Tuesday, April 19, 1977
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SPLITS BASEBALL, FOOTBALL DUTIES
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By JAMIE TURNER
The Michigan baseball team,
while blessed with the most
talent seen in recent years, has
not gotten off the ground with
the best possible start. After the
first weekend of Big Ten play
the Wolverines find themselves
in the middle of the pack with
a 22 record and 12-8 overall.
While coach Moby Benedict
shrugs this off with a "that's
baseball, and "some days are
better than others," the fact
r e m a i n s that Michigan justl
hasn't been able to put it all to-
gether yet.1
role cramps
Leach s style
Rick Leach as well has not
gotten off to a blazing start
with this year's team. Last
year's top Wolverine hitter has
found himself pressing . .
missing pitches that he would
have belted last year.
Michigan counts on Leach to
regain his form and to help it
retain it's Big Ten champion-
ship. But Leach has a problem
.. that being football.
Coach Bo Schembechler de-
manded that Leach go to every
practice and perform in the first'
half of the annual spring prac-
tice game . . . even though that
prevented the baseball team
from employing one of its most here."
dangerous weapons. That type of sentiment was
In the Sunday sports section echoed by co-captain Ted Ma-
of a Detroit newspaper, one han, who said that he was more
writer commented that "some disappointed that Leach couldn't
(of the baseball team) ... are play than embittered.
embittered because their star Coach Moby Benedict com-
centerfielder and run-producer mented that he didn't think
-a proven quarterback in the the team was embittered. "I
fall-has to be detained by haven't quizzed the team. I
spring football." think they're upset but not
Following Sunday's double- embittered. They would like
header split with Iowa, some of to have Rick play and they
the team commented on the realize that he helps the
controversy, team."
"We understand that he has a I"I don't think the team is
commitment to football," said bitter at all at Rick," said short-
third baseman Dave Chapman, stop Jim Berra. "He gets flack
"and we understand that foot- from both sides. We realize his
ball kind of runs things around situation.
"You know he gets banged
around alot in practice and that
has got to affect his hitting,"
he continued. "He gets down1
and starts pressing . . . it takes
its toll. I don't think anyone
doubts that he's busting his tail
out on the field, it's just that the
team wishes that he could spend
all his time with us."
"When we had a big week-
end like this, when the cham-
pionship could have been de-
cided, we really needed to
have all our players," Berra
concluded.
Benedict expressed the atti-
tude of the team and also shed
some light on the athletic totem
pole. "I don't have a great deal
to say . . . it's really in Bo's
hands."
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Classified '
Blue diamond stars
shine in Iowa split
1:
By JAMIE TURNER
Facing a must-win situation
after dropping a 3-1 decision to
Iowa in the first game of Sun-
day's doubleheader, the Mich-
igan baseball team rallied be-
hind the six-hit pitching of Steve
Perry and the slugging of Jim
Berra, Dave Chapman and Greg
Lane for an 8-1 triumph in the
second game.
"I'm greedy ... I would have
liked to have come out of the
weekend at .750," said Wolver-
ine coach Moby Benedict. "But
the first game (the 3-1 loss) was
as fine a college game as you'll
ever want to see. It was no dis-
grace to lose that one."
IN IOWA pitcher Mike Bod-
dicker, the Wolverines faced
their toughest mound opponent
this year. Time and time again
the slendor right hander had the
right handed Wolverines bailing
out on his sharp breaking
curves.
"Boddicker was as good a
pitcher as we've seen," com-'
mented Michigan shortstop Jim
Berra. "We didn't expect to face
him, but he did a heluva job."
Berra's second home run of
the season had tied up the game
in the fifth inning after a bases-
loaded walk had forced in the1
first Hawkeye tally.
Tle game continued on an
even keel with both team*
threatening but neither doing'
aqy damage until the eighth.
Wolverinereliever Kevin Clin-
ton (2-1) took over the mound
chores after starter Craig Mc-
Ginnis had tired in the seventh.
AFTER GETTING out of a
tight situation in' the seventh,
Clinton gave upsingles to Bod-'
dicker and first baseman Del
Ryan to open the eighth.
Pitching carefully to left field-
er Willie Mimis, Clinton issued
a walk. Wolverine catcher and
co-captain Ted Mahan eased the
pressure somewhat w h e n he
picked off Boddicker at third
when the pitcher had taken too
large a lead.
All was for naught however,
when Hawkeye Tom Wessling
single through the drawn-in in-
field-driving in the two run
winning margin.
Michigan wasted no time in
changing things in the second
game. After a Berra double and
Chapman's infield single, right
fielder Mike Parker doubled,
driving in both runners and sig-
naling the end of Iowa starter
Steve Rooks (4-1) after only two
innings.
RELIEVER Wes Weigal fared
no better than Rooks when the
Wolverines exploded for four
more runs in the third. .
With one out, Lane singled up
the middle and took second on a
ground out. Rick Leach drove
Lane home with his first hit
since the spring tour. He took
second on a passed ball and third
on a wild pitch. Berra walked,
setting the table for Chapman's
three run blast-only the second
of his career.
"I hit one out against them
last year," commented a
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pleased Chapman. "I've been
hitting poorly, and I had to
break out of my slump.'
Chapman's six - for - six effort
raised his average from .224 to
.284, his best day as a Wol-
verine.
MICHIGAN scored two morel
runs off the third Iowa hurler,
Rich Carlucci, on a single by,
Anderson and Lane's RBI dou-
ble in the fifth and Berra's sec-
ond home run of the day in the
sixth.
"'We've been trying to shorten
his (Berra's) stroke and for him
to go some to right field," com-
mented Benedict. "It's added a
lot to his power."
"I'm just trying to take theI
ball up the middle," said Berra,
"I've been trying to pull the ball
all the time, and that's not myI
style." Berra went on to credit
added weight and Benedict's aid
for his extra distance.
Michigan takes to the road for
two games at Western Michigan
today and returns for a home
doubleheader a g a i n s t Notre
Dame on Thursday. The Wol-
verines travel to Ypsilanti to
play Eastern Michigan in a dou-
bleheader on Sunday.
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