The Michigan Daily-Saturday, September 30, 1978-Page 9 PESKY DUKE RETURNS: Blue guards against Devilish fate By PAUL CAMPBELL It's a week late, but it's here at last. it's time for Canham's Revels, huge football game parties which take place two or three consecutive Saturdays in early autumn at Bo's Bowl at the corner of Main and Stadium. In the stands, it's a time to take ad- vantage of the last predictably decent 1eather before the rapid descent into frigid winter begins. On the field, it's a time for many Michigan wins, many points, and a heaping portion of boring football. IT'S THE non-conference football season, and it begins this afternoon hen Duke's Blue Devils visit for a ame between two undefeated teams. Coach Bo Schembechler has stated is philosophy on these games time and ime 'again, but if. you haven't been istening, it goes something like this: We play them for practice. None of hese games are as important as any -ingle conference game on the bumpy oad to the Rose Bowl. We want to win, but it's more important to improve and "tay healthy. It's probable that even Bo didn't ex- et this approach to work as well as it as since he arrived in Ann Arbor nine ears ago. His first team lost badly to issouri, but his record in these egular season "exhibitions" since that lay is a striking 25-0-2. Still, many of those wins have come gainst teams that didn't even belong n the schedule. There have been so any easy-to-forget games against avy, Wake Forest, Tulane, etc. THIS YEAR was different. The first quad Michigan faced outside of the Big Ten was high and mighty Notre Dame. It wasn't your typical non-contest. Even Bo would have a hard time con- vincing someone that a conference game such as Northwestern was more emotionally satisfying than last week's comeback win over the Irish. So, like all good coaches, he's worried. Will his team be able to con- centrate on Duke with the sweet taste of victory clouding their senses? "Notre Dame was the biggest non- conference game we've had since I've been here," admitted Bo. "Now a letdown is a possibility," said Bo, "because so many people are congratulating us on last week that it is hard to pay attention to what's going on." ADD TO the threat of staleness this THE LINEUPS MICHIGAN . DUKE (80) (68) (61) (50) (64) (67) (18) (22) (33) (25) ( 7) (92) (91) (95) (90) (55) (40) (46) (42) (16) (29) ( 4) Dough Marsh John Giesler Greg Bartnick Steve Nauta John Arbeznik John Powers Rodney Feaster Ralph Clayton Russell Davis Harlan Huckleby Rick Leach Mark DeSantis Tom Seabron Curtis Greer Chris Godfrey Dale Keitz Ron Simpkins Jerry Meter Gene Bell Mike Jolly Gerald Diggs Michael Harden OFFENSE (229).... TE ....(87) (244).... ST ....(79) (241).... RG ....(68) (229)..... G .....(59) (243).... LG ....(69) (254).... QT ....(60) (188)... WR ...(10) (21)... WB ...(84) (223).... FB ....(48) (198).... TB ....(47) (195).... QB ....( 8) DEFENSE (215)... OLB ...(90) (214)... OLB ...(44) (236)..... T .....(65) (240)..... T .....(61) (233)... MG ...(54) (225)... ILB ...(31) (210)... ILB ...(58) (199)... Wolf ...(40) (181).. WHB ..(42) (186)... SHB ...(19) (183)..... S .....(14) Joel Patten Ken Saudinger Tim Brazill Kevin Kelly Bob Riordan Tom Luongo Jeff Comer Derrick Lewis Ned Gonet Gregg Rhett Mike Dunn Jim McMahon Derrick Mashore Jack Algor Greg Pritchard Andy Schoenhoft Bill King Carl McGee Craig Hoskins Dan Brooks George Gawdun Rick Sommers (230) (235) (230) (220) (230) (245) (175) (170) (220) (175) (185) (220) (200) (240) (220) (230) (215) (225) (190) (190) (190) (185) typical Schembechlerism: "Duke is capable of beating us - they're a good football team." If not good, the Blue Devils are cer- tainly equally as feisty as they were last year, when they made Michigan look less-than-awesome in a 21-9 Wolverine win. They moved the ball well, and the last snap of the game came from the Michigan three-yard line with Duke in possession. An always effective, sometimes ex- plosive offensive backfield is Duke's prize asset. Senior quarterback Mike Dunn will be returning from a badly sprained thumb to play his first full game of the season. He adds the same dimension to his offense as Rick Leach does to Michigan's - a runner who isn't afraid to pass. THEIR UNBEATEN record belies the fact that they have been outgained and out-first-downed by their two vic- tims. But Coach Mike McGee sees it as a sign of his team's spirit. "We'll play anybody tough," said McGee. "We aren't deep in many areas but we're lucky to be healthy and glad to have Mike back." Michigan hasn't been quite as lucky, but Schembechler is simply happy that this week's practice didn't add any names to the injured list, which still in- cludes starters Bill Dufek, Gene John- son, and Mel Owens. WOLVERINE TALES: Exceptional performances by two Michigan players could earn them lofty spots in the all- time record books. Rick Leach needs 15 pass completions to pass Don Morehead as the all-time Michigan leader and Harlan Huckleby needs 78 yards to pass Tom Harmon and take over sixth place in rushing yardage. . once again, a crowd of 104,000 plus is expected to vie for the 101,700 painted numbers on the benches of Michigan Stadium. DAUER TIES FIELDING RECORD Tigers edge Birds behind Slcton Daily Photo by MAUREEN O'MALLEY JUNIOR ROOSEVELT SMITH rambles for yardage during Michigan's season opening victory over Illinois. The undefeated Wolverines return home today fol- lowing last Saturday's comeback victory at Notre Dame to host the Duke Blue Devils at 1:30 p.m. Duke has a 2-0 record going into the non-conference battle. Hibbard tallies twice; Clubbers blitz Toledo By GARY KICINSKI Special to The Daily DETROIT - For a second-division team, they call this time of year the salary drive - and it couldn't be more true for anyone other than Tiger Jim Slaton. Slaton, the 28-year-old righthander who plans to leave the Tigers and make the big bucks in the free agent draft, set back the Baltimore Orioles last night, 3-2, at Tiger Stadium, for his 17th win. There was no fanfare, no booing and indeed nothing much made of what was probably Slaton's last outing in a Tiger uniform. And Slaton's performance was appropriately so-so. Slaton, who turned a multi-year Tiger contract offer down, allowed eight Oriole hits while walking three and striking out just one. He left after three consecutive hits in the eighth, and bullpen ace John Hiller came on to preserve the win. Hiller picked up his 14th save of the.year and his fifth in his last 14 games. During that span he has also won three without losing and has compiled an ERA of 1.40.° The Birds nipped Slaton for an unearned run in the first inning. Oriole centerfielder Larry Harlow slashed a liner to leftfield for a single, and when Steve Kemp bobbled the bouncing ball, Harlow, took second on the error. A bounce out to first by Pat Kelly moved Harlow to third with one away, where he scored easily on a high chopper by Ken Singleton. Rookie hurler Sammy Stewart took the hill for the Birds, and held the Tigers hitless through the first three innings. Stewart, who set a major league record by striking out seven consecutive Chicago batters in his only other major league start, kept the first ten Tiger batters off stride with his exploding fastball. But third baseman Phil Mankowski placed a fly ball just out of Harlow's diving reach in leftcenter, portunity in the bottom of the fifth, scoring twice to take a 3-1 lead. Rightfielder Tim Corcoran lead off with a walk, and rookie Ifve Stegman (replacing the sore- heeled Ron LeFlore) bunted him down to second. Alan Trammell bounced out for the second putout, but Rookie-of-the-Year candidate Lou Whitaker walked to keep the inning alive. Mankowski then drilled his second big hit of the night to centerfield, scoring Corcoran, and when Harlow couldn't pick up the ball, Whitaker scored also. Slaton ran out of gas in the eighth, as singles by Singleton and Eddie Murray and a double by Doug DeCinces cut the lead to 3-2. With men at second and third and one out, manager Ralph Houk sent Slaton to the showers for the last time, bringing in Hiller to face the left-handed Terry Crowley. Crowley managed to work Hiller for a walk to load the bases, but the Tiger reliever struck out pinch hitter Gary Roenicke and retired Dauer on a lazy fly to Corcoran in right. Hiller had no trouble in the ninth, getting the first two outs on easy bouncers, and striking out pinch hitter Andre Mora to end the lightning-fast game in just two hours and three minutes. Baltimore's Mike Flanagan goes after his twentieth today against Jack Morris of the Tigers. The game means nothing to Detroit, but the Birds still have a chance of overtaking third place Milwaukee, whom they trail by one and a half games. By BOB EMORY The Michigan women's field hockey team more than made up for their season opening loss to Central Michigan last Monday with a devastating 7-0 whitewashing of a badly outclassed Toledo team yesterday at FerryField. Last year when the two teams met, it, was the Wolverines junior varsity squad that beat Toledo. This time Toldeo's head coach requested to play the varsity and, although his team played better than last year, they were still no match for Michigan. A FIVE GOAL outburst in the first half did the Rockets in. Dea Mazzetta got things started with her first goal of the young season when she banged in a loose rebound from just in front of the Toledo net. Minutes later hustling half- back Mary Hibbard scored her first of two for the day with a tricky reverse stick shot that netminder Liz Waltz never even saw. SCORES Major League Baseball American League Boston It. Toronto 0 Detroit 3, Baltimore 2 New York 3, Cleveland 1 National League New York 3-4, Chicago 2-5 Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia 4 (1st game) Cincinnati 7, Atlanta 2 San Francisco 2, Houston 1 Three goals in the last eight minutes finished off the first half barrage. Lisa Kaplan, Alexandra Callam and- Hib- bard notched the tallies. Hibbard's second goal was a tremendous shot from 25 feet out and tied her for the team in goals (two) with Callam, who also scored twice. TOLEDO'S DEFENSE tightened up in the second half but Jean McCarthy broke through on a good rush and scored her first goal of the year to round out the Wolverine scoring. The women next take the field today as both the junior varsity and varsity teams play against Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo. and was on at second with one out. Following Rusty Staub's tapout to first, Jason Thompson ripped a single to center for his 94th RBI of the year, scoring Mankowski to knot the score at 1-1 in the fourth. Slaton wiggled out of a bases-loaded jam in the fifth, getting Kelly to force Rich Dauer at home and blowing three called strikes past Singleton to end the threat. The Tigers, however, made the best of their op- The races Yanks squeeze Tribe while BoSox breeze ,: 1JJ + ratser's i By The Asociated Press NEW YORK - Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson and Lou Piniella delivered consecutive run-scoring singles in the eighth inning last night, rallying the first-place New York Yankees to a 3-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians to edge them a step closer to a 'third straight American League East championship. 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