. "The


DANNY KALICK/Daily
Sophomore forward Laura Stinson and the rest of the Michigan field hockey team
will travel to Central Michigan today to face the unranked Chippewas.

offense has got to shoot more and the
defense has to keep on doing what we're
doing."
Today's game serves as a good pre-
cursor to Sunday's Big Ten matchup

against Michigan State, and players are
looking forward to the contest.
"This is a great building block for
Sunday," Reichenbach said. "So hope-
fully things go well."

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By Jon Zemke
Daily Sports Writer
Things aren't exactly in order up in
East Lansing. After Michigan State
lost starting setter Christine Landry,
the Spartans have stumbled through a
four-match losing streak before host-
ing Michigan tonight.
But Michigan State coach Chuck
Erbe said his players are doing great
a job.
After losing Landry to a torn ACL
during a 3-1 win over Ohio State, the
Spartans have faltered. That was
Michigan State's last win and the
Spartans have since dropped four in a
row.
But Erbe said his players have
struggled to overcome Landry's
injury.
"I think it speaks for itself," Erbe
said.
The Spartans have failed to win a

match since the injury and the only
match in which they managed to win
a game was a 3-2 loss to Iowa.
Landry's replacement, Vicki Basil,
has had trouble running Michigan
State's offense.
"I think she's been doing a great
job," Erbe said.
How great a job that's been is in
question. The Spartans' offense has
suffered greatly since the switch.
Michigan State has a pitiful .183
attack percentage in the three lop-
sided losses.
Michigan State's outside hitters
have been trying to pick up the slack
since the injury. In every loss since
Landry went down, at least one
Spartan has reached double digits in
kills. Outside hitter Sarah Gustin
even hit 31 kills against Iowa.
Guess what Erbe thinks about her?
"I think she's been doing a great

job," Erbe said.
Erbe might actually be right on that
one, but Michigan State's weakness is
in its new setter. No matter how much
of a great job Erbe thinks Basil is
doing, she is still produces a .029
attack percentage in comparison to
Landry's .190.
Most importantly, the Spartans
have yet to notch a win with their
new setter. Even in the match against
Iowa, Michigan State eventually lost
in the fifth game. Michigan beat Iowa
the next night in three straight games.
Even though Michigan State was
swept by Purdue two weeks ago,
Michigan took the same Boilermaker
team down to the wire in a five-game
loss.
The Wolverines also played with-
out their best defensive player -
junior Alija Pittenger - for half of
the match because she was unable to

play in the front row while recovering
from an ankle injury.
"Defense has been our downfall,"
Michigan coach Mark Rosen said.
"We've been growing as a defensive
team trying to get better and better
and better."
The Wolverines' defense is some-
thing that has suffered the last few
matches with the loss of Pittenger for
a stretch of a few games and the shuf-
fling of the lineup.
Sophomore Katrina Lehman and
senior Maggie Cooper have found
themselves playing more as Rosen
has sacrificed height in his middle
blockers for better defense.
Which will be helpful against a
team like Michigan State that.
depends on its attack.
"We just want to go out there play
hard and come away with a win,"
Cooper said.

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