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October 22, 2007 - 3B
CHANEL VON HABSBURG-LOTH RINGE/Daly
Sophomore Mario Fuzetti couldn't get
Michigan over the hump this weekend.
'M' all
ti~ed up in
Big Ten
battle
From SOCCER page 1B
Northwestern could have won, but
we-bottled them up and got into a
position where we could win the
game," Burns said.
Despite a still-winless record in
the Big Ten, Michigan took a step
in the right direction, showing
1 improvement over the weekend.
The Wolverines hung tough with
a top-tO team and proved they're
more like the team they were in the
early part of the season than the
one of recent that lost four games
in a row.
"There's this sting when you lose
a game, and (the players feel the)
sting because these guys all love
each other," Burns said. "These
guys fought well for each other
tonight."
The Wolverines will have anoth-
er chance to earn a Big Ten win
next Saturday. After a midweek
clash with No. 19 Akron, they head
to the hostile Columbus atmo-
sphere to take on archrival No. 23
Ohio State.
Blue falls to
All-American
By GJON JUNCAJ Michigan coach Jim Richardson,
For the Daily who expects the senior from Lou-
isville, Ky. to assume a bigger and
As the pre-meet hype and brighter stage.
anticipation swirled through the "I think she's got a great shot at
Stephen C. O'Connell Center Nata- making the Olympic team," Rich-
torium in Gainesville, Fla., for the ardson said. "She's got terrific
Michigan women's swimming range as a freestyler, and she's very
and diving team's season opener good (in the individual medley)
against Florida, the fans came in and breast stroke. You can't really
wondering which of the 15 former root against Caroline. She's a win-
All-Americans featured in the dual ner, and I'm just really glad that
meet would grab their attention. we've got some people who can
The crowdsoon discovered Flor- race with her."
ida's Caroline Burckle was reluc- One of those swimmers was
tant to share the spotlight after the senior Justine Mueller, who was
first two events. Sixteen-time All- neck-and-neck with Burckle in
Americans tend to do that. the 100-meter Breast Stroke and
Burckle placed first in four indi- finished just .41 seconds behind
vidual events (400-meter freestyle, Burckle atthe wall, settling for sec-
200-meter freestyle, 100-meter ond place on Saturday. The senior
breast-stroke, and the 100-meter didn't go home empty-handed,
freestyle) and played a role in four however, placing first in the 400-
team relay victories (200-meter meter individual medley and the
freestyle, 400-meter medley, 200- 200-meter breaststroke.
meter medley and 800-meter free- Another bright spot for the Wol-
style), leading Florida to defeat verines was junior Emily Brun-
Michigan 354-285 in the weekend emann, who qualified for NCAAs
meet. The Wolverines (0-1 over- by winning the 1500-meter free-
all) are now 0-7 all-time against style with a time of 16:47.47, more
the Gators in dual meets. than three seconds faster than
Burckle's dominant weekend Florida's Laurabeth Guenthner,
display of versatility awed the whofinishedsecond. Brunemann's
crowd and left a big impression on victory is particularly notewor-
EMMA NOLAN-ABRAHAMIAN/Dail
Sophomore Emily Brunemann was one of the few bright spots in Michigan's trip to face Florida this weekend. The Gators won
four of the five relays, dominating the Wolverines in many races.
thy because few swimmers tally
an NCAA qualifier so early in the
season.
"We've had very few people in
the history of the program qualify
in the NCAAs in their first dual
meet of the season, much less in
a long-course meet," Richard-
son noted. "(If) you win an event
against Florida, you're a pretty
doggone good swimmer."
Michigan carried the momen-
tum set by Brunemann's perfor-
mance, finishing first in four out of
the last five events of the weekend.
The final race was the 400-meter
freestyle relay, won by Michigan's
'A' squad of junior Hannah Smith,
junior Payton Johnson, fifth-year
senior Melissa Jaeger and sopho-
more Margaret Kelly.
The first-place finish was Mich-
igan's lone victory out of five relay
events of the weekend, a key factor
in the loss. With the Wolverines'
inexperience, Richardson knows
the relay squads will need some
fine-tuning between now and the
NCAA Championships in March.
"We weren't going to start the
season with relays that were the
way they were last year," Rich-
ardson said. "We graduated two
All-Americans (Kaitlyn Brady and
Lindsey Smith). So we've got a lot
of development to do this year with
everybody, if our relays are going
to have a chance to do well in the
NCAAs."
Michigan seeks redemption, dominates Gators
By RYAN A. PODGES
For the Daily
Over the weekend, the Michi-
gan men's swimming and diving
team swam in a dual meet against
the No. 8 Universityof Florida with
one thing in mind: Revenge.
Last year, the Gators (0-2) came
to Ann Arbor and handed the Wol-
verines their first season-opening
dual meet loss in 38 years. On Sat-
urday, No.12 Michigan (2-0) struck
back with a 326- 272 victory for its
first away meet of the season in
Gainesville, Fla.
The Wolverines took an early
95-66 lead in the two-day meet
Friday by earning the top times in
three of the five long-course meter
events and winning the one-meter
diving event.
When the meet was completed
Saturday, Michigan had earned the
top time or score in 13 of 19 overall
events, including both the one- and
three-meter diving events.
Junior Bobby Savulich had six
first-place finishes as a member
of four relays and the individual
winner of the 100- and 200-meter
freestyles to help carry Michigan
to its second victory of the season
after beating Eastern Michigan at
home Oct.12.
Five Wolverine swimmers high-
lighted the dual meet by earning
four NCAA consideration times
during the meet. Junior Matt Pat-
ton (3:58.65) and freshman Tyler
Clary (4:01.37) earned individual
considerations in the 400-meter
freestyle. The 400-meter medley
relay team of Clary, sophomores
Scott Spann and Chris Brady and
Savulich also earned a consider-
ation time with their first-place
finish of 3:50.36.
Clary (4:28.92) placed first in
the 400-meter individual medley,
swimming for his third NCAA
consideration time while senior
Alex Vanderkaay (4:34.33), who
was the 2007 NCAA National
Champion in that same event,
finished 5.41 seconds later for in
third.
One of the closest races of the
meet was Vanderkaay's second-
place finish to Florida senior James
Walsh in the 200-meter butterfly.
Walsh won with a time of 2:05.49,
and Vanderkaay finished just 0.24
of a second behind him at 2:05.73.
Michigan diver, junior Kyle
Schroeder, who was last week's
Big Ten Conference Diver of the
Week, won the one- and three-
meter springboards, with scores
of 287.17 and 309.98, respectively.
The Wolverines will have two
weeks off before they head to
Bloomington for two more dual
meets against Indiana and Texas
on Nov. 2 and 3.
RUGBY
From page 2B
rience."
Experience is unnecessary,
though. Just ask junior Hailli
Ridsdale.
"I started playing rugby last
January," she said. "I keep play-
ing it because I like the fact that
very few people know about the
sport and that it's a sport you
can learn very quick."
Playing rugby gives the play-
ers on the team other experi-
ences that they need, especially
real-life lessons.
"Playing rugby teaches
people to get up after get-
ting knocked down, which is a
valuable lesson in life," Birch
said. "In real life, you can't be
down on yourself when you get
knocked down. You've gotta get
up. I'm the vice president of a
company, and I know you can't
be down on yourself."
The rugby team is unique in
that it practices with an out-
side squad, something varsity
sports can't do. The Ann Arbor
women's rugby football club
practices with the club team,
which provides a more realistic
atmosphere during the scrim-
mages.
When the teams line up for a
line-in - rugby's equivalent of
a soccer throw-in - it provides
a lot more realism for the simu-
lation, which helps the team
prepare for games.
As far as the future is con-
cerned, Birch is optimistic
about the team as well as the
status of rugby in America.
"Rugby is the most popular
full-contact sport in the world,
and the United States has more
players than any other country,"
Birch said. "It's mostly because
of the size of our population,
but virtually every college and
university in the country has
rugby as at least a club sport,
and it's getting a lot easier to
watch games on TV now."
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