a Baseball vs. Grand Valley Doubleheader, 1:00 p.m. today Ray L. Fisher Stadium SPORTS Men's Tennis vs. Illinois Friday, 2:30 p.m. Track and Tennis Building Page 6 The Michigan Daily Tesday, March 27, 1984 Lakers By GARY EFFMAN The calls of Spring may finally be heard in Ann Arbor. The birds are singing, the Diag is buzzing, and once again the crack of the bat will be heard at Ray L. Fisher Stadium where the Wolverines will play host to the Lakers of Grand Valley State in their home- opening doubleheader today at 1 p.m: It will be the first game for the For more on the baseball team, see the Michigan Baseball '84 Section on pages 9 and 10. 4 Lakers since they returned over two, weeks ago from a very successful spring trip down in Sanford, Fla. where they dominated the competition not- ching seven wins against a single loss row into Fisher 'M' springmen soar; tankers finish Ilith said first-year Grand Valley coach Doug Wabeke. "But it's a whole dif- ferent ballgame when you come back north." It's also a different ballgame when you haven't seen grass for a while. "Being home and inside for two and a half weeks is a little long," explained Wabeke adding, "We're ready to go out and play some games.'' Wabeke has right-handers Dave Ocharz (2-0) and Jeff Agar (2-0) scheduled for the pitching chores and their stuff will have to be right on for the Lakers to win. "We're going to have to keep them to under five runs. We have to play sound defensively and make the easy ones," said Wabeke. THE FIVE run limit will be hard to enforce against the Wolverines. During the ten game trip in Texas, Michigan scored less than five runs only three times. Grand Valley will, be led offensively by leftfielder Rick Smith who is batting .444 and designated hitter Dave Greco who's cruising along with a .467 batting average. However, Wabeke admitted that neither is a real power hitter. Who the Lakers will face tomorrow on the mound is still a mystery as Michigan coach Bud Middaugh hasn't decided upon his starting pitchers. The likeliest starter would have to be Scott Kamieniecki, a sophomore, whose 2-0 record and 2.45 ERA are tops in both categories for Michigan. Unfortunately Michigan will be without the services of shortstop Barry Larkin who is still hampered by an ankle sprained during the Texas trip. Though he is hoping to be back in the line-up for the weekend series at Miami (ho, Larkin will have to watch Mike Watters fill the hole tomorrow. Michigan was able to practice outside at Fisher yesterday and the rest of the team looked strong. The Wolverines lead the series against Grand Valley State 5-1 and if history is a good predic- tor only another March blizzard would be able to sour the' sweet smell of spring. By MIKE REDSTONE Kent Ferguson finished first in the three-meter diving competition' and notched third in the three-meter event to pace the Michigan men's swim team to an 11th-place finish at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship last weekend in Cleveland. Bruce Kimball and Mike Gruber teamed up with Ferguson on the one- meter board to take fourth and sixth- place respectively. With their perfor- mances, all three divers earned All Ferguson ... dives to NCAA title Eriksson, Simpson shine for thinclads at LSU America honors. IN THE one-meter event, Kimball joined Ferguson as an All-American by finishing seventh. Gruber finished in 16th-place. The top swimming performance for the Wolverines came in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The team of Joe Parker, Mark Noetzel, Kirstan Vander- sluis, and Dave Kerska finished in a time of 2:59.40, good for 11th place and a spot on the All-America list. The Wolverines finished ahead of such perrenial powerhouses as USC, Alabama, Tennessee, and Houston. Florida won the meet with Texas and Stanford following in second and third places respectively. MICHIGAN IS definitely the best school from a cold climate," said Michigan coach Jon Urbanchek, whose team moved up five spots from last year's 16th-place finish at the NCAAs. "This is a big step in the right direction. Once we break into the top ten we can put the sunbelt schools behind us. Urbanchek is also hopeful that Michigan's high finish will help his recruiting in the coming years leading to a further improved Michigan team. "We haven't finished in the top 15 in I don't know how long," said the second- year coach. "We're definitely moving up. "WE PLAYED pretty steady baseball and the pitching held out," By SCOTT MCKINLAY I Practice was all the Michigan men's track team wanted when they went down to the Louisiana State University Invitational last Saturday. And prac- tice was all they got. "It was a real tough meet for us, we had trained hard all week so we didn't have any real outstanding performan- ces," said head coach Jack Harvey. Some 50 teams participated in the meet, but there are no team results. "It's just individual events, they don't keep score," Harvey said. SOME STRONG performances for the Wolverines included Scott Eriksson's 177' 11" third-place showing in the discus and John Nielson's fourth place finish in the shot put with a toss of 58' 6". Ron Simpson finished a strong second in the 1500 meters.. One Wolverine had a season best. Dave Woolley jumped 16' 8" in the pole vault, although that didn't allow him to place. The team is slated for more action April 6-7 in Austin, TX for the Texas Relays. Astros nip Tigers, 5-4 OA, Fla. (AP) - Ray Knight's eighth tied the game at 4-4. added a ninth-inning run on a s, ning single drove home Jose Mike LaCoss shut out the Tigers over fly by Ron Wotus. with the winning run as the the final four innings to get the victory. The Pirates had the potentia on Astros posted a 5-4 exhibition Houston improved its spring season run on third base with two outs 1 v over the Detroit Tigers yester- record to 14-8, while Detroit fell to 8-14. Reed, a former Philadelphia F COC 12th-in Cruz Housto victory acrifice al tying but Ron Phillies' day. Cruz opened the 12th inning with a single, advanced to second base and reached third base on an infield out. THE ASTROS took a 3-0 lead in the first inning against Detroit starting pit- cher Jack Morris. Phil Garner drove in two runs with a double and Jerry Mum- phry singled in a run. Lou Whitaker singled in the third in- ning for Detroit. Tom Brookens doubled in two runs in the fourth inning to create a 3-3 tie. Whitaker then belted a home run off Houston starting pitcher Nolan Ryan in the fifth inning. But Houston's Denny Walling's run-scoring single in the White Sox 4, Pirates 3 BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) - Toni Seaver pitched six scoreless innings as the Chicago White Sox edged the Pit- tsburgh Pirates 4-3 in exhibition baseball yesterday. ' Seaver allowed only four hits and struck out two as the White Sox took a 4- 0 lead through seven innings on run- scoring hits by Tom Paciorek, Rudy Law and Carlton Fisk. Vance Law, the son of former Pirates' pitcher Vernon Law, had a solo home run in the fourth inning. THE PIRATES scored two runs in the eighth inning on hits by minor leaguer Mike Howard and Bill Madlock, then reliever, struck out Joe Orsulak to end the game, Larry McWilliams suffered his second loss of the spring against two wins, working six innings and allowing six hits and two runs. Seaver is 1-1 this spring. 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