Page 14-Tuesday, May 22, 1979-The Michigan Daily HOWE LOSES FIRST CONFERENCE GAME Spartans KO Blue tournament bid for an 8-5 win and their second con- tan third. hitter. By ALAN FANGER ference title in 25 years. The scheme And before Howe could rescue him- The crowd of 2,419 came to its feet Moby Benedict came up with the had flopped - all that remained was self from the disastrous inning, when Perry fanned two of the last three scheme which would conclude his Sunday's sentimental tribute to the 17- brothers Tom and Bill Schultz singled, Spartans to end the game, but the ap- Michigan baseball coaching career year Benedict coaching era. with Tom eventually coming home on a preciation seemed destined for both the with another Big Ten championship and "He (Howe) threw good for the first wild pitch. That prompted Benedict to departing seniors and their steadfast a fifth NCAA regional berth. inning or so, then everything tug his number one starter in favor of mentor. He would pitch southpaw ace Steve straightened out," said Benedict, who Mark Clinton, who had hurled a two- Among other kudos, Benedict's num- Howe in the first game of a home-and- will takea position with the Intramural hitter against Iowa the previous Sun- ber One was retired before the game. home series with Michigan State in sports department this fall. "He's a day. The Blue skipper was also given a East Lansing Saturday. Howe would great pitcher, there's no question about The Wolverines received a big break plaque by his players after the contest, keep his undefeated conference hurling that. But once in a while, he gets in a bit in their fifth when Wolcott was pulled and a picture with warm greetings record intact by whipping the Spartans, of a slump." from the game with a pain in the from one of his favorite pupils, Min- leaving righthander Steve Perry to And while Howe was slumping, Perry shoulder of his pitching arm. Mark nesota Twins pitcher Geoff Zahn. complete the sweep Sunday at Fisher was closing out his collegiate career Pomorski proved to be no equal as the But the veteran coach kept his eyes Stadium. Sunday with a five-hit, 6-0 shutout per- Blue batsmen touched him for three fixed on the box score. "I'm going to But Howe was shelled for six runs in formance. runs, pulling within one at 6-5. frame that one," he said. the third inning at MSU 's rain-soaked For the first two and a half innings at Unfortunately for Benedict's crew, Benedict's final class will no doubt Kobs Field, and the Spartans hung on East Lansing, it looked as if Benedict's MSU coach Danny Litwhiler had a bet- have an impact in the professional Big 10 St udings FINAL STANDINGS W L Michigan State ............ 11 4 Wisconsin ................. 13 5 MICHIGAN ...............10 4 Minnesota:................ 12 6 Iowa ...................... 10 6 Ohio State............... 10 7 Purdue .................... 6 12 Northwestern ............. 5 11 Indiana ................... 3 13 Illinois .................... 3 15 saturday's Results MichiganStatet8,MICHIGAN 5 Ohio Statet8-11,Illinois 1-0 Purduet-0, Indiana 3-1 Sunday's Results MICHIGAN6.,MichiganState0 Purdue5-4. Ohio ase,4-7 Indiana 13-3,Ililinoins-11 Pet. .733 .722 .714 .667 .625 .588 .333 .313 .188 .167 strategy would pay off. Third baseman Jim Paciorek took State hurler Brian Wolcott's second pitch of the contest and poked it over the left centerfield fence, and Rick Leach added a solo blast in the third. But MSU, which came into the game with a 10-3 conference mark (the Wolverines were 9-3 going into the weekend series), caught several of Howe's higher-placed fastballs, buildinga 6-2 margin by inning's end. After walking Joe Lopez, Howe yielded singles to Al Dankovich, Randy Hop and Ken Robinson. Lopez and Dankovich scored, and the two-run Wolverine lead had been quickly erased. The real damage, however, was in- curyed by State's Roger Bastien, who drove a high pitch down the rightfield line that narrowly cleared the em- bankment at the 301-foot mark. Bastien's round-tripper made it a 5-2 ballgame, with only one out in the Spar- ter gun in his arsenal - Mark Sutherland. Sutherland came in and warded off several Michigan rally at- tempts to save the game and earn the Spartans an NCAA regional berth on their own turf next weekend. Thus the Wolverines returned home with their Big Ten championship and tournament hopes in shambles. Sun- day's game would be for the seniors - Leach, Howe, Perry, leftfielder Dan Cooperrider, infielder Dale Mason, and catcher Jim Capoferi. "Moby pulled us all in and said, 'Let's go out there, hang loose, and have fun'," said Capoferi. And have fun they did. All the bat- smen needed was a three-run first-in- ning bombing of MSU starter Jay Strother, and that was enough to keep the home folks happy. Run-scoring singles by Cooperrider, Foussianes and Tim Miller gave Perry all the runs he would need, as the big righthander held the Spartans at bay while hurling a five- ranks. Both Leach, who ended the year with a .315 average), and Howe are con- sidered first-round material in next month' draft, while Perry and Capoferi could be drafted in later rounds. LA TTANY SETS BIG TEN RECORD Blue striders stumble as Hoosiers take title BY GEOFF LARCOM In the chart Indiana coach Sam Bell worked out before the Big Ten track championships, he calculated his team would score in the neighborhood of 150 points, easily enough, he figured, to take top honors in the two-day event. And Bell, like his Hoosier track con- tingent, proved to be right on target through the whole weekend, his team adding the outdoor championship at Ferry Field to the conference indoor title it won at Illinois earlier this season. INDIANA ENDED up just six points shy of Bell's prediction, totaling 144 points, while host Michigan finished second with 111, followed by Wisconsin with 101. Ohio State was a distant fourth at 56, with Illinois fifth at 44. Michigan State, Purdue, Iowa, Minnesota and Northwestern rounded out the bottom five. The Hoosiers grabbed nine firsts in the sun-splashed competition, while the host Wolverines could manage but one, when Mike Lattany successfully defen- ded his Big Ten outdoor high jump title with a meet record leap of 7-31. Despite the impressive showing by Indiana, Michigan might have challenged had it not been for two set- backs, one of which occurred on Friday, the other coming on the final day of competition. Sprinter Andrew Bruce, on whom Michigan coach Jack Harvey was banking for points in the 100- and 200- meter dashes, pulled up lame in his Friday qualifying heat with a ham- string pull, knocking him out of the meet. "I THINK the only way we could have won the meet is if Bruce had been healthy and Indiana had gotten some bad breaks," said Harvey after the meet. "And that's just not bound to happen." Yet it was Michigan which ironically suffered the "bad break" of the meet, when hurdlers Marshall Parks and Don Wheeler each fell to the track, both failing to finish the 110-meter high hur- dle final. After a quick start, Parks was knocked offstride by Iowa hurdler Ran- dy Elliot's elbow. Parks careened into Andy Wells of Michigan State and the two fell in a heap. Wheeler simply fell of his own accord. Bell labelled that mishap the turning point of the meet, as Dan Oliver of Ohio State finished first to retain his Big Ten crown, followed by Indiana's Nate Lun- dy. "THAT'S WHERE Michigan was °going to have to score if they were to win, and where we were going to have to battle," said Bell. Battling most successfully for the Hoosiers was Lundy, who topped off his second in the 110's with a first in the 400- meter hurdles, and Robert Cannon, who repeated as conference champ in the triple jump and long jump. Tim Graf won the 100-meter dash for Indiana and Lance Fox nosed out teammate Brian Kimball to take the pole vault event. Michigan, meanwhile, was cast in a bridesmaid role, finishing second in seven events. Along with seconds in both relays, Steve Elliot was runnerup in the 1500, Tim Thomas was nipped in the stretch by Hoosier Mark Shroyer in the 800-meter run and Calvin Williams was second in the 400 hurdles. Dan Heikkinen and Butch Woolfolk gar- nered seconds in the steeplechase and 100 meters, respectively. Woolfolk ad-. ded a third in the 200-meter event while Heikkinen finished sixth in the 5000. . Along with Lattany's championship, Harvey cited Heikkinen's performance as the high point of the meet for Michigan. "We weren't sure we would get points from Dan in the 5000, while we knew Lattany would get a first or a second," Harvey said. "Overall, Ithought we ran well. Indiana ran away from everybody indoors, but they at least were in a fight here." 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