6B - October 22, 2008 SportsWednesday The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MEN'S SOCCER Michigan's unbeaten streak comes to end in loss to Spartans Wolverines fail to win Big Bear Trophy for fifth straight season By FELIX CARREON For the Daily One team's streak had to end Sat- urday afternoon. The No. 18 Michigan men's soc- cer team (1-1-1 Big Ten, 9-3-2 over- all) wanted to extend its unbeaten streak to seven games, while Mich- igan State (4-1-0, 8-5-0) came into the game with a five-year stran- glehoJd on the Big Bear Trophy, a coveted piece of chainsaw art the in-state rivals have competed for since Michigan joined the confer- ence in 2000. "It's the symbol of our rivalry," Michigan redshirt junior Daniel Gray said. But this year, it was the Spartan streak that prevailed once again. A late Spartan goal in the 78th minute on a free kick was enough to hand the Wolverines a 1-0 loss, their first in conference play. "This is a great derby game," Michigan coach Steve Burns said. "It doesn't matter who is on what kind of win streak, it's always a dif- ficult game." Coming into the game, many expected a high-scoring matchup. Michigan and Michigan State are the top-two scoring teams in the Big Ten. But the Wolverines failed to take advantage of a 20-16 shotadvantage (10-6 on goal). "When you get shots on goal, about one out of every three goes in," Burns said. "We had 10 shots on - goal, and no goals to show for it." The Wolverines started the game aggressively, taking several early shots at the Michigan State defense. Senior midfielder Steve Bonnell led the attack with six shots, three of them on goal. Midway through the first half, Michigan appeared to have taken the lead when junior Mauro Fuzetti kicked a rebound into the net, send- ing the Wolverine crowd into a rau- cous roar. But officials ruled that he was offsides, nullifying the score and quieting the Michigan contin-, gent. Both teams were evenly matched for the rest of the first half, with the Wolverines edging the Spartans 8-7 in shots and 3-1 in shots on goal. Michigan picked up the tempo once again in the second half, estab- lishing pressure on the Spartan offense and attacking the Michigan State defenders. And on the opposite side of the field, Wolverine senior defender Michael Holody did a solid job con- taining Spartan Doug DeMartin, who is one of the best scorers in the country with 13 goals this season. "I thought in the second half we really unlocked it and had a lot of chances, and it looked like the game was going to be ours," Burns said. "But soccer doesn't go that way all of the time." Late in the game, the Wolver- ines tackled a Spartan attacker near the box, resulting in a free kick for Michigan State. The Spar- tans quickly took advantage, send- ing the ball into a crowd in front of the box and setting up a Michigan State attacker to head the ball past redshirt junior goalkeeper Patrick Sperry. With 40 seconds remaining in the game, the Wolverines had one last opportunity. Michigan pulled Sperry from the goal, giving the Wolverines an advantage for the corner kick, but the Wolverines couldn't capitalize. "That is the equivalent to the Hail Mary in football," Burns said. "You release your goalkeeper'and you've got everybody in the box, you've got the goal framed and you've gotplayers outside the box - if it gets knocked out to them they can hopefully get a shotback on and get it through the bunch." CLIF REEDER/Daily Freshman Kristen Keane replaced senior Madison Gates in goal this weekend. Keane's goaltending lone highlight in loss By TIM ROHAN goalkeeper Kristen Keane in Daily Sports Writer the second half against Wiscon- sin was the lone highlight of the The Michigan women's soccer weekend. After a flurry of scoring team was facing its most impor- within 10 minutes in the middle tant weekend of the season. of the first half, with senior Madi- With just four games to play son Gates in goal, the Wolverines before the Big Ten tournament, faced a 3-0 deficit. the Wolverines were trying to RyanplayedKeaneingoal after finish strong and make it into the halftime to give her playing time, conference playoffs. and then he gave her the start on In the Big Ten, the top eight Sunday near her hometown of teams make the conference tour- Chicago, when the team played nament, and the winner receives Northwestern. The decision paid an automatic bid to the NCAA off. tournament. Going into the week- "(Keane) did agood job control- end, the Wolverines were one of ling the ball behind the defense, the outside teams looking in. and her distribution was good," To have a shot at the tourna- Ryan said. "She was very calm, ment, the Wolverines had to win collected and composed behind on the road against Wisconsin the back four." (9-6-1 overall, 3-4-0 Big Ten) and On the other hand the offense Northwestern (8-7-1, 3-4-0). But struggled all weekend, tallying Michigan lost both games. Michi- one goal in two games. Senior gan coach Greg Ryan gave the midfielder Katie Miler scored in usual explanation: the team lacks the final minutes of the Wiscon- experience and execution. sin game. The Wolverines were The team started five fresh- shut out-in Evanston against the men in the game on Sunday and Wildcats. Ryan has consistently started at But this lack of offense is noth- least four freshman all year. "Like ing new for the inexperienced most freshmen they are going to Wolverines. be up and down, and this week- "We're getting players in the end it was down," Ryan said. box," Ryan said. "We are getting Michigan (4-9-4 overall, 1-5-2 people in position to score goals Big Ten) has just one Big Ten now, but we have to beat people win with two games remaining down the flanks. We have to have against Indiana (6-10-1 overall, our wide players beating players 1-6-1 Big Ten) and Michigan State getting crosses in, cutting in and (13-4-0, 5-3-0). In order to make goingto goal." the tournament, Michigan would Even though his team is at the have to win its two remaining bottom of the Big Ten standings, games and receive some outside Ryan isn't as disappointed. help. "As far as the Big Ten tour- The Wolverines lost 3-1 in nament goes," Ryan said. "We Ryan's return to Wisconsin, haven'treallyevenlooked atthose where he coached for nine sea- as goals for this team this year. sons. 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SPRINTERS From Page 1B but it sure is nice to see that the guys are responding to the speed training." Michigan junior Chris Brady (20.45) won the 50-yard freestyle, followed by senior co-captains Bobby Savulich and Jamie Mar- tone in second and third. In the 100-yard freestyle, Savulich fin- ished first (45.28), Brady second and junior Charlie Houchin third. After seven weeks of training hard and adjustingto a new coach- ing staff, Savulich was proud of the way Michigan performed in its first meet. "This was the true beginning of a new era - a new chapter in Michigan swimming," he said. "Even though our training is dif- ferent, the coaching is different and our team outlook is different, we're still keeping the same level of tradition, pride and intensity that we've always had." The meet began with a small disappointment when Michigan lost the 400-yard medley relay by just 0.55 seconds. But the Wol- verines bounced back quickly and went on to win 13 of the meet's 16 events, including both diving competitions. Though Michigan displayed new strength in sprinting, the team continued to dominate long- distance events. Senior co-captain Matt Patton easily won the 1,000- yard freestyle and junior Adam DeJong touched out Florida's Shaune Fraser to win the 500- yard freestyle. In the diving well, senior Kyle Schroeder won the one- and three-meter springboard com- petitions. Michigan diving coach Chris Bergere said Schroeder took his diving to "another level" Friday night. "I think the biggest change for him is his confidence," Bergere said. "Inthese dual meets, athome with a big crowd, he thrived...he dove better than I have seen him dive on one-meter and three-me- ter." Sophomore Tyler Clary also had a outstanding meet, win- ning all three of his individual races, including a close finish with Houchin in the 200-yard free- style. With just 50 yards remain- ing, Clary and Houchin were even. But Clary (1:38.53) finished first, just two one-hundredths of a second before his teammate: During the meet, Bottom talked with his swimmers several times about technical changes for their next races. He used some of the team'sbest performances to moti- vate the other swimmers. "Clary was excellent today," Bottom said. "After his 200 free- style, we talked about what he could be doing differently and when he made that change we were really excited. I used him as an example with the teamas some- one who went in, made a change and then won his 200 backstroke race right afterward." Bottom has focused the Wol- verines on learning and adjust- ing. The change is already obvious to Savulich, who said the team's sprint and distance training have made the team more balanced. "Three years ago, if someone had told me we could sweep the 50- and 100-yard freestyles, I never would have believed them," Savulich said. 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