Saturday, April 3, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, April 3, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Gymnasts' bid for finals fails - -- --- -- - By BETSY MAHON ?an The Michigan gymnasts, current- st ly Big Ten Champions and de- d a w fending NCAA kings, finished a dis- ha appointing fifth in the Preliminar e ies of the NCAA Championships S w last night. The Wolverines, who ot found themselves in sixth place So, after Thursday's compulsories put NIGHT EDITOR: th up a strong fight in yesterday's op- RANDY PHILLIPSse tionals, but were unable to make up the difference. a a .lam"We started missing Thursday," still rings event with a total of c said a somewhat dejected Newt 26.8, Ted Marti and Monty Falb of Loken, "and it became contagious. each scored 8.85 in that event while ci We did real well in the compul- Mike Sale managed a 9.1. Thisi mi sories but it just wasn't enough." combined with an 8.5 in the con- si Iowa State came away with first pulsories gave Sale a total of 17.6 q u place honors scoring 153.65 in the and he missed making the di- Fe gcompulsories and 164.30 in the op- vidual finals by .10. lei tionals for a total of 317.85. South- Mrichinals Tlcs fourt in sl to u hplc he oth Mig an hea so acd forh n er Illinois who led after the con a-lsmise but un rntely ,e"frteWlvrre.Te floo u eTeycised u dnrisaot s pulsories finished second with a the teams finishing in front of o itcombined score of 317.35. Rounding them were New Mexico, Penn I " out the three finalists in today's S and Jowa aten three so th triangular finals is Pennsylvania teams to finish in frnt of them inS State with an overall of 316.80. thehrea rie.4 nhis en t ...>,. nteonaelmines. uThis ete as , New Mexico totalled 314.40 to highlighted by a 9.4 performance slip into fourth place ahead of the on the part of Ward Black, who }f~~coe Wovrie w.7o manage to rac -t ve in o m edito. also missed making the individual up 313.35 points. California, Air 'finals by .10. All-arounders Ray wt Force, Louisiana State and San Gur an g Rick M e t h i Jose rounded out the competitors s oe 9.5 singsa meve t AB Wssterd 9.15io inyfsi ninplsls iht nin ooe.o h te tte ves Michigan went into the optionals trailing Southern Illinois by 5.10 s The evening events proved less H t o successful for the Michigan for- of wlfor a the Wolernesthey fin-: tunes. They finished a disappoint- :.:T well for -h Wovrns Th.2 fin-=mnc ihl e: ished second in the side horse comn- ing seventh on, the parallel bars,!M ..~4petiion s Mie Glck soredan with only hapless Louisiana State h and San Jose making poorer show- 8.0 Ra !aa .5adDc ings. Freshman Bill Hudgins Crdyny a 9.30. Kaziny's mark com-sere bined with his 9.05 in the compul-s easuerlathe 9ihis first Siona meet bu his teammates .m.n. had less luster. Murray Plotkin- .9.175 to tie him for second plaicescrda 8.5wieRkM- -Associated Preste mnthe individual competition. He scored n 8h7 ghle R he M- MEL DANIELS (top left) of the Indiana Pacers grabs a rebound will compete in tonights individual Curdy tallied an 8.65 which were Pacer, tralingby seen ponts n ' o Rogr Bron andBob eto- etoliky, hnota hetrscor-gaensoughor tobe complete fiwis.h from Wilbert Jones of the Memphis Pros in the opening game of the finals, the only Wolverine to be soe 9 st seno-gh by most theironoed Amehea B9ktbl Asp-Clle ilasad im urdsa Ghowin, Te byt mosty ABA Western Division playoffs in Indianapolis last night. Indiana oord ther e r a k won 11498 In the foreground is the Pacers' Warren Armstrong Michigan finished fourth in theo e t tas ShmisThe Wolverines finished fourth hfon the high bar with a score of 27.35. Ed Howard led the squad i Krky' Jm Lon h with a 9.2 performance while Ted '' 'Marti scored 9.15 and Rick Mc- 0p Pac rs mas Pr s, 14-8;Curdy,9.0. While these scores werea goodtheywere not enough to ruffle 1e osn s squeak past Floridians the feathers onthe other confer- ence hapions.b. v. On the last event they partici- t] By The Associated Press an 85.74 lead by the, end of the mates Bill Keller and Mel Daniels pated in, the long horse , the 'M' g INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana third period on the hot shooting yadded 23 and 22 points gymnasts made their last desper-. Bi Pacers, trailing by seven points in) of Roger Brown and Bob Neto- INetolicky, who was held score- !ate stab for a berth in the finals. wi the first half, caught fire' in the licky. less in the first half poured in iThey finished third with 27.60,points second last night to beat Mem- Indiana built leads of 20 points Ihis game total of 13 points in the only .15 out of first. All of the per- at phis 114-9,8 in the first game of !three times in the final period !third quarter. formers in the event-Rick Mc- to their American Basketball Assoc- Char~lie Williams and Jimmy * *Curdy, Ray Gura, Ted Marti, Rusty ar itho estaern Defeniong paoAf Jones score .24 points apiece to Colonl i co m n Pierce and Ward Black-scored 9.0 th The acer, deendng A A! Clonls i com and or above but it was too late to have t 4 champions, tied the Pros at the ;lead Memphis. Brown topped all ____ hal a 5555an raedawy t .screr wth 6 oitsan tam-. .LOUISVILLE -Louie Damp-- -----.___ hr ier hit a 12-foot jump shot with mtMiePataddtofe Pi122 second remaining and team- E.F b ur~c- thirows seconds later to give theb u Kentucky Colonels a 116-112 vc vi-Aoy over the Floridians in the a#fiirst game of their American Bas- Aclip Inc ketball Association's Eastern Divi- sion semifinal playoff last night. IKentucky held the lead fiom I3 I eAscatdPe, y: :midway through the third quartei TAPFa-RiheHbe; S~- . until the final 50 seconds when diildapai fhm n n r: Kentucky's Jim Ligon hit a hook drv3nsx.usa mtsugj :>.>> ?:; '':"r >? {::: shot to put the Colonels ahead buried Cincinnati 12-0 yesteirday :> 112 111. ;:: in exhibition baseball. . * *Hebner clubbed a tw o-irun ho- ny significant effect on the final andings. Iowa State controlled yesterday's appenings finishing first in two vents, still rings and long horse, hile they came ii second in two hers, high bar and parallel bars. outhern Illinois finished first on he high bar and finished a close econd on the rings. In the competition for individual ,wards a variety of performers ame to the front. Stormy Eaton New Mexico won the floor exer- se competition and Russ Hoff- aan of Iowa State walked off with de horse honors. Charlie Ropie- uet of Southern Illinois and Ben ernandez of Indiana tied for the ead on the rings while Pat Ma- cney from little known San Fer~- ando Valley College wen the long orse crown. Brent Sirmons of owa State took first place on the arallel bars and Tom Lindner of outhern Illinois won high bar onors. The team finals featur ng Iowa Mate, Southern Illinois and Penn sate will be held this afternoon vhile the individual finals will be feld this evening. Special attrac- ions will be presenting of the lelms Award to Michigan coach newt Loken and the presentation dthe Nissen Award to the best enior gymnast. Michigan's Rick McCurdy is in the running for this onor. HOME OPENER: BameDetroit meet for two. By ELLIOT LEGOW ; With a relatively successful trip o Arizona to their credit b u t ith many problems still to work Lt, the Michigan baseball team pens its home season today with doubleheader against the Uni- ersity of Detroit. Winners of six of ten against a ariety of opponents in Arizona, he Wolverines will be trying to et in shape for the important ig Ten season which gets under- way in late April. Coach Moby Benedict will let ll four of his pitchters, Jim Bur- on, Mickey Elwood, Pete Helt, nd Tom Fleszar work today in he two seven inning battles with he g itans. sy Reds; hians, 5-2 day with a 4-2 victory over their Eugene farm club. Roger Freed had two hits for he Phillies who jumped off to a -0 lead after two innings and held on. Greg Lucinski had atwo-run " Squires squeak HAMPTON, Va. - The Vir- ginia Squires outscored the New York Nets 15-6 in the final 4:25 last night and posted a 113-105 victory in the opening game of their American Basketball Asso- ciation Eastern Division semifinal playoff. Trailing 99-98, the Squires surg- ed in front to take the lead in the best-of-7 series behind C h a r li e Scott, who scored 20 points, and, Doug Moe,- who got six points in the last two minutes. Stickmen meet MSU The Michigan Lacrosse Club, coming off a victory over na- tionally-ranked Bowling Green Wednesday, will take on Michi- gan State at home this after- noon at 2 p.m. Michigan de- feated the Spartans twice last season and will be going after another victory today in a game to be played on t h e Tartan Turf at Ferry Field. y -{ i' , I 1 r E 1 i 1 3 i I i G t mer in the first inning and add- homer for Eugene. ed a three-run shot in the eighth * * * when the Pirates scored nine runs. Expos explode Vic Davalillo and Bob Robert- son also homered for the Pirates. BRADENTON, Fla. - Ron Swo- Nelson Briles held the R e d s boda, acquired two days ago scoreless for seven innings, from the New York Mets, belted his first home run for Montreal yesterday, one of four the Expos Indians of fed hit in an 18-5 rout of the Pitts- MESA, Ariz. - Rick Monday burge Pirates 'B' team. scratched a solo homer and a Rusty Staub- hit a pair of hom- double off Cleveland's ace lefty ers and John Boccabella one as Sam McDowell yesterday and the the Expos hammered Bob Moose Oakland Athletics downed the In- for nine runs in seven innings and dians 5-2 in an exhibition b a s e- added eight more in the ninth. ball game. Carl Morton, tuning up for his Monday's homer in the A's opening day assignment, pitched second tied at at 1-1 and Oakland four scoreless innings for Mon- went ahead in the third when treat. Gene Tenace doubled and scored *re . All four pitcheis were very ef- fective in Arizona and all ten games were completed by the starters. None of the quartet has1 an earned average over 2.00 butE all have suffered from ia lack of1 hitting and fielding support. "Our pitching was just great and if it continues as it has we'll< definitely be a contender," Bene-1 dict said yesterday. Burton, the ace of the staff hurled two shut- outs in three starts and c o m e s, back to Michigan with a minis- cule earned run average of 0.40 and 33 strikeouts in 23 innings. Elwood and Helt, a pair of! sophomores, each compiled 1-1 re- cords but deserved better than that. Elwood, a right-hander al- lowed only ten hits in 14 innings while walking but two and fan- ning 14. Heglt, the only southpaw starter, was even more effective, allowing Eaonly seven hits and no walks in 13 innings but could only win his shutout. Fleszar, the fourth start- er, matched Burton with a 2-1 re- cord, hurled one shutout and had the staff's high ERA of only 1.64. With all this great pitching it's obvious that poor hitting was the cause of Michigan's four defeats. However, it wasn't hitting in gen- eral, but timely hitting that was lacking. "We still need .Ttimely and ag- gressive hitting to have a good season," Benedict stresses. He praises the play of first-baseman Pat Sullivan who "has b e e n getting hits with men on base." However, the hitting by the rest of his lineup has disappointed Benedict. "Tom Kettinger hasn't been hitting up todexpectations," Benedict stated although his pow- erful outfielder slugged at a .310 clip in the southwest. chances. runs batted in and that's what up- sets Benedict. Kettinger should be starting in left field today, des- pite Benedict's criticisms and will probably be joined in the f a r rneaches of Fisher Stadium by John Hornyak and Mike Bowen. ?Bowen and Hornyak are tied for the team lead in average, each batting .333. Hornyak has also demonstrated very good power. with one double and four triples included in his 21 hits. The infield has been the Wol- verines' biggest' sore spot, both 1with the bat and the glove. "The infield, especially the' left side has to class itself up," Benedict said. "The defense by the short- stop and third baseman was less than desired." Benedict relies on Jim Kocolo- ski at second, Mark Carrow at; third, and Mike Rafferty at short! stop most of the time in Arizona. Carrow batted .250 but did not perform well in the field. Rafferty's hitting slipped down to .192 and his fielding was like- wise far from adequate. Benedict experimented with freshman Mark Crane at both left side posi- tions of the infield but Crane fail- ed to hit in five trips to the plate! and booted two of five fielding But Kettinger had only t w o Second sacker Kocoloski, a shortstop last season, batted only plate, despite committing one .227 but did handle himself well passed ball which caused a Wol- in the field. Despite the infielding verine defeat. problems to date, Benedict is not, Also available as a backstop is expected to. make any changes in Dan Mulvihill who failed to hit his regular lineup. in 11 at bats on the trip. The only position that was left i The Wolverines still have plenty vacant on this year's squad w a s I of work to do before they will be catcher, and Benedict seems to in go d shape for the Big Ten have found an adequate replace-' schedule and today's games start- ment in freshman John Lonchar. ing at 1:00, weather permitting, Lonchar has batted .273 and will give Benedict a good chance handled himself well behind the I to work on his squad's problems. OSU defense tops ig Ten; Tigers send. five to Toledo By The Associated Press CHICAGO-Defense proved the key to Ohio State's march to the title in the tight Big Ten basketball race, final official. conference statistics indicated yesterday. Second-finishing Michigan was the league's sntop .scoring club. However, the Bucksd still had the best eye for the basket with 48.4 accuracy from the field. Michigan, winding p a game behind Ohio State in the title race, was next with 47.2. No. 2 on defense was third-spot Purdue with an average yield of 78.7. Michigan was No. 3 with 80.1. LAKELAND, Fla-The Detroit Tigers optioned five players to the Toledo farm club yesterday while a sixth was sent there outright and two non-roster players were returned to the Tigers' minor league training camp center for reassignment. Four pitchers were among those optioned to aToledo--Bob Reed, Lerrin Lagrow, Les Cain and Dennis Saunders, along withoutfielder Russ Nagelson. Infielder Jim Martino was the fifth player sent to Toledo.r * * * MINNEAPOLIS-Cal Luther was unofficially chosen yesterday as head basketball coach of the University of Minnesota. Bin has been Murray, Ky., State's head cage coach for the -past 14 seasons. Luther's selection was announced at an evening news eornfer- ence yesterday. Only a formal vote of the university's board of regents, who gave their approval in a telephone canvass, is needed to make Luther's selection official.'This is considered a mere technicality. Luther, 43, succeeds George Hanson in the Big Ten post. GENEVA-The United States crushed West Germany 5-1.fyester- day but failed by one goal to avoid relegatign to group B in the #World Ice Hockey Championships. SMITH TO SIGN: Blazers, inkWik PORTLAND, Ore. VP) - All- es of the National Basketball As- American forward Sidney Wicks socation said yesterdayth ey of UCLA signed a five-year con- would hold a news conference on tract yesterday with the Portland Monday to announce the formal Trail Blazers of the N a t i o n a 1msigning of 7-foot center Elmore Basketball Association. t hSmith, their No. 1 choice in the Terms of the contract were not!recent college draft. disclosed, but the Blazers earlier Smith, of Kentucky State, turn- were said to be ready to offer the ed down a $2.2 million: offer from 16-foot-8 standout a $1.5 million the Carolina- Cougars of the rival contract. Wicks had been report- American Basketball Association, ed to be seeking between $1.5 and a Braves spokesman said... $2 million.kTerms of the multi-year con- Wicks helped UCLA to its fifth; tract with the Braves were not straight NCAA championship last disclosed. weekend, beating Villanova in the! Asked for Smith's whereabouts, finals. He finished the season with the spokesman said: "He is stash- a 22-point scoring average and ed away in Florida somewhere. also grabbed 13 rebounds a game. Even I don't know where he is." Harry Glickm~an, the executive vice president of the Trail Blazers, phich the signing was announced Standings on two groundouts. The Indians tied it in the fifth on McDowell's homer. In the sixth, Felipe Alou dou- bled and scored the winner on Reggie Jackson's single. * * * Phils win Giants go SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The San Francisco Giants hammered out 22 hits yesterday including a home run, two doubles and a single by Ken Henderson, a n d rolled to a 12-4 exhibition b a s e- -Associated Press WALT FRAZIER of the New York Knicks steals a pass in the recent Knick-Atlanta Hawk NBA playoffs. The Hawks' Pete Maravich (44) can only look on. Frazier has allegedly been N considered in a multi-million dollar deal which would have Frazier and several other NBA stars jump to the ABA. ABA DROOLING Frazier, Monroe may juu NEW YORK (R) - A $3 million pack- age deal which could take two of the top players of the National Basketball Association - Walt Frazier of the New York Knicks and Earl "The Pearl" Mon- roe of the Baltimore Bullets - into the rival American Basketball Association was revealed yesterday. Paul Corvino, president of Sports Pro- ductions Unlimited, a New York-based firm dealing in player management, said he had been discussing such a deal for more than a month with the ABA Texas Chap- arrals. "These have been very guarded nego- tiations but they are real," Corvino said. "The package includes Walt Frazier, Earl discussed the proposed deal with Corvino and had made a special trip to New York for that purpose, but had turned it down. "It's too rich for our blood right now," Williams said. "We are not interested in those terms." Corvino, told of Williams' reaction, ex- pressed surprise. "This is the first word I've had along that line," he said. "Wil- liams has seemed very interested in our talks. "But that does not mean the deal has fallen through. We may work out other arrangements. Besides, Ihave a couple of other ABA teams interested." He declined to identify them. Corvino said he believed Williams was have to fig 000 bracke Frazier a their respe of the top league. He wasa off victory Thursday r Garrettt falo in the is a 7-foo center-forw CLEARWATER, Fla. - The ball victory over the University of Philadelphia Phillies ended their Santa Clara. Florida exhibition season yester- ------ -S-AtrOS zoom HOUSTON-The Houston Astros scored a pair of runs on infield York Yankees 2-1 in the first j game of a novel tripleheader ex- 1 1hibition baseball game in the As- trodome. The Astros scored their two runs ure them in the $175,000-$180,- in the second inning as Bob Wat- t." son and Dennis Menke led off with nd Monroe are star guards of singles and Doug Rader walked to ctive teams, Frazier rated one fill the bases. men at his position in the Watson and Menke then scored on ground outs. a star in the Knicks' 4-1 play- The Yankees scored in the fifth over Atlanta, completed here inning on a single by Jerry Ken- night. ney and a triple by Frank Baker. went from Los Angeles to Buf- 1970 expansion draft. Fillmore h t-1 forward and Mast a 6-9 vard bothyoung reserves on the ' V.1-4::. '. t::': "V:'f :.. n.f::14' :: i;"', "'-"v' Y '";" ': }:: f:"}{' yJ:":1'' .' : os )RES >: New York team. , "They are both under contract," an NBA spokesman said. "Any attempt to raid them could bring trouble." t 7 t. with: "He's now officially signed a five-year contract to play w i t h the Portland Trail Blazers. He has played on three consecutive national achmpionship teams at IUCLA. We only hope he will do the same for Portland."I Wicks was asked if he felt he got a fair deal. EXHIBITION BASEBALL r Yesterday's Results Pittsburgh 12, Cincinnati, 0 Montreal 18, Pittsburgh "B" 5 San Francisco 12, Santa Clara U 4 Oakland 5, Cleveland 2 Tokyo Orions at San Francisco San Diego vs. Milwaukee Cleveland vs. Oakland NBA Playoffs Thursday's Results c-Boston New York Montreal Toronto Buffalo Detroit Vancouver c-Chicago East Division W , L T Pts. GF GA 55 14 7 117 384 202 48 17 11 107 251 170 41 22 13 95 282 207 36 32 8 '80 242 201 24 39 14 62 214 288 22 43 11 55 208 298 23 45 8 54 220 290 West Division 48 19 9 105 271 180 124 9k 1 12 gal