4 Sports Page 16 Tuesday, June 2, 1981 The Michigan Daily BLUE BASEBALL SEASON ENDS like Tr rain eigh 45 pla3 Texas eliminates 'M'6-5 By JOHN KERR grounded out Paciorek was walked, Texas got on the board first in the triple up the alley in right center to Special of the Dally catcher Gerry Hool grounded to short to third inning with an unearned run off score him. Stober then promptly MAHA, Neb-Somebody doesn't end the game and the Michigan season. Stoll. Michigan, however, answered the stroked a double to left center scoring the Michigan baseball team. SOPHOMORE STEVE Ontiveros, Longhorns with two runs in its half of Shulte to give Michigan a 4-1 lead. he Wolverines, leading 5-2 before a who entered the game in relief of star- the inning. Four singles by John Young, EACH TEAM added one run in the idelay between the seventh and ter Rich Stoll in the fourth inning, got Schulte, Stober, and Paciorek put sixth, Texas on a solo homer by Burk yth innings that lasted an hour and the loss, but it was obvious that the rain Michigan in the lead 2-1. Goldthorn off Ontiveros, and the inutes, gsave up four runs when delay hampered his performance. After The Wolverines took a three-run lead Wolverines when Jacobsen was hit by a y uwas resumed last night and yielding only two hits and one run with two runs in the botton of the fifth. pitch after Michigan had loaded the 1-r. ftn, +,%'--- ~ h'a 'DU .-na-.ad before the delay, he allowed four hits After Jacobsen reached base safely on bases on two walks and an infield single . beaethe firttamto De er natea from the 1981 College World Series, as they lost to Texas, 6-5. Michigan was shut out, 4-0, by Mississippi State here Saturday evening. THE LONGHORNS capped the comeback with a three-run ninth in- ning. With one out and a man on first, Texas' Larry Long hit what appeared to be a routine single to right but Michigan rightfielder Jim Paciorek slipped - on the wet outfield grass and bong ended up on second with an RBI double. After a groundout and an intentional walk, Longhorn Mark Reynolds hit a long double to center over Greg Schulte's head, scoring two runs and giving the Longhorns a 6-5 lead. Michigan had a chance to tie or win the game in its half of the ninth when Jeff Jacobsen walked and Schulte doubled. However, instead of holding Jacobsen at third, which would have put men on second and third with no outs, Michigan coach Bud Middaugh elected to send Jacobsen home, where he was thrown out. After Dave Stober 123 456 789 R H E Texas .................... 001001 013 6 10 0 MICHIGAN ...............002 021 000 5 21 I Culley, Tomkins (5), Hamer (6), Arnold (9) and Goldthorn Stoll,Ontiveros (4) andHool WP-Hamer, LP-Ontiveros HR-oldthorn: Atendance: 8,139 nnd f.aueerus following55it. a fielder's choice, Schulte knocked a MICHIGAN'S DAVE STOBER, right, gets tagged in mid-dive by University of Texas shortstop Spike Owens, left, during yesterday's elimination game of the 35th annual NCAA World Series. Stober was attempting to steal second on the play. TheCollege World Series.. . T HE SPORTING VIEWS ... impressions from the pressbox 1i By JOHN KERR OMAHA, Neb. The post-season accolades have begun to roll in and Michigan pitcher Scot Elam has been named to the 1981 American Association of College Baseball Coaches All-America baseball team. The hard-throwing sophomore earned a spot on the third team by compiling an 11-3 record and a 1.88 ERA... Could the 1981 College World Series (CWS) mark the last appearance by Jim Paciorek in a Michigan uniform? Paciorek is expected to be a top pick in this year's major league amateur draft and the word is that if the money is there and the team is right, the big-hitting junior will pass up his senior year for a shot at the pros ... . One of the umpires here at the CWS, Gus Steiner, has only one arm. Steiner lost his right arm in an accident some years ago. Overheard in the pressbox: "if he makes a couple of bad calls, he'll be known as the one-armed bandit" ... Mississippi State's Mark Gillaspie is the only player participating in the CWS who is from Omaha. Gillaspie, who is hitting a healthy .408 for the Bulldogs, made the most of his homecoming Saturday by knocking a three-run blast over the right field fence off Michigan starter Elam. The homer was all Mississippi State needed to defeat Michigan, 4-0 ... Michigan fans would surely believe that the Wolverines are a good hitting ballclub, but after looking at the offensive production of some other CWS participants, one isn't so sure. Some of the teams make it look as if Michigan has been swinging toothpicks. Arizona State has a team average of .360 (Michigan's is .304). The Sun- devils have hit 94 homers (to Michigan's 38), and have scored 601 runs (Michigan has scored 350). Miami of Florida has stolen 184 bases (Michigan stole 71), and every team except Michigan has at least one hitter over .400 (Paciorek at .364 leads the Wolverines) ... Mississippi State manager Ron Polk became the first coach since 1979 to be thrown out of a CWS game when he was tossed in the third inning Saturday against Michigan. Polk came out of the dugout when his pitcher and the home plate um- pire got into an argument over a ball-strike call. Polk said, "I want to talk to you about my pit- cher," but the ump apparently though Polk wan- ted to talk about the pitches and gave him a quick heave-ho. Polk saw the rest of the contest fronrthe, clubhouse where he said he could only see the pit- cher... The Miami Hurricanes, who presently own a blistering 61-8 record, sported an amazing 39-1 ledger after their first 40 games. Michigan coach Bud Middaugh's alma mater, Miami of Ohio, was the only school that could defeat the Hurricanes in their first 40 contests ... Attendance records at this year's CWS are falling left and right. After the first two sessions, attendance was over 20,000 while last season at that point the crowds measured just over 13,000. Officials here are hoping to reach the 100,000 mark before the Series ends ... Middaugh missed some people here last year when he said the CWS looked more like a regional than a national tournament. It's no different this year, as only the Wolverines and Maine come from colder climates..The domination of warm- weather teams is becoming so complete that the Pac-10 Conference schools like Washington, Washington State, Oregon, and Oregon State have begun to find it impossible to compete with fellow conference members such as Arizona, Arizona State, USC and Stanford. Some of these northern schools, like Washington, have begun to drop baseball from their athletic programs. I I I