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1 “Pay attention!”
(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
41 Jabbers
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
2 Bar staple
3 Type of pride
(Honda)
4 Be of __: help
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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