lk Women's Basketball vs. Illinois Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Crisler Arena SPORTsSdbr4,9 Thursday, February 14, 1991 Men's Swimming vs. Oakland Tomorrow, 6 p.m. Canham Natatorium The Michigan Daily MICHIGAN TRACK 'bundU9 Men prepare lightly *for EMU Classic Page 11 - Blue tennis squad x" aces Kalamazoo men by Jason Bank Daily Sports Writer Looking past the next opponent or competitor to a tougher chal- lenge later in the season is taboo for coaches. The sacred rule states, "no opponent or competition is more important than the next one," and athletes should practice with that in mind. Michigan men's track coach Jack Harvey is giving his team a brief reprieve from this sacred rule. After a strong second-place finish to Eastern Michigan in the Central Collegiate Championships, the men's track team travels to Yp- silanti for the Eastern Michigan University Classic to tune up for next week's Big Tens. "We ran hard last week, so we'll go real easy this week and take a low key approach," Harvey said. "We knew it was going to be tough to win (the meet), but we gave Eastern a real run for their money." A lighter week of practice is also in order because of injuries to frosh sprinter Ali Shakoor, who has a pulled hamstring, and hurdler Jer- ry Douglas, who has sore legs. Both are doubtful this weekend. Last weekend, senior pole vault- er Brad Darr automatically qualified for the NCAA Championships with a career-high mark of 17' 10 1/4". So far this season, Darr and senior runner Neal Newman are the only Wolverines with automatic bids for the NCAAs. Harvey said he may pull other performers out of the EMU Classic so they will be rested for the Big Ten Championships. by Caryn Seidman Daily Sports Writer A Michigan team that is destined to be the Big Ten Cham- pions, according to Kalamazoo College Coach George Acker, con- tinued to carve out its fate. The Michigan men's tennis team swept Kalamazoo College 6- 0 without the help of No.1 player, David Kass. According to Coach Brian Eisner, Kass was resting in order to be mentally and physi- cally ready for Wisconsin tomorrow. Rookie Dan Brakus played as the No.1 seeded player and won 6- 5, 5-7, 7-6. This was the closest match of the day as the rest of the Kalamazoo players were disposed in two games. "From a coaching standpoint, that's just what I wanted," Wolver- ine coach Brian Eisner said. "We shut them out, but they have good solid players who played well." Michigan's Scott Cuppett did not have time to realize their tal- ent, quickly defeating Jeff Field- hack 6-1, 6-3. No.3 John Karzen handed Doug Keen a similar loss, 6-3,6-4. Brakus played a tight match with Kalamazoo's, Lewis Miller,Ja Division III All-American. Brakds played strongly in the first set, bit appeared to be losing concentra- tion in the second. This inability to concentrate resulted in many break points and the need for a third set and a tie breaker. Brakus appeared to catch on fire again in the final set after several net confrontations with Lewis. "Dan always had a problem playing really well against players who he perceives not very good," Eisner said. Because of this sweeping vic- tory, the two teams never played the scheduled doubles matches. The Wolverines have been con- centrating the last two weeks on returning serves and cutting balls, two problems which were bringing down their doubles games. Even before suffering such a big loss to the Wolverines, Acker was extremely impressed with the team. "Michigan has a great play- ers and it really looks like they're coming back." 14 Track team prepares for Big Tens in EMU Invitational FILE PHOTO/Daily The Michigan men's tennis team defeated Kalamazoo yesterday, 6-0, without the services of team captain David Kass. CCHA Scorecard. ky Chris Carr " It is rare in the world of sports for the players to tell their coaches what they want to do, but Michigan's women's track team will have this chance when they ;com-pete at the Eastern Michigan University Invitational this weekend. Since no team scores will be .kept at the meet, and the Big Ten :meet is just one week away, the ,coaches feel this would be a good Mime to let some of the runners hoose their own events. The key -to the meet will be improvement Wand it will give the runners a hance to ready themselves for next weekend. "This is our last chance to compete before the conference meet, so some of our runners :might not be running their usual events," coach James Henry said. 'M' gymnasts vault into weekend dual meet "Our goal is to improve, stay lose and relax." The invitational will also provide a good chance for some of the runners to qualify for the NCAAs. Suzzy Thweatt will attempt to meet the provisional qualifying time of 7.96 in the 55 meter hurdles. Her personal best is 8.07. Julie Victor is trying to bet- ter her season best shotput throw of 46'6". High jumper Amy Mc- Cormick will also try to improve on her 5'6" jump last weekend and attempt to clear 5'8". Going into the season, the Wolverines were hoping to finish among the top three in the conference, but injuries have put a damper on their early expectations. However, they still remain optimistic to finish in the league's top half. Upcoming Games Friday, Fe ru ary Michigan vs. Michigan State at JLA (Pass, 7;40) Ohio State vs. Ill-Chicago, 7 p.m. at Franklin Park Ferris State at Western Micgigan Miami at Bowling Green Lake Superior at Kent State Michigan Ste vs. Michigan at JLA Ohio State vs. Ill-Chicago, 7 p.m. at Franklin Park Western Micgi an at FerrisnState Miami at Bowling Green Lake Superior atlKent State All games begin at 7:30 local time, unless noted. Scoring Leaders (League Games) Na mge Team GP G A_ PTS by Charlie Wolfe Daily Sports Writer Though the squad was given a very chilly reception the last time it stormed the Windy City, the Michigan men's gymnastics team. is banking that four weeks of sub- sequent training and competition will not go for naught. The Wolverines, along with Wisconsin, will visit the Univer- sity of Illinois-Chicago for the sec- ond time in five weeks this week- end. "The team wants to do well, but they've got to build confidence in themselves," coach Bob Darden said after their first meeting. Since their last visit to Chicago, the Wolverines avenged an earlier loss to Illinois acid watched four of their heralded rookie gymnasts - Ben Verrall, Royce Toni, Mike Mott, and Jorge Camacho - develop into key per- formers. "We had some faults later on in the (Ohio State) meet that we'll have to focus on this week, but it was nice to get (a season high) 275.75 even with a couple of falls from critical people," Darden said. Darden stressed that the coming meets Friday and Saturday offer a unique opportunity to work two dif- ferent lineups. This will be of spe- cial advantage to those younger gymnasts on the squad who have not been able to work previously on the all-around competition. . - - - - Fesner, Denny Weight, Doug Roberts, David Dowd, Jim Harkins, Brett Breslin, Tim Wiseman. Brian Michigan LSSU Michigan LSSU BGSU LSSU Minhinan 3 3D 12 18 18 14 18 19 15 32 31 34 25 24 57 50 49 48 47 44 39 7- I IvIltollf-M I. Blue water polo squad sails into Columbus by Tim Spolar Friday and Saturday, the Michigan women's water polo team opens its Big Ten season against Ohio State which features not only present students, but also graduated team members and other non-students. As a club sport, Michigan has chosen to follow the purely colle- giately-comprised team option as opposed to Ohio State's mix-and- match of students and graduates. Despite their contrasting team compositions, both teams rank among the favorites to win the Big INN& Ten this year. Coach Scott Russell expects Michigan's strengths to offset its inexperience. "'We've recently done a lot of tough conditioning in practice, and I think that will be to our advantage, and will be very evident in our speed and en- durance," Russell said. Russell said, "because of Ohio State's tendency to retain their graduated players, they will be a good benchmark for gauging where we are as a team compared to where we were at the same time last year." "We're really up to the chal- lenge (of facing a top team such as Ohio State)," fourth-year field player and club president Jennifer Ruskin noted. She sees the integra- tion of new team members into the flow of play as the key to the team's success. 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