SPORTS Denver trades Fab Fiver Rose to "Indiana in four-player transaction Wednesday, June 19, 1996 - The Mi higan Daily - 15 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former Michigan standout Jalen Rose was trad- ed last Thursday to the Indiana Pacers along with Denver teammate Reggie Williams for veteran guards Mark ackson and Ricky Pierce. The teams also exchanged first- round picks in the June 26 draft, mov- ing the Pacers to the No. 10 position with Denver dropping to 23rd. "I felt that change was needed," Pacers president Donnie Walsh said, after the Pacers had consecutive sea- sons with a franchise-record 52 regular- season victories. The Pacers finished 52-30 for the second straight year, but were eliminat- ed in the opening round of the playoffs y Atlanta after reaching the Eastem Conference finals the previous two years. Walsh said the decision was not a reflection "on how we played, or the way the season ended. It was just a sense of where do we go from here, and are we stretching it too much to ask the team to go ... with pretty much the same personnel." The 6-foot-8, 210-pound Rose was Denver's first-round draft pick (13th overall) in 1994. He averaged 10 points on 48 percent shooting and 6.2 assists and 3.0 rebounds per game this season. Rose was one of the members of the renowned Fab Five, and helped lead the Wolverines to two straight NCAA tour- nament final appearances in 1992 and 1993. After the '93-94 season - Rose's junior year - he gave up his last year of eligibility and entered the NBA draft. "The reason we made the trade was, it changes the nature of our team some- what,' Walsh said. "We bring a player in who can play more than one position in Jalen Rose, and we bring in a shoot- er in Reggie Williams. And with the 10th player in the draft we get a chance to get a better player than we might have got at 23." Walsh said the Nuggets wanted Jackson, a veteran of nine seasons who was the league's rookie of the year with the New York Knicks, to fill a need for a pure point guard. He averaged 10 points and 7.8 assists last season. Pacers coach Larry Brown, who had urged Walsh to obtain Jackson in the 1994 trade, also said it was a tough decision to make the deal. "Mark had a great year. ... It was even more difficult (to trade him) because of the way he conducted him- self, and the type of person he is,' Brown said, adding that he was also impressed with Pierce this season. "I've dealt with a lot of players in this league. Those are two of the finest pro- fessional athletes I've ever been associ- ated with,' Brown said. "The bottom line is this ... I think it's a big step for us." AP PHOTO Former Michigan star Jalen Rose (at right, guarded by Detroit's Grant Hill) was traded to the Indiana Pacers from the Denver Nuggets last week. The 6-10 guard averaged 10 points and 6.2 assists per game last season with the Nuggets, In his second year In the NBA. Rose left Michigan after the 1993-94 season. A Blue softball coach adds regional honors to extensive list of accolades Will McCahill Daily Sports Editor Add another award to the already- lengthy list Michigan softball coach Carol Hutchins is compiling. The 12th-year Wolverine coach was named the Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year for the second consecutive year. It was the fourth time in five years that the Wolverine coach has been so honored by the National Softball *Coaches Association. Hutchins - the 1995 National Coach of the Year - led the team to its fourth Big Ten regular season title in five years, ending the season with a 51-14 record. The Wolverines also won the Big Ten tournament, earning a berth in the NCAA Tournament, also for the fourth time in five seasons. Michigan went on to win the NCAA Regional 2 Tournament, and earned a place in the Women's College World Series. The Wolverines tied for seventh place in the series for the second year in a row. Hutchins recorded several career landmarks over the course of the 1996 campaign. By beating Penn State April 2, she reached career victory No. 450, and her 450th win as coach of the Wolverines came in the Big Ten Tournament championship game. Hutchins chalked up her 200th win in the Big Ten by beat- ing Purdue April 17. Notebook WOMEN'S BAS- U Softball KETBALL E Women's Catherine Basketball DiGiacinto, repre- " Baseball senting the Michigan women's basketball team, led the Big Ten Conference all-star squad to three wins at a tournament in Sweden last weekend. The 6-1 senior forward averaged 11.3 points and 7.3 rebounds as the confer- ence team won all three of its games en route to victory at the H-luskvarna Tournament at Jonkoping. The Troy native's best performance game in the tourney's first outing. DiGiacinto started, and poured in 14 points to go along with 10 boards. DiGiancinto, the lone Wolverine on the squad, is shooting 42.3 percent from the floor and 63.2 percent at the free throw line. The conference touring squad makes a stop at Goteborg, Sweden before con- tinuing on to Copenhagen, Denmark. BASEBAL Michigan baseball pitcher Brian Steinbach was picked in the 50th round of last week's Major League Baseball Amateur draft, by the Milwaukee Brewers. The junior from Pewaukee, Wis., posted a 4-3 record and a 5.40 ERA. Steinbach has not signed with the Brewers, and will return to tie Wolverine squad next season. Steinbach was drafted out of high school in 1993 by the Atlanta Braves, but decided to attend Michigan. TRIALS Continued from Page 13 beyond that it doesn't really matter. em trying to convince myself to get that (winning) attitude back" Senior Courtney Babcock and freshman Nicole Forrester will repre- sent two opposite extremes of experi- ence for the Michigan women's track team at the Canadian trials. Babcock is looking to continue the great success she has had recently at both the Big Ten and national levels. At the NCAA Championships, she finished in the top three in the 5,000- eter run while tying a NCAA per- sonal-best performance with a time of 16:17.68. At the other end of the spectrum, Forrester is coming off major disap- pointments at the Big Ten and NCAA championships, where she failed even to qualify for the final round of the high jump. In the NCAAs, Forrester's main goal was to jump higher than 6-3 1/2, a height that would have qualified her automatically for the Olympic team. This would have allowed her to bypass the Olympic trials altogether, which she said she felt could prove to be too stressful. Because she failed to do so, she said she will use the experience she gained through the negative outcomes to deal with the pressure of the trials. "It's sobering, what can happen," Forrester said of the past letdowns. "I know if I go to the trials I will be too stressed. I'll use (the experiences) to calm me down and not go in expecting too much. "(People) say 'you have three more years,' but I don't care - that's just three more years." Besides the personal goals that ath- letes like Forrester set for themselves, Canada's national pride is also at stake when competing in the trials, and not just because the team chosen will rep- resent Canada in the Olympics. Some of Canada's best athletes are lured to America by the promise of col- legiate athletic scholarships, some- thing Canadian universities do not offer. 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