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fo) Is) Scoreboard 2B. State Fair racing results 2B! The Baseball Page. 3Bt Great Falls Tribune Monday, August 7, 1989 Dodgers continue flight to top with late rally IT Howard, Goodwin combine in 7th to back hard-luck hurler Helmick 'ID, Get a broom 1 BUTTE (I) GREAT FALLS (3) ab bl ob Garcia lb 2 0 0 0 Goodwin cf 4 0 2 1 Harris cf 2 0 0 0 Barker ss 4 0 10 Fllnndh 3 0 0 0 Wlsmerrl 40 10 Wlnford 3 10 0 Oeutsch lb 4 0 0 0 Hays rf 3 13 1 O'Donnell 3b 4 0 10 Ollvass .4010 White dh 2100 Marshall lb 4 0 0 0 Teel 2 0 0 0 Clinton 2b 30 10 Howard 2b 3111 Crowley If 2 0 10 Harvell If 3 110 Morrow rf 10 0 0 Newklrk 3b 2 0 0 0 Totals W1S1 Totals 30 3 7 2 Butte 100 100 000 1 Great Falls 001 000 J0k 3 Garclo 2, Groves 2, Harvell, Barker. DP-Great Falls 2. LOB Butte 3, Great Falls e.

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A-Z122. the RBI single. Goodwin wasn't satisfied with his hitless performance Saturday, although he stole three bases and scored twice. He went 2-for-4 Sunday, and his season stolen-base total remained at 34. "You always feel better when you get hits," he said.

"If the swing isn't there you tend to worry." Dodger fans used to watching this team break quickly to a lead had to be worried this day. But Howard helped snuff a pair of Butte threats with smooth, quick relays on double plays, and his opportunistic effort following the game-tying single in the seventh helped win the game. Following his looper to center, Howard took second as Butte's Don Harris, the Rangers' No. 1 draft pick out of Texas Tech, fired home in a vain attempt to throw out White. Howard was thus in position to score moments later when Goodwin lashed the game-winner.

"You never see that kid not hustle," said Dodgers skipper Joe Vavra. "Howard makes the double play as well as anybody in this league. He plays heads-up." Great Falls has more than a handful of "heads-up" players this summer. "They're a solid club," said Butte's Jim Clinton, a Lewistown native who was able to catch a few Dodgers' games at Legion Park last summer. "I think their team this year has more depth than last year.

They play well together." Clinton was drafted by the Rangers this spring after a year during which he batted .358 with 45 stolen By SCOTT MANSCH Tribune Sports Writer Matt Howard says the Great Falls Dodgers didn't play particularly well Sunday, despite achieving a 3-2 victory over the Butte Copper Kings at Legion Park. "We weren't at our best, so when we win a game like that it proves we're in pretty good shape," Howard said. "We're pretty excited about it." Ditto for Dodgers' fans. With Howard playing a starring role, the Dodgers completed a three-game sweep over the Copper Kings. The Northern Division-leading Dodgers, 34-8, have won eight straight games and 17 of their last 19.

Butte, leading the Southern Division, fell to 26-17. The Kings have dropped five out of six to Great Falls this summer. Howard drove in the tying run and scored the game-winner as Great Falls rallied for two seventh-inning runs before a matinee crowd of 2,122. A former Pepperdine University star, he scored the winning run on Tom Goodwin's line single to left with two outs in the inning. "There's nothing like winning," said Howard, a second baseman who was the middle man on two double plays.

"Once you start winning it seems like it doesn't stop." The rally made a winner of righthander Tony Helmick, 3-2, who worked seven strong innings and struck out eight. Mike Frame finished up to notch his third save. "Tony has been our hard-luck pitcher," said Dodgers pitching Tribune Photo by Sherlyn Blorkaren Great Falls Dodgers' outfielder Tom Goodwin is headed one way, and Butte shortstop Jose Oliva the other during a pick-off of Goodwin in the fifth inning Sunday. coach Goose Gregson. "He's been the one pitcher we haven't scored runs for.

So it was nice to see him get the win." Butte scored in the first on Darrin Hays' RBI single. Great Falls tied it in the third with an unearned run, but the Copper Kings went ahead 2-1 in the fourth also via an unearned run. Right-hander John Graves, normally a short reliever, was pressed into service because of a few injuries to Kings' pitchers. And the stocky Oklahoma native did the job. He left in the seventh after Howard's bloop single to center enabled Craig White to score the tying run.

White led off the frame with a walk and was sacrificed to second by Garett Teel. Hard-throwing reliever Mark Young came on to strike out Rod Harvell before Goodwin delivered bases at the University of Chicago-Illinois. Although he has struggled somewhat at the plate this summer, he has proved to be the most versatile Copper King. For Butte manager Bump Wills, Clinton has played every position except pitcher, catcher and right field. "I hope (the versatility) helps me," said the former Lewistown Babe Ruth and Legion baseball standout, who played center field and second base Sunday while going l-for-3.

"Right now I'm struggling to adjust to the wood bat." Clinton is not alone. The entire Butte team is having fits of late. "There for awhile we were play ing like the Dodgers, winning a lot' of games," Clinton said. "But the! last few games we haven't gotten it together. We've got to start playing i better as a team." The Dodgers open a four-game set with Idaho Falls Monday night at1 Legion Park.

Kiki Jones (6-0, 1.76! ERA) will pitch for the Dodgers. Game time is 7 p.m. Electrics lose in 12 innings Camel continues his comeback took the lead with a run in the top of the ninth, but Great Falls shortstop Jon Taft drilled a solo homer lead ing off the bottom of the frame to tie the score again. Taft, who had four RBIs in the game, gave Great Falls a 3-2 lead with a two-run single in the fifth. Great Falls added another run in the sixth when Roger Spring had an RBI single.

Billings got two runs in the seventh, however. An inning later, Great Falls starting pitcher Ron See LEGION, 2B Special to the Tribune MISSOULA Greg Kastelitz had a tie-breaking, two-run single and the Billings. Scarlets went on to score three more runs in the 12th inning early Monday morning en route to an 11-6 victory over the Great Falls Electrics at the State AA Legion baseball tournament. It was the first loss of the double-elimination tournament for Great Falls, 39-17. The Electrics meet the Billings Royals Monday afternoon at 4 in a loser-out game.

The two clubs were tied at 5 through eight innings. The Scarlets tv "1 KmJJ i io I rounds and I'm not going to be the loser," Camel said. "I can't tell you any more than that." Camel, whose career record is 42-11-3, with 17 knockouts, became the World Boxing Council's first cruiserweight title in 1980. He lost the crown less than a year later to Carlos DeLeon, on the undercard of the first Sugar Ray Leonard-Roberto Duran event. Camel later won the International Boxing Federation cruiserweight title, only to lose it more than five years ago to LeRoy Murphy in a controversial bout in Billings.

The fight was stopped in the 15th round, with Camel reportedly ahead on points, because of a cut. Camel has spent the last five years in Los Angeles, working and working out. Now, approaching 40, he wants to give boxing another shot. "I think I'm in better shape than I've been in in a long time," he said. Obviously, boxing is in Camel's blood.

"The bug never really left me," he said. "When I had that fight in Billings, even though I lost the fight in my home-state and with a Montana referee, the bug was still there. I've been doing it so long, and I never really got hurt in the game. "I don't really love boxing, but I See CAMEL, 2B By SCOTT MANSCH Tribune Sports Writer Marvin Camel says he hasn't missed a day of running in a year and seven months. "I'm in shape.

Give me two or three days to rest up before the fight and I'll be on top of the world," he said. Camel knows the territory up there. So although he is 38, and although he hasn't had a fight since May, 1988, and although he hasn't won a fight in much longer than that, his words sound sincere. As they should. After all, the former two-time world boxing champion is coming home to Montana.

"When I first started this one-year, seven-month deal I wanted to break my own record," said Camel of his running routine. "My own record was one year, three months and 26 days. I thought I would see how far I could go. If I quit now I'll never do it again." But Camel, Ronan's famed "Desert Horse," hasn't quit. And he most definitely is doing it again.

Camel meets Dennis Fikes of Las Vegas Thursday night in an eight-round cruiserweight (195 pounds) bout at Four Seasons Arena. The fight, one of seven on a card headlined by a world featherweight title matchup and the sixth professional bout of Great Falls boxer Todd Foster's career, marks what Camel hopes is a resumption of a championship chase. "I think it's not going to go eight BC Lions fire former Griz coach Donovan B.C. Place Stadium. Donovan was head coach at the University of Montana from 1980-85, where his teams compiled an overall record of 25-37-1 before he was fired.

Donovan took over as the Lions' coach in October 1987 when Don Matthews was fired. Donovan's record dropped to 14-12 after a 44-38 loss in Hamilton on Friday. Galat said more discipline is needed. "I think our work ethic is going to change a little bit," he said. We're going to have to tighten it up a little bit." VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) The British Columbia Lions, winless this season after advancing to the Canadian Football League championship game last year, fired head coach Larry Donovan on Sunday and replaced him with general manager Joe Galat.

The Lions, who reached the Grey Cup game last season only to lose 22-21 to Winnipeg, are 0-4 this year their worst start in more than a decade. "When you're 0-4, the worst thing of all would be to do nothing," Galat told a news conference at Tribune File Photo Cruiserweight Marvin Camel, a former world champion in the event, will continue his comeback Thursday at Four Seasons. Borsett's great career near end w7 pleased with the play of his veterans Saturday in a scrimmage against the New York Giants. "I think our veterans need to kick it in gear," he said. Walton also was upset by injuries to three of his defensive backs.

Starting strong safety Rich Miano suffered a left knee sprain and will be out one to two weeks. Miano injured his knee in the first defensive series while trying to tackle Lee Rouson. "My leg got jerked or twisted," Miano said. "It hurt at first, but they think it will be all right." Starting free safety Erik McMillan complained of neck spasms following the scrimmage and backup free safety George Radachowsky pulled a groin muscle and will miss two weeks. Green Bay Packers Rookie quarterback Anthony Dil-weg impressed coach Lindy Infante in an intrasquad scrimmage Saturday.

"I thought Anthony had a really solid day," Infante said. "He seems to have a pretty good command of our offense." Dilweg completed nine of 12 passes for 134 yards and a touchdown. The third-round draft choice from Duke played three series and moved the team to seven first downs. Veteran quarterback Don Maj-kowski completed seven of nine passes for 57 yards and a touchdown. His only two misses came on dropped balls by running backs.

Randy Wright, who shared the starting job with Majkowski last season, connected on six of his 11 throws for 49 yards. Minnesota Vikings Cornerback Reggie Rutland's holdout is over, but his battle for a starting job is just beginning. Rutland started the Vikings' final seven regular season games and both playoff games in 1988. But he missed the first six days of preseason practice and fell behind in the cornerback competition. "If we started tomorrow, we would have Ike (Issiac Holt) at left comerback and Carl Lee on the right side," coach Jerry Burns said.

Holt lost his starting job when he suffered a thigh contusion midway through 1988. When he returned for the final three regular season games, Lee and Rutland remained in the lineup. Holt said he expects a dogfight for the starting job. Pittsburgh Steelers Steelers quarterback Bubby Blister, previously the NFL's lowest-paid starting quarterback, signed a three-year contract Sunday that will make him the highest-paid player in the team's history. Brister was on the option year of a contract that would pay him $187,000 this year.

His new contract is worth a reported $2.75 million, with incentives that could make the total value nearly $1 million a year. The Steelers' highest-paid player had been comerback Rod Woodson, who signed a $2 million deal as a rookie in 1987. Blister's base salary reportedly will be $700,000 this season, $800,000 in 1990 and $900,000 in 1991, plus annual bonuses such as for reporting to camp and making the team's opening-day roster worth $125,000 a year. The average NFL starting quarterback's salary is about $800,000. Brister, a third-round draft choice from Northeast Louisiana in 1986, became the Steelers' starter last year, completing 175 of 370 passes for 2,634 yards, 11 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.

New York Jets Jets coach Joe Walton wasn't By The Associated Press Tony Dorsett's long and brilliant NFL career may be over. The league's No. 2 all-time rusher was resting in a Denver hospital Sunday undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his left knee. The Broncos running back will miss the entire season. "Things are looking pretty bleak," he said before the surgery.

"I'm 35 years of age, with 12 years worth of licks. To have to rehabilitate and come back the odds are against it." Broncos spokesman Jim Sac-comano said doctors expect Dorsett to make a full recovery, "but not without the six-month period and a lot of hard work on Tony's part." Dorsett injured his knee in a non-contact passing drill on Thursday. He is expected to remain hospitalized for another day or two. Dorsett has rushed for 12,739 yards in his career, trailing only Walter Payton's 16,726 yards. He gained 703 yards last season, his first with the Broncos after being acquired from the Dallas Cowboys.

At Dallas, Dorsett had eight rushing seasons and played in fourJPro Bowls. Former Dallas Cowboys' all-time great running back Tonyi Dorsett, now entering his second season with the Denver Broncos, has likely played his final game in the NFL. The league's second leading rusher in history behind Chicago's. Walter Payton, Dorsett suffered damage to knee ligaments in a practice last week..