Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 35

partans Ousted From NCAA Tourney Bulletin Michigan State University's Big Ten champions were eliminated from the NCAA District No. 4 IMayoffs this morning at John Kobs Field, losing to Ohio University 7-1. It was the second straight loss for coach Danny Litwhiler's host Spartans. Ohio U. pitcher Doug Diamond went the distance for the Bobcats for his 11th straight victory, holding the Spartans to five hits.

The Spartans, bidding for the school's first trip to the Collegiate World Series in 17 years, crumbled before Cincinnati's nev-er-sav-die Bearcats, 8-7, in the second game of the NCAA District Four Playoffs at Kobs Field. in the opener. Southern Illinois pulled a similar rally, scoring five times in one inning to beat Ohio University, 5-4. Southern Illinois and Cincinnati were matched in today's middle game of the tripleheader at 1 p.m. Michigan State and Ohio University squared off at 10 a.m.

The third game at 4 p.m. sends the Spartan-Ohio U. winner against Southern Illinois-Cincinnati loser. Saturday's championship is at 1 p.m. Michigan State's partisan gatherings of 2,100 sat stunned when Cincinnati overcame a 7-3 deficit in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Kob Clancy, winningest Spartan pitcher since 1959, took the lead into the inning but was jolted with singles by Don Good and Chris Wheat and a booming triple by Mike Pastura, the No. 7 batter in the lineup. A costly tw o-base throwing error by third baseman Phil Ras-head put the Spartans deeper in trouble and coach Danny Lit-whiler then summoned his bull pen. Dave Leisman came on but "We've had to come back before and we will," he said. "It's a tough one to lose, especially when you're three outs away from it." The Spartans were shaky most of the afternoon.

Clancy was touched for two runs in the second but an error by second baseman Ron DeLonge was costly. Yet, DeLonge's single tied the game in the sixth and Whitey Rettenmund's double put State on top. Cincinnati bounced back to tie it on Good's triple but the Spartans broke loose for four runs in the eighth with pinch-hitter John Rhode delivering a two-run double and Rob Ellis a two-bagger which sent in two more. State had taken a 1-0 lead on a double by Ron Pruitt, a balk and wild pitch. Southern Illinois trailed 3-0 against Ohio University but bunched five of their eight hits in the third inning for five runs which stood up.

Jim Dwyer's two-run single put Southern ahead, 4-3 and Dan Radison's base hit scored what proved to be the clincher. Ohio University, champion of the Mid-American Conference, See SPARTANS, Page 2, Col. 4 hit the first batter he faced and wound up with the loss. Kirk Maas followed Leisman, and intentionally walked No. 3 hitter Butch Alberts, then Tom Schaefer ripped a single to center scoring the tying and winning runs.

Jerry Lux, the batter Leisman hit, scored the winning run. Although State's dugout was silent, Litwhiler, who had seven Florida State teams in districts and four of those in the world series, tried to perk his somber club up. By BOB GROSS State Journal Sports Writer Michigan State was stung with a brutal baseball defeat Thursday, and it will take four straight victories to ease the swelling. Loiieh Earns 8th Win. 4-8 5v 3 Till STATE JOURNAL c3 Lansing East Lansing Michigan Fri May 28, 1971 SECTION US) By LARRY PALADINO DETROIT (AP) Mickey Lolich doesn't believe in jinxes.

So he doesn't mind talking about the goal that has burned inside him for his nine years with the Detroit Tigers but which always has eluded him winning 20 games. Thursday night he won his eighth against three losses, surviving a ninth-inning New York rally, as the Tigers nipped the Yankees 4-3 for their eighth victory in the last nine games. LOLICH THINKS 20 WINS "I think you have a tendency to think about it," he confessed of the 20-win season. "I figure I have 24 starts left and that means that I must win half to be a 20-game winner." "Do you think talking about that could jinx you? The 30-year-old left-hander was asked. "I don't believe in jinxes," he responded.

"A couple weeks ago in Washington I was pitching a no-hitter for seven innings and when I came into the dugout it was like a morgue. Nobody was saying anything." "I said, 'Come on you guys. Only six more out for a "I'm not that type of pitcher. I never will pitch a no-hitter and I'll never worry about it." He had a five-hitter going into the ninth Thursday with a 4-2 lead before Felipe Alou, Gene Michael and pinch hitter Ron Hansen each singled to load the bases. Lolich got Horace Clarke to ground out scoring a run, then Thurman Mun-son flied out with two on to end Horton had hit his 10th homer for the Tigers to lead off the second.

Ike Brown walked, Aurelio Rodriguez singled him to third in the Tigers' sixth, and Kaline cent him home with the tying run with a hit to left. Horton and Freehan's singles DETROIT ac bl NEW YORK ab bi 5 0 11 I Brown 2b 3 10 0 the threat and give Lolich his seventh complete game in 14 starts. Boston beat Washington 6-2 and so remains atop the Amer-i a League East Division standings AV2 games ahead of third-place Detroit. But second-place Baltimore lost, leaving the Tigers only games behind the Orioles. The Bengals were to open a 10- game road trip beginning tonight in Milwaukee with southpaw Les Cain, 1-0, getting his second start for Detroit, opposing Bill Parsons, 54.

New York returned home for an 11- game stand. SUCCESSIVE SINGLES Al Kaline, Willie Horton and Bill Freehan ripped successive run-scoring singles in the sixth off Fritz Peterson, now 4-4, for the winning rally after trailing 2-1 following back-to-back homers by Bobby Murcer and John Ellis off Lolich in the fourth. Clarke 2b Munson White If Murcer cf Ellis lb FAlou rf Cater 3b Michael ss FPetersn Woods ph Waslwski Hansen ph Kenney pr 4 0 0 0 ARodrgez 3b 4 1 1 4 0 0 0 Kaline rf 4 12 1 3 111 Horton If 4 12 2 4 111 Freehan 4 0 11 4 12 0 Cash lb 3 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 MStanley cf 3 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 Brnkman a 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lolich 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 coach Danny Litwhiler (1) signals for DeLonge to hit the dirt. Cincy third baseman is Butch Alberts. Spartans lose, 8-7.

(State Journal Photo by Jim Martinsen) Total 33 3 3 Total HE'S IN SAFE Michigan State's sophomore second baseman Ron DeLonge (5) slides into third base in fifth inning of Thursday's NCAA District 4 playoff game against Cincinnati. DeLonge opened the inning with a single and advanced to third on Whitey Rettenmund's double. Spartan 29 4 4 1 1 4 0 2 6 0 ..10 3 New York Detroit DP New York 1. LOB New York Detroit 4. 2B Michael.

HRW. Horton (10), Murcer (7), J.Ellis (2). F.Peterson. IP ER BB SO F.Peterson 6 4 4 2 5 Wastewski 2 0 0 0 1 1 Lolich 9 8 3 3 3 4 HBP by Lolich (Munson). 2:26.

A 14,518. Char Hard ging 6500' xBec the eighth pole sitter to roll into victory lane, the 200-lap chase was expected to be a tor rid duel between the three British McLaren machines and the rest of the field headed by By KURT FREUDENTHAL INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UPI) One of the most competitive 500-mile speedway auto races in years loomed today with at least a half dozen hot-shot drivers battling for the million-dollar jackpot. Barring adverse weather Lew Delays conditions and major accidents which slow the pace of the field, Saturday's winner was expected to average at least a record 160 miles per hour for the distance possibly faster. The forecast called for partly cloudy to cloudy skies with temperatures climbing into the 70s.

Possible rain was expected to hold off until evening. Unlike last year, when Al Unser, Albuquerque, N.M., ran away from the field to become WW oneymoon Unser, his brother, Bobby, and A.J. Foyt, Houston, Tex. The three basically identical McLarens are driven by pole sitter Peter Revson, New York City; Mark Donohue, Media, who starts next to Revson in the first row, and New Zea-an engine that churned the four fastest cars in qualifications and which has an 18-15 land's Denis Hulme, the fourth fastest qualifier who starts on the inside of the second row. Their machines are powered by four-cylinder Offenhausers, advantage over the eight-cylinder Fords among the 33 starters.

Al Unser led 190 of the 200 laps last year, including the last 95, but no such singular superiority was expected this time especially with the three McLarens up front. However, many railbirds figured it will be the McLarens against the field, with Donohue perhaps the driver to beat. Bobby Unser was starting on the outside of the front row while brother Al and Foyt, shooting for a record fourth "500" victory, were, in the ond row. In the third row were such chargers as Lloyd Ruby, Wichita Falls, Joe Leonard, San Jose, and Mario Andretti, Nazarath, the winner two years ago. American League East Division Pet GB Boston 28 15 .651 Baltimore ....24 17 .585 3 TIGERS 24 20 .545 42 Cleveland ....18 24 .429 New York ....18 24 .429 9'a Washington ..17 28 .378 12 West Division Oakland 31 16 .660 Minnesota ...23 22 .511 7 11 JS x-u HOUSTON (UPI) Lew Alcindor will spend his wedding night playing basketball.

Alcindor, the 7-3 center of the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks, planned to get married today in Washington and then fly to Houston for the first meeting of the All Stars from the National Basketball Association and the American Baasketball Association. The players arranged the game to fatten their pension funds and to help the Whitney Young Foundation and they consider it a real test of the relative strengths of the two leagues. Oscar Robertson, a teammate of Alcindor on the Bucks, revealed Alcindor's hitherto secret wedding in the locker room before the first NBA practice Thursday. Then Robertson said: "He's giving up his honeymoon. That's how much he thinks of the game." The game, starting at 7:30 p.m.

CDT, will be played before a token crowd of about 15,000 in the cavernous Astrodome, but it will be seen by about 20 million over 197 television stations, the largest network for a pro basketball game in prime time in history. The old record was 189 stations. NBA coach Bill Russell said he was not going to announce his starting lineup until shortly before tipoff, but the best guess was Alcindor, Robertson, one of the game's organizers: Elvin Hayes of San Diego, a former University of Houston Star; John Havlicek, whom Russell played with and coached on the Celtics; and Billy Cunningham of the Philadelphia 76ers. ABA coach Larry Brown said he would start former NBA playt-rs Rick Barry of New York and Zelmo Beaty of Utah along with Willie Wise of Utah, Charlie Scott of Virginia and Larry Jones of Florida. The ABA reserves are Most Valuable Player Mel Daniels and Roger Brown of Indiana, Don Freeman and Steve Jones of Texas, Bill Melchionni of New York and John Brisker of Pittsburgh.

Russell's bench consists of Earl Monroe of Baltimore, Walt Frazier and Dave Debusschere of New York, Dave Bing of Detroit, Lou Hudson of Atlanta and Nate Thurmond of San Lewis Sends EMU Packing INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) Eastern Michigan University, defending NAIA champions, headed back to Ypsilanti on the bus Thursday while Lewis College flew on to the NAIA College World Series in Phoenix. EMU dropped two games to Lewis 9-1, 5-2, in the double-elimination tourney in Indianapolis as unearned runs and a load of walks spelled doom for the Hurons. After the first game Thursday, EMU and Lewis both had 2-1 records in the competition, forcing the second game. In the first battle, EMU allowed five unearned runs on three errors in the second inning.

Lewis posted three more runs in the third and a solo homer in the ninth. The second game brought Lewis out breathing fire again as they jumped to a two-run lead in the first inning and added three more as EMU'S pitchers walked eight. HUSTLE WORKS Detroit's Ike Brown slides safely into third as the throw to New York's Danny Cater was high. Brown was at first when Aurelio Rodriguez stroked a hit in the sixth inning of Thursday's game played in Detroit. Tigers scored 4-3 victory.

(UPI Telephoto) British Win Walker Cup Swaps Jobs LOS ANGELES (UPI) Larry Cochell, baseball coach at Creighton University, agreed Thursday to take the same post at Los Angeles State College. Cochell, 31, will replace Jim Reeder, Diablo baseball coach for 16 years who recently retired because of doctor's ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) There were no alibis from the United States golfers today over losing the Walker Cup to Great Britain for the first time in 33 years. "We have no excuses," said John Winters, the non-playing captain of the Americans. "It was a great tournament.

We enjoyed every minute of it and the best players won." The British gained their first victory since 1938 in the famed California ....22 24 .478 V2 Kansas City ..20 22 .476 8'2 Milwaukee ...17 23 .425 10'2 Chicago 16 23 .410 11 Thursday's Results Boston i. Washington 2 Milwaukee Minnesota 3 Cleveland 10. Baltimore Detroit 4, New York 3 Only games scheduled Friday's Games Oakland (Blue 10-1) at Boston (Siebert 4), niqht Kansas City (Wright 0-2) at Wash.ngton McLain 4-7), niqht California (Messersmith 4-3) at New York (Kline 4-3). niqht Cleveland (McDowell 3-5) at Chicago (Johnson 4-5), night Detroit (Cain l-O) at Milwaukee (Par- 4-3) at Minnesota (Perry -3), night Saturdays Games Oakland at Boston Kansas City at Washington, night California at New York Cleveland at Chicago, night Detroit at Milwaukee Baltimore at Minnesota National League East Division Pet. GB St.

Louis 28 17 .622 New York ...25 16 .610 1 Pittsburgh ...26 18 .591 l'i Montreal 18 19 .486 6 Chicago 20 24 .455 7V4 Philadelphia .16 26 .381 10'2 West Division San. Fran 32 14 .696 Houston 23 22 .511 8V2 Atlanta 22 24 .478 10 Los Angeles ..22 24 .478 10 Cincinnati ...18 27 .400 132 San Diego ....13 32 .289 28ft Thursday's Results Pittsburgh 5. Cincinnati 2 Atlanta 4, Montreal I St. Louis 10, Chicago 0 Los Angeles 5, San Francisco 1 Only games scheduled. Fridays Games Chicago (Papoas 5-51 at Pittsburgh (Walker 1-5), night Houston (Wilson 4-2) at Cincinnati (Gul-le't 5-2), night Atlanta (Reed 5-2) at St.

Louis (Cleveland 4-2). night New York (Seaver $-2) at San Diego (Arlin 1-), night Philadelphia (Short 3-6) at Los Anoeles (Downing 3-2), night Montreal (Renko 4-3) at San Francisco (Stone 3-2), night Saturdays Games Chicago at Pittsburgh Houston at Cincinnati, night Atlanta at St. Louis, night New York at San Diego, night Philadelphia at Los Angeles, night Montreal at San Francisco Prep Tourney Hits Full Stride Saturday amateur competition by taking six straight singles matches that turned a 10-7 deficit into a 13-11 triumph in the windup of the two-day tourney Thursday. "Hang on to that cup," Winters admonished the British. "In two years we'll be back to get it and you might not see it for another 33 years." "I always knew this team was deep, sound the able to win," commented British captain Michael Bonallack who was beaten 3-1 by Lanny Wad-kirus, the U.S.

Amateur champion from Richmond, Va. Bonallack gave special praise to 19-year-old Warren Humphries and 20-year-old Roddy Carr, son of Ireland's famed amateur, Joe Carr. Their two triumphs i h-lighted the British comeback after Wadkins' victory over Bonallack had put the Americans ahead 10-7. Hugh Stewart beat Vinnie Giles of Richmond, Va. 2 and 1, then Humphries shaded Steve Melnyk, Jacksonville, See BRITISH, Pg.

D-2, Col 6 Pre-district baseball games are on tap Saturday for Greater Lansing and Mid-Michigan area high school teams seeking berths in next weekend's state district tournaments. The Michigan High School Athletic Association is sponsoring the first state tournament in Classes and using the same format as the basketball tourney. Districts are June 5, regional June 12 and finals June 19. More than 650 teams in the pre-district brackets and after Saturday district pairings will be completed. Municipal Park will be the site of two playoff games.

Eastern and Everett, two Class A rivals, tangle at 2 while Catholic Central and Waverly clash in a 9:30 a.m. showdown. East Lansing plays at Howell, at 1 p.m. and Owosso will be at St. Johns in the other clash at 10 a.m.

Sexton and Grand Ledge, also part of the 11-team district assigned to Lansing, have been state are competing in the tournament. Numerous teams have already been eliminated from competition in qualifying round games played two weeks ago. This part of the tournament was necessary because several district sites had more than four teams assigned. A preliminary round was scheduled between May 17 and 27. Winners from qualifying rounds made it to Saturday's eliminated.

Sexton lost to Howell, 10-0 and St. Johns beat Grand Ledge, 5-4. Class teams assigned to the Ithaca district will also be busy with pre-district games Saturday. Ovid-Elsie meets Chesaning, Bullock Creek and Hemlock tangle. Alma goes against Central Montcalm and Chippewa Hills and St.

Louis face each other. Those teams assigned to the Hastings Class district see action Saturday, also. Okemos plays at Delton, Portland at Hastings, Mason at Wayland and Charlotte entertains Holt. In Class teams assigned to the DeWitt district will be in action Saturday. DeWitt goes to Perry, Fowlerville to Ilas-lett, Bath to Byron and Hart-land plays at Williamston.

Stockbridge and Leslie, members of the Ingham County League, drew byes and will play in the June 5 district at Olivet. In Class Martin visits Portland St. Patrick Saturday and the winner will advance to the districts June 5 at Potter-ville. Webberville and Potter-ville drew a bye and advanced to the districts. Dansville, also getting a bye, will meet either Martin or St.

Patrick June 5. Fowler, also a district site, beat Laingsburg Thursday and qualified for the districts, meeting Morrice which drew a bye. Owosso St. Paul and Ashley play June 5 at 10 a.m..