Women's Tennis vs. Purdue Tomorrow, 3 p.m. Huron Valley Tennis Club The Michigan Daily SPORTS Friday, April 5, 1991 Men's Volleyball vs. Illinois Tomorrow, 3:30 p.m. IM Building Pa " '.. ip@ a Paoe III.n F, Softball to open home season by Ryan Herrington Daily Sports Writer If you have been hearing sighs of relief from the athletic campus lately, they are probably coming from Michigan's softball team. For the first time this season, the squad does not have to take to the road in search of competition. This week- end, the Wolverines will host the NSK/Michigan Wolverine Invita- tional. The invitational has a four- school field consisting of DePaul, Northern Illinois, Ohio and Michi- gan. All of the teams will play each other once during the two-day tour- nament, with the top two teams fac- ing off in the championship game on Sunday. Michigan coach Carol Hutchins is excited about this weekend's action. "The tournament keeps us com- petitive," Hutchins said. "We need to gear up for each game just like it is the Big Ten. We need to show up to play for every game." The Wolverines (2-2 in the Big Ten, 15-9 overall) are in the midst of a six day, eight game stretch. They face both Ohio and Northern Illinois on Saturday and finish round-robin play with DePaul on Sunday. Michigan bounced back nicely from a disappointing first weekend of Big Ten play at Indiana by sweep- ing a doubleheader against a strong Central Michigan team on Wednes- day. The Wolverines received clutch' hitting with runners in scoring po- sition, something they had been lacking a week ago. Hutchins says hitting in key situations will again be essential if the Wolverines are to be successful this weekend. The tournament field is not one full of "cream puffs." Northern Illinois is the three-time defending champion of the North Star Confer- ence and has contended for nationals in the last few seasons. The Huskies are led by catcher Julie Sexton, who is batting .447 this season, and first baseman Lisa Gilfoy, who leads the team with five home runs and 21 RBI's. DePaul, who will be facing the Wolverines for the first time, is struggling of late, coming off a 7-8 spring break schedule. Ohio has played well despite their 7-7 record. "I expect this weekend to be competitive," Hutchins said. "We need to stay up mentally, which can be a challenge because it's not a Big Ten weekend." Playing at home, the Wolverines will have extra incentive to be pre- pared for their opponents. They will try to show their fans what they have learned on the road so far this season. No rest for weary swimmers by Ken Su gura Daily Sports Writer The Michigan men's swimming team is just a week into the off-sea- son, and it already has found a meet in which to compete. Seven members of the sixth- place NCAA Championship team (Mike Barrowman, Eric Namesnik, Eric Wunderlich, Steve Bigelow, Brian Gunn, Rodney VanTassell and Noel Strauss) left earlier this week for Seattle, Wash, for the United States Swimming Senior Nationals. The meet began Wednesday and con- cludes Sunday. As the meet is sanctioned by only United States Swimming (the national governing body), instead of in conjunction with the NCAA, the Wolverines will be representing their respective clubs and not the University. All except for Barrowman and Strauss will swim for Michigan coach Jon Urbanchek's Club Wolverine. Barrowman will swim for Curl-Burke, an East Coast club, while Little Rock (Ark.) Rocket Club is Strauss' home club. While fast times and a possible team championship are certainly goals, Michigan assistant coach Mark Noetzel is curbing his expec- tations. "It's very difficult to swim a week after the NCAAs for a meet that isn't very intense to them," he said. For the team, the meet is some- thing of a vacation, after having put in seven months of intense training in preparation for the Big Ten Championships and the NCAAs. This goes double for Barrowman, Wunderlich and Namesnik, who es- sentially swam two seasons in that time. The trio first trained and rested for the World Champi- onships and then again for the recent NCAA meet. Shortstop Dave Everly races for first base after the University of Detroit's catcher dropped strike three during Michigan's contest with the Titans. The game was called due to darkness with the scored tied at 8. 3 Weather wins as Blue tiesl by Rod Loewenthal Daily Baseball Writer In hockey, it's one thing, but no- body on the diamond likes to see a tie. Even if you were down, 8-4, in the sixth inning and managed to come back and then had the game called after the ninth because of rain and darkness - nobody likes a tie. Just ask the Michigan baseball team (14-10-1) who battled the De- troit-Mercy Titans yesterday to an 8-8 draw. Southpaw Brian Feldman started on the mound for the Wolverines but exited an inning early because of tightness in his throwing arm. In his third start of the season the rookie yielded two runs on six hits over five innings, leaving the tied, 2-2. "Getting ahead in the count helped me," Feldman said. "Basically I was using my fastball trying to get ahead in the count, I wasn't mixing it up." Pitcher Jeff Tanderys entered in the sixth for Michigan. Titan Lance Sullivan smacked a double to left and later scored after Tanderys walked three men in a row. A sacri- fice fly brought in another run, and then Tanderys walked the next bat- ter to load the bases again. Michigan coach Bill Freehan then called on first-year hurler Chris Newton who gave up a Texas- leaguer that shortstop Dave Everly dropped because of a collision with second baseman Scott Winterlee. The hit scored the final two runs of the inning, as Detroit managed to bat around the order. The Wolverines picked up single runs in the fifth and sixth while the Titans added two of their own in the top of the seventh to make it 8-4, Detroit. But Michigan stormed beck with three in their half of the sei- enth and squeezed out another run in the eighth to tie it, 8-8. "Pressure wasn't the problem,'* Newton said. "It was more- a few mechanical things in my pitching motion." Yesterday the Wolverines expe- rienced the same problem they've encountered all season long. They have been unable to combine their pitching efforts with their hitting efforts. Against Detroit the Wolverines were able to get the hit but their pitching fell short. "As pitchers, as players, as r team we didn't do what we had, to do to win," Newton said. "Tfe bullpen didn't do the job and it's been like that all year - the middle relief just couldn't do it." - This weekend Michigan travels to Iowa for a four-game series with the Hawkeyes. 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