I SPORTS Page 12 Thursday, July 28, 1983 The Michigan Daily PAL meets Chance in final By DAN COVEN As July draws to a close, the competition in the Sandy San- ders Basketball League gets as hot. The summer season culminates Saturday night at 8:30 p.m.- when Washtenaw PAL faces this summer's favorite, The Chance. Losing only one game this season to Round Haus, The Chance is led by league-leading scorer, Roy Tarpley. "ROY HAS PROGRESSED in every game this summer,">, said ex-Michigan teammate Isaac Person. "He (Tarpley) has tremendous offensive talent, and his shot blocking is a real intimidation factor." Joining Tarpley are Alan Hardy and Johnny Johnson. The Chance, 7-1, has routinely beaten opponents by 10 and 20-point spreads. They rely on stringent defense. Dhysical inside play and shot blocking by Hardy and Tarpley. PAL, 5-3, has won its last three games and is led by hot- shooting guards Percy Cooper and Wilbert McCormick. Mark Bostic and Irv Giddings provide the inside scoring. Quarterbacking PAL is point guard Freddie Cofield of Eastern Michigan, who along with Tarpley have been the league's best players. THE SUMMER LEAGUE has provided the players a chance to hone their skills and keep in shape. "The league is very competitive, and playing on the same court with the pros is a real honor," said Michigan sophomore Richard Rellford. "It keeps me in shape helps build my stamina, which was a real problem for me last year with Michigan . Revenge was of issue last Monday night as The Chance defeated Round Haus, 74-70, in one of this seasons finest games. With the score tied at 17, and seven minutes left in the half, Tarpley entered the game for The Chance, He quickly set the tempo by snuffing three shots and igniting The Chance's - deadly fast break, by hitting teammates with the outlet pass. By halftime, The Chance led 35-27. The second half saw The Chance extend its lead to nine on scoring by Hardy, Johnson and Tarpley. Then PAL rallied as MSU-Sophomore countered every Tarpley slam with a basket of his won with aggressive play by Rellford and Ray Brooks, PAL tied the game at 64, with 4 minutes to play. It was then that Tarpley took charge by getting out on the fast- break. With 30 seconds left and the score tied at 70, Tarpley scored on an alley-oop jam from Hardy and when Roy Holman stole the inbounds pass and fed Tarpley for a crowd- Daiy Photo by DOUG MMAHON rousing dunk to end the game. Detroit~Pistons' Terry Tyler (41) snuffs Mark Bostic in Sandy Sanders basketball action. The cham- Harley ledh scorers wi h 19 po nts and eigh re ection . pionship game will be played at Pioneer High School this Saturday at 8:30 p.m. SPORTS OF THE DAILY: Seattle seventh kills Tigers, 5-3 By JIM GINDIN special to the Daily DETROIT - The Mariners ended the Tigers' four-game winning streak in posting a 5-3 victory last night. Mike Moore got his second win of the season against three defeats as he went eight and two-thirds innings and allowed only three hits. SEATTLE broke the game open off' reliever Doug Bair in the top of the seventh. Rick Sweet, batting for Jamie Nelson, walked. John Moses singled and shortstop Spike Owens sacrificed the runners to second and third. Tony Bernazard singled to shortstop, scoring Sweet. Then Pat Putnam blasted his second homer of the night into the left-center field seats. Howard Bailey came in to relieve Bair and shut down the Mariner rally, getting Richie Zisk to fly to center and Ron Roenicke, just picked up as a free agent from Los Angeles, to bounce to third. Seattle led 5-2. LANCE PARRISH gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning with a double down the third baseline, the first Tiger hit, scoring Larry Herndon from first base. Detroit tallied again in the fifth in- ning when Chet Lemon reached first on an error by Mariner first baseman Manny Castillo. Rich Leach singled to right, sending Lemon to third, and Wayne Krenchicki lifted a sacrifice fly to center to score Lemon. Seattle came back in the top of the sixth as Putnam led off with his 13th home run of the year. Detroit came back with a run after the big Mariner seventh as Lemon crushed a ball into the upper deck in left field to cut the Mariner lead to 5-3. Bill Caudill came in to get Glenn Wilson with one on in the ninth for the save. Brazes 6, Mets 3 NEW YORK (AP) - Rafael Ramirez's two-out, two-run single highlighted a four-run eighth inning as the Atlanta Braves rallied to defeat the New York Mets 6-3 yesterday and aver- ted a three-game sweep at the hands of the last-place Mets. The Braves had lost a 2-0 lead when Mookie Wilson cracked a three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to give the Mets a 3-2 lead. BUT THE Braves bounced right back. Dale Murphy and Glenn' Hubbard drew consecutive one-out walks off reliever Doug Sisk and Bruce Benedict followed with a double to right, scoring Murphy to tie it 3-3. Carlos Diaz replaced Sisk and got pinch-hitter Terry Harper to fly to short center. Bob Watson, pinch-hitting for Brett Butler, was walked intentionally but Ramirez singled to center, scoring Hubbard and Murphy, and Watson also scored when Wilson's throw skipped by third base. Rookie Craig McMurty was the beneficiary of the big inning, improving his record to 12-5. Sisk, third of six New York pitches, took the loss and dropped to 4-3. Four Panthers All-USFL NEW YORK (AP - Chicago, Tampa Bay, Philadelphia and Michigan placed four players each on the first United States Football League All-League team announced yesterday. Quarterback Bobby Hebert, named most valuable player in Michigan's 24- 22 championship game victory over Philadelphia, heads the offense. The other Panthers honored were tackle Ray Pinney, guard Thom Dornbrook and linebacker John Corker. SELECTED from Philadelphia were running back Kelvin Bryant, tackle Iry Eatman, linebacker Sam Mills and safety Scott Woerner. Chicago placed wide receiver Trumaine Johnson, defensive end Kit Lathrop, linebacker Stan White and safety Luther Bradley. Chosen from Tampa Bay were wide receiver Eric T uvillion, center Bob Van Duyne, nose tackle Fred Nor- dgren and cornerback Jeff George. The team was selected by writers and broadcasters who covered the USFL on a regular basis. I 4 I