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Sports
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Thursday, February 25, 2016 — 5A

Thome’s confidence building

Freshman center 

now shooting 

65 percent from 
free-throw line

By CHRIS CROWDER

Daily Sports Writer

With 10 seconds left and her 

team up by three points, Hallie 
Thome stepped up to the free-
throw line. She had been in 
a similar situation before. In 
December, she missed both of her 
free throws as the Wolverines 
lost to Eastern Michigan in 
heartbreaking fashion.

But 
in 
last 
Saturday’s 

matchup against Penn State, the 
freshman center sank both of 
her foul shots with ease. Instead 
of her shots rimming out, her 

scores from the charity stripe 
were proverbial daggers into 
any hope the Nittany Lions had 
for a comeback.

The 
stark 

contrast 
between 
the 

two 
games, 

nearly 
two 

months apart, 
display 
how 

Thome has not 
just improved 
her free throw 
shooting, but 
her confidence 
as 
well. 

Thome said the most improved 
facet of her game has been her 
performance from the foul line. 
After a rough start to the season, 
Thome has worked up to 65 
percent from the charity stripe. 
It isn’t a stellar number, but it’s a 
sign of her growth.

The 
confidence 
she 
has 

gained since the beginning of 
the season has shown in her 
results. Against Penn State, she 

shot 
4-for-6 

from the line, 
but the last 
two 
proved 

to 
be 
most 

important, 
as she looked 
anything 
but 

tentative after 
being fouled.

“I’m 
not 

worrying 
when I go up 

to the line (anymore), just being 
calm and collected,” Thome 
said.

After missed free throws 

doomed 
the 
Wolverines 
in 

three-straight late-game losses 
to Eastern Michigan, Purdue 
and Indiana, Michigan coach 

Kim Barnes Arico worked with 
the team on free throws to 
replace the feeling of pressure 
with confidence. Both the team 
as a whole and individuals on 
their own practiced shooting 
from the line. Because of the 
improvement, the Wolverines 
haven’t let games slip away 
late when they had a chance 
to secure the win since the 
overtime loss to Indiana.

“Coming into the Big Ten 

with games on the line, you have 
to make two free throws to win 
it,” Barnes Arico said. “That’s 
tough. That’s tough for anybody, 
especially a freshman.”

Barnes Arico has been telling 

Thome to take her time and 
not think about shooting it so 
much. The advice has spread 
out to the rest of the team, 
as Michigan has been able 
to beat Iowa, Minnesota and 
Penn State (twice) because of a 
relaxed approach to the nerve-
wracking nature of a wide-open 
shot with the game on the line 
and all eyes on you. Tuesday 
against 
Northwestern, 
the 

Wolverines went 7-for-8 from 
the free-throw line to complete 
a hard-fought 70-65 victory, 
and Thome went 6-for-7 in the 
winning effort.

The experience Thome has 

had in her freshman season is 
invaluable. As Barnes Arico can 
attest, her improvement has 
just begun.

“(Thome) has a great touch, 

and part of it is being able 
to be in those situations and 
handle the pressure,” Barnes 
Arico said. “She’s definitely 
gotten better at handling that. 
It’s great for her to be in those 
positions as much as possible 
and to have the confidence that 
she can make them.”

DAVID SONG/Daily

Center Hallie Thome is becoming more confident, particularly at the free-throw line, as her freshman season progresses.

“You have to 
make two free 
throws to win it. 

That’s tough.”

BASEBALL
Jaskie emerges 
for Wolverines

By ETHAN WOLFE

Daily Sports Writer

While expectations were high 

for junior left-handed pitcher 
Brett Adcock and sophomore 
right-hander Ryan Nutof against 
Canisius, it was sophomore left-
hander Oliver Jaskie who shined 
for the Michigan baseball team.

As a freshman in 2015, Jaskie 

had only one start to his name 
in 22 appearances, posting a 2-0 
record and a 5.58 earned-run 
average.

While Jaskie began the season 

as 
Michigan’s 

fourth starter, 
he looked like 
the Wolverines’ 
ace on Sunday 
against 
the 
Golden 

Griffins. 
Jaskie 
tossed 

six 
innings, 

allowing 
just 

three hits and 
recording nine 
strikeouts on his way to picking 
up the win. His performance 
earned him Big Ten Pitcher of the 
Week honors.

Jaskie doesn’t care too much 

about the accolades, though.

“Honestly, I’m more excited 

about the team’s success this 
week,” Jaskie said. “Every pitcher 
that got in there did really well. It 
was awesome to see.”

At Michigan’s team banquet 

on Feb. 12, Michigan coach Erik 
Bakich commended Jaskie for 
how he trained over the summer 
and how much he has improved 
since last season. Bakich joked 
that his command was so good 
that he couldn’t throw a ball 
straight if he tried.

Jaskie credits pitching coach 

Sean Kenny for his development 

since last year.

“Coach 
Kenny 
has 
been 

awesome,” Jaskie said. “He’s 
the best pitching coach in the 
country. He does everything he 
could possibly do for us, and we 
love him for that.”

Bakich expects Jaskie to be 

a starter for the entirety of the 
2016 season and is excited about 
his potential after his outing 
against Canisius.

“I think what you saw on 

Sunday is a byproduct of a kid with 
a tremendous work ethic and an 
extremely high character,” Bakich 

said. 
“The 

success that he 
has on the field 
is the byproduct 
of 
many 

things, but the 
investment 
he makes into 
pitching 
and 

into his craft 
is what you’re 
seeing.”

The 
craft 

Bakich is referring to is Jaskie’s 
repertoire of pitches. Coming 
out of high school with a fastball, 
breaking ball and changeup, 
Jaskie has also been developing 
his slider since last season.

If Sunday was any indication 

of how Jaskie will pitch for the 
rest of the season, he will soon 
become a household name.

But Jaskie isn’t worrying about 

the rest of the season right now.

“It feels great having some 

momentum at the start of the 
season,” Jaskie said. “Hopefully 
we can carry that into our 
training 
sessions 
this 
week 

and then carry those training 
sessions over to our games in 
our upcoming Spring Break. But 
right now we’re just focusing on 
today and we go from there.”

“It feels great 

having momentum 
at the start of the 

season.”

SOFTBALL
Romero’s big hit 
shows her focus

By ORION SANG 

Daily Sports Writer

It was the top of the seventh 

inning, and the No. 2 Michigan 
softball team was clinging to a 3-2 
lead against No. 13 Florida State.

Senior 
All-American 
second 

baseman Sierra Romero stepped up 
to the plate with senior outfielder 
Sierra Lawrence at first base.

Up until that point, Romero 

had been 0-for-3 with three 
strikeouts in an uncharacteristic 
performance at the plate for the 
star infielder.

But with one swing, she righted 

the ship.

Romero 

crushed a home 
run 
to 
right 

field, and the 
Wolverines 
could 
breathe 

easier.

When asked 

about 
what 

she was trying 
to do heading 
into that fateful 
at-bat, Romero 
was blunt.

“Swing the bat,” Romero said.
For Romero, hitting has always 

been a strength of her game, and 
she didn’t let her minor cold spell 
interfere with her mentality.

“I just had to not get down on 

myself,” Romero said. “I knew it 
was coming. (It was) just a matter 
of time.”

That 
simple 
approach 
is 

symbolic of the team’s uniform 
batting approach.

While individual players may 

have slight variations in their 
approach, every player is taught 
to follow one mantra religiously — 
“one-pitch focus.”

“The one-pitch mentality is 

just focusing on one pitch at a 
time,” Romero said. “(You aren’t) 
worrying about what you think 
they’re going to throw to you 
or what they threw to you in 
the past, and (you’re) just going 
up there with a clear mind and 
trying to hit.”

It’s a focus that Michigan 

has stuck to for years, and that 
focus has led the Wolverines to 
develop a potent offense that 
averages 1.44 home runs per 
game, reaches base at a .450 clip 
and has a .349 batting average.

But the scariest thing for 

opponents is that Michigan coach 
Carol Hutchins doesn’t believe 
her team is hitting to its full 
potential yet.

“I think we’re still learning 

that (one-pitch focus) as a team,” 
Hutchins said. “My upperclassmen 
understand it better, but (the 
team) hasn’t been able to execute 
it as they’re capable of.

“Kids 
have 

to learn how to 
do it because 
their minds are 
much 
faster 

and they’ll play 
out 
a 
whole 

inning and all 
the scenarios, 
(and) therefore 
they’re 
not 

focused on the 
ball. 
We’ve 

just got to focus on the pitch now 
because it’s the only one that 
matters.”

Freshman 
infielder 
Faith 

Canfield said that in addition to 
trying to adhere to the “one-pitch 
focus,” she and her teammates 
have put in the requisite work on 
the field.

“Whoever wants to can come in 

and hit in our hitting cage before 
practice,” Canfield said. “In the 
past during fall, we’ve come in on 
the weekends — which we have off 
— and hit and do some tee work.”

The Wolverines can continue 

to improve on their batting 
by making sure they follow 
Hutchins’ teachings — that the 
“one-pitch focus” is tantamount 
to their success.

“It’s the mentality that will get 

them what they want,” Hutchins 
said. “Regardless of whether we’re 
ahead or behind, we have to get in 
our moment and play now. I think 
it helps us play better softball.”

“I just had to 

not get down on 
myself. I knew it 

was coming.”

