The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, October 4, 1978-Page9 HOLD KC TO 2 HITS Yanks crush Royals, 7-1 By The Associated Press KANSAS CITY-Reggie Jackson capped a perfect night with a huge three-run homer in the eighth inning last night, carrying the New York Yankees to a 7-1 victory over the Kan- sas City Royals in the opening game of the 1978 American League Champion- ship Series. Jackson, who rewrote the record books with three home runs in the last game of last year's World Series, unloaded against Kansas City relief ace Al Hrabosky, sealing a Yankee victory that was constructed around the air- tight pitching of a pair of young right- handers-Jim Beattie and Ken Clay. Beattie and Clay, both second-line hurlers, delivered a two-hitter to help New York to a 1-0 lead in the best-of- five pennant playoff. But the Royals were still* in the game until the eighth inning when Mickey Rivers and Lou Piniella singled against reliever Steve Mingori. At that point, Kansas City Manager Whitey Herzog went to his bullpen for his No. 1 reliever, Hrabosky. The man they call "The Mad Hungarian" went into his psyche act, stepping about 10 feet off the mound with his back to Jackson, before pit- ching. Roy White doubled down the right field line with one out in the second and raceahome when Bucky Dent, hero of Monday's East Division playoff victory against Boston, drilled a two-out single up the middle. Reggie Jackson's two-out double in the third was New York's fifth hit against Leonard and, a moment later, he scored when Nettles tripled off the right field wall, giving the Yankees a 2- 0 lead. Through three innings, Kansas City's only runners were LaCook and McRae, on walks, as Beattie kept the Royals hitless. When Dennis Leonard surrendered a leadoff single to Piniella in the fifth for the ninth Yankee hit, Steve Mingori relieved for the Royals. Piniella advan- ced on a passed ball and Jackson walked. Nettles then forced Jackson and Chambliss bounced a single to right, scorin- Piniella with the third vnke ROYALS SHORTSTOP Freddie Patek hurdles Yankee baserunner Thurman Munson after a force at second base. The play occurred in the first inning last night in Kansas City. The batter Lou Piniella was safe when Patek was unable to relay the ball to first base. PLAYOFF SCHEDULE AMERICAN LEAGUE Today's Game New York (Figueroa, 20-9) at Kansas City (Gura, 164), 3:30 p.m. Friday's Game Kansas City (Splittorff, 19-13) at New York (Guidry, 25-3), 3:30 p.m.' Saturday's Game Kansas City at New York, 8:30 p.m., if necessary. Sunday's Game Kansas City at New York, 8:30p.m., if necessary. NATIONAL LEAGUE Today's Game Los Angeles (Hooton. 19-10) at Philadelphia (Christenson, 13-14), 8:30 p.m. Thursday's Game Los Angeles (John, 17-10) at Philadelphia (Ruth- ven, 15-11),2:30 p.m. Friday's Game Philadelphia (Carton, 16-13) at Los Angeles (Sut- ton, 15-11),8:30 p.m. Saturday's Game Philadelphia at Los Angeles, necessary. 4:30 p.m., if 8:30 p.m., if Sundays Game at Los Angeles, KANSAS CITY outfielder Amos Otis looks like he has control of the single hit by Reggie Jackson of the Yankees (left) moments later finds the ball popping out of his glove (right). Otis was charged with an error on the play as Jackson second, but the Yankees were unable to get Jackson home. Philadelphia necessary. PRIMED FOR NOTRE DAME INVITATIONAL: Harriers regain winning stride By DAVE RENBARGER For three years running, the Michigan cdoss country team was in a rut-a winning rut. Coach Ron Warhurst's teams were producing Big Ten titles like copies from a Xerox duplicator. Then, last fall the Wolverine machine suddenly. short-circuited, and the harriers struggled to a four- th place conference finish. TODAY, WITH another season getting underway, Warhurst certainly isn't looking for a carbon copy of last year. Accordingly, there are a couple of dif- ferences between the two teams and their training methods. Nothing drastic, mind you, but changes just the same. For one thing, Warhurst is emphasizing a strong team concept, which has resulted in some stiff, in- tra-squad competition. Gone are the days where one runner dominates, winning everything the way Billy Donakowski and Greg Meyer used to. "There's no pecking, order this year and it's great," said Warhurst. "Different guys are taking the initiative every day. It's so wide open that we have five or six guys, all capable of being number one." THfE FIFTH-YEAR coach proceeded to rattle off a long list of candidates-like Dan Heikkinen, Steve Elliott, Bill Weidenbach, Gerry Donakowski, Dough Sweazey and Dave.Lewis-to illustrate his point. These six runners finished just 35 seconds apart to lead the Wolverines to the team title in their first race of the season, the Springbank International Road Races last month. Heikkinen, who led the way for Michigan at the Springbanks, is all for the new togetherness theme. "This team is really together," said Heikkinen, a junior who was idle most of last year with a leg ailment. "We run all our workouts together and there's not one guy who wins all the time." The workouts, too, are a bit different this year. In an attempt to stimulate actual racing situations, Warhurst has implemented what he calls an "Oregon workout" into the team's training schedule three times a week. In the new workouts, the harriers run a fast mile on the track (4:36 pace), and then run out the gate three miles to Huron Hills golf course at a pace of 5:20 or so. Then, without rest, the runners put in another fast mile on the grass before another three miles of roadwork heading for home. Upon their arrival, still with no rest, they go for another fast mile around the track. "WHAT I'M LOOKING for is a steady progresion," said Warhurst, who has been lowering the pace as the harriers move into top form. "You have to go out fast, then settle into a fairly fast pace (to stay in contention) in the big races." The next big race on the cross country schedule is the Notre Dame Invitational this Friday in South Bend. Toward the end of the year, the meets get more and more important, but the Notre Dame meet traditionally draws a top-flight field and ser- ves as an excellent, early-season progress yar- dstick. Warhurst is hopeful that his squad will emerge from the 20-team scramble on top, but Heikkinen isn't looking forward to the five-mile race at all. "I HATE NOTRE Dame," he said bluntly. "I ran there last year and hurt my leg. Their course is flat and is full of these small bumps that throw me off." Fortunately for Warhurst, this year's balanced crew should have enough depth to compensate for problems like this. And, although Heikkinen's current number one status may be in jeopardy, the team realizes that any successful machine must have more than one working part. - SPOR TS OF THE DAILY Blue's booters mature in 4-1 loss By BILLY NEFF The Michigan soccer team grew up' last night, despite suffering a 4-1 defeat at the hands of highly rated- John Wesley College in Ohio. Only two late goals by the Ohioans turned what was an extremely exciting contest into a onesided outcome. With rain pelting down on Ferry Field, the Blue booters came out strong in the first half in an attempt to knock off Wesley. The Ohioans had ripped the Wolverines 4-0 last year, so Michigan's booters felt they had to prove something. However, Wesley got on the scoreboard first, thanks to a defensive mistake. The goal stood up until half- time. With about 10 minutes gone in the second half, the Blue booters knotted the score as standout midfielder Ralph Schwagerknocked down an attempted Wesley clear and blasted a bullet past the Ohioans bewildered all-American goalie. This goal seemed to spur the spirited booters even more as Dave Kendall and Mohamed Alhamad controlled action. But the more experienced Wesley con- tingent weathered the Wolverine storm as they parlayed some defensive miscues into three late goals. The tie-breaking goal came when a The Wolverines, who played without both their stars, Stephen Mitcov and forward Dave Ritchie, were "much bet- ter than last year, due to their coaching. Last year they had very little organization," said Wesley coach Bob Imhoff. Michigan's 3-2-1 soccer club takes to the road today against U-M Dearborn. But last night they really came of age as they played even with one of the nation's top teams, as they outshot the, Ohioans, 12-11. Wings whale DETROIT (UPI)-Rookie defense- man Willie Huber, who wasn't even born until Gordie Howe had played a decade in the NHL, scored two goals and assisted on a third last night to help the Detroit Red Wings spoil the Howe family's exhibition return to Detroit with a 7-5 victory over the New England Whalers. A crowd of 14,119 erupted in a prolonged standing ovation when the great grandfather was instroduced in the starting lineup and then went wild again when the only 50-year-old professional hockey player scored a goal in the third period. Howe, who spent the first 25 years of his career playing the Red Wings, had his every move cheered but the crowd also reserved a thundering ovation for Detroit center Dale McCourt, who defied hockey by suing to stay with the team. Detroit got goals from Nick Libett, McCourt, Vaclav Nedomansky, Errol Thompson and Paul Woods. Ruggers rol In Detroit last. Saturday, the Mich- igan Rugby Club scrummed off against their arch-rivals, the Detroit City Club and split a twinbill Michigan's 'A' side, led by Rory O'Connor and Jack God- man topped DCC, 14-2. DCC came back to take the 'B' side contest, 20-0. The ruggers return to the Motor City this weekend to compete in the Stroh's Great Lakes Rugby Tournament. Teams from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana will be competing in the tourney. -DAILY SPORTS R.N. s-full time and part time positions available L.P.N. 'S-full time positions available This acute care hospital affiliated with the University of Michigan Medical Center is looking for nurses for our medicine, surgery and psychiatry wards. t ,uJ ir:: 1 ' %raLjer'o 1db -These are permanent positions -Full Civil Service Benefits -Comprehensive health and life insurance Starting Salary: R.N.'s-$12,986 to $18,258 L.P.N.'s-$9,514 to $10,623 100o tdifferential for afternoon and midnight shifts Good food, domestic & Imported beers