The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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58 THE WOLVERINE MAY 2022 OLYMPIC SPORTS Baseball U-M grabbed a series sweep of the rival Michigan State Spartans on Easter weekend in East Lansing, improving its record on the season to 20-15 (6-3 in Big Ten play). The Wolverines outscored MSU 32-11 in the three-game set and earned their first sweep of MSU since the 2019 season. The most notable plot thread had to do with senior center fielder Joe Stewart, a Spartan transfer who tormented his former team. Stewart went 5 for 14 with two home runs and four RBIs during the weekend. U-M returns home for a series with Ohio State April 22-24. It then heads to Purdue April 29-May 1 for a three-game slate in West Lafayette, Ind. Men's Golf Freshman Hunter Thomson was named the Big Ten Golfer of the Week for the first time in his college career April 14. It was the first time that a U-M frosh grabbed the honor since Charlie Pilon in 2019. Thompson's honor came on the heels of a 5-under-par 211 over 54 holes that lead his team and helped him to a seventh-place finish at the Mossy Oak Collegiate April 11-12. It was his third top-10 finish of his freshman season. Michigan finishes out its regular season at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate, hosted by Ohio State April 23-24 in Columbus, Ohio. The Big Ten Championships are set for April 29-May 1 in French Lick, Ind. Women's Golf Senior Ashley Lau was named Big Ten Golfer of the Week for the fourth time this season April 14. Her five overall con- ference honors give her the most in U-M program history. Lau successfully defended her title from the Indiana Invita- tional and helped the team to its third victory of the season. The Big Ten Championships are up next April 22-24 in Pittsburgh. Men's Gymnastics Junior Paul Juda took home a pair of national titles in the all-around and on the vault during U-M's third-place finish at the NCAA Championships April 16 in Norman, Okla. Juda scored an 85.298 in the all-around and grabbed a 15.000 on the vault, which helped him tie Sam Mikulak's school record of six All-America honors. He also finished second on the high bar (14.566), fourth on parallel bars (14.366), and eighth on both the floor exercise and still rings. Juda's victory was Michi- Senior right-handed pitcher Alex Storako struck out eight batters in a 5-1 loss at Maryland April 14, but the No. 22 Wolverines won the next two games to take the series. PHOTO BY MIKE JANES Maize & Blue Highlights