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… Friday night, 3-15, 15-5, 15-10, 6-15, 15-10, the Wolverines (2-5) recovered and turned this weekend into their most successful series of the young season. The victories against Virginia (15- 9, 7-15, 15…

…-10, 15-2) and Pittsburgh (15-12, 13-15, 15-13, 15-1) Saturday gave the host Wolverines a 2-1 record in the Kaepa Volleyball Challenge. After a rocky opening week, it also gave the team its first winning…

… we had earlier on, we would have been great. Instead, we end up losing a tight five-gamer to a good Michigan State team." Despite the outcome, the young Wolverine squad seemed to gain con- fidence from…

… squad in four games. After playing a rather evenly matched first three games, the Wolverines exploded for a 15-2 victory in game four and notched their first win of the 1994 campaign. Leading the…

… Wolverine attack were middle blockers O'Donnell and jun- ior Shannon Brownlee. O'Donnell spiked her way to a match-high 15 kills and a .500 hitting percentage while Brownlee had 10 kills and a team-high 13…

… Wolverines now have a rosier outlook before they start con- ference play in two weeks. "Even though we did lose one, we still improved our play 200 percent," Brownlee said. "We've come so far in the last…

…-ranked Wolverines outdistance 10-team field By BARRY SOLLENBERGER Daily Sports Writer It was business as usual for the No. 5 Michigan women's cross country team Saturday at the Miami University Invitational. The two…

…-time defending confer- ence champions blasted the 10-team field at the meet in Oxford, Ohio. The Wolverines compiled a team score of 29, far outdistancing second-place Miami of Ohio (67) and third-place Eastern…

… overtime. The Wolverines lost the game but gained the respect and admiration of the college basketball world. Revenge against Duke. That instantly became a battle cry for a group of players that expected to…

… possibility that the teams will meet in the NCAA tournament. r Ironically, the closest King, Jackson, and former Wolverines Chris Webber, Juwan Howard and Jalen Rose would ever get to defeating the Devils was…

…nd on the all- time Michigan scoring list. He sur- passed Rickey Green, who scored 1,184 points as a Wolverine in the mid-1970s. Next on the list for King is former teammate Chris Webber at 1,218. King…

… winning six of the meetings, but the Wolverines were able to take two games at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The series resumed in 1989 with the Wolverines winning in a 113- 108 overtime thriller at Crisler…

…10 - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, December 12, 1994 Wolverines claw past Panthers, 81-67 'M' tops last season's win total with victory over Wisconsin-Milwaukee !" A By DAVID…

… than its opponents, the Wolverines nearly suffered an upset. The Panthers (0-5) hung in the game for 34 minutes before Michigan (4-4) dispatched them, 81-67. Wolverine coach Trish Roberts was happy to…

…-Milwau- kee surged to within two, 25-23. DiGiacinto responded with a slic- ing drive to the basket, and a 10-foot jumper from Amy Johnson put the Wolverines up by five. But then Michigan's problems began just…

… win. The triumph evened Michigan's record and gave it one more victory this season than the Wolverines had all of last year. Brzezinski is pleased with the team's progress this season. "We're really…

… helped the Wolverines to their fourth win of the season with eight points. BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK Four wins not enough for Roberts, Wolverines $2 PITCHERS OF KILLANS ARTIC ICE By RODERICK BEARD Daily…

… Basketball Writer With Saturday's 81-67 victory over Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Michi- gan improved its record to 4-4. This marks the first time since 1991-92 that the Wolverines have won four games in a season…

…. Michigan was 7-21 that year, the last year in the tenure of former coach Bud VanDeWege. Since then, the Wolverines have gone 2- 25 and 3-24, respectively, with only one conference win. Though Michigan has…

… 6-2 instead of 4-4." The Wolverines lost a close four- point game at South Carolina and surrendered a commanding 14-point lead to Weber State earlier in the season. Michigan has won three of its last…

… re- maining players had to play the last 4:17 of the game. The Panthers had two other players with four fouls, but Michigan could not foul either one out. If the Wolverines could have drawn another…

… down 10.8 per contest. Fresh- man Pollyanna Johns has paced the Wolverines the past three games, though. Johns snagged 12 against Eastern Michigan, nine versus Ne- ANY OTHER S$2FFPITCHER 9 - CLOSE…

… idle beat Rice, 67-50 idle idle lost to No. 9 Duke, 69-59 idle idle 0 0 OVERTIME Continued from page 1 off with a6-3 victory at 118 pounds, the next four Wolverines lost - two by major decision. The…

… the Wolverines. Ranked No. 8 na- tionallyGray ranks four spots ahead of Biggert in their weight class. Trailing 4-2 in the final period, Biggert executed a takedown in the last two seconds to tie the…

…. With under 15 seconds remaining in the third period, a scramble ensued between Biggert and Gary in front of the Wolverine bench. Biggert tried to bring his foe back into the ring, but failed. Gary…

…. He took advantage of Gary's obvi- ous fatigue and threw him to the mat for a two-point takedown with under one minute remaining. The points provided a needed win for both himself and the Wolverines at…

… haunt the Wolverines, as Airron Richardson lost in overtime, 2-1, giving Illinois the victory. Athle-te of t"he W. m WHO: Mike Knuble TEAM: Hockey HOMETOwN: Caledonia, Mich. YEAR: Senior ELIGIBILITY…

…. His efforts helped the Wolverines to victories over Western Michigan, 4-3, and the Buckeyes, 7-2. BACKGROUND: In his 11 games this season, Knuble has tallied 14 goals, leading the team. The senior right…

… a wing was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the 199? NHL Draft. SLeasing Now For Fall 1995! May-to-May Leases Too! Trivia Answer In 1990, the Wolverines won 20 games while finishing tied for…

… The Michigan Daily - Wednesday October 12, 1994 - 11 Wolverine stickers fall to Ball State, 2-1, in double overtime By MARC DILLER Daily Sports Writer Everything you could have expected from a…

…-1double-over- time loss to No. 8 Ball State (11-1-1). "100 minutes of hockey is a tough thing," Wolverine attacker Gia Biagi said. "(The loss is) just really disap- pointing." The Cardinals' freshman…

…. Lucido, who was trapped in the left corner, centered the ball to midfielder Melanie Herkins in the Wolverines' red zone. Herkins slapped a shot off of Geisthardt'spads and Brown was there to put home the…

… own opportunities to wrap things up dur- ing the two overtimes. Eight minutes into the first overtime. Wolverine de- fenderJen Lupinski took a harddriving shot from 25 yards back that slipped past the…

… slappedacentering pass toastreak- ing Biagi. Biagi failed to control the ball and the Wolverines had missed on their two best scoring opportunities of the day. "Aaleya really started to turn it on towards the end…

…INTOSH DAILY BASKETBALL WRITER It hasn't quite been four years since the Michigan women's basketball team last beat Michigan State. No, that anniversary won't arrive until Feb. 23. But the Wolverines will avoid…

…, was a senior in high school. In fact, the only member of the current program who was involved with that victory is assistant coach Kathy LaBarge Miles. And yet, the Wolverines (0-1, 3- 8) can't afford…

… Wolverines need it to rub off on freshman guards Amy Johnson and Jennifer Kiefer, both of whom are ftom Illinois. Roberts had said earlier in the season that quickness on the perimeter was a Wolverine asset…

…, but Michigan is last in the Big Ten in turnover ratio at -6.5. The pair will have to cut down on the Wolverines' frontcourt foul-ups if they want to be smiling on the ride home from East Lansing. "I don…

… - it's very, very poor," she said. "That and taking care of the ball are the two major things we need to take care of going into Michigan State." While the Wolverine guard play has been less than…

… offensive attack without Mike Knuble is about as effective as a rifle without a firing pin. With the preseason Hobey Baker candidate on the ice, however, the No. 4 Wolverines are tougher to beat than Ronald…

… Wolverines reached the league's penthouse. "For us to be sitting in first place right now after the start we had is a real positive," Michigan coach Red Berenson said. Here's one vote that says the Wol…

… freshmen stole the spotlight. Wolverine forwards Maurice Tay- lor and Willie Mitchell were the key elements in Michigan's astonishing 24-0 first-half run. Mitchell's 3- pointer with 8:20 remaining in the…

… opening stanza cut the Duke lead to 11 and provided the spark for the Wolverine explosion. Taylor led Michigan in scoring with 15 points but had only one re- bound. The Wolverines were never the same after…

… with 23. Down the stretch Krzyzewski al- lowed his freshmen to guard Michigan's top players, including Wolverine senior Jimmy King. Wojciechowski was a constant pest, forcing King into many difficult…

… basketball coach pN The Wolverines took an early 5-2 lead in the game but quickly fell be- hind. Duke reeled off nine straight to take a seven-point lead. A 10-0 run increased the Blue h Devils' lead to 28…

… Wolverines (6-2 Big Ten, 18-16 overall) look to continue to their streak as they head to Michigan State (2-6, 15-14) for a doubleheader today at Old College Field at 3 p.m. "We're starting to put things to…

…- lieve. Third baseman Tracy Carr went 5-for-15 against the Wildcats with six runs batted in. Carr increased her team leading average to .291, and also tops the Wolverines in RBI with 20. Besides Carr…

… off of reliever Tom Billek. In the opener, Penn State not only broke Wolverine starter Ron Hollis' (2-3) 17-inning Big Ten scoreless streak and 11-inning hitless streak, but handed him a loss as well…

… modest expectations. A middle-of-the-pack finish in the 18-team event was all the Wolverines were looking for, considering the field included Kent State, Miami (Ohio) and Illinois, the top three teams in…

… Michigan's last tournament. When all was said and done, that's how they did - more or less. The Wolverines placed 13th, but it was a hardly a distant 13th. Six teams fin- ished ahead of Michigan by seven…

… strokes or less. Kent State won the tournament by five strokes over Ohio State, 37 ahead of the Wolverines. Michigan played better than ex- pected Friday, landing in sixth place after the first round…

…. However, just as the weather in West Virginia turned cold, so did the Wolverines' play. Saturday, the team combined for a 312 stroke total - dead last for the second round. Coach Jim Carras un- derstands…

… competitors with a total of 236 (82- 77-77). The team wound up just two strokes shy of its goal of 320 after one round of play, but the second day, the Wolverines returned to their usual 333 score. "We played…

… Wolverines did score seven goals in front of roughly 1,000 fans from both schools, four of them came in the first period. This tally included a natural hat trick by Mike Knuble. "We expected to win and we knew…

… one or two goals." After a sloppy 20 minutes of play by Michigan, the third *eriod showed why going into this weekend, the Wolverines were a disappointing No. 3 in the conference. In Michigan's 10…

… faced only seven Wolverine shots in the third. Friday, Ohio State scored only one goal in the third, but the possibility of more had been looming. Having played the puck far more in the first 40 minutes…

…, Michigan dropped back in the third and the Buckeyes stepped it up a notch to invade Wolverine territory. "Michigan had backed off their intensity in the third period and that allowed us to get a few more…

…-ice pass to Gordon who actually netted the score. These three were part of a steady Wolverine lineup, but the defense was yet again an interesting mix of talent. "We don't know down the road who is going to…

… le g.,. ad ,it..Uta,. So how can you tell a Buckeye from a Wolverine? Easy - you just look at their faces! T - H -E OHIO UNIVERSUIY SMUG r SHOCKED EMB HALFTIME... ARASSED UTTERLY DESTROYED…