The Michigan Daily
Southpaw Ross Powell raised his record to 9-0 by scattering
in yesterday's Big Ten Playoff opener, a 7-1 drubbing of Ohio
Softball team takes 2
BY PETER ZELLEN Ten lead with Iowa.
"I really don't think the loss has The Wolverines went in
hit us yet," Beth Mueller said. while the Hawkeyes we
These words from the senior Michigan had to sweep the
centerfielder on the Michigan soft- order to tie for the conferen
ball season sum up the team's They won the first two
reaction to losing the last game of 1 and 4-3, behind the pi
the season, thereby losing the Big junior Jenny Allard.
Ten by a half-game. Allard completed both
Last weekend, the Wolverines including the 11-inning ni
played a four-game series against duel against Gopher Jen
Minnesota. This series was Mich- strom.
igan's last chance to share the Big See Softball,
SPORTS
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'M' wallops OSU 7-1
BY JAY MOSES "He saved us a lot of arms (by to third scored Eiterman.
The Michigan baseball team made going the distance)," Michigan head ""We have a lot of confidence
a statement yesterday. coach Bud Middaugh said. when Ross is on the mound," left
"Watch out." Is that a strong _4fielder Jim Durham said. "We felt
enough statement? How about bad, on Ross's behalf, that we let
"We'reforreal?" BIG TEN them score one."
Whichever way you phrase it, the C O N F E R E N C E Durham, the Michigan leadoff
Wolverines opened their post-season, man, demonstrated that confidence,
as well as some eyes, by ripping hitting safely in his first four trips
Ohio State, 7-1, in the first round of The Buckeyes got their lone tally to the plate and scoring two runs.
the Big Ten playoffs at Ray Fisher in the eighth inning, when Michigan "Jimmy getting on base triggers
Stadium, right fielder Phil Price attempted a our offense," an appreciative Powell
The Wolverines clinched the sliding catch on Tom Eiterman's said.
regular season conference crown and line drive. The ball bounced over "Any team that gets its leadoff
the home-field advantage for the Price's head and rolled to the wall, hitter on four times is okay,"
playoffs by taking three of four allowing Eiterman to leg out a triple Middaugh said.
games from Indiana last weekend, on what would have been only a Durham was not alone in
while Ohio State nailed down the single. Angelo Palladino's grounder See Baseball, Page 12
fourth and final playoff spot by
sweeping a four-game set from
Michigan State in East Lansing. TIME IS RUNNING OUT!
Junior lefthander Ross Powell (9-
BHAN/Day 0) was the hero for Michigan
six hits yesterday, allowing one run on six
State. hits while going the full nine 9 3
d na innings.s
fl "Once we got on top, we shut
'em down," Powell said. "The
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