Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 10, 1985 Netters fight Irish in home opener 114 By PHIL NUSSEL Finally a home match! With the season well under way, Brian Eisner's 4-3 Wolverine squad actually gets to play on its home courts at the Track and Tennis building today against Notre Dame. It will be the last non-conference match for Michigan this season. It will be no easy task. THE FIGHTING Irish come into the match at 14-7. They defeated Iowa 5-4, a team that Michigan beat by the same score on Sunday. "I'd think it would be an interesting match," said Notre Dame coach Tom Fallon. "We're playing about as well as we can expect to play at this stage." Eisner certainly will not take the Irish lightly. He said yesterday, "They're a good solid team. I want to make sure that when we go out there, we realize what a good team Notre Dame is. If we can get everyone in the right mental state, then I think we will be just fine for this match as well as this weekend's matches." THE WOLVERINES' lineup has begun to solidify, especially at the singles positions. Junior Jim Sharton has handled the first singles position ef- fectively, winning four of his last five matches. At the second through fourth positions, Eisner plans to continue to juggle John Royer, Ed Filer, and Jon Morris depending on what type of players the opponents have. A lot also depends on Morris' knees. This past weekend, Morris played second against Northwestern but had.to drop to fourth in the Iowa match because of con- tinuing pain from tendonitis. The fifth and sixth positions will remain the same with freshman Brad Koontz and Franz Geiger taking the spots respectively. IN DOUBLES, Eisner has decided, for now, to keep Sharton and Filer at first and Royer and Morris at second. Third doubles continues to be up for grabs and after losing five out of six matches over the weekend, the doubles teams have become a growing concern. But an even greater concern to Eisner has been the team's day-to-day consistency. "I've been trying to get the players to know how to perform their best day in and day out," Eisner said. "And when they've done that, we've had, on an individual basis, no trouble winning. There's nobody in our lineup that is overmatched against any team in this conference. "I feel the potential is here, but we have not come close to realizing it yet. It's not a technical concern, it's more of an emotional concern. That's why each of these matches looms as being so im- portant to us." Notre Dame, like Michigan, has a lot of young players with two freshman and a sophomore in the top six. Senior Mike Gibbons, however, has been the top performer with a 13-2 overall mark. at second singles. Junior captain Joe Nelligan anchors the top singles spot with a 9-7 record. Dave Obert and Paul Daggs lead the doubles teams with a 12-4 mark. don't know much about this year's Detroit team, but they did remember losing twice to the Titan s last year. Assistant coach Maria Resendez said that the Wolverines can't do what they t did against Toledo and expect to win. t "We're a Big Ten team and they'll come to play. If we let up they'll beat us." she added. 6 6 Eisner ... looks for consistency Detroit may be calm 'between 'M' softball Storms By DARREN JASEY Sandwiched between last weekend's bash with the Big Ten favorite, North- western, and the upcoming battle with highly-;ated Indiana, Michigan's sof- tball doubleheader against the Detroit Titans today pales by comparison. "They are not one of the bigger teams," said sophomore Julie Clark, who will toe the rubber for Michigan in the second game. MANY Wolverines share the same sentiment, but for the Wolverines, it has been a roller-coaster season thus far. They know anything can happen. For instance, in the doubleheader following its 6-6 California trip, Michigan must have left their bats in San Diego, as they dropped both games 2-1 and 3-2 to an inferior Toledo team last week. Coach Carol Hutchins said they have lost many games they could have won, "The fielding and pitching have been fine but we have to improve our hit- ting," said Hutchings. Hutchins also stressed that the players attain some consistency if they expect to win the Big Ten. Last weekend's victories against Northwestern may be an indication that the Wolverines, now 3-1 in the Big Ten and 9-9 overall, are on the right track toward that consistency. PITCHER Vicki Morrow (6-1, .77 ERA) pick ed up all three of Michigan's wins after it dropped the first one 4-0. That included two victories over All-American candidate Lisa Ishakawa. Morrow will not see action agains Detroit today so she will be well-rested for the Indiana series Friday and Saturday at the 'M' Varsity Diamond, Mari Foster and Clark will be the star ters. Michelle Bolster is also expecte to see some action. The Wolverine coaches apparently t r- 6. First strike capability Associated Press Vice president George Bush launches the New York Mets' season yesterday by throwing out the first pitch at Shea Stadium. Clark .. probable starter 14 u.,. BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Carter starts Mets season with a bang NEW YORK (AP) - Gary Carter, in his first game with his new team, hit a one-out home run in the 10th inning to give the New York Mets a season- opening ' 6-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals yesterday. Reliever Neil Allen struck out Keith Hernandez to start the 10th, then had one strike on Carter before the Mets' catcher hit a line-drive homer into the Cardinal, bullpen in left field. TOM GORMAN, the fourth Mets pit- cher, worked a scoreless 10th inning for the victory. The Cardinals loaded the bases in the top of .the ninth when Willie McGee singled, Lonnie Smith was hit by a pitch and Tommy Herr singled. Jack Clark, who hit a solo homer in the second, then walked on a 3-1 pitch to force in the tying run. The Mets, with right-handed ace Dwight Gooden on the mound, took a 3-2 lead off St. Louis starter Joaquin An- dujar on a third-inning homer by George Foster and made it 4-2 on the second run-scoring single of the day by Hernandez in the fourth. RAFAEL Santana's double in the fif- th made it 5-2. Gooden, at 20 the youngest opening- day pitcher in modern baseball history, left after giving up consecutive singles in the seventh of Andy Van Slyke and Ozzie Smith. Gooden yielded six hits, walked two and struck out six before Doug Sisk came in. Cubs 2, Pirates 1 CHICAGO (AP) - Keith Moreland drove in two runs with a single and a home run and Rick Sutcliffe won his 15th consecutive regular-season game yesterday to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 2-1 opening-day victory over the Pit- tsburgh Pirates. Sutcliffe, the 1984 Cy Young winner who had a 16-1 record for the National League East champions last year, went seven and two-thirds innings. Sutcliffe, who allowed six hits and struck out three, surrendered his only run when pinch-hitter Lee Mazzilli doubled in the eigth and scored on a single by Jason Thompson. LEE SMITH struck out three of the four batters he faced to earn the save. Moreland singled in a run in the first inning and led off the fourth with his home run off loser Rick Rhoden. The Cubs touched Rhoden for four hits in the first inning but managed only one run. BOB DER NIER singled to deep short but was picked off first by Rhoden. Ryne Sandberg struck out, but Gary Matthews followed with a double to right, went to third on the first of Leon Durham's three hits and scored on Moreland's single to left. Giants 4, Padres 3 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Rookie Chris Brown singled to left field with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the San Francisco Giants and nitcher Vida Blue a season onening 4-3 victory over the National Legaue champion San Diego Padres yesterday. Blue, the veteran left hander who was out of baseball last season because of a drug conviction, won in the big leagues for the first time since 1982. He did it by coming out of the bullpen and retiring the final batter in the top of-the ninth af- ter San Diego tied the score with a run off reliever Mark Davis. THE OPENING-day victory, wit- nessed by a sellout crowd of 52,714,,was the Giants' first since 1979, when Blue beat the Cincinnati Reds. Blue was traded to Kansas City in 1982. White Sox 4, Brewers 2 MILWAUKEE (AP) - Tom Seaver, making a record 15th opening-day start, scattered five hits over six and two-thirds innings to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 4-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers yesterday. Seaver, entering his 19th season; struck out three and walked one in im- proving his opening-day record to 7-1. He had been tied with Walter Johnson with 14 opening day assignments. THE WHITE SOX capitalized on two errors by Milwaukee second baseman Jim Gantner to score twice in the first inning. Rudy Law reached first when Gan- tner dropped a pop fly near the right- field line. Starting pitcher Moose Haas, who took the loss, then walked Harold Baines and Greg Walker lined a single to center to drive in Law and advance Baines to third. Associated Press Mets'. catcher Gary Carter celebrates as he rounds the bases after hitting a tenth-inning, game-winning homerun against the Cardinals yesterday. w :..: THREE IN XCAMPUSES... Vo TOTAL L.I.U. - C.W. 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