MEN'S SOCCER: Kiklar Finh THE SPo ruierst tioi Lwithn nine shorthanded tie. best betst PAGE 2B PAGE 3B October 9, 2006\ RTSMONDAY COLUMN: left, who are the to go undefeated THE BOSCH WATCH: Playoff baseball in Detroit was long overdue & PAGE 6B d r:". ° $ f " a ! r" lB a1je iun ~tttI d No. 6 MICHIGAN 31, \ SO LONG, SPARTY 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.