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remorse
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scaredy-cat
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of another
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near Santa 
Barbara
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player
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dogs
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carrier
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toothpaste
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Mix-a-Lot
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Folles”
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after “oh”
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minnow
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outbreak, briefly
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speak
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shots
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Grammy winner 
Mann
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service, and a 
hint to the start 
of the answers to 
starred clues
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centerpiece
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mail
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decision-making 
rhyme
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women’s soccer 
Olympic gold 
medalist
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the Cuckoo’s 
Nest” novelist
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gold
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e.g.
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Western 
Hemisphere 
country

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china
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Siimar shows maturity in 4-2 run 
at ITA All-American Tournament 

No longer in his first year, 
Mattias 
Siimar 
proved 
his 
growth and experience this 
past week at the ITA All-
American singles tournament 
in Tulsa, Okla.
Playing against the nation’s 
cream 
of 
the 
crop, 
the 
sophomore finished 4-2 on the 
week, playing six matches in as 
many days. 
“For (Siimar), the more tennis 
the 
better,” 
said 
Michigan 
coach Adam Steinberg. “He just 
loves playing, so he got to play 
a ton. So I’m sure he’s thrilled 
about the whole experience.”
The first two days of the 
tournament, Siimar was forced 
to play three matches to qualify 
for 
the 
main 
draw. 
After 
comfortably winning the first 
Monday, he looked as if he was 
struggling early in his second 
match, suffering a 6-0 loss in 
the first set before turning on 
the afterburners and winning 
the next two, 6-1, 7-5. 
“(Siimar), like I said, loves 

tennis,” Steinberg said. “He 
loves to compete. He’ll never 
give up. He believes in himself. 
So when he loses a set 6-0, he 
will not fade away for sure. He’s 
going to come back. He’s always 
been like that; he’ll always be 
like that. So I wasn’t surprised 
that he figured out and let that 
set go in his mind.”
Though 
exhausted, 
he 
followed that win with another 
on the same day to get out of the 
qualifying rounds, this time in 
straight sets.
“(Siimar’s) 
goal 
was 
to 
qualify and get into the main 
draw,” said Steinberg. “I don’t 
think he cared if he played 
at three in the morning, two 
matches. He wanted to make 
it so bad, so he was motivated. 
And he’s in good shape. He can 
play those matches.”
His toughest test came in 
the first round of the main 
draw on Thursday, when he 
played 
nationally-ranked 
No. 16 Aleksandre Bakshi of 
Oklahoma. Siimar dominated 
the first set, 6-1, before losing 
the next two sets, 6-3 each. 

“He won the first set easy and 
was up early in the second set 
then lost his focus a little bit,” 
Steinberg said. “When you do 
that against those top players, 
then all of a sudden you’re in a 
bad hole that you didn’t think 
you’d be in.”
“In the big picture of things, I 
think it’ll help (him) as he goes 
along because he’ll be prepared 
to play with the number one 
and two at the University of 
Oklahoma right there,” added 
Steinberg. “Even though he 
lost, it’ll help his confidence.”
Siimar finished the weekend 
in the back draw, winning 
his first match before losing 
Saturday in the consolation 
round of 16, marking a winning 
record for the underclassman 
who is bound to be one of the 
top players in the lineup when 
team competition rolls around 
in the winter.
“He 
lives 
and 
breathes 
(tennis),” Steinberg said. “He 
wants to get better and when 
you have guys like that, it’s 
always positive and they always 
improve.”

Pastujov finds footing early for Wolverines

Six minutes into the No. 
4 Michigan hockey team’s 
exhibition 
match 
against 
Waterloo, Nick Pastujov found 
daylight.
In the middle of a five-on-
three advantage, the junior 
forward positioned himself 
in the slot, corralled a pass 
from junior wing Jake Slaker 
and slapped in his second goal 
in as many games into the 
bottom right corner of the net.
“It’s huge because it gets 
the monkey off your back,” 
Pastujov said. “When you 
finish the year so strong and 
you work so hard during 
the summer and the spring, 
getting that first goal in the 
first real game feels amazing. 
It could have easily just not 
gone in, but it’s nice to get 
that confidence rolling in the 
game.”
For Pastujov, a fast start 
like this is a new and welcome 
sight. Points were few and 
far between for him as a 
freshman, tallying one goal 
and two assists. To start his 
sophomore season, Pastujov 
had to deal with nagging 
injuries, 
cutting 
into 
his 
playing time and development. 
But just as the Wolverines 
caught fire in the second 
half of last season, Pastujov 
found a spark. 
In the NCAA 
Tournament, 
he scored a goal 
in a 6-3 win 
over 
Boston 
University 
and 
notched 
an 
assist 
in 
Michigan’s 
semifinal 
loss 
to Notre Dame, 
cementing 
himself in the Wolverines’ 
depth 
chart 
as 
one 
of 
Michigan’s key wings.
With 15 points under his 
belt, Pastujov found much of 
his success that year in good, 
old-fashioned 
five-on-five 
hockey.
“I think it was definitely 

after Christmas when the 
team and I got into that same 
grove and started winning 
a bunch of games in a row,” 
Pastujov said. “I think we 
were also big because pretty 
much all of the points we got 
were on even-
strength goals. 
I think those 
are 
important 
in a game that 
might 
not 
have as many 
penalties.”
That 
experience 
has 
helped 
him transition 
to 
a 
more 
prominant presence on the 
ice this season as a member 
of the special teams unit. 
Against Waterloo, Pastujov 
scored early in the first period 
after two canceling penalities 
resulted 
in 
four-on-four 
hockey. A day earlier against 
Vermont, he notched a game-

tying, power play goal at 10:18 
in the first period.
Beyond producing on the 
ice, 
though, 
perhaps 
the 
biggest leap that Pastujov has 
made was mental rather than 
physical.
“I 
think 
he 
finally got some 
confidence,” 
said 
Michigan 
coach 
Mel 
Pearson. 
“And 
what 
comes 
first? 
Confidence and 
then you have 
a 
good 
game? 
Or do you have 
a 
good 
game 
and build some confidence 
off that? I think he had 
good games and he got some 
confidence and that just went 
right into his finish last year.”
That 
question 
is 
now 
a 
season-long 
one 
rather 
than a game-by-game one. 
Pastujov got his foot in the 

door and now has a chance to 
hold it open as a key part of 
Michigan’s roster.
Will 
the 
forward 
find 
confidence from his start and 
continue his level of play, or 
will he let his play dictate 
his 
level 
of 
confidence? 
Either way, he 
plans to use his 
determination 
as 
the 
main 
indicator 
of 
his season over 
anything else.
“I 
want 
to get faster 
and 
I 
want 
to 
get 
more 
competitive,” Pastujov said. “I 
want to really go into battles 
and win every single one-on-
one. I don’t want to lose any 
battles. I don’t want to lose 
any faceoff. I just want to 
bring in a new level of speed 
in my game that brings us to 
the next level.”

Wolverines top OSU

The stage was set for a Friday 
night showdown between the 
Michigan women’s soccer team 
(6-6 overall, 2-3 Big Ten) and Ohio 
State (6-4-1, 3-1-1). The Wolverines 
snapped their two-game losing 
streak with a 1-0 victory.
The 
Wolverines 
held 
the 
Buckeyes shotless for the first 15 
minutes, dominating them. An 
opportunity came for Michigan 
with 22 minutes left to play in the 
first half, senior forward Reilly 
Martin sent a bending cross into 
the box with freshman Raleigh 
Loughman’s head as the target. 
Loughman’s header hit off the far 
post and rolled horizontally across 
the goal line. The call on the field 
was a goal, but after video review 
the goal was overturned, and the 
game remained tied at zero.
“Just keep doing what we’re 
doing obviously, we’re creating 
a lot of good chances and so just 
stick with the game plan,” said 
Michigan coach Jennifer Klein. “I 
felt like we just needed to pick up 
our speed of play a little bit. We 
kind of dropped the pace of our 
pass but really just keep doing what 
we’re doing because it’s working 
and we’ll get one.”
After the called-off goal, the 
momentum swung in favor of Ohio 
State. A scoring chance came for 
the Buckeyes with three minutes 
left in the half, after a ball was 
played in behind the defense right 
to the feet of an Ohio State forward. 

Sophomore goalkeeper Hillary 
Beall came up with a diving kick 
save to keep the game tied at zero 
heading into half.
The Wolverines’ big break came 
just 13 minutes into the second half, 
when Martin sent another soaring 
cross into the box. Sophomore 
midfielder 
Nicki 
Hernandez 
headed the ball directly past the 
keeper.
“We worked on winning balls 
in and out of the air and once we 
regain the ball how does that spring 
into our attack, and really being 
much better about set pieces,” said 
Klein. “Prior to the game tonight, 
we’ve given up eight goals and five 
of them have been on set pieces. 
We spent a lot of time on how we 
need to be better about that.”
It was not smooth sailing for 
the Wolverines after this goal, 
though, because the Buckeyes had 
a handful of quality opportunities 
to even the score. The most 
dangerous of these chances came 
with 20 minutes left in the game, 
when an Ohio State forward got in 
behind the defense and Beall was 
forced to make another save with 
her knees. Beall earned her second 
shutout of the season, stopping all 
10 of the shots she faced.
“To really win big and be good 
you have to make sure that you 
don’t give goals up,” Klein said. 
“Really putting a big emphasis on 
being disciplined defensively and 
making sure that we don’t give 
away chance and I thought the 
defense and the goal keeper played 
great tonight.”

MOLLY SHEA
For the Daily

KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily
Sophomore midfielder Nicki Hernandez scored Michigan’s only goal on Friday.

FILE PHOTO/Daily
Sophomore Mattias Siimar played six matches in six days, earning a spot in the main draw after notching three wins.

AKUL VIJAYVARGIYA
Daily Sports Writer

RIAN RATNAVALE
Daily Sports Writer

KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily
Junior forward Nick Pastujov has scored a goal in Michigan’s opener against Vermont and in an exhibition with Waterloo.

“It’s huge 
because it gets 
the monkey off 
your back.”

“I think he 
finally got 
some 
confidence.”