Friday November 7, 2003 www.rmichigandaily. corn sports@michigandaily.com SORTS 7 Strugging Bulldogs hope to 'right the ship' Grapplers start season with top four in mind By Gennaro Filice Daily Sports Writer Ferris State was the most sur- prising team in college hockey last season. After finishing ninth place in the CCHA in 2001- 02 with a conference record of 12-15-1, the Bulldogs tore through . CCHA play with a 22- ...Mhig 5-1 record and earned '." their first-ever CCHA mRe:7p regular season cham- (inBigRa pionship. Early in this year's u e campaign, Ferris State Yo'}> has managed to stun everyone once again - albeit in a vastly different fashion. In the first month of the season, the Bulldogs have failed to live up to lofty preseason expectations, stum- bling out to a 2-6 record (1-5 CCHA). "You combine the fact that our top point producers are struggling to get on the board and as a team we're not playing very good defensively, and that's a recipe for trouble," Ferris .,... Y State coach Bob Daniels said. "Our powerplay is pathetic." Daniels feels that much of these trials can be attributed to the team's new look. "We lost a lot of pretty good players from a year ago, and we've got a lot of different roles to fill on the team, and we have at/ s some voids to fill," itate Daniels said. "So far we've been kind of ds,73e grappling with who's vtYOst) going to do what." SAre Michigan (3-1, 7-1) e opens up a home-and- home series tonight in Big Rapids. In the Wolverines' lone trip to Ferris State last season, the Bulldogs prevailed 4-3. Although Ferris State's strug- gles are well chronicled, Michigan coach Red Berenson refuses to take the Bulldogs lightly. "If you go back, whether it was two years ago, three years ago, or four years ago, every year we've gone into Ferris, it didn't matter whether they were in fourth place or DANNY MOLOSHOK/Daily Michigan junior forward Eric Nystrom fights for position near the crease. seventh place, they were a tough, tough team to play in their build- ing," Berenson said. Berenson admits that his players have not forgotten that Ferris State took the CCHA regular season championship last year. "I don't think we walk around thinking we owe them something, but I think our team knows that we respect them a lot more than maybe we had in the past," Berenson said. "I don't think it's revenge, it's more respect that this is a new season, and we have to prove that we can com- pete with a team like that." Michigan State dominated Ferris State last weekend in East Lansing, sweeping the Bulldogs 8-0, 4-2. "Last weekend, we almost hit a panic mode, and what happens is everyone's out there trying to do too much and consequently no one's doing their job," Daniels said. "I think we're beyond urgency at this point, and we're in panic, and that's not a very good mode to be in. If anything we've got to come down a little bit. "I'd like to see some urgency, but I don't want it to be urgency that starts to panic, because as it goes through that, then there's no way you can right the ship." By Eric Chan Daily Sports Writer The smell of mildew and sweat is in the air. That could only mean one thing - that wrestling season is on the hori- zon. The No. 7 Michigan wrestling team is hard at work at Crisler Arena trying to improve on last year's sixth place finish at the Big Ten Championships. "I think one of our goals this year is to have multiple national champions," Michigan coach Joe McFarland said. "We want to be one of the top four teams in the country." The Wolverines graduated three All- Americans last year in Kyle Smith, Mike Kulczycki and A.J. Grant, but have reloaded with a group of talented freshman. Mark Moos (125 pounds), Chase Metcalf (133), Nick Roy (174), Josh Weitzel (184) and Chase Verdoorn (197) are all in strong contention for roles in McFarland's starting lineup. "It's going to be interesting to watch these freshman wrestle," Michigan sen- ior Clark Forward said. "They always surprise you." If Metcalf hopes to have a starting job, he may have the toughest road of any freshman. Metcalf will have to wrestle off Foley Dowd, who is ranked as the preseason No. 7 by The Wrestling Mall. Dowd was a national title con- tender last season, but had his title run cut short by a neck injury. After surgery during the offseason, Dowd hopes to battle back to the top of the rankings. "I've been taking a break from com- petition because of an injury, but my conditioning is coming along pretty well. Coach (McFarland) works us pret- ty hard," Dowd said. "Last year I was feeling a lot of stinging pain down my right arm. This year there isn't much stinging, but there is a lot of discomfort in my arm, and it is kind of awkward around my neck." For the Wolverines to compete in the Big Ten this season, they'll need Dowd's practice partner - 141- pounder Forward, to wrestle at his best. Forward enters the season ranked ninth in the country at his weight, but says that he doesn't really dwell on the num- bers too much. "I don't really pay attention to the rankings anymore because I decided coming out of high school and wrestling in the Big Ten, that every week was going to be tough, and it is," Forward said. Ryan Bertin, who became Michi- gan's first NCAA champion since 1986, looks to repeat the feat at 157 pounds. The Big Ten competition has significantly weakened in Bertin's weight class this season, with both Luke Becker of Minnesota and Keaton Anderson of Ohio State graduating. Michigan also returns sophomore and preseason No. 5 Ryan Churella at 149 pounds. As a freshman, Churella stunned some critics with his surprising third-place finish at the Big Ten Cham- pionships. Minnesota's Jared Lawrence and Arizona State's Eric Larkin, last year's NCAA finalists, have both grad- uated, which makes Churella's weight class a giant crapshoot this season. The critics wouldn't be surprised to see Churella wrestling his way to an indi- vidual Big Ten title this year. As for the Big Ten team title, it's pretty much up for grabs this season. There are five Big Ten teams ranked in the top 10 including No. 3 Minnesota, No. 5 Illinois, No. 6 Iowa, No. 7 Michi- gan and No. 8 Penn State. "The Big Ten is going to be a brawl again," McFarland said. "It's always been the best conference in wrestling" Men's swimming to face back-to-back SEC tests By Gabe Edelson Daily Sports Writer Imagine that instead of having a week off to rest up and prepare for Northwestern, the Michigan football team traveled to Norman, Okla., to do battle with the unanimous top-ranked Sooners on Saturday. That's not all. What if the Wolverines had to go to Austin, Texas, the very next day to square off against a tough Long- horns squad? Impossible? Too ridiculous to believe? Perhaps, but that is essentially the task for the No. 7 Michigan men's swimming and diving team. The Wolverines will journey to Opelika, Ala., for a dual meet today against the No. 1 Auburn Tigers before continuing on to Athens, Ga., to challenge the tenth- ranked Georgia Bulldogs tomorrow. As if the road south wasn't treacherous enough, the team is dealing with what appears to be the flu. "We have the toughest schedule in the country," Michigan men's swimming coach Jon Urbanchek said. "We try to schedule five or six top-10 teams to give us strength and extremely valuable experience (for the big meets) at the end of the year." The team has been training hard behind senior cap- tain Dan Ketchum, who is confident heading into this weekend. "We've been keeping our focus for the whole month," Ketchum said. "We took down number-one Texas last year, so (beating Auburn) is definitely not out of reach. Knowing we can do it and have done it before makes a big difference. We just need to keep that in mind." Urbanchek sees the early season as a time to nail down basic techniques and get into a good routine. "(At this point), the emphasis is on getting good strategy, learning how to race and gaining experience for down the road," he said. "Both teams are tired from heavy training." An unexpected flu bug has not helped. It kept soph- omore Peter Vanderkaay out of last weekend's dramat- ic win against No. 6 Florida and has reared its ugly head in four other swimmers. "At least we can get it out of the way early," Urbanchek said. "We can't put the swimmers in a bubble." That is not to say that the team has avoided precau- tionary measures. "The whole team had flu shots about two weeks ago and take Vitamin C three times a day" Urbanchek said. "The swimmers' resistance to this kind of thing is often very low because of the time commitment of training and the fact that they are spending four hours a day in the water" But the experience-laden Wolverines know what to expect from their trip south. "Auburn is genuinely the best team in the country," Urbanchek said. "They are loaded with world-class athletes, and we're looking forward to the challenge. They have a lot of Olympic potential, (like Michigan)." THE MICHIGANMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM PLAYS TOMORROW AT2 P.M. FOR THE STORY, AS WELL AS FIELD HOCKEY AND WOMEN'S SWIMMING COVERAGE, CHECK OUT WWW.MICHIGANDAILY.COM the michigan daily RENT MEI'M A GREAT HOUSE! !!!!WINTER AND/OR summer 2004 sublet. 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