The Michigan Daily -- Sunday, July 8, 1984 - Page 15 Seattle grounds Blue Jays, 8-4 TORONTO (AP) - Al Cowens slammed a three-run homer and Jim Presley hit a two-run double as the Seattle Mariners snapped a six-game losing streak yesterday with an 8-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. The loss ended Toronto's win streak at four and saddled starter Jim Clancy with the dubious distin- ction of being the American League's first 10-game loser. Clancy, 6-10, who has lost his last four starts, ran into trouble into the first inning when Jack Perconte and Spike Owen singled, putting runners on first and third. Clancy retired the next two batters, but Cowens drove a 1-0 pitch over the right-center field fence for his ninth home run of the season. Orioles 6, Royals 2 BALTIMORE (AP) - Eddie Murray hit a grand slam home run after Baltimore stranded three earlier runners on third base and Scott McGregor scattered eight hits as the Orioles defeated the Kan- sas City Royals 6-2 in the opener of yesterday's twi- night double-header. With Baltimore leading 2-1, Murray connected for his 17th homer of the season off Larry Gura, 9-5, in the seventh inning after the Orioles loaded the bases with two out on two walks and a single by Floyd Rayford. SPORTS OF THE DAILY: Baltimore's first two runs scored in the second on a two-out double by Benny Ayala after Murray singled for the first of his three hits and left fielder Butch Davis dropped Gary Roenicke's routine fly ball. Braves 5, Phillies 2 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Claudell Washington hit his 11th home run and scored twice as the Atlanta Braves beat the slumping Philadelphia Phillies 5-2 yesterday. Atlanta starter Rick Camp, 4-1, pitched 5% innings and earned the victory with relief help from Gene Garber and Donnie Moore. Shane Rawley, acquired recently from the New York Yankees, suffered his first defeat as a Phillie after winning his first start. The Braves took a 2-0 lead in the first inning with the help of an error by Philadelphia third baseman Mike Schmidt, his 18th of the season. Washington opened with a walk and Randy Johnson beat out a chopper to third as Washington went to third. Washington scored as Schmidt let Rafael Ramirez's grounder roll through his legs for a two-base error. Giants 7, Cubs 2 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Mike Krukow scattered six hits in 82/3 innings and drove in the lead run with a sacrifice fly in the third as the San Francisco Giants ended a four-game losing streak by beating the Chicago Cubs 7-2 yesterday. The Giants took a 3-1 lead with two unearned runs in the fourth inning off Cubs starter Rick Reuschel, 4- 5. Krukow's bases-loaded sacrifice fly field broke a 1- 1 tie and Dan Gladden followed with an RBI single. Krukow, 5-7, retired 13 straight batters. after the Cubs scored in the second on a triple by Thad Bosley and a single by Ron Cey. Dan Rohn hit his first major- league home run, a pinch-hit shot, in the eighth inning for Chicago. It was his first at-bat of the season.-Gary Lavelle got the last out for San Francisco. Astros 3, Expos 2 MONTREAL (AP) - Harry Spilman singled past a drawn-in infield with none out in the ninth inning to score Terry Puhl with the go-ahead run as the Houston Astros defeated the Montreal Expos 3-2 last night. Puhl opened the ninth with a walk off reliever Bob James, 3-3. Mark Bailey followed with a sacrifice bunt, but James, attempting to retire Puhl at second, struck Puhl's leg with the throw, and Puhl raced to third. Spilman then bounced a single beyond the reach of second baseman Bryan Little to make a winner of reliever Frank DiPino, 2-5. Biggs stops Payne in boxing trials LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - World champions Tyrell Biggs, a super heavyweight, and Pernell Whitaker, 132, made the U.S. Olympic boxing team yesterday with narrow decision victories, but 178-pound world cham- pion Ricky Womack was beaten and will miss the Summer Games at Los Angeles. Biggs, of Philadelphia, scored a 3-2 decision over Craig Payne of Livonia, Mich., while Whitaker, of Norfolk, Va., outpointed Joe Belinc of Marysville, Wash., 3-2. Biggs and Whitaker both won titles at the Olympic Trials in June, but needed victories yesterday to make the team because they had lost Friday night. WOMACK, A Trials winner from Detroit, lost a 4-1 decision to Evander Holyfield of Atlanta. Holyfield had out- pointed Womack 4-1 Friday night. Others who made the team yesterday were Meldrick Taylor of Philadelphia, 125; Jerry Page of Columbus, Ohio, 139; and Virgil Hill of Williston-Grand Forks N.D., 165. Two world champions Mark Breland of Brooklyn, N.Y., at 147, and Frank Tate, 156, of Detroit made the team Friday night. BUT ANOTHER world champion, Floyd Favors of Capital Heights, Md., failed to make the team when he was knocked down twice and stopped in the third round by Trials winner Robert Shannon of Edmonds, Wash., in the 119- pound bout. Also making the team Friday night were Trials winners Paul Gonzales, Los Angeles, 106; Steve McCrory, Detroit, 112; and Henry Tillman, Los Angeles, 201. Holyfield used a good jab and ac- curate head punching to beat Womack and make the Olympics. It also was a left jab which paid off for Biggs, who had lost a 4-1 decision to Payne Friday night. Payne scored some hard head shots early in each round, but Biggs controlled the fight by scoring often with hard jabs. Norman leads Western Open OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) - Greg Nor- man, the long-hitting Australian who has dominated the PGA Tour in recent weeks, overcame a slow start and shot a one-under-par 71 to take a one-stroke =. lead yesterday in the third round of the $400,000 Western Open Golf Tour- nament. Norman, the man known as the "Great White Shark," finished three trips over the Butler Naitonal Golf Club course in 209, seven shots under par. "I'M A CONFIDENCE player," said Norman. "When I win a golf tour- nament I get more relaxed, maybe 10 percent more relaxed. Once I get that confidence, I feel I can do anything with a golf ball. And that's the way things are going right now." Norman, who has collected more than 30 titles around the world, has won twice in his last four starts, including last week in the Canadian Open, and, in the same period, lost a playoff for the U.S. Open title and finished 10th in Atlanta. In those four starts, he's won more than $200,000. - Spitting champ repeats DETROIT (UPI) - World record holder and defending champion Rick Krause yesterday used the "curl- tongue technique" to win the 11th an- nual International Cherry Spitting Con- test with an imposing 56-feet-i-inch spit. Krause, of Eau Claire, Mich. where the contest is held, failed to beat his own 65-feet-2-inches 1980 Guinness World Record, but easily outspat second-place winner Phil Douce, of Berrien Springs, Mich., who shot his pit 50 feet 9 inches. "I WENT WITH the 'curl-tongue technique' this year," said Krause, 30, a coach and teacher at Eau Claire High School who said he likes eating cherries. The "Curl-tongue technique" in- volves rolling the sides of the tongue in- to a tunnel to shoot the pit, while a spit- ter using the "roll-tongue technique" must roll the.tongue back to use it as a catapult, Krause said. Krause, who used the latter method to set his world record, said he switches his tactics back and forth each time he spits. It's Kimball vs. ouganis in platform INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - A BUT THE likelihood that both raging battle from on high, a con- Olympic gold prospects will make tinuing dogfight worthy of Snoopy the team hasn't dimmed their ap- and the Red Baron, resumes today petites for their long-awaited Olym- when Greg Louganis and Michigan's pic Trials battle. Bruce Kimball tussle again for The bulk of the grandstand tickets supremacy in 10-meter platform for the afternoon finals were sold out diving. by Saturday afternoon, and officials This time, both could be winners. were considering overflow seating The top two finishers in the U.S. form what could be U.S. diving's'l Olympic Trials will compete from largest crowd ever in bleachers on the high tower in the - climactic the pool deck. diving event at the Los Angeles "We'll be rested and ready to go," Games, said Louganis, tired and a tad shaky in yesterday's prelims after making Team USA in the three-meter springboard event Friday night. "We'll give one hell of a show." LOUGANIS, a 24-year-old world champion from Mission Viejo, Calif., and Kimball, who dives for his Olympic co-coach father, Michigan diving coach Dick Kim- ball, qualified 1-2 yesterday despite rough spots in their 10-dive programs. - That's appropriate, because they finish 1-2 just about every time they compete off the 10-meter tower - a concrete launching pad some 33 feet above water level. Louganis, a 1976 Olympic silver medalist whose career-best 687.90 is the highest score ever, has actually lost from 10 meters in six of the last Kim ball 11 major U.S. meets, including ... beaten Louganis three times April's indoor nationals in Florida.