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Terific
tandem
reaches
finals
By Kirk Shefferly
For the Daily
After putting up a strong show-
ing at the Wolverine Invitational last
weekend, the Michigan men's tennis
team enjoyed
another fine
week of play,
this time
at the Polo
Ralph Lauren
All-Ameri-
can Cham-
pionships in
Tulsa, Okla.
Senior Brian
Hung and Hung
junior Matko
Maravic both
competed in
the singles
main draw
of the tour-
nament, but
the real story
came in dou-
bles action.
Hung
and Mara- Maravic
vic teamed
up to make a run to the finals of the
BUS/Daily 32-team doubles main draw. The duo
ate. came into the tournament ranked fifth
in the country and its performance
certainly justified its ranking.
The pair of Wolverines stormed
S through the tournament, winning its
S =
first four matches on the way to the
finals. Hung and Maravic faced off on
Sunday with the ninth-ranked team in
touldn't the country, comprised of Luis Flores
nge.' and John Isner. But Michigan fell by
, man, a score of 8-3.
rt what "They proved they belong in the top
and that level of doubles teams in the country'
t," said assistant coach Sean Maymi said.
k Mike The team began play on Thurs-
m Spar- day. As the fourth seed, they took
p to the on Mississippi's 22nd-ranked team
y helps of Jakob Klaeson and Robbye Poole.
w why The Wolverines wasted no time dis-
that. A posing of their first-round opponents.
y said I After trading games to start the
age 5B match, Hung and Maravic cruised to
a decisive victory by taking seven of
the next eight games, giving them an
8-2 win.
The Michigan duo came out onFri-
day looking to build off its convinc-
ing win in the first round and did
exactly that. In their second
match, Hung and Maravic eas-
ily defeated the 48th-ranked
duo of Arnau Brugues and
Federico Soriano from
Tulsa, 8-4.
The pair continued rolling through
the doubles bracket later Friday,
with an 8-3 win over Virginia's
23rd-ranked tandem of Somdev
Devvarman and Treat Huey.
Hung and Maravic cruised into
their semifinal match on Saturday
morning, where they encoun-
tered Louisiana State's team
of James Cluskey
See DOUBLES,
page 3B
MIKE HULSE
Adrian Arrington continued to step up for Michigan, snagging this touchdown pass in the back of the end zone to get the scoring started in the Wolverines' dominating win over Michigan St
Varsity runs over Spartan
By Scott Bell
Daily Sports Editor
On Saturday, there were
no game-winning field
goals, no comebacks from
17-point fourth quarter defi-
cits, no touchdown passes as
time expired.
In fact, there wasn't much
of anything besides another
dominating performance by
a red-hot Wolverine squad.
No. 6 Michigan came out
on a mission from the first
snap, and after dominating
the game's first half, it coast-
ed to a 31-13 victory against
rival Michigan State.
"It's very nice," said
senior defensive end LaMarr
Woodley of the seniors
going undefeated against
Michigan State for their
careers. "Definitely when
you know guys on Michi-
gan State's team. We kind
of have the bragging rights
now that we're 4-0 against
them."
If the rivalry game wasn't
already incentive enough
for the Wolverines (3-0
Big Ten, 6-0 overall) to
come out hungry for blood,
Spartan running back
Jehuu Caulcrick gave them
more ammunition with his
comments leading up to
the game. He referred to
Michigan's defense as "just
another defense" and said
Saturday's game sh
be "much of a challe
"Like, come on
you've got to be sma
you say sometimes,a
wasn't too intelligen
junior running bac
Hart of the talk frot
tan camp leading ui
game. "It definitely
us out. I don't kno
they would talk like
couple of things the
See SPARTANS, p
M' shows smarts in win
Mario Manningham celebrates after scoring a
touchdown. His two TD grabs helped keep the
senior class perfect against the rival Spartans.
SENIOR DOMINATION
Saturday's win means the senior class will
graduate undefeated against Michigan State.
Year Score Location
2006 31-13 @ Michigan
2005 34-31 (OT) @ M SU
2004 45-37 (3 OT) @ Michigan
2003 27-20 @ MSU
2002 49-3 @ Michigan
ast week Michigan State tail- fective and prone to mistakes. It also
back Jehuu Caulcrick made provides the perfect contrast to the
headlines when headiness Michigan has
he called out Mich- demonstrated all season.
igan's rush defense, Any time the Wolver-
saying the unit was ines play against a team
nothing special. that commits 11 penalties,
Not sure if Caul- they're going to look smart.
crick realized it or Michigan State was whis-
not, but Michigan has tied for false starts, jumped
the nation's top run offsides and racked up three
defense. Not surpris- personal fouls, among other
ingly, the Wolverines mistakes. It would have
shut Caulcrick up on STEPHANIE been hard for Michigan
Saturday, holding him WRIGHT to look dumb (or undisci-
to just 29 yards. Wright on Target plined) against that.
Caulcrick's mis- Michigan wasn't just bet-
guided smack-talk sums up this year's ter than the Spartans on Saturday;
Spartans well - undisciplined, inef- it was smarter. It's a big reason the
Wolverines
dominated
this rivalry
game.
It's also
a big rea-
son why
Michi-
gan has a
great chance
to continue its nii
winning ways HULSEBU.
deep into the
season.
For start-
ers, Michigan
didn't buy into
Caulcrick's
See WRIGHT, page 5B
Hensick plays
hero in victory
Longtime coach
to help Sauer
By James V. Dowd
Daily Sports Writer
Brad Phillips played a game
for the ages. Having traveled
three
miles M+HIAN
across [%Tdf@%
Ann
Arbor with the United States
National Team Development
Program to face the No. 6
Michigan hockey team in an
exhibition game, the 17-year-old
Farmington Hills native stood
on his head, made 36 saves,
and was just seconds away from
leaving Yost Ice Arena with a 2-
2 tie last night - no small feat
against the bigger, faster and
older Wolverines.
But in the distance, trouble
was brewing. Michigan sopho-
more Travis Turnbull picked off
a lazy pass and sent it up ice to
juniorKevin Porterbringing the
crowd to its feet. Porter turned
and found senior alternate cap-
tain T.J. Hensick breaking free
of the USNTDP defense in the
neutral zone.
Sixty-four minutes of team
play had suddenly boiled down
See USNTDP, page 3B
By Nate Sandals
Daily Sports Writer
Billy Sauer's job as Mich-
igan's starting goalie just got
a bit more secure.
The sophomore was guar-
anteed the top spot by Michi-
gan coach Red Berenson
before the season, and now
he will have his personal
goalie coach as a member of
the Michigan coaching staff,
too.
Yona Fioravanti was hired
as Michigan's volunteer
goalie coach last week and
will begin instructing the
Wolverines' three goalies
today.
"The coaches talked to me
about (a new goalie coach),"
Sauer said. "I recommended
him, and they brought him
and they really liked him"
Fioravanti, who professes
a lifelong obsession with
goalkeeping, has worked
with Sauer for nine years.
Sauer is certain that hav-
ing Fioravanti close by this
season will improve his per-
formance.
"I spent the whole sum-
mer with him'" Sauer said.
See COACH, page 3B
ZACHARY MEISNER/Daily
Altemate-captain TJ. Hensick scored the game-winner in the final second of overtime to cap off a
great weekend. He totaled nine points (two goals, seven assists) in two exhibition wins.