The Michigan Daily - Friday, April 13, 1984 - Page 15 Two of a kind Larkin, Kamieniecki vie for Olyi By JOE EWING Barry Larkin and Scott Kamieniecki of the Michigan baseball team are alike in many ways. Both were selected by their hpmetown teams in the 1982 major league draft; both were catalysts for Michigan as freshmen last season as the Wolverines made it to the College IWorld Series; and both were pre-season All-America picks this year. THEY BOTH ALSO will have a shot at Olympic glory this summer. t-r Last fall, after making it through two series of tryouts, both Larkin and Kamieniecki were named to a list of 44 finalists for the United States Olympic Baseball team. Now, the Olympic organizers will be keeping a special eye on them this year to see if they have what it takes to represent the U.S. "They're both fine young ball players," said Rod Dedeaux, head coach at the University of Southern California and coach of the Olympic squad. "We'll be giving both of them a good look this year." AND IF DEDAUX likes what he sees, Larkin and Kamieniecki could be in- vited to Louisville in mid-June to try out for a 25-man traveling squad that the final 20 for the Olympic squad will be chosen from. So making the 44-man list doesn't mean that any player has made the team yet. In fact, Dedeaux claimed that there are probably players who did not make the list that will make the Olympic squad. "Obviously we don't know yet," he said. "There might be people out there who are not on the list who are better than the ones on the list." So really, making the list of finalists gets a player nothing more than an ex- tra look that a player not on the list might not bet. But it could be that extra look that helps Larkin and Kamieniecki impress the Olympic coaches like they have impressed other baseball experts in the past. LARKIN, A SHORTSTOP out of Cin- cinnati Moeller High School, was thought enough of by the Cincinnati Reds to become their number two draft pick right out of high school in 1982. But instead of playing professional ball right away, he chose to come to Michigan. His reasoning for this choice was simple. "I knew I wasn't ready to go and live by myself," he admitted. "I felt I needed the college atmosphere to do a little growing up. I wasn't mature at all." But once he arrived in Ann Arbor, he showed plenty of maturity on the diamond, winning the starting shor- tstop spot and hitting .352 as a fresh- man. Last year he was also named Most Valuable Player of the Big Ten Tournament and was a member of Baseball America's Freshman All- American squad. AFTER LAST SEASON, Larkin, along with about 60 other players from the area, attended an Olympic camp in Ann Arbor run by Wolverine coach Bud Middaugh. From that camp, he and Kamieniecki were selected to move on to the next set of trials in Louisville, Kentucky, where the 44-man list was picked. "I think I did pretty well in Louisville," said Larkin. "I hit the ball well and played pretty good defense." Kamieniecki went about making the 44-man roster a different way - he took the hard route. After making it through the Ann Arbor camp, Kamieniecki decided not to go to Louisville because he wanted to rest his arm. "I HAD BEEN throwing here so much during the year that my arm was really tired," said Kamieniecki. "I wouldn't have been able to show much down there anyway. "But they sent the list out and I was on it," he continued. "I was kind of sur- prised." Evidently, Kamieniecki had im- npic spots make it, it will be based upon what they do this year. But at least they both got off on the right foot this season, as Larkin was named to Collegiate Baseball's Pre-Season All-American team, while Kamieniecki was an honorable mention pre-season All- American pick by Baseball A merica. An early-season ankle injury had kept Larkin out of the lineup for nearly half of the Michigan games this year, but he has still managed to hit at a .463 clip with four doubles. Kamieniecki, meanwhile, is 2-1 on the mound with 16 strikeouts and a 2.61 ERA. The Olympics could be just over the horizon. Still, though, neither of them want thoughts of the Olympics to inter- fere with their efforts at Michigan this season. "When I'm playing I try not to think about it," said Larkin. "I don't think about it because I want to do well for this team. If I play well enough and people think well enough of me, they'll pick me to play on the Olympic team." "I think about it in the off-time," ad- mitted Kamieniecki. "But when I'm in a game, I don't think about it because if I don't have a good year for Michigan, then there's no way I'm going to make the team." ImAgine Snummer'84 Kamieniecki ... does it the hard way pressed someone somewhere along the line, just like he had impressed Detroit so much that the Tigers made him their second-round pick in the 1982 draft right out of Redford St. Mary's High School. BUT LIKE LARKIN, he chose not to play professionally until after going to college. And like Larkin he got off to a great start at Michigan, knotching a no- hitter against Cleveland State for his first victory in a Wolverine uniform. On the year, he posted-a 5-1 mark with a 2.84 earned run average. Nonetheless, neither of the Michigan duo is going to win spots on the Olympic team on last year's merits. If they m & ~ e E 'Z, e(' PeO e by our pool! University Towers can give you a place in the sun next to our heated swimming pool. 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