0 Page 10 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, April 14, 1987 'M' h By ADAM SCHEFTER As the baseball season progresses, so do the Wolverines. The pitching, defense, and hitting are all improving as the Big Ten season has started, and Michigan head coach Bud Middaugh is pleased with his team's results. "We're getting better," the opes to take eighth-year coach said. "I think we beat a fine Purdue club this weekend three-out-of-four, and I'm very happy with the way things are going." HE TAKES his club into Ray Fisher Stadium today to meet the Bulldogs of Ferris State for a doubleheader at 1 p.m. The Bulldogs, 10-17,, have been getting good pitching despite their losing record. In addition, their hitting recently has improved. Coming into last week, they were hitting .240 as a team. But with their bats heating up, they have raised that average to .254. Leading the Ferris State attack Ferris are seniors Todd Schultz and Ken Bailer. Schultz is batting .342, with a team leading 15 RBI's, and a .548 slugging percentage. The switch-hitting shortstop runs the bases well, hits for power, and in the words of Bulldog head coach Jud Folske, "just does it all." Bailer was a First-Team Great r for a Lakes conference selection last season. This year, however, he is off to a slow start, hitting a meager .239 with 10 RBIs. THE PROBLEM with Bailer and the other Bulldogs has been the inability to drive in runners in scoring position. "Our big downfall this year has been leaving men on base," Folske said. "I adjust the batting order all the time but it just seems like we're not hitting in the clutch. We get em' there, but as Casey Stengel said a long time ago, 'Standing at third adds no more to the score than striking out."' If the Bulldogs can't get the spin runners in, pitcher;, Steve Wild and Craig Etelamaki will have to silence the Michigan bats. Wild is an Ann Arbor native who traditionally faces the Wolverines. This year he has struggled going 0- 3 with a 7.02 ERA. Last season, he led the conference in strikeouts with 57 in 58 innings due to his strong fastball. Etelamaki returned from knee surgery to beat the University of Detroit last Friday, 4-3. The junkballer is 1-0 with a 1.13 ERA. Michigan will counter with righthanders Chris Starr (1-0, 2.45 ERA) and John Grettenberger (0-0, 12.60). Blue wins triathlon at Fr The L swept thr National Champio Champai men's and Dave F Ring (2: Rich Co year's wi individua and Coop and 12th individua a championships om staff reports of Cleveland State, finished in University of Michigan 2:04:05. rough the second annual The Michigan women's team Collegiate Triathlon was composed of Caroline nship, held Sunday at Lindemulder (2:35:48), Jane gn, winning both the Esselstyn (2:42:22), and Heidi Kok d women's divisions. (2:59:37). The three individually Evans (2:06:30) and Craig finished third, sixth, and sixteenth, 08:59), combined with respectively, among women. The oper (2:17:03) for this women's individual winner, Linda inning men's team. In the Taillon of Ball State, finished in il standings, Evans, Ring, 2:32:11. per finished fourth, sixth, Ring pointed out that this year's ,respectively. The men's field was much more competitive l winner, Michael Fakult than last year's, in which Evans and he were the top two finishers. Represented were schools as far away as UCLA and Colorado. The triathlon consists of a mile swim, 27-miles of bicycling, and a six-mile run. 4 Daily Photo hy JOHN MUNSON Michigan's defense has been a key to its 22-6 record this season. The Wolverines face Ferris State in a double header today at Ray Fisher Stadium. I QUESTION #2. THE BUDGET- SCIOUS )NEY? 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Call toll-free today, at 4 2221.9 .0- Purdue, now 15-4, had looked to pose a major problem for the Wol - verines Saturday, but this was not the case. Once again, Michigan dominated the match during the singles play, losing only the number-one andh-three singles matches. After the singles, the Wolverines clinched the victory by sweeping the three doubles matches to record a 7-2 triumph. The weather and the playing conditions in West Lafayette were terrible for the players. In addition to playing in strong winds and on cracked courts, the players were also forced to play during a steady rainfall. 4 4 Champaign,111., was the site of Sunday's match for the Wolverines, and while the conditions were completely different,gthe match results were not. Michigan pounced on the Illini, who were without their number-two singles player and top doubles player Andrew Lobb due to injury. The match was won in the singles as the Wolverines swept the all six matches and only dropped one of the doubles matches to leave with an 8-1 victory. 4 I Ar _