A Baseball at Michigan St. (DH) Today, 1 p.m. East Lansing SPORTS Baseball vs. Siena Heights (DH) Sunday, 1 p.m. Fisher Stadium The Michigan Daily Wednesday, April 25, 1990 Page 15 Arms lift M' A . L' Blue earns sweep despite tame bats M' ,, t : , i, t. , I, 1. k Michigan shortstop Bonnie Tholl throws out a Western at first base in yesterday's doubleheader. JOSE JUA/Daily Michigan runner Wolverine Kelly O'Connor (left) takes off around the bases yesterday. Michigan swept a doubleheader from Western Michigan, 4-3, and, 1-0. by Scott Erskine Daily Sports Writer When Western Michigan came to Varsity Diamond yesterday to play a double-header against the Michigan softball team, they came ready to win. Unfortunately for the Cowboys, no one told them they couldn't win on emotion alone. The Wolverines simply ignored WMU's dancing and singing and played nearly flawless softball. As a result, the Wolverines swept the doubleheader, improving their overall record to 23-19, while WMU's fell to 13-19. Michigan head coach Carol Hutchins had a simple reason for the victories. "We jumped on them and our team just wants to win right now. Their doing whatever it takes." In the first game, Michigan junior pitcher Andrea Nelson had a strong performance for the Wolverines, allowing three runs on two hits. However, WMU was still able to score three times. Senior outfielder Deana Brady led the first scoring drive for the Cowboys with a walk. Teammate Julie Thayer then hit an RBI triple. Junior outfielder Diane Branch ended the scoring for Western with her sacrifice fly, and after the first inning, Michigan was down 2- 0. In the second inning, Michigan's Sue Sieler, Heather Lyke, Karla Kunnen, and Stacey Heams all helped put together a three-run scoring spree and Michigan led the Cowboys 3-2. Michigan's senior first-baseman Sara Dyksterhouse added another run in the fifth inning to increase the Wolverines' lead to 4-2. The sixth inning, however, proved to be the key inning for the Wolverines. With one out in the top of the sixth and WMU base runners on first and second, Michigan's sophomore second-baseman stopped a hard ground ball in the infield and converted the double play with shortstop Bonnie Tholl and Dyksterhouse. The final Cowboy run came in the top of the seventh inning when catcher Luan Marienfeld scored on a wild pitch and the final score favored the Wolverines, 4-3. Junior pitcher Kris Witucki picked up the loss for M' sluggers set for second MSU sweep Wolverines sluggers can reach .500 for first time this season by Matt Rennie Daily Baseball Writer Never let it be said that Bill Freehan is not an environmentalist. For its own contribution to Earth Week, Freehan's Michigan baseball squad is hoping to receive the East Lansing City Beautification Award with its second consecutive sweep of the Michigan State Spartans. One week ago in Fisher Stadium, the Spartans fell victim to the Wol- Overines' only doubleheader sweep of the season. Since then, Michigan split four games with then confer- ence leader Illinois while the Spartans took four straight from Wisconsin. Michigan's record now stands at 8-10 in the Big Ten, 22-19 overall. Michigan State enters the double- header with 13-5 and 24-11 marks. Freehan hopes his team's recent pitching success will continue against the capable Spartan bats. The Wolverine hurlers have not allowed more than four runs in any of their last ten games. Righthander Jason Pfaff, who shut out Illinois, 2-0, on Saturday, will start the first game, and southpaw Kirt Ojala will likely take the mound in the nightcap. Pfaff is rested enough to go the distance if he's pitching well, while Ojala, who pitched Sunday, will probably re- ceive help from either Dennis Konuszewski or Todd Marion. These Wolverines will have to contend with a Spartan lineup that boasts a .295 average in conference play. Outfielder Rich Juday and catcher Craig Hendricks lead the team in batting, with .448 and .402 averages respectively. That dynamic duo is also tied for the team lead in roundtrippers with five each and has driven in nearly 40 percent of MSU's runs. Dating back to last season, the Wolverines have won five straight against the Spartans. Both games this season were nip-and-tuck affairs, with Michigan coming out on top 3- 2 and 2-1. In the first game, the Wolverine won in the bottom of the eighth on an RBI single from Dan Ruff. State gave away the second game when Andy Fairman scored the winning run on a wild pitch. Tito I Western. In the second game it yas Michigan pitcher, first-year student Kelly Forbis who picked up the win with an outstanding one-hit shutout. However, the Wolverines cooled off somewhat offensively, and although they threatened to scoreon several occasions, they were only able to score once. This lone run was the result of a wild pitch in the bottom of the first inning after a sacrifice bunt by Tholl put Dyksterhouse on third. Shortstop Bonnie Tholl thought that pitching was the key : to winning. "I think we had a couple of strong pitching performances 'by both of our pitchers today," she said. Captain Jennifer Allard agreed; "I thought we hit the ball better today. Kelly Forbis pitched a great game," she said. "Defensively we're starting to pick up. This past weekend ve played great defensively and (we glid in) these two games too." 4t,- «. 4' t? !F f I# i. t i t SUMMER JOBS DON'T SPEND YOUR SUMMER COOPED UP INSIDE! 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