The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Monday, April 15, 2013 - 3B The ichganDail - ichgandilyom onda, Aril15, 013- 3 MICHIGAN ATHLETICS SCOREBOARD L A S T W E E K MONDAY (APR. 8) Men's basketball: Louisvite 82, Michigan 76 TUESDAY (APR. 9) Softball: Michigan 8, Western Michigan 0 Baseball: Michigan 4, Notre Dame 1 FR IDAY (A PR. 12) Sotball: Michigan21, Michigan State2(5 innings) Baseball: Michigan 5, Penn State 1 Men's tennis: Michigan 4, Nebraska 3 Women ennis:Michiga 5,Nebraska2 Women's water polo: Indiana 10, Michigan 7 Baseball:Michigan3,PennState2 Men'slacrosse:OhioState17,Michigan8 Women's water polo: Michigan 20, Notre Dame (Ohio)6 SUNDAY (A PR. 14) Women's water polo: Michigan14, Gannon 3 Women's tennis: Michigan 6, Iowa 1 Men's tennis:Michigan 7, (8wa80 8aseball: Mhigan8 Pe S8ate81 Softball: Michigan11, Michigan State 2 Softball:Michigan8, Michigan state7(8(8innings) N E X T W E E K TUESDAY (APR. 16) Softball: Michigan at Indiana 2:00 p.m. (Bloom- Men' Basketball: Michigan vs. Ohio State 9:00 Softball: Michigan at Indiana 4:00 p.m. (Bloom- ington, Ind.) Baseball: Michigan vs. Notre Dame 4:05 p.m. (*) WEDNESDAY (APR. 17) Men's Track: Mt SAC Relays/California Invite Decathlon10:00 p.m. PT (Azuza, Calif.) Baseball: Michigan vs. Eastern Michigan 6:05 p.m8. (') Lacrosse: Michigan vs. Detroit 7:O p.m. (') T HURSDAY (APR. 18) Women's Track: Kansas Relays12:00 p.m. CT (Lawrence, Kan.) Men' Track: Mt SAC Relays 1:30 p.m. PT (Wal- nut, Calif.) Womens Track: Mt SAC Relays1:30 p.m. PT (Walnut, Caif.) Me'sTrac Mt SAC Reays/Caifornia Invite DeYcalonTBA (68zu88, Calif.) F R IDAY (A PR. 19) Women's Track: Kansas Relays 8:00 a.m. CT (Lawrence, Kan.) Women's Trc: Mt SAC Relays 10:00 a.m. PT (WalntClif.) Men's Track: Mt SAC Relays 10:00 a.m. PT (Walnut, Calif.) Men's Gymnastics: NCAA Championships Event Qua))8)erPLDDPM (SateRCollege, P.) Men's Tra EMU Invtiora 200 PM (Ypslanti, Mich.) Women's Tennis: Michigan vs. Penn State 3:00 PM (') Men's Tenni Michigan at Penn State 3:00 PM ET (Stae8College, P.) Baseball: Michigan at Northwestern 3:00 PM CT (Evanston, I.) Women's Gymnastics: Semifinals 6:00 PM PT (Los Angeles, Calif.) Softball: Michigan vs. Iowa 6:00 p.m. (*) " SA TU R DAY ( APR . 20) Women's Track Mt SAC Relays 7:30 a.m. PT (Walnut, Calif.) Women's Track: Kansas Relays 8:00 a.m. CT (Lawrence, K8n.) Men's Track: Mt SAC Relays :00 a.m. PT (Wal- nut, Calif.) Men's Track: EMU Invitational10:00 a.m.(Ypsi- lanti, Mich.) Lac re: Michigan vs. Saint Josephs 1:00 p.m. () Softball: Michigan vs. Iowa 2:00 p.m. (') Women's Gymnastics: Super Six 4:00 PM PT (Los Angeles, Calif.) Caseball ,Michi( 88 Nrthwestern 6:05 p.m. (Chicago, II) (Wrigley FIRd) Men's Gymnastics: NCAA Championships Team Final 7:00 PM (State College, Pa.) S UNDAY (A PR. 21) Women's Tennis: Michigan at Ohio State 11:00 AM ET (Columbus, Ohio) Men's Tennis: Michigan vs. Ohio State 12:00 p.m.() Women's Gymnastics: Individual Event Final 1:00 * ~ m (Los AngelesI Calif.). Bsebal: Michgan at Northwestern1:00 p.m. (Evanston, III.) Men's Gymnastics: NCAA Event Finals 2:00 p.m. (State College, Pa.) Softball: Michigan vs. Iowa 3:00 p.m. () - (') All home events are eligible to earn points for the Athletic Department's H.A.I.L program. JOIN THE SUMMER DAILY SPORTS STAFF We have air conditioning. And 50-cent sodas. HIT US UP: SPORTSEDITORS @MICH IGAN DAI- LY.COM No division title for first time in 12 years for 'M' BY LEV FACHER halftime deficit. Daily Sports Writer "We had two great opportuni- ties at the end of the second peri- After more than a decade of od," said Michigan coach Matt dominance, the Michigan water Anderson. "We playedbetter than polo team is no longer the cham- we did a couple weeks ago when pion of the west. we beat them in their pool. We The 18th-ranked Wolverines just didn't finish the opportuni- placed ties we had." third at INDIANA 7 Nolan and Colton added a the CWPA MICHIGAN 10 goal apiece in the third quarter Western but couldn't keep pace with the Division MICHIGAN 20 Hoosiers, who scored three goals Champion- N. DAME (OH) 6 of their own to stretch their lead ships this MICHIGAN 14 over Michigan to three. weekend GANNON 3 Colton's cross-cage strike early in Geneva, in the frame gave the Mission Ohio, marking the end of a run of Viejo, Calif. native her fourth hat first-place finishes that spanned trick of the season. 11 years. Freshman driver Ali Thoma- Michigan, the tournament's son'sgoal earlyinthe fourthquar- second seed, fell early to rival ter kept the Wolverines within Indiana but bounced back quick- striking distance after an Indiana ly, blowing outNotre Dame (Ohio) goal just seconds into the fourth and Gannon in the weekend's quarter, but the scoring ended final two games. there, and the Hoosiers held on to In Saturday's opener against earn a10-7victory. the 15th-ranked Hoosiers, the The game was a rematch of Wolverines held a 3-2 edge early a March 30 clash in Blooming- thanks to goals from junior ton, when Michigan pulled out driver Audrey Pratt, junior a thrilling 10-9 overtime win. In attacker Kelsey Nolan and senior that game, Colton's third-quarter two-meter Lauren Colton. tally maintained the Wolverines' But the momentum didn't last. blow-for-blow pace with the Hoo- Indiana stormed back for four siers and ultimately created the goals in the second quarter, leav- opportunity for Nolan to score ing Michigan with a two-goal her game winner early in the first Junior attacker Hathaway Moore scored two goals on Sunday against Gannon. Michigan won to capture third place. overtime period. "They didn't shoot as well this time," Colton said. "I also think we had a couple of goals that we couldn't finish." Anderson cited saves and field blocks as two areas in which Michigan failed to keep pace with Indiana. The statistics backed Anderson's assessment, as senior goalkeeper Alex Adamson man- aged only five stops on the day, well short of the 11 recorded by the Hoosiers' Jessica Gaudreault. Michigan was forced to rebound quickly after the loss, matching up with Notre Dame just a few hours after the loss to Indiana knocked them out of con- tention for the championship. "After the Indiana game, we talked about how, forthe moment, we need to forget about the loss," Colton said. "We really tried to focus on defense." That defense ended up being somewhat unnecessary. The Wol- verines jumped out of the gate quickly, racking up seven scores in the first quarter against the Falcons. Freshman attacker Kelly Mar- tin led the charge for Michigan, recording her first career hat trick with four goals in the game. "She used her aggressiveness on defense," Anderson said. "She countered very well." Michigan woke up early Sun- day for the third-place match but showed no signs of drowsiness. Freshman two-meter Barbara Lanier led the Wolverines with a hat trick, and freshman two- meter Bryce Beckwith and junior attacker Hathaway Moore added two scores apiece. As a result of its third-place finish, Michigan has to settle for not entering the CWPA Eastern Championship tournament as a top seed, making a second-round rematch with Indiana likely. "The other two games we played this weekend were an afterthought," Anderson said. "Our focus was purely to beat our rival." The Wolverines would love a second chance against Indi- ana, and they seem likely to get it. A first-round victory in the Eastern Division Championship tournament would, in most sce- narios, lead to a rematch with the Hoosiers. Only the April 26 tournament opener at Canham Natatorium stands in Michigan's way. BURKE From Page 1B - was all but certain. On Sunday, he confirmed that, announcing he plansto enter the upcoming NBA Draft. "It's always been a dream for me to play in the NBA," Burke said. "I think it was just the right time for me. "Now that it's here, I'm defi- nitely fortunate and blessed. ... I just feel like it was the best deci- sion for me." The future of three more start- ers - Tim Hardaway Jr., Glenn Robinson III and Mitch McGary - currently hang in the balance. If all three return, the Wolver- ines will unquestionably be a pre- season top-15 team. If all, or even any, of them go, itcould thrust next year's team into uncertainty. A year after the Duke loss, the seasoned Fab Five squad made the expected championship- game run, only for it to end in the most infamous way imaginable. Trailing by two with 11 seconds left, Webber called a timeoutchis team didn't have, sealinga win for underdog North Carolina. Minutes after the game, Rose told then-Michigan coach Steve Fisher that, "We'll be back." Web- ber even told fans at a Crisler Arena pep rally the next day that he'd return for his junior year. But many around him already knew that the most recognizable QUARTERBACKS From Page lB Swieca is a walk-on that didn't play high-school football (he did, however, play a year in the Israeli Football League before coming to Ann Arbor). Michigan coach Brady Hoke said after the game that Cleary has settled into the backup role behind Gardner but also didn't diminish the play of Swieca. "It was good to give them snaps with people here, with people in this stadium and play- ing in this stadium," Hoke said. "I think both of them handled themselves well." On Saturday, Cleary looked the part of the backup. He played fine, not wowing any- one with his passes but also not looking completely unprepared. The redshirt freshman com- pleted two of his nine passes for 24 yards and one touchdown. His biggest play of the game might have come on a run, when he scrambled away from the rush for a 21-yard gain. Swieca also had a couple of good throws - finishing 4-of- 7 for 36 yards - but at times looked a little rattled against starting five in college basketball history was to be no more. "You want to leave as a cham- pion but also you don't want to go through it again," Webber said a week later. Nearly a month after the time- out, on May 5,1993, Webber's time as a Wolverines formally came to end with a decision he called "necessary." "There's no concrete reason why I should stay," he said in his statement. A year later, after third-seeded Michigan was upended by even- tual-champion Arkansas in the regional final, Rose and Juwan Howard left. It would be the final Sweet 16 for the program until this year, 19 seasons later. "Everybody figured the story of the Fab Five was over," said former Detroit News sports writ- er Bryan Burwell in "Fab Five." Obviously, it wasn't. A year and a half later, as the Ed Martin scandal began rearing its ugly head, Fisher was fired. At a press conference on Oct. 12, 1997 announcing his departure, Fisher said he had "tremendous pride" in his legacy. "We have taken a basketball program and built it into one of the elite programs in the country the right way," he said, then for added emphasis, repeated once more, "the rightway." It had been four years since the timeout, four years since Webber left Ann Arbor, but unbeknownst to any at the time, it was closer to the start, not the end, of the legacy Webber had left on the the Michigan rush, understand- able for someone who gets sig- nificantly less snaps in practice than Gardner. It might be one of the only times in his career that Swieca sees the field at Michigan Stadi- um, or it might be a good primer if he somehow vaults into the backup role. But for the defensive players who don't often see the offen- sive backups, it was a good experience just to see someone like Swieca - whose skill is an unproven commodity - get a chance. "Everyone is involved, every- one is playing, so you get to see a lot of guys' skills that maybe you don't see as much in the fall," said junior linebacker Desmond Morgan. "It's cool to see everyone out there playing and seeing what everyone really has." Still, on Saturday, it was clear who was the alpha quarterback. Both Cleary and Swieca were hit to the ground on a couple of plays, even though they were wearing orange jerseys that sig- nified contact was to be avoided. Gardner, the other Wolverine quarterback wearing orange, wasn't touched. basket Afte year in were re and wI ing an Michig in shah future Tw Fisher, a near- ing inf gloomy ferenc( first ye was its withou appear arc 'TI Ti Just - reall tant m. In B Wolve surge t Madne tourna Champ since 1 ball program. millions of dollars later, Ann rr what amounted to a five- Arbor is home to one of the coun- vestigation, the banners try's top basketball facilities. emoved, wins were vacated It was a core of gritty, hard- hile Webber was enjoy- nosed, unheralded recruits NBA All-Star season, the - David Merritt, C.J. Lee, Stu gan program - at this point Douglass and Zack Novak - that mbles - was barred from helped the program climb out of postseason play. the hole left by Webber. But it was Burke who ultimate-- *** ly closed the door on a tarnished past, ushering in a new, national- o coaches removed from ly-recognized brand of Wolverine John Beilein inherited basketball. -abysmal program. Play- Beginning halfway through front of empty crowds ina his freshman season, while the y arena - one of the con- assistant coaches would huddle e's shoddiest facilities - his together during pregame player ar with Michigan, 2008, introductions at Crisler, Burke 10th-consecutive season became a staple of the conversa- at an NCAA Tournament tion. ance. "The coaches kind of hang together and they'd go around and say, 'Thank God for Trey Burke,' because he was basically "They'd go making everything work," said assistant coach Jeff Meyer. "It )und and say, was just like, 'Thank God for Trey Burke.' " hank God for Standing less than fifty yards from where Webber announced rey Burke. his departure 19 years earlier, Burke announced last year that he'd return to Michigan, to return the program to a champi- five years later, that year onship level. .y, that program - is a dis- A championship - like the emory. Fab Five in their return - wasn't .eilein's second season, the his goal, but his expectation. He rines made a late-season meant it, and he backed it up all o finally end their March the way to Atlanta, winning 30 ss drought. Two more games and every major individual ment bids and a Big Ten award he could win in the mean- pionship - the team's first time. 986 - followed. Tens of So on Sunday - under the same roof where Webber said goodbye to Michigan for one final time, a Michigan that was thought to be clean, thought to be sustainably elite, thought to be a championship contender for years to come - Burke said his own farewell. "Some decisions are like eter- nity," said assistant coach Bacari Alexander. "You never know when your influence is goingto stop. "Success always leaves foot- prints." An emptiness in the Crisler Center rafters, leftby the oust- ing of the 1992 and 1993 banners, the ones Webber was largely responsible for both raising and removing, will soon be filled by a new one. The 2013 Final Four banner, Burke's, will soon hang in place of Webber's. And in the coming years, it'll be greeted notby con- troversy, but by the company of new banners. New banners that signify that though Burke is gone, Michigan basketball is back, and this time, it's notgoing anywhere. But one more banner belongs, one with a white backing, blue embroidery outlined by maize stitching. It should bare the No. 3 beneath the name, "Burke." "For what he has done for the program, I'm sure that'll get alot of consideration," Beilein said. "I certainly would be in favor of that." I would too. Daniel Wasserman can be reached at dwass@umich.edu. )r RUSH From Page 1B Turns out no one sent that message to freshman defensive end Taco Charlton. When Swieca took the field for a few snaps on Saturday, he was met by Charlton's 6-foot-6, 265- pound frame barreling toward him. Charlton, apparently, took no notice of the orange jersey, as he sacked the quarterback not once, but twice. "Freshmen," said Michigan coach Brady Hoke, shaking his head, when asked about Charl- ton's tackles after the game. And though he might have been disappointed about Charl- ton's overeagerness during what was supposed to be just a light scrimmage, Hoke has some opti- mism about the future of the pass rush. "I think we've got some young kids who have some ability," Hoke said. "I think with (defensive coordinator) Greg (Mattison) and his passion and how he teaches it, rushing the passer, I think the work that's being put in ... and the guys are excited about it." Mattison said on April 4 that he wanted the pass rush to become a trademark of Michigan's defense, and though there's still a long way to go until the season starts, everyone from Hoke to the defen- sive line seemed pleased with the progression of the pass rush. Fifth-year senior defensive tackle Quinton Washington said in the past, pass rushes relied more on blitzes and were more "team-ran" than anything else. But the Wolverines are trying to get away from that mentality. "This year it's one-on-one, it's a mental thing," Washington said. "The four people in front have to get home every time." Washington, redshirt junior tackle Jibreel Black, redshirt sophomore defensive end Keith Heitzman and junior defensive end Frank Clark composed the starting four of Saturday's defen- sive line. Sacks on Swieca aside, the defensive line held relatively steady on Saturday, or at least as much as can be expected for a scrimmage. The transition of the Wolverines' offense to rely more on the air game has given the defensive line increased oppor- tunities to practice the pass rush. So, who does the defensive line have to thank for this confidence? The offensive line and fifth-year RUBYWALLAU/Daily Freshman defensive end Taco Charl- ton could see early action in 2013. senior tackle Taylor Lewan, in particular. Clark joked that he looks at Lewan as a player from Ohio State to motivate himself during practice. But if imagining his teammate as an enemy is what it takes for the defensive line to improve its pass rush and serve as an exam- ple to younger players, like Charl- ton, Clark will take it. "If (Lewan) wouldn't have stayed, I don't know who I would be battling every day, what type of competition I'd be going after," Clark said. "Who can make me better as a pass rusher and as a player?"