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Blue bats to Omaha
12-3 win sends 'M' to Series
By DREW SHARP
"On to Omaha and the World
Series!"
That was the battle cry in the
Michigan Wolverines' locker room
Saturday, following the Big Ten cham-
ps 12-3 victory over Nebraska in the
championship game of the NCAA
Mideast Regional. The win makes the
Wolverines one of eight teams who will
compete in the College World Series at
Omaha, Nebraska.
The powerful Wolverine offense con-
nected for 15 hits in the game and seven
runs in the first two innings to help pit-
cher Scot Elam go all the way for the
victory.
Centerfielder Greg Schulte led off
with a walk off Nebraska starter Craig
Dietz. Third baseman Chuck Wagner
followed with a single. The next batter,
designated hitter George Foussianes
was hit by a pitch to load up the bases
for slugger Jim Paciorek, who respon-
ded with a run-scoring base hit.
Mideast Regional MVP catcher
Gerry Hool followed with a sacrifice fly
to drive home the second run. First
TRACK UPSET:
baseman Tim Miller ripped a single to
right to fill the bases. Foussianes
scored the third Wolverine run on Tom
Fredal's ground out.
Elam, a freshman from - Trenton,
Ohio, gave up just one run in the
Nebraska first, as leftfielder Joe
Scherger had an RBI sacrifice fly.
With one out in the second, Schulte hit
a triple to the fence in left center field.
Wagner followed and laid a bunt bet-
ween the pitcher's mound and the first
base line for a hit.
Foussianes lined an RBI single to
right and Paciorek, not to be outdone,
smacked another RBI single. Then,
Miller drilled a single to right that
scored two more runs.
Michigan added three more in the
fourth, highlighted by Paciorek's ninth
homer of the season.
In the fourth, Nebraska picked up two
more runs to pull within seven, 10-3.
The Wolverines added another run in
the fifth when second baseman Jeff
Jacobsen scored on Foussianes'
sacrifice fly.
Michigan got its final run in the
eighth when with two men on base,
Paciorek rapped a double down the
right field for his fifth RBI of the game.
In the ninth, the Cornhuskers,
fighting for a last gasp of air, combined
back-to-back singles with two out, but it
was to no avail.
"I'm very proud of each and every
one of our players," said Middaugh.
"They've been doing this all season
long. They've learned to play well
together and you saw what happened
out there."
Middaugh was also wary of the op-
ponents his team will face in the College
World Series.
Blue takes title
BY JON MORELAND
The Michigan men's track team tur-
ned a record-setting performance in
scoring 162 points and winning the Big
Ten track meet last Friday and Satur-
day, in Champaign. The only strong
challenge came from Indiana which
scored 136 points, and Illinois was a
distant third with 64.
The Hoosiers entered the meet as the
favorites, having won the indoor meet
this winter, and they also defeated
Michigan in a dual meet earlier in the
year.
OF THE THREE final events Friday
night, Michigan finished 1-2 in two of
them - the long jump and the 10,000
meter run. James Henry and James
Ross finished on top in the long jump,
and Dan Heikkinen and Brian Diemer
were the top two in the 10,000. "I knew
before the meet that in order to beat In-
diana we would have to get out in front
Friday night," explained a very
pleased coach, Jack Harvey.
Michigan received several outstan-
ding individual performances, but
without a doubt, the greatest one came
from Heikkinen. After winning the 10,00
Friday, Dan came back Saturday af-
ternoon to place second in the 3000
meter steeplechase and third in the 5000
meter.
"TO PLACE in the top three in all
three of those events is an incredible
performance," said Harvey. "This type
of running is just fantastic, and nobody
has done what he accomplished in a Big
Ten Meet."
After remaining strong throughout
the meet, Michigan got two winning
performances that put an end to any
challengers' hopes.
In the 800 meter run, Tim Thomas
took first place with a time of 1:50.32, to
bolster Michigan's first place position.'
AFTER THOMAS' win, Michigan's
sprinters put the meet completely out of
reach when Butch Woolfolk, Andy
Bruce, Ted Dobson, and Rodney
Feaster finished 1-3-5-7 in the 200 meter
dash.
"Woolfolk was great," added Har-
vey. "He didn't even run an open 200 all
year, and he runs a 20.86 to qualify for,
the Nationals and Olympic Trials,
along with winning the Big Ten.
Woolfolk was also more than pleased
with his performance which he believes
was one of the more important ones of
the meet. "I was surprised at my time,
because we were running into the wind.
But it was perfect to have (Indiana's
Tim) Graf in the lane outside me.
"HE GOT the best start in the race,
and I knew I was in good shape when I
caught him," Woolfolk continued.
"Graf and I mirrored each other the
whole way, just like Michigan and In-
diana. It's always us and them."
BULLETIN
The Detroit Tigers yesterday
traded power-hitting first
baseman Jason Thompson to
the California Angels for right-
handed hitting outfielder Al
Cowens.
Thompson was hitting .224 at
the time of the trade with four
homers and 20 RBI.
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... five RBI
HorwitchE
of net All-.2
BY BREW SHARP
Matt Horwitch earned All-American
honors when he finished as one of the
top 16 singles players in the country at
the NCAA Tennis Championships held
this past week in Athens, Georgia.
Horwitch defeated Robby Venter of
UCLA, the Bruins No. 1 player and
eighth seeded overall in the tour-
nament, 6-2, 6-3. He also defeated Bill
Nealon of Southern California, 6-3, 6-3.
However, the junior from Highland.
Park, Ill., fell prey to Eddie Edwards of
Pepperdine, 6-2, 6-4.
"MATT. TOLD me that the thing
which would please him most would be
earning the honor of All-American,"
said Coach Brian Eisner.
"I'm very proud of him and I think he
did a tremendous job."
As a team, Michigan lost its opener to
Arkansas 5-0 and was eliminated from
team competition.
"I think I have a good reason for our
performance," said Eisner. "We had to
play our match outdoors and it had
been raining for the most part of the
day. In order to save time because of
the possible rain delays, the officials
"I'm1 sure that the teams we will be
playing have won 50 games or more,"
said Middaugh. "But the game is
played on the field and we've been
playing with alot of emotion lately."
Hool was surprised by his selection as
regional most valuable player.
"I'm very honored that people
thought I did such a good job," said the
junior from Detroit. "With the home
crowd rooting you on, it helped us a
great deal. It got the emotions going in
us and that had to have played a major
role in our success."
Elam echoed Hool's sentiments when
talking about the influence of the
crowd.
"It had to help us considerably," said
Elam. "I was kinda nervous going out
there in the beginning but we had the
crowd rooting us on, it got me pumped
up."
The NCAA Mideast Regional cham-
pion Michigan Wolverines will now go
to Omaha and take on California Satur-
day night at8:10 p.m., CDT.
FOUL TIPS - The NCAA Mideast
Regional All-Tournament Team con-
sists of first baseman Tim Miller of
Michigan; second baseman Greg
Schafer of Nebraska; shortstop Cliff
Pastornicky of Brigham Young; third
baseman Chuck Wagner of Michigan;
outfielders Greg Schulte and Jim
Paciorek of Michigan and Joe Scherger
of Nebraska; designated hitter George
Foussianes of Michigan; catcher Gerry
Hool of Michigan by unanimous vote
and pitchers Steve Ontiveros of
Michigan and Steve Gehrke of
Nebraska.
uarns title
Irnerican
ruled that the first team which got five
points would win the match. This put an
extraordinary amount of pressure on
the players who would compete first."
"THIS IS NOT to take anything away
from Arkansas. They are a great team.
They were ranked fifth or sixth
throughout the season and they won a
tough conference, the Southwest."
Stanford took the team titles with
California coming in second, Southern
California in third and Pepperdine in
fourth. Where Michigan will finish in
the final standings is up to the coaches'
poll which will be released next week.
In other Michigan results: Michael
Leach def. David Metz of UCLA, 4-6, 6-
4, 6-3 but lost to Chip Hooper of Arkan-
sas, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6. Mark Mees had seven
match points but couldn't put away
David Dowlen of Houston. Mees lost to
the No. 1 Cougars' singles player and
16th seeded player of the tournament, 6-
4,3-6, 7-6.
In the doubles category, the team of
Leach-Horwitch def. David Sigler-Scott
Bondurant of Stanford, 6-3, 6-2 but lost
to Jim Andrews-Don McDonald of Nor-
th Carolina State, 7-6, 4-6, 7-5.
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