4 Baseball vs. Bowling Green Today, 1:00 p.m. Ray Fisher Stadium SPORTS Women's Tennis vs. Michigan State Today, 3:30 Track and Tennis Building The Michigan Daily Tuesday, April 2, 1985 Page 8 Wolverines wallop Adrian for 14th straight win 4 By DAVE ARETHA Michigan has been fielding baseball teams since Abraham Lincoln was president, but never has a Wolverine team started a season like this year's squad. Branch Rickey and his boys Were 12-0 back in the William Taft years, and Ray Fisher's troops jumped out to a 20- 1 start when Harry Truman was president. But no team in the 120 year history of Michigan baseball has ever equalled the Wolverines current 14-0 mark. GRANTED, the Wolverines' early- season schedule has not consisted of a Who's Who in college baseball (Michigan has feasted off such non- entities as Northern Iowa, Grand Valley State, and Adrian.) But still, the Wolverines are winning - and winning impressively, having outscored their opponents 119-31.X On Sunday they toyed with Adrian (2- 7), sweeping a doubleheader, 10-0 and 9- 1. The first game was so lopsided the Bulldogs actually begged for the mercy rule in the fifth inning - a tactic Michigan coach Bud Middaugh hasn't seen in quite a few years. "They play a ten-run rule in their league, and I was shocked," Middaugh said. "I didn't know. But if that's the way they want to play, that's fine. EIGHT Wolverines circled the base in the first inning of game one, with Barry Larkin bringing home the first two runners with a triple. Ken Hayward and Hal Morris moved the first inning merry-go-round along with RBI singles and Dan Disher kept it going with a two-run double. Catcher Mike Betz later added a two-run homer in the third inning. The base-circling continued right from the beginning of game two. The Wolverines ate up Adrian pitcher Lyn- don Donut in the first inning by scoring three runs on two hits, two walks and five stolen bases. Michigan stole nine bases in the nightcap, mostly because Middaugh "wanted to work a little bit on the running game." The real story of game two, though, was Michigan's pitching, or to be more accurate, Adrian's lack of hitting. The Bulldogs mustered only one single while striking out 14 times. Michigan pitcher Kevin Gilles said he didn't even pitch well, yet he still fanned eight Adrian batters in just three innings. A Wolverine who shined in both games of the doubleheader was, Mike Watters, who went three for six and scored four runs. Watters' bat has been ringing lately. In the last four games he is 10 for 14 with nine runs and eight RBIs. Watters and Michigan will try to stretch their record to 16-0 today when they face Bowling Green at Ray L. Fisher Stadium. Game time for the doubleheader is 1:00 p.m. 4 The Kean Eye ll 11 By Tom Keaney Men netters stifle Hurons, 9-0 By MARK KOVINSKY It was just what the doctor ordered. Michigan men's tennis coach Brian Eisner revamped his lineup Sunday af- ternoon, and it turned out to be just the remedy the netters needed as they won all nine matches against Eastern Michigan at the Huron Valley Racquet Club, raising their overall record to 3-2. "WE'VE BEEN playing nervous and we've been playing tight," said Eisner. "Our goal today was to pull some things together." And that is exactly what they did, but with some new faces. Junior Jim Sharton, playing in his usual top singles spot, started things off on the right foot for the Wolverines as he disposed of Huron sophomore Matt WELCOME Ladies & Children We specialize in the latest styles for 1985 DASCOLA STYLISTS Kuhlman in straight sets 7-6, 6-2. The southpaw had some difficulty handling Kuhlman's serves and com- bating his kamikazee style of play, but he didn't appear too concerned. "HE (KUHLMAN) served well, and that's my biggest problem," Sharton said. "I just don't return serves really well." In what was probably the best played match of the day, Ed Filer took over the number two singles spot for the first time this season and made the move pay off with a convincing 6-3, 6-3 win over EMU's Scott Lyke. Filer, a sophomore transfer from the Univer- sity of South Carolina, replaced usual number two man John Royer. In fact, Royer did not play in the mat- ch at all for the netters as a result of what Eisner would only term a "disciplinary action." FRESHMAN Jon Morris of Ann Ar- bor, playing his first singles match in, six or seven weeks, overpowered Eastern's number three player Kelly Loomis 6-2, 6-2. Morris, who is still aggravated by tendinitis in both knees, proved that he was ready to play singles again (having only competed in doubles prior to Sunday) displaying some steady play and a shattering ser- ve. "He weathered it (the injury) nicely," Eisner said. "I'm looking for- ward to using him in doubles and singles now." In the number four singles match, another freshman, Franz Geiger, came up with a good effort as he beat junior John Snyder 6-4 and 7-6. John Solik, down three match points in the second set, escaped a tiebreaker and pounded the Hurons' Dave Coverly in the final set for a 0-6, 7-6, 6-0 victory at fifth singles. Hugh Kwok rolled to a quick 6-1, 6-2 defeat of Dave Pear at sixth singles. Having already won the match before the start of doubles play, everything continued to go right for Michigan as all three doubles teams - Sharton and Filer, Jed Hakken and Solik, and Kwok pairing up with Tom as Andersson - also grabbed straight-set wins over their opponents. NCAA's other tournament... ..final four hockey highlights INCASE you missed it, the other final four, the NCAA hockey tournament Lw as held in Detroit's Joe Louis Arena over the weekend. I'm one of the ones who didn't miss it. But alas, the fanfare for college hockey's final four is somewhat less than basketball's, so just in case you missed it... " The new NCAA Champion is Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute. RPI edged out Providence College 2-1 in the finals. I don't know about you, but I have a hard time living with the fact that the best college hockey team in the country calls itself the Engineers. " The four games played at Joe Louis were just a little exciting. Three of them went to overtime, two of those went to triple overtime and, igo games were decided by more than one goal. The games themselves were idcredible, a whole lot more exciting than watching Villanova work for the last shot with ten minutes left in the first half of a basketball game. * Providence's loss in the finals proves by long-standing theory that no team will ever win a major hockey tournament that doesn't wear hockey pants. Look how well the Philadelphia Flyers are doing since they made the move back from those silly sweat pants to hockey pants. * I still think Michigan State could have beaten RPI. They outshot Providence by over 40 the week before the final four. Unfortunately for the Spartans, however, they ran into an unbelievable goalie - Chris Terreri - in the midst of an unbelieveable hot streak. . TheFriars are not a good hockey team, they are a very mediocre hockey team which happens to have an outstanding goalie playing on it. If Terreri had played for Michigan, the Wolverines would have made it to the NCAA finals. " Terreri is just plain hyperactive. Even on face-offs at the other end of the ice, he's bouncing up and down, slapping himself with his stick, touching the posts, skating around - he does not stop moving from the time he steps on the ice. Terreri * By contrast, RPI would have made it to the finals with anyone in goal. The Engineer goalie, Daren Puppa seems to have mastered the art of making the very easy look incredibly difficult. He has a knack for taking a fairly easy shot, mishandling it, recovering to barely save the goal and then getting a big ovation for his "efforts." " There were probably more Michigan State fans at the finals than RPI and Providence fans combined. Realizing this, the RPI mascot, a big fat guy dressed as a bee (figure that one out) grabbed a big State flag and carried it around the ice, trying to.get the non-partisan support. It worked. *Speaking of State fans, what kind of people yell "GO GREEN, GO WHITE" at a hockey game between RPI and Providence? " Minnesota-Duluth had the greatest fan support of the teams that came to Detroit. But the point has to be made that I have never seen so many drunk fans in my life. Not unruly drunk, mind you, but drunk nonetheless. Then again, what else is there to do in Duluth except get drunk and go to hockey games? * The RPI fans were well represented also, especially for a school whose enrollment is 4,500. But again, I have a hard time respecting fans who wear bright red construction hard hats to show their support for their beloved Engineers. E What is the only school to finish in the top twenty nationally in football, basketball and hockey? Boston College, which wound up taking fourth in the tournament, losing to Providence in triple overtime and UMD in single over- time in the consolation game. * After the final game, after Chris Terreri had made 170 saves in the past three games and established the key to the Friars success, a reporter said to him, "Hey Chris, you gonna bring the championship home next year in the (Providence) Civic Center?" It was a set-up question, the kind of question you ask for a predictable answer. The other reporters and I wanted and ex- pected him to say, "Oh, definitely," or "Count on it," or something like that. Terreri shook his head. "I don't know," he said. "I just don't know." 4 I Maple Village .... Liberty off State . . .761-2733 .668-9329 4 4% 000, - _ _. UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY DERBY HOSTEL WHEN: WHERE: HOW MUCH: May 2, 3, 4 and 5 U of L's Campus (a.k.a. Tent City) $5.00 per person per night. So'. . . 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Even with tendonitis in both knees, the Ann Arbor native defeated Kelly Loomis, 6-2, 6-2. Ritt's old team haunts Wolverines, 7-2 4 By DEBBIE deFRANCES Inexperience and fatigue may have gotten the best of the women's tennis team Sunday as they lost to Wisconsin 7-2. The Wolverines, now 4-4 for the spring seasoni, lost to the Big Ten op- ponent in the final match of a three-day weekend at Huron Valley Tennis Club. The young Michigan team was out- distanced by a more experienced Badger performance, according to head coach Bitsy Ritt. Wisconsin has competed in 15 matches to the Wolverine's eight. "THEY HAVE a little more ex- perience than we do and they're match tough," said Ritt of the Wisconsin team where she was an All Big Ten player and an assistant coach before coming to Michigan. "Wisconsin was the best team we played this weekend." Finishing their three consecutive match stint in Ann Arbor, only two of the Wolverines' singles players managed to prevail against the Wiscon- sin team. First singles, Paula Reichert,. squeezed by Chris Gillis in three sets winning 6-2, 4-6, 7-5. Teammate Monica Borcherts also won her fourth position match defeating Wisconsin's Chris Yarhr 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. According to Ritt, her team played very well, losing many close points in the no-ad scoring. "Monica had a big win because lately she's been losing tough three-set matches, so this really psyched her up," Ritt said. "arm pleased for both. They were definitely the brightest spots of the day." Although the three starting fresh- man, Leslie Mackey, Tina Basle and Erin Ashare were not victorious in their efforts on Sunday, they are developing experience and style that is needed to compete on the college level, according to Ritt. Today the Wolverines continue their Big Ten competition as they challenge Michigan State at the Track and Tennis Building. "This should be a good match especially since the rivalry (between Michigan and MSU) is so strong," said Ritt. 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