1,2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 17, 1998

SO A
Continued from Page 10A
league record.
Eli Marrero's two-run double off
Christiansen broke up a scoreless tie
in the seventh, and rookie Joe
McEwing brought home another run
with a squeeze bunt as the Cardinals
won for the 13th time in 17 games.
Matt Morris (6-5) allowed four hits
in seven scoreless innings.
McGWIRE MANIA: Home run fever
is fueling ticket sales for upcoming
series featuring the St. Louis Cardinals
and Chicago Cubs.
Bob Voight, Milwaukee Brewers vice
president for ticket sales, said yesterday
that the team has sold more than
225,000 tickets for the five-game
homestand that includes three games
with the Cardinals, followed by two
games with the Cubs.

Mark McGwire of the Cardinals has
already set a season home run record
with 63 and Sammy Sosa of the Cubs
has 62.
Voight offered this summary of tick-
et sales (with limited standing-room-
only space to be made available after
other tickets are sold):
Tomorrow, 47,000 tickets sold,
upper and lower grandstand tickets
available.
* Saturday, 53,500 tickets sold,
some standing-room-only positions
available.
Sunday, 51,000 tickets sold, single
seats, obstructed-view seats still avail-
able.
Tuesday, 46,000 tickets sold, some
lower grandstand left.
Wednesday, 30,000 tickets sold,
upper and lower grandstand tickets
available for the Brewers' final home
game of 1998.

Eastern chooses Big,
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By Jim Rose
Daily Sports Editor
In any other year, you might be
tempted to ask for an explanation.
Why, exactly, would Eastern
Michigan want to jog down
Washtenaw Avenue and play the
Wolverines? This year, the answer
comes easily.
Eastern could win.
Actually, the Eagles' chances are
slim. They don't run the option.
In all seriousness, Eastern's situa-
tion is one paralleled by many small-
er-scale Division I schools. In order
to get their schools' names out,
coaches like the Eagles' Rick
Rasnick know that they have to play
some big-name competition. The fre-
quent result, however, is so lopsided
that the negative exposure outdoes
the positive.
Last year, another Mid-American
Conference school, Central
Michigan, traveled down to
Gainesville to play Florida. The goal
was to hang around in the contest for
a while and gain a little publicity at
the same time.
Central lost huge. Like, 82-6 huge.
"It can impact your team for a
couple of weeks when you go down
there," Rasnick said. "Florida
scored, I don't know, 75 or 85 points
last year on Central.
"There's no way to make that a
positive."
So with that in mind, why would
Eastern schedule the Wolverines?
"Primarily the money," Rasnick
said.
Games like this Saturday's are a
financial windfall for smaller
schools such as Eastern. Big-name

schools, like Michigan, use the dste
as early-season tune-ups, not to mr
tion the chance to schedule an extr
home game before the start ofib
conference season.
It just so happens that Ea,r
like Central last year, was origin 1
scheduled to travel down southt
play the Gators this week. But wvhe
Rasnick was given the chance t
drop the meeting with Floridai
exchange for the Wolverines,' It
jumped at the chance.
A game in Ann Arbor not onl'
offered more money, it also allowe
the Eagles to prepare as they wul
for any other home game. Playingi
Gainesville would've meant da t
the road - with a smaller prac c
squad to boot.
"That was the reason I madeth
choice to play Michigan and no
Florida - was to play here, close,
Rasnick said. "We don't have to tray
el. We'll work out here, we'll stay i
a hotel on Friday night, and we'r
going to take the whole football tean
out there and suit them up.r
Saturday - which is unique for i
an away game."
And now, of course, witl
Michigan struggling in the early par
of the season, the jokes - usuall:
reserved for basketball season -
have begun anew. Maybe, jus
maybe, people are saying, the Eagle:
picked the right year to put Michiga
on their schedule.
But Rasnick isn't buying it.
He said he'd much rather be fa -
a Michigan team looking forwat
an easy week after a pair of impres
sive wins to start the season. Instead
he gets an angry group, ready ti
bounce back after a pair of disap
pointing losses.
But then again .
"They are Michigan," Rasniel
admits, "but I do know that thei
confidence is shaken a little bit."
Whatever the case, the Eagles*1
definitely achieve two of their big
game goals this weekend. They'l
make a fair amount money, in thi
first place, and they'll certainly ge
some exposure as well.
"There's definitely gonna be pub
licity," Rasnick said. "What the pub
licity turns out to be, we'll find out
Anytime you play Michigan, Us
whole country's gonna know abu
it."
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