-E om s Michigan left fielder Jason Alcaraz was named to Mizuno's Freshman All-American Team by the editors of Collegiate Baseball. Alcaraz, who led the Wolverines with a .356 batting average, was earlier honored as the 1996 Big Ten Freshman of the Year. :SERIES Continued from Page The teams were meeting in an elim- ination game after each lost its first .. game. The contest ws close through the first four innings - without a run on the board from either team - when low"broke it open. The floodgates opened in the x fourth when Iowa center fielder Tasha F' Reents reached base on an error by Michigan third baseman Tracy Carr. This sent Michigan starter Sara Griffin reeling.. Reents quickly stole second base to place herself in scoring position with , the go-ahead run. She crossed the plate during the- very next at-bat. Iowa right fielder Tammy Utley doubled to left field, f scoring Reents and giving Iowa the lead.F Two singles later, Utley scored a k run of her own and Michigan was on the ropes. Iowa got a final insurance run when left fielder Leah Twigg knocked in Melissa Young from sec- ond base. It would be all the Hawkeyes would need. Griffin was done on the mound, as Kelly Holmes closed out the final three innings with shutout relief. f Griffin was not finished contribut- ing, however. She scored one run in the sixth inning and knocked one in v during the seventh. But it was too little, too late as SophomoreS Miahigan succumbed, 3-2. abrupt end S The Hawkeyes held off the its opening Wolverines to send them home early to set upI for the second year in a row. with their n Last season, it was also Iowa that The Hav ousted Michigan. Thursday to Michigan lost to the Bruins, 2-0, in bracket ant SPORTS Wednesday May 29, 1996 0 'M' women's hoops coach Roberts quits By James Goldstein Testimony given by Roberson fol-. Daily Sports Editor lowed lawsuits filed against Roberts University of Michigan Athletic and the University. Roberts was taken Director Joe Roberson announced off probation at the end of the 1994-95 Thursday that he has accepted the res- academic year. ignation of Michigan women's basket- In a Michigan Daily article published ball coach Trish Roberts. May 31, 1995, Roberson's disposition Roberts just finished her fourth year stated that Roberts could have "no fur- as coach of the Wolverines, compiling a ther problems with some of the com- 20-88 overall and 5-63 Big Ten record. plaints from some student athletes and In her four years at Michigan, from parents, and Roberts' teams finished no better than that those would be 10th place in the conference. This past addressed, and that. season, the Wolverines amassed just the academic con- seven wins overall and only one win in cerns of the team the Big Ten. Michigan (1-15 Big Ten, 7- would be more 20 overall) completed the 1995-96 sea- closely monitored" son tied for 10th place. Roberson's com- Roberson noted that terms of the res- Roberts ments came prior to ignation include a financial settlement a lawsuit filed by former Wolverine with Roberts, which will provide a one- Tannisha Stevens and her parents time payment of $65,000. This figure against Roberts and the University in approximates summer camp money for November 1994. Stevens claimed that 1996 and 1997, and relocation expenses. the coach harassed her and forced her to Roberson said he felt this change leave the team because of a disability. would be the best for both parties. Stevens lost sight in her left eye after "Coach Roberts and I have conclud- she was hit by broken glass during a ed a series of very candid discussions team bus accident in Miami in regarding her interests in exploring new December 1992. career avenues available to her, and my Roberson said in Thursday's press interest in acommitment to a new sense release that the University will continue of direction for women's basketball at to support Roberts in any legal pro- Michigan," Roberson said. ceedings in which she is, or may "It was our mutual agreement that become, involved. both of these interests are best served Roberts was not able to be reached by this course of action," he said. for comment on her resignation. Roberson said a national search for Assistant coaches Danny Evans and Michigan's new coach would begin Sandy Thomas refused to comment immediately. about the coaching move. Roberts' tenure as coach was a rough Of the two, Thomas has known one. According to published reports last Roberts longer. Besides working for year, Roberts was put on probation Roberts throughout her four-year midway through the 1994-95 season Michigan tenure, Thomas was also an after repeated complaints about her assistant coach with Roberts at Maine conduct toward players and her attitude from 1988-92. Roberts was 82-32 as toward academics. coach of the Black Bears. LL STUDENTS!!! kRSHIPS AVAILABLE! BA irk you'r we listen ~M PREG e, any da) 'iderstiaL, tudentsi MARK FRIEDMAN/Daily Sara Griffin and the Michigan softball team's season came to an aturday at the Women's College World Series in Columbus, Ga. game Thursday evening, Michigan. the Wolverines' meeting The Series' finish met expecta- emesis Iowa. lions. Arizona and Washington, wkeyes lost to Arizona which had split the No. I ranking all place them in the loser's season, met for the championship d earn them a date with Monday. The Wildcats won the title with a 6- 4 victory over the Huskies. 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