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SPORTS Great Falls Tribune 5B Saturday, July 14, 1990 Sportscope 9 Geddes outlasts the rain to take lead By The Associated Press Verplank leads by 1 A digest of national stories DULUTH, Ga. Jane Geddes took the clubhouse lead at the U.S. Women's Open on Friday, but it took her 12 hours to do it. Golf roundup promoted General Manager Jim Devellano to senior vice president, and Murray widely was rumored to be his successor. The St.

Louis Blues traded cen SUTTON, Mass. Scott Verplank, a former U.S. Amateur and NCAA champion at Oklahoma State, methodically fashioned a second subpar round on Friday for a one-stroke lead over Larry Rinker at the halfway mark of the $900,000 Bank of Boston Classic. Verplank, who had a 4-under-par 67 in a downpour Thursday, added a bogey-free 68 in perfect weather for a 135 total, seven strokes under regulation at Pleasant Valley Country Club. A diabetic who changed medications and his lifestyle after hospital tests last March, Verplank, 26, took the lead after starting the second round two strokes back.

Rinker, winless in 10 years on the PGA Tour, shot a 65 over for a total of 136. Surprise! Trevino has share of lead MASON, Ohio Lee Trevino strung together four consecutive birdies on the back nine to complete a 6-under-par 65 that was worth a share of the first-round lead with Dave Hill in the $600,000 Kroger Senior Classic on Friday. "I made a couple of mistakes today, and that's about it," Trevino said. After three straight bird- ies, Trevino bogeyed No. 7 "misclubbed that one" and No.

8 "pulled a four iron off the edge of the green." 1 But he rallied with a birdie at No. 9 and steadily made up ground from there on over the yard Grizzly Course at the Jack Nicklaus Sports Center. "I kept looking at the board, and I didn't want to get too far behind," said Trevino, who saw that Hill had birdied the final two holes ahead of him to go six under. Trevino just missed a 12-footer on 18 that would have given him the outright lead. Two consecutive days of heavy rain had washed out the pro-am event and had threatened Friday's opening round.

Trevino said that worked to his advantage, since he has been driving well and could afford to shoot for the pins on the soft greens. Geddes shot a 2-over-par 74 in a soggy second round that was interrupted three times by rain delays totaling 6 hours, 1 1 minutes. "I feel like I'm on a golf marathon," she said. "I've never been at the golf course for 12 hours." The round was suspended by darkness at 8:30 p.m., with 84 of the 156 players still out on the course and another 18 golfers still waiting to tee off. They will try to complete their second round on Saturday morning, when play is scheduled to start at 7:15 a.m.

The U.S. Golf Association said it planned to start the third round at 1 p.m., with threesomes beginning play on the first and 10th tees. Geddes was just happy to complete her second round, which gave her a 4-under 140 total and a two-stroke lead among 36-hole finishers. "I'm thrilled I finished," Geddes said. "I was getting really aggravated today.

Two of my bogeys were three-putts after a break. I just didn't know how fast the greens were." Geddes, the 1986 Open champion, had shared the first-round lead with Patty Sheehan at 66 the best opening score in the history of the event. Sheehan, a three-time winner this season and the leading money winner on the LPGA Tour, didn't even start her second round until 7:30 p.m. Sheehan birdied the first hole to go to 7-under on the Riverside Course at the Atlanta Athletic Club. But she and playing partners Nancy Lopez and Colleen Walker completed only three holes before the round was suspended by darkness.

Walker, who shot an opening-round 69, birdied the first three holes Friday to go 6-under for the tournament. Lopez, who opened with a 68, fell to 3-under when she bogeyed the first hole Friday. "I get to rest tomorrow, and they don't," Geddes said. Rosie Jones, Beth Daniel and Meg Mallon were Hiromi Kobayashi (left) looks skyward while here caddy dries off during steady rain at the U.S. Women's Open.

tied at 142 after completing their second rounds. Jones shot a 70 on Friday, while Daniel and Mallon had 71s. Also completing the second round were defending champion Betsy King with and Pat Bradley. King shot a 71 for a 143 total, while Bradley was at 144 after shooting a 70. Sports briefs A digest of local and regional stories Kernaghan ousted from Northwest Am GIG HARBOR, Wash.

(AP) -Medalist Warren Vickers and Karl Smith of the host course will meet Saturday in the championship round of the Pacific Northwest Golf Association Men's Amateur Tournament. Vickers, a 21-year-old Oregon State University senior from Le-wiston, Idaho, and Smith, a 31 -year-old commercial pilot, will play 36 holes for the championship on the Canterwood Golf and Country Club, where Smith is a scratch golfer. Vickers was a 4-and-3 winner over John Kawasoe of Portland, in the semifinals Friday afternoon while Smith was defeating Craig Kanada of Lake Oswego, Ore. Kanada had earlier defeated defending champion Todd Kernaghan of Great Falls. Vickers bested Cam Martin, a University of Oregon junior from Eugene, 2 up in the morning quar Auto racing Michael Andretti wound up Friday's qualifying session with the provisional pole for Sunday's Marlboro Grand Prix in hand and his engine in pieces.

The second-generation Indy-car star came out on top of the opening round of time trials at New Jersey's Meadowlands despite the failure of the Chevrolet engine in his Lola race car and another strong effort by Rick Mears. Mears, hoping to win his fourth pole of the season, was Friday's runner-up at 1 13.771 in a Penske 90 Chevrolet. His fast lap came late in the 30-minute session. Mario Andretti, Michael's father and teammate and a three-time pole winner here, was third at 113.221. Basketball Illinois basketball player Rodney Jones was arrested Friday after a fight at a fast-food restaurant in which police said a security guard was beaten.

The 6-foot-8 senior center was arrested and charged with aggravated battery about 30 minutes after the incident. The police said the beating of the 31-year-old guard, who sustained cuts and bruises on his head and face, apparently followed an argument between rival teams in town for the Prairie State Games. Boxing Heavyweight champion James "Buster" Douglas considers his breach-of-contract battle with promoter Don King "a clean cut-and-dried case" because King admits he wanted Mike Tyson to win their bout last February. "It was obvious he wasn't neutral," Douglas said during lunch recess Friday at U.S. District Court.

"He didn't want me to get up." That corresponded with King's testimony earlier in the trial, when the promoter admitted under cross-examination that he' didn't want Douglas to get up from his "long-count" knockdown in the eighth round of his fight against Mike Tyson. Cycling With the Alps now at their backs, the 170 cyclists still left in the Tour de France enjoyed an off day Friday as two-time winner Greg LeMond remained confident he can make a decisive run. "The race is far from over," said LeMond, who is in fourth place, more than 7 minutes behind leader Claudio Chiapuccl of Italy. "There are still another 10 days to go. Seven minutes are easily lost in the mountains." Two relative unknowns, Chi-appucci and Ronan Pensec of France, head the standings followed by the favorites Eric Breukink of the Netherlands, LeMond and 1988 winner Pedro Delgado of Spain.

Right now, Chiappuccithas a lead of 1 minute, 17 seconds over Pensec, 6:55 over Breukink and 7:27 on LeMond. Golf Ian Woosnam of Wales shot a 4-under par 67 Friday and moved into a three-stroke lead in the Scottish Open with a 54-hole total of 201 in Gleneagles, Scotland. Woosnam began the round two strokes behind Gordon Brand Jr. of Scotland, but Brand stumbled to a 72 and fell into a second-place tie with Mark McNulty of Zimbabwe. Derrick Cooper of England was fourth at 205 after a 68 Friday.

He is the only player to record three sub-par scores for the tournament. Woosnam, winner in 1987 and runner-up last year, was not bothered by the wind, as were some others. Goodwill Games Three Soviet planes have arrived in Seattle for the Goodwill Games, but not before surprising the U.S. Air Force, which was expecting them a day later and had to scramble jets to intercept them over Alaska. An Ilyushin-62 passenger plane carrying Goodwill Games visitors and alternative Soviet art, accompanied by two SU-27 military jet fighters, left the Soviet Union on Friday.

The planes had been delayed a day from leaving Moscow, then delayed again when they stopped to refuel in the Soviet Far East. ter Peter Zezel and defenseman Mike Lalor to the Washington Capitals for left wing Geoff Courtnall today, only hours after acquiring free-agent defense-man Scott Stevens from the Demers Capitals. The Stevens signing was worth more than $4 million over the next four years. The Stevens signing continued an unprecedented spending spree by the Blues, who had the league's lowest base payroll last season at $3.5 million. The Blues signed Brett Hull to a four-year contract worth more than $6 million on June 9.

Stevens also cost the Blues $100,000 and two first-round picks in the top seven overall in the next two years. If the Blues are unable to deliver either of the top seven picks, they will have to give up five first-round selections in the next five years. He scored four goals in the All-Star Game last January when he was hurting, so Mario Lemieux said Friday he fully expects to have his best season ever now that he's feeling healthy. That kind of news that would ruin any NHL goaltender's summer vacation. Free of the pain in his lower back, buttocks and legs that forced him to miss two months of the 1989-90 season, Lemieux is optimistic following surgery to partially remove a herniated disk and trim a mildly cracked vertebra.

"I think I'll be a better player now that I'm going to be 100 percent," Lemieux said. "I want to get back, have my best season, get the team going." Horse racing Animal rights supporters plan to challenge a state decision allowing use of a powerful class of steroids on racehorses, saying the drugs pose a danger to both horse and jockey. The Southeastern office of the Humane Society of the United States in Tallahassee said it plans to contest the rule issued by the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering. Under pressure from the racing industry, state officials last month reversed an earlier ban on corticosteroids, used to temporarily relieve pain and swelling in injured joints. "I personally think it's a little cruel," said Dr.

Larry Gore, executive vice president of the Florida Veterinary Medical Association. Tennis Joseph F. Cullman III, a leading organizer of women's professional tennis events and Jan Kodes, one of the leading men's singles players of the early 1970s, will be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday in Newport, R.I. Cullman, former chairman and chief executive officer of Philip Morris Cos. was instrumental in giving the women's professional tennis tournament a strong financial foundation.

Kodes, a Czechoslovkian, was the 1973 Wimbledon champion and was consistently ranked in the world's Top 20. They will become the 150th and 151st inductees into the hall during the past 35 years. Martin Jaite, the No. 3 seed from Argentina, outlasted American Jim Courier 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the Swiss Open Friday in Gstaas, Switzerland. It was a thrilling, 2 hour and 36 minute match that featured powerful baseline shots and clever net smashes.

Courier, the tournament's fifth seed, seemed ready to win in the second set, but lost his service game at 5-4. He went on to make four unforced errors and lost the tiebreaker. He recovered from a 0-2 deficit to tie the score in the final set but then lost three straight games. Marc Rosset, a 19-year-old Swiss, ousted second-seeded Emilio Sanchez 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Track Field Throwing the shot and discus was a nice way for Lance Deal to pass the time in high school and college.

But once Deal tried the hammer, he knew what he'd be doing from then on. Deal Thursday turned in the best effort by an American this year to help get the track competition at the U.S. Olympic Festival off to a record-breaking start. "The thrill of.taking a 16-pound ball and throwing it 254 feet is really neat," Deal said. Deal's top throw Thursday carried 254 feet, 9 inches, and broke the Olympic Festival record by more than 12 feet.

The previous best by an American athlete this year had been 254-4 by Ken Flax on May 26. jr f- Tennis: Newhall stars Report says Foster to box in Miles City MILES CITY (AP) Todd Foster is expected to fight here Sept. 1 as part of a seven-bout card, organizers said Friday. Kelly Reid, a local organizer of the fights, said that a contract hasn't been signed. He said that Foster's opponent for the fight at Denton Field has not been named.

Foster is the former Olympic boxer from Great Falls, who has a 13-0 record as a professional. Foster's last fight was July 4 in Dodson in Phillips County where he knocked out Felix Dubray. Cut Bank grid stars added to Shrine team Pete Kowalski and Jason Winter-rowd, who helped Cut Bank to capture the State Class football championship last fall, are among five players who have been added to the East roster for the 44th annual East-West Shrine Football Game. Two players have been added to the West roster. Kowalski and Winterrowd on the East all-star squad will be Jimmy Bement of Colstrip, Nathan Allie of Glasgow and and Chris Gaub of Glendive.

New to the West team are Mark O'Neil of Butte and Mike Turcotte of Townsend. The additions were announced by Jerry Evans, chairman of the game that will be played Saturday, Aug. 1 1 at Memorial Stadium in Great Falls. The two 34-member teams will train the East in Great Falls and the West in Butte under staffs of selected high school coaches from Dodgers: I KOMI II season between the two clubs. Butte, 14-8 and two games ahead of Salt Lake City in the Pioneer's Southern Division, has lost to Great Falls two straight years in the Pioneer's best-of-five championship series.

Martinez was outstanding, but he wasn't satisfied. "Sometimes with men on base I try to be so quick," he said. "That's my problem." The 18-year-old Martinez yielded only a run-scoring double to Marty Posey in the fourth. In the seventh, with two on and two out, he got Shannon Penn to fly out softly to left. Busch, the 245-pound first baseman, contributed a pair of run-scoring singles.

His liner to left in the fifth inning gave the Dodgers a 2-1 advantage. Then in the seventh, Busch came through with a two-out RBI single to center as Great Falls scored a pair of insurance runs. "I made an adjustment in my stance and it's working," said Busch, who drove a ball well over the wall, but barely foul, before deliving the RBI single in the fifth. "Reggie Smith (LA hitting instructor) suggested I open my stance a little. Now guys can't pitch me inside." Butte rallied briefly in the ninth against ace closer Gordon Tipton, scoring on pinch-hitter Brian Mer-cado's RBI single.

But with the tying runs aboard left-fielder Danny Andrews made a diving catch of a high fly in foul territory to end the game. The Dodgers took the lead in the fifth, when Busch drilled a single with two runners aboard. The inning ended when Burgess Watts, who had an RBI double in the third, terfinals. Smith got past Dan Gull-ikson of Federal Way, 1 up. Kawasoe, 24, was 2 up after four holes as Vickers got behind a tree, hit into a bunker, three-putted and hit a shot into water.

Vickers won the seventh when Kawasoe caught a trap and sank a 10-foot birdie putt on the ninth to go 1 up. He went 2 up with a 30-foot birdie putt on the 12th, 3 up when Kawasoe went over the 13th green and out of bounds, and was 4 up with a birdie on the 15th, where Kawasoe was in another bunker. Smith, the oldest player to advance to the final 16, was 1 up on the third, but drove into water and double-bogeyed the fourth. Kanada went up for the first time with a 30-foot birdie putt on the eighth. Then he three-putted the ninth from 12 feet, was 1 up with a par on 12, lost the 13th, three-putting again, and was up for the last time when Smith double-bogeyed the 14th.

GIRLS' 18 SINGLES Finals Ellse Newhall (Great Falls) def. Rachel Avery (Great Falls) 6-2, 6-4 GIRLS'18 DOUBLES Finals Ellse Newtiall-Rachel Avery (Great Falls) del. Beth Cady-Rachel Strohmever (Bozeman) 6-4, 6-1 BOYS'16DOUBLES Finals Ian Cutler (Bozeman) def. Jason Hancock (Billings) GIRLS' 16 SINGLES Finals Lindsay Morgan (Greot Falls) def. Carrie Curtis (Missoula) 6-0, 6-0 GIRLS' 16 DOUBLES Finals Carrie Curtls-Courtnev Torgerson (Missoula) def.

Lindsay Morgan-Jennifer Knowles (Great Falls) BOYS' 14SINGLES Finals T.J. Crum def. Josh Hancock (Billings) 7-5, 6-2 GIRLS' 14 SINGLES Finals Lindsay Morgan (Great Falls) def. Karen Burfenning Bozeman) 6-0, 6-1 MENS'OPEN SINGLES First round Warren Chamakoon (GF) def. Dick Collum (Billings) 6-4, 6-3; Andy Fernandez (Billings) def.

John Avery(GF)4-l, 6-0. Second round Ian Cutler (Bozeman) def. Kiyohlro Matsul (Billings) 6-1, 6-1; Scott Selstad (GF) default over Paul Bolcher (Missoula). MENS'60 SINGLES First round David Bossier (Lakeside) def. Virgil Nelson (GF) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.

MENS' 55 SINGLES Hans Polte (Kalispell) def. Bill Peters (Rollins) 6- 1, 6-3; Stanley Smart (Rollins) def. Tom Selstad (GF) 6-2, 6-1. MENS'45SINGLES Nell Malkasian (Kalispell) def. Ken Olson (Bozeman MENS'35SINGLES First round Tuck Vosburg (GF) won by default over Paul Bolcher (Missoula); Don Dubuque won by default over Gary Quinn; Dennis McCafferty (GF) def.

Second round Leonard Schuff def. Rick Mink (GF) 6-3, 6-1; Dick Cullum (Billings) def. Leonard Robidoux6-3. 7- 6. MENS' 3.5 SINGLES Ron Walters (Lewistown) won by default over Jeff Keller (Havre); Gary Peterson (GF) def.

Sam Lemalch (Missoula) 6-3, 6-4; Mike Lannan (Havre) def. David Gliko (GF) 6-1, 6-1. WOMENS'OPEN SINGLES First round Rochel Avery (GF) def. Tana Chrlsman (Conrad) 6-0, 6-1. Second round Margit Smith (Poison) def.

Ann Avery (GF) 4-1, First round Rosle Schuff (Billings) default over Elaine Schoyen (GF). WOMENS' 4.0 DOUBLES Marilyn Lemaich and Darlene Horst def. Janlne Haugeand Glnny Heberly. "I'm getting better. I'm just thankful I had the opportunity to go to the hospital.

A lot of people in the world don't have that. "This is a good place to be when you're sick." Not to mention a good place to leave when you're well. Frey never really understood that before, but she does now. "This whole thing has made me understand handicapped people a lot better," she said. "It's changed my attitude a lot.

Before, it was like come and go. I'd just be be-bopping around. Now I take things much more seriously." throughout the state. General admission tickets for the Shrine Game are on sale at Denny's IGA, Kaufmans Menswear, Universal Athletic Service and Shrine temples in Billings Helena and Butte. Reserved seats can be purchased at Piper Jaff ray Hopwood.

McManus takes Centerville hoop posts SAND COULEE Gary McManus, who has coached basketball and track for many years at Montana School for Deaf and Blind, has accepted the basketball-coaching post for girls and boys at Centerville High. McManus, a Great Falls native, will continue to teach at MSDB. McManus coached several years in District SC when MSDB had varsity teams, but the school has played junior varsity schedules the past five years. During that time, he has coached in the Great Falls school system. He replaces Matt McCale and Scott Donisthorpe.

Motocross races here on Sunday There will be state High Country Motocross Association races Sunday at the Rainbow track, located one-fourth mile south of the county landfill. Motorcyclists from all over Montana will be competing for trophies in more than a dozen classes. Races start at 9 a.m. and won't end until about 6 p.m. Martinez sharp lined into a double play.

With two out in the seventh Tim Griffin extended his hitting streak to 20 games with a double off the left-field wall. Busch then dumped a single to center. He later scored on an error, Butte's second of the inning. "I was not unhappy with this game," said Butte manager Bump Wills. "We hit some balls hard right at them.

Martinez is tough. He has a great arm." Dodgers manager Joe Vavra was not unhappy, either, although his injury situation is worsening quickly. "Martinez works fast," he said. "Tonight he kept his rhythym pretty well and he kept coming right at them. He pitched inside and then he was able to hit the outside corner.

He was very good." Vavra said Walden will stay with the club in Great Falls while resting his arm. He said Mondesi, who was off to a splendid start with three homers and five stolen bases in nine games, will be out for a few days and possibly a week. BUTTE GREAT FALLS ob bl ob bl Hulsecf 4 10 0 Webb 2b 3 110 Shave ss 3 0 0 0 Maurerss 2 110 Greer If 4 0 10 Griffin dh 3 110 Posevdh 4 0 11 Busch lb 3 12 3 Gugglonac 4 0 0 0 Watts 3b 4 0 11 Castellanorf 3 0 2 0 Grave 4 0 0 0 Moutonlb 4 110 Pereic 0 0 0 0 Matachun 3b 3 0 10 Andrews If 4 0 0 0 Penn 2b 2 0 0 0 Farrishcf 40 10 Mercndoph 10 11 Blackwellrf 3 0 0 0 Matospr 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 2 7 2 Totals 30 4 7 3 Butte M0 100 001-2 Great Falls 001 010 J0x-4 E-Greer, Shave. DP-Great Falls 1, Butte 1. LOB-Butte 8, Great Falls 8.

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WP-Martlnei. PB-Guggiano. FROM IB May. Chamakoon's route to the title match included wins over Jonathan Hancock of Billings and John Easley of Great Falls. Cutler bounced back to capture the Boys' 16 Singles title, defeating Jason Hancock 6-4, 8-6.

It was a busy and successful day for Lindsay Morgan, the Great Falls youngster winning both the Girls' 16 Singles and Girls' 14 Singles crowns and placing second in Girls' 16 Doubles. She upset top seed Carrie Curtis of Missoula, 6-0, 6-0 in the 16 Singles final and scored a 6-0, 6-1 win over Karen Burfenning of Bozeman in the 14 Singles title match. Curtis and Courtney Torgerson defeated Morgan and Jennifer Knowles 6-1, 6-2 in the 16 Doubles final. The Boys' 14 Singles title was won by TJ. Crum of Helena, who downed Josh Hancock 7-5, 6-2 in the finals.

Adult play began Friday and will continue through Sunday morning. Selstad and Cutler are in Men's Open Singles, and Newhall and Margit Smith are 1-2 in Women's Open Singles. Defending Men's Open Doubles champions Tuck Vosburg and John Alexander are No. 1, followed by Bonnie Chamakoon and Warren Cham-akoon. Matches are being played at the Meadow Lark Country Club courts and the CM.

Russell courts, located just east of CM. Russell High. Spectators are welcome. BOYS'18SINGLES Finals Bryan Verwolf (Helena) def. Warren Chamakoon (Great Falls) 3-4, 4-1.

6-3 Frey: Strong recovering FROM IB on the Hi-Line, but then she needs to find work. A career in professional basketball overseas, once a longshot for her, is now out of the question. But that's OK. "I'm just going day by day," she said. "My endurance is so low right now that I don't know for sure when I can work full-time.

"I don't know if I'll ever play basketball again, but I might not have anyway. So it's all right." Frey smiled again, this time genuinely. "I feel lucky, really," she said. Hockey The Detroit Red Wings Friday fired Coach Jacques Demers and named former Washington Capitals coach Bryan Murray as coach and general manager. Demers guided the team to three NHL Norris Division playoffs before finishing last season 28-38-14.

Demers, 45, had three years of a contract left and will receive his annual salary of $250,000 in each of those seasons, the Red Wings said. The Red Wings earlier this week.