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Thursday, September 28, 2017 — 5A

ACROSS
1 Historic spans
5 2012 World Series
MVP Sandoval
10 FiveThirtyEight
fodder
14 Ristorante bottle
15 “Let’s call it __”:
“We’re even”
16 Spring flower
17 Disney CEO
since 2005
18 Small, silvery
Chesapeake Bay
swimmer
20 See 34-Across
22 Experiment
23 See 34-Across
27 National
Lampoon writer,
typically
31 Old West
gunslinger Jack
32 Hand over
33 State with
conviction
34 Clue for 20-, 23-,
48- and 52-
Across
40 Spray holder
41 Casino game
42 __ acids: protein
components
44 Fireproofing
construction
mineral banned
in many countries
48 See 34-Across
50 Bit of land
52 See 34-Across
56 Boneless
seafood cut
59 Nonstick
cookware brand
60 Reverberate
61 Chips go-with
62 Online page
63 Profound
64 Owner of
Regency hotels
65 At any point

DOWN
1 Kick out
2 Hardships
3 Iron deficiency
concern
4 Upset with
5 Chess piece that
may be promoted

6 Condition treated
by Ritalin, briefly
7 Sailor’s jail
8 Most recent
9 Have financing
from
10 Jenny Craig
offering
11 LAX incoming
flight
12 Muscle spasm
13 Volcanic output
19 __ XIII: Title role
in “The Young
Pope”
21 Pulitzer winner
Walker
24 File menu
command
25 Aroma
26 Just announced
28 Two-legged
zebra
29 Swear words
30 Feudal workers
34 Hardly envelope-
pushing
35 “Do you really
think so?”
36 Haberdashery
37 Blot gently
38 Cork’s home:
Abbr.

39 Respectful
negative
40 Kilmer of
“Tombstone”
43 Ingredient in une
omelette
44 Having fun
45 Scary African fly
46 1380s Norwegian
king
47 Unruffled
49 Very silly

51 “House of
Payne” creator
__ Perry
53 Frequent
collaborator with
Louis and Duke
54 Take a nap
55 Doc’s “Right
away”
56 Nourished
57 Sprain treatment
58 “Thar __ blows!”

By Derek Bowman
©2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
09/28/17

09/28/17

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

RELEASE DATE– Thursday, September 28, 2017

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

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There’s a distinct noise in 

sports when a crowd gets the 
life taken out of it.

It usually starts with a gasp, 

before 
transitioning 
into 
a 

deafening silence. Whether it’s 
a local Little League crowd or 
a crowd of 110,000 at Michigan 
Stadium, 
the 
noise 
is 
the 

same, and it never means that 
something good has happened 
to the home side.

Austin 
Ricci, 
a 
senior 

forward 
from 
Oakland 

University, produced that noise 
on Wednesday night at U-M 
Soccer Stadium, where the 
Golden Grizzlies beat the No. 
20 Michigan men’s soccer team, 
2-1.

In the 49th minute, Ricci 

tied the game at one on a goal 
defined more by the Wolverines’ 
sloppiness than anything else. It 
came off a bouncing ball toward 
Michigan’s goal that didn’t 
seem especially threatening. 
Sophomore goalkeeper Andrew 
Verdi came out to get the ball, 
but Ricci’s head connected with 
it before he could. After a first 
half in which the Wolverines 
dominated, the equalizer felt 

more like a punch to the gut.

Michigan opened the scoring 

early, with a Mohammed Zakyi 
header 
just 
seven 
minutes 

into the game. The freshman 
forward whipped the ball in 
off a 35-yard free kick from a 
fellow 
freshman, 
midfielder 

Marc Ybarra. In the early part 
of the game, it 
felt like the first 
of many.

Freshman 

midfielder 
Jackson 
Ragen 

nearly 
scored 

off a free kick 
in 
similar 

fashion 
just 

seven 
minutes 

later, 
however, 

his 
header 

flew wide. The 
floodgates 
seemed ready to 
open.

In the 20th minute, Michigan 

generated another chance in 
what, at that point, seemed 
like an endless line of them. It 
was another Zakyi header, this 
one after a cross from junior 
midfielder Robbie Mertz. But 
Golden Grizzly keeper Sullivan 
Lauderdale saved it.

Even 
without 
juniors 

Marcello Borges and Francis 
Atuahene – the former injured, 
the latter suspended – the 
Wolverines looked set to cruise. 
That dream ended with Ricci, 
as the ball trickled into the 
back of the net just minutes 
into the second half. Senior 
defender 
Billy 
Stevens 
and 

Verdi both went 
down 
on 
the 

play, staying on 
the ground for a 
few minutes as 
trainers tended 
to them, adding 
to 
Michigan’s 

despondency. 
Though 
they 

stayed 
in 
the 

game, 
the 

Wolverines 
never 
regained 

momentum.

After 

Oakland’s first goal, the game 
stayed tied for just 15 minutes 
until the Golden Grizzlies hit 
paydirt again. Coming forward 
on a counterattack, forward 
Travis 
Harrington 
threaded 

a 
pass 
through 
Michigan’s 

defense. 
Midfielder 
Jacob 

Moore provided the finish.

“For two or three mistakes 

in the second half we looked 
really 
loosey-goosey,” 
said 

Michigan head coach Chaka 
Daley. “We addressed some 
things at halftime and they still 
continued to rear their head in 
the second half. Our clearances 
weren’t great, our cover wasn’t 
necessarily great. So I think 
those are two reasons we 
conceded.”

Michigan didn’t go down 

quietly, though. As time wound 
down, a Wolverine onslaught 
ensued. In the game’s last five 
minutes, Michigan had four 
shots. None found the back of 
the net.

The most threatening was 

the last – a Zakyi header that 
forced a diving save from 
Lauderdale with 19 seconds left 
in the game. When the clock 
struck zero, Michigan had lost 
its first game to Oakland in 
Daley’s tenure as head coach, 
and their third in four games.

“(The loss) does not deter 

me in any way, shape or form,” 
Daley said. “I’m disappointed 
for 
sure, 
but 
it 
doesn’t 

determine my confidence in our 
team, in our leaders, in what I 
think we’re capable of, in what’s 
remaining in the season and 
what I think can be attainable.”

Coming off a last-place finish in its 

previous tournament, the Michigan 
women’s golf team looked to avenge 
its performance at the Golfweek 
Conference Challenge in Vail, Colo. 
this week.

The Wolverines finished the three-

day, stroke play event in 10th place 
out of an 18-team field. And while 
that was certainly a substantial 
improvement, Michigan failed to 
seize an opportunity to place higher.

The Wolverines got off to a strong 

start, 
leading 
the 
field 
through 

Sunday. 
They 
couldn’t 
keep 
up, 

however, and steadily collapsed over 
the course of the tourney.

During the opening round on 

Sunday, junior Elodie Van Dievoet 
took charge of the field, finishing 
in first place at three-under 69. 
Van 
Dievoet’s 
performance 
was 

impressive from the start as she 
birdied five out of her first six holes, 
giving the Wolverines the spark they 
needed. Michigan finished the day 
with 19 birdies as a team.

“We go to every tournament to win 

it,” said Michigan coach Jan Dowling. 
“We put ourselves in contention to do 
that, so that’s a positive.”

Freshman Ashley Kim, in her 

second college tournament, shot an 
even-par 72, ending at 13th. Other 
Wolverines carded solid rounds as 
well, putting Michigan in a tie for 
second place with a 290 — just one 
stroke back from the leader, San 
Diego State.

The Wolverines couldn’t repeat 

that performance Monday, ending 
with a 303 and falling into a tie for 
fifth.

Senior Emily White led Michigan 

with a 74 on Monday, but it simply 
wasn’t enough for the Wolverines to 
hold their ground. Her teammates 

didn’t do anything spectacular, either. 
Van Dievoet shot a 76, failing to fend 
off the competition and losing her 
lead. She moved into a tie for eighth, 
while Michigan’s other golfers carded 
substandard rounds.

Despite coming back with a 295 in 

the final round on Wednesday, the 
Wolverines continued to plummet 
on the leaderboard. They finished 
in 10th with a grand total of 888, 16 
strokes behind the champion, Denver.

Van Dievoet was off to a shaky start 

and was six-over through her first 
eight holes of the final round. After 
settling down and finding her groove, 
she went on to birdie three straight 
holes.

But 
that 

wasn’t all — Van 
Dievoet eagled a 
long, 
505-yard 

par 5 a couple 
holes 
later, 

and 
she 
even 

managed to tack 
on 
one 
more 

birdie 
before 

the 
round 

ended. 
She 

finished 
tied 

for 11th with a 
217. It was quite 
the 
comeback 

considering the 
brutal start.

“We 
are 

obviously doing 
some 
things 

really well, and 
it shows what 
our 
potential 

is,” 
Dowling 

said. “But at the 
same time, we 
didn’t 
handle 

the 
lead 
very 

well the last few 
days.”

White tallied 

a 74 to finish in 

26th while Ashley Kim finished 51st. 
Seniors Kathy Lim and Megan Kim 
were in Michigan’s lineup as well, 
finishing 38th and 62nd, respectively.

While it wasn’t smooth sailing 

for the Wolverines, they still made 
progress. They showed glimpses of 
top-notch play throughout the week. 
The next step, it appears, will be 
finding consistency.

“Our ball striking is pretty good. … 

We are gonna mostly focus on short 
game,” Dowling said. “We’ve got two 
big weeks to get ready. We’ve got two 
really strong tournaments coming up 
in October, and I know the team is 
pretty pumped to get after it and get 
better before we tee it up again.”

A 
loud 
roar 
exploded 

from the stands of one side 
at the U-M Soccer Stadium, 
overpowering the other side’s 
sparse, sad groans. 

The Michigan men’s soccer 

team (2-1-1 Big Ten, 5-3-2 
overall) took on Oakland on 
Wednesday and left what little 
fans who attended as the latter 
of the two sides. 

The Oakland fans’ energy, 

in a way, paralleled the energy 
of their players in the Golden 
Grizzlies’ 2-1 win over the 
Wolverines, who missed a lot 
more than just their fans on a 
chilly Ann Arbor night.

One of the most noticeable 

things 
Michigan 
lacked 

tonight was expertise. Junior 
defender 
Marcello 
Borges 

was missing. So was junior 
forward Francis Atuaheneone 
— of the Wolverines’ better 
scorers — because of a red card 
he obtained in the last match 
against Northwestern.

“We’re the walking wounded 

right now,” said Michigan head 
coach Chaka Daley. “We don’t 
have a lot of available bodies, 
we had a suspension and three 

major players on the bench for 
our team. I still think we could 
have maybe gotten more out of 
the game, but unfortunately 
didn’t.”

For the first half though, 

expertise 
didn’t 
seem 
to 

matter. Freshman midfielder 
Marc Ybarra continued his 
strong play when he connected 
on a free kick from 35 feet out 
to fellow freshman forward 
Mohammed Zakyi in the box. 
Ybarra continued to hit his 
teammates accurately on set 
pieces throughout the first 
half.

In the end, the Wolverines’ 

inability to score late in the 
first half hurt their momentum, 
and so, perhaps, did all of 
the team’s absences. Golden 
Grizzlies’ forward Austin Ricci 
popped in a header in the 49th 
minute. Fifteen minutes later, 
the player who assisted him, 
Nebosja Popovic, skimmed the 
ball over the Michigan back 
line for another goal.

“We were excellent in the 

first half, carried the game in 
every single capacity, every 
single way,” Daley said. 

Despite 
making 
halftime 

adjustments, Daley lamented 
how 
some 
of 
the 
same 

Wolverines’ 
problems 
still 

came up in the second half.

“We addressed some things 

at halftime and they still 
continue to rear their head in 
the second half,” Daley said. 
“Our clearances weren’t great, 
our cover wasn’t necessarily 
great. I think those are two 
reasons we conceded in the 
second half.”

Team captain Ivo Cerda 

echoed his coach’s sentiment. 
While the midfielder didn’t 
play the whole game, he played 
a large role in anchoring 
Michigan’s defense in the first 
half.

He shared his teammates’ 

and coach’s frustration with 
the blown lead, which clearly 
showed when he earned a 
yellow card in an end-of-game 
skirmish after an Oakland foul. 
Just like his coach, Cerda noted 
the team’s lack of discipline but 
expressed optimism towards 
gaining it back.

“Yeah, discipline is a big 

thing for us, especially with 
the types of calls we that we 
got today,” Cerda said. “The 
good thing about it is that if 
we can improve on that a lot, 
we should stay more focused 
throughout the whole game.”

ETHAN SEARS

For the Daily

ROHAN KUMAR

For the Daily

RIAN RATNAVALE

For the Daily

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Many pieces missing in ‘M’ loss

CLAIRE MEINGAST/Daily

Sophomore goalkeeper Andrew Verdi conceded two goals in Michigan’s loss.

CLAIRE MEINGAST/Daily

Junior midfielder Robbie Mertz and the Wolverines suffered a major loss to unranked Oakland on Wednesday.

“It doesn’t 

determine my 
confidence in 
our team (or) in 

our leaders.”

FILE PHOTO/Daily

The Michigan women’s golf team couldn’t maintain its strong start.

