Wednesday, May 4, 1994 - The Michigan Daily - 19
Runners on track at Penn
Sprint and distance medley relay teams finish third '
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Freshman Kelly Holmes pitches against Iowa in Sunday's doubleheader. The
Wolverines lost three of four games last weekend against the Hawkeyes.
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son allowed only one run.
Once again, the Wolverines found
themselves battling into extra innings
in the first half of Sunday's double-
header. In a game full of errors (Iowa
*with four and Michigan with three),
the Hawkeyes broke a 0-0 deadlock
in the top of the 10th inning. Fresh-
man Kari Knopf smacked a three-run
home run deep over the wall in left
field off Kovach. It was Knopf'slone
hit of the game, but her third round
tripper of the season.
Michigan jumped out to secure an
early lead in the second inning of the
finale of the series. First baseman
Michelle Silver doubled home Lesa1
Arvia, giving the Wolverines a 1-0
lead.
Late in the game, the Wolverines
would fall to the Hawkeyes again,
this time in the seventh. Continuing
herpower-hittingday, Knopf doubled
to tie the game bringing home pinch
runner Tasha Rents. In the bottom of
the ninth, second baseman Melissa
Young scored from first on Harrison's
double to left center to break the 1-1
deadlock.
Today,Michigantakesabreak from
conference action to take on Western
Michigan. The game is scheduled for 3
p.m. at Alumni Field.
By Elisa Sneed
DAILY SPORTS WRITER
At this year's 100th annual Penn
Relays, more than 250 schools as
well as many other teams and indi-
viduals participated in more than 300
events. With high school, college and
Olympic development teams, not to
mention grade school children, se-
nior citizens, and even a 100-meter
dash for blind people, the Penn Re-
lays isone of the world's largest track
and field competitions.
Last weekend, both of the Michi-
gan track teams were there. While the
men's team didn't fare as well as the
women's, the Wolverines managed to
gain some experience and posted sev-
eral promising performances.
The medley relay teams provided
Michigan's top finishes, with both
the sprint team, which ran in the Col-
lege Men's Sprint Medley Relay, and
the distance medley relay team fin-
ishing third.
Thedistance medley team has had
a lot of success since the indoor sea-
son, winning several events and plac-
ing third at the NCAA Indoor Cham-
pionships in March. The team of Nick
Karfonta, Trinity Townsend, Scott
MacDonald and Kevin Sullivan fin-
ished with a time of 9:35.44, behind
world-record holder Arkansas
(9:28.07) and Princeton (9:35.23).
The sprint medley team finished with
a time of 3:20.63, behind Miami(Fla.)
(3:20.26) and Texas (3:20.42).
The Wolverines did not make the
final in the 4x200-meter relay or the
4x400-meterrelay, butMichigancoach
Jack Harvey wasn't too surprised.
"We weren't really expecting to
qualify in the 4 x (200-meter) or the 4
x (400-meter)," Harvey said. "We
were just trying to run those to give
Oliver wins
THN award
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Former Michigan hockey player
David Oliver collected another
postseason honor yesterday when he
was named college hockey's player
of the year by The Hockey News.
Oliver, an alternate captain for
the 1993-94 Wolverines, scored 28
goals and added 40 assists during the
past season.
Sincetheseason'sendhehasbeen
named the CCHA's Player of the
Year, and was the only player to be
unanimously selected to the All-
CCHA team. He was also a finalist
for the Hobey Baker Award given to
college hockey's top performer.
The Hockey News award was
voted on by four members of the
magazine's staff, NHL scouts and
college coaches.
the guys some experience."
However, in the 4 x 100-meter
relay in which Michigan was dis-
qualified for being out of its zone,
Harvey said the Wolverines would
have finished well.
"If we wouldn't have been dis-
qualified, we would've placed some-
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Women's team breaks 'M' records
By Tom Seeley
DAILY SPORTS WRITER
This weekend marked an historic
moment in the history of track and
field as the prestigious Penn Relays
were run for the 100th time.
The Michigan women's track team
alsocaptured apiece ofhistory over the
weekend as five new school records
were set at Philadelphia's Franklin
Field.
Laura Jerman led the way for the
Wolverines by breaking one record
herself and being a part of another
record-breaking relay team. The se-
nior broke the record she set earlier
this year in the 400-meter hurdles by
crossing the line in 59.33 seconds -
an NCAA provisional qualifying
time.
She also teamed with sophomore
Tearza Johnson and seniors Richelle
Webb and Jessica Kluge to set a new
school mark in the sprint medley re-
lay (3:52.41).
Records in the 4 x 1500-meter and
the distance medley relays also fell.
The team of seniors Webb, Molly
McClimon, Kristine Westerby and
Courtney Babcock followed up its
nationalchampionshipinthe distance
medley during the indoor season by
breaking the outdoor markin the event
(11:06).
McClimon and Babcock also
teamed with Kluge and junior Karen
Harvey to set the 4 x 1500 relay
record (17:40.43).
The fifth mark that fell was in the
4 x 800-meter rclay, where Kluge,
McClimon, Harvey and Westerby
broke the Michigan record by finish-
ing with a time of 8:36.83.
After several recent meets where
the squad was split up, a unified Wol-
verine contingent heads to Pennsylva-
nia this weekend for a quadrangular
meetwithBigTenfoesMichiganState,
Purdue and host Penn State.
While the meet will not feature
Illinois and Wisconsin - the two
teams that could stand between Michi-
gan and a repeat Big Ten title - it
should provide the squad with an
opportunity to see exactly where it
stands before the conference cham-
pionship on May 21-22.
Michigan coach Mike McGuire
added that he is happy with the con-
dition of the team as it goes into the
most important stretch of the season.
"Right now we're just piecing them
puzzle together,"McGuire said. "But
all the pieces are there, and it's just a
matter of putting them in the right
places."
With these pieces in place, the
team could have a chance to add
another element to a season that has
already been surrounded by history.
where (in the top eight)," he said.
Other top Michigan finishers in-
clude Toby VanPelt and Neil Gardner,
who finished sixth in the pole vault
and long jump, respectively. Stan
Johanning finished eighth in the jav-
elin, and Jon Royce was ninth in the
high jump.
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Brian Simmons led off with a
triple, and, after a walk to Matt
Ferullo, Scott Niemiec singled home
Simmons.
Michigan loaded the bases with
still only one out, but Ryan Van
Oeveren struck out and Rodney Goble
flied out to end the inning.
The Wolverines left 10 runners
on base in game two and made nu-
merous fielding mistakes which cost
them game one.
"Last year we played (Ohio State)
competitively with pretty much the
same people there and the same people
here," Michigan coach Bill Freehan
said. "We just didn't get the job done
(this year)."
The Wolverines felt the effects
of the losses in the Big Ten stand-
ings, where they dropped from third
to fifth place. Only the top-four
teams in the Big Ten qualify for the
conference's postseason tourna-
ment.
"Minnesota (second place) and
Ohio State have sort of separated
themselves from the field," Freehan
said of the Big Ten race. "The third
and fourth spots are wide open."
The four losses to Ohio State give
added importance to the Wolverines
next Big Ten weekend. They face the
Golden Gophers this Saturday and
Sunday in 1 p.m. doubleheaders each
day at Fisher Stadium.
"This week is over," Weaver said.
"We're still in the race and we still
have a shot at the playoffs. We'll just
come backnext week and start again."
Before Minnesota,however,Michi-
gan has a tune up against Ferris State
today in Big Rapids. Two weekends
agothe Wolverines defeated theBull-
dogs twice at Fisher Stadium.
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