Tuesday, May 5, 1998 - The Michigan Daily - 19
,Golf bottoms out
By Jon Zemke
Daily Sports Writer
Following a season-long trend, the Michigan women's
golf team started strong, but failed to finish that way at Penn
State this past weekend at the Big Ten Championships. This
couldn't be any closer to the truth for Sharon Park.
Park started the tournament well, but fell off on Sunday,
the third and final day. Tied for first after two days of com-
petition, Park dropped to seventh after day three. She ended
up three strokes behind individual co-champions Erin
Carrey of Indiana and Stacey Bergman of Iowa (299).
Park "should be one of best returnees for next year."
Michigan coach Kathy 'eichert said.
Park was the only bright spot in a disappointing tourna-
ment for Michigan. The Wolverines finished dead last in the
Big Ten.
Indiana, which finished with an 1,196, outpaced defend-
ing champion Ohio State's second-place score of 1,209.
Amy Talbot tied for 48th, finishing second amongst the
Wolverines with a score of 323. Rounding out the Michigan
squad were Trish Watkins at 51st place, Laura Iless tied at 62nd,
Jennifer Baumann at 64th, and captain Nicole (Green at 65th.
FOURTH
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with a 4-3 victory. Ater Wisconsin won the doubles point,
Michigan took four singles wins and left it up to John Long for
the victory, who didn't disappoint.
But that would be Michigan's only victory. Top-seeded
Illinois clobbered the Wolverines, 4-0, on Saturday.
Michigan took on Purdue next with a chance at third.
Michigan had lost to Purdue, 4-3, on April 26, and looked for
revenge. ihe Wolverines wouldn't find it.
First, Michigan lost the doubles point for the fiflh-straight
match. Second, just like in Friday's Wisconsin match, the
match depended on Long. this time he wasn't able to pull it
out. Long, who was cheering in the middle of his match for
teammate Brook Blain at No. 5 singles, lost concentration.
Blain won, but Long fell short.
"Long was trying to be half player, half cheerleader,"
Michigan men's tenn's coach Brian Eisner said. "IHis concen-
tration was tested because he was so concerned about Brook
*winning."
Purdue and Michigan, the fourth and fifth seeds, will face
each other in the first round of the NCAA Regionals.
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BADGERS
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title," Griffin said. "We could have let up, but we didn't. We
fought the way we are supposed to fight."
The second game Sunday saw the Badgers (8-16, 19-31-
1) hold the Wolverines to just one hit in the first three
innings while breaking out to a 2-0 lead off freshman pitch-
er Marie Barda.
That served as a wake-up call for the Wolverines. Melissa
Gentile lifted Michigan out of its offensive slumber, smack-
ing her 11Ith homer of the season in the fourth inning.
Rebecca Tune added more later in the same inning, giving
the Wolverines the lead with a two-run single that scored
Griffin and Tammy Mika. Michigan added two more runs in
the fifth and another in the sixth to put the game away.
Jamie Gillies, who relieved Barda in the third, shut down
the Badgers, improving her record to 14-2.
Griffin continued her season-long roll in Saturday's game,
throwing 10 shutout innings to boost her record to 28-0.
Wisconsin pitcher Ashley Fauser was also impressive,
holding the Wolverines scoreless for nine innings. But
Michigan broke out in the 10th, touching Fauser for four
runs.
By Uma Subramanian
Daily Sports Writer
'he quest to get home is the essence
of softball. For the Michigan softball
team, coming home means winning the
College World Series in Oklahoma City.
But there are a couple of hurdles the
Wolverines must cross before they can
round the bases.
First is today's home double-header
with Eastern Michigan (2 p.m., Alumni
Field). The series is one in which the
Wolverines hope to continue to "prac-
tice good habits and get a lot of people
playing time" Michigan coach Carol
Hutchins said.
But their primary focus is on the Big
Ten Tournament, which will be held
May 8-9 at Alumni Field.
"By winning the Big Ten regular sea-
son title we got to first base," Hutchins
said. "Now this weekend's Big Ten
Tournament is second base. We're try-
ing to touch 'em all."
The Big Ten tournament will feature
the four top teams in the conference -
Michigan, Iowa, Northwestern and
Minnesota. The Wolverines will face
the Golden Gophers on Friday at 2:30
p.m.
The winner of that game will face the
winner of the Northwestern-Iowa game
at 5 p.m. later that day. But the tourna-
ment action doesn't end there. It is a
true double-elimination tournament.
Regardless of what happens Friday, any
team can take the cr6wn Saturday.
But according to Michigan's star
pitcher Sara Griffin, there's no question
who the champion will be.
"I don't know who will be our tough-
est challenge in the tournament,"
Griffin said. "They all have the poten-
tial to upset us, but I don't think it's
going to happen. I have enough. confi-
deuce in our team to say that we wi
probably win it all."
That kind of confidence has been the
trademark of the team all year. Before
the team can truly peak, Griffin said,
each player needs to exude that self-
confidence.
With a 47-4 record heading into
today's games, it would seem as though
the Wolverines must have peaked
already, or are at least doing something
right.
But Hutchins said that isn't quite
true.
"You can always work on things and
get better," Hutchins said. "But these
are definitely the weeks to peak. The
goal is to not let any mistakes plague us.
We were far from perfect against
Wisconsin, but we persevered until we
could get our bats going. That's the key
- perseverance."
The Wolverines have persevered all
season and wound up with an impres-
sive record, losing only one conference
game. As a result, the Wolverines are
the hometown favorites this weekeot
and will likely host the NCAA Regional
Tournament the following weekend.
"The best part of all the wins, besides
the rings, is coming home, Griffin
said. "It just feels good."
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