18 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, May 11, 1998
Regionals approach for tennis.
Brooke Hart and
her Michigan
teammates head
to South Bend
this weekend for
the NCAA
Regionals. Along
with Regionals,
Hart and doubles
partner Danielle
Lund will com-
pete at the
NCAA champi-
onships in
doubles.
EMILY NATHAN/Daily
Men's
By Stephanie Often
HDaily Sprs Writer
The Michigan tennis teams' eason
will continue for at least another week.
The NCAA men's tennis regionals,
which take place May 15-17 at Notre
Dame, will gise Michigan and seven
other teams the opportunity to advance to
the NCAA Tournament. The tournament
consists of 16 teams, includintg the top
eight in the nation.- who don t have to
con ete in th regionals.The winim
from the eight regionals compete as well.
The omen's team is sendin its No.1
doudles team of Brooke Hart and
Danielle Lund to the NCAA women's
z <: douhles championships May 21-29. The
duo, ranked 27th nationally, has com-
piled a 17-13 record this year and have a
7-7 record against top-50 doubles teams.
Hart and Lund will also he helping the
Wolverines qualify for the NCAA team
championship. The women's team has a
golf surges to fifth-place finish
No. 6 seed in its regional and svill face
third-seeded Wisconsin on May 15. In
the Hir Ten Tournament s-mi-inals the
Wolverines upset the Badgers. who host-
ed the tournament and were tsored to
win. They hope to repeat that victory this
Friday.
The men's team is a No. 5 seed and
will face its new-found rival Purdue its the
first round. The Boilermakers heat
Michigan, 4-3, in the third-place match of
the Big Ten Tournament and also defeaIt-
ed the Wolverines 4-3 during the regular
season. Despite the setbacks, Michigan is
confident that it has improved and has a
good chance to pull off its first win
against Purdue this season.
"'I told the team that each player need-
ed to improve a minimum of 10 percent,
Michigan men's tennis coach Brian
Eisner said. "I had to be realistic because
there is only so much time to prepare. But
a 10 percent improvement would be dra-
mattc hecause the teams are so close"
IfC Michigan do-s get th- 'ictor
a,'ainst 'urdue, it will face the winnc
the match between No. I seed Duke an
No. 8 seed Wisconsin.
Michigan beat Wisconsin in the fir
match of the Big Ten Tournament, bi
has not yet faced Duke. Duke repl
Illinois as the No.] seed in the TR,
hecause Illinois was one of the top eigl
teams in the nation, and received an auto
matie id to the NCAA tournament.
Some Michigati players faced Duk
playe f in atournament in the fall an
Michian won most of those matches.
tEisnw r thinks the team isbetser s o
vitlhout Illinois in the region, since t
Wolverines lost to the Illini each time ti
two lems met this season. ie is als
-onfident that if Michigan plays ti
top of its ability, it will win.W
"This is the last chance to demonstra
how good we rally ar-" Eisner satd.
- Sophomore
Michael Harris
saved his best 0
-v0 , the Big Ten
championships
0'' for the final
round. Harris she
«wsvvo'''. a 67, and helped
the Wolverin
jump from six
to fifth on the
final day.
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FIFH
Continued from Page 20
Harris tying for seventh place with a
score of 293. To do this Harris shot a
remarkable 67 in the final round yes-
terday after placing no higher than
16th in the first three rounds of play.
Harris ended up only six strokes
behind tourney winner Ryan Armour
of Ohio State.
"We started making our little move
in round three," Carras said.
The Wolverines were slowly crawl-
ing their way up in the standings from
seventh place after two rounds on
Friday.
They jumped to sixth on Saturday,
firing a 296, and then went off yester-
day, shooting a 287 - the second-low-
est score in a round during the tourna-
ment.
The whole team made the impres-
sive score possible, with each individ-
ual scoring a 76 or less, including a 72
from Scott Hayes and a 73 from Mike
Affeldt. This gave Michigan the
much-needed production from the bot-
tom end of the lineup that has been
lacking all season.
"I have to give them credit," Carras
said. "They came through."
But it seems that the team has come
together a little too late, with two of
the Wolverines' top three golfers,
Keith Hinton and Kevin Vernick, hav-
ing just graduated. Hinton plans on
turning pro and joining the Canadian
tour.
The Big Tens also marked the end of
the season for the Wolverines. They
didn't clinch a spot in regionals, and
no one made the NCAAs individually.
But Harris, the heart of the team, will
be returning for his senior year as one
of the premier golfers in the Big Ten.
The lineup becomes very gray there-
after, because Harris is the only team
member guaranteed a returning spot.
Carras has made it clear that Hayes
and Affeldt will have to earn their way
back on the team next year and will
face stiff competition from underclass-
men and incoming freshmen.
"We are looking forward to next
year," Carras said. "We want to get
back to regionals."
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