8 - Tuesday, A pril 13, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Men's hoops sends off Sims, Harris* By TIM ROHAN Daily Sports Writer The Manny Harris and DeShawn Sims era of Michigan basketball came to a close last month, and last night was their chance to say goodbye. At the Michigan men's basketball team's banquet, Harris gave a brief speech before the seniors, saying it NOTEBOOK had been a plea- sure playing for Michigan. Harris also said that Sims was the reason the Detroit native even came to Michigan and that Harris "loved him." Sims, who won the team's MVP award, defended Harris's decision to enter the NBA draft after his junior season, saying that people shouldn't have criticized the Wol- verines' leading scorer because Harris played like a senior this year. When Michigan coach John Beilein got up to talk, his advice for the outgoing players was simple - work harder than you've ever worked before. Either way, Harris is leaving a year early, and Sims is graduat- ing - the faces of the program are gone. And whenthe Wolverines convene again next season, the team will look drastically different. This summer, while Harris and Sims try and make that jump to the NBA, Michigan is goingto be work- ing hard to replace 53 percent of its total point output and 43 percent of its total rebounding. "We see some good things," Beilein said. "Their summer work- outs right now are so huge. We have almost a five-month summer where coach Beilein and his staff can watch them. And this is huge. They must be self-starters, they mustgo after it. This is really bigtime for them." If there was any promising sign for next year's Wolverines, it was that sophomore Zack Novak took home the team's leadership award. BYE BYE BYE: Last Friday, Beilein announced that assistant 0 Senior DeShawn Sims, left, and Junior Manny Harris, right, accounted for 53 perent of scoring and 43 percent of rebounding for the Wolverines last season. Both are leaving for the NBA. CLIF REEDER/Daily coaches Jerry Dunn and John Mahoney were leaving the pro- gram to pursue other collegiate coaching opportunities. "If anybody follows college bas- ketball, change is everywhere," Beilein said. "I can't say there is anything specific. I would just say that change is part of a program and we're going through that right now. I'm the head coach at Michigan, I've got to make changes as I see." Dunn had been on Beilein's staff for seven years and Mahoney for the past five years. Both were also with Beilein at West Virginia before coming to Michigan. Beilein said the moves were based on the future and not on the team's disappointing season. Jeff Meyer will move into the assistant coaching role permanently after he took over for Dunn in the middle of this past season. And Beilein said he is tying to fill the other position as quickly as he can. SCHOLARSHIPS APLENTY: With Harris, Sims, redshirt junior Anthony Wright and redshirt senior Zach Gibson all leaving the program and redshirt freshman Ben Cronin having left due to a career-ending injury, Beilein has some scholarships left to fill for next season. Beilein went through the num- bers and mentioned commitments from Tim Hardaway, a guard, and Evan Smotrycz and Jon Horford, forwards, occupying three of those five scholarships opening up. That would leave Michigan with two scholarships remaining. Beilein wants to add more more to the class. "I think it all depends on how it lines up right now," Beilein said. "Where our next commitment comes from, we'd like to sign at least one more. But if we don't find the right guy, but then who that person is, it dictates some other things. But I can see us signing a couple more." That number is also at three because freshman guard Eso Akunne, who was awarded a one- year scholarship this past season, will have walk-on status once again next year. JORDAN MORGAN INJURY UPDATE: Beilein also gave an update on how freshman forward Jordan Morgan is doing regarding his knee injury. "He is recovering well," Beilein said. "What is good now is his knee is getting a chance to recover while his shoulder is recovering. That's the good thing about it. But anytime a guy is going to be out four months, he's been out the whole year. "I am glad that we did get a glimpse of some things he has to work on this year." Morgan is the second-tallest Wol- verine returning next season. Listed at 6-foot-8 inches, Morgan will only be looking up to Blake McLimans (6-foot-10 inches). When he was healthy, Morgan worked with the coaching staff on scoring around the basket, his rebounding and even developed a jump hook. The Wolverines front line will lose some muscle with Sims graduating, and Morgan could fill in nicely in the paint. Daily Sports Editor Nicole Auerbach contributed to this report. FLINT Earn U of M academic credits without spending your summer in a classroom! UM-Flint offers fully online courses throughout the spring and summer semesters-great for students planning to travel or work during the spring and summer months! Registration has already begun, and online classes fill up quickly, so act now! Enrollment is simple; just call UM-Flint's Office of Extended Learning at (810) 762-3200 and we'll walk you through the process step by step! STUDENT RUSH! HALF PRICE TICKETS!* Presented By: AN EVENING WITH DAVI D SEDARIS TOMORROW NIGHT ONLY! 7:30pm MICHIGAN THEATER, ANN ARBOR Tickets: MICHIGAN UNION TICKET OFFICE 800-745-3000 or www.TicketMaster.com MIlustration copyright 2008 m i ch ae s ch w ab s t ud io * Limit two per order with student ID. Good at Michigan Theater Box office, opens at 5:30pm. Limited quanitity available. M' loses first game in two years By BOBBY REEDY Daily Sports Writer It had been two years and 329 days since the Michigan men's club lacrosse team had lost a game. In the 2007 National Tournament, the Wolverines lost a consolation match on May16 to Georgia. The next day, the Wolverines defeated Colorado 13-8 and began an MCLA-record 49-game winning streak. On Friday night, No. 1 Michigan took its winning streak to Colorado with the goal of reaching the half century mark in consecutive wins against the same team that started the streak - the unranked Buf- faloes, who had lost their previous four contests. It didn't happen. Colorado stunned the Wolver- ines by a score of 12-10 and sent shockwaves through the MCLA by ending the streak. Michigan made sure to redeem itself two days later, beating No. 2 Colorado State 10-6. "In the warm-ups (against Colo- rado) we definitely were a little quiet, maybe a little flat and I take responsibility (for) that factor in the sense (that) I should have brought the team in," senior captain David Rogers said. "I should have helped make sure everybody was focused and let everyone know that we're not invincible and we can lose. We were complacent going into the game and it cost us." Colorado jumped out to an early lead and never let go. They took a 5-3 lead into halftime and Michigan had its first halftime deficit of the season. The Buffaloes' lead grew to seven in the fourth quarter and they were able to hold on after the Wol- verines rattled off five unanswered goals. "It was my first time ever los- ing at Michigan,"" junior goalie Mark Stone said. "After the game all the players come and meet the goalie. As a goalie, it was a hard loss because you wanted to put so much pressure on yourself to win the game for the team and we were just lacking all around. After the game, the whole team came together, we all kind of embraced and one of the players gave a nice speech about how we have to come together and how it's just a loss." For a large majority of the team, it was their first time losing while wearing the winged helmets. Not a single member of the junior, sopho- more or freshman class had ever lost a game at Michigan. "(The players) were devastated," Michigan coach John Paul said. "It was a shock and it was a tough pill to swallow for a lot of them for about 24 hours. But once they reflected on it and started to under- stand why ithappened theygotpast it pretty quickly." The Wolverines have won two national championships in a row and have beaten the nation's best club teams throughout the streak, which is why Friday night's loss came as such a shock. Colorado had been ranked No. 7to begin the season but quickly fell down the rankings as it lost five ofits first sevengames. "This wasn't about a team that was better beating us," Rogers said. "This was about us not playing to our potential and us not bringing the proper amount of focus and respect to the game. I don't think this was a disheartening thing where we are starting to doubt how talented we are as a team." Two days later, Michigan took on No. 2 Colorado State. The Rams brought a 12-0 record into the game and had just thrashed Colorado 13-6 the week before. "Right when we came out to do our stretches we had a chip on our shoulder that we had to go out and play that game," Stone said. "Kids were getting really pumped dur- ing warm-ups and you just knew it was different than that CU game. For me personally, I just wanted to make sure to make every save to make sure we won this game." Knotted up at 5-5 going into the fourth quarter, Rogers got the ball rolling with his second goal of the game as the Wolverines scored five straight goals to assume a com- manding lead of 10-5 with 6:10 left in the matchup. "It was good to see the team recover like that," Rogers said. "CSU was the perfect team for us to play after the disappointment on Friday. You don't want to play a cupcake. You want to play a team that is going to challenge you and test your character and you really get a chance to see what you're made out of. I think we did that and (the win) reinforced the fact to us that we are a good team and we are very talented and we still have the tools to accomplish our goals in May." 0 0 With LaMarre back in lineup, Blue will take on hot Rockets' batters By ZAK PYZIK due. "These guys, for the most part, Daily Sports Writer picked me up while I was gone, but I can only watch so many games After a seven-week hiatus, junior from the sidelines. It's definitely outfielder Ryan LaMarre is back in great to beback out there." the Michigan LaMarre hita triple and two dou- baseball team's Tiedo at bles on Sunday against the Boiler- lineup and hot- makers. One double came when the ter than ever. MiChigan bases were loaded and sparked a sev- LaMarre pushed Matchup: en-run inning for the Wolverines. his hit streak, Toledo 21-9; LaMarre, who was awarded the which started Michigan 18-11 Big Ten Player of the Week yester- before his injury, When: Today day, is batting .519 and is arguably to 10 games in the 3:05 P.M. the best hitter for the Wolverines. Wolverines' 94 Whore- "What a week," Michigan coach victory over Pur- Ray Fisher Rich Maloney said. "If he is not due on Sunday. Stadium Player of the Week, I don't know LaMarre's what more you could do. It was reliability, along Lichi aly pretty special, especially in his first with a consisten- com d week back. He hasn't seen much cy in the infield live pitching and to perform the and a strong bullpen, should serve way he did, get big hits, it really as the catalysts in Michigan's con- helped the team." test against Toledo today. The Rockets (8-1 MAC, 21-9 "It feels unreal," LaMarre said overall)just recentlyousted confer- after Sunday's game against Pur- ence foe Buffalo 17-8. The win gave Toledo a three-game series sweep and extended its winning streak to eight games. The Rockets haven't been defeated since March 31, when they lost to Ohio State 4-3. The last time the two teamsfaced offwasin2008, and Michigan came out victorious, 12-4. It was then- freshman pitcher Travis Smith who pitched a one-hit scoreless inning and then-sophomore pitcher Eric Katzman who took over and threw three scoreless innings. Junior Matt Miller, today's start- er for the Wolverines, is 0-2 this sea- son despite having only allowed two runs over six innings and striking out seven batters against St. Johns. Most recently, Miller threw a score- less inning and struck out one batter coming out of the bullpen against Central Michigan on April 7. Miller will have to be stable to handle the top of the Rock- ets' lineup to find success. Toledo boasts four batters hitting better than .350. And when Miller gets to the meat of the that lineup, he will really have his hands full. Dan Sherwood, Jaren Hoying and Tim Krofcheck come to the batters box in the sixth, seventh and eighth spots consecutively and each have home-run potential for big slams. The three have accumulated 24 home runs this season. But if the play in the field is con- sistent, the burden on Miller will be significantly less. Michigan is fielding .968 and the Wolverines are averaging just 1.24 errors a game. The biggest switch for Michigan has been mov- ing redshirt junior Anthony Toth from shortstop to second base and chalking in freshman DerekDennis at shortstop. Toth has played more comfortably at second and Dennis is making good decisions at short. Both will need to be on their gameto stopthe Rockets'hotstreak today. 0