Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, April 13, 1975 Page Eig1~t THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, April 13, 1975 Batsmen sweep twinbill Netters rip Purdue Special To The Daily WEST LAFAYETTE - The Michigan baseball t e a m com- pleted its opening weekend of Big Ten action here yesterday by sweeping its second double- header in as many days. The Wolverines dumped Purdue 11-4j and 7-6 in eight innings to ac- company their Friday sweep of Illinois. The opening game started out with a bang as Michigan left- fielder Mark Grenkoski led off with a solo shot to stake win- ning pitcher Craig Forhan to an early lead. Purdue, h o w e v e r, came roaring back in the bottom of the first, scoring four times. Two errors by Michigan third baseman Jeff James opened the door for the Boilermakers who came up with two singles, doubles by Terry Thompson and Jim Braun, and a fielder's choice to take the lead. Michigan cut the lead to one in the third when Grenkoski walked and was singled to third by hot-hitting second sacker Dick Walterhouse. Catcher Ted Mahan drove in Grenkoski with (r m. ta. Bt SUNDAY SPORTS NIGHT EDITOR: RAY O'HARA a single, Walterhouse moving to third. The Wolverines threaten- ed to score more when Randy Hackney walked to load the bases. Then, after Walterhouse was cut down at the plate on a fielder's choice, right fielder Pete Ross rifled a single -ff the wall for another run. The rally ended when the Purdue third baseman speared a shot of" the bat of James and fell on the bag for a double play. Forhan calmed down from his shaky first inning to hold the Boilermakers at bay until his teammates could regain the lead. The Maize and Blua took the lead for good in the fourth when Jim Berra and Dan Da- miani put together back to back singles and rode home on Gren- koski's double. First baseman Hackney then brought Grenkoski home with a single to up the lead to 6-4. Michigan wrapped up the scoring and the game with a big fifth inning that saw five Wolverines cross the plate. The big blow was Walter- house's grand slam with Ber- ra, Damian and Grenkoski aboard. Hackney cracked a homer with no one on for Michigan's 11th run. Forhan went the distance giv- ing up seven hits and striking out three. He walked one. In the nightcap Purdue grab- bed an early 2-0 lead in the second inning when John Wezet belted a two run shot off Mich- igan's Mark Weber. The Wol- verines battled back to tie it in the fourth when Ted M.ahan walked and was tripled home by Ross. James scored Ross with a single. The Wolverines shot ahead in the sixth when the Purdue third sacker booted a grounder to score freshman shortstop Berra and Ross. Ross gave Michigan a 5-2 lead with an RBI single to end the scoring in the inning. Michigan looked like they had the game on ice after pushing across another mark- er in the ton of the seventh. Speedster J a c o b Haslerig pinchran for Hackney and rode home on Jeff James' single. Weber wavered in the sev- enth, giving up a single and a double with none out. Coach Moby Benedict went to the bull- pen for ace Chuck Rogers. The Boilermakers got a run off an infield out before Rogers walk- ed the next man. Jon Stevens then rocketed Rogers serving out of the park for a three run shot to tie the game. Rogers finally got out of the inning and the fleet-footed Da- miani led off the eighth with an inside the park home run. The Boilermaker right fielder tried a shoestring catch but the ball eluded him, rolling to the fence as D a m i a n i romped around the bases. Rogers held in the eighth and escaped with a 7-6 win. It was Rogers' second conference. win, his first coming against Illinois on Friday. Special To The Daily WEST LAFAYETTE - Michigan's tennis team blitzed the Purdue Boilermakers, 9-0, yesterday in its opening match of the Big Ten season. The Wolverines overwhelmed the Boilermakers even though Michigan's top singles player, Vic Amaya, sat out the match with a back injury. Despite Purdue's lackluster performance, Michigan coach Brian Eisner called the Boilers "the best Purdue team I've seen since. I've been at Michigan." ERIC FRIEDLER took over Amaya's num- ber one singles spot and won impressively, downing Fritz Ballantine in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. Freddie DeJesus followed s!' r, thrashing Steve Plump, 7-6, 6-4. Playing fourth singles Jeff Miller dropped his first set, 3-6, to Pete Harvey, the only singles set the Wolverines lost all day. Miller rebounded to win the match however by taking the second and third sets, 6-2 and 6-3. Friedler and Karzin teamed up for the number one doubles match and had a rough time beating Ballantine and Plump of Pur- due. The Boilermaker duet took the first set 6-3, before succumbing in the next two, 7-5 and 6-4. "We're really happy we won all nine matches," beamed Eisner. "We started off slowly because this is the first time this year we've been outdoors," explained the Mich- igan mentor. The hard-hitting Amaya, who sustained an injury to his lower back eariler in the week, did not play and was not needed in the rout. However, according to Eisner, the condi- tion is not serious and Amaya should be ready to play in next week's matches with Wisconsin and Northwestern. SINGLES LFEric Friedler def. FritzeBallantine 6-3, 6-2. 2. Freddie DeJesus def. Steve Plump, 7-6, 6-4; 3. Jerry Karzen def. Luke Grossman, 7-6, 6-2; 4. Jeff Miller def. Pete Harvey, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; 5. Buddy Gallagher def. Ed Yueh, 7-5, 6-1; 6. Jim Holman def. Don Kitzhell, 6-2, 6-4. DOUBLES 1. Friedler and Karzen def. Ballantine and Plump, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4; 2. DeJesus and Miller def. Yueh and Harvey. 6-2, 6-2; 3. Gallagher and Brad )Holland def. Kitzhell and Grossman, 7-5, 6-1. 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He then ran in an 18-footer for a birdie at the par-three sixth and, after chipping to within two feet, shot another birdie at the par-five eighth. On the back nine, he birdied the 10th, 16th and 18th with two putts of 15 feet and another from 30 feet out. He also birdied the par-five 13th, which he reached in two shots and two-putted. Nicklaus, who matched a couple of tournament records over the first two rounds and appeared poised to make it a run-away, suddenly developed some putting problems and plummeted back to second with a struggling, one-over- par 73. Tom Weiskopf 69-72-66-207, Jack Nicklaus 68-67-73-208, Johnny Miller 75-71-65-211, Tom Watson 70-70-72-212, Billy Casper 70-70-73--213, Bobby Nichols 67-74-72-213, Hubert Green 74-71-70- 215, Lee Trevino 71-70-74-215, Arnold Palmer 69-71-75-215, Bud Alain 73-69-73-215, Allen Miller 68-75-72-215 Piston hopes buried By AP and UPI SEATTLE - Seattle's rookie center, Tommy Burleson, pop- ped in 17 first-half points and the SuperSonics went on to de- feat the Detroit Pistons 100-93 and win their best-of-three Na- tional Basketball Association playoff last night. The Sonics built a 56-41 half- time edge but had to withstand a furious Detroit rally paced by the Pistons' big center, Bob La- nier, who scored 23 second-half points. DETROIT CUT away at Seat- tle's lead in the third quarter as the Pistons hit 10-of-19 from the field compared to the Son- ics' 6-of-23. Lanier tallied 13 points in that period while Seat- tIe, as a team, scored only 16. Seattle held an 85-77 lead with 6:38 to go. Detroit then scored six straight points to reduce Seattle's margin to two points with 4:30 left to play. THE SONICS regained their composure as veteran guard Archie Clark sank two free throws and Burleson put in a rebound shot. Lanier finished the game with 29 points and 10 rebounds. Bur- leson totaled 26 points and 15! rebounds. Rockets blast HOUSTON - The Houston bench, led by Gus Bailey, Ron Riley and Zaid Abdul-Aziz, fuel- ed a late second - quarter rally to lead the Rockets to a 118-86 rout of New York in the decid- ing game of their National Bas- ketball Association playoff Sat- urday. THE VICTORY gave Houston a 2-1 edge in the best-of-three series and put the Rockets into a best-of-seven second-round set against the Atlantic Division champion Boston Celtics Mon- day. The Rocket's substitutes, which also were instrumental in Houston's 99-84 victory in the first games, hit eight of 12 field goal attempts in the first half, mostly in the final three min- utes .when the Rockets out- scored the Knicks 12-3 to take a 54-43 halftime lead. R U D Y TOMJANOVICH scored 25 for the Rockets, and' guard Calvin Murphy added 20. The Knicks, in the playoffs' for the ninth straight year, couldn't match Houstin in the third quarter as the Rockets maintained their surge. The Rockets boosted their lead to 64-49 after four minutes of play in the period on a jump shot by Tomjanovich. 'Bullets hit mark BUFFALO - Phil Chenier and Elvin Hayes sparked a Washington comeback that gave the Bullets a 120-106 victory over the Buffalo Braves last night and squared their Nation- al Basketball Association East- ern Conference semi-final series at one game each. HAYES SCORED 34 Blue Hardy The Michigan basketball coaches announced yesterday that Alan Hardy of Detroit Northwestern has signed a national letter of intent to enroll at Michigan. The 6-5 Hardy played forward in high school where he was accorded All-State honors. points, 11 in the final quarter, and Chenier tallied 23, 11 of them in the third period when the Bullets moved from a two- point half-time lead to take command at 84-75. The Bullets got a dazzling game from burly center Wes Unseld, who scored 17 points and grabbed 25 rebounds. Hayes chipped in with 16 retrieves. BUFFALO took a29-28 first quarter lead and widened the margin to 10 points in the first three and a half minutes of the second quarter. The Buffalo margin began to evaporate as Hayes found the range. He collected 12 points, including three straight baskets that boosted the Bullets to a 58- 54 lead 1:05 before intermission. 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