The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 20, 2000 - 13
.Physical opener ahead for icers
By Joe Smith
IDailSports Writer
Michigan senior defenseman Bob
Gassoff will tell you about the brand of
physical and chippy hockey that is
expected when the fourth-ranked
Michigan hockey team (2-0-2) travels
o Bowling Green (0-2-0) tonight in the
first test toward defending its CCHA
conference title.
He doesn't mind because that's his
style - gritty, physical
and not afraid of THIS W
defending one of his BGSU IC
teammates if things get
ugly during a game. Bowling Green (C
Much like two years When: 7:05 p.m.
ago - when Bowling p.m. Sunday
Green took some cheap Latest: Defending
hots at Michigan assis- on Michigan ope
tant captain Bobby play against a te
Haves near the oppos- swept by Alabam
ing bench at the end of
Michigan's 9-3 playoff win. Gassoff
took matters into his own hands in a
fight with Falcon Dennis Williams -
receiving a game disqualification and a
two-game suspension for his troubles.
"That'll stick in their minds too,"
Gassoff said. "That if they want to play
*hippy they'll think twice about going
over the limit."
Although emotions will be flaring in
a hostile road environment, the players
know they have to play their game and
stay out of the box in order to take the
home crowd out of it early on.
After their first two penalty-ridden
games in the lee Breaker Tournament
- resulting in six goals for their oppo-
nents - the Wolverines realized the
error of their ways and were far more
disciplined, taking only seven penalties
last weekend in two games in Alaska.
"If they take themselves out of the
game with penalties, then we have to
bury them on the power play," said
Michigan senior Josh Langfeld, who
EEKEND
E ARENA
igan (2-0-2) vs.
0-2-0)
tonight,7:05
g CCHA champi-
ns conference
am that was
na-Huntsville.
seems to be a Falcon
killer with 12 career
points against the confer-
enee foe.
While many pick
Michigan to repeat as
conference champs, the
coaches picked the
Falcons to finish ninth in
the preseason poll.
Bowling Green got
shut out in consecutive
The Wolverines will also have to go
into battle without their captain on
Friday night, as senior Geoff Koch is
battling an ankle injury and has missed
practice this week because of a death in
his family.
Michigan won without Koch or Jeff
Jillson in the lineup against Merrimack
last Friday, but will definitely welcome
their All-American defenseman back
tonight.
Jillson is a "kid that should be a dom-
inant defenseman in this league,"
Michigan coach Red Berenson said.
"So we need to see him play at his best."
After Friday's game. the Wolverines
will make the 75-mile trip back home
for a rest before returning to play
Bowling Green again on Sunday night.
Normally the games are played on con-
secutive days, but the Falcons arc host-
ing a football game on Saturday night
- giving both teams a chance to
regroup.
Berenson said he welcomes the break
because it will give his team a
"reprieve" from a busy week that
included many make-up exams and not
much sleep for his players. The jet-
lagged Wolverines returned from a
four-day Alaskan trip late Sunday night,
and he said the extra day will be bene-
ficial.
"Its time to send a message around
the CCHA," Gassoff said. "That this
team is for real and we're going come to
play every night"
:" .;
.
Junior Jeff Jilison
returns to the
Michigan lineup
tonight against
Bowling Green
after sitting out
last weekend's
road trip to
Alaska due to
injury.
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games - for the first time in 31 year
program history -- this past weekend
against unranked Alabama-Huntsville.
But coaches and players alike refuse
to take their opponents lightly, as the
Falcons always seem to get up for
Michigan - beating the Wolverines
twice last year.
"It doesn't matter if you're playing
the first or last place team," Gassoff
said. "The bottom line is that when
you're Michigan, you're going to get
everyone's best game."
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Despite not having lost a race since Sept. 5 when he finished second to teammate
Mike Wisnewski, junior Mark Pilja is never satisfied with his own success.
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Des ite success this season, junior
teach es teammates never to be satisfied
By Job Singer
Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan men's cross country
team has vet to elect a captain, but
once the gun goes off it's been clear
that junior Mark Pilja is the leader.
Pilja has won every single race he
has run since Sept 5. On Sept. 5, in
s most disappointing finish of the
eason; Pilja came in second to his
own teammate, redshirt Mike
Wisnewski. One would expect Pilja
to be satisfied with the way the sea-
son has gone. But that is not how
Pilja works.
"Looking at each race individually,
I've always found something that I
could do better," Pilja said . "The
same goes for every practice. I can
evcr think of a time that I was total-
v satisfied,"
Over the course of his career,
Pilja's accomplishments have includ-
ed five state titles, a third-place fin-
ish in high school nationals and an
All-Big Ten second team perfor-
mance last vear to tro alone with the
ing up on Oct. 29, it is vital that the
rest of the team does a good job of
keeping pace and running in a pack.
"They've been packing it up in
practice and I think they will do so in
Big Ten's," Pilja said. "The guys
won't be intimidated by the situa-
tion."
Part of the issue for the Wolverines
is that they are a young team. The
freshmen have likely never endured
the level of intense training which is
expected of them at the college level.
But, they can not use their first year
as a transition period because many
of them are among the fastest runners
on the roster. Mason Ward, John
Hughes, David Sage and Thomas
Greenless have finished in the top
five during various races this season.
"This freshman class is the best
that I've seen since I've been here,"
said Pilja. "David Sage is suprising a
lot of people with his strong run-
ning."
Comparing the times of these
freshmen to when Pilja was a fresh-
man. it is evident why Pilia is sining
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