For most cross country runners, a first-place finish is a career achievement. But for Michigan's Katie McGregor, it is a weekly event. Yesterday afternoon, McGregor captured her second consecutive Big Ten championship, with a time of 17:16.
Running the show: McGregor captures second Big Ten crown
The Big Ten regular season title for field hockey wasn't decided until the final day.
Michigan and Penn State entered yesterday tied atop the conference at 7-2. Both teams were facing ranked opponents, at home, on Senior Day. Both teams felt they needed to win to have a chance at the title.Stickers fail to gain share of Big Ten title
The Wolverines celebrated coach Ron Warhurst's 25th anniversary the same way they celebrated his first - with a Big Ten championship. Michigan fulfilled the first of their season's goals yesterday thanks to a team effort.
"Collectively we wanted to win this for coach's 25th anniversary," said senior All-America John Mortimer. "This has been our focus all year." Michigan men seize Big Ten title on home turf
MINNEAPOLIS - If there is one attribute of last season's title team that Lloyd Carr didn't want to emulate, it had to be the reliance on the defense to win games.
Fortunately for him, this defense still is that good.
Blue wins ugly again, beats Minnesota, 15-10: Key safety helps down pesky Gophers
As the Wolverines stood in the finish chute in the waning moments after yesterday's Big Ten Championships, one did not have to listen for the final results to realize the story would not have a happy ending.
Instead of smiles and high-fives, the runners consoled each other with tearful hugs and words of encouragement - a display that typified the close-knit relationships on the Michigan cross country team and made the five-point loss to Wisconsin a bitter pill to swallow for those who have supported the team throughout the season.Women 'disappointed' with second
Todd Snyder and Don McLaughlin, both seniors on the Michigan men's cross country team, have been running together since their days at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School.
Yesterday's Big Ten Championships at the Michigan Golf Course marked their final time running together in front of the hometown crowd.Snyder, McLaughlin finish at home in style
Cross country meets are deceptive. Here's what they look like to the average spectator: The runners string across the starting line, and when the gun sounds, everyone takes off in a flash.No doubt about it: These runners are truly amazing
There is no doubt the women's cross country team felt some disappointment after falling just short of grabbing the Big Ten title yesterday. But if moral victories can lessen the hurt, this team has to be proud of its effort.
Along with Katie McGregor's winning performance, three of the Wolverines' top five finishers ran their best races of the season. Michelle Slater placed sixth with a time of 17:53, 12 seconds better than her time two weeks ago at the Wolverine Interregional.Slater, Ouellet, Hamilton save 'best' for Big Tens
MINNEAPOLIS - Two weeks ago, everything was going right for Jason Vinson. The Michigan punter was the Big Ten special teams player of the week after dominating Northwestern.
But in the first half on Saturday, the spotlight was his for a different reason.Vinson's hot streak stalled after fumbled punt
MINNEAPOLIS - The option never disappears.
While this week it wasn't an option offense in the traditional sense, Minnesota's quarterback moved wherever and whenever he wanted in the first half, drawing comparisons to earlier foes who have eaten Michigan alive. Cockerham just the latest in the line of opposing running quarterbacks
Michigan's real season starts next weekend
MINNEAPOLIS - Michigan's offense is a direct contradiction to Gestalt philosophy.
In Gestalt thinking, the sum of the individual parts is not greater than all of the parts working together.Deep passing fills in sufciently with absence of ground game
BLOOMINGTON (AP) - David Boston returned a punt 70 yards for a touchdown and padded his school record for touchdown receptions with two as top-ranked Ohio State defeated Indiana 38-7 Saturday.
Boston's punt return put the Buckeyes (5-0 Big Ten, 8-0 overall) ahead to stay with 8:33 left in the opening quarter. His 29th touchdown catch on a three-yard pass from Joe Germaine gave the Buckeyes a 28-7 lead following a 69-yard, eight-play drive to start the second half.Buckeyes scoff at BCS poll, dominate Hoosiers on the road
Texas took two giant steps forward, Nebraska took one backward.
Ricky Williams ran for 150 yards and Major Applewhite threw a two-yard touchdown pass with 2:47 left as the revived Longhorns stunned No. 7 Nebraska 20-16 on Saturday - ending the Huskers' 47-game home winning streak.Williams and Co. run ragged over Nebraska; UCLA slips by Cardinal
Somebody dressed up in the uniforms of the Michigan hockey team on Saturday. But it was hard to tell whether it was the hockey team or just a few tipsy trick-or-treaters.
Whoever it was, they were no match for Northern Michigan (3-1 CCHA, 7-1 overall), as the Wildcats blew out the Wolverines, 6-1, in Michigan's worst home loss since January 7, 1989.
Icers fall to Northern, split weekend: Wildcats chase Blackburn in Halloween debacle, but Blue handles Bowling Green
Dave Huntzicker paid the Price.
Late in the third period of Friday's 5-2 victory over Bowling Green, Huntzicker was set to level a booming check on Bowling Green's Dan Price.Huntzicker out for three weeks
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