Baseball vs. Michigan State May 5, 1p.m. Ray Fisher Stadium The Michigan Daily SPORTS Softball vs. Ohio State May 3, 3 p.m. 'M' Varsity Diamond Tuesday, April 23, 1985 Page 9 Men netters take control of conference By RICK KAPLAN , Everything was under control. In the climate-controlled atmosphere of Liberty Tennis and Fitness Club, Michigan controlled its tennis match 0 with Ohio State Sunday afternoon, win- ning 6-3 to take control of the Big Ten regular season championship. WITH THE VICTORY, the Wolverines clinched at least a tie for the regular season title. Michigan closed out its schedule with a 7-2 mark, winning its final six matches. Minnesota's record stands at 5-2, with matches against second-division foes Iowa and Northwestern remaining this weekend. But by virtue of a 6-3 victory over the Gophers earlier this season, Michigan has wrapped up the number- one seed in the post-season champion- ship tournament. Winning the regular season title is nice, but it's about as meaningful as capturing first place in baseball's Grapefruit League. "(The regular season championship) means something," said Michigan player John Royer, "but it all boils down to three days in Bloomington (May 10-12 at the Big Ten team tournament). "BASICALLY, these (regular season) matches are pretty meaningless," Royer said, "except to know where you are and what you hav- to work on." The bottom two-thirds of the Michigan lineup carried the team against Ohio State. The Wolverines won the third, fourth, fifth and sixth singles matches along with the second and third doubles matches. Playing at third singles, freshman Jon Morris overwhelmed Buckeye Richard Berry. Morris's continuing improvement bodes well for the Wolverines in post-season competition. Morris took out Berry by 6-1, 6-2, scores. A COLUMBUS, OHIO native, Royer also defeated an opponent from his home-town school. The sophomore beat Mark Redding, 7-6,6-3. After filling in for Jim Sharton at number one singles last weekend, Royer was pencilled in at number four against OSU. "It doesn't really affect me," he said. "Our two, three, and four (spots) are pretty adjustable. Coach moves up whoever is playing well at the time." Royer dropped the first three games of the opening set, but came back to win the set in a tie-breaker. "I got off to a slow start; I wasn't moving very well," he said. "(Redding) missed a couple of shots, and I got back into it. I didn't play very well, but I played well enough to win." AT FIRST SINGLES, Ohio State's Roger Smith dumped Sharton, 6-1, 7-5. Smith's booming right-handed serves were on target, so Sharton was able to break Smith's serve just once in the match. "He doesn't always serve that well," Sharton said, "but today he was real tough. "The key was that I wasn't serving that well. When I'm not serving that well, it puts a lot of pressure on me, because I'm not the greatest returner in the world..." "I knew that this was going to be one of the few matches this year where Jim was really going to have his work cut out," said Michigan coach Brian Eisner. "Roger Smith is just a great tennis player. Smith will probably end up being seeded number one in the (conference) individual championshipt (at Minneapolis May 3-5)." OHIO STATE'S second singles player, Mark Massie, defeated Ed Filer in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4. Filer led 3-2 in the first set before dropping four con- secutive games. Massie grabbed a 5-2 edge in the second set, but Filer moun- ted a small comeback. The junior from South Bend, Ind., held serve and broke Massie's to get within 5-4, but Massie came up with a service break to close out the match. Sharton and Filer also lost their number-one doubles match. The defeat marked the first doubles loss for Mic- higan in six matches (with the excep- tion of the Minnesota match Sharton missed). The Wolverines have now won 16 of their last 18 doubles matches. SMITH AND BERRY beat Sharton and Filer 6-4 in the first set. In the second, neither team was able to break the opponents' serve in the first seven games, as Michigan led 4-3. But Massie made two unforced errors, and Filer hit a beautiful down-the-line passing shot by Smith to break Massie and give the Wolverine pair a 5-3 lead. But the Buckeyes swept the next four games to take the set, and the match, 7-5. "Smith played so well that he picked (Berry) right up," said Eisner. Michigan freshmen John Solik and Franz Geiger won at fifth and sixth singles, respectively. Solik defeated Kris Stachmeier, 6-4, 6-2. Geiger dum- ped Jeff Sparr by 6-3, 6-2, counts. Morris and Royer, at second doubles, and Brad Koontz and Tomas Ander- sson, at third doubles, extended their winning streaks to six matches. The Morris-Royer team crushed Ken Weisman and Redding, 6-2, 6-3, while Koontz and Andersson wasted Massie and Sparr, 6-3, 6-3. Split squads sprint successfully , p s Y+.ow, ., Rover and Morris ... six doubles wins in a row Lopez looks to bag bigger bullpen bucks By JOE EWING Head coach Jack Harvey may have split his men's track team between two meets on Saturday, but that didn't break up the Wolverines success in either place. Harvey sent half of his team to the Kansas Relays in Lawrence, Kansas and the other half to the Michigan State Invitational in East Lansing, getting some good individual performances in the process. THE MOST NOTEABLE Michigan performances came in the 400-meter dash at the Kansas Relays, where Wolverine junior Todd Steverson qualified for the NCAA meet by edging out teammate Omar Davidson for first place. "It was real close between Todd and Omar," said Harvey. "It came down to the last 75 yards of the race, and Todd was able to pull away because he's a lit- tle stronger." Steverson's time of 46.03 was just un- der the qualifying standard of 46.20, while Davidson's 46.48 barely missed winning him a trip to Austin Texas, the sight for the national championships May 31-June 1. THE WOLVERINES got another first place in Kansas out of Vince Bean, who won the long jump with a jump of 25'8", half an inch off the NCAA qualifying mark. Senior Dave Hall brought home one of Michigan's two first place finishes in East Lansing, winning the discus with a toss of 161 feet. Sophomore Scott Crawford soared to the other, taking the long jump crown with a 23' 1" leap. Back in Kansas, the Wolverines' mile relay team of Steverson, Davidson, Bob Boynton and Rick Swilley place second with a 3:10.27 clocking, close behind fir- st place Iowa State's 3:10.14. Also, Ron Simpson finished third in the 1500 meters in 3:51.57, and Dan Smith was fifth in the 800-meter run, crossing the line in 1:52.36. None of the times turned in by the Wolverine distance squad in Kansas were close to NCAA qualifying standards. "THE TIMES weren't really all that fast because it was really windy out there," explained Harvey. Chris Fitzpatrick turned in the only other noteable finish for the Wolverines, placing third in 400-meter hurdles at Michigan State with a season-low time of 53.5. Michigan's next action will come this weekend at the Penn Relays. P.- F I SPRING GRADS DETROIT (UPI) - Aurelio Lopez is making his pitch for free agency -- and so far it looks like a strike. "I've got to get ready for being a free agent," Lopez said after one particularly good outing recently. "I've got to be good." THE DETROIT Tigers' righthan- der has been good. Far better than his 4.35 earned run average through the weekend's games would suggest. ..'The 36-year-old Lopez has pitched in five games covering 10 /innings. He has allowed five earned runs but has two saves and has been master- fully effective in four of his ap- pearances. Take away that one-inning tuneup -- 9-2 Detroit loss to Kansas City on April 19 - to which Lopez con- tributed a pair of home runs and three runs in just an inning, and the hard-thrower has a nifty 1.93 ERA. LAST APRIL, Lopez had a 2-0 record with a 1.4 ERA. He was 2-0 with a 2.01 ERA in May. So far this spring he is following a similar road. Detroit paid Lopez $525,000 last season and is giving him the same this season.. Aurelio has his eyes on bigger money for his next contract, though. Say, $1 million a year. "They want to give money to young people," Lopez said. "What's the matter with giving it to people who have proved they can do the job? "I THINK they will try to sign me," Lopez said of his broken-off negotiations with Detroit management. "I think I can pitch five or six years. Not just one or two." "I don't want to negotiate during the season," Lopez said. 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