…(Ttle ortjcbtgun I)tftlt I S JOHN KF The Michigan hockey team defeated Alaska-Fairbanks, this weekend. The Wolverines sit atop the CCHA stand icers bak Alcaka., 5-1 By Chris Farah Daily Sports…
…'s Folly." After Saturday's game against the Wolverines CCHA, 20-4-1 overall), the Alaska-Fairbanks hocke was probably cursing the sale for another reason. . The combination of a grueling flight from Alaska…
…6B - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSTuesday - January 20, 1998 Women's swimmers wound rival Eagles Wolverines see 64-point victory over Eastern Michigan as an indicator for the future By T.J. Berka…
… moment. Although the Michigan women's swimming team maintains that its dual meets are just a warmup to the Big Ten and NCAA meets, it would have a hard time convincing Eastern Michigan. The Wolverines…
… pace with Bendel, taking the top position in both the 50 and 100 free. She swam the anchor of the winning 800-free relay team as well. Another Wolverine to chalk up a vic- tory was O'Neill, whose winning…
… Riker in the 500 A Freshman Amanda Crews also earned victory in the one-meter diving compet tion. The Wolverines have a couple c weeks off after this meet. Michiga doesn't swim until dual meets wit…
… Indiana and Notre Dame the weekend c Jan. 30. The time off will be welcome for th Wolverines, as the heavy training of th last two months has many swimng worn out. "We have some people who are reall tired…
…-meet schedule in an Impressive fashion by beating Eastern Michigan, 149-85. RELIVE MICHIGAN'S ROSE BOWL WIN AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Savor the Wolverines' first national champi- onship since 1948 for years to…
…. Thanks to a combination of steady vet- erans and explosive youth, he may have found some. The Wolverines captured victories in six events to earn their 82-67 victory. "Our first-place finishes really…
… Cheerleading As- sociation (NCA) Collegiate Cheer- leader and Dance Team National Championships, Jan. 3-5 at the Dallas Convention Center. The Wolverines placed ninth out of 20 schools who qualified for the…
…-coaches QIichael Johnson and Pamela St. John have headed up the Wolverines. Johnson, a former Michigan cheer- leader (1982-84), has owned and op- erated The Ad Vanc'd! Cheerleading Company in Novi for the past 10…
…'t be quite as awed next year." The team was on a tight and disci- plined schedule over the holidays. After performing at the New Year's Day Hall of Fame Bowl game in Tampa, Fla., the Wolverine squad went…
…, competing at na- tionals is the culmination of hard work starting in middle school." And the hard work is beginning to King, Howard downed by chicken pox Wolverines, minus the pair, head to noisy Williams…
…- nosed with chicken pox by team phy- sician Dr. Robert Anderson Monday. The duo was excluded from practic- ing with the Wolverines Tuesday af- ter further examination. The juniors are currently being…
… Wolverines. King's absence will end a starting streak of 59 consecutive games, dat- ing back to the March 3, 1992 contest against Ohio State. This will be the first game the 6-foot-5 guard has missed in two…
…- ers leaves the Wolverines in a bind, especially when it comes to rebound- ing and experience. Michigan has been on the short end of the rebounding statistics its past and Chad Kolander as well as…
… junior Jayson Walton (6 feet 6, 210 pounds). Even before discovering that two of his players would be absent from the game, Fisher expressed concern over the Wolverines' ability to match up against the…
… Howard, Michigan's chairman of the boards, not present to control the paint, the Wolverines could be in serious trouble, especially with the bulk the Gophers possess. Minnesota possesses big time muscle up…
…. TheWolverines(l1-2-OCCHA,16- 4-0 overall) and the Falcons (12-3-1, 15-6-1) probably have enough ammu- nition in their lineups to blow holes in the fragile walls of Yost Ice Arena. Michigan (6.1 goals…
… sec- ond-place teams. In the conference standings, the Wolverines trail the Falcons by three points, 25-22. Tomorrow, Michigan travels to the Palace of Auburn Hills to face Notre Dame (2-11-1, 6…
… at least one Michigan defender in his jockstrap all evening long. The senior center has torched the CCHA for 18 goals and 15 assists in only 16 conference games. "You can't ever ignore him," Wolverine…
… captain Rick Willis said. "You always have to be on him when- ever he's on the ice." Wolverine coach Red Berenson says that he will depend on the entire defense to contain Holzinger. "Our defensive game has…
… to be good, otherwise Holzinger will tear us apart," Berenson said. If there is one team that has indeed stopped him this season, it's Michigan. Holzinger hadjust one assist when the Wolverines stomped…
… State this weekend where it will match up against the Nittany Lions and Michigan State. This meet has some changes in store for the Wolverines, one of which is Penn State'strack. Because ofits shorter…
… important to us as Big Ten contend- ers." Wolverines look to crash boards against tough conference opponents Women's track awaits By EUGENE BOWEN Daily Sports Writer The Michigan women's track team, which…
… rebound this week- end, in both senses of the word, when the Wolverines host Illinois tonight at 7:30 and Ohio State Sunday at 7 p.m. at Crisler Arena. The Wolverines (2-3 Big Ten, 7-8 overall) will have to…
… crash the boards hard to emerge victorious against the Fighting Illini and the Buckeyes. And Michigan must bounce back from last Sunday's devastating 92-44 loss to Penn State. The Wolverines count on…
… apiece. That victory, which brought Michigan's 21-game conference los- ing skid to a halt, inflated a balloon of confidence and optimism for the re- building Wolverines. The balloon swelled to blimp…
… serving a one-game suspension and Bill Muckalt failing to1 put the puck in the net for the second straight game, the Wolverines neededI someone else to provide an offensive1 spark.I As he has all season…
… goaltender to give the Wolverines a commanding three-goalI lead. Two minutes later, Hayes scored a shorthanded goal, giving the Wolverines a 5-1 victory. The short- handed goal was his fourth of the sea- son…
…8 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 20, 1994 Wolverine tumblers duel Broncos at Keen By JOSH KARP DAILY SPORTS WRITER Save men's gymnastics. This phrase is pasted all over cam- pus, as Coach…
… beneficiaries of this lineup fiddling could possibly be jun- ior Royce Toni, who has yet to com- pete this year due to back problems. Last year, the Wolverines beat the Broncos by a count of 267.65-261.60, and to…
…'s winners - would be of some advan- tage to the Wolverines. "(We're looking forward to) win- ning," he said. "Ohio State would have been the toughest team there. We expect to do well." Head coach Jack Harvey…
… agreed. " We're fairly sure we can beat Michigan State - we did last year - but it will be a tough matchup with Penn State," he said. If the teams are similar to last years squads, the Wolverines and the…
… Wolverines hope that their best will be better than the Nittany Lions'. "Penn State is a lot like us," Harvey said. "They've got a lot of decent people all over." Junior Tyrone Wheatley is still un- available…
…, the Wolverines have lost two of their last three contests. These losses will almost definitely drop them in the polls when the new rankings come out Jan. 26. Last Saturday, Michigan lost to No. 7 Penn…
… State, but re- bounded to defeat Lehigh on Sunday. Wednesday night the Wolverines lost to Michigan State. The loss was the first to the Spartans in nine years. The two losses exposed what's going to be…
… Lions down, 20-0, and against the Spartans, the Wolverines were down, 14-0, before they scored their first points. Stout has seen limited action the past two seasons due to both injury and sharing the…
… proven that. The Wolverines also have another problem in that more experienced wrestlers are not winning matches that they are supposed to. Both Mike Ellsworth (142) and Jesse Rawls Jr. (177) have lost…
… all night and be even, but right now that's not the case." Michigan has a lot of potential but the Wolverines are going have to get production from Ellsworth and Rawls, as well as improvement from the…
…-never looked back. But as old heroes leave must arrive. Starting Saturday nig takes to the road to battle it est opponents yet -- Michigan State and Notre The Wolverines squeez ries against the Sparta Fighting…
… period and points to a defender, Dame. will the Wolverines turn on the red light ed out victo- against a Michigan State team with the ans and the most stifling defense in the NCAA? rantic Yost Ice And even…
… wouldn't you know it, both games are on the road. And as luck would have it, most Big Ten teams going on road trips this season have wound up as road- kill. But not a single Wolverine is getting out a…
…, on Dec. 9 when the Wolverines sank lowly, then-winless Eastern Michigan in Ypsilanti. That win came between two avert-your-eyes road loss- es, to Western Michigan in Grand Rapids and, in the worst…
… Jim O'Brien, whose Buckeyes learned first-hand just how much the Wolverines have improved this sea- son. "When you break their team down and you have as good a guard combination as they have - as there…
… was, forced to postpone its Jan. 3 matchup with Michigan State due to poor weather. But conditions have taken a deci- sive turn for the worse for the Michigan women's basketball team. The Wolverines…
… , when the Wolverines host Michigan State at 7 p.m. "There isn't a better team in America for us to take out all of our frustrations than the team that is coming in here today and that's Michigan State…
… school history when they were set to host Michigan State earlier this month. The forecast, however, has grown gloomy for the Wolverines ever since. Stumbling to a 1-3 mark in the conference on the heels of…
… Sunday's home loss to Penn State, Michigan is hoping tonight's make-up game will help the 9-6 Wolverines begin to make up lost ground in the Big Ten. "We're going to win a game in January, we are going to…
…. The Wolverines still understand that it is some of the little things on the court which will carry them to that elusive victory in the near future. Here are a few of those "little things." ANDREW…
… ACCOLADES: The Wolverines seem to have accomplished,' to some degree, one of their primary season objectives - involving more players in the offense. Senior Trish Andrew's numbers have not suffered, however…
…'re hoping to get a victory there this year," Wolverine guard Jimmy King said after his club pummeled Notre Dame, 70-55, Saturday at Crisler Arena. On their march to the Big Ten ti- tle, the Wolverines (2…
… time out of their otherwise-mediocre seasons to pound lumps into the Wolverines, 73-64 and 96-78, respectively. The Boilermakers earned their spot on Michigan's hit list by spoil- ing their conference…
… fractured nose, Michigan's Chris Webber is scheduled to take part in the Wolverines' matchup with Minnesota tonight. 0, Michigan at Minnesota Time: 8 p.m., EST. Place: Williams Arena. Probable starting…
… Wolverines post- ing personal bests. In the shot put, the Wolverines claimed both first and second place. Senior Julie Victor placed second with a throw of 43 feet 7 and 3/4 inches. However, sophomore Ronda…
… for the Wolverines came in the 4 x 880 relay where first-year runners Molly Lori, Amy Parker, Jackie Concaugh and Jenny Barber put on a gutsy performance. All four had run in the mile, the race before…
…." The 3000 meter run was another high point for the Wolverines. Senior Molly McClimon, junior Chris Szabo and sophomore Kelly Chard were the first three collegians to cross the finish line. McClimon ran 9…
… Wisconsin. In all likelihood, the best case scenario for the Wolverines will have Johns returning to practice at the begin- ning of next week. "She's a little upset," Guevara said, "but knowing Pollyanna, I…
… Spartans, hitting two each, with the clincher coming from Lemire with six seconds remain- ing. When the dust settled, the Wolverines had taken a 10-point lead and Michigan State's confidence with them into…
… the lockerroom. In the second half, Murray and Lemire cooled off, hitting one more trey each, but another Wolverine would step up, as they had been doing all day. Thomas, able to beat Michigan State…
… scheme, it was something much big- ger for the Wolverines. This is a game they easily could have lost. Johns, also second in the conference in scoring, had clearly been the go-to player for Michigan…
…, leading the team in scoring in 12 of its 17 games. With her out of the game, it was anybody's guess how the Wolverines would respond. "If you take away someone who gives you 20 points and 10 rebounds a game…
…, that's a pretty big hole," Guevara said. But the Wolverines filled that hole, in the process proving that they can handle the adversity that is thrown at them by the turbu- lent conference season…
…. logging just six minutes and three points in the * test. Without their leading scorer and rebounder for the first time all year, the Wolverines faced a crucial juncture, both in the game and in Ann Lemire…
…'s averaging 20 points a game and win the way they did with 3- point shooting and outside shooting, you've got to give a lot of credit to coaching." The 3-point shot played a tremendous rold in the Wolverines…
… points. The Wolverines were strong throughout the game, end- ing with a .441 shooting percentage and .750 free throw percentage. They had a total of 40 rebounds and 19 assists. The Spartans finished…
… Sports Editor COLUMBUS--There certainly is no rest for the weary in the Big Ten, much less the injured or the banged-up, as Michigan will find out tonight. The Wolverines, after pounding Ohio State on…
… the early going. But the Wolverines don't expect a walkover tonight, especially after Minnesota put a scare into the thirteenth- ranked Hawkeyes over the weekend. "We've got a little payback with…
…'El ban ti One hundred four years of editorial freedom 7" .Wolverines battle Spartans for bragging rights, first place By RYAN WHITE Daily Basketball Writer Jimmy King isn't guaranteeing a…
…Spartans believing that they belong in the top spot, and not the Wolverines. "As of Sunday we'll be in first place and they won't." That isn't a guarantee? "No, but I'm confident," King said. "If you step on the court…
… Purdue. Ohio State recovered from their loss to the Wolverines this past Saturday. Auburn tries to stay undefeated at Rupp Michigan battles two top-25 ranked foes LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - In most years…
…, who duked it out with Owen. By giving DQs to three Wolverines and only one Ferris State player, defenseman Jeff Lewis, Piotrowski sent the message that Michigan was to blame. Jillson's spot isn't in…
… Ingredients of Good Health," Patch Adams, sponsored by St. Joe's Health Educational Services, Quaker Friends Meeting House, 1416 0 College Democrats, 747-9549, mass meeting, Michigan Union, Wolverine Room, 7 p…
… action tonight when the Wolverines travel to Minnesota. Forward Chris Webber is expected to play despite breaking his nose Monday. Today Partly cloudy; High 36,rLow 28 Tomorrow Chance of rain; High 40…
