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The Montana Standard, Butte, Sunday, July2n989 9 4 nn. a nn -m aT r- kaB' m. pw rF ii V-i- kJ kl -XeJ wU I mi VZr I or not he had ever had something "MeTMthappen lo himbefore. ZrZi I By Jim Edgar Standard Snart MMta 7" ml Ji a ft ILL TLJ. Dan Mortensen of Billings won the title as all-around cowboy night at the Butte Vigilante rodeo, tupping the nightoff "wtth near-perfect score of 91 while riding a bull called Commissioner.

The two came out of the chute on the fly, and the bull thrilled the crowd with his antics, outdone only by the magnificent ride turned in by Mortensen. -rf I And, Mortensen needed a top ride too, because just moments before Brett Todd of Reed Point drew a bull named Star, and rode him to a stunning 85. Casey Kawasaki of Wolf Point started the night with a 73 aboard Wrangler Houdini, good enough for third place in the standings, while Pat Goyins of Helena, who marked a 72 Friday night, settled for fourth place in the competition. The big chill of the night wasn't the weather however, although it was a bit cooler than on Friday night. Tim Pankratz of Zortman, an accomplished bareback rider, nearly scared the wits out of the crowd when his horse, White Pelican, threw him.

Pankratz got hung up, in the rigging, and-then the rigging 'X slipped, to the slide. White Pelcian Jdraggeji Pankratz across the arena, kicking a bucking all the while, and it was only a sohcMIam into a fence post lining the arena that finally separated the horseand the rider. Pankratz laid on the ground for rhat seemed like hours, although it was probably only a couple of minutes, while the medical personnel present checked him for broken bones. He was then taken over to the ambulance standing by7al- though he made the trip under his own power, where he was cleaned, off and bandaged. Pankratz was alert and able to tell the ambulance personnel all that had happened.

When queried, as to whether he knew where he was and what happened, Pankratz replied, "Yeah, I'm sitting in the tail end of this ambulance, and I remember every jump and kick that that damn horse gave me. Pankrats was then asked whether "Yealu" he replied. "buH sure as hell don't want to make a habit of The final standings of the various events were certified shortly after the competition was over for the 1989 rodeo. In the steer wrestling, Brad Glea-son of Ennis took top money with a time of 5.4, followed by Rob Kountz of Boseman at 5.6. Third place went to George Ellis of Pocatello, Idaho with a time of 6.1, and Tom Ferris of Dillon was fourth at 6.6.

The team roping prize was a tie betweenthe team Dennis Tryan of Flaxville and Bill Parker of Huntley, and Al Franzen and Tom Fran-zen of Sidney, both of whom turned in a time of 7.6. Third place went to Elmer Latten of Great Falls and teammate Will Rambo of Shelby with 'a 7.9 clocking, just beating Shane Bessette of Great Falls and Blain Carlson of Vaughn with an even 8.0. Bill Tousignant of Wibaux scored a 70 on Long Shot to win the bareback riding; Rod Sterling of Shelby was second at 68. Pankratz picked up some money to help sooth the pains of his ride, taking third with a 66, and Tony Hecksher of Snyder, Texas finished fourth with 65. Ed Lockwood of Volborg got top money in the saddle bronc competition with his score of 80 that he -turned in Friday night on Brown Jug.

That same horse was lucky for Mortensen Saturday night, as the second place score that he scored, a 76, helped him pick up his all- around title. Jack Nystrom of Havre took third place with a 70, and Keith Tribe of Hamilton finished the list with a 67. The best time in the calf roping contest was turned in by Mike Johnson of Henryetta, Oklahoma, who posted a 10.6, followed by Bill Boyce of Lewistown with 12.0, Laramie Baumann of Hardin at 12.1, and Kart Goulding, of Duncan, Oklahoma at 12.5. Shelly Matthews of Cut Bank led the barrel racers with a 17.57. Second place went to Lisa Mainey of Hamilton, who scored a 17.72.

Mary Salmond of Choteau was third with 17.80 and Cheryl Sumper of Black-foot was fourth at 17.88. In the past the Raiders have allowed unsigned veterans and rookies not to mention players seeking renegotiations to work out at their facility prior to the start of training camp. Allen is entering the option year of a contract that will pay him $1.1 million for the '89 season. He reportedly wants a salary more in line with that of Bo Jackson, the top-paid Raider, whose in-Come for the coming season (reflecting prorated bonuses) will be $1,356 million. Allen appeared in 15 of the Raiders' 16 games last year, despite a broken left wrist and a badly injured neck.

He gained 831 yards rushing and scored eight touchdowns (one on a pass reception). Jackson, who joins the Raiders shortly after finishing the major league baseball season with the Kansas City Royals, appeared in 10 games. He rushed for 580 yards and scored three TDs. Lewis is seeking a "boost in his '88 salary of $115,000. He started 14 of 16 games at center after Don Mosebar was moved to tackle to make room for him.

Lewis was voted the team's most valuable lineman by his peers. "I believe they're trying to get rid of me," said Lewis. Raiders boot Allen, Lewis out of camp Staff photo by Mim Walrii riding a bull called 41 jell." "The kids might be pressing a little bit, too, because we're In here," added Rudy Jaramillo, the roving minor-league hitting instructor of the Texas Rangers, parent club of the Copper Kings. "They may be not as comfortable, right now." Jaramillo and a scout from the Rangers front office are working with the Copper Kings players during this homestand. The Copper Kings and Mustangs end their series Sunday night with a 7 o'clock game at Alumni Coliseum.

Left-hander Jose Borges, 0-1, will be Butte's starting pitcher. The Copper Kings end their homestand with a Monday night game against the Helena Brewers before embarking on a seven-game road trip Tuesday. BILLINGS 1UTTI Pom If 4 Gill 5 Gillum rt 5 Vondran 3b Duk dh 1 0 2 1 Garcia 2b 5 0 0 1 1 0 Flinn it 3 10 0 4 1 1 1 1 1 Harris cf 4 11 0 Peltier If 4 2 0 Marshall lb 3 0 0 0 Winford ph 1 0 0 0 Clinton lb 10 0 Cox 11 0 1 2 Dmbrtkl 7b 4 0 Hndrtn lb 4 1 Perozo cf 4 1 4 AAlchau I I I 0 Hays dh 3 0 1 Crowley rf 4 0 0 Newkirk 2 0 1 Totals 35 14 Totals 32 4 Billings 000 '100 S00- Butte 000 202 0004 Pugh, Vondran, Flinn, Garcia. DP Butte 4. LOB Billings 7, Butte 9.

2B Perozo. 3B Gill. HR Peltier (1), Henderson (I). SB Flinn, Dombrowski. Cox.

IP ER IB SO Billings Pugh W.1-0 23 2 13 5 1-3 3 2-3 4 4 0 1 0 3 Teegarden Rodriguez Butte Steiner Graves L.0-1 Young Steiner pitched to two batters in the seventh Inning. Umpires Home, Witt; Bases, Williams. A-3, Kings protect Ralph Thompson if PELTIER HAYS and then was called out on strikes by plate umpire Ed Witt on a pitch Challenged by the Butte dugout and crowd. After a scoreless eighth, Rodriguez put the Copper Kings down in order in the ninth to secure his third save of the season. Two of those outs were also strikeouts that included fan-disputed calls.

Peltier's home run in the fourth gave Butte a 2-1 lead. It came after Flinn walked and Harris flied out deep to center. The homer dropped over the fence just inside the field foul pole. Hays delivered a two-out, bases-loaded single in the sixth that scored Harris and Peltier and gave the Copper Kings a 4-1 cushion. Harris had reached base on a walk and Peltier on a single lined off of the glove of a diving Dombrowski, the Mustangs' second baseman.

"We'll come around," Wills promised. "Therfe's-too good of talent on this ballclub for us not to fl a. Bullfighter Loyd Ketchum Butte ballclub harried byi Henderson's seventh-inning shot By Bruce Sayler Standard Sports Writer The mood was somber in the Butte Copper Kings Manager Bump Wills' office Saturday night's 6-4 Pioneer League baseball loss to the' Billings Mustangs at Alumni Coliseum. "A tough loss," Wills said. "One mistake and we got burned.

We played well up to that point." The mistake WiUs. alluded to was a pitch, just one, by reliever John Graves to Billings' Harry Henderson in the seventh inning. The Copper Kings led 4-1 after six innings behind the pitching of starter Brian Steiner, a two-run homer by Dan Peltier and a two-run single by Daren Hays; But in the seventh, Billings' Steve -Vondran led off by reaching first base on Butte shortstop Geoff Flinn's boot of a sharp one-hopper, Then Andy Duke worked Steiner for a walk. Wills went to -the bullpen and brought in Graves to spell Steiner. Darren Cox bunted against Graves, who fielded the ball and threw to second baseman Manny Garcia who was covering first.

But, Garcia dropped the throw and the bases were loaded with nobody out. Chris Bugni raps hit in 3 ramid to gets ready to move in to Graves blew Rob Dombrowski away on strikes. Then came Henderson, who creamed a Graves Offering over the right-field fence. Wills said it was the first bad pitch Graves had made. Henderson's blast put the Mustangs up by one, 5-4, but the Billings wasn't yet finished for the inning.

Danny Perozo followed with a double to center field and then scored on an ensuing single by Scott Pose that chased Graves. Mark Young came on and retired Chris Gill on strikes, yielded a base hit to K.C. Gillum then got Vondran fly out to end the inning. However, the damage had been done. "We left too many men on base," Wills said.

"You can't expect to win when you're leaving that many on." The Copper Kings stranded nine runners. Three were left on in their half of the seventh when Mustangs reliever Tomas Rodriguez snuffed a serious Butte scoring threat. Billings native Travis Teegarden began the inning on the mound for the Mustangs in relief of starter Tim Pugh, 1-0. Butte's Craig New-kirk drew a leadoff walk off of himbefre Teegarden got Garciaand Flinn on strikes. Don Harris then drove a single to left-center that moved Newkirk to third and chased Teegarden.

Rodriguez came on in relief and walked Peltier to fill the bases. Wills then went to his bench and pinch-hit right-handed hitter Barry Winford for lefty Randy Marshall against the Billings southpaw. Winford worked the cound to 3 2 u.my Tbilisi stadium By Eric Noland Lot Angela Dally Newt ANGELES A couple of Raider contract battles moved onto home turf over the past few days as halfback Marcus Allen and center Bill Lewis were thrown out of the club's training facility in suburban El Segundo. Both Allen and Lewis are seeking to renegotiate their contracts and did not attend the club's mini-camps in Mayr- When Allen went to El Segundo a few days ago, he, was told to leave by George Karras, a Raiders administrator, apparently triggering a noisy confrontation between Karras and assistant coach Terry Robiskie, according to Mike Ornstein, a friend of Allen's and formerly a club official. Lewis wa then booted from the Raiders' weight room this past Wednesday by head coach Mike Shanahan, according to Lewis' agent, Larry Muno.

Shanahan was said to be out of town on vacation Friday. Karras on Friday denied barring Allen from the facility. "I really don't have any comment on that (Shanahan) has been handling that," he said. BUGNI with passed up "For soup with and lightest meat again treat us "The water. They drink thier we asked "And, it From-Russia the goat's milk7r Bugni noted.

lunch (dinner in Russia), we had some meat in it (just a mass of gristle), noodles rice. Dinner (supper in Russia) is their meal of the day. We had some kind of and rice. Once in a while they would with some ice cream. hardest thing was to get a drink" of just didn't believe we would want to water, and were very surprised when for it.

was almost impossible to get ice. You said, seriously. "Theylfon'nraTn, they don't run, all they seem to do is eat a lot and drink a lot. They aren't even that serious about their practices." Bugni said overall it's an experience he will never forget, and would be happy to do again. "But, you know, after a while it sure gets tiresome, and all we wanted to do there at the end was get on the airplane and go on home.

"One thing about a trip like that, it only takes a couple of days in a foreign country such as Russia for a person to realize just how good it is to be an American." It wasn't strictly a case of homesickness on the part of the team, it was the regimentation, the constant feeling of being on display, and the unchanging diet, day after day. "They eat at the same time every day 9 a.m., 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.," Bugni noted. "And, we always had the same meal according to what time of day it was. j'We wouid be practicing, and say it was 1: 40, still 20 minutes before mealtime and Coach Wertz wanted to get in a littje more practice.

No way. The Russians would say, 'We have to stop now and go We had about a 10-minute ride to where we ate, but everybody had to be on the bus ready to go, so that we wouldn't be even one minute late for our meals. "For breakfast, a very strong cheese, slices of ham, bread, pear juice and thick goat's milk. The bread was very good, the cheese was so strong we Could hardly- eat it, and everyone By Jim Edgar, Standard Sports Writer Judy Garland said it years ago, but Chris Bugni echoed the sentiment recently when he said, "There's no place like home." Bugni, the first baseman for the Gonzaga Bulldogs, recently joined his teammates, Coach Steve Hertz and his assistants, and Athletic Director Dan' Fitzgerald, for a good-will trip to Russia, taking along their baseballs and bats for several exhibition games. They also had the task of trying to help the Russian teams refine their skills which, according to Bugni, "don't exist." The tour was made possible by Gonzaga, Trustee David A.

Sabey, owner, founder and president of Seattle-based Sabey Corporation, a commercial real estate company. Sabey was approached about the possibility of bringing an American-based team to the Soviet Union while he was on a business trip to that country, and recommended his alma mater, Gonzaga. The wheels were set in motion, and the Bull-dogs were granted permission to attend. "In our games we played against them," the former Butte Central and American Legion aII- stater said, "we had to deliberately strike out in order to get the inning over. We could have easily scored 100 runs against the teams we played." Bugni noted that even though the ability of the competition was extremely poor, their goal is to take the bronze medal in Olympic baseball in 1996.

"I don't see how they can do it Bugni really had to beg for it They drink everything warm pop, water, whatever. They don't use ice in anything. "Oh yeah, they had a lot of Avine on the table. They don't drink beer, just hard stuff. And the wine is really powerful.

"The people we met were really nice. They were always saying hello, and they would buy us presents and try to give us money. They had everything well-planned and our time was well-filled. "My overall impression of the Russian people was very favorable," Bugni added. "Of course where we he pointed out, trying to separate from the Soviet piease gee BUGNI Page 11.