The Michigcn Daily-Friday, September 11, 1981-Page 13-A SPORTS OF THE DAILY .Paciorek turns dow By RON POLLACK After a summer of negotiations with the Cleveland Indians, it appears that Michigan's Jim Paciorek will return for his senior year with the Wolverine baseball team. When the 1981 season ended for the Wolverine batsmen, there was speculation that the 6-5, 205 pound P ightfielder would forego his final ollege campaign for pro dollars. However, Paciorek was not chosen un- til the 14th round of the draft, reducing his bargaining power. "WHEN I TALKED to him (Paciorek) last (two weeks ago), he said he was not going to sign with Cleveland unless them came up with more money," said Michigan head baseball coach Bud Middaugh. Paciorek batted .366 last season while setting single-season Wolverine records in hits (82), at-bats (224), triples (eight) and total bases (125). He also tied a con- ference record by the entire Big 10 season without striking out. Paciorek's three-year batting average with the Wolverines is .351. With one season of eligibility left, he already owns the career record for RBI's (118), triples (13) and hits (176). He, is also tied with last year's starting, catcher, Gerry Hool, for the Michigan areer mark in doubles with 33. USA vs. Canada in semis MONTREAL (AP) - Team Canada faces off against the United States tonight in a Canada Cup semifinal game that will determine the mythical North America championship of the six-country hockey competition. Canada, which recorded four vic- tories and a tie in its five-round-robin games, finished first; and the Americans, with a 2-2-1 won-lost-tied record, fourth. The second-place Soviet Union meets third-place Czechoslovakia in the other semifinal this evening at Ottowa. But is a sudden-death playoff game a fitting reward for the only unbeaten team in round-robin play? "A ONE-GAME system is scary in sone respects, but everybody knew the way they go in these kinds of tour- naments," left wing Bob Gainey said before the Canadian team boarded a bus to practice yesterday at a suburban arena, while the Forum was being prepared for a rock concert. In fact, this being only the second Canada Cup tournament, it's im- possible to establish any usual format. In 1976, the top two teams, Canada and Czechoslovakia, advanced to a best-of- three final after the round-robin, Canada winning in two straight games. "Sure, it could happen," assistant coach Al Macneil of the Canadian team. said of the possibility of an upset at the hands of the lower-ranked Americans in what everyone expects will be a physical game. "That'swhat the ex- citement's all about. "It adds to the spectacle of the tour- nament. You have to rise up and ,be ready at the right time." Canada defeated the Americans 8-3 on Sept. 3 at Edmonton in their round- robin encounter. The book on the American squad is that it's somewhat short of firepower among the forwards, boasts a solid defence corps and has an ace in the hole in goalie Tony Esposito, a former inter- national player for Canada who gained his U.S. citizenship just in time to represent that country. Isiah emcees benefit BLOOMINGTON (AP) - Isiah Thomas, who sparked Indiana Univer- sity to the NCAA basketball champion- ship last March and then decided to skip his final two years of eligibility to play in the National Basketball Association, is back in town and trying to help a former teammate. Thomas, who will be a rookie with the Detroit Pistons in the 1981-82 season, was the master of ceremonies ats-a benefit for Landon Turner. The benefit was held at Oscar's, a local nightspot, with the Indiana University jazz band and a local quintet providing the enter- tainment. OSCAR'S AND Duroc Records of Bloomington sponsored the event, asking for a minimum cover charge of $2. An employee at the club said that all proceeds for admission were to be donated to help pay Turner's medical cost. The employee said about 300 per- n pros sons attended the benefit but that she did not know the exact amount of money donated. Turner, a 6-foot-10 forward who would have been a senior this fall, is hospitalized in Indianapolis from in- juries received in a July 26 auto ac- cident. Fred Price, a spokesman for Methodist Hospital, said Turner was moved to the hospital's spinal chord unit last week and was beginning his rehabilative program to prepare for his return home. Decade's top ten athletes for Michigan have been selected as finalists in the Lloyd, tennis; and Bruce Jenner, track American 'Cancer Sicoety's Athlete of and field. the Decade competition for the period Previous winners Mujammad Ali, 1971-1981. (1968-1978), Jack Nicklaus (1969-1979) A nominating committee of more and Bjorn Borg (1970-1980) are no than 300 sports writers and broad- longer eligible for the award. casters chose the list. It was composed Final Selection of the decade's top of Pete Rose, baseball; Kareem Adbul- athlete will be by a panel of more than Jabbar, basketball; Sugar Ray 4,006,sports journalists and the winner Leonard, boxing; 0. J. Simpson, foot- will be hoinored at a dinner at the New ball; Tom .Watson, golf; Bobby Orr, York Hilton, Nov. 16. All proceeds of the hockey; Willie Shoemaker, horse program benefit the American Cancer racing; Pele, soccer; Chris Evert Society. NEW YORK (AP) - Ten athletes STUDENT SAVINGS SHIELD BENEFITS EVERYONE OPEN 7 DAYS 25% Discount on List Price of automotive repair parts with SSS Sticker. 662-6545 434-5302 201 E. Hoover 2606 Washtenaw Ave. Ann Arbor Ypsilanti For more information turn t~o page I1 for details. U: YAA UE Shy UHTEnt-e BOOG POWELL (Former American Baseball Great): Koichi here has been giving me a.new angle on baseball. It seems the game's a little different in Japan. KOICHI NUMAZAWA (Former Japanese Baseball Great): t , Tha-s right. The f&e ist BOOG: That's right. The field is smaller over there. KOICHI:'~D 1 4), : a - F T'11zctN5 t E*A0)*Mc trt b-- /zkT T BOO: Well; how that you men- tioned it, I guess you guys are kinda smaller. Does that mean you drink Lite Beer cause it's less filling? KOICHI: t - , t L5\hrA t /, T T o BOOG: Tastes great? That's why I drink it, too! I guess we have a lot more in common than I thought. KOICHI: =0 A 9 ! BOOG: Me? I'm too a Japanes( yam. KOICHI: =t -L B- Shirtp BOOG: Shortstop?! big to play on INt 'tc, Very funny, AP Photo Walking on air The Seattle Mariner's Julio Cruz flies through the air after tossing the ball to first while Charlie Beamon of the Toronto Blue Jays slides into second in Toronto last night. ARace To Remember.. The scene: . . Michigan Football Stadium on Septem- ber 13th as upwards of 1200 runners anxiously await the track of a gun that will start the second annual Michigan Big Ten Race through the streets and rolling hills of beautiful Ann Arbor and the U of M Campus. Be there for the race the Michigan Runner Magazine last year called "one of the finest races in the state." Be there for a 10 mile run that is destined to become a classic in the Midwest. - 7, / /"-"'f'. // y ..j .Y4 % . f t :7z - ..off < :