6B - The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - January 22, 2001
'M' swimmers drown Buckeyes
Doubles dominate in men's
tennis shutout of hexed Broncos
By Jim Weber
For the Daily
Beating Ohio State is nothing new to
Michigan or its women's swimming
team. As one school dominates another
over an extended period of time, the
champions begin to look past the sup-
posed rivalry.
But, don't tell that to Michigan coach
Jim Richardson, who made sure these
thoughts didn't overtake his team. As a
result the team won eight events and
beat Ohio State, 132-106, Saturday in
Columbus.
"Whenever you are swimming
against a sister school in the Big Ten, it's
a big deal," Richardson said. "1 don't
care if it is tiddlv-winks or a 47-man
squamish, you have to be ready."
Senior Jen Crisman won both the
100- and 50-yard freestyles. She also
set a new Peppe Pool record with a time
of 23.52 in the 50 free.
Freshman Tealin Keleman took a first
place in the one-meter diving against a
strong group of Ohio State divers.
This dual meet also marked the
homecoming of freshman swimmer
Annie Weilbacher, who is from
Columbus.
Weilbacher described her perfor-
mance as "decent," modest considering
how well she placed in her events. Her
performance included a second-place
finish in the 200-yard individual med-
ley and first place in the 400-medley
relay. Her success was especially vali-
dating because Ohio State recruited her.
There were many supporters in the
crowd rootingfor Weilbacher at the
meet. Combined with the Wolverine
fans making the trip from Ann Arbor,
Weilbacher said, "It seemed like we had
a bigger crowd than they did."
This weekend the Wolverines will
face No. 18 Notre Dame on Friday fol-
lowed by a visit to No. 23 Northwestern
on Saturday afternoon.
Although these are difficult meets for
the Wolverines, coach Richardson said
he was not very concerned with their
record - he relies on practices to eval-
uate his team.
Richardson looks to keep the girls
fresh for his top priority, the NCAA
Championships.
In order to do so "we will begin
tapering down this week," Richardson
said.
By Albert Kim
Daily Sports Writer
For 23-straight matches against the Michigan men's ten-
nis team, the Broncos had walked away with a loss. The
24th time was no different.
The Wolverines dominated both the doubles and singles
matches as they swept their way to a 7-0 victory at the
Varsity Tennis Center yesterday afternoon.
The Broncos put up a good fight in the singles match-
es, but didn't have enough to keep Michigan from winning
its ninth-straight season-opening dual match.
"We knew they were a good team and we knew we
couldn't overlook them," freshman Anthony Jackson said.
The Wolverines started the match by emphatically win-
ning the doubles point. Junior Henry Beam and sopho-
more Chris Shaya dominated at first doubles, 8-4.
Juniors Dan McCain and Greg Novak won at No. 2 dou-
bles, 8-5, while Jackson and junior Ben Cox finished the
sweep with another 8-5 win.
"Our doubles were weak last year, but I think we've def-
initely improved, and now I think we can beat anybody,"
Cox said.
At No. I singles, Beam needed three sets to prevail
against Pillon, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Beam suffered two service
breaks in a sloppy second set, but hit some big shots down
the stretch to put the match away.
Cox, McCain, Jackson and Shaya won in straight sets in
the No. 2, 3, 5 and 6 slots, respectively. No. 4 Greg No4
went to three sets, but prevailed, 6-1, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1.
Particularly impressive, Cox dominated his match
against a very vocal Fernand Garcia, 6-4, 6-3.
Cox jumped out to early leads in both sets, served well
and controlled nearly every point. Garcia didn't go quiet-
ly, though. Upset by a close call by the umpire, he loudly
demonstrated to the official how to call the ball out.
Undistracted by his foe's antics, Cox played his best
when it counted, fighting off a break point in the first set,
then putting the set away with an emphatic overhead.
"When Ben is focused and playing well, he can play
with anybody;' Michigan coach Mark Mees said.
Shaya also played well - showing some toughnespn
gritting out a first-set tiebreaker, then hitting some big
serves in the second set to earn the win, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4.
The Wolverines have the second match of a five game
nonconference home stand next Saturday against Tularie,
which knocked off the Wolverines last season. But tlat
was before Michigan improved its depth and doubles play.
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By Seth Klempner (sj, jms)
Daily Sports Writer
Forty-three minutes.
That's all it took for freshman phenom Chrissi Nolan to
dispose of Bowling Green's top senior Meghan Rhodes.
It is the baseball equivalent of a two-hit, two-hour game.
Nolan was done with her match before most people were
done with their first set.
Rarely in tennis can the turning point of a match be pin-
pointed, but for Nolan it was obvious.
After losing the first two games, she hit a strong forehand
straight down the line that Rhodes never had a chance to play,
to turn the momentum around.
From there on out Nolan played with confidence and
dominated the match, winning 6-2, 6-0.
"When I had walked over and saw that it was four-love and
saw that the first set had been played I thought it was a mis-
take," Michigan coach Bitsy Ritt said.
Nolan attributed the slow start to having not played a
match since the fall. She also played a long doubles match
and had only a ten minute rest between her matches - giv-
ing her little time to recuperate.
This was not the first time these two Chicago natives had
faced each other.
"Being three years older than me, I haven't seen her in a
while, but we have a long history" Nolan said. "I didn't know
what to expect. I've played her before and she was playing
different today."
Once Nolan found her rhythm, she was unstoppable -
landing her first serves and preventing unforced errors.
"From the warm-up and the first two games I realized she
wasn't above my level - I could win the match if I kept my
errors down and forced her to make errors," Nolan said.
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Chrissi Nolan used her backhand enroute to Michigan's
first victory of the season, a 7-0 win over Bowling Green.
The elder Rhodes could tell how much the younger NOn
had improved since they last played three years ago.
"She did everything solid today, was consistent all around
and didn't make any mistakes," Rhodes said.
Despite the excellent play by Nolan and the 7-0, dominat-
ing performance by the Wolverines, they got off to a slow
start falling behind in two of their three doubles matches
before rallying to win all three.
Fuzesi and Plaushines were down 7-4 in their eight-game
set before coming back to win, 9-7, in dramatic fashion.
The slow start could be attributed to early season jitters
and nervousness that led to many unforced errors.
"I was surprised with how nervous we started with the&-
bles," Ritt said. "But I was proud of how we settled down."
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