Page 16-Saturday June 3, 1978-The Michigan Daily Sporting Views USC's Trojans . . Dedeaux's diamond dynasty By JAMIE TURNER OMAHA ROD DEDEAUX'S heart bleeds Trojan red. For 37 years Dedeaux has cajoled, pleaded, pushed and manufactured a Southern California baseball legend that is the envy of every coach. Dedeaux is the winningest coach in the country, the only man to have over 1000 wins. Eleven times he has brought USC teams to Omaha and ten times they have emerged vic- torious. This year is no different. Southern Cal is loaded and enter the College World Series as the number one rated team in the country. The Trojans have a team batting average of .313 and average five more runs than they give up. "My philosophy is to get better players every year," said Dedeaux hours before the Trojans were to meet Miami of Florida in a first round game. "And then to get out of the way and let their natural talents develop." As usual, every player on the Trojan team is from California, and every one was sought after by several other teams. But in the end, it's the sweet talking Dedeaux and the lure of USC tradition that had the high school seniors lining up to enter. "With the background and tradition that USC has, it would only be natural for a boy to want to attend Southern Cal," added Dedeaux. "We have a great athletic and academic heritage, and it no doubt helps our recruiting." The "natural talent" has included major league standouts Tom Seaver, Fred Lynn, Bill Lee, Ron Fairly and Steve Kemp. However, team success is not the only goal for the 64 year old coach. "I would like to see all of them be a success in life," said Dedeaux. "This year we had a reunion of the NCAA Championship teams of 1948, 1958, and 1968. Of the '48 team, 20 showed up and are prominent in their chosen profession. I think that shows a lot of class." TOURNAMENT TIDBITS If USC has won more NCAA Baseball Championship than any other team, who comes in second? It's Arizona State with four titles. The Sun Devils have three of the four tournament players who are batting over .400. Hubie Brooks (.436), Bob Horner (.425), and Chris Bando (.416) join Michigan's Rick Leach (.410) in that select group. ASU has the highest team batting average with a .352 mark, while the Wolverines' .265 is the lowest. Michigan's 2.84 team ERA is third best behind Miami and USC while Arizona State carries an inflated 4.16 mark. While Arizona State is the defending champion, the prevailing opinion is that Southern Cal is the team to beat. ASU was awesome in the regionals, scoring 82 runs in five games, but USC has won five straight one run decisions to get this far-a mark of a champion. Of the other six teams, Michigan and Miami are given the best chance of upsetting the western clubs, with Oral Roberts and North Carolina dark horse possibilities. St. John's and Baylor appear to be also rans. Finally, no coach wants to get the Sun Devils upset. In the first game of the NCAA Districts, Nevada-Las Vegas ran all over ASU, winning 17-10. Arizona State won the rematch ... 30-5. Daily sportswriter Jamie Turner is with the Michigan base- ball team in Omaha, Nebraska, reporting on the Wolverines' drive for the national championship. This is the first of his special reports. 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'M' one-hits Baylor By JAMIE TURNER SpecialtoThe Daly OMAHA - There are now three things assured oflin life. Death, taxes, and a Michigan win with Steve Howe on the mound. For the third time in as many efforts, sophomore Howe breezed through nine innings with a good hitting team - this time the Baylor Bears - as Michigan took one step en route to a collegiate World Series Championship with a 4-0 victory last night in Omaha. Except for a scratch infield hit by left fielder Mike Johhanson in the second inning, Howe befud- dled the Bears with a sinking fastball and an effective change!up. Fellow sophomore Vic Ray provided the winning margin with a two-out fifth inning three-run homer over the leftfield wall, his first of the season and Michigan's first hit of the game. "HE HAD just thrown me a fastball, and I thought he'd come back with a slider," said the san- dy-haired left fielder, "but it was another fastball and I hit it real -well." Michigan set the table for Ray's home run when George Foussianes reached second on center fielder Mike Wells' muff of an easy flyball. With one out, Bob Wasilewski walked, and both runners moved up one base on Jim Berra's infield out. An insurance run scored in the sixth when Dave Chapman doubled down the leftfield line. After taking third on a passed ball, the Wolverines' third sacker came home on Mike Parker's single up the middle. UNTIL RAY'S blast, Howe and Baylor starter and loser John Pearlman matched goose eggs, Pearlman striking out four of the first eight Wolverines he faced. along. That's the way it went." THERE WERE only seven hits in the well-pitched ball game, perhaps due to the week-long layoff or opening game jitters. "We didn't know anything about Baylor other than that it was a good-hitting team," said Michigan coach Moby Benedict. "When you come into a tour- nament such as this you have to do what you do best. For us, it was throw strikes and fielding the ball." The Howe one-hitter was the seventh in College World Series history and the Clarkson native's ninth shutout in his brief two-year career. Howe has given up just six earned runs in the last 631/3 innings, lowering his season ERA to 1.57. "I wasn't nervous," said Howe. "When we get a lead it gets my adrenalin going and I seem to throw harder." BENEDICT WAS non- committal on when Howe could pitch again. Noting that his hurler had thrown only slightly more than 120 pitches, Benedict left the door open for a relief showing Sunday afternoon. "Howe didn't exert himself out there - it was a perfect day to pitch." Michigan now will face the winner of the Miami-USC Friday night game Sunday afternoon at 6 p.m. EDT. Steve Perry (3-1) or Tom Owens (5-3) will start for the Wolverines and, hope to put Michigan well on its way to the championship. Vie Ray However, despite the one-hitter, Howe didn't feel fully confident with his pitches. "As a matter of fact, I didn't have good stuff," stated Howe, "I had no slider and I just tried to throw strikes. I think they were playing a bit of a guessing game with my slider, and I was able to get the fastball by them." ."We just had too much Steve Howe," said Baylor coach Mickey Sullivan. "The kid pit- ched a great ball game. We knew we had to get to him early, because all reports had said that he got stronger as the game went AP Photo Attempting to read the speed of the 17th green, Arnold Palmer confers with his Timex after hitting the ball. The big hand was just a little slow as Palmer missed his birdie try but remained the leader of the Kemper Open Golf Tournament. Arnie's seven-under total of 137 after two rounds is good for a one-shot lead over Tom Weiskopf and Craig Stadler.