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…, March 5, 1985 Page 9 d.. - !! S A ! 7 7 7 ?-T - Y T fTl ' 1 - ' - i.-- - _ WOLVERINES GAIN YEARSFIRST NCAA BID Cagers clinci By TIM MAKINEN Bobby Knight tried over spring break o rearrange the…

…-up, heavily promoted national yawner. But the most important basketball news came quietly out "of Ann Arbor. Last Thursday night, Bill Frieder's Michigan Wolverines captured the Big Ten Championship, bringing…

…The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 5, 1985 - Page 5C Icers reach post-season; future looks positive N 1; Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Senior Chris Seychel and the Wolverine scoring-attack will…

… unusual goal, but one that has become an obsession with Michigan hockey's second-year head coach. Berenson finished his freshman season at the ehlm for the Wolverines with an 11-20-1 Central Collegiate…

… Hockey Association record, 13-26-1 overall. By normal standards, 11-20-1 would be scraping league ineptitude,, but last year's Wolverines were good enough to just miss upending second-place Lake Superior…

… Wolverines? It just doesn't matter, at least according to Berenson. "The important thing is that our younger players continue to improve," Berenson said with an eye to the future. "The chemistry will hopefully…

… Wolverines' major problems surfaced. Rough, cold road trips produced little for the "W" column, and many of the players attributed the club's road problems to a mental inability to prepare for contests away…

… from Yost Arena. "WE JUST didn't come ready to play," said downtrod- den defenseman Jeff Norton after the Wolverines dropped the away game of a home-and-home series to Bowling Green early in the season…

…. Michigan did come ready to play when it really mat- tered, or at least when it faced elimination from playoff contention. In a late-season series at Ohio State, the Wolverines swept the Buckeyes in miniscule…

… years, Michigan gained valuable ground. BUT THERE'LL be many more times up and down the ice before the Wolverines become a perennial power. Berenson, however, knows where to start. "My feeling and…

… Calgary product and a tier-two Junior A player, transfer student Billy Powers, a right winger, Mike Cusack from Anchorage, Alaska and Jeff Urban, a Minnesota native and the Wolverines are well on their way…

… WOLVERINES HIT BIG TEN CELLAR: Inexperience hurts women cagers By ADAM MARTIN With a hard-working group of star- ters, the wrestling team finished a surprising fifth in the country last winter, posting a…

… defies old-fashioned baseball tradition. He would discover that the Wolverines have gone (gasp) aerobic. "ONE, TWO, three, now four," ordered a young, slender woman in a black and purple leotard Thursday…

…. "Press down, pull up, feel the beat." The Wolverines pressed, pulled and snapped their fingers to the tune of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love". "What foot are you going with?" asked one Wolverine to another. "I…

… to it." That means the traditional Wolverine workout continues - at a steady pace.Six days per week, three hours per day, the Wolverines field grounders, play pepper and take their licks in the indoor…

… off, the Wolverines bring their workouts into the fieldhouse. There they practice until mid-March, when they drag their bats and gloves down to Edinburg, Texas for an official spring training. It adds…

… strange. about a large group of male athletes being aerobicized to death by a slender, young female. "Ready, and a hop," said Wenson. And the Wolverines shuffled three steps to the right. They moved forward…

… Page 10 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 5, 1985 Pueksters ph By ADAM MARTIN Wolverine team that jumped to a 1-0 Nobody assumed the 1984-85 cam- lead in the first game on a Brad Mc- paign…

… would be the year for the Caughey goal from the left circle and Wolverines. But after drowning in ninth held the Lakers in check until midway place last season, a seventh-place finish through the third…

… us." Wolverines in a two-game total-goal THE FOLLOWING evening with the series over the weekend and outlasted game was just one period old, the Michigan 10-7, nipping the Maize 'n' Wolverines grave…

… the first inter- fort," Berenson 'said after the series, mission, before which Lake Superior "We obviously didn't plaiy as well as I had laced the Wolverines with a three- would have liked, but I was…

… second Michigan goal at 14:201 out in pJ hey for left slot. ~ht wing "BRAD CAME UP really big in the he first series," said the Wolverine mentor. 42 of the "Not only his goals, but his presence on number…

… the ice. He wanted the puck, and he e period. showed a lot of authority." ored the Despite a three-goal second period, fromthethe Wolverines found themsleves in a From thetwo-goal hole at the start of…

… in the indoor Big Ten Championships last Friday and Saturday in Madison. The men's team finished fourth in the conference. Junior Todd Steverson recorded the Wolverines' only first place finish with a…

… grabbed second with 99, Wisconsin was third with 97 and the Wolverines earned 58 points. THE WOMEN'S team took sixth place in its meet in Columbus, Ohio. The team's 33 points placed them just one…

… sational championship could be in store for the Wolverines in coming years. "I FEEL, AND I think they all feel, that we still have iot played our best tennis," Eisner commented. "Our aotential, I think, is…

… was the Wolverines' only All-Big Ten selection last season notching a 16-14 overall record. The second through fourth spots are positions Eisner likes to juggle depending on the matchups. So most likely…

… status, survived three NCAA cuts and set a new school record of 2:01.16 in the 200. Other Wolverine All-Americans in- cluded the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Joe Parker (sophomore), Dave Kerska…

… WANT TO BE YOUR RUNNING STORE. For the Wolverine swimmers, next year can only get better. All team members will be returning, except Ferguson, and great things are expec- ted from next year's recruits…

… levity. His Wolverines had just beaten Tennessee decisively after nipping the nation's number-one team Saturday. And with a less than awe-inspiring non-conference schedule ahead of him, Frieder was…

… enjoying himself. In the coming weeks, Michigan faces such powerhouses as Northern Michigan, Illinois-Chicago, and Cleveland State. No reason to be uptight. The Wolverines were just as relaxed. They know…

…," Rice said. "I knew I had Michigan right where I wanted them." "We weren't moving well enough to put good pressure on them," Frieder said of Youngstown's success at penetrating the Wolverine defense. "We…

…. Frieder 2, Daily 0. By SCOTT SHAFFER The Wolverine wrestling team en- ters today's Las Vegas Invitational gambling its number six national ranking on its performance in the two- day, varsity-only event…

… sixth-ranked Wolverines will not substitute another wrestler at 134 pounds. Bahr con- sidered dropping freshman Kyle Gar- cia down from 142, but said Garcia couldn't make the weight in time. THE OPENING…

… at 134 will make it tough for the Wolverines to repeat last year's fifth-place showing in Vegas. Top ranked Iowa will not compete, but the four other teams ranked ahead of Pg se Michigan will. Those…

… face here are the ones who we'll face again at the NCAA championship," he said. "It's important that we get a feel for these guys so we'll know what to ex- pect later on." SEVERAL OTHER Wolverines have…

… can hope for is the top ten," Warhurst said. No hope was needed as the Wolverines glided in with a strong eighth-place finish. Warhurst, like any coach, will be quick to note that last season is nothing…

…-American . . Stickers' future is promising with newomers By JOE DEVYAK "It's getting better all the time. Can't get much worse." Maybe Paul McCartney and John Lennon were singing about the Wolverine field hockey team…

…, should help the Wolverines in the scoring departmen- t. Robin Ives, an outside forward, led her team in scoring her senior year. After last season's poor offensive showing, it is no wonder that Collins…

… brought back to the University in 1971, the men's cross-country team has consistently been one of the nation's best. This year should be no different for the Wolverine harriers as they challenge for the Big…

…-AMERICAN HONORS: Women harriers tough By STEVE HERZ Sue Schroeder is no Jesse Owens. But blame that on her chromosomes and not on her running ability. LAST YEAR Schroeder led the Wolverines to a third-place Big…

… bleeding, but Tegen said, "She's healing fine." EXCEPT FOR the departed Judy Yuhn, the Wolverines have their en- tire squad returning. Cathy Schmidt, in her last year, has focused her summer on cross…

… from Michigan's district. This year, three teams will come from the district. And with the Wolverines hosting the Big Tens this fall, Michigan should find itself making a journey to the NCAAs in a few…

… conference," he said. Tegel is concerned about the Wolverines and Sue Schroeder in par- ticular. "I feel that she has improved tremendously," he said. "I don't think Sue Schroeder is going to roll over and…

… play dead. She may well be the Big Ten champion." Nobody is handing a Big Ten cham- pionship to the Wolverines, least of all Tegel, but with Sue Schroeder ador- ned in Maize and Blue, Michigan could very…

…The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 5, 1985 - Page 7C Wolverines miss series despite powerful offense "' h . ;f:;. .. .4 v : G. :T1. ' . " '' Daiy Photo by DAN HABIB Second baseman C…

….J. Beshke was nailed at the plate in Michigan's Big Ten playoff loss to Ohio State at Ray Fisher Stadium last spring. The Wolverines will lose Beshke but return a solid nucleus for the 1986 campaign. MORROW…

…, PANETTA KEY SECOND-PLACE FINISH:, Softballers couldn't kill twin bill By DAVE ARETHA The 1985 Wolverine baseball team failed to reach the College World Series for only the second time in coach Bud Mid…

… records than the Beatles. Yet those guys were a bunch of ping hitters compared to the 1985 squad. THE '83 Wolverines set school marks with a .332 batting average, 7.1 runs per game and 51 homers. Pretty…

… the country. And the pit- ching staff, with its 4.51 ERA, gave up less than half as many runs as the of- fense scored. It all added up to 55 wins, five more than ever before. The Wolverines lossed about…

…, Michigan's inexperienced pitching staff fell short in the playoffs. The Wolverines finished a surprising third in the Big Ten playoffs and second in the tough South I Regional at Mississippi State. The…

…- cats. The Wolverines had won three- of-four .games from Northwestern early in the season, and first-year terrible, but good, and we just never got there. We were definitely an up and down team, and…

…." TWO WOLVERINES who found the going a little tough last year were freshmen Michele Bolster and Bridget Venturi. Both newcomers were expected to contribute, but Bolster, a pitcher, and Venturi, a third…

… inability to sweep doubleheaders proved to be the Wolverines downfall. Of the 12 league twinbills, Michigan could manage no better than a split in six of them. Hutchins said the team just never seemed to find…

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… College. In her first season as a Wolverine, she's run quite well on the cross country team and reached All-America status through her school-record time of 2:44.15 in the 1000 meter run at the NCAA indoor…

… proclamation to make with the likes of Bo Schembechler, Bud Middaugh and Bill Frieder on hand. But then again, none of these coaches can claim to have won 14 straight Big Ten titles. Eisner took his Wolverine…

… an end. The '84 Wolverines had to settle for a humbling 5th- place finish. This year, Eisner has the task of rebuilding the Michigan tennis program back into a Big Ten champion. It probably won…

… season. The fifth, Tomas Anderson, gets his shot today when the Wolverines meet a tough Northwestern team at Northwestern. But the youth doesn't end there. Ed Filer and John Royer, both sophomores, should…

…'re nervous as a result, which was what our problem was in our first Big Ten weekend." Along with nervousness, the Wolverines have had to deal with a lot of ad- versity. Morris' tendonitis-plagued knees have…

… most of the team. The Wolverines were also without Morris in the singles lineup. It's quite evident that Eisner has tried to take the pressure off of his team. He doesn't want them to even think aboutthe…

…-filled Northwestern team would show that the Wolverines are for real. Eisner said, "Everybody is excited to play. Our practices this week have been sensational and I just think that it really now is evident to everyone…

… the Wolverine squad that brings in last year's Michigan Mr. Basketball and five other highly regarded recruits? " Affirmative on all counts, but head coach Bill Frieder thinks all that could create…

…," added the ever-cautious coach. But for those less disposed to pessimism, the 1985-86 Wolverines provide plenty of fuel for the fires of expectation. The list has to begin with center Roy Tarpley. The 6…

… guards, also struggled in the NCAAs. Sophomore Gary Grant, the Wolverines' second best shooter in the regular season with a 56.3 field goal percentage, went oh-for-everything in the tourney. By November…

… Henderson (15) and the rest of the Wolverines could not slip past Wakefield, Mass. Mark Plansky and eventual national-champion Villanova in the second round of the NCAAs. from a junior or senior." Frieder…

… Robert Henderson. The 6-9 former Mr. Basketball seemed to get more aggressive and more confident with each game last season. Henderson's rebounding and defen- se may have been the best of any Wolverine in…

… because they have experienced a suc- cessful season and also stumbled through a couple of NCAA tournament games. Their experience should provide the Wolverines with a wealth of senior leadership, something…

… weekend," said men's gymnastics coach Bob Darden of his team's per- formance last weekend at the Illinois Gymnastics Competition. That inconsistency threw the Wolverine tumblers into a last place finish in…

… the low score to Ehle's competing at the top of the lineup in every event. Said Darden, "He had to 'break the ice' for the other Michigan men on the apparatus". Other Wolverine highlights in- cluded…

… the aggressive play of Wolverine Gregg Davis, Notre Dame went on to win 15-8. Michigan fell behind early in the second game, but fought back to an 8-8 tie. Finding their rhythm, the Wolverines totally…

… shut down the Irish for the rest of the game, gaining a 15-8 victory and a 1-1 tie in the match. With the match tied 2-2, the Wolverines raced to an 11-1 lead in game five, but Notre Dame took ad…

… wolverines dust Youngstown St., 56-42 Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Two shoppers carry away packages in Nickels Arcade yesterday. Mer- chants say customers are buying more trendy and costly gifts.' Swatches…

…-out Wolverines needed three quarters of the game to score that much and ended up winning by just 14, 56-42. "We expected to (win by 40 points), but if you expect that to happen it won't happen, and it didn…

… were nullified by Youngstown State's offen- sive set. "They were pulling the big guys away from the hoop," said Wolverine forward Butch Wade. "Then they'd slide the little guys inside. They weren…

…. That's just an indication we weren't doing the job." The Wolverines were also over- playing on defense. Numerous dives at Penguin passes helped Michigan to nine steals, but it left Tarpley, Wade, and…

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… only 32-24 at half time. Then a 12-4 run in the first 11 minutes after the intermission gave the Wolverines their biggest lead of the game at 44-28. TARPLEY, Grant and freshman forward Glen Rice each…

…', Page 2 ifety chief The right stuff Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Wolverine center Roy Tarpley jams one home against Wisconsin last Thur- sday. His play that night and his 21-point performance against…

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