2B - The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - Monday, April 2, 2001 ATHLETE OF THE Who: Melissa Karjala Sport: Water Polo Hometown: Ann Arbor Year. Senior Aft Karjala set a school record for Michigan's water polo team by scorng six goals in a single game against Massachusetts on Saturday. The team sqored four other goals to net the 108 win. With eight goals in the three game toumnament, Karjala was named Offensive Player of the Invitational $Hstory: Karjala is a senior tri-captain for the Wolverines in their inaugural season of varsity competition. She has netted 28 goals thus far in the sea- son. ; WEEK CLUBSPORTSWEEKLY TIE FORUM - Edited by Seth Klempner and Naweed Sikora Officiating, penalties leave 1cers devastated Your chance to speak out on issues in Michigan spowts e How will the Michigan hoclky team fare in the Frozen Four? What have you thought about the Final Four so far? Are Michigan's spring sports going to be any good this season? Daily Sports wants feeaback! Visit www.m rx l /Yomm for your chance to By Mike Hensch Daily Sports Writer M9 NOTES Women's track. runs into Stanford This weekend, the Michigan women's tennis team made the trip to'Palo Alto for the 2001 Stanford Track and Field Invitational. It was a big meet including teams from all over the nation including several Big'Ten teams. The Invitational was Michigan's second outdoor meet of the season. Both of which have been non-scor- ing events. Over the weekend the Wolverines had several top ten finishes in the Invitational that included over 35 events and three first place finishes. .Mx TAT Two of those firs came in the 400-met Carly Knazz and S placed top in their p Knazz ran a 54.64 beat out Maggie Ves SLO by .2 of a seco noon race. Rankin fi seconds in the morni Katie Jazwinski a in the 800 meter run ond place finisher b onds. The 4x100 relay second with a time< to the San Fransisco ond. Michigan's ot finished third. rala The women's club hockey team ended its season this past weekend with memo- ries of numerous successes overshadow- ing stories of controversies. The team t place finishes fell to Pittsburgh, 3-2 in the final game. er dashes where Earlier in the year, the team ended a harlina Rankin game with Arizona State in a bench erspective races. clearing brawl. The national tournament second dash to was marred by bad officiating as well as ssi of Cal. Poly- a scandal, in which Wisconsin used an nd in the after- illegal goalie. nished in 57.56 After going undefeated in league play ng race. during the season, the sky was the limit lso placed first for the women's club hockey team as it beating the sec- entered the CCWHA Championship y over two sec- and the national tournament. The team, which lost an early round team finished game in the league tournament to of 46.64, losing Western Michigan, had to beat the by .04 of a sec- Broncos twice in the finals to claim its her relay team second-consecutive championship due to the double elimination format. - Staff reports "After going through the regular sea- son undefeated, my team had all the confidence in the world," first-year coach Hal Krenkel said. "No one on the team had any doubts that we would beat Western twice in the finals." A Pts Sh , The inaugural national tournament 39 65 207 was plagued with problems. The team 32 60 159 was frustrated with the seeding of the 24 3 8 tournament as well as the officiating. 17 31 88 19 29 98 The Wolverines were the top-ranked 11 27 147 team in the East all season, but received 18 27 114 a No. 2 seed in their bracket. 16 26 65 The three-game round robin portion 14 22 104 of the tournament decided which game 7 21 769 each team would play in the final round 12 16 81 in the tournament, consisting of first, 9 12 42 third, fifth, and seventh place games. 8 10 55 Michigan was left with a bitter taste 5 9 28 in its mouth after settling for a fifth 8 9 35 4 5 PLAY4BA2LL51 4 4 37 2 3 11 place finish. In a controversial game, the Wolverines lost to Pittsburgh in the round robin, after two Michigan goals were called off by the referees. "The two goals called back were two blatantly bad calls," Krenkel said."The Pittsburgh head coach apologized after the game because he knew that we were robbed out of a win." Another game with Colorado ended in a tie, yet the game was ultimately decided by penalty minutes. With more penalty minutes, the Wolverines were, in a sense, given a loss because the tie hindered their chance at placing higher. "Deciding a game by penalty minutes is a poor way to decide a game," senior forward Jodi Berris said. "We should have played a five minute overtime and than gone into a shootout." With the decision based on penalty minutes as well as the goals that were called off, the Wolverines played the Badgers in the fifth place game. But, Wisconsin was forced to forfeit the game, due to the use of a varsity goalie. Krenkel summed up the tournament for Michigan: "Although we were not deemed national champions, we are confident that we could beat any team in the tournament." With the season coming to an end, the team must deal with the loss of the seniors. Although key players have ended their careers this past weekend, the Wolverines expect to reload their roster with in-state talent. Though the national tournament ended with undesirable results, Michigan beat the two top teams, St. Cloud and Wisconsin. The season was capped by a 30-3-2 record second-con- secutive league title as well as numerous stories that will be remembered for years to come. be heard. PoR TsBR IEFS TOM FELOKAMP/Daily Baseball Through April 1. Player G tEsper 3 LOIft 15 -Ccntalamessa 19 oman 22 Tousa 22 Wright 16 Jominy 10 LaRosa 20 Roberts 18 Gfannam 13 Wuerful 7 Sokol 19 Rutkowski 17 Fox 17 Trzos 9 Hockey Through March 25 BA .500 .447 .373 .357 .308 .278 .278 .226 .204 .200 .200 .197 .143 .137 .136 AB 2 47 67 84 78 54 18 62 54 30 15 61 35 51 22 RBI 0 11 11 21 8 9 0 4 6 2 1 5 2 3 1 HR 0 3 1 3 1 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 Player Hilbert Cammalleri Shouneyia Kosic k Jillson Langfeld Matzka Koch Mink Ort meyer Murray Komisarek Trainor Roemensky Kautz Vancik Blackburn Huntzic ker Burnes Wyzgowski Swistak GP 41 41 44 40 42 41 44 39 44 27 41 40 42 44 34 38 44 28 40 14 30 G 26 28 9 14 10 16 9 10 8 10 10 4 3 2 4 1 0 0 0 1. 0 Tourney riots may lead to expulsions STATE COLLEGE (AP} - Penn State students involved in a melee when the school's team vks elimi- nated from the NCAA touirnament might be expelled, school officials said. The university plans to send "a stronger message" by inposing stiffer punishment than in the past, said Joe Puzycki, the unTversity's director of judicial affairs. About 4,000 people swarmed into the street, hurled firecrackers, cans and bottles, and tried to tear down lampposts March 23 after Penn State's 84-72 loss to Teilple in the tournament's round of 1 Police arrested 20 peole - most of them students - a*1 say more arrests are likely as irovestigators review videotapes and pihotographs. The melee caused about $8,000 in damage. Street violence brote out in the same area during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in 1998 and 2000. The crowds were smaller, but property damage from the first disturbance vas estimated at $120,000. Raiders could be back in LA, soon LOS ANGELES (0.P) - The bil- lion-dollar legal battle to determine the rights to the Los Angeles pro foot- ball market raises an intriguing ques- tion: If the Oakland Raiders win their lawsuit against the ILL, will they try to return to Los Angees? It's a question Ptaiders owner Al Davis has so far declined to answer as he has watched the trial in a cramped Los Angeles courtroom the past three weeks. After a weekend break, the trial is to resume Monday. As part of a separate lawsuit againsW the city of Oakland, Davis had asked a judge to let him out of a lease requir- ing the Raiders to play at the Oakland Coliseum for 10 more years. That request was denied. NFL owners hope he'll come up with the same result in Los Angeles. Selig loving new Milwaukee stadiun# MILWAUKEE (AP) - When base- ball commissioner Bud Selig entered Miller Park to a packed house for the first time, he was so moved that he did- n't say a word for several minutes. Selig finally turned to his wife, Sue, and said simply:"Oh, my God!" Selig attended President Bush's base- ball celebration at the White House on Friday, then jetted back to see the Milwaukee Brewers open Miller Park with a 5-4 exhibition win over the Chicago White Sox. "The president loves baseball, he's a real fan, it was an extraordinary day," Selig said And the night was even better for Selig, who worked tirelessly to get a retractable-roofed replacement for County Stadium as owner of th@ Brewers before becoming fulltime con missioner in 1998. Selig spent the evening in a private suite with White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf and Hank Aaron, among oth- ers. He was so deluged by thankful fans as he walked around the stadium that he never reached the press box for his cus- tomary visit with reporters. President Bush will see it for himself on Friday night, when he throws out th first pitch before the Brewers officiall open Miller Park. ERA leader (5 innings pitched) Leveque 0.00 Srtfikeout leader Korecky 25 Save leader Trzos 2 M' S HDULEL Tuesday, Api 3 Baseball vs. Bowling Green, 3 p.m. Softball vs. Oakland (DH), 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 4 Baseball at Eastem Michigan, 3 p.m. Softball at Bowling Green, 3 p.m. fhurda, Api 5 M Gymnastics at NCAA Championships Qualifier (Columbus), 7 p.m. lee Hockey vs. Boston College at NCAA Frozen Four (Albany, N.Y.), 7:30 p.m. Friday, Apdi 6 Softball vs. Purdue (DH), 2 p.m. Baseball vs. Indiana, 3 p.m. M Gymnastics at NCAA Championships Team Finals (Columbus) 7 p.m. -M-Golf at Marshall Invitational M Track/Field at Duke Invitational «.Sd Wrday, Api 7 r W Tennis at Ohio State, 10 a.m. I*i Tennis vs. Penn State, Noon Baseball vs. Indiana (DH), 1 p.m. Softball vs. Indiana, 2 p.m. W Gymnastics hosts NCAA Northeast Region Championships, 6 p.m. A.ce Hockey at NCAA Frozen Four Final (Albany, N.Y.), 7 p.m. M 'Gymnastics at NCAA Championships Individual Finals (Columbus), 7 p.m. M Golf at Marshall Invitational W Golf at Indiana Invitational Rowing at Michigan State M Track/Field at Duke Invitational Water Polo at Southern Division Championships (Grove City, Pa.) 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