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NOTES Porter crowned champion
Women's tennis falls after first round win
The No. 29 Michigan women's tennis team fell 4-0 to No. 2 Notre Dame
this weekend during the second round of the NCAA tournament in South
Bend. The only win for the Wolverines came from the No. 1 doubles team
of junior Kara Delicata and senior Debra Streifler over the Fighting Irish's
Catrina and Christian Thompson.
The loss came after a hotly contested battle against No. 41 Nebraska Fri-
day afternoon that resulted in a 4-3 Michigan win. The loss not only ends
the Wolverines' season but also the career of Michigan coach Bitsy Ritt
She will fill the role of associate athletic director at Michigan beginning
this fall.
Maravic and Hung lone bright spots for Blue
The No. 39 Michigan men's tennis team fell 4-1 in the first round of the
NCAA Championship to the No. 25 Arkansas. But No. 43 singles player
Matko Maravic upset No. 17 Adrians Zguns.
The No. 1 Michigan doubles team of Maravic and junior Brian Hung
also took care of business, beating their Razorback counterpart 8-4. But
Arkansas won the other two doubles matches to take the doubles point. The
Razorbacks led 3-0 after their No. 2 and 4 players took straight-set victo-
ries. Maravic's win gave the Wolverines a glimmer of hope, but Michigan
went home disappointed.
Maravic is still playing in the singles tournament, and he and his partner,
Hung, are still alive in the doubles tournament.
Rowers finish fourth, wait on tournament bid
The No. 6 Michigan women's rowing team earned a fourth-place regional and
overall finish at the Central/South Region Sprints on Sunday. The Wolverines's
first varsity eight finished sixth with a time of 6:31.85, almost six seconds behind
winner Notre Dame.
Michigan will find out whether it has qualified for the 2006 NCAA Champion-
ships on Tuesday when the NCAA announces the official bids.
Schmucker's finish marks end of golf season
Senior golfer Amy Schmucker finished her collegiate career on Sunday after
shooting a final round 78 at the NCAA Central Regional at Texas A&M. Schmucker
finished tied for 71st individually with a 240 54-hole total. Her score was third among
invited competitors, but was not enough to advance her to the NCAA Finals.
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By Daniel Bromwich
Daily Sports Writer
The image of junior Jeff Porter
laid out on his chest across the fin-
ish line - eventually being carried
off the track - was exactly what the
Michigan track and field team was
dreading this weekend.
After Porter pulled his hamstring two
weeks ago at the Penn Relays, Michigan
coach Ron Warhurst and the Michigan
track and field team didn't think he would
be able to compete for a month.
But after missing two weeks of train-
ing to heal the hamstring and practicing
at full speed on Wednesday, Porter had to
convince his coaches to let him run in the
Big Ten Championships. They agreed,
but held him out of the 4x100-meter
relay, hoping to get just one good race
out of him with the cold and wet condi-
tions that are especially worrisome for a
hurdler with a tender hamstring.
And Porter delivered.
He won the race with a dive at the fin-
ish line, coming within one-hundredth of
a new career-best time and helping the
Wolverines to tie Illinois for fifth place,
the team's best finish since 1998.
"It's really amazing that Jeff won
(considering the hamstring pull)," War-
hurst said. "We really weren't sure at all
if he was even going to be able to start
and finish the race."
Porter's time of 13.94 seconds may
have been one-hundredth of a second
slower than his career-best time, but was
one-hundredth faster than the second-
place finisher, Illinois's Andre English.
Porter got out of the blocks quickly and
looked to be the class of the field early.
But he felt his hamstring tighten up
around the seventh hurdle, and English
was able to catch him at the final hurdle.
"Jeff is usually a strong finisher, so we
knew something was wrong when the
tempo totally changed around the sev-
enth hurdle," associate head coach Fred
LaPlante said. "He had to really dig deep
to win that race. He showed a lot of heart
at the end with that dive"
Porter's Big Ten Championship was
especially meaningful considering his
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Junior Jeff Porter won the 110-meter hurdles despite a pulled hamstring.
struggles last year. After a freshman year
in which he finished second in the 110-
meter hurdles at the Big Ten Champion-
ships and earned Freshman of the Year
honors, he struggled to an eighth-place
finish at Big Tens last season.
"Jeff's story is really a good one
because he really is the guy who
struggled with adversity and then
overcame it," LaPlante said. "We were
doing all the right things last year,
we just couldn't put it together in the
races. But Jeff has always been a good
worker, and it was great to see him get
a Big Ten Championship."
But Porter was not the only contribu-
tor to Michigan's fifth-place finish. Five
different Wolverines established new
career-best times in the final team event
of the year. One of the standouts was
sophomore Mike Woods, who finished
as the runner-up in the highly competi-
tive 1,500-meter field.
All the runners stayed close through
the first 700 meters, which was when
Wisconsin's Chris Solinsky and Woods
pulled away from the pack with a 55-sec-
ond lap. Woods and Solinksy were neck-
and-neck for the remaining laps until
Solinsky was able to pull away rounding
the final turn. Woods held on to finish in
secondwith acareer-besttime of 3:45.89,
a second and a half ahead of third-place
finisher John Jefferson of Indiana.
"We knew that Solinsky would be
tough, but I was more concerned with
(Jefferson) from Indiana," Warhurst
said. "Mike just couldn't get around
(Solinksy), and I thought he stumbled a
little bit with about 300 meters to go, and
that could have affected him too."
Warhurst was happy with the fifth-
place finish, although he acknowledged
that he couldn't be truly happy until the
team finished with a conference champi-
onship. But with 13 runners advancing
to NCAA Regionals at the end of May
in Knoxville, Tenn., after the fifth-place
finish, the team can already consider the
season a success.
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