Page 18 - The Michigan Daily, Thursday, May 12, 1983
Softballers
By JIM DAVIS
It happened again.
All season, the Wolverine softball team has had difficulty
sweeping both games in a doubleheader. Tuesday was no dif-
ferent.
THIS TIME MICHIGAN divided with Western Michigan,
marking the seventh consecutive twinbill the Wolverines
have split. The Broncos took the opener, 2-0. Michigan cap-
tured game two, 4-0.
With the split, the softballers close the season at 32-27
overall and 9-15 in the Big Ten. The Broncos, who finished
second in the Mid-American Conference Tournament last
week, ended at 24-11.
Jan Boyd pitched both games for Michigan. The senior
hurler, making her final appearance in a Maize and Blue jer-
sey, gave up only two runs, ten hits and two walks on the day,
but got no run support in game one. Her record stands at 16-14.
The win total is a new single-season Michigan record, and
Boyd's 29 career victories is also a new mark.
JODY HUMPHRIES continued her hot hitting of late to
split pair with
pace the Wolverine offense, singling twice in the lidlifter and
tripling home a run in the first inning of the second game.
The Wolverines were stymied by Bronco pitchers Beth
Belleville and Kim Arendson on three hits in the opener, but
came out smoking in the nightcap.
Mena Reyman reached on a fielder's choice in the first in-
ning and hustled around on Humphries' two-out triple to give
Michigan the lead for good.
Then with two outs in the second, Leslie Bean was hit by a
pitch and Karen Pollard singled. Shortstop Lisa Panetta
followed with a run-producing single to score Bean, then
Missy Thomas smashed another base hit to chase Pollard
across the plate. Panetta brought home the third tally of the
inning and final run of the game as she scored on a passed
ball.
Left-fielder Carol Patrick provided the fielding gem of the
day in the final inning. Following a triple with one out, the
junior gunned down a Bronco runner-who was trying to
score on a fly ball-at the plate to preserve the shutout for
Boyd and the Wolverines.
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Wilcox, Wilson lead
Bengals past Oakland
By JOE CHAPELLE
Specialtothe Daily
DETROIT-The Tigers extended
their winning streak to three as they
downed the Oakland A's, 5-2, before a
sparse crowd of 10,772 last night at
Tiger Stadium,
Starter Milt Wilcox went the distance
for Detroit, upping his record to 3-4,
while Mike Norris took the loss, drop-
ping to 3-3.
A LARRY HERNDON walk and a
Glenn Wilson home run combined to
give the Tigers 2-0 lead in the second.
inning. Norris, who had control
problems early in the game, walked
Herndon to start things off for Detroit.
Wilson then stepped to the plate and
parked his third homer of the young
season in the left-field second deck.
Oakland first baseman Kelvin Moore,
however, got revenge for the A's in the
third, smacking Wilcox's first pitch of
the stanza over the right field wall.
That made the score 2-1.
The Tigers extended their lead to 4-1
in the fifth. Norris hit Detroit center
fielder Chet Lemon with a pitch, sen-
ding him to first. Tiger first baseman
Enos Cabell, the next batter to face the
Oakland righthander, knocked in
Lemon with a hard-hit triple to left-
center field. Shortstop Alan Trammell
then laid down a perfect bunt to bring in
Cabell, giving the Bengals a 4-1 edge.
Oakland narrowed the margin to 4-2
in the top of the sixth. With two outs
Wilcox gave up three singles and a walk
before Oakland second baseman Davey
Lopes bounced into a fielder's choice.
Oakland garnered its second run when
designated hitter Jeff Burroughs
singled Mike Davis home.
Detroit came alive again in the
seventh, adding another run to make
the score 5-2. Wilson started things off
by lininga single through the box. After
Lemon struck out, Cabell doubled the
right fielder home with his second ex-
tra-base hit of the evening.
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