10 - The Micnigan uaily - Tuesday, September 19, 1995 'M' faces Eastern in final Big Ten tune-up By Chris Murphy Daily Sports Writer The Michigan women's volleyball team will make the short trip to Ypsilanti tonight to face offagainst Eastern Michi- gan. The Wolverines (5-4) are coming off a successful weekend performance at the UMass Invitational. Michigan defeated Brown and Massachusetts en route to a2- 1 record and the tournament title. The Wolverines' match against the Eagles (0-7) is the team's final non-con- ference tune-up. "We think the matches this weekend are lumped together with Eastern as one big weekend for gaining some momen- tum as we go into the Big Ten season," Michigan coach Greg Giovanazzi said. Going into tonight's match the Wol- verines will be looking to ride the coat- tails of some of their veteran players. In particular, junior outside hitter Kristen Ruschiensky, sophomore setter Linnea Mendoza and senior middle blocker and co-captain Suzy O'Donnell sparked Michigan to its tournament vic- tory last weekend. All three were named to the all-tourna- ment team. Ruschiensky was named tour- nament MVP. The Wolverines will be facing an East- ern Michigan squad that is probably bet- ter than its record indicates. "(Their coach) tried to schedule some really stiff competition right off the bat," Giovanazzi said. The Eagles faced an even more diffi- cult non-conference slate than Michigan, squaring off against tough West Coast teams such as Santa Clara and No. 1 Stanford. The Wolverines, who lost to Eastern Michigan last year, will be facing a vastly different opponent tonight. The Eagles started the season with coachNonaRichardsonatthe helm. How- ever, she resigned before the season be- gan; Tim Koth has replaced her. Eastern Michigan will also be featur- ing a host of young players. As a result, last year's game tapes will do little good. What Michigan will be concentrating on is improving its own game. "In preparing forthis past weekend and Eastern, we've been working on the same three things: blocking, defense and cov- erage, " Giovanazzi said. Michigan co-captain Shannon Brownlee, who had 10 kills against Syracuse in the UMass Invitational last weekend, leads the Wolverines into tonight's match against Eastern Michigan in Ypsilanti. Blue women's soccer impressive in tie at home agamst Buffalo By Dan Stillman Daily Sports Writer The Michigan women's soccer team excelled in several ways en route to a frustrating 1-1 tie against Buffalo Sunday. The Wolverines controlled the tempo throughout the double-over- time game, making it nearly impos- sible for the Royals to advance the ball past midfield. Michigan outshot Buffalo by a whopping margin of 38- 7. Unfortunately for the Wolverines, 37 of those shots were blanks. Fresh- man forward Jessica Limauro led all Wolverines with a school-record 10 shots. Junior defender Michele Brach and sophomore midfielder Debbie Flaherty notched seven shots each, with Flaherty scoring one. Numerous Wolverine shots were fired over the goal. "When we're gearing up to shoot, we have to change gears," coach Debbie Belkin said. "We're hitting them way too hard." GOALIE CONTROVERSY: Belkin gave freshman goaltender Jessica Jones (0-2-1, 1.50 goals-against-average) the nod this past weekend against Ohio State and Buffalo. Veteran goalie Jori Welchans (I - 2-0, 1.33) had played three out of the previous four contests. "I've been working very hard," Jones said. "I respect Jori's experience but I Soccer Notebook1 r Tg a $ out the game with explosive speed. Lewis attended high school in Do- ver, N.J. She holds the state record for most individual track and field titles as well as several high school and county track records. "I thought track was going to be my main sport until the end of my sopho- more year," Lewis said. "Then I real- ized I had pretty good soccer skills and began to put equal time into both sports." Lewis says she will run track at Michigan. FRESH IMPACT: Limauro is tied for second on the team with 14 shots despite missing the first two games of the season due to injuries. The forward is one of only five Wolverines to score a goal so far, and has impressed Belkin. HOME DATES AT NEW FIELD: After starting the season with five consecu- tive road dates, Michigan will play eight of its last 13 games at home. The first-ever game at the Michi- gan Soccer Field drew 472 fans Sun- day. The Wolverines host Texas Fri- day at 4 p.m. 'M' men's water polo Wins two, lies two By Danielle Rumore Daily Sports Writer The Michigan men's waterpolo team traveled to Purdue this past weekend to play its first Big Ten matchups of the season. The Wolverines (2-0-2 Big Ten, 2-= 2 overall) faced off against Wisconsin and Northwestern Saturday and Purdue and Illinois Sunday. Michigan beat Wisconsin, 28-5 and Illinois, 17-16 and tied both Northwest- ern, 17-17, and Purdue, 13-13. Michigan junior Louis Lambert led all Wolverines with 16 goals. Senior John Miedler had 10 goals and senior co-captain Jason Cunningham bad nine. Miedler racked up eight assists to lead Michigan; Steve Gilbert had six and Cunningham collected five. Senior co-captain Pat Hanchin, Miedler and Gilbert had six steals apiece. "I really thought (Miedler) was the star for us this weekend," Michigan - coach Scott Russell said. "He swims the sprints (which begin each quarter), which is kind of like a face-off in hockey. He won 15 out of 16 (sprints), which means 15 out of the 16 quarters we played, we started with the ball." After tying the Wildcats and Boiler- makers, the Wolverines pulled out a tight match against the Illini. The winning goal was scored by se- nior Andrew Yaksic with 1:15 left in the fourth quarter. It was a 2-point goal, which involves a relatively new rule in water polo. The rule, which is in its third year, awards two points forgoals scored from seven meters out. "I'm very pleased that we came from behind in all the games that wereclose," Russell said. "We came back with in- tensity in the fourth quarter in all of th games." According to Russell,the ties agains Purdue and Northwestern did not en- tirely dishearten his team. "We're never satisfied with ties, bu a tie is better than a loss," Russell said. "Our defensive intensity is good, bu.1 we need to work on our offensive ex ecution." FIELD HOCKEY Continued from page 9 The Wolverines kept Temple goal. keeper Deb Brown on the alert all game pounding her with 31 shots, while hold. ing Temple to only six shots of its own The victory was a relatively routine day in net for goalie Rachael Geisthardt who knocked away four Owl shots er route to her second-consecutive shut. out. "We were 3-2 before we went (t Philadelphia)," Flachs said. "We sat that this shouldn't be happening. We just had to dig deep down and win. We had to let people know we're ready ti p lay." Michigan matched its longest win- ning streak since November 1993 whe the team also recorded three consecu tive shutouts. The Wolverines travel to Muncie Ind., Wednesday to take on Ball State - I know I could do the job." Belkin says she does not decide which goalie will start until close to game time. "They're both playing well. It's not clear-cut yet." ANOTHER SPEEDY LEWIS: A track star named Lewis took the field wear- ing No. 8 for Michigan yesterday. 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