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enhancement
banned by MLB
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conclusion
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14 “Evil Woman” gp.
15 Govt. benefits
org.
16 Strutted
17 Annual get-
together
19 Stop
20 Ash, for example
21 Rise
22 __ Gay
23 Waikiki wreath
24 “Green Acres”
co-star
26 “__ We Meet
Again”: 1940
romance film
28 2006 skating
silver medalist
Cohen
33 Classic sci-fi play
34 Squeezed (out)
36 Gossips
37 “The Wealth of
Nations” author
Smith
39 Complaint
41 Puts on
42 Muscle cords
44 Snowman in
“Frozen”
46 1973 Court
decision alias
47 MLB Network
analyst Martinez
48 A/C measure
49 Take the blame
for
51 What “I” may
indicate
53 Fill the tank
55 With 61-Across,
radar trap
question ... and a
hint to what can
precede each
part of the
answers to 3-, 6-,
30- and 40-Down
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61 See 55-Across
62 Hunker down for
the duration of
63 Most extensive
64 In times past
65 Miner’s reward
66 Accumulates
67 Longing
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2 Joy
3 Cheaper market
option
4 Spanish
encyclopedist St.
__ of Seville
5 Nary __: no one
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8 Break down, in a
way
9 Exact
10 Roof extension
11 Site of the 2000
USS Cole attack
12 Email
13 Fla. summer
setting
18 Young hombre
24 Understand
25 War hero Murphy
27 Fool
29 Common link
30 Protected from
violent weather
31 Ho Chi Minh
Mausoleum city
32 Diamonds, say
35 Metric wts.
36 Vocal nod
38 Marseille sight
40 Keep at it
43 Troubles
45 Style
48 Lays siege to
50 Piano piece for
four hands
52 Concise
54 Old saw
55 Impact sound
56 “__ real nowhere
man”: Beatles
lyric
57 Young newts
59 Vatican City coin
60 Word often
followed by a
number or letter
61 FDR power project
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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Thursday, October 1, 2015 — 5A
‘M’ drops rivalry
game to Spartans
By TYLER COADY
For the Daily
Having sat on the periphery
of the national rankings all
season, Michigan State came into
Wednesday
night’s
matchup
against
Michigan with a point to prove.
After the Spartans’ victory
over Michigan (1-2 Big Ten, 11-3
overall), they left Jenison Field
House in East Lansing with little
doubt they should be nationally
ranked.
Led by outside hitters Alyssa
Garvelink and Brooke Kranda,
Michigan State (2-1, 10-4) proved
adept at controlling play around
the net and began to flex its
muscles in the second set. The
duo combined to record 18 kills in
the match.
“We knew (Michigan State) is
a good team, and there were no
surprises going into this game,”
said Michigan coach Mark Rosen.
“We knew what they were going
to do, but their execution was
better in the latter stages of each
set.”
Both teams came out strong
in the first set, as both eyed
their second Big Ten win of the
season. The Wolverines, playing
in a hostile atmosphere, silenced
the crowd early behind some
dominant play by sophomore
outside hitter Adeja Lambert,
who recorded 10 kills in the
match. With a 16-14 lead in the
set, the Wolverines looked poised
to hang on and take the set. But
two Michigan State aces and a
barrage of difficult serves allowed
the Spartans to build momentum
and then eventually take a 1-0
lead in the match.
As the second set progressed,
Michigan State continued to
pull away from Michigan, as the
Spartans forced the Wolverines
into
numerous
mistakes.
Michigan, despite some strong
play toward the end of the set,
couldn’t muster enough offensive
chances to threaten the Spartans.
“We did a good job early on,
and we were consistent in our
execution,”
Rosen
said.
“As
the sets went on, our passing
deteriorated, (Michigan State)
kept improving, and we realized
that we need to work better
together.”
In the third set, Michigan
came out strong, looking to stay
alive. Lambert notched another
kill while senior middle blocker
Krystalyn
Goode
racked
up
three of her own, helping the
Wolverines to a quick 12-7 lead.
But just as quickly as it took
back the first set, Michigan State
regained the form that saw it
dominate the second set. Over the
next several minutes, back-and-
forth play dominated the game.
With the scoreboard reading
21-21, Michigan State put its
foot on the throttle, closing out
Michigan and winning the next
four points to clinch the victory.
With a rematch scheduled for
Saturday in Ann Arbor, Rosen
knows his team needs to improve.
“We need to compete better,”
Rosen said. ”When we are leading
late in the game we need to be
more consistent in all aspects
of the game, offensively and
defensively.”
VOLLEYBALL
Murillo returns as leader
Senior captain
steps in seamlessly
on ‘M’ defense
By BETELHEM ASHAME
Daily Sports Writer
Good players are adept at
catching up quickly to make up
for lost time after injury or other
circumstances, but great players
possess the ability to take an
extended period of time off
without missing a beat.
Michigan senior captain and
defender Christina Murillo is
in a category all her own after
taking the entire 2014 season
off to train with the Mexican
National Team in preparation
for the 2015 FIFA Women’s
World Cup. It didn’t take her
long to return to her position as
an integral part of the Michigan
women’s soccer team.
“It was an instant, perfect fit,”
said Michigan coach Greg Ryan.
“It’s like when you put on a shoe
and it’s just right — that was
Christina Murillo on our back
line. From day one, she’s done a
great job of not only fitting in but
also leading the rest of the team.
If this was her first year, it would
have taken longer, but since she
knew all of the girls and played
with them, it was seamless and
effortless.”
Murillo credits the team’s
response to her return and the
experience she gained from
national team training as key
factors in her reintroduction to
the rhythm of Michigan.
“It’s been fairly easy because
of how the team has welcomed
me back with open arms,”
Murillo said. “In terms of
school, it’s actually a lot easier
to manage now because World
Cup training is an environment
where
everything
is
about
discipline and schedules. So
I’ve been using the skills I’ve
developed, where I incorporate
a set time for everything, which
allows me to be able to focus
more at practice and be a better
player at Michigan.”
As the leader of a defense that
has produced four shutouts this
season — including two in which
it allowed just 11 shots combined
against Nebraska and Iowa last
weekend — Murillo was named
Big Ten Defensive Player of the
Week.
“Every time I’m playing, I’m
doing whatever I can to help the
team win that game,” Murillo
said. “Our goal on defense is
always to allow the least amount
of shots, so I can really attribute
our success as a defensive line to
all four of us. It’s not just me, it’s
the discipline of other starting
players as well, so I’m just lucky
to be in that defensive line.
“I don’t know if I necessarily
deserve (it), because we wouldn’t
have gotten those shutouts if
it wasn’t for the other three
players on our
back line.”
Despite
her
modesty,
Ryan
fully
recognizes the
central
role
Murillo plays
on the team.
“She
definitely
makes it all
work at the
back,” Ryan said. “She knows
how to coordinate everyone,
so she’s definitely the leader
and organizer back there. She’s
essentially the coach on the
field, giving direction to the
attack.”
In addition
to
her
defensive
prowess,
Murillo is a
key cog and
frequent
contributor on
the
offensive
side
of
the
ball, recording
two assists in
the
opening
weekend of Big Ten play.
“In the modern game of soccer,
the way most teams are playing,
your centerbacks touch the ball
more than any other players,”
Ryan said. “So when you have a
centerback like Christina, who’s
not only very comfortable with
the ball in possession but who
can also make those penetrating
passes and create assists, you
want her to have the ball as often
as possible.”
Whenever a team loses an
important player, there’s always
a ripple effect on the mood
and character of the rest of the
team. The same is true when
an important player returns to
the fold. With the way Murillo
is
playing
right
now,
the
Wolverines couldn’t be happier
to have her back in maize and
blue for her senior season.
Shields brings experience
as new goaltenders coach
Former Wolverine
played for six NHL
teams, won 100-
plus games for ‘M’
By KEVIN SANTO
Daily Sports Writer
While the rest of the Michigan
hockey
team
was
running
through a power-play drill on
Tuesday, the goaltenders were
in their own corner of the rink
working on distribution.
Goaltending
coach
Steve
Shields
was
putting
them
through fundamental drills of
their own, using every minute
he has while the coaches adhere
to the two-hour weekly NCAA
limitation, which lasts until
Sunday.
Such a practice hasn’t been
common for goaltenders Steve
Racine (a senior) and Zach
Nagelvoort (a junior), given that
former goaltender coach Josh
Blackburn could only commit to
being on the ice with them two
days a week last season.
Now,
with
the
addition
of
Shields,
the
Wolverine
netminders will be coached
every day of the week, an
opportunity
that
Michigan
coach Red Berenson believes
could drastically impact Racine
and Nagelvoort’s performance.
Shields,
who
joined
the
coaching staff in May, is a
former
Michigan
goaltender
who made four straight NCAA
Tournament appearances from
1990 to 1994. He was a two-time
All-American and the first at his
position to reach 100 wins in
NCAA history.
After he hung up the maize
and blue sweater for the last
time, Shields went on to play for
six NHL teams.
And now that Shields’ playing
days are over, his new goaltending
apprentices are enthusiastic to
learn from both his collegiate
and NHL experience.
“(Blackburn
and
Shields)
know what they did, what
worked and what didn’t work,
so I can trust what they’re
saying,” Nagelvoort said. “Now
having (Shields), he was really
successful and had a great
career. I just feel that much
better having him on the ice. I
have that much more faith in
what he’s telling me, and I’m
that much more comfortable
with him.”
Added Racine: “Anytime you
can get a guy like that helping
you out, you value everything he
says. Going forward, it’s going
to be amazing just having him
there every day. No days off. No
days where we can kind of hide
between certain things. He’s
always going be there to critique
us and tell us what we’re doing
right and wrong. That’s just a
great thing to have.”
Nagelvoort
and
Racine’s
statistics were relatively similar
last season as they split time in
the net. Nagelvoort posted a 2.63
goals-against
average,
.906
save
percentage
and
finished
with
an
11-9
record,
while
Racine
recorded
a
2.94
goals-
against
average
with
a
.908
save
percentage and an 11-6 record.
But despite their respectable
statistics, both goaltenders went
through slumps and struggled
with inconsistency — an aspect
that Shields noted. He has set out
to bring the best attributes out of
Nagelvoort and Racine on a day-
to-day basis by simplifying the
goaltending process and forcing
them to take a mathematical,
rather than personal, approach
to their mistakes.
“What I’ve tried to do with
them is to strip everything down
and not personalize everything.
I want them to be able to go back
and look at video of themselves,
and take it on as sort of a math
problem,” Shields said. “They’re
just solving a problem. There’s
no emotion in it. There’s no
second thoughts about ‘how
I played this, we lost a game
because I did this.’ If we can take
the stuff that they’ve done and
look at it honestly, and say, ‘Well
I can do this better and I can’t do
that,’ then they’ll improve.”
Shields has said that his
biggest responsibility as the
new goaltending coach is to hold
his players accountable every
day they go on the ice or in the
weight room. But in order to do
that, he feels he first has to build
a unique relationship with each
goalie.
He’s inherited that philosophy
from his own experience in the
NHL, where he was first exposed
to a goalie coach who was critical
of him every day and was honest
about his performances — but
only after the two established a
relationship.
By creating that rapport,
Shields is trying to provide the
Wolverines’ netminders with a
unique experience he only got at
the professional level.
In
the
simplest sense,
each goalie has
a metaphorical
checklist, and
Shields
puts
it on his own
shoulders
to
make
sure
they
check
those
boxes
as the season
progresses.
Shields has taken the first
steps in that direction by having
conversations with Nagelvoort,
Racine
and
freshman
Chad
Catt in the spring. He had ideas
about where the goaltenders
could each improve simply from
watching Michigan the past
two years, and he constructed a
program specific to each goalie
that focuses on improving their
weaknesses.
And while the Wolverine
netminders
hope
to
have
breakout seasons under Shields’
instruction,
he
recognizes
the
progress
won’t
happen
overnight.
“They have to understand
that if they go out and they don’t
play the way that they expect
to play in practice, that they
have to come back tomorrow
and refocus,” Shields said. “My
goalie coach said to me when I
was that age: ‘Rome wasn’t built
in a day’.”
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“They’re just
solving a
problem. There’s
no emotion in it.”
SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily
Christina Murillo is back after a year off training with Mexico’s national team.
“It’s like when
you put on a
shoe and it’s
just right.”