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August 2015 Issue

The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports

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State (439.500), and ahead of Cal (432.100) and Iowa (427.450). Senior Adrian de los Angeles wound up with Michigan's highest finish in the all-around com- petition, placing ninth (87.65). The Wolverines also managed a third-place finish in a loaded Big Ten, one that featured three of the six squads participating in the NCAA finals. 2. Men's Cross Country — Kevin Sullivan's cross country crew managed a strong effort, both in Big Ten and NCAA competition this season. The U-M har- riers captured the No. 11 spot in the NCAA Championships, headed by redshirt junior All-American Mason Ferlic. The fourth-year Wolverine finished 13th over- all, with the Wolverines winding up just 30 points outside the NCAA's top 10. The 11th-place finish represented the highest for the Michigan program since it took ninth in 2003, and Sullivan recorded the highest finish ever for a first-year head coach in the program. The Wolverines took second in the Big Ten Cham- pionships, behind only Wisconsin, which went on to finish 10th at the NCAAs. 3. Wrestling — Joe McFarland's grapplers wound up eighth in the Big Ten during the regular season, but were 11th at the NCAA Championships, further underscoring how tough the conference is in the sport. At Nationals in St. Louis, five Big Ten squads finished in the top 10: No. 1 Ohio State (102 points), No. 2 Iowa (84), No. 6 Penn State (67.5), No. 8 Minnesota (59.5) and No. 9 Nebraska (59). Michigan wound up scoring 54 points, led by sophomore heavyweight Adam Coon's runner-up finish. Michigan's other All-Americans were redshirt sophomore Conor Youtsey, who finished sixth at 125 pounds; junior Rossi Bruno, who took eighth at 133; sophomore Brian Murphy, seventh at 157; and fifth-year senior Max Huntley, eighth at 197. U-M took fourth at the Big Ten Championships, its best finish since garnering third in 2009. 4. Baseball — Eric Bakich's baseball team batted .296 collectively, better than all other Big Ten squads. The Wolverines then became the feel-good story of the spring — winning the Big Ten Tournament, taking the league title for the first time since 2008 and earning its way into the NCAA Tournament. U-M went 2-2 in the NCAA Regional, garnering their first postseason victories in eight years. Sophomore Carmen Benedetti paced the Wolverines with a torrid season at the plate, hitting .352 with 25 doubles, five home runs and 71 runs batted in, the second-highest single-season total in the history of the program. Mean- while, sophomore lefty Brett Adcock went 10-4 with a 3.10 earned run average and 95 strikeouts in 90 innings. 5. Ice Hockey — This wasn't a season up to the standards of U-M coaching legend Red Berenson and his program, with the Wolverines on the outside looking in come NCAA Tournament time. But U-M still finished 22-15 overall and 12-8 in the Big Ten, and won the 50th annual Great Lakes Invitational in late December. The Wolverines also reached the finale at the Big Ten Tournament before bowing to Minnesota, 4-2. — John Borton

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