Page 10-Wednesday, March 31 1982-The Michigna Daily Batsmen whitewash 6 Hurons, 6-0 Straight from the source's mouth By RANDY BERGER a Torrential rains weren't enough to dampen the Michigan baseball team's regular season opener. Although the weather cut the second game of the doubleheader short, it couldn't keep the Wolverines from blanking cross- county rival Eastern Michigan, 6-0, in the first game. As far as Michigan was concerned it would have been just as- happy to go home after the first inning of the opener After scoring six quick runs in the opening stanza all the Wolverines needed was for, pitcher Rich Stoll to hold off the Huron bats the rest of the way. "WHEN YOU get six runs in the first inning you tend to have a letdown offen- sively," said Michigan head coach Bud Middaugh. "We had some gift runs in the first but that was enough." The Michigan runs certainly weren't picture-perfect. Greg Schulte led off the inning with a single to center. Huron pitcher Mickey Weston sub- sequently walked Dave Stober and Chris Sabo before hitting clean-up hit- ter Jim Paciorek in the hand, forcing honie the first Wolverine run. Weston's and Eastern's trouble didn't stop there. Shortstop Jim Riggs bob- bled a John Young grounder which sent two more Wolverines across the plate. Then with Paciorek on third and Young on second, second baseman Jeff Jacob- son hit an infield single to load the bases. Designated hitter Ken Hayward followed with a single to left scoring Paciorek and Young before any were out. WESTON proceeded to retire Tony Evans and John Clem on grounders which proved to be the only outs the Huron pitcher registered all afternoon. Schulte's two-run single which followed gave Weston a - quick exit. Huron reliever Tim Addis came in and struck out Stober to end the Michigan rally. Except for the first and last innings the Huron batters never threatened Wolverine hurler Stoll. He faced only one more than the minimum of hitters in the second through sixth innings. "I can't say enough about the in- field's defensive play,"said Stoll. "The wind was blowing in so all the balls hit in the air stayed in the infield."t Stoll's modesty however, couldn't coyer up the fact that the sophomore righthander from Attica, Indiana allowed only three hits and struck out five on the way to notching his fourth win of the season against no defeats. "IT WASN'T one of his better outings," said Middaugh. "The key to the game was that he got out of the first inning. John Young caught a fine game and settled Stoll down when he got in trouble." It was only in the first and last in- nings that Eastern Michigan left more than one player on base. With two outs in the first, Howard Simmons hit a ,single to center and Riggs walked before Stoll retired Jim Irwin on a grounder to end the Hurons' threat. Stoll got into a little trouble in the last frame after it looked like it was going to be another routine inning. With two outs designated hitter Dave Jonske lined a single up the middle. Stoll, then momentarily had control problems as he walked leftfielder Frank Pontello on four pitches. The bases were then loaded when second baseman Jacobson bobbled a Jack Shilling grounder. The Huron uprising and the game, however, came to an abrupt ending as Stoll struck out Tom Siefert for the final out. Michigan upped its record to 9-3, while Eastern fell to 6-11-1. The, Wolverines take on Grand Valley State (9-3) in another twinbill this afternoon. Rain rain go away R H"E Eastern Michigan.........000 000 0 - 0 3 1 MICHIGAN ................600 000 0 - 6 5 1 Weston, Addis (1) and Siefert; Stoll and Young WP- Stoll LP- Weston HR-none LOB- Eastern Michigan 6. Michigan 4 Time: 1:44 By RON POLLACK Il Stoll ...runs record to 4-0 ,- IV7 N* 4. _ N LAUREL OR HARDY LOOKALIKE CONTEST at HARDY'S Cocktail Lounge 100 S. 4th AVE. AT THE ANN ARBOR INN The life of a recruit... .. early verbal commitments' THE LIFE OF a high school basketball recruit isn't all glamour. Sure he may get all-expense paid trips to Hawaii, Florida; California and whatever schools he's actually thinking of attending. And sure he may get to meet coaches that he has idolized since he was old enough to know how to dribble a basketball, much less dunk it. But with the good goes the bad, and the bad does exist. Michigan has received verbal commitments from four high school cagers. One is an All-American (Richard Rellford), one is the state of Michigan's Mr. Basketball (Robert Henderson) and the other two are among the elite players in the Wolverine state (Paul Jokisch and Roy Tarpley). The one thing that all four have in common is that they all committed to Michigan before their high school basketball seasons had ended. On the surface there is nothing bad about this. But the reason, that many recruits commit early shows otherwise. The pressure of recruiting wars of- ten becomes so intense that the high school senior chooses a college in order to get some peace of mind. Too much attention "You have to open 100 pieces of mail a day and answer all those calls, and sometimes you just have to leave the house to get away from it all," said Henderson. "I committed early because I didn't want to have to put up with the ten- sion," said Rellford. Their choice of a basketball program is an important decision, but it shouldn't dominate their lives like it does. After all, there are other things that are important to the recruit, like the upcoming game against Crosstown High, does Peggy Sue have a date for the weekend, etc. But the recruiting letters have to be opened and the phone keeps ringing. 'You have to open 100 pieces "Son, I'm coac at North Carolina and of mail a day and answer all I'd just like a few minutes of your time those calls, and sometines you to tell you why you should become a Tar just have to leave the house to Heel,"-says the coach at the other end get away from it all.' of the line. The phone-rings again, "Son,- Robert Henderson, I coach at Kentucky and I'd just like a Michigan recruit few minutes of your time to tell you why you should become a Wildcat." Everybody has a reason why his school is the best place for the recruit. As a result, everything else takes a back seat until a verbal commitment is made. "I announced around Christmas and it worked out well for me," said Jokisch. "I didn't have to worry about where to go to school. Then I was just able to worry about high school and basketball." Unfortunately, not all players can get this peace of mind even when' they verbally commit to a school. Right now, Rellford is worried mostly about two things. The first is that Michigan head coach Bill Frieder wants him to work on his ball handling skills since he'll either play big guard or small for- ward next year in college. The other thing that he is concerned with is that he would prefer to play forward rather than guard as a Wolverine. But he cannot give his full and undivided attention to these cocerns. The reason? He is being distracted by the recruiting efforts of Louisiana State. After Rellford committed to Michigan, most schools left him alone. But not LSU. Every other day Rellford receives a phone call from LSU, and every other day he tells LSU that he's not interested. Solutions to the problem What is needed is stricter rules to take as much pressure off the high school senior as possible. The reason that basketball recruits are not allowed to officially sign a letter of intent until April 14 is that if a signing dpte didn't exist, players might be tempted to do so as juniors. This is understandable. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see how a slick-talking coach could convince a 17-year-old junior that he should sign before his senior year. If this wereto happen, you'd have a lot of unhappy players a year later when they change their minds, as many people do bet- ween their junior and senior years in high school. The solution is to keep the letter of intent rule but change the signing date. Let the recruit sign any time during his senior year. This way, he could sign once his mind is made up as a senior, and in so doing get recruiters off his back a little earlier-something Rellford has been unable to do. Further- more, make it illegal for other schools to recruit him once he signs in November or December. Another rule change that would lessen the pressure on recruits would be to minimize the contact a coach can have with him. It is ridiculous for Hender- son to have to open 100 pieces of mail a day and receive so many phone calls from recruiters that he is driven out of his home. Non-athletes are able to capably choose a college without all of this "help" and there is no reason to believe that the same doesn't hold true for athletes. The only reason that a coach may write to a player every day and call him very frequently, is the knowledge that other coaches are doing likewise. The coach fears that opposing schools may be at an advantage if he doesn't con- tact the recruit as often as they do. If the frequency of calls and letters is minimized, no one's recruiting effort will be harmed since everyone will still be able to contact recruits equally. 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