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(Ford)
6 Time for new
growth: Abbr.
9 Minute Maid Park
player (Chevy)
14 Select group
15 Eastern ideal
16 Absolute
17 Summer
Olympics
competitor
18 Symmetrically
placed Monopoly
sqs.
19 Bambino’s parent
20 Musical narrated
by Che
21 Squeeze (out)
22 Cosmetician
Adrien
23 Info-gathering
mission
24 Entanglement
25 Guffaw evokers
26 Way up the
mountain
29 Slowpokes
33 1945 battle
setting, familiarly
34 “Macbeth”
witches, e.g.
38 Car mishaps that
occur at this
puzzle’s four
circles
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42 Lip-reading
alternative: Abbr.
43 Subtlety
44 Writer who used
his actual middle
name as a pen
name
46 Venomous snake
(Dodge)
50 Place for a key:
Abbr.
51 Atlas, for one
(Nissan)
56 Pianist known for
his Beethoven
interpretations
57 Most preferred, in
texts
58 RollerCoaster
Tycoon World
publisher
59 Pope after John
X
60 Seine sight
61 Can’t be beaten
62 Not yet up
63 Yalie
64 Calf-roping loop
65 Monopoly stack
66 67-Acr. has one
67 Show contempt
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control
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5 Suppress
6 Scattered
7 Subject to
ticketing
8 NCAA’s
“Granddaddy of
them all”
9 Capital of Eritrea
10 Lewis with Lamb
Chop
11 Beat (Ford)
12 Convened again
13 Educational
hurdles
27 Prize for a picture
28 Beef cuts
29 Rooting place
30 Larry O’Brien
Trophy org.
31 “Fine with me!”
32 Connections
34 Familia member
35 Harry’s Hogwarts
cohort
36 Firm ending?
37 Verb ending
39 Hardens into
bone
40 Keeps up
44 Ancient Celtic
priests
45 Present to the
public
46 Well-founded
47 Adler of Sherlock
Holmes lore
48 Space explorer
(Ford)
49 Like many roofs
52 “Challenge
accepted!”
53 Western skiing
mecca (Chevy)
54 Got up
55 Gunpowder
ingredient
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Sports
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Thursday, February 18, 2016 — 5A
Sophomores seek next step
Wolverines return
three freshman All-
Americans to power
lineup in 2016
By COLE ZINGAS
Daily Sports Writer
If the past is any indication,
it won’t be long before we start
hearing the names of Michigan
baseball’s incoming freshman
class in the news.
Over the last three seasons
—
under
fourth-year
coach
Erik Bakich — the 15th-ranked
Wolverines have led the country
in freshman All-Americans.
Last year, Michigan’s first
Big Ten Tournament-winning
team
since
2008
featured
upperclassman
leaders
like
pitcher
Jacob
Cronenworth
and outfielder Jackson Glines,
both now with professional
organizations.
But
freshmen
were also an integral part of the
team’s success down the stretch.
Bakich didn’t hesitate to use
sophomore third baseman Jake
Bivens right away last season,
and Bivens exceeded everyone’s
expectations. En route to being
named Big Ten Freshman of the
Year, Bivens started 62 out of
the Wolverines’ 63 games in his
first year.
With the exception of Grant
Reuss, a lefty who redshirted
last year, every freshman played
a large role on the team in 2015.
Right-handed pitchers Ryan
Nutof and Bryan Pall joined
Bivens on the Louisville Slugger
Freshman All-American team,
and the other freshman pitchers
— right-handers Jayce Vancena
and left-handers Oliver Jaskie
and Michael Hendrickson — all
appeared in 19 or more games
and combined for a 4.57 ERA.
Infielder/catcher
Drew
Lugbauer also stepped up as a
freshman, seeing action in 42
games. His batting average was
just .211, but that was in part
due to many hard-hit outs and
balls that didn’t quite carry in
deep parks.
Bakich spoke positively of
how
Lugbauer
handled
the
adversity, and said despite what
the stat line showed, Lugbauer
put in many quality at-bats for
the Wolverines.
“There was a time when
he was trying to do too much,
and was overly aggressive at
some pitches he should’ve laid
off,” Bakich said. “But that was
because he wanted it so bad.”
The freshmen last year are
now sophomores looking to
make even bigger contributions.
Having contributed so heavily
to Michigan’s run into the
NCAA regional, the class is now
ready to move into bigger roles
to help this year’s squad achieve
even more.
“Being able to experience
that as a freshman adds some
fuel to the fire,” said Lugbauer.
“We got that under our belt, and
now there is so much more to
accomplish.”
Bakich says Lugbauer will
be a regular part of the middle
of the lineup this year and
will rotate positions between
catcher, first base and third
base. Bivens, meanwhile, will
move into the leadoff spot in
the batting order, and Reuss has
worked on his command and
will take on a sizable role in the
pitching staff.
Not only has the class of 2018
improved its game on the field
this offseason, but they have
also established chemistry off
the field that will help them
as they kick off the season in
Florida this weekend.
“We have a really close, close
class,” Bivens said. “I’m grateful
that (the other sophomores) are
my best friends.”
Added
Bakich:
“The
chemistry on this team is the
best I’ve seen. The talent that
we have in the locker room is
better than what we have on the
field. And we’ve got some pretty
talented guys on the field.”
A
tight-knit
Michigan
will hope to bring this year’s
freshman class into the mix
on a team with 19 returning
letterwinners, hoping they can
have the same kind of impact
first-year players have had in
previous years.
Freshman Ako Thomas will
be starting at second base Friday
against
Canisius.
Freshman
infielder
Jimmy
Kerr
and
freshman outfielder Jonathon
Engelmann are expected to
make early-season contributions
as well.
For this class, there are high
expectations, and they will be
hoping to replicate the success
of their predecessors.
JAMES COLLER/Daily
Drew Lugbauer played in 42 games last season and returns as a sophomore.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Wolverines fall to
Maryland on road
By BRAD WHIPPLE
Daily Sports Editor
During the second half against
Maryland on Wednesday night,
Madison
Ristovski
gave
the
Michigan
women’s
basketball
team a fighting chance.
With every rebound, steal and
basket the senior guard made, she
kept the Wolverines afloat against
the sixth-ranked Terrapins, who
were hungry to finally take the
lead. Largely due to Ristovski’s
second-quarter heroics, Michigan
came out of the first half leading a
top-10 opponent by one point.
But the Wolverines’ strong
first-half
defense
eventually
succumbed to the pressures of an
unstoppable Maryland offense.
As was the case Jan. 14 against
the Terrapins, Michigan allowed
a few scoring droughts to get the
best of it, and Maryland came out
unscathed with a 76-56 win in
College Park.
“I thought we did a great job,
obviously, in the first half of really
taking Maryland out of what they
normally do,” said Michigan coach
Kim Barnes Arico. “But the No. 6
team in the country really showed
why they were the No. 6 team
in the country tonight with the
balanced attack they had.”
Michigan’s
full-court
press
completely took Maryland for a
spin in the first quarter by forcing
11 turnovers and allowing the
Wolverines (7-8 Big Ten, 15-11
overall) to defensively assert their
dominance. In fact, the Terrapins
didn’t even score their first field
goal until four minutes into the
game — knocking down just two
free throws two minutes prior.
Unable to keep possession,
Maryland (13-2, 24-3) turned the
ball over at half-court twice in a
row, which allowed sophomore
forward Jillian Dunston to score
four of Michigan’s first six points
30 seconds apart.
“The
scary
part
against
Maryland with doing that is their
size,” Barnes Arico said. “But we
went with it anyway just to try to
change that tempo, and that really
was effective for us and helped us
be able to score.”
The Wolverines’ defense was
shining, and that helped spark
good things on the offensive
end. But in the second quarter,
Michigan went on a 3:41 scoring
drought and the Terrapins’ 10-0
run brought the game to within
only one point. Ristovski didn’t let
the lead slip, scoring two baskets
before the drought and two to end
it, and allowed her team to stay
up at the half despite four lead
changes in one minute.
Unfortunately
for
the
Wolverines,
Maryland
figured
out how to fight past Michigan’s
defensive
pressure,
which
prevented the Wolverines from
making the stops they needed to.
This then translated into a hurried
Michigan offense that went cold at
the wrong times.
The
Wolverines
went
on
three-and-a-half-minute scoring
droughts in the third and fourth
quarters, both ended by Ristovski
— who finished the game with 15
points and six rebounds.
Meanwhile, sophomore guard
Katelynn Flaherty led the team
with 17 points and scored seven of
Michigan’s last 10 points. But her
late-game push couldn’t chip away
enough of the deficit created by a
big and physical Maryland squad.
“We came out (in the first
half), and we were scrapping
and clawing,” Barnes Arico said.
“We had a ton of hustle plays,
and then we kind of got worn
down. That’s kind of attributed
to a bunch of things, but one is
definitely Maryland. They really
wore us down.”
One of those other things that
contributed to the Wolverines
running out of gas was their
eight-hour flight delay yesterday,
which put the team in bed at 3:30
a.m. According to Barnes Arico,
it made her “a little bit nervous”
coming into the game. But she
gave credit where credit was
due in saying Maryland was the
better team.
“We want to get to (Maryland’s)
level,” Barnes Arico said. “In the
first half, we proved that we could
hang around. Now our next step
has gotta be putting together a
complete game.”
SOFTBALL
‘Backside’ program
helps ‘M’ freshmen
By ORION SANG
Daily Sports Writer
Adjusting to college and life
away from home is difficult for all
students — even athletes.
Even
freshman
Mackenzie
Nemitz,
whose
sister
Nikki
was an All-American pitcher at
Michigan, felt intimidated.
But
the
No.
2
Michigan
softball team has something in
place to combat those feelings of
loneliness and homesickness. It’s
called the “backside” program,
and it has been around for years.
The
program
involves
an
upperclassman taking a freshman
teammate
under
her
wing.
Michigan coach Carol Hutchins
likens it to having an older or
younger sister.
“We
want
to
make
sure
(freshmen) have a big sister to
mentor them and to help them
through,” Hutchins said. “We
named it the ‘backside’ at one
point because it’s somebody who
always has your back, and makes
sure that you’re pushing yourself
when you need to.
“When you’re having a tough
time, they’re there to encourage
you. More than anything, its
largest intent was to make sure the
young kids have somebody that’s
looking over their shoulder.”
At the annual team picnic,
the older players are assigned
an
incoming
freshman
as
their mentee. From that point
on, it’s up to the older player
to introduce herself to the
freshman when they arrive on
campus and form a friendship.
Players will check in with
their “backsides” every so often,
hang out and generally bond
with each other.
It’s a surefire way to develop
team
chemistry
and
create
lasting relationships.
Nemitz’s backside is senior
outfielder and captain Olivia
Richvalsky.
“When I got here, having
a
backside
that
was
an
upperclassman made me feel
like someone (had) my back even
though I (had) no idea what was
going on,” Richvalsky said. “Now
I feel accountable for one of the
younger girls on our team and
that’s really cool.”
The two formed a connection
quickly, hanging out as soon as
Nemitz arrived in Ann Arbor, and
have maintained that friendship
throughout the year.
“She immediately became my
older sister,” Nemitz said. “She
took me to her house. We made
cookies, did sisterly things and
she made me really feel welcome
on the team, especially coming in
as a freshman. I felt like a part of
the team very quickly.
“She checks in on me almost
every day. Like a text, ‘Hey,
hope you had a good day, see
you
at
practice
later.’
She’s
really someone that I can go to
whenever I’m feeling down or
have a question about anything.
It’s continued.”
Establishing team chemistry
is important for a team that has
seven freshmen, including four
who played during Michigan’s
first tournament of the year, and
the Wolverines appear to have
done just that with the backside
program.
“Backsides are the people you
call when you need something
quick, you don’t know what to
do or want someone to hang out
with,” Richvalsky said before
laughing. “They have to. They’re
your backside.”
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