12 - The Midhgan Daily Summer Weeky- Wednesday, May 20,1992 Water polo finishes season seventh at Nationals by Greg Richardson Daily Sports Writer There were no "gimmees" for the Michigan women's water polo team at the national tourna- ment in Vienna, Va. Michigan(22-10)earneditslonevictoryofthe tournament against Bucknell with a 6-5 win, whilelosing its fourothergames.TheWolverines finished seventh in the nation, a step up from last year's eighth-place finish at nationals. The Wolverines lost their first four games at the tournament, and defeated Bucknell in the seventh-place game. Michigan opened against top-seed UC-Davis and lost, 19-3. "We didn't have a bad game all weekend. They (UC-Davis) didn't blow us out," Michigan coach Scott Russell said. "They once beat us 28- 2.This time,they beat us something like5-1 every quarter." Michigan's second game against Maryland was one of the more exciting games of the touma- ment. The Terrapins outlasted the Wolverines, 12-9. The largest margin between the clubs throughout the game was two goals until the Terrapins added a late goal for the final margin. In its third game, Michigan faced possibly the bestgoalieinthenation,andwerestymiedbyCal- Poly, 10-1. Athalftime,Michigantrailed Cal-Poly,2-1,as theWolverines' soliddefensecontainedCal-Poly's attack. As Cal-Poly widened the gap, Russell started to play his bench, while Cal-Poly kept its starters in. This was part of the reason for the nine- goal margin. Michigan's final loss came against Cal-Ber- keley, 17-6. It was close until the fourth quarter, when Russell said his team "ran out of gas." The Bucknell game was the highlight for the Wolverines. Candice Quinn was superb, scoring three of her tournament six goals in the game, and shutting down Bucknell's best player, Vicky Gormon. Russell said he felt that Quinn played Best Prices in Town! Best " Prices Best Prices in Town! Best Prices in Town! Best Prl,. 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UC-San Diegowon its third consecutive cham- pionship.UC-DavisfinishedsecondandSlippery Rock took third. SOFTBALL Continued from page 11 gan coach Carol Hutchins credits the respectable performance tothe factthat the team treated Arizona like its other opponents. "Our team was not intimidated and you need to do that against the No. 2 team in the country," Hutchins said. "We played well and had a lot of chances." Senior Sue Sieler, who won Big Ten player-of-the-week honors May 12 following a 12-for-16 performance against Minnesota, said that the team - was more relaxed because they had already wrapped up the Big Ten. "We went in feeling pretty good. We knew that if we played our game 9 we'd do well against them (Arizona)," Sieler said. "There was not as much stress because we only needed to play one game a day and not a double- header." Michigan did not come as close the secondday,endingitsseasonwithan8- 0 loss. Patti Benedict was the only Wolverine to record a hit off Wildcat - pitcher Susie Parra (24-2). Benedict's two hits, included a double in the sev- enth inning. 4Y "Thesecondday,weseemedalittle tentative," Hutchins said. "Arizona turned it upa notch and we weren'table to turn it up with them." WINKLER Continued from page 11 meet with his NCAA Championship performanceonthe floorexerciseApril 25 in Lincoln, Neb. Winkler became the first national champion for the Wolverines since John Corritore won the parallel bar competition in 1978. Winkler was true to form on the floor this weekend. His 9.7 optional score gaered him top honors on the exercise. "That really validates his NCAA championship,"Darden said."He'shad a great year and I expect bigger things from him next year." Though Winkler'sperformanceof- S ficially ends Michigan's 1992 cam- paign, Darden will be working with SWinklerand many of the gymnasts on a volunteer basis this summer. 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