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omen's glf fals''M' loses series, still Big Ten tourney-bound
East Regional ByI"Webse giving up three hits and one run, but "It's kind of been that way for us this frustration of a 9-2 loss, Ohio State
DailySposr regained his composure to shut out the year." fans behind the Michigan dugout heck.
The Michigan women's golf team Wolverines over the last two innings FOR THE RECORD: Scott Tousa led the Wolverines thronehout the

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ded its season following a campaign Going into yesterday's game at Ohio
unprecedented achievement Satur- State, Michigan knew that it would
Y. place sixth in the Big Ten and receive
For the first time in school history, the final bid to the conference touma-
Wolverines advanced to the NCAA ment next week if the Wolverines beat
urnament, but their season came to a the Buckeyes or if Northwestern lost to
It at the East Regional in Chapel Minnesota. Even so, Michigan lost the
.C. Michigan needed to finish in game 9-2 before 2,162 at Bill Davis
p eight to advance but fell short, Stadium. But Northwestern lost 4-3 to
ming in 12th place with a 54-hole Minnesota later in the day knocking
>re of 925. Northwestern's Big Ten record to 11-
"We had a good tournament, yet we 17, a tenth of a percent lower than
de some mistakes which cost us a Michigan's 10-14 mark.
ance at making it to nationals," The Wolverines fell behind early in
chigan coach Kathy Teichert said in the game as Tim Leveque gave up three
sleased statement. runs before being pulled in favor of
3ophomore Kim Benedict was the Rich Hill with two outs in the second
chigan's top individual in the rain- inning. Hill walked Nick Swisher with
sked Regional, finishing in 21st with the bases loaded before getting out of
of 225 -just four strokes short the inning putting the Buckeyes up 4-0
,lifying for the NCAA Champi- after two frames.
aps. Benedict finished the season Despite Leveque's impressive 2.63
h a school-record stroke average of earned run average, coach Geoff Zah's
41 - besting the previous mark by explanation to pull Leveque so early in
ire than one full stroke. the ballgame was simple.
le the weekend ended on a sour "He was giving up runs," Zahn said.
:e for the Wolverines, the season was "This was do or die for us."
earning experience for the young While the Wolverines struggled with
m,with better than expected results. their pitching, freshman Josh Newman
. this season's squad contained no threw 11 strikeouts for the Buckeyes
rs, Michigan will field a veteran while allowing just seven hits and two
m next year, and will set its sights runs. The 11 strikeouts - a personal
a return trip to the NCAA Touma- high for Newman - was the most for
nt. any Buckeye pitcher this season. New-
- James Mercier man struggled in the seventh inning by
any d~a rlE

and throw his first complete game. moved up in the Michigan record book game. When asked if the team wa
The Wolverines didn't get a hit until on yesterday in three different all-time heckled at other rnad cames-7Zhr

Blake Rutkowski's single in the third
inning. Michigan immediately squan-
dered the opportunity as Newman
picked off Rutkowski trying to steal
second to end the inning.
In the fourth inning, the Wolverines
closed the score to 4-1 with a sacrifice
fly by Jake Fox but didn't score again
until the seventh inning on an RBI sin-
gle by Bill LaRosa.
With Ohio State's win and Purdue's
2-1 loss to Iowa, the Buckeyes clinched
the Big Ten regular season title, home
field advantage during the Big Ten
Tournament where they will play
another game against Michigan at 7
p.m. on Wednesday.
Although the Wolverines won just
once in the four game series, Zahn was
happy with the way Michigan played
over the weekend.
"This series I thought we played pret-
ty well," he said. "They beat us today
pretty good (but) the other games -
we were close and we came back."
The Wolverines could use a change
of luck before their next game.
"The first game we lost yesterday, a
guy makes a great catch in the outfield.
Otherwise it's a tie ballgame," Zahn
said, referring to Steve Cavarati's diving
catch during the seventh and final
inning in Saturday's first game.

lists for the Wolverines. With 210 hits,
680 at-bats and 200 career games
played he is now placed eighth, fourth
and ninth in these respective categories.
RABID BUCKEYES: Adding to the

responded: "No, only here. It's some-
thing you have to learn to play with,
Our kids knew about it before. It's part
of the rivalry between Ohio State and
Michigan"

1011 z ErVV uu
ut win at Avaya
3oing into Gainsville, Ga., Michigan
n's crew had high expectations as a
I seed in three races yesterday. The
ction came down to the last race.
irst varsity eight boat was compet-
against several teams including
srgetown, which was in second-place
verall points going into the race.
[he Hoyas won the race with a time
:04.7 with Michigan in second place
cking in at 6:07.7, but it wasn't
ugh to triumph over Michigan,
ich won the overall team points tro-
e had a great performance and
yed with Georgetown the whole
y," first varsity eight rower Scott
:sden said. "We just didn't catch
s in the end."
"It (the first varsity eight) was the
t race Michigan men's crew has had
:wo years," coach Gregg Hartsuff
I. "To finish second in the most com-
itive race of the day with a boat of
stly sophomores and juniors is truly
mplishment."
long day on the water was filled
I struggle as well as victory, The var-
lightweight eight, second novice
vyweight eight and second varsity
Nyweight eight won by open water,
ling their victories in a convincing
pion. The first novice heavyweight
it placed third and the heavyweight
ity four placed seventh, putting the
tines in a position to eventually
e overall men's points trophy.
'he Wolverines didn't catch George-
n in the last race, but by winning the
all men's point trophy, they had the
est victory of the day.
- Allison Topp

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