* Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, June 20, 1975 UCLA CINCHES TEAM TITLE De Jes s qualifies for semi's Special To The DOllW CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. - "The tennis Freddie played today was the finest played by anybody in the tournament. He literally did not make a mistake - it was letter perfect ten- nis," said Michigan tennis coach Brian Eisner of jun- ior Fred DeJesus. DeJesus, Michigan's re- maining singles p 1 a y e r, seeded 12th, barely gave Houston's Dale Ogden a hello before destroying him, 6-0, 7-6 to smash his way into today's semifinals of this year's NCAA tennis championships, at hot and windy Corpus Christi. The doubles team of Eric Friedler and Jerry Karzen, seeded 7th, also advanced to this afternoon's semi-finals by stopping fourteenth - seeded Hank Pfister and Bob Hansen 7-5, 6-3 in the fourth round, and Jan Bortner and Miguel Maur- tua of Penn St. 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 in the quarter-finals. Michigan's first - seeded dou- bles team of Victor Amaya and Fred DeJesus suffered their first defeat of the season at the hands of Texas' Stewart Keller and Gonzalo Nunez 6-4, 2-6, 7-5 to be eliminated from competi- tion. Michigan is currently tied for fourth with 17 points, and can gain a possible total of 21 shontd the Wolverines capture both the singles and doubles ti'les. This afternoon, UCLA un- officially clinched the team ch-mnionship by boosting their noint total to 24, and could pos- cOhl finish with 28. "This is the first time Michi- gan has ever placed in either the singles or doubles in the NCAA semi's or finals since '57 when Michigan won the NC- AA's," said an elated Eisner. That was the year that Barry McKay and Dick Potter led the Wolverines to their only cham- nionship. This year's title is now lost but Michigan could score a real coup against the Bruins if the Wolverines were to take both the singles and doubles championships which, in themselves, will be no easy chore. Today DeJsus goes against two-time All-American George Hardie of Southern Methodist, the tournament's 11th seed. Hardie possesses, according to Eisner, "a solid all-around game,' to go with his 6-2 frame. Hardie beat Amaya easily 6-4, 6-3 back on February 15, and to beat him, DeJesus will have to use everything he has in his bag of tricks. The way DeJesus played yes- terday though, he could find himself in Saturday's finals. Og- den had eliminated defending NCAA champ John Whitlinger the day before, but really wasn't in the match with the quick De- Jesus. He'll play today's semi- final at 12 noon, perhaps the hottest part of the day and the contest may be one of physical endurance. Should DeJesus win, his task will be even harder on Satur- day. The other bracket is an all-Los Angeles semifinalrwhere ton - seeded Billy Martin of UCLA meets Pepperdine's Joao Soares. Martin stayed alive by oust- ing Trinity's Bill Matyastik, 6-4, 6-4, while Soares met Trinity's other player Bill Scanlon and bested him 6-7, 6-3, 6-0. Soares already has Eric Friedler and Ohio State's Francisco Gonzalez on his list of victims. "I've never seen Eric return as well as he did today," said an amazed Eisner of the Michi- gan junior's play. Friedler was spectacular in doubles play yes- terday making, in Eisner's es- timation, at least 15-20 place- ments of the ball on service re- turn. His opponents were not able to even get a racket on his careful volleys. Against Bortner and Maur- tua of Penn St. they were devas- tating even though the Nittany Lions had just come off of a 7-6, 5-7, 6-4 upset of second- seeded and defending NCAA doubles champions, John Whit- linger and Jim Delaney. Tomorrow Friedler and Kar- zen face the awesome pair of Billy Martin and Brian Teacher from UCLA - the tourney's No. 1 and No. 3 singles seeds re- spectively. Assuming Michigan's duo wins today's match, they would face the winner of the Butch Walts - Bruce Manson (USC) and Alvaro Fillol-John Eagleton (Miami, Fla.) semi- final, Ironically, it was Waits and Manson who beat the Keller- Nunez duo that earlier ousted Michigan's Amaya and DeJesus. In that Wolverine defeat, it was all tied up at a set apiece with the Longhorns leading 6-5 in the final set. Deuced at 30-30 with the Wolverines trying to hold serve, Amay attempted to get out of the way of an out- going return but the ball acci- deutly hit his racket putting Texas ahead 40-30. The long- horns took the next point and the match. The Maize and Blue has a shot at second place but they need to win both the doubles and singles titles and need help to do it. UCLA is out of reach, but Miami, with 20 points, has only their doubles team re- maining.Trinity finished with a total of 19. Stanford also has 17 points but has no players left, while SMU in sixth place with 16 points has only Hardie. San Jose State has 15, Housto 14, Pepperdine 14, Southlern Cal 13, and Texas 11. Starting with today's action all matches will be the best of five sets. Major League Standings AMERICAN LEA UE East W I. Pet. (G1 5,tmon l., '4 .593 - New York 35 28 .548 2 Milwaukee 31 31 .500 5' Baltimore 28 32 .460 7'. Detroit 25t,34.407 9 Cleveland 24 37 .393 12 West Oakland 39 25 .609 - Kansas City 37 28 .569 2. Texas 3? 31 .508 6' Minnesota 29 31 .483 8 California 31 35 .470 9 Chicago 26 36 .419 12 Y''tdy'sltReslts Oakland 5, Minnesota 2, to innings New Y'ork 9, Detroit 2 Texas 5, Chicago 3 Tonights Games Boston (Lee 9-5) at nalimor-e (Torrez 7-4) Milwaukee (Slaton 4-8) at Cleve- land (Harrison 0-1) New York (May 7-2) at Detroit (Ruhle 5-3) Minnesota (Corbin 3-3) at Chi- cago (Hamilton 1-2 or Jefferso 0-2) Texas (Perry 6-10) at California (singer 6-8) Kansas City (Leonard 3-2) at Oakland (Bahnsen 4-6) NATIONAL LEAGUE East sw t Pet. Go Pittsburgh 36 24 .600 - New York 3 77 .542 3C Philadelphia 34 29 .540 SC Chicao 3 31 .508 S St. Louis 20 33 .401 Montreal 20 3t .4508': West Cincinnati 40 26 .606 - Los Angeles 39 29 .574 2 San Francisco 31 33 .44 8 San Dieto 30 35 .4032 91 Atlanta 27 37 .422 12 Houston 24 45 .340 17% Yesterday's Results Philadelphia 6, Chicago 3, 14 innings Montreal 3 New York 2, 13 inoltgs' Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 0 Los Angeles 4, San DiegoI Tonight's Games San Francisco (Barr 6-6) at At- lanta (Nie. 6-) Pittsburgh (Candearia 0-1) at New York (Seaver 10-4) Montreal (ienko 2-4) at Philadel- phia (Underwood 6-5) Chicago (Zaa 2-3) at St. LU (Forseh 6-5) *4 cincinnati (T. Carroll) 0-0 at Houston (Keone sy 4-7) Los Angeles tSutto 11-) at S01 Diego (Strom 01) ARNIE PALMER uses his driver one of the 11 times he grabbed it from his bag yesterday at Medinah Golf Club in the U.S. Open's first round. Palmer shot a 69 on the rain soaked course. Palmer's only two bogey's came because of the atrociously wet and shaggy rough. He flew one shot and miss-hit a chip to card the pair of bogeys. Palmer is two shots back of Tom Watson and Pat Fitz- simons-both shot 67s. -------- - ------ WHITE COLLECTS 5 RBIs Yanks bludgeon Tigers, 9-A2 By CLARKE COGSDILL with singles, Jim Mason popped an attempted sacrifice bunt short special To The Daily of the mound, DETROIT - New York proved last night that you don't need Bare, moving smartly, gloved the ball, but his attempt to all your best hitters to score runs. double Whitfield at first bounced past Gary Sutherland into the The Yankees, who are resting Bobby Bonds and. Elliott Mad- visitors' bullpen. By the time Leon Roberts got the ball back to dox with injuries, raked Ray Bare and Ike Brookens for sixteen the infield, Nettles had scored, while Whitfield took third. hits, inflicting yet another pounding on the Bengals, 9-2. The shaken Bare walked light-hitting Sandy Alomar, then Catfish Hunter, who didn't need to bear down after his mates allowed run-scoring base hits by Walt Williams and White to broke the game open with a 4-run sixth inning, retired the first 17 put himself in a 4-0 hole. Tiger batters in order. Tom Veryzer's homer broke up the perfect In the next inning, which turned a decent outing into another game, but by then Hunter's 10th win of the year was pretty much embarassment, Bare yielded a long homer to Nettles, a single to in the bag. Jim Mason, and a double to Fred Stanley, to earn his way to the Roy White led New York with five runs batted in. showers. Bare stranded seven Yankee base runners through the Rookie Ike Brookens, who went the rest of the way, completed first five innings, and avoided worse trouble when his fielders the Yanks' scoring by hitting Williams with a pitch, and serving flagged down several line shots. In the end, however, it was his up a three-run gopher ball to White. fielding error that made the inevitable certain. In the past three games, Tiger pitching has yielded a total After Graig Nettles and Terry Whitfield opened the Yank sixth of 31 runs on 51 base hits. And that speaks for itself.