4 Page 8-The Michigan Daily - Saturday, March 30, 1985 Boxers show their skill By SCOTT SHAFFER Boxing for fun. The very idea may seem ridiculous in a sport where the goal is to knock out the opponent. However, the Michigan Boxing Club proved that boxing can be a'legitimate recreational sport last night when it held a card of exhibition matches at Elbel Field House. THE MATCHES WERE very com- petitive, but for the competitors it was more of a friendly rivalry than an all- out war to destroy each other. Only one of the ten three-round bouts had to be stopped. The stoppage oc- cured after middleweight Tim Douthit used his reach and experience to make the nose and mouth of Duane Gardner bleed. Father Pat Egan, the referee as well as the club trainer, ended the ac- tion in round three as Douthit landed several strong blows in succession. In the other co-feature, Tony Sensoli battled John Jennings in a fast paced heavyweight matchup. As in all the other exhibitions, no winners were an- nounced, reinforcing the idea that the club's purpose is primarily recreational. MOST OF THE members' goals are indeed recreational ones. Wayne Cohen, who squared off against Rich Santucci last night, said he competes strictly for exercise. "It's a great workout that only takes one hour a day. The gym is run real safely, so there is 'M' boxing club on display in spring exhibition card 1 very little risk of injury." For Avant Hall, boxing is a way of keeping in shape and working off ten- sions. "It's great for stress management. I work off all my frustrations in a beneficial way\" Hall faced club president Dan Adsit in the night's opening contest. Lightweight Tim Kocac had always wanted to box but never had enough time to join one of the ultra-competitive Detroit clubs. For him, the boxing club is a great way to fulfill his goal while at- tending school. FOR MANY, JUST boxing in the club is an end in itself, but a few members do have higher pugilistic aspirations. Sen- soli, billed as the "Ring Tactician", is one of them. According to Sensoli, he and a couple of the more experienced fighters (he named Jennings and Douthit) are thinking about entering the Golden Gloves next year. Sensoli, a medical student would ultimately like to become a ring doctor at professional boxing matches. The fighters are trained by Egan, who ran a boxing club in London, England before coming to Michigan. Egan finds running the club enjoyable because, "I find it sweet relief from being polite to people." Egan revived the club three years ago along with John Adsit, older brother of Dan. The club presently has 22 members on its roster. MANY OF THE members fought before an audience for the first time last night. There were about 100 spec- tators in Elbel Field House, and judging from their reaction, the best fight oc- cured when Pedro "The Pounder" Sierra went up against Hans Stricker. The field house is open for training four days a week and Dan Adsit states that one of the club's goals is to teach people with no experience how to defend themselves, so new members are definitely welcome. A typical day's workout begins with stretching and shadow boxing. After that, the fighters work on the speed bag, the heavy bag and a double ended bag known to club members as the "in- furiator." Sparring, pad work, jumping rope and sit-ups are also a regular part of the daily workout. Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Ken Hicks (left) and Timur Kocac of the Michigan Boxing Club square off in a match last night at Elbel Field House. The fight was part of the club's Spring Boxing Exhibition. SPORTS OF THE DAILY: Blue, Watters soak Redskins, 14-4 Special to the Daily OXFORD, Ohio - Mike Watters and rain water were the stories here yesterday. The Michigan second baseman knocked in seven runs in the Wolverines' 14-4 win over Miami in the first game of a doubleheader, and af- ternoon thundershowers washed out the second game. The Wolverines were leading 8-1 in the fifth inning of the second game before it was called. Watters helped Michigan improve its record to 13-0 by contributing a grand slam, a two-run homer and a bases loaded walk in game one. WATTERS also sparked the Wolverines' seven-run first inning by leading off with a single. With three on and one oit in the first, rightfielder Jeff Minick quickly put the Wolverines on the scoreboard with a bases-clearing triple. Dan Disher brought home Minick with a sacrifice fly, and after two walks and a single, Watters made the score 7-0 with a grand slam to right- centerfield. Michigan scored a run in the second on a Casey Close double before scoring in each of the last three innings. Watters smacked a two-run homer in the fifth inning and Close added a solo shot in sixth. The Wolverines scored again in the sixth on an Eric Sanders'. single and a Watters' bases-loaded walk. Rob Huffman concluded Michigan's scoring with an RBI single in the seventh. WATTERS' three hit, seven RBI per- formance followed a four-for-four game against Grand Valley State on Tuesday. Scott Kamieniecki went all the way for the Wolverines in the first contest, yielding just six hits while striking out five. Kamieniecki is already 4-0 after leading the team with just eight wins last year. Michigan was ahead 8-1 in the top of the fifth inning of the second game before the umpires called it. According to NCAA rules, even doubleheader games must go five full innings before they can be considered official contests. Ken Hayward, Kurt Zimmerman, and Close chipped in two RBIs a piece in game two before it was washed out. Miami, now 6-6, has lost four games to the Wolverines this season, including three losses during its spring trip in Texas. The Redskins will try to get revenge here this afternoon as the two clubs play another doubleheader. Watters ... seven RBIs single by Leon Roberts. The Tigers picked up three runs in the fourth when Barbaro Garbey had an RBI single and Detroit scored a pair of unearned runs. In the fifth, the Tigers scored four runs on five hits off Candelaria, highlighted by Leon Roberts' two-run homer.Y Detroit picked up one run in the seventh and six runs in the ninth, off pit- cher Lee Tunnell. Marty Castillo hit a grand-slam homer in the ninth. Playoffs may be seven games SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP)-Major- league baseball moved closer yester- day to expanding its playoffs from a best-of-five to a best-of-seven series, the chief negotiator for club owners said. "We think that we made a little progress on it," said Lee MacPhail, president of the owners' Player Relations Committee, following 21/2 hours of meetings with the players' union. "We'll go into our meeting on Tuesday in Palm Springs California with the idea of coming out with a yes or a no." MACPHAIL HAD said earlier in the week that owners would have to resolve the issue with the players' union by yesterday in order to satisfy NBC, the network televising the 1985 National and American League playofWsC "We're encouraged that it (the net-14 work) will hold until next week," Mac- Phail said. The major obstacle to the expansion of the series remains the method of splitting up the $9 million in television revenue the extra games could generate. The players have demanded that they get one-third of the total. "WE ARE TRYING to find a concept, a vehicle, which would allow us to go to the television networks and say, GoE ahead with the seven-game playoffs,' without giving either side an advantage in the rest of the negotiations," said Donald Fehr, acting executive director of the players' union. "I think we'll definitely, know, yes or no, by Tuesday." MacPhail said owners are adamant about not yielding to players' demands for a percentage of any revenues. "The basic idea is this: The game is not played until after the season, and the money is not received until after the games are played," MacPhail said. "Both of us are confident we will have an overall settlement by the end of the season." The players' basic agreement with owners expired at the end of last year. More than a dozen bargaining sessions have been held between the two sides since last November. A defense against cancer can be cooked up inyour kitchen. Tigers 18, Pirates 3 The Detroit Tigers slammed John Candelaria for 12 hits and 11 runs in five innings in an 18-3 exhibition baseball romp yesterday over the Pit- tsburgh Pirates. After Candelaria's performance, Pirates Manager Chuck Tanner assigned the veteran left-hander to the bullpen. The two held a discussion in the dugout, after which Candelaria, heading for the clubhouse, kicked his glove over the right field fence. CANDELARIA was tagged for four runs in the second inning on a bases- loaded double by Pedro Chavez and a. There is evidence that diet and cancer are related. Some foods may promote cancer, while others may protect you from it. Foods related to lower- ing the risk of cancer of the larynx and esophagus all have high amounts of carotene, 5 a form of Vitamin A which is in cantaloupes, peaches, broccoli, spinach, all dark green leafy vegetables, sweet potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, winter squash and tomatoes, citrus fruits and brussels sprouts. Fruits, vegetables, and whole- grain cereals such as oatmeal, bran and wheat may help lower the risk of colorectal cancer. Foods high in fats, salt- or nitrite-cured foods like ham, and fish and types of sausages smoked by tradi- tional methods should be eaten in moderation. Be moderate in consumption of alco- hol also. SA good rule of p thumb is cut down on fat and don't be fat. Weight reduction may lower cancer risk. Our 12- year study of nearly a million Americans uncovered high cancer risks particularly, among people 40% or more overweight. Now, more than ever, we know you can cook up your own defense against cancer. Redmen stand in Hoyas' path LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP)-St. John's Coach Lou Carnesecca has reached the point whe're he simply refers to Chris Mullin, Walter Berry and Bill Wen- nington as his "Big Three." Although the shortest of the group is Mullin at 6-foot-6, size has nothing to do with the name. Offense does. MULLIN, THE All-America guard; Berry, the 1984 Junior College Player of the Year, and Wennington, a 7-foot cen- ter, haveaccounted for 49.9 of the third- ranked Redmen's 76.2 points in their 31- 3 season that has brought them to today's NCAA semifinal showdown with No. 1 Georgetown, 34-2. Although Mullin and Wennington have been playing at St. John's for the past four years, Berry, a 6-8 forward, is the new kid on the block. "Walter has come in and really added a new dimension to our team as far as the running game because of his rebounding," Mullin said. "In the half- court game, we get the ball inside down low and he's a great scoring threat." BERRY HAS SCORED in double figuresin every game and is second to Mullin's 20.2 average with a mark of 17.2. Berry leads the team in reboun- ding with an 8.8 average. Wennington, who averages 12.5 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, gives Berry credit for his defense as well. Mullin, however, still has been the mainstay of the Redmen's offense, also leading the team in assists 150 and steals 73. two years, isn't worried that the Red- men's first trip to the Final Four in 33 -years is a disadvantage. "We are familiar with them, we know what we have to do, it's just a matter of doing it," Mullin said. "It looks easy on paper but when you have a team as good as Georgetown, it becomes a lot harder to do it on the floor." said yesterday following the Tigers'; final practice for the national cham- pionship basketball semifinals at Rupp Arena. "ANY FOUR teams could be here now," the Memphis State forward said. "It just so happens the best four teams are here. The Big East has a good con- ference, but right now it's not in the tournament - just three of her teams." The three others are Villanova, the "outsider" in the tournament, which will play Memphis State in Saturday's opening game at 3:42 p.m. EST, and defending champion Georgetown and St. John's, which finished ranked in 1-3 in the final Associated Press poll and will be facing each other for the fourth time this season. Dana Kirk, the Tigers' coach, took a different view of the subject. Asked how he felt about being the only non-Big East team, he replied: 'We've already won the non-Catholic championship. That'sours, OK," St. John's is a Catholic institution, Georgetown is Jesuit and Villanova Augustinian. PIVOTAL to the success or failure of the Tigers Saturday and, if they get any farther, in Monday night's national championship game, will be the success or failure of Keith Lee to avoid fouling out. He's been charged with at least four fouls in 11 of the past 12 games, fouling out four times. "When Keith is in the game, he's a threat any kind of way," Holmes said. 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