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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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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.