6B - October 8, 2007

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Blue not burnt by Boilermaker offense

By CHRIS MESZAROS sions and relied ona stellar game
Daily Sports Writer from goalkeeper Madison Gates
to steer away the rest.
Eighty-eight degrees. "I thought this whole weekend
One hundred-twenty minutes (the defenders) stayed organized,
of soccer. and they were taking the ball
Sweat and dirt dripping off all away before (Purdue) took shots,"
players. Michigan coach Debbie Radem-
But only the Michigan wom- acher said.
en's soccer team was pleased Michigan's veteran defense-
with the result. men, seniors Lindsay Cottrell
The Wolverines shut down the and Emily Kalmbach, led the
top offense in the Big Ten in a0-0 Wolverine defense in its stifling
tie with No. 8 Purdue. Under the effort against Purdue. Freshman
scorching sun at the U-M Soccer Jackie Carron and sophomore
Field yesterday, it was Michigan Kylie Neschke blocked several
that turned up its play in the sec- Purdue shots and cleared the ball
and half. nearly every time Purdue posed a
The contest marked the final threat.
game in Michigan's series against Michigan struggled in the first
Indiana teams after tying the half, allowing Purdue to control
Hoosiers 1-1ion Thursday. the ball in its offensive zone.
Michigan's defense silenced a Gates made three crucial saves,
Purdue offense that had scored including a one off a cannon shot
35 goals in14 games this year. The from the left side where she leapt
Wolverines cleared away most of to top of the goal to knock the ball
the dangerous Purdue posses- down. Her efforts allowed the

Wolverines to maintain a first-
half tie.
"She was outstanding back
there," Carron said. "That one
save she made where she tipped
it over and got it. We might have
been a goal down with out her."
Michigan's defense bent to
the Purdue offense, but it never
broke. The Wolverines survived
the first half and adjusted for the
second half.
It paid off, as the defense faced
considerably less pressure, the
Michigan offense had several
scoring opportunities itself.
Michigan nearly put away the
Boilermakers in the final minutes
of regulation. Freshman Amanda
Bowery fed the ball to junior
Katie Miller, who was alone on
the left side of the box. But out
of nowhere, a Purdue defender
streaked in to block her shot
away.
The Wolverines had another
opportunity just seconds later

with a corner kick, but it was
cleared away by Purdue.
"We had some very good
opportunities to finish the
game," Rademacher said. "That
is certainly something we need to
work on."
The Wolverines' game against
Indiana finished in similar fash-
ion.
Michigan found itself on the
wrong side of a 1-0 deficit, but
found a way to tie the game back
up.
Senior forward Sarah Banco
knocked home a shot off a cor-
ner kick in the second half and
knotted up the game in the 53rd
minute.
The game certainly helped a
struggling Michigan team gain
confidence, which allowed it to
play so well against Purdue.
"(This game) was a huge moral
victory for us," Banco said. "Even
though we didn't win, we tied
and that's a step for us."

VOLLEYBALL
From page1B
ter."
After Rood skied for her ninth kill of the
match to put Michigan up 28-23, two Michi-
gan State attack errors ended the evening to
the pleasure of a berserk, sold out Cliff Keen
Arena.
"I'm just very pleased in how we played,"
Rosen said. "I thought that was the best
we've played in a while. I thought tonight
was really a reflection of how hard they
worked at practice all week. They were good
tonight - they were really good."
The first sellout of the year and the sixth-
highest-attended match in Michigan volley-
ball history at Cliff Keen Arena wasn't just
due to the game. Friday night was the cul-
mination of the Michigan Athletic Depart-
ment's nearly one year of hard work raising
money for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure,
a foundation aimed to end breast cancer.
Advertised as Dig For the Cure Night, fans
had the opportunity to make a pledge per
dig - Michigan tallied 39. Dig For the Cure
t-shirts were being sold for $10, and a silent
auction for the pink game-worn Michigan
jerseys took place outside the arena.
From the normally maize lines on the
court to the pink polos the Michigan and
Michigan State staff members wore, there
was no shortage of pink at Cliff Keen.
And even Rosen couldn't hide his emo-
tions over beating Michigan State, especially
after last year's team was swept twice by the
Spartans.
"We always say its just one of the 20
games," Eosen said. "gut it does feel good.
Last year they took it to us pretty good. Our
kids wanted to redeem from last year a little
bit."
No. 1 Killer: Senior Katie Bruzdzinski
set the Michigan all-time record for kills
yesterday (1,570). The outside hitter passed
Jennifer Gandolph with 11 kills against
Northwestern.
"It's a great statement about her entire
body of work - her whole career," Rosen
said through the athletic department. "She
has been steady from her freshman year to
her senior year and she is someone who puts
up a lot of kills on a consistent basis. The pay-
off is a record like that. She has a lot of time
to push it out of reach for the next person
who might challenge it."

Wolverines work out with Big Ten foes

By RUTH LINCOLN
For theDaily
BELLEVILLE - The trees
may have been speckled with
rich reds, oranges and yellows
and the boats aligned in their
assigned lanes, but it sure didn't
feel like fall.
The Michigan Women's row-
ing team joined Ohio State and
Michigan State at Belleville Lake
Sunday for an early fall scrim-
mage while battling unseason-
ably high heat and early team
injuries.

Official results were not kept,
but the Wolverines consistently
traded first- and second-place
finishes with the Spartans and
Buckeyes.
Michigan coach Mark Roth-
stein said he was pleased with
the fierce drive his team dis-
played throughout the morning.
"The pieces were competi-
tive," Rothstein said. "There
wasn't any one crew that kind
of outdid the other. I think we're
on the right track ... Obviously,
the results themselves are not
all that meaningful, but anytime

you go out and race Michigan
State and Ohio State, you always
want to do well."
The scrimmage was struc-
tured into five five-minute heats
with each heat composed of
three flights. Michigan entered
two varsity-eight boats in the
first flight and one eight in the
second. It did not enter a four
boat due to routine early-season
injuries.
The Wolverines glided into
strong finishes much more
smoothly Sunday than their pre-
vious scrimmage.

"Last time we raced Michigan
State three weeks ago, the results
were very different," senior port
Marin McCabe said.
Rather than a traditional
regatta, each race was approxi-
mately 1,400 meters instead of
the typical 2,000-meter compe-
tition. In keeping with the fall
scrimmage concept, the maxi-
mum stroke rating was kept at 25
strokes per minute.
The Wolverines will return to
action Oct. 21 when they travel
to Boston for the Head of the
Charles.


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FIELD HOCKEY
From page1B
In what has become a normal
occurrence this season, Michi-
gan fell behind early and let the
Spartans dictate play in the first
half. The Wolverines have come
from behind in four of their past
five wins.
After thwarting several shots,
Wolverine goalie Paige Pickett
was beaten top shelf by Spartan
forward Michelle Ciliberti, giv-
ing Michigan State a 1-0 lead 26
minutes into the game. The Spar-
tans outshot Michigan 14-4 in the
first half alone.
Cox said following the game
the poor play had a lot to do with
the effective pressure put on by
the Spartans.
Michigan had trouble clear-
ing the ball out of its own end of
the field. But freshman Vanessa
Sekhon swung momentum in
the Wolverines' favor, scoring off
a penalty corner when no time
remained in the first half. In field
hockey, since a running clock is
used, a half cannot end if a pen-
alty corner is awarded to a team.
"We deflated them right before
they went to their 10-minute half-
time talk," Cox said. "How do you
respond to that?"
The second half turned into
the physical battle everybody has
come to expect in the Michigan-
Michigan State field hockey rival-
ry. Neither team could control
play for a significant amount of
time, with scoring chances hard
to come by. Both teams notched
just three shots in the frame.
The Wolverines took just one
shot in overtime, butthey made it
count. It was their seventh-con-
secutive victory and eighth by a
margin of one goal. During the
winning streak, Michigan has
defeated four ranked opponents,
with three victories coming in
the extra frame.
"In overtime, when our team
was sitting on the bench, there
was just an air of confidence that
was pervasive in that five-minute
breakbetweenperiods,"Coxsaid.
"It was like,'We've been here, and
we know what it feels like."'
And with the NCAA Tourna-
mentjustamonthaway, Michigan
must feel good about its chances,
ridingthe program's longest win-
ning streak since 2004.
But don't say anything yet. You
wouldn't want to jinx it.
BELL
From page 2B
Against Northwestern. Follow-
ing a six-yard gain.
A game earlier, he celebrated
the victory over Penn State by
doing the Worm in the backfield
on the game's final play. No,
that's not a punishable-by-death
offense,'but it's safe to say Carr
wasn't asking Manningham
for tips following the receiver's
impromptu dance session.
So what's the deal? Is this a
serious problem that's affect-
ingthe team, orjust a case of
an immature kid who needs to
grow up?
It depends who you ask.
Put senior captain Mike Hart
in the no-big-deal camp:
"People want everyone toube
like Jake (Long), be like Mike
(Hart), be like Chad (Henne),
people who aren't going to do
anything wrong," Hart said.
"People are going to change over
time, you know, you mature.
... Everybody's not going to be
perfect when they gethere, and
not be who fans want them to be.
So you know he's maturing, and
everything's a learning experi-

ence."
Henne, another senior leader,
sees things a little differently:
"It definitely it hurts us
because last week (against
Northwestern), obviously, Mario
had a greatweek and then he
sits out this week. It definitely
throws timing off for us," Henne
said. "Especially this whole off-
season, we definitely had some
difficulties off the field. To get
involved in that stuff and kind
of ruin the camaraderie of the
team, it really hurts us."
Carr's opinion seems to fall in
between his two stars':
"When you're in your third
year in college, you're not a kid
anymore," Carr said. "What I'm
hoping is his maturation process
will improve here, because he is
a great kid, and he's a very, very
talented guy.
"I want him to do the things
he's capable of doing, and I
believe in him. I believe he will."
So who is Mario Manning-
ham?
Your guess is as good as mine.
He still has the potential tobe
the next Braylon, but also has the
attitude to be the next could-be
star to burn out before he fully
shines.
Whoever he is, it may be time
for an expectation shift.
Those hoping for a Super
Mario that would eventually don
the No. 1 jersey and put pressure
on some of Michigan's all-time
great receivers should probably
file that thought in the pipe-
dream department.
Instead, fans should probably
just hope there's a chance Man-
ningham can still be the receiver
he wanted to become at the start
of the season.
- Bell can be reached
at scotteb@umich.edu.


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