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8 The Montana Standard, Butte, Monday, June 25, 1990 'Standard1 Locati hill climbs 10 Major league baseball 9 Standings results 10 r-r inn i maioir' difference Rangers send top pick to Butte Dan Smith, the No. 1 pick by the Texas Rangers in the June 4 baseball draft, has been assigned to the Butte Copper Kings of the Pioneer League, Mike Shields, general manager of the Butte club, said Sunday. Smith, a left-handed pitcher out of Creighton, will join the club Monday, Shields said, and will be in uniform for Monday night's 7 p.m. Copper Kings-Salt Lake City Trappers game at Alumni Coliseum. Smith, a 6-5, 190-pounder, posted a 12-3 record and 1.86 earned run average for Creighton in 102 innings with 114 strikeouts against 42 walks and 67 hits.

Earlier reports had the Rangers, Butte's major-league parent club, keeping Smith out of competitive action for the summer because of him having pitched a high number of innings in the spring college season. "Obviously, they changed their mind," Shields said. "And, obviously, we're very happy about it. I think it was that it didn't take as long to sign him as they thought it would and so, once they did, they said ship him to Butte." Shields didn't know when Smith's mound appearance for the Copper Kings be scheduled. "They just said to get him into the rotation," Shields said.

The Rangers and Copper Kings are affiliated for the third year. In the previous two seasons of their working agreement, the Rangers also graced the Butte club with first-round picks shortstop Monty Fariss in 1988 and outfielder Don Harris last year. Both of them are now playing for the Rangers' Class AA Texas League farm club the Tulsa (Okla.) Drillers. 1 I I II 11 Staff photo by AAie ftaish Trappers bomb Copper Kings nity Hospital. Kremer, who rarely misses a game, recently had surgery.

Lacy is in Butte to conduct a 'Slugout' anti-drug program for youth Monday at Alumni Coliseum. FORMER BIG LEAGUE star Lee Lacy, right, and Butte Copper Kings Chief Executive Officer Jim McCurdy, left, visit avid Copper Kings baseball fan Clifford Kremer in St. James Commu- V7UUUIDIIO I. i Reyes 3 0 0 0 Schifman rf 5 2 4 5 Former big-league ballplayers join local groups to 'slugout' problems of youth By Bruce Sayler Standard Sports Writer Metropolitan youth have major-league ballplayers to look up to and to steer them away from the social pitfalls tempting them during their formative years. The boys and girls of smaller towns don't.

So, former big-leaguers are hitting the road again visiting communities the sizes of which they haven't likely seen since their days of Class AA ball and lower. The ex-ballplayers' mission is to steer the kids clear of drugs, crime, sex and alchohol, according to Lee Lacy and Reggie Allen. Lacy spent 16 years in the big leagues with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles, compiling a .290 major league career batting average as a second baseman and outfielder. Allen is a founder and president of the Jim "Mudcat" Grant Slugout program for which Lacy now works in fighting against the problems related to youth. "Drugs, alcohol and teenage pregnancy our hurting our youth more than anything," Lacy said during a weekend meeting at the Copper King Inn.

"The kids have to have education to deal with the adversity facing them today. They have to be made aware of the fact that the brain can be damaged by such things as drugs." Lacy and fellow ex-major leaguer Woody Held will direct Slugout clinics Monday at Alumni Coliseum in 10 a.m.-to-noon and 1 p.m.-to-3 p.m. sessions for Butte's youth. The two will then put on a hitting exhibition Monday evening at 6:30 at the ballpark prior to the Butte Copper Kings-Salt Lake City Trappers Pioneer League baseball game. Their program is being sponsored by the Copper Kings, the Butte police's DARE (Drug Awareness Resistance Education) program, Rhone Poulenc, the Copper King Inn and the Uptown Cafe.

"The local sponsors fund the clinics and appearances," Allen said. "And, it allows the former ballplayers to do this fulltime. If we break even, that's all we're looking for." Youngsters attending the Monday sessions will receive passes to the hitting exhibition and ballgame, Jim McCurdy, chief executive officer of the Copper Kings, said. Lacy's a former Pioneer Leaguer. "I began my career just down the road, here, in Ogden, Utah, in 1971," said the No.

1 draft pick of the Dodgers that year. He was a third baseman then and led the Pioneer League in fielding at the position. He switched to shortstop in the California League SALT LAKE CITY The Butte Copper Kings already have revenge on their minds, going into a pair of home games Monday and Tuesday against the Salt Lake City Trappers. After losing a close game on Saturday night, the Kings felt the agony of defeat in a big way Sunday, dropping an afternoon contest to the Trappers by a 20-2 count. AH five Copper Kings pitchers were touched for runs, as the Trappers pounded out 20 hits, including five doubles and two triples.

They also picked up three sacrifice flies during the course of the game: Brian Sheetz, the Copper Kings starting pitcher, and Steve Surico, who was the fourth hurler to take the mound, were treated the roughest. Sheetz and Surico were each knocked around for six runs, although only two of Sheetz' were earned, while five of Surico's were earned. Three double plays helped the Trappers' pitching staff, with the Copper Kings getting just one. Four Butte errors also contributed to the slaughter. The Trappers held a 9-0 lead after three innings, with the Kings getting one run in the fourth on an RBI double by Todd Guggiana.

The Kings other run came in the top of the ninth inning on a solo home run by Miguel Castellano, his first of the season. BUTTE ab Penn 2b 2 Matachun 2b2 Shave ss 4 Castllno 3b 4 Mouton lb 3 Posey lb 1 SALT LAKE CITY ab Kidd If 6 Moberg cf 5 Bargas dh 2 Czrmtski dh 3 Duffin 3b 3 Doyle 3b 1 Harris lb 1 bi 2 0 Mercado dh 3 1 Staff photo by Mike Walsh Miners' Corey Dunstan Sparkies pitchers silence Wranglers GREAT FALLS Cory Sivumaki tossed a no-hitter just after Chris Orth limited Deer Lodge to two hits as the Great Falls Sparkies swept the Wranglers 12-2 and 5-0 in a conference Class A American Legion baseball doubleheader Sunday. Sivumaki, a 16-year-old righthander, struck out 13 Deer Lodge batters in his sterling performance. Orth helped himself by banging out two hits in the first game. IP Miners sweep Bucks AAatos rf 3 0 0 0 Urcioli 2 10 0 Hulse cf 3 0 0 0 Biggers ss 2 1 0 1 Garczyk 2b 4 3 2 1 Briggsc 5 2 3 3 30 2 5 1 Totals 41 20 20 It Totals Butte ooo too 0' Salt Lake City 324 233 03X-20 Castellano 2, Reyes, Sheetj.

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3B Penn. Kidd HR Briggs. SB Hulse, Kidd, Duffin, Garczyk. SF Shave. IP ER BB SO Butte Gies 2 2 3 4 2 2 2 1 Watson 113 1 1 1 1 0 Surico L.O 1 1 3 2 3 2 1 0 Whiteside 2 2 3 1 0 0 0 3 Burrows 1 0 0 0 0 1 Salt Lake City Nettnin Boone W.l 0 Haqq 4 5 3 2 3 4 3 2 3 3 1 0 2 2 13 2 10 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 White S.I HBP Duffin by Gies.

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Lacy, 41, played for the Dodgers 1972-75, was traded to the Braves in '76, returned to the Dodgers for the '77-'78 seasons, was with the Pirates '79-'84 and closed his career with the Orioles during the '85-'88 seasons. He still plays, though. He is a member of the Miami team in the Senior Professional Baseball League which plays in Florida during the winter and is for players aged 35 and over. He batted above .300 in five separate major league seasons, topped by a .335 mark with the 1980 Pirates. Held's career began in 1954 and ended in 1969.

He played mostly shortstop and served with the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels and Chicago White Sox. His lifetime batting average was .240. "A lot of schools have cut out counseling because of the financial crisis our schools face," Lacy, who also is involved as a players' agent, said. "Growing up (in Longview, Texas), I had that. A lot of kids today don't.

Hopefully, we can help fill part of that void. Because we were big-league ballplayers, we became role models for our youth and, hopefully, they will listen to ing up eight hits and four runs, one of which was unearned, while yielding four walks and fanning five batters. Taylor, who also pitched the complete game, struck out eight batter and walked three while giving up nine hits and five runs, four earned. The Bucks stranded nine baserun-ners, leaving men on base in every inning except the fifth and ninth, when they went down in order. It was in the fifth inning that Boggs made his run-saving double play.

With one out, Lee Grau singled and went to second on a passed ball, and Taylor followed with a fly-ball to center that Boggs collected and fired to third to complete a double play when Grau tried to move up. The Miners also stranded nine runners, leaving a potential runs on base in every inning but the seventh. The Miners took a one-run lead in the second inning. Mark Venner ended a mild slump with a two-out single, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on Brian Sullivan's single. The Bucks went ahead 3-1 in the top of the third.

Jeff Ashley hit a one-out singleand Bill Warden followed with a triple, coming home on a single by Pluid. A ground-out by Grau moved Pluid into scoring position and he scored on Taylor's performs made the miracle. Drawing three defenders to him with his footwork, Maradona sent a perfect pass to Claudio Caniggia at the top of the penalty area. Caniggia dribbled around goalie Claudio Taffarel and put in the only score the defending champions needed to eliminate their archrivals from the World Cup, 1-0. Brazil will not win its fourth championship.

Because Argentina has the great Maradona, it still is us. Before beginning Slugout, Allen, a Los Angeles resident, said he worked with boxing figure Don King's son, Carl, in managing pro fighters such as Tim Witherspoon, Julian Jackson, Trevor Berbick, Greg Page and Michael Dokes. And before that, he was in the entertainment business managing and promoting singing groups such as The O'Jays and The Dramatics. The connection with Grant, a former pitching star for the Indians and the Minnesota Twins, Allen said, is that Allen arranges the bookings and appearance schedules and lines up sponsorships while Grant contacts former ballplayers to serve as spokesmen. "We've been working on this for 22 months," Allen said.

"This is our first trip. We were in Chattanooga, Atlanta and Salt Lake City last week, then came here. Next, we go to Spokane and to Des Moines, Iowa, Greenville, N.C., San Antonio, Texas, and, maybe, Pawtucket, R.I., on this trip." The program is one Allen said he'd always planned to begin someday. "I've always wanted to do something for kids," he said. "When I was growing up, I had the Dodgers and Willie Mays to look up to.

But, these kids in the smaller towns don't have those big-leaguers to look up to. And, the big-league ballplayers are too busy in their own cities while they're playing to help with a program like this. "So, we went to the retired ballplayers because they have the time. Bozeman's Troy Pacheco single. The Miners tied the score in the third on Giacomini's steal of home and a run by Dan Leary.

Leary singled, stole second at the same time Giacomini came home, went to third on Jeff LeProwse's single and rode home on a single by Dunstan. Bozeman regained the lead in the top of the fourth when Stuart Robinson was hit by a pitch, went to second on a groundout by Josh Ophus and scored on a throwing error by Leary. Brian Sullivan reknotted the score in the home half of the fourth, miracle alive for its third. So is West Germany, which eliminated the European champion Netherlands 2-1 in a wide-open game. The Germans next play Czechoslovakia.

Both teams had dozens of scoring chances before West Germany's Juergen Klinsmann Scored in the 50th minute. Andreas Brehme clinched it with a curving shot as the Dutch were caught upfield going for a tying goal. ALLEN HELD now, to do this." Allen said 15 former players are signed up with the program, including Tommie Agee, Joe Charbon-neau, Tommy Davis, Willie Davis and Billy Williams. "Athletics taught me willpower, determination, desire and love for self and those helped me achieve things in life," Lacy chipped in. "But, I've seen drugs destroy good athletes, some of our best politicians and some of our people who were among the best in their professions.

"Drugs have always been a detriment to our lives, now it's overwhelming. It was a social problem prevalent in the ghettos, but now is running rampant throughout our society. Kids are looking at drugs and pregnancy as accomplishments, badges of honor. As a father, I think we have to start caring more for our kids and letting them know." Lt. Don Butler of Butte's D.A.R.E.

program added, "If we can break the chain, get one drug-free generation, we can lick this." sets to put tag on Butte leading off with a double and scoring on Giacomini's one-out double. Giacomini scored the final run of the game in the top of the sixth. With two out, Giacomini reached on a fielding error by Pacheco, moved up on a walk to Michelotti, advanced to third when Leary reached on a fielding error by Ashley (which also allowed Michelotti to reach second safely) and then r-ame home when he saw Ashley had bobbled the ball. Giacomini and the ball reached home plate at the same time, but Bozeman catcher Mike Kellogg got separated from the ball on Giacomini's diving slide, and the Miners had the game winning run in the book. The Miners' next action will be Tuesday in Great Falls in a conference doubleheader, and then they return home Wednesday for a 7 p.m.

game with" Kalispell. 003 100 1004 I 1 Butte 012 101 OOx 5 2 Taylor and Kellogg; Michelotti and Dunstan. Michelotti. Taylor. Boieman batting Pacheco 14, Ashley 13, DincauO-l.

Warden 1-5. Pluid 2-5, Grau 13, Taylor 1-4, Kellogg 0-4, Robertson 0 3, Ophus 13 Butte baiting Bugni 12, Giacomini 12, Michelotti 0-4, Leary 2 4. LeProwse 14, Dunstan 13, Hanninen 0 2, Zolynski 0 1. Venner 14, Sullivan 2-4, Boggs 0-4. Extra-base hits 2B Giacomini, Sullivan.

3B Warden. By Jim Edgar Standard Sports Writer Lorenzo Giacomini got pressed into duty Sunday when C.J. Bugni was injured running out a base hit in the third inning of the Butte Miners win over the Bozeman Bucks, and proved his value to the club in a hurry. Giacomini took over at second as a pinch runner for Bugni, who had advanced on a groundout by Brian Michelotti. A single by Dan Leary moved Giacomini to third, and he stole home on the front end of a double steal with Leary, who made it to second, then came up in the fourth and hit a double to plate the tying run, and followed those efforts in the sixth inning when he reached on an error and advanced around the bases, finally scoring the game-winner for the Miners.

Cory Boggs, who got the horsecol-lar at the plate with an 0-4 performance, more than made up for it on defense, recording four unassisted outs and turning a double play in the fifth inning to back the pitching of Michelotti. Michelotti won the duel with Bozeman's Mark Taylor, despite spending a lot of the game with runners looking at his backside from second base. Michelotti went the distance, giv Maradona ROME (AP) He said it would take a miracle. Then he provided it. Diego Maradona, Argentina's super soccer star, admitted Brazil had a stronger team.

He said win WORLD CUP SOCCER ning would be a major upset. He certainly looked right Sunday as the Brazilians threatened and dominated from the opening whistle. But they could not score. And, with nine minutes to go, Maradona 3p Salt Lake Trappers Rhone-Poulenc Slug-Out Game Time 7 PM Alumni Coliseum.