Tl(JggDAY-, AUGUST 25't 1964 THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESAY. UGUS 25.196 THEMICHGAN AIL MINNESOTA FIRST: 'M'Nine Finishes Second :>----- By CHARLIE TOWLE Sports Editor If nothing else Wolverine base- ball coach Moby Benedict suc- ceeded admirably last year int putting himself back in the hot seat-he and his players were just too good. Two years ago Benedict inher- ited from Don Lund the NCAA and World College championship baseball team. In his first year on his own, after serving as Lund's assistant, Benedict had plenty of pressure on to come through at least with a Big Ten champion- ship. He didn't. That year Mich- igan wound up a miserable sixth in the Big Ten. Afterwards base- ball fans pointed out.the fact that Benedict had lost two starting pitchers and much of the infield from Lund's team. , Benedict entered this season much more relaxed. Besides hav- ing a sixth'place club he had also lost one of the all-time best pitch- ers at Michigan, Fritz Fisher, to pro ball, and everyone knew not to expect much. Everyone was wrong. At first Michigan started 'out just about as expected when on their annual spring trip to the Southwest they won only four of 12 games. "There's plenty of room for im- provement, but I'm sure we can do it if the kids have the enthus- iasm. We'll have to improve if we want to come up with a respect- able season. It's going to take plenty of work, especially by the pitchers," Benedict said after the spring trip.', Under Benedict's patented base- ball squint "the kids" did a lot of work, especially the pitchers. By the time the schedule called on Michigan to depart on their first conference road trip they werei ready.l In a warmup game against Notre Dame Michigan won 9-0.1 .They then moved on to Wiscon-] sin when they won 6-0. A double- header at Northwestern gave them two more, 7=1 and 8-1. With a 4-3 win over Purdue and 14-2 and 11-3 wins over Illinois ,he fol- lowing day to give them tie lead in the Big Ten, the Wolverinesy were really roaring. Michigan reached its high water mark in its drive for the Big Ten title after a sweep of a double- header from MSU, 6-3 and 4-1+ last May 15th. At this point they boasted a record of 9-1 in the Big Ten, a game-and-a-half up on second running Minnesota. But the Spartans, who had lost to Michigan diamondrmen in 11 of the las't 12 meetings between the teams, proved to be the spoilers who started the end of the season skid when they. took a squeaker over the Wolverines 3-2 at East Lansing May 18th. On May 20th the Wolverines took time off to meet the U of D Titans at Ferry Field. The first game' was actually the continua- tion of one which was called be- cause of darkness in the 12 inning of play with Michigan at bat with runners on first and second and one out. It took the Wolverines one more inning to win this one 11-6 the vin went to junior right- hander Paul Schuldt. Schuldt was still on the mound when the second game started but his bid to take two wins in one day was foiled when he required ,relief help in the first inning. The win finally went to Wayne Slusher of the Wolverines, 5-4. The following day Michigan was back in Big Ten action against the Buckeyes of Ohio State. Clyde Barnhart went seven innings with-' out allowing a run but in a disas- trous eighth frame he allowed five hits and four runs to give OSU a 4-2 win. The loss dropped Michigan into a tie for first with Minnesota. Both teams held a 9-4 won-lost record going into the final day of play. Michigan faced a twinbill against sixth place Indiana, while Minnesota played two against fourth place Wisconsin. In the first game Wolverine coach Moby Benedict went with his righthander Bill Wahl who held a 4-0 record in the Big Ten going into the game. Michigan got off to a quick 3-0 lead on a first inning home run. by outfielder Ron Tate; since signed with the Detroit Tigers. But Michigan only scored two more times in the game notching single runs in the sixth and seventh while the Hoosiers ham- mered Wahl for 11 singles in 4% innings for eight runs. That was all the runs Indiana got as senior- Jim Bobel came in and pitched scoreless ball the rest of the way, but by then it was all over. In the nightcap Marlin Pember- ton hurled a fine 2-1, 10 inning win. He won his own game with a triple down the first base line in the tenth. But by that time all that was left for Michigan was a pat-on-the-back and a "nice try guys.' It was learned during the second game that Minnesota had won its first game over the Badgers .1-0 thus assuring them a tie for first place and a bid to the NCAA tourney because of their better overall record. As it was Minne- sota went on to bomb the Badgers in their second game, 7-1, thus giving them the Big Ten crown outright. Michigan ended up the season with an overall record 18-16. They stood at 10-4 in the Big Ten one game back of first place Minne- sota and a half game in front of the third place Buckeyes of Ohio State. "Next year the picture looks even brighter," says the athletic administration's publicity sheet and Benedict is back where he was two years, ago--on the hot seat. This time he is losing Captain Dave Campbell, who filled in at shortstop for two years after orig- inally starting out as a first base- man. He also loses Tate, who was nearly 40 points higher in batting than anyone else on the team with a .320 mark. Finally he will miss Ted Laslo, a classy fielding second baseman. Back for this year, team are junior catcher Ted Sizemore, the second leading hitter among the regulars last spring. Sizemore will captain a squad featuring Chan- dler Simonds at first base, George Skaff at third, outfielders Dan DiNunzio, Earl Meyers and Al Bara and utility man Bob Gilhoo- ley, who will probably take over at short for Campbell. NCAA All The Way {Continued from Page 1) averaged 526 rebounds a game to their opponents 42.7. With Russell and Buntin the Wolverines will have plenty of scoring punch. Russell broke Bun- tin's own one season scoring rec- ord for a Michigan player last year scoring a total of 690 points. They finished three-four in the Big Ten scoring race. In addition Michigan gained a lot of game savvy last year both in the regular season and-in the NCAA tournament. Instead of one senior, two juniors and a sophomore, as there was last year, this team will have two seniors, Buntin and Tregoning, two jun- iors with plenty of game expe- rience Russell and Darden and another junior who did play some last year, Clawson. Michigan was 23-5 overall last year and inexpe- rience was a factor in three of the five losses. Besides Banke and Handcox the varsity will also be gaining one more outstanding freshman, 6' 10" Craig Dill. The slender Dill could play at either forward or center this year. He was the leading scorer in the freshman varsity game with 26 points. So much for Michigan, now how about the competition. The com- petition in' the Big Ten should come from Minnesota and Purdue, the only two teams, besides Ohio, to beat the Wolverines. Minnesota which beat Michigan by a whop- ping 89-75 is the stronger of the two- -Daily-Dave Good JAZZY CAZZIE RUSSELL sparkled in his sophomore year and helped lead the Wolverines to the semifinals of the NCAA basket- ball tournament. The 6'5%" guard led the Big Ten co-champion Michigan squad with a 26.1 scoring average during the Big Ten season. I. m t. 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