Page 12-The Michigan Daily- Tuesday, April 21, 1992
'M' baseball
faces Eastern
The Michigan baseball team faces Eastern Michigan
University at 3 p.m. today at Fisher Stadium. The make-
up game was originally rained out on March 31.
The Wolverines (8-8 in the Big Ten, 18-21 overall)
have lost four of their last five games and will look to
the hot bats of Steve Buerkel and Scott Winterlee to
help end the skid.
Buerkel, a senior outfielder, leads Michigan in hit-
ting with a .381 average. Buerkel has also been a me-
nace on the base paths with 12 stolen bases in 18 at-
tempts. Winterlee, a junior, upped his average to .346
by going 4-for-5 in Sunday's finale against Indiana.
Rookie Ron Hollis, last season's Mr. Baseball on the
Michigan high school circuit, has been Michigan's best
pitcher of late. With victories in his last three outings,
Hollis sports a perfect 3-0 record on the season.
Michigan has split its two previous contests against
Eastern. Eastern took the opener in Ypsilanti by a 9-8
score, and the Wolverines took the second contest in
Ann Arbor, 3-2.
Looking ahead to the weekend, Michigan State rolls
into Fisher Stadium for a double header Saturday at 1
p.m. The Spartans took two from Northwestern on
Sunday. After facing the Spartans, the Wolverines will
have exam-week off before hosting four games against
Ohio State the ensuing weekend.
-Andy Stabile
Daily Baseball Writer
Blue softball looks for
county bragging rights
by Shawn DuFresne
Daily Sports Writer
After a short relishing of its
sweep over Indiana last weekend,
the red-hot Michigan softball team
(12-2 Big Ten, 26-16) will return to
the friendly confines of Varsity Dia-
mond and try to clip the wings of the
Eastern Michigan Eagles in a
doubleheader today. The contest is
dubbed as the Washtenaw County
NCAA Division I Softball Battle.
"We're not going to change our
game plan,"MMichigan sophomore
shortstop Mary Campana said.
"We're preparing for Eastern like (it
was) any Big Ten team."
Campana hit a game-winning
RBI in one of Michigan's games this
weekend.
The Eagles (5-9 Mid-American
Conference, 17-18) are coming off a
third place finish in the Frost Cutlery
Classic held in Chattanooga, Tenn.
They captured the tournament last
season, but this year sported a 5-2
record, losing to eventual champion
Louisiana Tech, 4-1.
The Wolverines boasted a 7-1
record last week to catapult to first
place in the Big Ten. They will look
for a strong performance by junior
outfielder Patti Benedict, who cur-
rently leads the Michigan attack with
a .371 batting average, 46 hits - in-
cluding nine doubles, four triples
and one dinger - and 23 RBI.
Junior catcher Karla Kunnen and
Campana will also try to improve
their respective .298 and .281
averages by contributing to the
Michigan offense.
Frosh pitcher Kelly Kovach, who
was named the Big Ten Pitcher of
the Week April 14, currently sports a
8-1 conference record (13-5 overall)
with a 0.66 ERA (1.47), surrender-
ing only five earned runs (24) in
53.1 innings (114.2). Junior pitcher
Kelly Forbis, who recorded a victory
last weekend over Indiana, is 6-4.
overall with one save and a 1.85
ERA.
Defensively, the Wolverines have
turned 17 double plays this season,
while their opponents have only
mustered 12.
Michigan pitcher Kelly Forbis pitches last season. Today the Wolverines take on Eastern
Michigan in a doubleheader at Varsity Diamond.
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