4 SPORTS The Michigan Daily Tuesday, May 15, 1984 THREE WINS AT PURDUE PROPEL 'M' INTO BIG TEN TOURNEY Page 18 Batsmen's momentum mounting 4 By ROB POLLARD MICHIGAN split the final two games It's important to go into a post-season with Purdue, winning the first, 15-2, and tournament with momentum. Any dropping the second, 11-7. The coach will tell you that. Wolverines closed the regular season By taking three of four games from with a record of 37-17, 11-5 in the Big the Purdue Boilermakers in West Ten East. Lafayette this weekend, the Wolverines Michigan first baseman Ken may have finally gotten ole' man Mo on Hayward thinks the team's performan- their side. ce at Purdue will give them confidence Big Ten Standings EAST WEST W L T Pct GB W .L T' Pct. GB MICHIGAN ........... 11 5 0 .688 - Minnesota ............. 11 5 0 .688 - Michigan State ........ 8 7 0 .533 2/ Northwestern. 9 6 1 SM4 t1/2 Ohio Slate . 0....... 0 0 .500 3 Iowa .......7 8 0 .467 31/2 Indiana... . 6 9 0 .400 4 Wisconsin ............. 6 7 1 .464 3%/ Purdue .............. 6 10 0 .375 5 Illinois ................ 3 10 0 .333 61/2 Friday'sGames Minnesota vs. MichiganState, 1 p.m. OhioState6-, Ind a s Results MICHIGAN vs. Northwestern, 4 p.m.O going into the Big Ten tournament which begins Friday in Minneapolis "I think it was a good weekend for us to get momentum," said Hayward, who belted four home runs during the series. "I think we're ready to go." HEAD COACH Bud Middaugh was another one who was pleased with the weekend performance. "I thought we played well for three games (the first three Michigan wins). We generated a lot of offense, and we didn't make an error all weekend." The Wolverines generated 37 runs worth of offense against Purdue. In 12 previous league games this season they had produced only 51 runs. IN THE 15-2 first-game laugher designated hitter Hayward and first baseman Hal Morris slammed two homers each. Hayward and Morris combined to drive in eight of the 15 runs. Gary Wayne started the game and got the win, pitching six innings. Wayne upped his record to 7-2. Jon Wood pit- ched a scoreless seventh inning for Michigan. In the nightcap, a ten-run Purdue second innning proved to be too much for the Wolverines. Righty Dave Karasinski was the victim of the Boilermaker barage, and he took the loss, dropping his record to 3-3. Casey Close had a three-run homer for Michigan. MIDDAUGH AND the Wolverines now turn their attention to the up- coming Big Ten tournament. The Wolverines will open against North- western in a single game on Friday. The Wildcats swept Illinois on Sunday to finish at 9-6-1, in second place in .the Big Ten West. Michigan State plays West champion Minnesota on Friday also. The tournament is a double, elimination round-robin. Two losses and you're out. It is a format that Mid- , daught is not too crazy about. "Anything can happen in (the tour- nament). The second place clubs have as much of a chance to win it as the division winners," said Middaugh, whose Wolverines captured the tour- nament last year by winning three straight games. "I think the format should be revam- ped. I think the division winners should play a best two-out-of-three." Hayward pointed out that there are a lot of unknowns facing the team. "In the Big Ten tournament anything can happen. It's one weekend. I don't know how Minnesota or Northwestern will be, I don't know what the field will be like or what the weather will be." Michigan may not be able to control the field conditions or the weather, but if the Wolverines play the type of ball they're capable of, they will be able to control the outcome of the tournament. Hopefully that outcome will be the same as last year's. 4 4 4 'M' Baseball Statistics DOUG McMAHuN/Daily Sophomore Dan Disher dives back into first base in action last week against Michigan State. The next competition for the Wolverines comes Friday at the Big Ten tournament in Minneapolis. Bergman 's triple lifts Tigers over Seattle By DOUGLAS B. LEVY games in the American League East, Special to the Daily took an early lead in the bottom of the DETROIT - Pinch hitter Dave first on Alan Trammell's fourth home Bergman " brought the 18,830 fans in run of the season. Tiger Stadium to their feet in the eighth Detroit upped its lead to 3-0 in the inning last night when he ripped a triple second and appeared to be coasting up the gap in right-center field scoring behind starter Dan Petry, who entered Rusty Kuntz from second base with the the game 5-1 on the year. go-ahead run. But Seattle nicked Petry for two runs Lou Whitaker then singled in in the fourth on a monster home run by Bergman and Detroit held on to beat former Tiger Al Cowens, his fourth of the Seattle Mariners, 7-5. the year. SEATTLE HAD battled back against Kuntz responded in the bottom of the baseball's winningest team in the top of frame with a solo shot and the Tigers the inning to tie the game at 5-5 before added another run in the fifth on Chet Detroit's final rally. Lemon's 31st RBI of the season to go up Detroit, now 27-5 and leading the 5-2. But Seattle scored one in the sixth second-place Toronto Blue Jays by 8 and two in the eighth to tie the game. Name, Pos. G Barry Larkin, SSO...... 37 Casey Close, OF-P ..... 52 KenHayward, B-P .... 54 Jeff Minick, OF ........ 49 HalMorris,1B........ 34 Mike Watters, 2B-CF .. 54 Rich Bair, C ........... 53 Matt Siuda, 3B ......... 53 ChuckFroning, OF .... 45 C. J. Beshke, 2B ....... 41 RobHuffmanOF...... 41 Dan Disher, OF-P ..... 38 Kurt Zimmerman, OF. 44 Bill Shuta, P........... 16, Eric Sanders, C ........ 5 Randy Wolfe, C........ 15 Mike Belz, C.......14 Chris GusOF ... 24 erek Kerr,C. 2 Greg Rolston, OF ...... 2 Buddy Dodge, C ....... 1 MICHIGAN. 54 Opponents........54 Name G John Grettenberger .... 10 Ken Hayward ......... 18 Jeff Minick ............ 2 SottKamieniecki ... 11 Jerry Wolf ....... 6 Chuck Froning .,...... 2 Gary Wayne ........... 14 Jon Wood ...... 6 Bill Shua.... 14 Dave Karasinski....... 13 Casey Close ........... 15 Kevin Gilles ........... 3 PaulKasper. 2 PalWenson ...... S Dan Disher .S.......... 8 MICHIGAN ........... 54 Hitting AB H1 K SB 121 47 38 14 145 50 39 4 150" 50 41 4 116 37 25 5 39 12 6 0 145 44 44 12 138 40 22 "5 131 34 18 5 90 23 10 2 82 21 24 2 59 15 20 2 .41 10 10 2 53 10 20 3 Lessthan 36at-bats- 2 1 0 0 19 7 4 1 19 5 3 1 20 5 6 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1436 404 340 67 Pitching CG SAV W-L IP 1 0 2-0 21.7 0 4 7-2 33 0 0 1-0 7 5 0 53 5. 0 0 l-0 8.7 5 2 7-2 66.7 0 0 0 -1 103 0 0 3-3 43.3 1 0 4-5 51 0 0 0-0 3.3 0 0 00 . S 0 0-1 6.7 13 6 37-17 375 BB 2B-3B-HR RBI AVG 20 7-2-3 22 .388 19 9-2-8 36 .345 39 9 0-1-10 54 .333 16 8-1-2 39 .319 1 2-0-2 5 .308 40 9-5-2 26 .303 25 7-0-4 32 .290 12 5-0-2 24 .260 8 7-1-2 11 .256 23 2-2-0 10 .256 7 4-0-0 10 .254 3 1-3-2 8 .244 21 0-2-2 8 .189 0 0-0-0 1 .500 3 2-0-0 3 .368 1 2-0-0 3 .263 3 2-0-0 3 .250 5 1-0-0 2 .172 1 0-0-0 0 .000 0 0-0-0 0 .000 1 0-0-0 0 .000 256 81-19-39 300 .295 265 67-16-30 249 .255 4 4 H 15 27 4 44 12 6 58 14 54 44 65 7 6 8 8 369 s'e BB 11 15 3 3 38 28 39 38 5 6 23 265 SO ERA 14 1.66 24 2.18 2 2.57 3 4.14 61 4.31 29 5.9 40 6.44 31 8.29 0 10.91 5 24.18 276 5.45 4 """"" ts....." ..."4~9 "1737 3" 44"56 " 3 .1