…12 Thursday, June 2, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Selection Committee passes on Wolverines, ends season abruptly By COLE ZINGAS Daily Sports Writer After a rocky finish to end…
… field before the selection show, leaving the Wolverines hoping that they could sneak into the field. Last year, Michigan did not have to sweat out the selection process, as a Big Ten Tournament…
… Wolverines finished 36-21 after a 2-9 stretch that ended the season with a disappointing early exit from the Big Ten Tournament — and no spot in the NCAA Regionals. Nevertheless, the season was not…
… Wolverines in the 11th inning. He singled with two outs in the frame, scoring sophomore catcher Drew Lugbauer from second, who beat the throw home. Featuring the marquee starting pitchers for both squads…
…11 Thursday, June 2, 2016 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com SPORTS Five Wolverines qualify at NCAA Outdoor East Prelim They will head to Eugene, Ore., for the NCAA Outdoor Championships…
…: get as many athletes to the NCAA Outdoor Championships as possible. So when the Wolverines opened competition at the NCAA Outdoor East Preliminary in Jacksonville, Fla., on Friday, they did…
… his own spot at the NCAA Outdoor Championships on Thursday in the 400-meter hurdles, making him the first true freshman Wolverine to do so in the last 11 years. McLaughlin finished with a time of…
… separating the winner from the 12th-placed finisher. The Wolverines’ other three qualifiers for the national meet are redshirt junior decathlete Steven Bastien in the decathlon, fifth-year senior…
… now turn to preparation for the next two weeks. But for the Wolverines, that doesn’t necessarily mean that anything will change. “At this point in the season, I think consistency is most…
… Sun Devils’ athletic department that he would no longer be taking the job, and was reunited once again with the Wolverines. Steinberg will enter his third season at the helm, and has…
… collected a 28-25 record in his previous two seasons. His first year coaching the Wolverines, the team finished with their worst record in program history, 7-17. But Steinberg’s unique coaching…
… races went as well as planned. Five Wolverines competed at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., in three different events, with the first events taking place Thursday. While four of the Michigan…
… behind the championship performance. After an uneventful day Friday for the Wolverines, three runners returned to the track for final races Saturday. Fifth-year senior Shannon Osika and redshirt…
… his career as a Wolverine.” Freshman sprinter Taylor McLaughlin also became an All- American this weekend in the 400-meter hurdles by finishing fifth in the event with a time of 49.74 seconds…
… was good enough to put Bastien in eighth place, just five points ahead of Georgia’s Devon Williams. The 13th place finish for the Wolverines is their best since 1997, and it comes in just the…
… recruiting and some of the athletes themselves will prepare to compete in the Olympic Trials in July. Though the 13th-place finish was the best in recent history, the Wolverines have a lot to look…
… on the bench with Saadi Washington, formerly an assistant coach for Oakland, and Billy Donlon, formerly the head coach of Wright State. The Wolverines have two open scholarships after the…
…, Beilein is adamant that Michigan’s schedule is set, saying Saturday that one major addition to the non-conference schedule is close to being finalized. The Wolverines’ non- conference…
… the program has made it to Oklahoma City more times than you can count on each hand. And though the second- ranked Wolverines failed to go as far as they did last season, losing 1-0 to Florida…
…’t talk about what-ifs. It didn’t talk about what should’ve been. Instead, Hutchins and the Wolverines focused on all that they were able to accomplish. “We set really high expectations for…
… arrives in Oklahoma City well-rested after a come-from-behind Super Regionals victory in which the second-ranked Wolverines scored four runs in the top of the seventh inning to vanquish No. 17…
… starter in the lineup returning from last season’s runner-up squad, the Wolverines have the experience and the personnel to make a deep run in the WCWS. In the circle, junior right…
… publicity, its efforts up north have been just as strong — particularly within Canada and their home state. Michigan mounties The Wolverines have commitments from two Canadians in Benjamin St. Juste…
… and Luiji Vilain, both of whom play defense. St. Juste, a rangy, 6-foot-3 defensive back, committed to Michigan more than a year ago but has stayed steady in his pledge to the Wolverines, even…
…-8 season, in which the Wolverines advanced to the second round of the NCAA Regionals. After a 7-17 finish in his first year at the helm of the program during the 2014-15 season, Steinberg’s team…
…- son. Senior second baseman Sierra Romero cemented herself as the greatest hitter in Wolverine histo- ry — perhaps one of the top players of all time — junior right-hander Megan Betsa earned Big Ten…
… the 2016 softball season. Most Valuable Player: Sierra Romero Through her first three seasons, Romero was the Wolverines’ best player. In 2016, she demonstrated that she could be one of the…
…- enth inning, the Wolverines scored four runs to defeat the Tigers and travel to Oklahoma City for their third time in four years. Michigan had just four hits in its first six innings. In the seventh…
…, it had five. The Wolverines loaded the bases for Romero — the NCAA career leader in grand slams — who hit a fly ball to center field, scoring pinch runner Mary Sbonek from third base. It was now…
… 4-2. The Wolverines had a problem though: they were down to their last out. Kelly Christner wasn’t affected. She swung at Tigers’ right-hander Paige Lowary’s next pitch and lined it down the…
… Alumin Field watched Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel honor Hutchins with a ceremony after the Wolverines’ victory over rival Ohio State. As Hutchins stood in the dugout, Manuel offered praise…
…, Ferlic fin- ished the race 3.51 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher to win just the second national champi- onship for Michigan in the 3,000- meter steeplechase — 33 years after the Wolverines…
… festival >> SEE PAGE 6 SPORTS Heartbreaking exit for ‘M’ softball The Wolverines could have won the WCWS in 2016 >> SEE PAGE 10 inside 2 4 6 8 2 A2 Clinton supporters set sights on party unity ‘U…
… New England music festival gathers artists of many different genres >> SEE PAGE 7 SPORTS Wolverines travel to Oklahoma City Michigan takes on LSU in the College World Series >> SEE PAGE 10…
… initiative that offers non-clinical support to students in recovery from alcohol or other drug problems. The program launched at the University in 2012 as part of Wolverine Wellness — a section of the…
