0 Women's Tennis vs. Minnesota Saturday, 11 a.m. Huron Valley Tennis Club The Michigan Daily SPORTS Baseball vs. Purdue Saturday, 1 p.m. (DH) L Fisher Stadium ThIursdav, April 18,1991 I V IY~f / Y MY ays It . Sluggers split two by David Kraft Daily Sports Writer If there was ever a team that created its own destiny, it was the Michigan softball squad in their doubleheader outing Tuesday afternoon against Toledo at Varsity Diamond. In the first game of the twinbill, the No. 14 Wolverines' (4-6 in the Big Ten, 21-15 overall) shaky defense in the early innings and lack of clutch hitting down the stretch allowed Toledo (7-5 MAC, 19-19) to walk away with a 4-1 vic- tory. To avoid a repeat performance of game one, Michigan coach Carol Hutchins must have given a Bo Schembechler-like halftime speech at the end of game one. In the second game, the Wolverines thwarted two early offensive threats by the Rockets, while pounding out several key hits in the late innings that guided Michigan to an easy 7-1 tri- umph. Actually, Hutchins' between-game message was quite simple. "All she told us was to come in (to game two) and be ready to play ball," rookie second baseman Mary Campana said. In the first game, the Wolverines did not come ready to play. Toledo took a quick 2-0 lead aft nings by virtue of a Dawn Calnen RB the first and a Julie Michalski d scored Jennifer Klose in the second inn Despite numerous opportun Michigan could muster on the scorebc fifth inning unearned run in wh Campana scored from second base ona the shortstop Klose. While Wolverine Julie Clarkson' was inconsistent through five innings ally killed the Wolverines was their come through in the clutch. In both the fourth and fifth Michigan had runners on first and se with no outs, but could only cross once. "(Toledo) capatilized when they h we didn't," Campana said. When the Rockets drew first bloc first inning of game two, it appe Michigan would fall into their latel with Rockets. habit of not being able to come back from an apparently early deficit. All it took was their first at bat for the er two in- Wolverines to erase any doubt that their habit 3I single in would resurface once again. ouble that After Julie Cooper sacrificed Bonnie Thoh ling . to second base, Stacey Heams, the squad's second ities, all leading hitter, smashed a triple into centerfield, oard was a easily scoring Tholl. Kari Kunnen followed a ich Mary Patti Benedict fly out with a RBI single that an error by brought in Heams. The score remained 2-1 in Michigan's favor s pitching until the fourth, when the Wolverines tagged s, what re- Rocket starter Rhoda Hurr for four base hits, ac- failure to counting for two runs, and took a commanding 4-1 lead. innings, The onslaught continued in the fifth when cond base the Wolverines banged four more hits off Hurr,@ the plate this time scoring three runs to put the game out of Toledo's reach, 7-1. R had to and While Michigan hurler Kelly Forbis yielded eight hits, she constantly baffled the Toledo hit- od in the ters in clutch situations. ared that "Kelly was a little shaky at first, but came y chronic through when she had to," Hutchins said. 'Michigan pitcher Andrea Nelson relieved Julie Clarkson in the Wolverines' doubleheader with Toledo yesterday. Michigan dropped the first game, 4-1, and then trounced the Rockets in the second, 7-1. Men golfers seek stability in Akron Blue hitters by Adam Lutz Daily Sports Writer If it is Thursday, then it must be time for the Michigan men's golf team to pile in their cars and hit the Toad. For the fourth straight week- end, the team is travelling away from home, as they head down to Ohio for the Firestone Inter- collegiate Invitational in Akron. The team will have its work cut out for itself, as the Par-72 course, located at the renown Firestone Country Club, is known for its dif- ficulty. The course is always a stop on either the PGA or Senior Golf Tours. The 36-team field will be one of the hardest that the team will face this season. "This is the strongest field that we'll face all year because of the depth involved," coach Jim Carras said. Besides all the Big Ten teams, with the exception of Ohio State, the field will include many strong Midwestern schools. The more prominent teams include Kent State, Iowa State, Louisville, Witchita State, and Miami (Ohio). The Invitational will take place on two of the 18-hole courses. After two rounds of competition on Saturday, the top 18 teams will play on the North course, and the weaker 18 teams will play on the West. The practice rounds this week were extremely tense as the entire team squared off in order to deter- mine whom would fill the final three remaining travel slots. The only players who were exempt from the competition were Anthony Dietz and Dean Kobane, who had impressive showings in last weekend's Marshall Invita- tional: t aThe three spots were filled by Denny Sikkila, Bob Henighan, and Carl Condon. The three have all previously competed this season, though they have all experienced a series of inconsistency. Carras ex- pects the Invitational to provide an opportunity for each player to dis- play much needed stability. Color Printing Color Printing Color Printing Color Printing Big savings on color printing forall clubs, businesses, and organizations. Wolverine catcher Todd Winston makes contact with a pitch Saturday versus Illinois-. Michigan crushed Ferris State yesterday at Fisher Stadium, 13-6. 'M' Water polo looks to take Mi~dwest Regionals pound Ferris by Rod Loewenthal Daily Baseball Writer Five Bulldog pitchers weren't enough to stop the Wolverines yesterday, as the Michigan baseball teamn (6-6 in the Big Ten, 21-15-1 overall) trounced Ferris State (15-13) at home, 13-6. The fireworks started early as Michigan's leadoff 0 hitter Dave Everly smacked the fourth pitch of the game over the center field wall for his fourth home rvn of the year. The Wolverines continued their first inning barrage by pouncing on losing pitcher Brad Ryan (0-2) for another four runs. The Wolverines pounded out 18 hits for the game, with Tim Flannelly snatching three of those during six at-bats. The third baseman had a pair of triples and a single while tallying two RBI. Andy Fairman had an even bigger day, going 3 for 4 while knocking in three RBI. Bubba Wyngarden was one of the few Wolverines who was disappointed with his hitting yesterday. sI could be hitting better," the first-year outfielder said after going 1 for 3 while hitting into two fielder's choices. "But we won, that's what matters." Ferris coach Jude Folske was less than satisfied with Ryan's and the rest of his staff's showing. "Our pitchers fell behind the count too many times," Folsce said. "Ryan just didn't have his best stuff today." In the fifth inning Ryan got into trouble again. Co captain Dan Ruff singled to start the inning and Fairman followed with another single. Catcher Mike Matheny then belted a homer to left to clear the bases and put Michigan up, 8-0. With no outs Folske then brought in pitcher Jeff Stroble. The righthander gavie up a walk and a single, but retired the side to leave the inning with no further damage. Recording the victory, Jeff Tanderys (2-1) went seven full innings for the Wolverines. "He threw strikes, that's what made him effective today" Michigan coach Bill Freehan said. "He was one of m y starters at the beginning of the season, but because fle struggled early in the season and then had a sore arm,he lost his position." According to Freehan, the senior pitched his most impressive game yesterday. Tanderys yielded three runs on nine hits while only walking one, the first batter of the game on four straight balls. "He throws hard," Folske said. "We chased him early and I thought we had him, but he hung in there." Southpaw Bryan Santos went to the mound for the0 eighth and ninth. He cruised through the eighth and then got touched for three runs in the ninth. However, the runs were inconsequential as the Wolverines easily defeated the Bulldogs by seven runs. "This is the type of game where you cross your fio- gers and hope you don't deplete your pitching staff af- ter using three on Monday and facing a game tomorro)v and two doubleheaders this weekend," Freehan said. Today's game pits Michigan against Notre Dame under the lights in Battle Creek. The game will be the 100th in a series that started with a 6-4 Irish victory in0 1892. Freehan has not determined who will start, beat indicated that it would definitely not be ace Jason Pfaff who he would like to save for the weekend. Work up to 6 months in Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Jamaica, New Zealand, and Costa Rica. Council's Work Abroad Program, the only one of its kind, cuts through all the red tape! Call for FREE brochures on work programs, discount air fares, language courses, and more. 1220 S.Unrrsity Ave, Ste. 208 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 313-998-0200 by Tim Spolar Daily Sports Writer Coming off one of its biggest weekends of the season, a sweep of the Big Ten tournament, the Michigan women's water polo team must scale an even larger mountain in this week- end's Midwest Regional Championships at Northwestern. The Midwest tournament (consisting of five Big Ten teams and Findley, Ohio) is the squad's final hurdle in its quest for an NCAA tournament bid. In years past, one of the three automatic bids given out by the NCAA selec- tion committee accompanied the tournament's title. An automatic bid is virtually essential for any midwestern team to make the tourna- ment, because all of the individual invitations are traditionally given to Californian schools. However, as a result of Michigan's com- plete dominance in all Big Ten competition this year, the other schools participating in the Midwest tournament have decided to let non- collegiate players compete. This attempt to break the Wolverines' stranglehold has caused the NCAA to strip the automatic bid from the tournament. "The NCAA doesn't view this as a colle- giate tournament anymore," Wolverine coach Scott Russell said. The team which looks to benefit the most from the non-collegiate players is Illinois. The Wolverines crushed the Illini 13-3 in the Big Ten tournament, but the Illini plan to bring in a few players who have played for the national team in recent years. "Illinois is getting some tough players," senior captain Kathleen Gerzevitz said. "They should be greatly improved and that could cause us some problems." The Wolverines do not plan to add any non- collegiate players to their roster for the weekend. Russell feels that if they can sweep through the tournament without any outside help, the NCAA selection committee will have a hard time overlooking the Wolverines in the invitation process. "If we win all four games, that would leave our overall season record at 17-4," he said. "The selection committee would really have to think twice before it took a Cal- ifornian team with a record near .500 over us." Michigan plans to rely on its trademark defensive pressure and its superior condition- ing to carry it through the tournament. "Our strong swimmers and new 'drop de- fense' should give us a considerable edge," Gerzevitz said. "Hopefully, the (NCAA selection) committee will recognize us as a very strong team and give us an invitation." Come home for the summer... to Western Michigan University Coming home to West Michigan for the summer? Worried about taking 5 years to graduate? 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