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Chill on the Hill Wolverines Sweep Recap Niagara Arts and Sports michiganjournal.org Entertainment page 8 THE STUDENT PUBLICATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-DEARBORN page 5 VOL. XLVI, No. 4 October 4, 2016 Season Preview: Michigan Wins Hockey a Sloppy Game, By ERICK LEHMAN Saunders, along with for- pared each night. Staff Writer wards Jeff McFarland, Nic “Our schedule is hard. Ev- The University of Mich- LaBurn, Kevin Bechard, Gino ery team that comes in here is igan-Dearborn hockey team Darin, Tyler Dalton, John a national contender. Every ended last season on a sour Barlow, Andrew Palushaj and night we need to be our best,” Remains Unbeaten note. The Wolverines were Andrew Spiegel. Haltinner said. “The success thrashed by Central Okla- The Wolverines also wel- will come if we take care of homa in their second game of come back junior goaltender stuff, and prepare.” the ACHA National Tourna- Nate Ferris, Haltinner expects the re- ment. All the players return- turning players to continue This year, the Wolverines ing did not stop head coach to improve and lead his team, look to build off of what was Chris Haltinner from adding but also expects the newcom- an overall successful season. a few freshman to the roster ers to make an impact this With every key player this year. Haltinner added for- season. from last year returning, the wards Andy Carreras, Chris- The Wolverines are light Wolverines should have no tian Ramage and Justin Dunn, on defense, as the roster only problem matching what they who scored three goals in the lists six. The first series saw did last year. That includes first series this season. the Wolverines only dress qualifying for the national Haltinner also added de- three defensemen and play tournament and winning fensemen Ben McPartlin and forward Kevin Bechard back the Great Lakes Collegiate Kyle Schnettler. Schnettler on the blueline, a position he Hockey League Tournament, is a player Haltinner noted to played last year as well. which they hosted last year. watch this season. The Wolverines are also The Wolverines will return The Wolverines have an without a full team to begin ACHA All-American Tyler extremely tough schedule the year as McFarland, Saun- Groat, who missed most of ahead of them. The first five ders and LaBurn all must sit the second half of last season series are against ranked op- the first four games due to Amber Ainsworth/MJ with an undisclosed injury. ponents, but Haltinner is pre- penalties taken during the na- A fourth quarter touchdown by Amara Darboh broke the tied game, allowing Michigan to defeat The Wolverines also return pared for the challenge and tional tournament last season. Wisconsin 14-7. defensemen Ryan Urso, Mar- ready for his team to be pre- cus McSweeney and Troy By JERAMY STOVER 31-yard line. Just five plays a little nervous that he was Sports Editor later, Wisconsin finally tied gonna come down and the @jstover96 the game up with a 17-yard ball was going to just go over While their defense was touchdown pass. his fingertips, but he was able raging and their kickers were The following drive Mich- to hang in the air and made missing, the Michigan Wol- igan was marching down the a spectacular play. It was a verines offense only needed field and looking to respond to spectacular football play,” to make one play to win the the Badgers’ score. The drive head coach Jim Harbaugh football game. stalled, setting up a 40-yard said. And Wilton Speight an- field goal for Ryan Tice. The The Wolverines certainly swered the call and made the starting kicker Kenny Allen had their struggles against play happen. was pulled because of miss- Wisconsin. Not only did they With 7:56 remaining in ing two previous field goals. leave nine points on the board the fourth quarter, Speight Tice would miss his field goal with three missed field goals, hit Amara Darboh down the as well, keeping the game tied they also finished the game sideline for a 46-yard touch- at seven. with six penalties. They actu- down pass that would end up With 2:15 left in the fourth ally had another few penalties the game winning score as quarter and Michigan lead- called on them, but Wisconsin Michigan took down the Wis- ing 14-7, Wisconsin faced a elected to decline them. consin Badgers 14-7. fourth down from their own Speight completed 20-of- “I think (this win) says a eight-yard line. Badgers quar- 32 passes for 219 yards and lot about our team, Wisconsin terback Alex Hornibrook one touchdown. De’veon is a very tough football team- Sabrina Gregory/MJ fired a pass down the middle Smith led the rushing attack Members of UM-Dearborn’s Alpha Psi Lambda with Alina Fernandez. very good defense, very good of the field that was inter- with 66-yards on 17 carries. offense, and I think us beating cepted by senior cornerback Darboh had 87-yards on six this team says a lot about our Jourdan Lewis on a ridicu- catches including his touch- character, says a lot about the lous one-handed catch. Lewis down. Fidel Castro’s Daughter players on our team,” Darboh jumped a bit too early and had The Wolverines were led said. “But we need to focus to catch the ball while in mid- by their defense that held on the games ahead because air and pin the ball to his body Wisconsin to just 159 total Visits UM-Dearborn this win doesn’t define our to keep it from falling out of yards, including just 2.5 yards By SABRINA GREGORY season.” his hands. on the ground. Michigan’s now. It took until four seconds Staff Writer Not too long after this "visitor" began com- “The ball was in the air and defensive line was pressuring A remarkable story, Alina Fernandez into the second quarter for ing to her house, the decision was made for I knew I could make a play Hornibrook all game long. learned, at a young age that her biological fa- anyone to put points on the Fernandez to be legally recognized as the on it, either knock it down or Hornibrook completed only ther was Fidel Castro. board. Khalid Hill rushed for daughter of Fidel Castro. She didn't want peo- do what I did, so it was just 36% of his passes and threw It wasn't until the age of ten that she learned his fifth touchdown of the sea- ple to know they were related. instincts really,” Lewis said for three interceptions. her mother's husband, the man who raised son by running for a one-yard As she grew older, people began to use her about his interception. Senior defensive line- her, was not her father. At the beginning of touchdown, giving Michigan as a bridge to her father to express their con- Compared to what was men Taco Charlton, Ryan Cuba's revolution, her mother's husband fled (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) a 7-0 lead. cerns and what they wanted changed in Cuba. said from his teammate and Glasgow and Chris Wormley the country with her sister. So much began to That lead would hold all the So Fernandez decided to flee the country. head coach, it didn’t appear to all recorded one sack a piece. change for Fernandez. way through nearly half of the With the help of her American friends, Fer- be just instincts. But they were in the face of She started to see the man she knew only on third quarter. nandez came to America disguised as a Span- “We see him make a lot of Hornibrook for most of the television, Fidel Castro, come to her house. It As the Wolverines were ish tourist with her daughter. It was in these plays but that was on another game. was mostly at night that he would come over driving into Wisconsin (4-1, moments of her life that she discovered free- level I think. I think he jumped This was Michigan’s first to visit. It was all very confusing for her. She 1-1) territory, Speight threw dom is something you have to fight for every and floated for five yards and win against a top-10 oppo- didn't understand what was going on but she a pass that deflected off a day. then somehow caught it with nent since 2008. Next week saw that he made her mother happy. Badger defender and was When her mother passed away, that was the one hand,” Speight said. will be the Wolverines’ first On Tuesday, Sept. 27, Fernandez took the intercepted by Derrick Tin- first time in 20 years that she returned to Cuba. “The most impressive road game when they travel to time to spend the afternoon at the University dal, who returned the ball thing about it was (Lewis) Rutgers. That game is sched- of Michigan-Dearborn to speak about her sto- 46-yards to the Michigan jumped a little early and I was uled for a 8 p.m. kickoff. ry of her parents and her childhood in Cuba Fernandez continued on page 2 but also what she hopes to see for Cuba right what’s NEWS 2 OPINIONS 3 A&E 4-5 inside STUDENT LIFE 6 SPORTS 7-8 the MJ Michigan Journal @MichiganJournal themichiganjournal NEWSEditor: Maria Kanso | [email protected] 2 michiganjournal.org | Vol. XLVI, No. 4 October 4, 2016 Arab League Secretary General at UM-Dearborn Campus By MARIA KANSO his strict political stance towards Israel.

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