Page Tweve THE MICHIGAN DAILY WednesdayMay 28.197d EMU WINS REGIONAL , . B ue nine's ho By CONwsti) STRICTOR specun Sto The Daily YPSILAN'i - nil the rain did Sun- day afternoon was delay the celebra- tion for Eastern Michigan. The Michigansoaseball team, which concluded the second finest season in its history with a 28-12 record, waited 19 hours to end the championship game of the NCAA Mideast Regional Tourna- ment, losing to the Hurons 2-1 Monday afternoon. With the Wolverines ready to bat in the top of the ninth Sunday, a tre- mendous thunderstorm deluged the EMU Baseball Stadium forcing the sus- pension of play until Monday. Lefty Bob Owchinko then proceeded to re- tire Michigan in its half of the ninth, surrendering only a single to leftfielder Mark Grenkoski, and sending the Hur- ons on to Omaha for the College World Series. COLLEGE baseball fans in Ann Ar- bor and Ypsilanti were treated to some of the finest action seen in the area in recent years. Sellout crowds saw Michi- gan and Eastern play three classic, ex- citing games, giving the college brand of baseball a needed shot in the arm. "Anyone who saw those games, saw baseball at its best," said Michigan coach Moby Benedict. "They will long remember those games." An indication of the baseball fever was the sight of the 2,000 plus fans who gathered at the EMU ball park Monday to see Owchinko deliver only 17 pitches. In the championship game, Eastern Michigan drew first blood with a run in the first, maintaining the tradition that the winning team in each tourney game scored in the opening frame. Leftfield- er Ted Dasen tripled to left center and came home on Jeff Washington's two- out grounder that was bobbled by third sacker Jeff James. MICHIGAN starter Chuck Rogers, coming back on one day's rest, strug- gled throughout the contest, giving up eight hits, two walks, and two wild pitches, but always seemed to come up with the big pitch in the big situation. The Maize and Blue knotted the score in the third when Grenkoski was safe on an error by shortstop Glenn Gulli- ver. A stolen base and an infield hit by Randy Hackney set up Pete Ross' rbi safety to right. The Hurons missed an opportunity to go ahead in the fourth when an at- tempted suicide squeeze backfired. But they did not blow their chance in the fifth as RF Thom Boutin singled home Gulliver from second with the winning run. Michigan could only manage seven singles off starter Bob Welch, the tour- nament's MVP. Welch, freshman from Ferndale, was overpowering, fanning 12 and not walking a batter. In addition to the win, Welch picked up key saves in Eastern's other two victories. THE WOLVERINES forced the final game with a nail-biting 4-2 decision over the Hurons Sunday morning. Freshman Bill Stennett, called upon by Benedict to start the crucial game, Pitched 6 innings of gutty baseball to keep Michigan alive in the tournament. Junior Mark Weber came on in the pes Iiquidated seventh in relief and held off Eastern scoring single in the second and Michi the dest of the way. gan seemed on its way to a rar Michigan scored in the first on Hack- laugher. ney's ninth homerun of the year off EMU starter Rob Wilmot. Singles by BUT Penn State tied it up in its hal catcher Ted Mahan and James, and of the second off starter Craig Forhan two passed balls gave CF Dan Dami- who was not as sharp as in previous ani a chance to deliver his fourth and outings. 2B Greg Vogel's two-run don fifth rbis of the tourney in the second. ble was the big blow in the inning as Eastern drew single runs in the third Penn State scored five unearned runs and sixth, the latter coming on Wash- ington's ninth homer of the season. In Michigan took the lead for good it the fourth inning, Stennett and Wash- thewthird as Ross collected two more ington were involved in an incident rbi's with a two-out single scoring SS when Stennett was accused of throw- Jim Berra and Grenkoski. Ross had ing at Washington during between-inn- five runs batted in and four hits for t ing warmups. Washington stood in the game while Grenkoski scred fou batters' box during Stennett's warmup times. tosses, which is an unwritten no-no. Sophomore Lary Sorensen saved the When Stennett fired a couple pitches win for Forhan taking over in the sixth Washington's way - the second hit- which forced Benedict to go with the ting the Huron in the mid-section-um- rookie Stennett in the Sunday affair. pire Doug Cossey went out to the For Michigan it was a great season mound to warn both participants. according to Benedict. "These are the DICK Walterhouse accounted for greatest bunch of boys I've ever had Michigan's fourth run with a rbi sin- the privilege to coach since I've been gle in the fifth inning. at Michigan," Benedict said. Saturday's action saw favorite Clem- son eliminated by Penn State 5-4 and "THEY DID everything asked o Michigan fell behind early and suffer- them and deserved all the honors they ed a 3-2 loss to Eastern. got." But Michigan bounced back to play Such honors were distributed yester- a totally opposite ballgame knocking day as two Wolverines garnered first out the Nittany Lions in a wild slug- team All-Big Ten honors. Hackney and fect, 10-7, the biggest differential of Rogers were selected by the confer- the weekend. The Wolverines jumped ence coaches while Forhan was a sec- off to an early 5-0 lead in the first 1 2 nd team pick and Mahan was named innings. Singles by Ross and Mahan, a to the third team. sacrifice fly off the bat of James, and Hackney( Walterhouse, Forhan and a wild pitch netted four runs in the Weber were named to the Big Ten All- first inning. Hackney delivered a run- Academic Team. Philadelphia cops Cup for second straight year, 2-0 if t, s r e - By The Associated Press BUFFALO - Bob Kelly and Bill Clement scored third period goals and goal- tender Bernie Parent held off a determined challenge by the Buffalo Sabres to give the Philadelphia Fly- ers their second consecu- tive NHL title with a 2-0 victory last night. The victory gave the Fly- ers a 5-2 triumph in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup series and set up a celebra- tion that started with the historic trophy being AP Photo wheeled onto the Memorial Auditorium ice. In winning, HILLER LOSES the Flyers became the first American-based team in 20 years to collect consecutive titles. The last U.S. club to do it was the Detroit Red Wings of 1954 and 1955. Kelly's goal came after two periods of scoreless hockey in which each team had some ex- cellent chances to score. Then, 11 seconds after the third period began, the puck went into the corner to the right of the Bnt- falo net and goalie Roger Cro- zier. Kelly dug the puck out, got away from Sabres defenseman Jerry Korab, and sent a short backhander past Crozier for the Cup clincher. Then, with just 2:47 remain- ing, Clement took a pass from Orest Kindrachuk and beat Cro- zier to insure the outcome. Crozier and Sabres fall to Flyers AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pet. 610l Boston 21 17 .553 - Milwaukee 21 19 .525 1 Detroit 18 20 .474 3 New Yrak 10 23 A39 4 Cleveland 16 23 .410 5?!. Baltimore 16 24 .400 6 West Oakland 25 17 .595 - KansassCity 26 59 .571 ;/ Minnesota 21 17 .553 2 Texas 22 20 .524 2! California 22 22 .500 4 Chicago 19 23 .4526 Yesterday's Results Minnesota 6, Detroit 5 Kansas City 3, New York 0 Milwaukee 9, Chagoia Boston at Texas, postponed Cleveland at Caifonia, inc. Baltimore at Oakland, inc. Today's Games Minnesota (Hughes 5-1) at lie- troit (Coleman 3-6), 1:05 p.m. New York (May 3-2) at Kansas City (Briles 4-2), night Chicago (Osteen -5) at Milwau- kee (aroberg 6-4), night Boston (Lee 6-4) at Texas (Jen- kins 5-3), night Cleveland (Raich 0-0) at Califor- nia (Ryan 8-2), night Baltimore (Torm 5-2) at Oak- land (Siebert 1-0), night NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pet. GB Pittsburgh 21 1 .539 - Chicago 23 20 535 - New York 59 18 .514 5 Philadelphia 21 21 .500 1 2 St. Louis 17 23 .425 41/ Montreal 14 23 .378 6 West Los Angeles 29 18 .617 - Cincinnati 26 20 .565 2V Oan Francisco 23 20 .535 4 San Diego 23 22 .511 5 Atlanta 22 24 .478 6 Houston 18 .30 375 11 Yesterday's Results Atlanta 7, Chicago 2 San Franeisco a, Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh 6, Houston 5 Los Angeles 10, New York 4 St. Louis 7, San DiegoI Today's Games San Diego (Spillner 2-5) at St. Louis (McGlothen 4-4). Atlanta (Motron 5-4) at Chicago (Bonham 4-4). San Francisco (Falcone 3-3) at Philadelphia (Carlton 2-5), night Houston (Robertis 3-4) at Pitts- burgh (Brett 3-2), night Los Angeles (Ran 5-3) at New York (Matlack 5-3), night Montreal (Blair 25) at Cinein- nati (Nolan 3-3), night The Flyers beat a Bu club that was unable to rev Carew chokes Tgers its back from the wall, th to Parent, who made 32 s By The Associated Press and tied the playoff recor DETROIT-Rod Carew, whose sixth-inning homer touched off four shutouts set by the Minnesota's comeback from a five-run deficit, hit a sacrifice fly T e r r y Sawchuck and t to cap a two-run rally in the ninth inning that gave the Twins a others. 6-5 victory over the Detroit Tigers last night at Tiger Stadium. The performance earned Eric Soderholm started the ninth with a single off Detroit ent the Conn Smythe Troph relief ace John Hiller, 1-2, and- Craig Kusick walked. Danny the second consecutive yea Thompson singled home the tying run and Glenn Borgmann fouled the Most Valuable Playe out, but pinch hitter Steve Brye's infield hit loaded the bases. postseason play. The prize Carew then delivered his game-winning sacrifice fly. ries with it a $1,500 check. THE TWINS TRAILED 5-0 against Detroit starter Lerrin La-. Grow when Carew belted his first home run of the season with two out in the sixth inning. Bobby Darwin and Tony Oliva singled r and Larry Hisle's three-run homer cut the gap to 5-4 and chased 'I LaGrow in favor of Hiller. Detroit scored twice off Bert Blyleven in the first inning on an RBI' double by Willie Horton and Leon Roberts' sacrifice fly. They got two more in the fourth on a run-scoring double by Bill , Freehan and a single by Aurelio Rodriguez and Ron LeFlore's inside-the-park homer in the fifth made it 5-0. uffalo move anks aves rd of late three Par- y for ar as r in car- 555: