Diemer NCAA steeple' champ SpecialtotheDally HOUSTON - Despite finishing second in his qualifying heat, Brian Diemer ran away with the NCAA 3,000-meter steeplechase crown with a Michigan record 8:26.95. That time bettered his preliminary clocking of 8:28.86, which was also a Michigan record. "After the last water jump barrier he just ran away with it," said assistant coach Ron Warhurst. "He won going away." In the only other race for the men's team, Gerard Doiakowski placed third in the 10,000-meter run. "Through the first three miles he kept with the leaders, but he just couldn't stay with them," said Warhurst. "He was the best American in the race." DIEMER AND Donakowski closed out their careers at Michigan earning 25 points, good for fifth place. At this time, the Michigan women runners are doing a little The Michigan Daily - Saturday, June 4 1983 - Page 11 better than the men as a team. They are resting in second place with 19 points, just three behind leader UCLA. "This is just tremendous for the program," said an elated Francie Goodridge, the women's head coach. "To be leading so many of those other top schools is a great thrill for us, even though we know it won't last." The Wolverines' points were accumulated through the ef- forts of three runners: Melanie Weaver, Lisa Larsen and Joyce Wilson. Weaver and Larsen earned the bulk of those points with thifd- and sixth-place finishes respectively in the 10,000-meter run. Wilson garnered a single point with a twelf- th-place finish in the 400-meters with a school record :53.2. Goodridge praised both Weaver and Larsen, especially the former, stating that she "ran the race of her life" in the final meet of her collegiate career. In addition to earning points for the team, both women set new personal records, 33:06.70 and 33:38.43. LONGHORNS CRUSH JAMES MADISON INC WS: Texas rolls, 12-0 By PAUL HELGREN special to the Daily OMAHA, Neb. - Texas showed why it is Collegiate Baseball magazine's top- ranked team by pummelling James Madison, 12-0, in first round College World Series action last night. The Longhorns banged out 16 hits, two doubles and 14 singles, while pitcher Calvin Schiraldi (13-2) held James Madison to just five safeties. ' GOING INTO the eighth inning, the score was 4-0 but an eight-run Texas rally put the game on ice. Baseball By MIKE BERRES One of professional sports' best kept secreta will take place on Monday. It is the amateur draft of baseball talent by the two major leagues which, in these parts, hides in the shadow of the College World Series. Twelve Michigan players are eligible for the draft. With many scouts' eyes on the field in Omaha there is little doubt that a good showing will enhance a player's value. Pitcher Rich Stoll and third baseman Chris Sabo are two Wolverines expected to be picked early Monday. Other Michigan players likely to be selected are pitchers Dave Kopf and Gary Wayne and second baseman Jeff Jacobson. THE BASEBALL draft is similar to the NFL or NBA draft in that the teams pick amateur players, and the teams choose in inverse order of their regular season records. That, however, is "Our defense kept us in tlhe game un- til our offense could get rolling," Texas coach Cliff Gustafson said. "James Madison had to be nervous. They wouldn't be human if they weren't. I was nervous. "The day I stop getting nervous at the College World Series is the day I die." STEVE LABAY, Jeff Hearon and Mike Trent each rapped out three hits for the Longhorns. Trent also tied a College World Series record by scoring four runs. Justin Gannon picked up the loss for James Madison, dropping his record to 6-2. James Madison plays the loser of the Stanford-Oklahoma State game at 6:10 p.m. EDT on Sunday. Texas plays the winner of that game at 8:10 p.m. Mon- day. In the second game last night, Mid- western Regional champion Oklahoma State faced Western champ Stanford. R HE Texas .................001 012 080 - 12 162 James Madison ........ 000 000 0oo - o S 2 Texas: Schiraldiland Hearron James Madison: Gannon, Foster (7), Pleasants (8) sad Callers W- Schiraldi (13-2) LP-Gannon (6-2) A-9000 draft coming up where the similarities end. When the Minnesota Twins make the first selection, there is a good chance that everyone who isn't a baseball scout will ask, "Who?" A better question than "Who will be the top pick?" is "Will the top pick make it big?" While the average life of an NFL player is four years, it or- dinarily takes a baseball player that long to make it through a team's minor league system. The quality of any year's draft cannot be determined for at least five years. Scouts, however, claim that this is one of the leanest years for talent since the draft began. NONETHELESS, OUTSTANDING prospects do exist. Tim Belcher, a pit- cher from Mount Vernon Nazarene College in Ohio, and Jeff Kunkel, a shortstop from Rider College in Lawrence, N.J. are two of the top can- didates to be picked first. The scouts are quiet when asked about players. Cincinnati Reds' direc- tor of scouting Larry Doughty replied, "I can't do that," when asked to say something about Wolverines eligible for the draft. Chicago Cubs associate scouting director Vedie Himsl summed up the pre-draft situation best: "No one is going to say anything that would be available to another team. They won't even mention a player by name." Speaking of names, do Danny Good- win, Butch Benton and Juan Bustabad mean anything to you? They were top ten picks during the 1970's drafts. Goodwin was the Number one pick in both 1971 and 1975. Detroit Tiger Tom Brookens was the fourth player picked in January of 1975. Some players almost don't get chosen. All-Stars Dusty Baker and Cecil Cooper were picked in the 26th and 27th rounds, respectively. Kansas City picked for- mer Tiger Al Cowens in the 84th round. in 1968. Softballers take honors By JIM DAVIS The Wolverine softball squad placed three players on the Big Ten All-Academic team, more than any other school in the conference, and two of those players were named second-team Academic All- Americans. Senior pitcher Jan Boyd, sophomore first baseman, Mena Reyman and junior outfielder Jody Humphries placed on the Big Ten team. Boyd and Reyman also were named to the All-American squad. BOYD OWNS A 3.5 grade point average in education, Reyman has a 3.42 GPA in LSA, and Humphries carries a 3.1 in communications. Recruiting a success Coach Bob DeCarolis and assistant Carol Hutchins pulled a coup, landing all five state players pursued in the recruiting wars. "We went after basically five people and we got them all," said DeCarolis, "which is pretty unheard of when you consider the type of people that we got." THE SOFTBALLERS, who suf- fered from a lack of depth in 1983, also added pitcher Linda Allen, a transfer student from Indiana, in addition to the five recruits. The list of recruits includes Julie Clark of Howell, Mari Foster of Richmond, Vicki Morrow of Pontiac Catholic, and Martha Rogers and Alicia Seegert, both of Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard. Clark "will be a pitcher all the way," and is a righthanded hitter. "I don't think she's even scratched the surface of her ability yet," said DeCarolis. FOSTER, A three-sport All-Stater in high school, will also pitch and "will probably win a starting position somewhere in the infield." Morrow, a "fierce competitor and good (lefthanded) stick," will pitch right away for the Wolverines, ac- cording to DeCarolis. "She has a killer instinct. She's always coming at you hard." Rogers, a catcher and shortstop at Gabriel Richard, is ticketed for a look at catcher in the fall, and could play in the infield or outfield as well. "She's got a quick bat and is a natural leader," said the third-year coach. Seegert, a righthanded hitter, could catch and play in the infield. "Her strong suit is hitting," said DeCarolis. "She has tremendous power and deceptive speed. "When we started (recruiting) we were thinking that if we could get one or two of them we would be hap- py. We got them all, though. I would say that we were very successful." ...27th rounder Baseball has two drafts each year, one in January and one in June. In Monday's draft there will be two rounds and then the secondary phase. That ohase has all the players who have been picked within the last 13 months but have not signed a contract. On Tuesday, the clubs will continue with the regular phase until every team has finished. There is no limit to the number of roun- ds. Last year, 832 players were selected in the regular phase. Persons eligible for the regular phase are high school seniors, players who have completed their second year at junior or community colleges, and players at four-year colleges who have not been selected in the last year. Sabo ....should go high