Tuesday, April 2, 2013 15 SPORTS Women’s lacrosse ready for season start
Michigan Tech Lode ALYSSA DEBELAK Lode Writer
The Michigan Tech women’s club lacrosse team will be starting off their spring season by traveling to a tournament in Wisconsin next Saturday, April 6. They will be playing Ripon College and University of WisconsinOshkosh. To prepare for tournaments and games the lacrosse team practices every Wednesday night in the Student Development Complex. Sometimes on the weekends they have conditioning practices to keep them in shape.
There are around 18-20 girls that show up regularly to the women’s lacrosse club practices and each week there are a couple new girls that come to check out the team. In the fall, the club team recruits players by having a booth at K-day, putting up flyers around campus and table tents. In the past the women’s lacrosse club really struggled with keeping members, but recently this problem has gotten a lot better. Lacrosse club president Rachel Altscheffel said that her favorite part of being a part of the lacrosse club is watching the club grow and teaching others about the sport she loves.
Next fall the women’s lacrosse club would like to join a league which would enable them to play more games. The women’s lacrosse club has four main objectives. They are to play intercollegiate lacrosse, increase awareness of women’s lacrosse on our campus, bring women together who enjoy lacrosse at Tech and to form relationships between the women at Michigan Tech and women at other universities who share the common interest of lacrosse. To be in the women’s lacrosse club you have to have a cumulative GPA of 2.00 or higher when you become a member. Members of the club also have
to pay dues. The club has a president, vice president, treasurer, secretary and computer administrator. The president is in charge of public relations and making game schedules. The vice president is in charge of the fitness/ practice schedule. The treasurer is in charge of making a budget and in general just in charge of all of the club’s money. The secretary is in charge of recruitment. The computer administrator is responsible for the website and the email list. The women’s lacrosse team is looking forward to future growth and encourages female athletes to join.
Men’s Tennis sneaks by Wayne State 5-4 in biggest win of the season ELLIE FURMANSKI Lode Writer This past Saturday, March 30, the Michigan Tech Men’s Tennis team battled to an exciting 5-4 victory against Wayne State at the Gates Tennis Center. The win advances the Huskies’ record to 4-3 in the GLIAC, 13-6 overall for the season. Wayne State was previously undefeated in the conference and now moves to a 4-1 GLIAC record. Saturday’s match started off in favor of the Huskies with a 3-0 sweep of the doubles competition. A series of close matches throughout the day began with No. 1 doubles. Duo Felipe Dos Santos and Pedro Rodriguez came back from a 7-5 deficit and won four straight games to claim their match with a 9-7 decision. At Nos. 2 and 3, Javier Oliveros/ Built Yumuang and Jimmy Konarske/Andrew Kremkow won their respective matches 8-4 and 8-5. Head coach of the Huskies Kevin Kalinec noted that the team put in an extra effort preparing for doubles this past week. Luckily, for the Huskies, that extra effort seemed to win them the match.
The Huskies went on to win only two of the six singles flights. With the three points earned earlier in doubles, those two additional points gave the Huskies a one point edge over the Warriors to claim the match 5-4. A win was hard to come by, however, after competition tightened up during singles. Dos Santos at No. 1 singles drew out the Huskies’ lead 4-0 by defeating his opponent in two straight sets 6-4, 6-2. The Huskies’ decisive fifth point was earned in a hard fought battle at No. 4. Rodriguez won his first set 7-5 but fell 8-10 in the second. In the tiebreaker, Rodriguez dominated, winning six straight games to claim the match 7-5, 8-10, 6-0. Two additional matches were forced into third set tiebreakers. At No. 2, Oliveros went up 6-4 in the first set, but his opponent took the lead from then onward. He fell 5-7 in the second match and then again 4-6 in the third, losing the tiebreaker. The No. 5 match also went into a decisive third set. Nick Kremkow battled back from a 6-2 defeat in the first set to win the second 7-6 but lost the tiebreaker 6-10. The Huskies’ No. 3 Yumuang and No. 6 Konarske were
Built Yumuang returns the ball during a practice match this season.
defeated in straight sets 6-3, 6-2 and 7-5, 6-2. The Huskies will take on Lake Superior State this
Saturday, April 6, in their last home match of the regular season. The Lakers fall just behind the Huskies in GLIAC
Photo by Scott Thompson
standings with a 3-4 conference record, 5-12 overall. Saturday’s match is set to begin at the Gates Tennis Center at 10 a.m.