Page 28-Wednesday, May 6, 1981-The Michigan Daily
12TH-INNING HOMER BEATS BLUE
Toledo edges 'M', 3-2
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By JOHN KERR
For the Michigan baseball team the
song "The Sounds of Silence" has taken
on a whole new meaning; it describes
the offensive portion of the Wolverines'
latest efforts on the diamond.
Yesterday the Michigan bats made
nary a sound as the Toledo Rockets
handed the Wolverines a 3-2 loss in 12
innings at Fisher Stadium. The
Wolverines now stand at 31-14 on the
season.
MICHIGAN COULD muster only six
hits in the contest, and Wolverine coach
Bud Middaugh was so concerned about
the Michigan offense that he had his
team take batting practice following
yesterday's loss.
"We haven't been hitting the ball
solidly lately," said Middaugh. "We're
not taking good cuts at the plate, and
for us to beat good clubs we're going to
have to take better cuts."
The Wolverines stayed close
throughout the game, though, as Toledo
was also having its hitting woes. The
Rockets garnered two unearned runs
off of Michigan starter Dave Kopf in the
third inning and only managed five hits
for the whole game. The fifth hit,.
however, was a towering solo homer in
the top of the 12th by Toledo shortstop
Tim Kubacki off of Michigan's Jim
Bartlett, which proved to be the dif-
ference as Michigan was unable to
score in its half of the inning. Bartlett,
despite allowing only two hits in 61/ in-
nings, was saddled with the loss and is
1-1 on the year.
IT TOOK A fine effort for the
Wolverines to send the game into extra
innings, as the Michigan offense finally
came to life in the bottom of the ninth.
Shortstop Tony Evans led off with a
triple up the alley in left-center and
scored when Jim Paciorek smashed the
next pitch off the wall in center for a
double. With one out, freshman Chris
Sabo singled home Paciorek, and the!
game was tied at 2-2. Sabo was stran-
ded at second, however, when Tim
Miller and Vic Ray both grounded out.
Neither team picked up a hit in the
extra innings until Kubacki's homer
clinched the game for the Rockets.
The Wolverines currently occupy
first place in the Big Ten's Eastern,
Division with a 9-3 record. Michigan
took three of four from Purdue last
weekend to solidify that position. The
loss to the Boilermakers, which came in
the third game of the series, snapped a
ten-game Wolverine winning streak.
Michigan's victims during the streak
included Indiana, Cleveland State,
Detroit, Ferris State and Purdue.
GERRY HOOL, Paciorek, Sabo,
Greg Schulte and Miller continue to vie
for the Michigan batting crown.
Following yesterday's action, Sabo
leads the Wolverines with a .354
average. Hool is next at .350 and
Paciorek is hitting .348. Schulte now
stands at .346 and Miller is swinging at
a .339 pace.
Pitchers Gary Wayne and Scott Elam
still dominate the pitching statistics.
Elam is 8-1 with a 1.68 earned run
average while Wayne stands at 6-1 with
a 1.20 ERA.
Michigan takes on Eastern Michigan
today at 1:00 p.m. ina doubleheader at
Fisher Stadium.
Rocket Blast
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TOLEDO.. ............. 002 000 000 0 0 4 3 5 0
MICHIGAN ............... 000000002 0 0 0 2 6 3
Clarke, Elston (4), Foster (9), and Gault, Garollo (8);
Kopf, Bartlett (6) and Bair, Young (10)
WP- Foster, LP- Bartlett
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Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM
MICHIGAN SHORTSTOP Tony Evans crosses the plate in the ninth inning yesterday for the Wolverines' first run in its
game against Toledo. Evans hita triple and scored on Jim Paciorek's double. Michigan, which trailed 2-0 going into the
ninth, tied the game only to lose it in the twelfth inning, 3-2.
Indiana squeaks by Blue,
Wool folk shines with two
By JOE CHAPELLE
Indiana squeaked by the Michigan men's track
team, 73-71, in a dual meet held in Ann Arbor last
Saturday. Despite the team's loss, several
Wolverines turned in solid performances.
Michigan sprinter Butch Woolfolk finished first in
both the 100- and 200-meter dashes with times of 10.79
and 21.34 seconds, respectively. In the 110-meter high
hurdles, Shelby Johnson took another first place for
the Wolverines with a time of 14.27. Another Michigan
sprinter, Andrew Bruce, breezed to a first-place
finish in the 400-meter dash in 46.92 seconds.
Wolverine Mike Shea easily captured first place in
the 800-meter run with his time of 1:50.11, with In-
diana's Doug Morris finishing second in 1:51.81. The
Hoosiers' Jim Spivey out-paced everybody to win the
5000-meter run in 13:54.23. Michigan's Gerard
Donakowski came in second with a time of 14:13.92.
Wolverine Brian Diemer placed first in the
steeplechase in 8:58.01, followed by Indiana's Kevin
Higdon, who had a time of 9:02.29.
THE HOOSIERS' Mike Wellman and Bruce Gilbert
finished 1-2 in the 1500-meter run with times of 3:45.14
and 3:50.69. Michigan's Bill O'Reilly notched a third
with a time of 3:50.98.
In the shot put, Wolverine John Nielson easily cap-
tured first with his toss of 58'71/4". Indiana's Clarence
Boone placed second with his throw of 52'8% ".
Michigan's Dave Lugin and Indiana's Ron Jones both
had leaps of 7'%" in the high jump. However, Jones
received the five points for a first place finish.
Wolverine long jumper James Ross finished first in
that event with a leap of 24'61/".
In the 40-meter relay, the Wolverines garnered
another first with a time of 41.14. However, the
Hoosiers came back to take first in the 160-meter
relay ina time of 3:11.52.
The Wolverines host the Chicago Track Club in
their next competition this Saturday.
Improved' women finish 4th
"Improvement"-that is the one word which best
describes the nature of the past spring for the
women's track team, as the thinclads substantially
improved on their seventh-place finish at the Big Ten
Championships in 1980 with a solid fourth-place per-
formance at East Lansing last weekend.
Wisconsin easily won the meet with 182 points, far
ahead of second-place MSU's 121 and Michigan's 60.
Michigan had several point-scorers, including two
Big Ten champions and record setters, Penny Neer
(discus) and Debbie Williams (javelin). Neer, who
had thrown a superlative 172'43/4" at a dual meet with
Central Michigan the previous weekend, was the
class of the field as she threw 167'4" to capture the
event and establish a new record.
WILLIAMS, THE dominant javelin thrower in the
conference throughout her collegiate career, won the
competition with a toss of 159'6", a Big Ten record.
Other Wolverines also gave notable efforts.
Melanie Weaver, in what Michigan coach Red Sim-
mons described as an "outstanding performance,"
charged to a third place in the 10,000 meters, recor-
ding an excellent 34:38 in only the second 10,000 of her
career. Weaver's time was but two seconds slower
than that of the winner.
Sue Frederick helped the squad score points in
three events, capturing fifth in the 800 (2:11) and
fourth in the 1,500 (4:28), and running anchor on the 4
x 880 yard relay, as the Michigan foursome of her,
Martha Gray, Lisa Larsen, and Carol Lam, recorded
a 9:05. Michigan's 4 x 110 relay team of Cathy Sharpe,
Renee Turner, Lori Thornton, and Brenda Kazinec
also scored, finishing third in 46.93. Joanna Bullard,
usually a high jump specialist, ran to a surprising
third place in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of
14.79.
Additional scorers for the squad included Sharpe,
sixth in the 100-meter (12.61), Thornton, third in the
long jump, and Kazinec, sixth in the 200-meter (25.0).
Simmons seemed pleased with the results of the
meet, though "in a few places we failed to come up,"
which, he felt, cost Michigan a possible third place.
But if the tracksters continue to improve as much as
they have, next year they might do better than that.
-JOHN FITZPATRICK
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