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MONDAY
MAY 13, 2002

Wolverines, Tar Heels
scrap home-and-home

By J. Brady McCollough
Daily Sports Editor
And the wacky world of college foot-
ball scheduling strikes again.
In the mid-1990s, Michigan and
North Carolina officials agreed to play
a home-and-home series that would
begin on Sept. 19, 2009 in Chapel Hill,
N.C. and close on Sept. 18, 2010 in
Michigan Stadium.
But in the years since the plan was
made, both schools have made numer-
ous personnel changes, including new
athletic directors, and the agreement
was pushed under the books and almost
forgotten.
That is, until North Carolina Assis-
tant Athletic Director Larry Gallo wrote
Michigan Athletic Director Bill Martin
a letter trying to confirm the unwritten
agreement. Michigan responded by
telling Gallo that it wasn't interested in
scheduling the home-and-home series
any longer.
"I was trying to solidify (the agree-
ment), and we were told we weren't
going to play," Gallo said. "That's basi-
cally it. That's fine. We're all disap-
pointed. We understand."

But Gallo's understanding tone was
not conveyed in a story published in the
Durham (N.C.) Herald-Sun last week,
which reported that Gallo said Michi-
gan only schedules home-and-home
series with Notre Dame.
Officials from both schools agree the
story has been blown out of proportion.
"That's what I had heard," Gallo said.
"I thought I remembered that. I think
(the Herald-Sun) took it out of context.
I told them, 'I know they play Notre
Dame home and home.' I said, 'Why is
this a story?'"
Said Michigan Associate Athletic
Director Warde Manuel: "We took it off
the books for consideration a few years
ago. I'm not sure where the mix up
occurred, but this was never anything
we had agreed upon. There was some
mix up with the people at North Caroli-
na, and why it came up now, and why
it's a story, I don't know."
The Wolverines have home-and-
home series scheduled with Washing-
ton (2001-02), Notre Dame (2002-03)
and Oregon (2003-04). Michigan origi-
nally scheduled Oregon for 2002-03 but
rescheduled to lighten its already daunt-
ing nonconference slate this season.

A clean sweep
Home, sweet home
Michigan will open its post-
season play Thursday at
Alumni Field against Canisius.
The Wolverines are the No. 2
seed in the sixth region of the
NCAA Tournament - there
are eight regions overall. The
winner of region six will
advance to the Womens' Col-
lege World Series.
No.1seed: Washington
43-16, No. 4 in Pacific region
No. 2 seed: Michigan
46-9, Big Ten champion
No. 3 seed: Ohio State
53-12, No. 2 in Mideast region
No. 4 seed: Central Michigan
38-14, MAC champion
No. 5 seed: Canisius
33-14, MAAC champion
No. 6 seed: Oakland
24-35-1, Mid-Continental
DANNY MOLOSHOK/Daily champion
Marissa Young embraces Mary Conner (15) after winning the Big Ten Tournament.
Blue wins BTT to complement season title

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By Kyle O'Neill
Daily Sports Writer
No. 1 seed against the No. 2 seed.
Big Ten Pitcher of the Year against
the Big Ten Player of the Year.
2001 Big Ten Coach of the Year
against the 2002 Big Ten Coach of
the Year.
Michigan against Ohio State.
For the fourth time this season
the Maize and Blue faced the Scar-
let and Gray at Alumni Field. And
for a fourth time, the Wolverines
sent the Buckeyes packing with a
loss. This time with the scoreboard
reading 2-1.
But Saturday was much different
from the teams' revious meetin.e

With the Big Ten Tournament title on
the line, there were no sloppy errors
costing a team the game like the mis-
takes did the Buckeyes in their first
meeting this year. There were no offen-
sive surges like the Wolverines saw in
their other two victories -including a
5-0 win on Friday.
In the final game of what was "the
toughest (Big Ten) Tournament to
date," according to Michigan coach
Carol Hutchins, it was fitting that the
only three runs were scored in the
beginning of the game, as both teams
relied on their defenses to win the title.
Michigan - which played the role
of the visiting team Saturday -
began its offensive attack in the first
inning with a Meghan Doe single.

Catcher Monica Schock added
another single to advance Doe to
third and Schock proceeded to steal
second to give Michigan runners in
scoring position with two outs. Big
Ten Pitcher of the Year Marissa
Young walked, bringing up Melinda
Moulden, who already had a game-
winning hit in Thursday's 4-3 victory
over Penn State.
Moulden did not disappoint when
given the same opportunity in the
title game. Her two-RBI single to
left field provided all the runs
Michigan would need to clinch the
conference title.
"If it wasn't for my teammates to
get on base I would have never gotten
See BUCKEYES, Page 11

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