Women's Gymnastics vs. MSU and CMU Tomorrow,. 2 p.m. Keen Arena -e - ----- -- SPORTS Ice Hockey NCAA First Round vs. Cornell Tonight and Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Yost Ice Arena Friday, March 15 1q91 Page 9 Blue swoops into No. 1 Seminoles' territory Grapplers fair well in NCAA prelims by Rod Loewenthal Daily BasebalD Writer The Michigan baseball team 8-3) finds itself in the hoest lcale of its spring schedule this weekend. The No. 13-ranked Wolverines travel t Tallahassee. Fla. to take on the streaking Florida State Seminoles. The No. 1-ranked Seminoles (17-3) will be applying the heat during the three-game weekend series at Dick Howiser Stadium. with games Friday and Saturday nights and a Sunday matinee. The Wolverines will have to duplicate their offensive prowess of last weekend in Mobile. Ala. to have any chance of defeating Flor- ida State, which is 14-C at home. This is Michigan's last series in Florida this spring. And for the Michigan pitching staff. the quicker the Wolverines get back home. the better. The hurlers are not looking forward to pitching long inings under the Flonda sun against powerful Seminole hitters. One of those sluggers, junior first baseman Eduardo Perez, is eating opposing pitchers alive this season. Perez, son of former Cincinnati Reds star Tony Perez, is hitting .432 with sIA home runs, 26 RBI. and eight stolen bases. Friday night, Jason Ptaff (30 takes the mound for the Wolv- enes, while Florida State coun- ters with right-handed hurler Roger Bailey (-1) Saturday, Wolverine Russell Brock -1 opposes Jimmy Lewis (-1) and in Sun- days contest, Michigan will send Dennis Konuszewski (0-0) against Chris Roberts _1). by Josh Dubow Daily Sports Writer IOWA CITY - The opening day of wrestling at the NCAA Championships was up and down for the Michigan wrestling team. Out of thesen Wolverine qualifiers, three - Joey Gilbere 13 pounds), Sean Bormet (8and Fritz Lehrke (190 m- all advanced to the quarter final round. Two Michigan wrestlers - James Rawls (142) and Phil Tomek (HWT) - lost first round matches. and Salem Yaffai (118i and Lanny Green (177) lost their second round matches. Coach Dale Bahr's team sat in 10th place at the 167 pound divi- sion through the second prelimi- nary round. Our top three guys are look- ing really good," Bahr said. "hey should have a great chance of making All-American. 'A e uwere really disappointed nJames losingtoan unseeded kid (Steve Thoma of Brown). That will probably cost him a spot in the consolation bracket." Two of Michigan's three quar- Ler finalists will be facing familiar focs. In the quarter finals Gilbert wrestles Mark Marinelli of Ohio State who he beat in a major de- cision during the dual-meet sea- son, and Lehrke faces off against Travis Fiser of Iowa, who he beat at the Big Tens. Fiser advanced by upsetting second-seeded Rex Holman of Arizona State in sud- den-death overtime. While Gilbert was not pleased with his second round effort, in which he narrowly defeated Jade Montrie of Toledo, 6-4, he is opti- mistic about his re-match with Marinelli. "I'm looking to keep in his face again," Gilbert said. "If I push after him, I feel I should win." SHowever, Marinelli has other feelings. "I feel if I wrestle tough, no one can touch me," he said. Bormet won both of his matches with relative ease, defeating Dave Onorato of West Virginia, 13-7, and Joe Sabol of Hofstra, 7-2. Bormet, the fifth seed, opposes Scott Hovan of Pittsburgh in today's quarter final action. *'M' divers take final plunge to ward NCAAs by Ken Sugiura Daily Sports Writer With the wind of strong Big Ten Championship performances filling their sails. the Michigan men's and women's diving teams #iise into Columbus this weekend for the NCAA Zone C Diving Meet with plans on qualifying for their respective NCAA Championships. The seven women divers head to Columbus with guarded optim- ism. No Wolverine pre-qualified at the Big Ten meet, so they will all be chasing the five 1-meter spots and three 3-meter allotments. "There aren't that many spots, *aut we're hoping we can get a couple of people in," senior Whit- ney Scherer said. If the team's results at the Big Ten Championships are any gauge of the Wolverines' potential in Columbus. Michigan should ex- pect some qualifiers. Scherer and Lisa Cribari each appeared twice in the finals. The men are also hoping to flag down a couple of positions. Eric Lesser pre-qi.ied at :-meters at the Big Ten Championships, and he. along with three of his tearnmates, will pursue one of the six positions at 1-meter. Senior Steve Hamerski will lead the charge to claim one of the six 3- meter positions. The men are coming off a sparkling performance at the Big Ten Championships, appearing seven times in the three diving inals. including platform. Wo verine Joey G be- res:les aa-s: iowa SJr.e tn s seaso. GiLDer, Sean Borme-. and Friz Lere reache: me CA q-a-te -nals. ICERS Continued from page 1 Big Red at Yost Ice Arena in the best 2-out-of-3 series, None of the current Michigan or Cornel play- ers have NCAA tournament exper- ience, but both squads competed in fierce league playoff tourna- ments. Michigan is the third seed in the East region, while Cornell holds the i pot in the West. Both are physical, tight- checking teams that possess speed, size, and solid goaltending. Each tear has faced sone of the tournament's top teams such as Boston College, Clarkson and Lake Superior State. But to the Michigan sqad, it makes no difference which team it faces. The fundamentals are there and everything will be detemnined by motivation and drive. "I don't think it really matters who we play," senior co-captain Don Stone said. "I mean, we can beat anybody as long as we play the way we can play. That's what we have to focus on - how we play and not how whoever we'reG plaving is going to play." The Dekers Club Presents' 'Hockey Weekend in Boston' If Michigan defeats Comell, go to Boston for $210. Sign up at this weekend's games. Call Diane Hatfield for info: 764-3483 or 665-4-6 gold bond cleaners Quality Dry Cleaning and Shirt Seivice 332 Maynard St. across fromNickels Arcade 668-6335 i Women netters aim for first Lacrosse squad whips overmatched Albion by Mitch Rubenstein The W,.erines sc Daily Sorts Write h Big Ten 'W' i by Adam Miller Daily Sports Writer Last weekend. the Michigan women's tennis team opened its Big Ten season with a tough loss against second-place Northwester., Things do not get any easier for the Wolverines this weekend. Michigan (0-1 in the Big Ten. 6-3 overall) takes on Wisconsin (4-0, 1O-6) in Madison tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. "Wisconsin is playing great nnis," Michigan coach Bitsy Ritt said. "We're definitely the underdog going into this match." The Badgers are led by three- Wisconsin time All-Big Ten singles star Elaine DeMetroulois. Michigan junior Christine Schmeidel. who has never beaten DeMetroulois should provide stiff competition. Schmeidel (-3 at No. 1 singles, 4- 3 overal, ranked 'nd nationally. has shown signs of recovery from shoulder and elbow injuries suffered earlier in the season MichiNan has lost three out of its past five matches, Yet, Ritt is optimistic about tomorrow's contest. You never know." she said. "On a given day, we could go in there and upset them." ored at _.' l -. The Michigan men's lacrosse team rang up goals like a cash s enesda agn A pounded the Britons, 16-3. Michgan was led by the 'M and 5' combination of Dave Morath and Marc Silbergeld who combined for seven goals and most entirely in Albion's zone. The lopsided score alowed ichign to cear its bench in "The game fufiled all our coals. captain Rich Belanger said, "-The young guys got a chance to show what they could do. and they played some and good lcos. I TERED OF L4GKING F OR A 4 U1 I . :./ " _t ' Kdc if.r In-f light 215 S Si.e S. PLACE TO ROOST? Let Prime Student Housino Help find your home for Fall. Call 761-8000 TODAY! 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