SPORTS The Michigan Daily Friday, June 10, 1988 Page 11 'M's Scherrer wins NCAA's 10,000 race BY ADAM BENSON Michigan's John Scherrer breezed past Eastern Michigan's Pat Johns and Dartmouth's Bob Kempainen on the final lap to win the 1988 NCAA 10,000 meter title in a time of 29:50.39. John's finished a close second, only .09 of a second behind. Scherrer began the race in back of the pack, and moved steadily throughout the race before taking the lead in the eighteenth lap. He led for two laps, before being passed by Kempainen and Johns. Scherrer was w able to stay close to the leaders and 'The last 100 on the final lap, Scherrer made his move. Johns followed, trailing him meters was t h e right to the wire, but was unable to pass the charging Scherrer. toughest I've ever The last 100 meters was the run. To win here toughest I've ever run," he said. "To was a good feel- winherewasagood feeling." , "John ran a very smart and ing, controlled race," said assistant track -Wolverine John coach Ron Warhurst. "He moved when he had to and picked up the Scherrer, w h O pace when it was necessary." won the N C A A Scherrer will return next year to compete in Cross-Country and 10,000 meter race. Track for the Wolverines. Michigan pitcher signs with Brewers FROM STAFF REPORTS game with back-to-back strikeouts Michigan pitcher Mike Ignasiak of Will Clark and Rafael Palmeiro, signed with Milwaukee Brewers, who have gone on to play pro- after the Brewers selected him in last fessional baseball for the San Fran- week's amateur draft. cisco Giants and Chicago Cubs Ignasiak is Michigan's all-time respectively. 1winningest pitcher, winning 33 Ignasiak is the second Wolverine games for the Wolverines from from last season's Big Ten regular 1985 to '88. He was the fifth season champion to sign a Michigan pitcher to strikeout over professional contract. Pitcher Jim 200 batters, and won the Ray Abbott signed a contract with the Fisher-Most Valuable Player Award Angels last week. in his junior year. Ignasiak was drafted in 1987, in the fourth round, by the St. Louis MEXICAN Cardinals, but turned down their offer to finish out his career with LIKE YOU'VE NEV (the Wolverines. Ignasiak's brother, Gary, was briefly played pro ball, pitching for the Tigers in 1973. La Casita Among "Iggy's" Wolverines de L highlights are his one-hit shutout of , d pe Miami of Ohio in the Wolverines . '87 season opener, a five-hit shutout of Ohio State, which gave Michigan BREAKFAST: Sa manager Bud Middaugh his 700th LUNCH: Tu career win, and his '85 relief app- DINNER: Tue.-Th. 5-9:30 earance against Mississippi State. r In that game, Iggy came out of 20% OFF any meal, by the bullpen to threw seven innings 315 Braun Ct. for Michigan, getting the win for (across from Kerryto the Wolverines. He finished the Just a short wall THE SPORTING VIEWS Blue netters look to future success BY ADAM BENSON "The three seniors were all (Part two in a two-part series) leaders," said Chip McColl, Morris' Michigan's heartbreaking doubles partner. "All of them were a semifinal loss to LSU in the NCAA big help." tennis tournament was the final "Our seniors lent their experience match for three key Wolverines: Ed to the younger players," said coach Nagel, Jon Morris, and Brad Koontz. Brian Eisner. "They are a great Nagel, the No. 2 singles player, group." may be headed for a pro career. After Eisner does not harp on the past. an outstanding performance in the He will compliment his seniors, but NCAA tournament, it seems that he knows that they won't play any anything is possible for Nagel. more matches for the Wolverines. Formerly at Pep-perdine, Nagel had a Eisner is more excited about key victory to help upset the fourth- Michigan's future. ranked Waves. This "totally rad" win "Now, we have to set lofty goals by the former Wave, gave bad vibes for ourselves," said Eisner. "This to his former team. (perfor-mance) presents a n Michigan also loses Morris and interesting challenge for next year." Koontz, its fourth and fifth singles Next year's team features Dar players respectively. Morris scored a Goldberg, the 1988 Big Ten Player- big victory in the LSU match, of-the-Year, and Malivai helping the Wolverines back from an Washington, the conference's early deficit and Koontz was a Newcomer-of-the-Year. consistent performer for Michigan in Goldberg's big win also came singles and doubles. These three will against Pepperdine, defeating Robbie be missed for more than just their Weiss. Weiss was the nation's No. 1 tennis ability. player before the tournament, and the eventual winner of the N C A A individual tournament. But Goldberg lost against LSU, and in the first round of the individual tournament. Two shocking losses for the seventh seed 4< in the individual tournament, who advanced to the finals of the tournament last year. He will not be able to let down next year for the r Wolverines to have the same kind of success. Goldberg will have to pick-up the leadership role for this team. No Wolverine can match Goldberg's ex- perience in pressure matches. He will be the Wolverines leader on and off the court. Washington had a sensational NCAA tourney. He won all of his matches in the dual meets, and s nscored a major upset in the W ashington individual tourney. Washington ...tonconferene newcomier defeated Jeff Tarrango, the No.2- singles player of the national champion Stanford Cardinal. Although he went on to lose in the second round, Washington im- pressed enough people to join Goldberg as a member of the seven- man U.S. National Tennis Team. Michigan is the best tennis team in the midwest, but Eisner is hoping that now more teams from this region will make an impact. "We've proven that midwestern teams can compete," said Eisner. "Stanford's No. 1 player, David Wheaton, came from Minnesota. Robbie Weiss is from Chicago. These players head out west because they don't get the competition playing against schools in the midwest. That is starting to change." 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