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Big Ten champion
Blue hosts NCAAs
By RACHEL BACHMAN
DALY SOFTBALL WR TER The Wolverines will play games Sa
For Neil Armstrong, it was the lu- urday at2and4p.m. Ifthey win atlea
nar planting of the American flag. For one of those games, they will pla
Rosa Parks, it was her refusal to relin- Sunday at 1 and/or 3 pm.
quish her bus seat. For the Michigan The tournament is double-elimn
softball team, themostimportant point nation, with the four regional winner
in its existence was Friday, when it advancing totheNCAA Softball Wor
clinched its second Big Ten title in a Series May 27-31 in Oklahoma Cit)
row and received an automatic bid to Okla., an eight-team, double-elimit
the NCAA Championship Touma- tion tournament. Twelve of the Div
ment. sionIChampionship'sfieldof20team
"Winning a back-to-back Big Ten will compete in the three-teas
Conferencetitle...isMichigansoftball's regionals.
greatest moment," Michigan coach The remaining eight teams, it
Carol Hutchins said. cluding the top four seeds, will pa
By sweeping Iowa Friday, 3-1, 1- ticipate head-to-head in four othr
0, Michigan (45-11) knew it hadquali- regionals (with two teams at each sit
fled for the year-end tournament. The in a best-of-three-game series.
Wolverines clinched the title despite Southwestern Louisiana is the fa
dropping Saturday's games, 3-1 and 2- vorite on paper. However, this fankin
0. did not take into account a possib
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The Michigan men's and women's track teams garnered a slew of firsts at the Paddock Invitational.
Runners leave guests in dust
By HOPE CALATI
DAILYSTAFF WTER
The women's track team shone at
the Len Paddock Invitational, winning
nine of 14 events Saturday, while the
men captured four of their own.
Linda Stuck set a new Paddock
Invitational record in the high jump
with a height of 5-foot-9 and 1/4. Car-
rie Stewart, who doubles as a Michi-
gan cager, triumphed in the javelin
throw with a distance of 46.36 meters.
Terza Johnson tied with Michigan
State's Susan Francis in the 100-meter
dash with a time of 11.76. Richelle
Webb came in third with an 11.82.
Webb said her wind-aided per- meter run winner Scott MacDonald
formancehelpedher prepare for the Big (3:51.85), who said the 20-30 mile-
Ten Championships, to be held next per-hour windshurt his NCAA-quali-
week in East Lansing. fying chances.
"I felt pretty good," Webb said. "The wind was too tough,"
"The competition was good and I MacDonald said. "It's too bad. Last
thought I'd run with them and I did." week(atthe JessieOwensInvitational)
Tyrone Wheatley led the Michigan I had perfect conditions and couldn't
men's track team,taking twofirst-place make it."
titles. Wheatley, also known for his
exploits for the Michigan football squad, LAW SCHOOL?
won thehighhurdles with a wind-aided f't R t he mostt e"em
14.14 and anchored the 4 X 100-meter
relay team to a time of 42.44. 4 n meMOn[e
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Sunday night, the Wolverines re-
ceived even more good news: they
were to host their first-ever regional
this coming weekend.
"It'sreally exciting tohave ithere,"
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"That will help if we're going topullan
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Tenth-seeded Michigan will host
No. 8 Southwestem Louisiana (51-5)
and No. 20 Bowling Green (34-16).
home field advantage.
"Our fan support isfantastic and it
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Hutchins said.
'This is Michigan softball's great-
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gional," she added. "To win the re-
gional would be the next greatest mo-
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