Mailed May 4, 1964 For release upon receipt. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 liThe Gophers" MINNEAPOLIS. - The big boys get together this weekend for three games that could go a long way toward. deciding who will be the 1964 Big Ten baseball champion. ~ehigan's unbeaten Wolverines (6-0) invade Delta Field Friday for a 3:30 single game with the Gophers (5-1)" currently tied for the runnerup spot with Michigan State. The Spartans come to town Saturday for a climactic doubleheader, starting at 1 p.m. Gopher coach Dick Siebert is a bit apprehensive. ''We'll have to hit the ball a whole lot better this weekend than we did against Iowa or we're in trouble," he warns. The Gophers managed to take three straight from the visiting Hawkeyes last weekend by 9-2, 4-0 and 2-0 despite collecting only 12 hits off Iowa hurling. "Our pitching was excellent against Iowa," Siebert declares. "Frank Brosseau, Joe Pollack and Dick Mielke all threw extremely well." Pollack and Mielke tossed Shutouts, a one-hitter and two-hitter respectively. "Pitching has been our strong suit all spring," Siebert continues. "I can't recall when I've had a pitching staff with a collective earned run average of 2.CJ7 • That's fantastic." Brosseau leads the starters with a 1.50 ERA, Mielke is 1.60 and Pollack 1.87. Oddly enough, reliefer Dan HOWard has the best mark on the staff - 1.30 - but hasn't seen any Big Ten action as yet because of the brilliant work of the starting rotation which has produced five complete games in six tries. "Our defense was tight against Iowa and theirs wasn't," Siebert points out. "Without their help, we probably wouldn't have swept the series. We only had one earned run in the doubleheader Saturday, a home run by (shortstop Dick) McCullough." UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 "The Gophers" MINNESOTA ATHLETIC TEAMS CALENDAR OF EVENTS May 4-9, 1964 Tuesday, May 5 GOLF - Minnesota ve. Carleton University Golf' Course, 1:00 p.m. Friday, May 8 BASEBALL - Minnesota vs. Michigan Delta Field, 3:30 p.m. Tennis - Minnesota vs. Northwestern & Ohio State Evanston, Illinois Saturday, May 9 BASEBALL - Minnesota ve. Michigan State (2) Delta Field" 1:00 p.m. Golf' - Medal Play Iowa City, Iowa Tennis - Minnesota vs. Wheaton Wheaton, Illinois Track - Minnesota vs. Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Mailed May 4, 1964 For release upon receipt. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA 55455 "The Gophers" HINNEAPOLIS. - Wisconsin's powerful track squad again provides the competition for Roy Griak's University of ltinnesota cindermen Saturday at Madison. The talented Badgers, a top Big Ten title threat, bested both Minnesota and Iowa by a wide margin in a triangular meet at Iowa City last weekend. Although his team finished third by a single point in the meet, Griak was encouraged by a number of individual performances. Had it not been for the loss of Big Ten indoor two-mile champ Norris Peterson in both distance events, the Gophers would have been runnerup by a comfortable margin. Peterson has been feeling under par for a couple of weeks and did not compete. "Our ldds ran real well against Iowa, If Griak points out. ''We should be able to make things interesting for Wisconsin this week, providing Peterson is able to run." Griak thinks the Gophers can put up a battle in the distance events with Peterson and the fut-improving Mike Elwell, the 880 with Ray Miller, Wayne Thronson and Carl Jones, the high hurdles with Byron Gigler, the 100 and 220 with Bill Stevens and the shot and discus wi.th Tom Barnes. Barnes swept both events at Iowa City to pick up the Gophers' only firsts while Thronson and Stevens were runnerups in the 880 and 100 respectively. The Badgers are loaded in the hurdles, 440 and all the field events. They are probably weakest in the 100 and 220: 0 In addition to the illness of Peterson, Gopher quarter-miler Bart Uplinger has been slow to recover from a pre-season bout with mononucleosis. ## Two Gophers are nursing injuries. Outfielder Alan Druskin, one of the hitting surprises of the oampaign, suffered a jammed finger Friday and missed both Saturday games. Siebert hopes he'll be available for the upcoming series. Regular shortstop Steve Schneider is sidelined with a shoulder injury suffered in the first game Saturday. He's currently -..ring the shoulder in a sling and is oonsidered doubtful for the invasion of the Michigan teams. If he can I t play, McCullough will get the call at short. Despite a poor weekend at the plate, sophomore outfielder Dave Hoffman continues to pace Gopher hitters with a .355 mark. He is followed by Bill Davis with .329 and Druskin with .304. The statistics: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 1964 BASEBAIJ.. STATISTICS (28 games - including games through 5/2/64) HITTING: FIELDIOO: G AB R H AVG 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO SB SH SF HP PO A E PCT Hoffman, Dave 23 76 16 27 .355 7 3 1 43 10 13 2 6 0 0 0 24 1 0 1.000 Davis, Bill 23 73 16 24 .329 7 0 4 43 13 11 6 4 0 2 0 156 16 5 .972 Druskin, Al 17 46 11 14 .304 1 1 2 23 8 13 5 1 0 0 1 20 3 0 1.000 Wojciak, Ron 23 62 16 18 .290 3 1 0 23 9 18 8 1 0 2 0 113 9 3 .976 Roalstad, Ron 9 28 5 7 .250 2 0 1 12 2 2 9 3 0 0 0 20 11 1 .969 Hergott, Pat 6 20 2 5 .250 0 0 0 5 2 1 4 0 1 0 0 9 16 5 .833 Clark, Archie 21 73 13 18 .247 2 0 2 26 7 6 7 9 0 0 0 41 2 1 .977 Markus, Duane 23 58 16 14 .241 3 0 0 17 5 29 4 3 0 1 1 59 49 5 .956 McCullough, Dick 11 25 6 6 .240 0 0 2 12 5 8 6 0 0 0 0 14 26 10 .800 Cawley, Jerry 23 63 10 15 .238 4 1 1 24 11 9 10 2 0 0 2 25 45 4 .946 Schneider, Steve 17 55 8 13 .236 0 1 1 18 6 8 3 6 1 0 0 19 36 7 .887 Werness, Bob 9 26 5 6 .231 0 0 0 5 0 2 7 0 1 0 0 7 0 0 1.000 Droubie, Gary 9 23 4 5 .217 0 0 1 8 5 6 2 1 0 0 0 58 2 2 .968 Rofidal, Bob 8 21 5 4 .190 0 0 0 4 0 4 1 1 0 0 1 37 4 1 .976 Brosseau, Frank 14 38 5 6 .158 3 0 1 12 7 3 8 2 1 2 0 II 6 0 1.000 Nelson, George 8 21 3 3 .143 0 0 1 6 1 5 5 0 0 0 0 9 21 3 .909 Anderson, Richard 8 23 5 3 .130 0 0 1 6 1 3 11 0 0 0 0 9 4 2 .867 Caraway, Mike 3 2 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 1.000 Erickson, Gary 1 1 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Pitchers: Pollack, Joe 8 20 4 8 .400 2 1 0 13 2 2 3 0 1 0 0 3 8 0 1.000 Dushaw, Dennis 3 7 0 2 .286 1 0 0 3 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 .500 Howard, Dan 6 12 1 3 .250 0 0 1 2 4 2 5 1 0 0 0 2 3 4 .556 Lindberg, Tom 6 9 0 1 .111 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 8 0 1.000 Mielke, Dick 8 17 1 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 0 0 0 0 1 II 2 .857 Va1enciano, Rene 2 4 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 .500 Lane, Joe 2 1 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Johnson, Dennis 3 1 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Pederson, Steve ...l ..l -2 -2 .:.QQQ ...Q -2 -2-2 -2-2..Q..Q..l-2..Q ..Q ..Q ....Q .:.QQQ TOTALS 28 806 152 202 .250 35 8 19 306 100 150 122 41 8 7 5 648 283 58 .941 , . - -...--~- .. Baseball Statistics -- Page 2 PITCHmQ.: G CG W L PCT IP H R ER BB SO HP WP BK EIiA Johnson, Dennis 3 0 0 0 .000 3 2 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 0.00 Howard, Dan 5 2 3 2 .600 34 26 12 5 14 17 0 0 0 1.30 Brosseau, Frank 4 3 2 1 .667 30 26 8 5 10 23 0 0 0 1.50 Mielke, Dick 8 4 6 0 1.000 45 32 12 8 11 38 3 1 0 1.60 Pollack, Joe 7 5 5 1 .833 48 22 12 10 27 32 2 1 0 1.87 Lindberg, Tom 6 1 3 1 .750 26 22 6 6 13 16 1 1 0 2.08 Lane, Joe 2 0 0 0 .000 6 2 2 2 6 4 0 0 1 3.00 Valenciano, Rene 2 1 0 2 .000 10-1/3 9 11 4 8 6 0 0 1 3.48 Dushaw, Dennis 2 1 0 1 .000 9 8 5 4 6 2 0 0 1 4.00 Pederson, Steve ...l ...Q ...Q ..! .J1QQ 6-1/3 ..2 ..1.