Softball . at Indiana (DH) Tomorrow, 3 p.m. Bloomington, Ind. The Michigan Daily SPORTS Men's Swimming NCAA Championships Today, Tomorrow, Saturday Austin, Texas Page 9 Thursday, March 28, 1991 ankers dive into N CAAs b Ken Sugiura lily Sports Writer y 'M' baseball singin' the blues in the rain ,, If it has seemed like the Michi- g'n men's swimming season has been going on for a long time, well, that would be because it has. About five months' worth of 5:30 wakeup calls, endless miles of training, and countless trips around tho world all come to a head at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, beginning today in stin, Texas. The Wolverines will attempt to run their streak of top-five NCAA performances to four. To get to this point, Michigan has fought through injury, the early season absence of senior cap- itan Mike Barrowman, and has had to deal with the graduation of four-time NCAA champ Brent 9. Without Lang, the NCAA's premier sprinter last season, the Wolverines failed to qualify either a 200 freestyle relay or a 400 freestyle relay. Nonetheless, Michigan, winner of the recent Big Ten Champ- ionships, is ready for the big dance. "There's only one thing that's :important - to swim fast - and I hink our team is ready to go," Michigan coach Jon Urbanchek said. by Josh Dubow Daily Baseball Writer Yesterday afternoon, the Michigan baseball team played like the weather - dreary. The Wolverines (11-7) completed a five- game home stand with an 8-3 loss to Western Michigan (6-8). . The Broncos capitalized on Michigan's miscues by jumping out to an early lead against Michigan starter Brian Feldman. "We had some chances, but didn't make the plays," Michigan coach Bill Freehan said. "When they had the opportunities, they took ad- vantage." After Scott Conant and Chris Demetral opened the game with sin- gles, Brian Hostetler laid down a sacrifice bunt that first baseman Andy Feldman booted for an error, which loaded the bases. Conant scored on a Jeff Noom sacrifice fly, but the Wolverines averted major damage when, after Jeff Dahley doubled in Demetral, right fielder Pat Maloney gunned down Hos- tetler at the plate to end the inning. Michigan drew even in the bot- tom of the first. Tim Flannelly drove a 2-1 pitch over the 330-foot sign in right field for a two-run dinger to tie the game. Feldman went through the next two innings with little difficulty, allowing only one single. Freehan replaced Feldman with Eric Heintschel to start the fourth, and after retiring the first four batters he faced, Heintschel started to struggle. Following a Matt Terrell bunt single, Heintschel walked Steve Sallee, and gave up an RBI double to. Conant. Western scored two more 2 runs in the inning on a groundout ' and wild pitch. Heintschel excelled with no runners on base - retiring seven of nine baters in that situation - but struggled with men on base and was ; pinned with the loss. The Wolverines mounted a few threats against Western starter, Scott DeRussell, but could not put any runners across the plate. Michigan rallies in the third and fifth innings were quelled by a run- ner caught stealing and a double play. But Michigan's best chance was in the sixth inning, where with the aid of two Western errors and a hit batsmen, the bases were full with two down when Scott Winterlee bounced to third to end the inning. Marty Ray relieved DeRussell to open the seventh, and, except for an unearned run in the eighth, faced little trouble in posting his first save. The Wolverines' third pitcher, Brent Cymbalski, also struggled as the Broncos struck for three runs - two earned - against Cymbalski in his three innings of work. Bryan Santo pitched an uneventful ninth to close the day out for Freehan, and his search for a fourth starter is still on. "We wanted to pitch a lot of guys, to see who we can count on in the future," Freehan said. "Nobody did anything out there to earn that job." The men's swimming team ventures five finish. The Wolverines enter the In addition, Urbanchek's three World Championship swimmers, Barrowman, Eric Namesnik and Eric Wunderlich, have had to cram a season's worth of training into about two months. Despite the handicap, Urbanchek likes what he sees. "The World Championship ath- letes should be able to win at least one of their favored events," he into the NCAA Championships with hopes of a fourth consecutive top NCAAs on the heels of their sixth consecutive Big Ten championship. said. For Barrowman, defending champ and American record holder in the 200-yard breaststroke, this weekend marks the last time he will swim for the Maize and Blue. "This is my last chance as a team player for a long time," Barrowman said, "so it means almost everything to me to do as best we can at NCAAs." Doing the best they can proba- bly means finishing in the top seven. With the team title virtu- ally being conceded to host Texas, and second place to USC, Barrow- man expects a "dogfight" for the next five spots, where Michigan will scratch and claw with the likes of Tennessee, Cal-Berkeley, Stanford, and Florida. SWIMMING NOTEBOOK Vichigan sends record number to NCAAs by Andy Do Korte Daily Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS - When the Michigan women's swimming team travelled here to the Indiana University Natatorium for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships last weekend, they actually did set a *am record. Twelve swimmers and two divers made the journey - more Wolverine representatives than ever before. Only Texas, Stanford, and California, which finished first, second, and fourth, brought more swimmers. Bringing such a large squad, which included eight individual qualifiers, also a record, may make the Wolverines' 15th-place finish seem disappointing. But the difference in the numbers is slightly misleading. Michigan only brought two seniors, Minoo Gupta and Julie Schnorberger, neither of whom competed in individual events. The aforementioned uccessful schools brought at least four seniors who combined for over 100 ints for their respective teams. While the disparity hurt Michigan's performance this year, the Wolverines will return 10 of the 12 swimmers and both divers with another year of experience. NEW REGULATIONS; When junior All-American Lisa Anderson was disqualified for her turn with 50 yards to go during the finals of the 200 yard backstroke, she became the first and only person disqualified under the new backstroke turn restrictions at the meet. Under the new restrictions, the shoulders must pass under the vertical bar of the hand touch. Assuming the disqualification did not aid her swim, Anderson would have finished fifth at 2:00.36, 0.86 seconds behind Sidney Brinson of Texas. :10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Friday, the NCAA held an "Alumni Reception" at the National Art Museum of Sport in Indiana- pdlis to celebrate the 10th anniversary of women's athletics in the NCAA. Tracy Caulkins, former NCAA champion for Florida, and current Amperican recordholder in the 400-yard individual medley, spoke at the reception. r Earlier in the evening, Caulkins presented the awards to the winner of tle 200-yard medley relay. Ironically, Caulkins saw her seven-year-old record in the 200-yard individual medley fall the day before, to first-year *henom, Summer Sanders. LSA STUDENTS It has come to the attention of the LS&A Curriculum Committee that some final exams have been re-scheduled in previous semesters at times other {Than those posted in the Time Schedule. The Curriculum Committee views this as a trend that may not be in your best interests. Re-scheduling exams into earlier time periods may mean that you will lose the final class period; it may mean thatyou are denied review time in class; and it may rob you of study days. The committee wishes you to know what the regulations are with regard to this practice and to know your rights as students. The Faculty Code says: An instructor may not depart from the official schedule unless prior approval of the Final Examination Committee is obtained. All students are expected to take their final examinations at the time 1fixer in th nfficial schedule of examinations. No single student may be Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Lou Holtz and Luther Darville, long gone from the University of Minnesota, still had a major impact Wednesday when the NCAA placed the school on probation for two years and banned its football team from making a 1991 postseason ap- pearance. Some of the 17 rule violations cited by the NCAA Committee on Infractions involved the basketball and wrestling programs. The bas- ketball team was stripped of one scholarship next year and the wrestling team lost its right to in- teract with a campus wrestling club. A three-year investigation, which hasalready cost the univer- sity $462,000 and will amount to about $600,000 before all bills are paid, unearthed the violations. The probe was initiated only one month after the school received three years' probation in March 1988 for basketball and football vi- olations that occurred primarily from 1982-86. "I'm embarrassed personally and I'm embarrassed for the institu- tion," said Rick Bay, men's athletic- director. "I hope this is the last time we will all be meeting like this." igets theI Minnesota could have been pe- nalized much more severely but the NCAA was lenient because the school cooperated and launched its own investigation. "This is a unique case where it is appropriate to impose penalties that differ from the full set of minimum penalties otherwise required," the committee wrote in its 22-page re- port. "Further, the committee has determined that it is not appropriate to apply the minimum penalties for repeat violators to this case." The university could have lost more scholarships, could have re- ceived postseason bans in all three sports and could have been kept off television. In addition, coaches could have been suspended or fired. Theoretically, the dreaded "death penalty" for repeat offenders could even have been imposed. "While we regret having been penalized, I think we've been treated fairly," university president Nils Hasselmo said. "I think the good news, the real news, here is that given the kinds of penalties that could have been imposed ... we have been given the benefit of the doubt." The committee found that Holtz, who left Minnesota for NCAA ax Notre Dame in November 1985, had given $250 cash to an athlete to pay for a course that allowed the athlete to remain eligible for competition. Holtz also was found to have given between $25 and $40 to Roselle Richardson to reimburse the former quarterback for the loss of a wallet. "I made two errors of judg- ment," Holtz said at a news at South Bend, Ind., adding that the payments were made for humanitar- ian reasons and not to gain a compet- itive advantage. Minnesota's investigation al- leged that Holtz also gave $500 to former academic advisor LeRoy Gardner to give to foner receiver Jerry Keeble. Holtz denied that and the infractions committee removed it from the list of violations. Most major infractions involved Darville, former acting director of the university's Office of Minority and Special Student Affairs. 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