Friday, May 9, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven HACKNEY HOMERUN HERO Batsmen play crucia By BILL CRANE Brown each possess the old mark a big victory Monday afternoon in a The Michigan baseball team, undefeat- of ten. Freehan did it in 1961 while game which could be described as a ed on the road so far this season, plays Brown chalked up the roundtrippers mirror image of the previous Saturday's at Indiana today and travels to Colum- in 196' affair. bus to scrap with Ohio State tomorrow Hackr. ;y is also leading the Big Ten Duane Bickel, the Spartan's ace hurl- in two crucial twinbills. with four conference clouts. er, stood on the mound, watched his The Wolverines, currently 6-2, are sec- Since the term break, the Wolverines teammates commit five errors and went and in the Big Ten behind Michigan have won seven games and dropped only down to defeat 4-1. The turnaround was State, now 6-1. If the Wolverines can con- one. They were on a six-game winning complete. tinue winning on the road, the Maize streak, defeating Toledo, Notre Dame The Wolverines are 16-9 overall, have and Blue might grace Ann Arbor with a and Eastern Michigan twice each. won 15 of their last 18 games and nine long-awaited Big Ten Title. Including But Michigan State snapped the string in a row on the road. The last time the this weekend's games, Michigan has at Michigan's Ray L. Fisher Stadium Maize and Blue lost while occupying the eight contests remaining. last Saturday. visitor's dugout was in Florida on Michi- The power for the Wolverines has been The Wolverines helped the Spar- gun's annual spring break journey to supplied by transfer Randy Hackney. tan cause that day and committed Florida. Hackney, once a Chippewa from Central five costly errors which made for As usual, the Big Ten baseball Michigan, has a chance of breaking the two unearned runs. The Wolverines race isn't simply a two-way affair. school's all-time homerun record. Hack- trotte ' off the field looking up at the Defending co-champions Minnesota sey has eight homers and the figure short end of a 4-0 score and on top of and Iowa are 9-4 and 7-3 respective- he'll be trying to crack is ten. that, it was Wolverine ace Chuck ly. Wisconsin checks in with a 9-5 Bill Freehan of the Detroit Tigers Rogers who was defeated. record. and former Wolverine slugger Dave However the Wolverines countered with If either the Spartans or the Wolver- SPARTAN INVITATIONAL LOOMS series ines falter, those three teams are close enough to beat State or the Wolverines to first. Minnesota and Iowa match up against two weak foes in the last weekend of the season, May 16 and 17, and are idle in the league until then. Illinois (4-7) and Purdue (1-11) will provide the compe- tition for last year's co-champs and it is likely that both the Gophers and the Hawkeyes will add four wins apiece to their records. So besides Michigan's opponents, the rest of the league will sit back -and watch how the league leaders do this weekend because Michigan State also faces Ohio State and In- diana this weekend. And if the plot really thickens and the race tightens, Michigan will come into the last weekend of the season with doubleheaders against Northwestern and Wisconsin. Stay tuned! Blue golfers By BILL CRANE On May 2 and 3 in the In the words of one interested ern Intercollegiate Golf T spectator, the Michigan golf ment held at Michigan' team is "bombing out," but on versity course, the Wolv the other hand its captain con- finished a disappointing U tinues to play up a storm. of 14 teams. And with today's Spartan In- vitational at East Lansing, per- THE 72 HOLE tourn haps the best predictor of Wol- was divided into two day verine success goes like this: sisting of 36 holes andi need to Ma jor League Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE Player Club G AB R H Pet. Carew Min 16 51 10 21 .412 Aunson NY 23 91 11 37 .407 Yount Mil 22 80 17 31 .388 Lynn Bsn 18 63 13 23 .363 E. Maddox NY 24 96 15 33 .344 senderson Chi 23 85 18 29 .341 Ieve Min, 13 50 11 17 .340 Powel Cle 17 13 t 18 .340 C. Rojas KC 20 71 7 24 .338 1. May Chi 26 89 8 30 .337 Home Runs Horton, Detroit, 6; L. May, Balti- r, hKilerew, Kansas City, 5t tisrsiughs, Texas, 5t 6 Tied With 4. Runs Batted In Shae. Kansas City, 20; L. May, 13a.timore, 18; G. scott, Milwaukee, 8: toihte, California, 18; Horton, twroit, 17; Munson, New York, 17; . :ay, Chicago, 17. Pitching (5 Decisions) ittue, Oakland, 6-1, .857; Ryan, California, 5-1, .833; Champion, Mil. ivaukee, 4-1, .800; Palmer, Baltimore, 42, .667; Busby, Kansas City, 4-2, .6t7; Jenkins, Texas, 4-2, .667; Hass- ler, California, 3-2, .600; Fitzmorris, Kansas City, 3-2, .600. NATIONAL LEAGUE Player Club G AB R Lacy LA 16 s0 82 Morgan Cin 28 95 201 Cash Phi 24 100 191 Cadrenal Chi 24 91 191 Boone Phi 23 75 62 Reitz StL 23 89 81 watson Htn 24 90 143 Parrish Mon 21 77 92 Garvey LA 29 126 18 Joshua SF 18 59 102 Home Runs Cey, Los Angeles, 7; winfie Diego,6t 10 Tied swith 5. Runs Batted In Bench, Cincinnati, 24; T. Cincinnati, 23; Garvey, Los A 23; Madlock, Chicago, 21; Los Angeles, 21. Pitching (5 Decisions) Messersmith, Los Angeles 1.000; Sutton, Los Angeles, 6- Rau, Los Angeles, 4-1, .800;N Atlanta, 5-2, .714; Underwood adelphia, 3-2, .600; R. Jone Diego, 3-2, .600; Barr, San cisco, 3-2, .600; 5 Tied with-. North- Saturday morning's round that ourna- really did the Blue golfers in. s uni- The result-a 400 plus score verines for five men which plunged the 0th out Wolverines from sixth to tenth place. That's where they stayed for the rest of the day. ament Those figures are even more s con- dismaying when it is noted that it was the NIGT was Michigan's only home event of the year. Nevertheless, Wolverine cap- tain Tom McParlan shot a 75- 75-74-75 for a 299 and seventh place in the individual stand- ings. McParlan came into his own last year in Big Ten com- petition and the big blond is H Pt. maintaining his consistent play. 21 .420 FOR SOME idea of how the 37 .389 38 .380 golfers stand in relation to the 33 .363 rest of the Big Ten, they fin- 27 .360 ished ahead of four of the nine 32 .360 schools which attended (Purdue 32 .356 didn't). But Indiana won the 27 .351 event with a 1506 total, Ohio 43 .341 State was the bridesmaid with 20 .339 a 1523, while Michigan managed a 1567. Two days later at Kalamazoo Id, San in the Bronco Tournament, Michigan brought up the rear in a field of nine with a 1566. The event was composed mostly of Perez, other Michigan colleges and the .ngeles, golfers performance there bodes wynn, poorly for any success in Mich- igan's remaining tournaments. , 5-0, DR. PAUL USLAN "1, .857; Morton, Optometrist , Phil- Full Contact Lens Service as, San Visual Examinations Fran- 648 Church 663-2476 .500.. . i streak BUT, McPARLAN was steady again. He shot his best scores of the season and carded a pair of 73's. So, in today's Spartan Invi- tational, even if the team doesn't do well look for McPar- lan. And if the team starts get- ting it together with the warmer weather and improving course conditions, the Big Ten's on May 16 and 17, and the NCAA's held later in June may well rewrite the present "course" of golf at Michigan. 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