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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Tuesday, May 25, 1976
Blue nine nab Big Ten title
By BILL STIEG
Michigan has another Big Ten
champion.
Sundav, the baseball team
joined the lofty ranks of the
Wolverine tennis team, track
team, cross-country team and
women's swim team. al confer-
ence champions.
But the basebull team did it
with a style all its own, ovel-
coming some injuries and a
shallow pitching staff to take
the title for the second straight
vear. It's the first time since
World War II hat the Wolverines
have repeated as champions.
They did it with aonther last-
day, "must" victory similar to
the 1975 season in which Mich-
igan swept two from Wisconsin
tn the final day of the season
to lock up the pennant.
This year intra-state rival
Michigan State was the victim
of Michigan's clinching win.
The Spartans, who had stalled
Michigan's title drive with a
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10-2 lashing of the Wolverines
Saturday, took it on the chin
quickly, falling behind 10-0 after
five innings and eventually los-
ing, 11-3.
The win put Michigan, at 9-4,
25 percentage points ahead of
runner-up Minnesota. Minnesota
had split a twinbill with Iowa,
Saturday, to close its season at
12-6. Had Michigan lost Sunday,
the Gophers would be champs.
Thus the Wolverines take their
place in the NCAA Mideast Re-
gional at Eastern Michigan,
where the Wolverines will play
the Hurons Friday at 4 p.m.
Southern Illinois and Illinois
State pair off in the opener of
the double-elimination tourna-
ment at 1 p.m.
"I'm so very grateful," said
Michigan coach Moby Benedict
of his team's title. "Our ball
club went out and played like
winners. We challenged Mich-
igan State from the start, and
when we had to have that base
hit to drive in runs, they went
out and got it."
Fittingly, it was star seniors
Mark Weber and Dick Walter-
house who led the attack in Sun-
day's game.
Walterhouse smacked a pair
of doubles and knocked in three
runs, while Weber spread out
ten Spartan hits in evening up
his record at 4-4.
A record crowd of around 2500
watched the game. Many were
craning their necks over the
fences and some were forced to
sit in the aisles because quite
a few of the seats are broken.
The seating crunch also made
many fans sit behind the screen,
which is triple-thick from re-
pairs in some spots and diffi-
cult to see through.
Nevertheless, the fans were
out in force and saw a good
show. Michigan scored its first
two on a walk to Dave Chap-
man, Walterhouse's first double,
an error by the right fielder and
a wild pitch.
'Three walks (State walked 11
for the game (and Walter-
house's second double in the
second inning produced two
more.
The Wolverines batted around
in the fourth, scoring four times.
A single, an error and two walks
forced in the first. Walterhouse
hit a sacrifice fly for the next
run, and leading hitter Ricky
Leach nailed a triple to deep
right center to score two more.
A walk, two singles and a dou-
ble play in the fifth made it
10-0. State finally put something
together in the eighth, scoring
thrice. Benedict talked briefly
with Weber, but left him in. He
fanned two straight to get out
of the inning.
Bob Wasilewski finished the
scoring with an RBI double in
the eighth.
"I can't say enough good
things about Mark Weber," said
Benedict. "Whenever you need
him, you just give him the ball
and say 'go get 'em.' He could-
have a sore arm, a sore back-
he'd go out there and pitch his
guts out."
So now it's on to nemesis
Eastern, which beat Michigan
four times this season. Those
games, however, may be mis-
leading.
"We played them on off
dates," e x p l a i n s Benedict.
"They didn't pitch their good
people and we didn't pitch our
good people. It should be an
interesting contest. We've got
a good rivalry going."
Michigan is relatively weak
after its top two starters, which
made them vulnerable on off
dates. This weekend, however,
Benedict is sure to throw his
best, Lary Sorensen, against the
Hurons.
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six technical fouls and was
fined $1,000. The Squires made
their record 6-26 with a 112-89
victory over the Nets.
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