Page 14 - The Michigan Daily-- Friday, May 25, 1984 Raising Hel By PAUL HELGREN Decisions of Turner, McCormick come as no surprise to Frieder This is how a good sports story is supposed to read: Bill Frieder leaves for Europe with a basketball team that he is convinced will be a contender for the '85 Big Ten championship. But alas, fate pulls a cruel turn on the nice man from Saginaw and he returns to America devastated by the knowledge that two of his best players - Tim McCormick and Eric Turner - have defected to the pros, thus taking with them Michigan's chances of catching Illinois and Indiana. Good story, right? Not exactly. Apparently Frieder forgot to read the script. Because Frieder had earlier said he felt both of his experienced horses would remain in the fold, it looked like their announced intentions to enter the NBA draft surprised the 40-year-old coach. And because they did turn professional it would be easy to assume Frieder is bumming over the prospects for next season. Neither assertion is true. Frieder was well-prepared for the possibility of Mc- Cormick and Turner leaving. And he's well-prepared for the upcoming season, too. Actually Frieder suspected for some time that Turner would make the big jump to the NBA. "Eric Turner had been talking pros for a long time," Frieder said in an interview Wednesday. "It got to the point where I felt that since it was on his mind that much he Frieder probably should do it." With Turner's departure have come allegations that he was unhappy at Michigan and not on the best of terms with-Frieder. Also it was said that Frieder was secretly happy that ET was takingshis talents to higher spheres of hoopdom. While Frieder admits that he did not make ardent pleas with his point guard to stay and play his final year, he denies that he and Turner were on anything but amiable terms. "Hell, Eric and I go back when he was eight years old in Flint. We were both in Flint (Turner grew up in that city and Frieder coached at Flint Nor- thern High). We've had a good relationship." Turner was not available for immediate comment. But you can be sure he would echo Frieder's remarks. Frieder added that the reason he took an indifferent stance on Turner's decision was that he didn't want the 6-3 guard returning to the team feeling he had been coerced into staying on. "I think he (Eric) made the right decision based on the fact that if he came back and had some adversity and played inconsistent again he might say, 'Hey, I should've gone (pro).' That would have been the worst thing ever." Contrarily, Frieder wanted McCormick to stay very badly but by the con- clusion of the regular basketball season he knew that his big man would follow one of three paths - none of which included continuing as a Wolverine. Crushed by his rejection from grad school McCormick considered: 1) joining Athletes in Action, 2) playing ball in Eruope, 3) entering the NBA draft. "When we won the NIT both his mom and dad come up to me and said it was a good way for Tim to end his career. So I knew he was gone. We tried to talk him out of it ut ... But by then McCormick's decision had been made. And Frieder was already looking ahead to the Europe trip and the 1984-85 version of his basketball team. The seven-game tour of the continent gave the four-year coach an im- mediate chance to see his squad minus two-and-a-half starters (he counts Dan Pelekoudas a half-starter). And while Frieder has no delusions about passing the Hoosiers and Illini in the standings, he likes what he has to work with in the upcoming season. He should, too. Don't forget the most outstanding performer on the squad last year, center Roy Tarpley, is back and ready to better his 1984 scoring exploits. Plus with Turner out of the way Antoine Joubert will get a chance to assume control of the floor and put some much-needed vibrancy back into the team. Rich Rellford, Butch Wade and a few others could also make it an exciting winter for Ann Arbor hoopla devotees. In particular Frieder is counting on a comeback from 6-9 Robert Henderson and a shining debut from Canton, Ohio's all-everything guard, Gary Grant. A good performance by Henderson in the European games gives Frieder reason to be optimistic. "We've got good material and we're capable of winning some games. But we've got a lot of things that we have to replace. The biggest thing we're gonna miss is the leadership that those three kids gave us." Enter Joubert. "Antoine provided a lot of leadership in these games in Europe. I think he's the guy that can give leadership and wants to give leadership. He has to work hard this summer and get some fat off of him. But I think he will." If he does, Michigan could be in for an exciting basketball season. All Frieder has to do is make sure Joubert reads the script. Hyatt leaves position as gymna-sties coach From staff reports done," Sampson said. "Everybody was After five years on the job, Sheri looking at me to come out and do it Hyatt is tumbling away from the every day. All I can do is play like I can women s gymnastics coaching position and listen to the coaches and adjust. I to enter private business in Texas. think I've done that." Hyatt led her team to a fourth-place Coach Bill Fitch thinks Sampson will finish in the Big Ten last season. Her most be even better once he gets tougher. successful squad was in 1982, when it won the conference championship and finished tenth at the NCAA meet. Hyatt is the sixth women's coach from last year that will not be back for another season at Michigan, joining previous retirees Sandy Vong, Francie Goodridge, Bob DeCarolis, Gloria Soluk and Candy Zietnek. A successor to the gymnastics position has not yet been named. Sampson named Rookie of the Year NEW YORK (AP)- Ralph Sampson, who led the Houston Rockets in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots, was named unanimously yesterday as the National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year. The 7-foot-4 Sampson drew -all 76 votes cast by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters after a season in which he justified his selection as the top pick in last year's NBA draft. HE LED ALL NBA rookies with an average of 21 points a game, ranked fif- th in the league with 11.1 rebounds and was third in blocked shots with 2.4 a game as the Rockets improved from 14 Sampson wins in1982-83 to 29 wins this season. .a p "I really didn't know whatto expect, ...unanimous choice so I guess I'm pleased with what I've A 'sdown Orioles; fire manager Boros OAKLAND (AP) - Dave Kingman boosted his RBI total to 37 with a bases- loaded sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, leading the Oakland A's to a 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles yesterday. Bill Krueger, 2-1, scattered eight hits - four by John Shelby - in notching the victory. Bill Caudill recorded his eighth save of the year, coming on in the ninth inning with two men on base and one out. KINGMAN'S game-winning RBI scored Tony Phillips, who led off the eighth inning with a single. Garry Han- cock reached base on a bunt and Joe Morgan was walked intentionally after Phillips and Hancock advanced on Dwayne Murphy's sacrifice fly. Loser Storm Davis, 4-1, allowed only six hits. Davis was replaced by Tom Underwood after Phillips' lead-off single in the eighth. The Orioles scored both their runs in the second inning on Shelby's two-run double. A's'fire Boros OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Former Michigan baseball player Steve Boros was fired yesterday as the manager of the Oakland A's, less than an hour after the team's 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Jackie Moore, the A's first base coach, was named by President Roy' Eisenhardt as the new manager of the American League club. Pitching coach Ron Schueler also was fired. Eisenhar- at said Boros and Schueler both were offered other jobs in the organization. WES STOCK, former A's pitching coach who began this season as a minor league instructor, was named to suc- ceed Schueler. "Therewas a feeling on'the part of the front office that in light of the way the club had not only performed, but the attitudes and lack of aggressiveness that the players had demonstrated, that there was a need for a change of leader- ship," said A's vice president Sandy Alderson. Cubs 10-7, Brares 7-5 CHICAGO (AP) - Leon Durham belted a pair of three-run homers and Bob Dernier went five-for-five to key a 16-hit attack yesterday as the first- place Chcago Cubs defeated the Atlanta Braves 10-7 in the first game of a doubleheader Thursday. Durham, whose six RBI were a career high, drilled his first three-run shot in the first inning off loser Pascual Perez, 3-1. It was Perez's first loss since returning to baseball earlier this month after he was suspended following a drug conviction in his native Dominican Republic. In the second game, Ron Cey belted a three-run homer and Jody Davis added a solo shot to lead a 13-hit attack as the Cubs defeated the Braves 7-5 for their first double-header sweep in nearly four years.