SPORTS
Tuesday, June 4, 1985
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The Michigan Daily
Larkin, Watters
taken in draft
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By ADAM MARTIN
Riding two tremendous seasons,
Michigan baseball's Barry Larkin
and Mike Watters were taken in the
first and second rounds of Major
League Baseball's amateur draft
yesterday.
Larkin, a junior, was taken by his
hometown Cincinnatti Reds as the
fourth player in the country to be
drafted. Outfielder-second baseman
Watters, a .417 hitter on the year, was
drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in
the second round, 31st overall.
BOTH WOLVERINES said they will
not make a decision on their future
until they meet with their prospective
teams and are presented with an of-
fer. Larkin and Watters also said get-
ting degrees from Michigan would
figure heavily in their decisions.
"If we're (Larkin and the Reds)
talking contracts," Larkin said, "I'll
work out something where I can come
back (to Michigan) in September and
get the rest of my credits."
"I've got all my options open," said
Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Watters, who will meet with the
during the last three years, but will Dodgers Thursday. "I'm gonna sit
and talk with them, I'm real anxious
to talk."
LARKIN SAID he wasn't leaning
S 1 o I ers toward any particular decision, but
added getting to the major leagues is
fo i evPQ one of his goals.
Lot "I would just love playing in front of
all my friends," he commented.
T~ri tati tir knni fn th m
ds in hits (91), runs (81), total bases
(172), triples (10), stolen bases (20)
and homeruns (17-tied).
Watters, however, felt his
phenomenal season illustrated his full
potential. "I felt I was playing finally
like I knew I could," he said. Watters
added he felt his season affected his
position in the draft, but not his actual
drafting.
Michigan coach Bud Middaugh ex-
pressed his concern for his players'
future. "I'm just real happy for the
kids and I hope in the negotiations,
things work out well for them."
AS TWO OF his premier players,
Middaugh said he would be thrilled to
see Larkin and Watters finish their
careers at Michigan and get their
degrees. 4
"I think he's ready to go out and
play professional baseball," said
Middaugh about his shbrtstop, "but
I'd like for him to consider finishing
his degree."
Middaugh added Watters would
have a secure spot in the Wolverine
lineup if he returns next season. "It's
gonna be a tough decision, but if Mike
does come back, he'll play second
next year."
Watters said his decision would rest
also on the Dodger organization and
its personnel. "I'm gonna see who
they have in front of me and where
they might play me, and the money, of
course."
Barry Larkin has come to be a name synonymous with Michigan baseballc
the Cincinnati native wear a Blue or Red uniform in 1986?
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DETROIT (UPI) - Jim Presley Evans and Larry Herndon, the Tigers Oseivesa Both ftplayers were elated. "You feel
stroked a pair of two-run singles in the couldn't hold the lead. career, the junior shortatop was of- a t sa mp up and down and cry
sixth and seventh innings last night to Milt Wilcox gave up two runs in the fered a large contract to play in the "Youhe happ and sad
help the Seattle Mariners overcome a fourth on a wild pitch and Hender- major leagues but turned it down to otYou're happy and sad. t
five-run deficit and defeat Detroit, 9-8, son's single and another run in the fif- play a t Michigan. His decisiont Both players expla ed they spoke
despite a pair of homers by the thon Bob Kearney's first home run of however, has most probably boosted to several teams recently, but were
Tigers' DarrellEvans. the season. a . I 6 nnsureoftoday'reults.ttrs
With one out in the sixth, Alvin Detroit, which turned four doublehiestsyar said he had a feeling either theE
Davis singled and Ken Phelps walked plays, got a run on Trammell's Larkin hit .368 with 16 homeruns and Dodgers or the Reds would draft him,
before Dave Henderson doubled in a groundout with runners on second and 66 RBIs, in addition to being named but added the Dodgers had not spoken
run to make it 5-4. Presley then put third in the sixth and another in the Big Ten Most Valuable Player for the to him in the last few days while other
Seattle in front, 6-5, with a single to seventh when Evans led off with his second consecutive year. teams had.
left center, stole second and scored on. 10th home run and second in tewo WATTERS, at least in 1985, outdid Daily staff writer Steve Herz filed
a two-out single by Spike Owen, his games. Evans homered again in the Larkin. The Chesterfield, Virginia
second of three hits. ninth for the Tigers' final run. native set single-season school recor- a report for this story.
PRESLEY looped a two-run single WILCHER SCHROEDER HONORED:
to right center off reliever Bill W
Scherrer after the Mariners loaded
as hree straight walks off Two tracksters get A -America
Juan Berenguer. , V 7 -
Detroit scored three runs in the first By STEVE HERZ
on Alan Trammell's single and a two- Thomas Wilcher and Sue Schroeder Bean placed 13th in the long jump. bright spot for the women, gaining
run homer by Kirk Gibson. But after joined a long list of Michigan Track Twelfth place would have sent each to All-American honors with a second-
getting a pair of runs in the third to All-Americans with sterling perfor- the finals, giving each a chance at All- place finish in the 5,000 meters with a
take a 5-0 lead on RBI singles by mances at the NCAA finals in Austin, America. blistering time of 15:42. She was the
Texas over the weekend. Todd Steverson and Omar Davidson only woman to score for the Wolveri-
IT'S GREAT HAIRSTYLES Wilcher finished third in the 110- were unable to crack the top twelve nes, and it was the highest score in the
BY LICENSED meter hurdles. His time of 13.52 either. Steverson ran a 45.91 quarter school's history.
BARBER STYLISTS - seconds in the preliminary heat shat- Davidson establishod himself as one Oregon took the overall women's
new creations at reasonable prices tered the old Wolverine mark set in of the nation's premier freshman title while the Arkansas men's team
1972.. sprinters and garnered the praise of completed track's triple crown with
DASCOLA STYLISTS BOTH Vince Bean and Chris his coach Mike Shea, "He had ahell of the victory at Austin. The Razorbacks
Maple Village . 761-2733 Brewster just missed on a chance for a freshman year," said Shea. had won both the indoor champion-
Liberty off State .668-9329 All-American status. Brewster ship and the Cross Country crown
finished 13th in the 10,000 meters. Schroeder continued as the lone earlier in the season.