18 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, May 5, 1998

Lions claw
past Blue
LIONS
Continued from Page 16
end with a reasonable shot at a playoff
berth and the Lions capitalized, blow-
ing out Michigan (6-14, 16-26-1)
Friday, 8-1, and again in Saturday's sec-
ond ganme,15-9.the visitors eked out a
no-5 victory in Saturday's first game,
courtesy of a three-run homer from
Penn State designated hitter Chad
Whitmore.
But Sunday's loss was by far the most
painful for Michigan to swallow.
The Wolverines came out strong
Sunday, sending eight men to the plate
in the first inning and building a 6-3
lead by the fifth - just Michigan's
second lead in the last two weeks.
Then the bottom fell out. The

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Wohverines' defense, which committed
10 errors this weekend, opened the
floodgates for Penn State's comeback,
failing to convert on two routine infield
ground balls in the eighth inning. The
Lions scored three in that inning and
three more in the ninth.
"We gave the game away on simple
fiusdamental plays that we work every
day on," Michigan coach Geoff Zahn
said. "There's no excuse for it.
Obviously we need more work on them,
but at this point in the season we
shouldn't have to."

n's eyes
tell sad tale
By Josh Kleinbaum
Daisp' ptsEitor
IlIs eyes told the whole story. Ilollow. distant, searching.
His matched his eyes slow and stubling, much like the
Michigan baseball team has been these past few weeks.
But it was his eyes that got your attention.
----------- Michigan coach Geoff Zahin no
Baseball longer had the eyes of a winer.
ie had the eyes of a broken man.
Commentat' those eyes had just witnessed his
------------- team lose its fourth straight game, an
8-1 thrashing at the hands of Penn State pitcher Nate Bump.
they were about to watch the Wolverines drop three more to
the Nittany Lions in the next two days, making these
Wolverines the worst in the modern era of Michigan baseball.
Their Big Ten record of 6-14 -- bad enough for last place -
is the third-worst conference record in school history, topped
only by the 1897 and 1902 squads.
But perhaps what got to Zahn the most this weekend was
not that his team was losing. It was how they were losing.
In the series opener Friday, the Wolverines committed three
errors in a crucial four-run fourth inning, giving Bump a
much bigger lead than he would ever need.
In the first game of the twin bill Saturday, Michigan strand-
ed three runners on third base in a heartbreaking 6-5 loss.
In the nightcap, the Wolverines found themselves down
seven runs in the first inning before they even had a chance
to swing a bat. Starter Brian C'ranson's line? One-third of an
inning pitched, three hits, one walk, one hit batsman, one
home run allowed, five runs - all earned.


FINALS
Continued from Page 16
-ance, the Wolverines stepped up and
finished second at the Big Ten tourna-
ment last weekend.
Seeded fourth in the tournament,
the Wolverines faced Minnesota in the
first round and captured a 4-3 win.
Next the Wolverines pulled a huge

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Penn State shortstop Adam Beers stares down a Mike
Hribernik pitch. Beers took the pitch out of the yard.
In Sunday's finale, Matt Herr came in to pitch the eighth
with a 6-3 Michigan lead. In that iningt, he walked three bat-
ters, hit one and made a throwing error. Add an error on fi*
baseman Mike Seestedt, and you get three runs on no hits.
The hitting wasn't the problem - 21 runs in four games
isn't too shabby. But when your pitchers seem to be throwing
pitches the size of basketballs and your fielders are doing
their best impressions of t1ill Buckner, it's tough to win ball-
games.
And Zahn watchedit all.
But on the inside, you could tell it was eating him alive, as
he watched his defending Big'Ien champions fall apart at the
seams, plunging into the conference basement.
Zahn won't say the season is over yet. '[he Wolverines ha#
six more games to play, ftour otf them B'I n games.
But he doesn't need to. Ilis eyes do all the talking.

upset, shocking host Wisconsin 4-3.
"The match against Wisconsin was
the best match we've played all sea-
son," coach Bitsy Ritt said.
In a rematch of last year's final, the
Wolverines faced sixth-seeded
Indiana. This time Michigan was on
the losing end, as the Hoosiers got the
doubles point and three singles match-
es to win.


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