The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday- February 18,1991- Page 7
Ohio State upsets
tankers
by Adam Miller
nd Ken Su iura
wily Sports Writers
This weekendibrought two great
events for the Michigan men's
swimming team.
The first came Friday night as
the seniors, Mike Barrowman,
Steve Hamerski, Scott Van
Appledorn and Jarret Winter, were
honored before their final home
meet. Following the ceremony, the
*am embarrassed Oakland Uni-
versity for the second time this
season, 154-97.
They'll be trying to forget the
second event, however. Saturday
afternoon in Columbus, Ohio State
proved the Wolverines mortal,
defeating them by the shocking
score of 135-108. Michigan had not
lost to the Buckeyes in 29 years.
Friday night, captain Bar-
owman thrice touched first, taking
the 100-yard breaststroke, the 200
butterfly, and the 200 breaststroke.
Van Appledorn's 200 freestyle
relay team took third, while
Winter's team came in first in the
same event. Winter also placed
second in the 50 freestyle.
In the diving well, Hamerski
Scored a whopping win on the 3-
*leter board, racking up 327.75
points to teammate Jeff Jozwiak's
tecond-place total of 294.225.
Although the meet was a salute
to seniors' accomplishmentsthe
past three years, the rookies
provided a glimpse to the next
three. Frosh Rodney VanTassell
pontinued to sparkle, winning the
50 freestyle and 200 freestyle
elay. Brice Kopas got into the act
s well, notching a win in the 400
individual medley.
"That was the bright side. Mike
is leaving, but Rodney VanTassell
and Brice Kopas both put in
Outstanding swims," coach Jon
LJrbanchek said.
After the meet, Urbanchek
reflected on the accomplishments
of the seniors.
MICHIGAN TRACK
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Women remain up to
par at EMU Classic
by Chris Carr
Coaches expect the athletes
they coach will give their best.
Up to this point, the Michigan
women's track runners are
meeting Wolverine coach James
Henry's expectations with some
of the top performances of their
lives.
"Everybody that has run has
come close or made their PR
(personal record)," Henry said.
"The times are coming down and
that is all we can ask for."
At this weekend's Eastern
Michigan Classic, the Wolverines
once again got strong perfor-
mances in the sprints and hurdles
out of Richelle Webb and Suzy
Thweatt.
Webb took fifth place in the
55-meter dash with a time of 7.30
seconds while Thweatt placed
third in the 55-meter hurdles
registering a time of 8.16 seconds.
Junior Michelle Bishop also
claimed a spot in the finals of the
55-meter dash with times of 7.43
and 7.45 in the preliminary heats.
In the field events, Julie Victor
had a solid performance in the
shot put. Victor took first place
with a throw of 46' 3/4". Amy
McCormack cleared 5' 4" in the
high jump.
Henry was also pleased with
the performances of his middle-
distance runners. Jessica Kluge
captured third place in the 800
meters with a time of 2:14, while
Carrie Yates placed fourth,
registering a time of 2:15. Amy
Bannister, who qualified for the
NCAA championships last week
in the 800, had hoped to do the
same in the mile, but came up a
little short.
"Amy couldn't hold on that
last lap," Henry said. "She had
hoped to qualify before facing the
pressure of the conference meet. I
still feel that she is going to come
back and run a PR next week.
She is the bread and butter of our
middle-distance runners."
-RlOB KROHENEH I/Daily
World record holder Mike Barrowman pulls his way to a victory in the 200-yard butterfly Friday night at Canham
Natatorium. Barrowman and his fellow seniors helped Michigan defeat Oakland University, 154-97, in the last
home meet of their careers.
"These four years meant a lot
to Michigan swimming," he said.
"They've meant a lot to me per-
sonally. We're losing not just good
swimmers, but good people."
Saturday afternoon, Michigan
took its perfect Big Ten record and
No. 3 national ranking into Colum-
bus, but Ohio State came out the
victors.
"This was their big meet of the
year," assistant Mark Noetzel said.
"Ohio State has no chance of
winning the Big Ten, so they
adjusted their goals. Their season
goal was to beat Michigan."
Ohio State won in stunning
fashion, taking 22 top three
finishes, compared to Michigan's
14. In the diving competition, an
area where the Wolverines earned
key points in victories over Cal-
Berkeley and Stanford, the
Buckeyes were no less than
dominating. Ohio State's David
Pilcher and Kris Yaggie finished 1-
2 in both the one and three-meter
events, while Michigan's, Eric
Lesser and Steve Hamerski,
respectively, took distant thirds -
more than 20 points behind the
victors.
As predicted, Michigan won the
stroke events. Eric Namesnik won
three 200-yard races, the back-
stroke, the butterfly and the
individual medley. Barrowman and
Wunderlich took first and second
in Barrowman's trademark, the 200
breaststroke, and Brian Gunn won
the 500 freestyle.
Once again, however, the Wol-
verines faltered in the sprint races.
Ohio State swept the top three
positions in the 50 and 100-yard
freestyle and defeated Michigan in
the 200 freestyle relay by over two
seconds.
Darr stars in pole vault
for hurting track men
by Jason Bank
Daily Sports Writer
While the Michigan men's
track team continued to struggle
for improvement as it heads into
the Big Ten Championships,
Wolverine senior Brad Darr
buried his competition and set a
meet record at the EMU Classic
Saturday.
Darr cleared 17' 6" in the invi-
tational pole vault to become
Michigan's only first-place
finisher at Eastern.
"I'm satisfied with my perfor-
mance," Darr said. "I started
really low, and I got tired when I
got up to the upper heights. I'm
hoping to pop 18 feet this
weekend (at the Big Ten
Championships)."
Many of the Wolverines' top
athletes were sidelined by
injuries, while others sat out to
stay rested for the Big Ten's.
Senior runner Neal Newman
and junior hurdler Jerry Douglas
did not compete. Senior Brad Bar-
quist did not run the 3,000-meter
run, his best race, but placed sev-
enth in the 800-meter run.
In other events, Rudy
Redmond took over for Jerry
Douglas and finished third in the
55-meter high hurdles with a time
of 7.52 seconds. Senior Mike
Hennessey tied for fourth in the
shotput with a toss of 50' 5 1/4".
Michigan runners finished
strong in the sprint events. Sopho-
more Van Cowan finished fourth
in the 200-meter invitational with
a time of 22.98, while sophomore
Mike Eccleston ran third in the
200-meter collegiate with 22.83.
Michigan is hoping to have its
whole team back at full strength
for the Big Ten Championships.
Pistons suff
NEW YORK (AP) - All sea-
son, the New York Knicks have
tried to play with the big boys, but
have fallen short most of the time.
In one two-month stretch, they
lost 11 consecutive games to
teams with winning records, and a
Aoss on Sunday would have left
em with the NBA's worst home-
court record.
Just when things looked bleak-
est, however, New York routed the
defending champion Detroit Pis-
tons, 116-88. It was the biggest
victory margin of the season for
the Knicks and the worst loss for
the Pistons since a 143-105 defeat
against Boston on Jan. 13, 1988.
* "If we can play like this, we
pan make the playoffs and hope-
fully a championship," Patrick Ew-
ipg, who scored 28 points, said.
"This was definitely our best per-
formance of the season."
The Knicks outscored the Pis-
tons, 62-34, in the middle two pe-
riods to improve their home record
to 11-15, an embarrassing decline
from their 35-6 record at home two
*seasons ago.
New York recovered from a
slow start to rout the defending
champion Pistons, outscoring them
18-4 after turnovers in the pivotal
second and third quarters.
"I knew it wouldn't continue
the way it did in the first quarter,"
Pistons coach Chuck Daly said of
Detroit's early eight-point lead.
"The Knicks got their confidence
back in the second quarter and
they took control. We were atro-
cious."
Detroit lost for the fourth time
in six games, although it is still 7-
4 since Isiah Thomas was lost for
the season after wrist surgery. Re-
serve forward John Salley also
er big loss in
missed the game with a sore back.
"There's no use wishing Isiah
was here," Daly said. "It's like
wishing for a Rolex or a Mercedes
when you can't afford it. But any-
time you lose your point guard, it's
going to cost you in performance
and leadership."
Vinnie Johnson led the Pistons
with 23 points, but leading scorer
Joe Dumars had only seven on 3-
for-12 shooting. Dumars, despite a
sore big toe on his left foot, had
scored 58 points in Detroit's previ-
ous two games.
"It's tough for me to move,"
Dumars said. "I can't follow
through like I want to. I guess it
will get better in August."
"We beat a team without two
of its better players, but we played
hard," Knicks coach John
MacLeod said. "We hunted down
Big Apple, 116-88
the open man like Detroit, L.A. or and three-point pla
Boston. We were tuned into each Jerrod Mustaf's thr
other. We were consistent through- kets.
out, humming the ball to the open New York contii
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"To win like this, we have to
hit on all cylinders," Ewing said.
"We didn't want to be embar-
rassed on national TV, so we came
to play."
Kiki Vandeweghe scored 20
points and Charles Oakley had 15
rebounds for New York, whose
previous largest margin of victory
was 106-79 against Philadelphia
on Nov. 17.
The Knicks, who made seven of
22 field-goal attempts in the open-
ing period, made 15 of their first
25 shots in the second quarter,
outscoring Detroit, 33-15, for a 49-
39 halftime lead. The rally fea-
tured Vandeweghe's 3-point goal
nate the ristons in te m i quar-
ter, making 13 of 20 shots and
outscoring them 29-19 for a 78-58
lead. The margin peaked at 30
points in the final period.
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