Blue cricket beats
weekend opponents
Wednesday, July 14, 1993 - The Michigan Daily Summer Weely -10
'M' excels
in USA
By J.L ROSTAM-ABADI
ALY SPORTS WRITER
Cricket, as defined by Webster's
Dictionary: 1) aleaping insectsimilar
to a grasshopper. 2) an outdoor game
played by two teams of eleven players
each, using a ball, bats, and wickets.
Last weekend,theMichigancricket
club(definitionnumber two), defeated
both Illinois and the Troy Eleven, 63-
62 and 133-132, respectively.
Sunday at ElbelFeld, the Wolver-
ines faced the Fighting Illini for the
first time ever. Winning the coin toss,
Michigan opted to field first. Illinois
racked up 62 runs for nine wickets
(equivalent to outs) in 23.1 overs (an
over is a group of six bowls or pitches;
23.1 represents one bowl in the 24th
over).Michiganansweredwithagame-
winning 63 runs for five wickets in
15.2 overs.
Saturday, the Wolverines played
TroyatBelle Isle.MohammedUsman
was the offensive opener with 45runs.
K.R. Raghavan followed with a pow-
erful46runsof his own, including two
sixes (six points awarded to a baseball
equivalent of a home run) and three
fours (four points awarded when the
ballbouncesbeforecrossing the bound-
ary into "home run" territory).
"Sensible batting was the winning
factor," Raghavan said.
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In addition to its usual color fac-
toids and Larry King column, USA
Today offered something different last
week: a bevy of college athletics cov-
erage. In two studies compiled of ath-
letic departments around the nation,
the University of Michigan excelled in
one and didn't embarrass itself in the
other, either.
Using a point system in which the
top team in each sport receives 20
points, the 20th best receives a point,
and so on, the national newspaper
named Michigan as the top men's pro-
gram in the country. The Wolverines
compiled 80 points to easily outdis-
tance second-place finishers Florida
and Texas, who each had 67 points.
USAToday also publishedalistof
graduation rates for the 287 NCAA
Division I schools for the class that
entered school in 1986-87. Michigan
hada79percentrate, whichtoppedthe
EVAN PETRIE/Da Big Ten but did not break the nation's
Basketball player Eric Riley sits decked out in cap and gown. top 20. The football program, how-
Michigan's student-athlete graduation rate topped the Big Ten. ever, ranked eighth in the nation with
an 80 percent rate.
Michigan Athletic Director Jack
Weidenbachstatedthatthereisalways
SAL room for improvement, but he ex-
pressed satisfaction with the way the
athletics program currently runs and
the results it has produced.
"We have what I believe is one of
sanc. >a a *the better academic support programs
in our athletic department that's oper-
ated by our Assistant Athletic Director
0o a P asPhil Hughes,andsoour goal here is to,
of course, always do the best we can,"
Round, deep Weidenbach said. "But kids leave
dish, or one of ___- school for a lot of different reasons. I
each, with one S a Packard/H7-5 think our goal here is make sure that
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