The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 11 JOHNSON Continued from Page 10 was determined to be impossible. John- son's recovery should take four-to-six months, according to Bill Bean, Utah's director of sports medicine. Johnson rushed for 176 yards against Utah State on Aug. 31, setting a new opening-game record at Utah. Then he earned Mountain West Conference player of the week honors the next week after rushing for 229 yards - the fourth-best total in school history. Now he'll have to watch from the sidelines. "The bottom line is putting the kid's interest first," McBride said prior to the surgery. The Utes will face Michigan in the Big House on Saturday in the teams' first ever meeting. Health has been an ongoing concern for Johnson, who already planned on appealing for another year of eligibility from the NCAA after his medical prob- lems last season. After participating in just one game a year ago, rushing for 95 yards against Utah State, Johnson injured his ribs and missed the rest of the season. Utah plans to apply for two additional years of eligi- bility for Johnson, with the application process starting after the season is over. Utah (2-1) usually prides itself on run- ning the ball - finishing 12th in the nation in rushing offense (218.9 ypg) last year - but struggled immensely on Sat- urday without Johnson. Utah ran for a meager 32 yards on 22 carries, with sen- ior J.R Peroulis carrying the ball nine times for just 18 yards. But it was the referees, not the running game that most upset McBride after the 25-23 loss on the road to Arizona. With just under a minute left in regulation, Utah thought it had scored the winning touchdown with a 11-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Lance Rice to receiver Josh Lyman. While replays showed it was a legiti- mate touchdown, officials ruled Lyman didn't get his knee down in bounds and. discounted the touchdown. Even Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, who watched the highlights, agreed. "Utah should be 3-0," Carr said. "For some reason the guy missed the call and it is one of those things." McBride insists there's more to it than that. He questioned the "allegiance" of head official Jim Fogltance in local papers yesterday. Fogltance, a Pac-10 ref- eree who resides in Tucson, Ariz, didn't make the call himself, but that didn't stop McBride from sniffing something foul. Fogltance "is a big-time UA guy," McBride told the Salt Lake Tribune yes- terday. "He lives there, and has always been a big supporter of theirs. He's a big booster. I don't know what in the hell he's doing, doing the game." Return to familiar course brings optimism for Blue By Matt Kramer Daily Sports Writer Michigan women's golf coach Kathy Teichert has fond memories of Forest Akers West. The last time Teichert took her team to the Forest EAST L Akers West golf course in who: Michige East Lansing, the Wolver- Fossum invite ines finished sixth at the when: 9 a.m. 2002 NCAA Central a.m. Sunday Regional in May, sending Latest: Michi Michigan to its first ever its first title o NCAA Championship appearance. "That was an exciting time," Teichert said. "Last year's team you just don't forget. Our finish was something to remember." This weekend, Teichert will lead a completely revamped Michigan lineup .into East Lansing to compete in the Mary Fossum Invitational. Instead of relying on seniors Bess Bowers, Misia Lemanski and LeAnna Wicks to navi- gate through the fairways like they were able to do last season, Teichert will have to rely on senior Kim Benedict, fresh- man Amy Schmucker and sophomore Laura Olin this time around. If this past weekend's Wolverine Invi- tational is any indicator, Teichert may not have much to worry about. Schmucker and Olin both shot 54-hole LANSING an at the Mary ational . Saturday; 9 gan looks for of the season. totals of 229, good enough for a fourth-place tie indi- vidually and Benedict shot 233 to finish eighth overall. Michigan as a team finished 15 shots behind Indiana. "I was really pleased with the way we played last weekend," Teichert said. "With so many new kids I can't predict anything." Olin showed signs of brilliance on Saturday when she began her front nine with three birdies, but she sputtered on the back, making eight bogeys and a par. It's that kind of inconsistency that Teichert says should to be corrected before this weekend. "She had it going great on the front nine but a few shots didn't go her way on the back," said Teichert. "It was just a chain of events from then on out, and she couldn't turn it around. She needs to stay patient and keep herself pumped up." AP PHOTO Marty Johnson was the nation's leading rusher prior to his knee injury. Now he will be watching his team from the sidelines at the Big House Saturday. NAVARRE Continued from Page 10 saw it and exploited it up and down the field for 80 yards and a touchdown. "He went through his reads and I happened to be the right read," Joppru said. "John's grown a lot as a quarterback." Malone's offense has simplified the game for Navarre, allowing him to make reads he might not have made last season. "He can look at all sides of the field and get a look at a lot of different receivers," Joppru said. Navarre didn't get a chance to do much of anything in the first half. He completed his first pass to fullback B.J. Askew, who then fumbled the ball away. On the next possession, Michigan ran three times and punted. Then, the offense missed a chance to have the ball when Marlin Jackson returned an interception for a touchdown, forc- ing the defense immediately back onto the field. At the end of the half, Navarre hit Butler in the two-minute drill, but he fumbled, turning it over to the Irish again. In all, Michigan ran just 23 plays in the first half, leaving Navarre no chance to find a rhythm. "What can you do with 23 plays?" Joppru asked. Spread the blame John Navarre cannot be blamed for most of the offensive blunders the Wolverines committed Saturday afternoon. Navarre's first pass of the game was fumbled by fullback B.J. Askew. Receiver Tyrece Butler fumbled a Navarre pass in the waning moments of the first half. Butler later dropped two passes in Michigan's final drive of the game, ending their comeback hopes. New season brings open lineup for netters By Daniel Bremmer Daily Sports Writer The lineup for the Michigan men's tennis team is wide-open heading into this weekend's Tom Fallon Invitational in South Bend. But as far as Michigan coach Mark Mees is concerned, having his lineup up in the air may not be a bad thing. "It really gives everybody an opportunity to compete for a spot, to work hard and to hopefully get in there and contribute," Mees said. Last year, entering the fall sea- son, it was clear that the team's most experienced and talented play- er were its returning seniors, No. 1 Henry Beam and No. 2 Ben Cox. But now, with Beam and Cox both graduated, this year's squad is "totally up in the air." But that won't matter much because the Tom Fallon Invitational - like the majority of all the other fall season events - has no team scoring. Michigan's players will square off against players from other pro- grams, but the outcomes will not count towards any school's record. The format of these fall events benefits players by giving them time to focus on individual areas of their games, rather than focusing their attention on the overall team's score. It also provides a good opportu- nity to get back into the groove that players may have fallen out of over the summer. "Quite a few of the guys played tournaments over the summer, but there's a break between the end of the summer (and now),"-Mees said. More specifically, the fall season allows players to hit a lot of balls on the court, to regain their competi- tive edge and to compete with a high level of intensity. While several meibers of last year's squad are returning this sea- son, Mees does not expect anyone in particular to step up; instead, he expects "high things from every- body." "We're going to be young, and we're going to have some people in there who are not incredibly experi- SOUTH BEND, IND. Who: Michigan at the Tom Fallon Invita- tional When: Friday through Sonday Latest: Notre Dame eliminated the Wolver- ines from the first round of last season's NCAA Tournament. enced, but got a little taste of it last year," Mees said. "I hope that they will feel comfortable coming in." 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