2Page 12-Thursday, July 20, 1978-The Michigan Doily Pistons fill PR post by raiding U-D again DETROIT (AP) - Coach Dick Vitale responsibilities as manager in charge once again dipped into his old Univer- of office personnel. ity of Detroit home to bolster the Also, Doyle reported, part-owner of operations of his Detroit Pistons of the the Pistons, Ted Ewald, will become a :NBA. business consultant for the team. Bill Kreifelt, sports information Ewald also is a part-owner of the director at Detroit, says he has accep- Detroit Express of the North American ied a job as public relations director for Soccer League. the Pistons and would give the univer- sity his resignation notice today. Vitale had previously "raided" the No formal announcement was made, University of Detroit to get Mike but Kreifelt confirmed the move by Brunker as a Pistons assistant coach. Rphone from his parents' home in Brunker was an assistant under both Arizona after Detroit sportscaster Vin- Vitale and Dave Gaines With the Titans. ce Doyle of WWJ radio broadcast the The Pistons' first two draft choices news yesterday. this year were Detroit stars Terry ose's bunt in 9th keeps streak alive PHILADELPHIA (AP)-Pete Rose extended his hitting streak to 32 games with . two-out bunt single in the ninth inning last night after Ken Henderson's three-run homer in the seventh and George Foster's grand slam iA the eighth carried the Cincinnati 'Reds to a 7-2 victory over Philadelphia. Cincinnati's victory, which moved the Reds within two games of first- place San Francisco in the National League West, prevented Steve Carlton, 8-9, from recording his 200th career victory. Rose, five games shy of Tommy Holmes' NL record of 37 straight games with a hit, had walked, grounded out twice, and struck out before he bunted safely toward third. The Phillies led 2-0 with two out in the seventh before Carlton gave up singles to Johnny Bench and Dave Concepction before Henderson's home run over the left field bullpen. In the eighth Rose walked, Ken Griffey singled, Joe Morgan was inten- tionally walked, and Foster slammed his league-leading 23rd home run off reliever Ron Reed. Doyle said Brian Hitsky, director of public relations and marketing for the Pistons, would continue in his marketing job and be given new Tyler and John Long. Other former Titans were invited to a tryout camp, including Dennis Boyd, Owen Wells, Kevin Kaseta and ex-Piston Terry Thomas. OA inning yester Detroi Da ahead one ou AF forceoi run ano GETS TENTH WIN Slaton six-hifts A's, kKLAND (UPI)-Jason Thompson's two-run seventh- DETROIT single off second baseman Mike Edwards' glove a r h hi day drove in two runs and carried Jim Slaton and the whtaker .b 10 1 t Tigers to a 5-4 victory over the Oakland A's. Staubdh3........... 5 o 0 F ve Revering's two-run homer in the sixth put the A's JThomson 1b ...... 4 1 2 F 3-2, but in the seventh, Phil Mankowski doubled with Kemp If ........... 4 0 0 0 F to start Detroit's winning rally. rcranr 1 0 FTER A walk to Alan Trammell, Ron LeFlore hit into a Mankowski 3b ..... 2 1 2 0 ut. But an infield single by Lou Whitaker scored one ARodriqueza3b.....1 1 o d Rusty Staub walked to load the bases for Thompson, Trammellss.......2 0 0 1 E - '. .- .- . 1 Total .............. 32 S 6 5 S 5-4 OAKLAND ab r Wallis cf . 3 0 Tl~uncan 3b...2 0 Page If ........... 3 0 Horton dh ......... 3 i Revering ib....... 4 1 Guerrero ss ..... 3 0 Newman c ... ...... 4 0 b 1 9 U bi 0 2 0 0 Edwards 2b....... 4 2 2 1 Burke ri ........... 3 0 2 0 )Murphy ph ....... 1 0 0 0 otal............... 30 4 6 4 whose grounder deflected off Edwards' glove and into right field. Slaton, 10-6, scattered six hits, walked four and picked up his sixth complete game. Matt Keough, 6-6, touched for five hits and all five Tiger runs in 6% innings, took the loss. 'aylor Duncan's sacrifice fly in the third gave the A's a 1-0 lead, but Detroit countered with two runs in the fifth on a fielder's choice grounder by Trammell and Flore's sacrifice fly. Edwards' first homer in the ninth left Oakland one run short. Detroit......... 4100.020.300-....... 020 0-- Oakland... . . . ..0........001 0 0 2 0 0 1-4 E-Guerrero. LOS-Detroit 7, Oakland 5. 2B-Mankowski. HR-Revering (12), Edwards (t). SS-Burke, LeFlore. S-TrammeN, wais. SF-TDuncan, LeFlore. IP H ER BB sO Detroit satonw ,10-................. .. 4 4 4 5 Oakland Keough L,6-6..............................6% 5 5 3 4 3 Lacey........Is 1 0 0 0 1 Heaverlo... . . ..1 0 0 0 0 0 s AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST W L Pct. GB Boston ................ 61 28 .685 - Milwaukee ............ 53 36 .596 8. Baltimore......... 50 42 .543 12% New York .......... ..47 42 .528 14 Detroit ............... 46 45 .505 16 Cleveland............ 43 48 .473 19 Toronto ............... 33 58 .363 29 WEST Kansas City ........... 48 41 .539 - California ............. 49 43 .533 % Oakland ............... 48 46 .510 2% Texas ............... 46 44 .511 2% Minnesota ............. 39 48 .448 8 Chicago ............39 51 .433 9/2 Seattle.............. 32 62 .340 18 Yesterday's Results Detroit 5, Oakland 4 Today's Games Boston (Lee, 10-3) at Milwaukee (Replogle, 4-2), n. Baltimore (D. Martinez, 7-7) at Chicago (Stone, 7-7), n. New York (Guidry, 13-1) at Minnesota (Jackson, 2-2), n. Texas (Alexander, 6-5) at Kansas City (Leonard; 10-11), n. Only games scheduled