SPORTS Tuesday, May 10, 1983 Page 16 The Michigan Daily T we shi twi Mi poi nut Te Ne T tha ret cor tig su it a T Ma Netters win Big Te Laser and Jim Sharton at number two. Mees and Haney By STEVE HUNTER defeated Jon Kamisar and Mike Krebs of Northwestern 7-6, he Michigan men's tennis team came from behind this 6-1. At the second doubles position Laser and Sharton ekend to win its sixteenth consecutive Big Ten champion- defeated Illinois' David Goodman and Neil Adams 7-6, 6-3 for p. The Wolverines managed three first place finishes and Sharton's second Big Ten championship of the tournament. o runners-up as they accumulated 45 points and bested MICHIGAN'S Rod Schreiber also made it to the finals nnesota and Northwestern, who tied for second with 40 twice but had to settle for runner-up honors both times. nts apiece. Schreiber lost to Marco Wen of Northwestern 7-5, 6-4 at the Michigan's sole single's champion was Jim Sharton at the number five spot and again at number three doubles. He and mber four slot. Sharton, who was undefeated in the Big partner Hugh Kwok went down to Wen and Dan Christian, 1- n this year, squeaked out a victory over Iowa's Jim 6,6-4,6-2. lson, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6. All-Big Ten honors were awarded to Michigan's Mees, rHE FINAL set had to go into a tie-breaker despite the fact Haney and Sharton. it Sharton had built up a 5-2 lead. Nelson hit five service Michigan's play earned them their 25th Big Ten title in 29 urn winners and tied up the match at six apiece. Then, ac- years and also head coach Brian Eisner's 13th championship rding to Sharton, "He got worse in the tie-breaker. He was in as many tries. ;ht ... I was loose." The Wolverines will go up against the UCLA Bruins in the nelson's tightness resulted in three double faults. Sharton first round of the NCAA tournament on May 12 in Athens, mmed up the tie-breaker saying, "When he started giving Georgia. The Bruins are highly regarded, but the Wolverines way to me it was all over." are confident. rop honors were also snagged by the doubles tandems of "I think we have a really good chance to upset them," said irk Mees and Tom Haney at number one doubles, and Ross Sharton. i again ~1 ISharton ... wins two titles I Michig By PAUL HELGREN Awesome. There is no other way to describe the offensive display put on by the Michigan baseball team this weekend against Michigan State. The Wolverines hit .458 (55-120) as a team, swept the four-game series, and clin- ched the Big Ten East title. Michigan I won by scores of 11-9, 13-5,10-0, and 6-3. hoi BY CLINCHING the title, Michigan tha (35-6,10-1 Big Ten) earned the honor of se' hosting the Big Ten Tournament on fou May 20-22. The tournament pits the top go two teams from the Big Ten's East and Wa Wes ivisions.gal an bats bury Spartans teams hit an amazing 14 roui Batsmen take four from MSUwin Big Ten East Third baseman Chris Sabo's three' "Without a doubt (Michigan is) the me runs paced a Michigan attack best team I've seen this year," said at scored 40 runs on nine homers, Spartan coach Tom Smith. "They ven doubles, and two triples in the deserve their ranking (eighth in the ir games. The Wolverines got some country)." Smith also said that od pitching too, most notably Gary Michigan is clearly the favorite in the iyne's two-hit shutout in the third upcoming Big Ten Tournament. me. DESPITE THE FOUR losses, Michigan State is still in good shape to qualify for the playoffs. State closed Purdue (4-6) must win its remaining six games in order to bump the Spartans. Four of those games are against Michigan. "I'll bet on Michigan," Smith said, grinning. Too bad Smith didn't place any bets on the high-flying Wolverines this weekend. Only the first game was close, with Michigan hanging on to an 11-9 win. The Saturday contest started out on a bad note for winning pitcher Dave Kopf. Spartan second baseman Bruno Petrella led off the State first in- ning with a towering home run over the center field fence, awakening a large home crowd at East Lansing. But an eight-run Michigan outburst in the four- th inning quieted the crowd and helped Kopf pick up his eighth win of the season against no defeats. Relief ace Tim Karazim came on in the seventh to preserve the victory. The second game at East Lansing's Kobs Field was much like the first-lots of homers and another big Blue inning. Michigan scored' nine times in the third inning to build an insurmountable 10-1 lead..However, a sudden downpour of rain in the 6th inning forced the game to be concluded at Fisher Stadium on Sunday before the scheduled doubleheader. Ken Hayward went the last two innings on Sunday to preserve Daily PhoIo by BRIAN MASCK the 13-5 win for Casey Close (3-1). l win WITH THE switch to Ann Arbor on two-hitter in a 16-0 Wolverine w Sunday for the final two games came an end to the deluge of home runs. The two in the two games at East La one was hit at Fisher on Sund Although there weren't ai at Fisher, the Wolverines stil ty of hitting, taking the first and the second 6-3. Wayne he just two singles and a walk record to 6-1. Mike Watters 1 ters with two singles and a tri In the series finale, Michi Bud Middaugh pulled star Kamieniecki in the first innin freshman walked two Sparta the bases. When reliever walked the next two batters id-trippers nsing;. not ay. ny homers ill got plen- game 10-0 ld State to to up his ed the hit- ple. gan coach rter Scott g after the ins to load Hayward to force in- I two runs, Middaugh came right back with Kamieniecki, who had moved to left field. And the righthander respon- ded, settling down and giving Michigan four strong innings until Karazim came in in the fifth. Karazim only gave up a walk the rest of the way to post his sixth save. BLUE BANTER: Michigan's in- credible hitting weekend raised their team average to .334, .370 in Big Ten play ... Here's the individual rundown for the hitting stars of the series: * Chris Sabo ... 8-15, three HR's, one 2B, one 3B, eight RBI's. - * Barry Larkin... 8-14, two HR's, six RBI's. * Mike Watters... 8-15, one 3B, one 2B, six runs scored. * Fred Erdmann ... 6-11, two HR's, six RBI's. " Jeff Jacobson ... 6-14, six RBI's. " Rich Bair ... 6-10, one HR, one 2B, 4 RBI's ... Why were there so many home runs on Saturday? Maybe the fact that its only 301 feet down the right field line at Kobs Field has something to do with it. No wonder Kirk Gibson hit so many home runs there ... Michigan meets Wayne State at Fisher Stadium today in a doubleheader before travelling across town to Ypsilanti tomorrow to face the Hurons in a twinbill. Both games start at 1:00. 4 4 I Michigan lefthander Gary Wayne hurled a Sunday. I