Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, May 15, 1971 Wolverines whallop Wildcats t The Wolverine baseball team took advantage of the perfect baseball weather yesterday afternoon to enter- tain the Michigan baseball fans with an exciting fifteen inning pitching duel in the first game of a double- header with Northwestern. The Wolverines managed to pick up two crucial conference wins as they swept both ends of the doubleheader, 2-1 and 4-3. Southpaw Pete Helt, who handled the Wolverine end of the pitching marathon, registered nine strikeouts, allowing seven hits, to pick up the win, while Robert Artemenko went the whole route for Northwestern, also allowing-seven hits. The Wolverines scored the go ahead run in the fif- teenth as catcher Dan Mulvihill led off the inning with a sharp single over second. Following Shortstop Mike Rafferttys sacrifice bunt that moved Mulvihill to second, second baseman Jim Kocolowski rifled a double over the rightfielder to score Mulvihill and hand Helt the win after a grueling performance in the heat. The runs were few and far between in that first game as the Michigan team jumped out to an early lead in the second inning with first baseman Pat Sullivan rap- ping a triple into left center field to start the inning. Then center fielder Leon Roberts belted a shot into center field that got past the center fielder to score Sullivan. The Wildcats got their solo run in the seventh, the last regulation inning of the game with two men gone, as second baseman Bill Bauer belted a home run over the right field fence. Then began the extra inning display that saw both teams blow a number of scoring opportunities until Kocolowski dumped his game winning double into cen- terfield. The Wolverines had an easier time of it in the sec- ond game as Dan Fife and teammates managed to hang on long enough to register their sixth conference win of the season. The Wildcats struck first, scoring one run in the top of the first as centerfielder George Greenfield walked to lead off the game. A wild pitch from Fife moved Greenfield to second and then Bob Artemenko bombed a single over second moving Greenfield to third. Then Eugene Helfrich, the Wildcat right fielder, walked to load the bases. Following a strike out by third baseman Joel Hall. Bauer, who was responsible for the Wildcat's run in the first game, bounced a grounder past Wolverine third baseman Mark Carrow to score Greenfield. The Wolverines came to life in the following inning, after tying the score in the bottom of the first as Car- row scored on a wild throw by the Northwestern catcher. Kocolowski opened the inning with a line single over second base into right field. Rafferty then followed with a single into center. Following a Fife sacrifice that moved the runners to second and third, Carrow, who had a fine day, singled to center to score Kocolowski. Right fielder Mike Bowen cracked a fly ball to deep ,enter scoring Rafferty. The final run of the inning came as 'arrow scored on Tom Kettinger's line shot past the third baseman. Fife survived a final inning rally that saw the Wild- cats score two last minute runs on a walk, two singles and a sacrifice to pick up the win. The double win lifted the Wolverines record to 10-t0 overall with a 6-4 conference won-loss mark. The Wolverines tackle another tough conference op- ponent in their second straight double-header of the weekend when they meet Wisconsin this afternoon at one at Fischer stadium. The Badgers split a double- header yesterday afternoon with the conference-lead- ing, nationally-ranked Spartans of Michigan State; to own a 6-6 conference, and 16-15 overall nark. The Wolverines pitcher Helt, by staying the distance, became the second leading pitcher in Big Ten history for innings pitched, one inning behind Ohio State's Steve Arlin who pitched 16 against Michigan in 1965. The game was the longest played in the Big Ten this year. McLain wins round one while Bengals bow, 3-2 By T1e Associat'd Press WASHINGTON-Denny Mc- Lain beat his former Detroit teammates in their first con- frontation last n i g ht as the Washington Senators nipped the Tigers 3-2 on pinch-hitter Paul Casanova's sacrifice fly in the ninth inning. McLain, traded from the Ti- gers to the Senators last fall, blew a 2-0 lead in the top of the ninth before Washington came back to win it when Toby Har- rah doubled, took third on ai infield out and raced home on Casanova's fly to center. The Tigers had tied it on a two-run single by pinch-hitter Ike Brown. McLain, 4-5, took a five-hitter into the ninth, but was nicked for a leadoff single by Norm Cash. D-l Unser dropped Willie Horton's fly to center for an error and, one out later, Kevin Collins single to fill the bases. Brown, batting for relief pitcher Tom Timmerman, then singled to center on a 3-2 pitch, scoring Cash and Horton. Frank Howard crashed a sec- ond inning homer, his fourth of the season, off Detroit starter Bill Zepp. Unser tripled in the Minnesota challenges -conference MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. WP) - The Big Ten Intercollegiate Con- ference has been challenged by the University of Minnesota to show how it has legal authority to lease its athletic facilities. The Board of Regents yester- day passed a resolution assert- ing that the board "has legal au- thority over the use of the uni- versity's physical plant, includ- ing its athletic facilities. "The board is unaware of any action it has taken delegating to another agency, such as the Big Ten Intercollegiate Conference, control over the use of facilities or property belonging to the uni- versity," The university would like to lease its football stadiumto the Minnesota Vikings professional team. The thinking goes that this would help the desperate athletic funding picture at the "U,". The Big Ten directors have balked at letting conference schools go their own way in such outside agreements. fifth and scored on Tom Mc- Craw's infield out, giving the Senators a 2-0 lead, Sox slam BOSTON - Unbeaten Sonny Siebert checked Baltimore on clutch pitching and drove in a run with a sharp single last night as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Orioles 2-0 and After the first 36 hIol's of the Big Ten Golf tournainent, the Wolverine linksmen p 1 a c e d seventh. During the first round the Michigan team carded a total of 781 strokes over the tough par 72 Scarlet course. Purdue, the favorite, held a slim one stroke leadt over Ohio State with 749 strokes, for the first spot. Illinois was one stroke behind the Buckeyes at 751. hiked their American League East lead to 2%/ games over the 1970 World Series champs. Siebert, extending his record to 6-0, hooked up with Balti- more's Jim Palmer in a mound duel in the first meeting of the season between the flag con- tenders. The Red Sox nicked Palmer, 5-2, for a run in the fifth when Duane Josephson led off with a triple and Doug Griffin followed with a sacrifice fly. Siebert, who worked out of a jam in the seventh, then added an insurance run in the Boston half of the inning. George Scott led off with a single and was sacrificed to second. With two out, Griffin was walked inten- tionally and Siebert wrecked the strategy by singling sharply to center, scoring Scott. Cards club HOUSTON - B o b Gibson checked Houston on eight hits and Dick Schofield crashed a two-run double as the St. Louis Cardinals trimmed the Astros 4-2 last night for their third straight victory. The Cardinals, hitless against Jack Billingham until Gibson's fifth inning single, struck for three runs in the sixth to snap a scoreless tie. Matty Alou started it with a leadoff single ,and, two outs lat- er, Jose Cardenal beat out an infield hit. Ted Sizemore then punched a run-scoring single and Schofield followed with his dou- ble into the right field corner for two more runs. The Cards added a run off Billingham 2-3, in the seventh, on a double by Lou Bro-i. an it field out and a single 'isTed Simmons. Pirates Ipinnhed PITTSBURGH - Jery Ki - man scattered eight hits nidt B b Aspromonte cracked a ire ri homer as the New 'orK Mits drubbed the Pittsburgh Firotes 8-2 last night. The victory gave the Mets a two-game lead over the second - place Pirates in the National League East race. "Aspromonte's blast came with two outs in the seventh inning off Bob Moose, the Pirates' fourth pitcher. Dave Marshall singled to right and Cleon Jones, who hit a solo homer in the third, followed with a .double for one run. Ed Krane- pool, who drove in two runs in the first on a broken-bat double, was given an intentional walk before Aspromonte hit his third homer of the season ove' Ithe left field wall. Braves blast ATLANTA - Ralph Garr cap- ped a three-run seventh inning rally with a run-scoring single giving the Atlanta Braves a 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies last night. Barry Lersch blanked the Braves on three hits until Orlan- do Cepeda opened the bottom of the seventh with his 10th hone run of the season. Felix Milian walked and sec- ond baseman Denny Doyle drop- ped Lersch's throw on Clete Boyer's sacrifice bunt for an er- ror. After Bob Didier tingled, scoring Millan with tne tying run, the Braves filled the bases with two out, and Boyer scored the winner on Garr's single to cen- ter. r ST. LOUIS CARDINAL catcher Ted Simmons tags Astro Cesar Cedeno out for the last out of the second inning as he attempts to score from third on Joe Morgan's liner to Lou Brock. Brock fired the ball to Simmons for the tag as the Cardinals clipped the Astros, 4-2. ROSS WINS Netters lead Big Ten Wolverine Joel Ross paced the Michigan tennis squad to a 21 point lead in the Big Ten tennis championships yesterday, all but clinching the Wolverines fourth straight conference title. The Wolverines amassed 105 -points in two days action, ad- vancing three singles and three doubles teams into today's finals. Ross, unseeded in the compe- tition knocked off top seeded Tom Gray of Michigan State in Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE East East W L Pet. GB W L Pet. GB Baltimore 18 13 .581 2Y2 New York 20 10 .667 - Boston 20 10 .667 - Pittsburgh 19 13 .594 2 New York 15 15 .500 5 St. Louis 19 14 .576 2 z Detroit 15 16 .484 5% Montreal 12 12 .500 5 Washington 14 18 .438 7 Chicago 16 17 A85 59 Cleceland i 20 .355 9h Philadelphia 9 21 .300 11 West West Oakland 24 12 .667 - San Francisco 25 9 .735 - Minnesota 17 16 .515 5Y2 Los Angeles 17 17 .500 8 California 17 17 .500 6 Atlanta 16 17 .411 82 Kansas City 16 18 .471 7 Houston 15 18 .455 9 2 Milwaukee 12 17 .414 8Y Cincinnati 12 20 .375 12 Chicago 12 19 .387 9% Ian Diego 10 22 .313 14 Yesterday's Results Yesterday's Results Boston 2, Baltimore 0 Cincinnati 5, Montreal 2. Cleveland 2, New York 1 New York 8, Pittsburgh 2 Washington 3, Detroit 2 Atlanta 3,Phulalelphia 2 Minnesota 4, Chicago 3 St. Louis 4, Houston 2 Oakland 5, Kansas City 3 Chicago 3, San Diego 2 Milwaukee at california, Inc. Los Angeles at San Francisco, inc. straight sets, 6-4, 6-2, while Michigan's number one doubles team of Ross and Dick Raverby won its semifinal match, also in straight sets, 6-4, 7-6, defeat- ing Iowa's team of Jim Esser and Craig Sanvig. For the doubles championship the pair will face Indiana's Mark Bishop and Jeoff Hodson, who advanced to the finals with a 7-6, 6-3 victory over the Boiler- maker team of Nick Giordano and Jim Mansfield. Ross will face Northwestern's Bill Meyers in the finals. The Wolverines nearest com- petitor is the Indiana team with 84 points. MSU holds the third spot with 78, followed by Iowa * with 77, Illinois 76, Wisconsin 56 Northwestern 38, Minnesota 38, Purdue 29, and Ohio State 20. During the regular season, the team accumulated 59 points in winning eight out of nine dual meets, three ahead of In- -# diana. Michigan has won seven of the nine championship matches last season to take the first spot for the third straight year, but it was not expected that they would take suchta com- manding lead this year.