SPORTS
Friday, July 24, 1987
The Michigan Daily
Summer stars
Abbott pitches Pan-Am team
victory against
By GREG MOLZON
The legend of Jim Abbott just
keeps growing - now it has even
reached a Communist country.
The Michigan pitcher, who was
born without & right hand, has
amazed everyone who has seen him
pitch. First it was the baseball fans
of Ann Arbor, and then the whole
country learned about him from a
feature article in Sports Illustrated.
And now his pitching excellence has
been exhibited in the country of
Cuba.
Abbott, who won the Geoff Zahn
Abbott Award as Michigan's top pitcher last
season, is a member of the U.S. Pan
...pitching in Pan-Am American team that recently traveled
Cuba
to Cuba for a series of five
exhibition games.
The U.S. team won two of the
five games and the "Wolverine
lefthander was an impressive winner
in one of those victories.
Last Sunday, Abbott pitched five
strong innings as the Pan Am team
beat the Cubans, 8-3. Abbott, a 6-3,
200-pound junior, received the win
as he limited Cuba to three hits and
one run. The Flint native also
walked one batter and struck out
another in his outing.
The American team will play its
first game in the Pan Am Games, in
Indianapolis, on August 9 against
the Canadian national team.
Blue icers team at Olympic
Fest, may team in Calgary
By DARREN JASEY Michigan hockey program last
Brad Jones and Jeff Norton aren't spring and is expected to make the
BradJons ad Jff Nrto arntU.S. Olympic squad.
through playing together yet, and U..Olymay oru ay b
they may not be done until the Norton may or may not be a
Winter Olympics in Calgary come Wolverine next season depending on
Wter lympicsx inb lgary c his performance at the Festival. A
to a close next February.
The former Michigan teammates good showing there could place him,
currently are teaming together for the like Jones, among 30 Oly m p ic
North hockey team at the Olympic hopefuls who will be invited to try
Nort hocey tam a the out at Lake Placid in August.
Sports Festival in Greensboro, N.C. As much as Berenson would like
Michigan's s o p h o m o r e to have his top defenseman back
defenseman Todd Copeland is also next season, he said he is rooting for
competing at the Festival. Norton to do well.
"It is a tryout," Michigan hockey "I'm hoping that Jones an d
coach Red Berenson said: "The Norton make the team," Berenson
players are really fighting for a place said. "They are both capable players
to play for their country. It is not at that level. Norton, the way he's
Norton another summer camp." improved each year, he's got to be a
..Olympic future? Jones graduated from the candidate."
Mills leads North to win
over South in U.S. trials
By JEFF RUSH In that game Michigan's Rumeal Robinson, who also
It was the North over the South again, but this time sat out his first season as a Wolverine due to
around it was Michigan's Terry Mills who led the Proposition 48, scored 10 points while Mills added
charge. eight.
Mills, who was forced to sit on the sidelines during Michigan's Sean Higgins also participated in the
his first year in college because he did not meet Festival, playing for the West.
Proposition 48 eligibility requirements, scored 15 The North team was 1-3 before advancing to the
points in the North's 88-73 victory in the U.S. final game, where it upset the South in front of a
Olympic Festival gold medal game Wednesday night. crowd of 20,886 at the Dean Smith Activities Center.
Mills led his team in scoring and also grabbed 10 The crowd was the largest single-event audience in
} rebounds. Opposing center J.R. Reid of North Carolina Festival history.
scored 18 points. Mills and Higgins return to Ann Arbor this weekend
It was the second time the two teams met during the to play in the Sandy Sanders summer league. Games
Festival, the first game having been won by the South. are played at Concordia College on Geddes.
Michigan pitcher Jim Abbott starred for the U.S. Pan American team in
an 8-3 victory over Cuba last Sunday. Abbott led the Wolverine pitching
staff last season with an 11-3 record and an earned run average of 2.0}.
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