Wolverines

The Michigan Women's Tennis Team's season came to an end last night after the team was swept 4-0.  The initial start time for the match was 7:00 central, yet it didn't begin until 11:00.  Michigan played well in all of the matches, yet could only win one doubles flight.  All of the matches were close, and had a few points gone Michigan's way, Michigan could have advanced to their first ever elite eight.  This was a good season for Michigan, the only disappointment being that they lost to Northwestern in the Big Ten Tournament Finals for the eighth time in nine years.  Other than that, a good season.  Hopefully next year they can build upon their successes and advance to their first ever elite eight.  Go Blue!

Below are the flight-by-flight results:

Singles
No. 1 -- No. 3 Robin Anderson (UCLA) d. No. 30 Emina Bektas (U-M), 6-3, 6-4
No. 2 -- No. 20 Kyle McPhillips (UCLA) d. No. 58 Ronit Yurovsky (U-M), 6-1, 6-2
No. 3 -- Pamela Montez (UCLA) vs. Brooke Bolender (U-M), 7-6 (3), 0-0 DNF
No. 4 -- No. 99 Sarah Lee (U-M) vs. Chanelle Van Nguyen (UCLA), 6-3, 3-2 DNF
No. 5 -- No. 93 Catherine Harrison (UCLA) vs. Amy Zhu (U-M), 7-6 (3), 2-1
No. 6 -- Courtney Dolehide (UCLA) d. Kristen Dodge (U-M), 6-1, 6-0

Doubles
No. 1 --No. 6 Emina Bektas/Brooke Bolender (U-M) d. No. 25 Robin Anderson/Skylar Morton (UCLA), 8-6
No. 2 -- No. 38 Courtney Dolehide/Pamela Montez (UCLA) d. No. 90 Sarah Lee/Mimi Nguyen (U-M), 9-7
No. 3 -- Catherine Harrison/Kyle McPhillips (UCLA) d. Ronit Yurovsky/Kristen Dodge (U-M), 8-2

Order of Completion: Doubles 3-1-2, Singles 6-2-1

http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/w-tennis/recaps/051813aab.html

The Michigan Men's Baseball team won a huge game at Nebraska, 7-5.  Michigan was down 5-2 in the top of the sixth but a one run sixth inning and four run seventh inning propelled Michigan to the win.  Michigan remains tied for fifth win Illinois, who also won today, beating Minnesota 6-2.   Michigan State also crushed Penn State 16-1, yet remain in seventh place.  The top six teams qualify for the Big Ten Tournament and this is the final weekend of regular season play.  Below are the current standings:

 Team                  Record 
Indiana               15-7
Ohio State          15-7
Minnesota          12-7
Nebraska           14-8
Illinois                 13-9
Michigan             13-9
Michigan State   11-8
Northwestern      9-15
Iowa                      8-14
Purdue                 6-16
Penn State          3-19

Here is the gametracker link for the game:

http://www.mgoblue.com/gametracker/launch/gt_mbasebl.html?event=1224449&...

Go Blue!

Today the Michigan Women's Tennis Team, Big Ten Regular Season Champions and Tournament Runners-Up (for the 9th straight season), played Notre Dame in Ann Arbor.  The women dominated early, winning the doubles point (8-4, 8-3, 5-8) and then won three matches.  With the 4-0 sweep, Michigan will face the winner of Long Beach St/Oklahama St vs UCLA/Army.  Neither of those first round matchups have finished yet.  UCLA is the number 7 team in the nation, so odds would suggest Michigan will meet UCLA in the Sweet 16.  Michigan's next match will be on Friday in Urbana, Illinois.  This is Michigan's fourth straight Sweet 16 appearance, and could be Michigan's best chance for a first-ever Elite Eight appearance.  Root for UCLA to lose to help ease Michigan's path.  Below are the results:

Michigan vs. Notre Dame
Singles
 No. 1 -- No. 30 Emina Bektas (U-M) d. Britney Sanders (ND) 6-3, 6-3
 No. 2 -- No. 48 Ronit Yurovsky (U-M) d. Jennifer Kellner (ND) 6-2, 6-0
 No. 3 -- Brooke Bolender (U-M) dnf. Quinn Gleason (ND) 2-6, 2-5
 No. 4 -- No. 99 Sarah Lee (U-M) d. Chrissie McGaffigan (ND) 6-4, 6-0 
 No. 5 -- Amy Zhu (U-M) dnf. Katherine White (ND) 2-6, 6-2, 0-1
 No. 6 -- Kristen Dodge (U-M) dnf. Molly O'Koniewski (ND) 6-1, 4-3

Doubles
No. 1 -- No. 6 Brooke Bolender/Emina Bektas (U-M) d. Jennifer Kellner/Chrissie McGaffigan (ND), 8-3
No. 2 -- Sarah Lee/Mimi Nguyen (U-M) d. Julie Sabacinski/Britney Sanders (ND), 8-5
No. 3 -- Quinn Gleason/Katherine White (ND) d. Ronit Yurovsky/Kristen Dodge (U-M), 8-4

Order of Completion: Doubles 1-3-2; Singles

Congratulations ladies!

Working on another wallpaper this coming week, but here's another since the last one people were commenting that they didn't like the "artsy" stylings of the recent ones.  I like how this turned out, but as always, I'm open to constructive criticism to help me provide more of what the MGoCommunity is looking for.

Enjoy!

EDIT: Already nitpicked at my own design.  Corrected the alignment of the "the road to march" text area.  Not sure why I didn't catch that since I'd originally had it right.  Oh well. Carry on.

- Desktop (16:9) -

Mobile version to come!

-JonValk

Partly cloudy, 34 degrees, dry but kind of windy, man.

Is this bad?

Columbus weather forecast Saturday: http://tinyurl.com/b35cgth