4 6A - Thursday, October 13, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 6A - Thursday, October13, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom 'M' searches for go-to scorer By ZACH HELFAND Daily Sports Editor Michigan hockey coach Red Berenson did something slightly unusual for a Tuesday practice. At the end of the session, he had St.Lawrence the middle of the ice cleared at Michigan by a Zamboni Matchup: St. and puthis team Lawrence 0-2; through a simu- Michigan 3-0 lated shootout. When: Thurs- The fifth- day 7:35 P.M. ranked Wol-' verines have Where:nYost been in just Ice Arena one shootout Liveblog: since the shoot- Michigandaily. out rule was instated three years ago, soit's highly unlikely they'll encounter one against St. Lawrence (0-2) on Thursday. Still, Berenson always runs the team through a simu- lation in the practice directly preceeding a game, so the team will gain confidence if the situa- tion ever should arise. There was another reason Berenson wanted the extra reps in Tuesday's prac- tice, too - he needed to evaluate the talent. Right now, he has no idea who would take the shots with the game on the line. "I'd like to find who those play- ers are," Berenson said. "That's another reason we do it - we're not sure." The choice would've been clear last season. Michigan would've invariably gone with a top scorer, like Carl Hagelin or Louie Capo- russo. This year, the Wolverines don't have such players. Sure, forwards like senior David Wohlberg and junior Chris Brown will light the lamp with relative consistency, but they're just not the natural goal-scorers that Michigan has had in the past. "We don't have those guys," Brown said. "We have a couple of guys who can really put the puck in the net, but we don't have. Blue falls to top-ranked Fighting Illini on road JED MOCH/Daily Michigan coach Red Berenson is still seaching for a go-to scorer in the mold of a Carl Hagelin or Louie Caporusso. those guys who are going (to go) out on the ice and probably get a goal." That supposed lack of elite goal-scoring talent has translat- ed to 14 goals for Michigan (3-0) this year. Not too shabby. The Wolverines' offense didn't skip a beat in the opening week, partially due to the strength of its opponents - Niagara and Bentley are not exactly Miami (Ohio) or Notre Dame - and also because the whole team has contributed to the scoring. Nineteen players have record- ed points through only one week of play, including fifth-year senior goalie Shawn Hunwick, who picked up an assist in the first game against Niagara. Michigan had just five more players tally a point all of last year. And nine players this year have scored the Wolverines' 14 goals. "I think we're getting some balanced scoring," Berenson said. "But this is good. How pro- lific we'll be offensively remains to be seen, but I think we're going to get more goals from our defense as we get going, and (junior forward) Kevin Lynch hasn't played yet and (freshman forward) Zach Hyman's going to score, and so on. So we'll see, we might have more offense on this year's team." Michigan will face a St. Law- rence team limping into Yost Ice Arena on Thursday. The Saints finished 13-22-5 last season, good for second to last in the ECAC. They dropped their first two games this season to Ferris State by a combined six goals. Berenson said that St. Law- rence will still be an experienced, gritty team. Its physical play could make goals hard to come by. "Typically they're hard to play against," Berenson said. "They don't give you much and you've got to earn it. So when we do our man-on-man drills, that'll go right into the game. You'll see that on Thursday." There will be an extra empha- sis on defense in Thursday's game, with scoringexpected to be at a premium. That style matches the Wolverines' approach to the season - Brown said that prac- tices this year have placed extra stress on defense. "We did lose a lot of guys," Brown said. "We've got to make sure we're not giving up more than two to three goals a game since we know scoring is going to be limited." Hunwick said that until scor- ers emerge, Michigan will have to be an opportunistic team that plays solid defense. Through three games, the defense has done its part. And the offense has gotten it done, too, even if the goals were sometimes what Hun- wick described as "ugly." The Wolverines did pump a lot of shots on goal without much to show for it early in games last week, and Berenson said that the team needs to do a better job finishing. Still, they capitalized when it counted, especially late, and that may need to continue for Michigan to have a potent offense. Berenson is still evaluating his offense, but he said the key is the 'D.' "When we looked at our team last year, we were in the top maybe five or six offensively, but we were number one defensive- ly," Berenson said. "That's why we finished in first. And that's what we're going to have to really focus on with this team." By MATT SPELICH Daily Sports Writer The No. 20 Michigan women's volleyballteamsetagoal foritself after the 25-14 loss in the first set to No. 1 Illinois. It wanted to put five more points on the board. The Wolverines tacked on those five more MICHIGAN 1 points but ILLINOIS 3 ended up losing the set, 25-19. In the locker room they joked about how they should have set their sights a lit- tle higher - so they came out and won the third, 25-21. Going into the fourth set, they decided to do it again. They were neck-and-neck the whole way to 20 points, but their momentum could only carry them so far. Michigan lost the final set 25-20. On Wednesday night, the Fighting Illini (7-0 Big Ten, 18-0 Overall) added the Wolver- ines (2-5 Big Ten, 14-5 Overall) to the long list of teams left in their undefeated wake. And the loss was the fourth straight for Michigan in its current Big Ten slump. The Wolverines lost the first two sets due to a combination of errors and an inability to mount a serious offensive run. Senior out- side hitter Alex Hunt, the hard- hitting lefty, was having some success going around Illinois's front line down the side, but it wasn't enough to pull out a win. One set away from being swept by Illinois, Michigan looked to its middle blockers, senior Courtney Fletcher and sophomore Jennifer Cross, for some momentum - they deliv- ered in spades. "We really wanted to establish our middles in the third set," said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. "Jen and Fletch were doing a great job of getting up quick and swinging fast, and that's what we needed them to do. Once our middles got going, then that opened up opportunities for (redshirt junior outside hitter) Claire (McElheny) and Ithought that changed the game." The Wolverines rode the momentum from the third set into the beginning of the fourth, leading Illinois 9-5 at one point. The Fighting Illini eventually tied the set at 13 points apiece, and Michigan kept the margin within two until the very end. But the Wolverines were never able to retake the lead. The Wol- verines were charged with the task of toppling the top team in the country on the road after a surprise loss at home to an "In the zero sum business, you either win or lose." unranked Wisconsin team last weekend. Winning a set over Illi- nois could be considered a step forward. While Rosen sees the game only in terms of winning and los- ing, he is admittedly proud of his team's performance, despite the fact that he knows it will need to improve a great deal in order to fight out of this slump. 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