Coach happy in‘nm.'u.úewY/f spite of 'disappointment' . Coach Gail Whitworth can’t help “It’s not bad to tie for second strength by striking out 48 men in feeling rankled over the fact that place in your second year," 48 Vi innings and logged the least his much-improved Cubs were Whitworth noted, adding that he runs scored upon (38) and the least denied a berth in the American expects the Cubs to return stronger hits given up (40) and one save. : Legion Class B Western Division than ever next year. baseball tournament last week in “We could just take it (the divi­ The club’s best hitters included ; Deer Lodge. Tabor—23 runs scored, eight stolen ; The Missoula Reds, league sion) next year,” he grinned, explaining that altouhgh the Cubs bases (tie) and two triples (tie); ; champs with a 14-6 record, led Kevin Whitworth—14 other times n : Butte, Whitehall and Dillon, all of will lose Ty Barkell, Chris Tabor and Kevin Whitworth, that the club base not excluding walks or HBP, 8 : which ended the season 11-9. stolen bases (tie), 18 walks, three ; But Butte and Whitehall were has a strong contingent of up-and-coming contenders. sacrifices and two hit by pitcher; ’ ; seeded above the Cubs, according Barkell, 22 RBI’s, two home runs | to the Legion’s tie-breaking form­ Whitworth had nothing but (tie); Randy Gerringa—.388 batting i ula. And Deer Lodge bumped Dillon praise for all of this year’s team average, 85 at bats, 33 hits, eight ; from the last remaining tourney slot members (coached by himself and stolen bases (tie), 10 doubles,two:- because the Wranglers got an Tom Depew). triples (tie), two home runs(tie);!; automatic bid for hosting the “A few, though, deserve special Don Hickethier—eight stolen bases:! con test. (tie). ;j "It almost seemed as if Deer mention," he said. Lodge was being rewarded for He noted Barkell logged the best Whitworth said season awards - losing,” noted Whitworth, who pitching record (4-2) tor the club will go to Gerringa and Depew who- ; pointed out Dillon trampled the and tied with Scott Depew for the are co-winners of the most valu-j! At the Cowbov Wrestling rump held at WMC last Hull (left middle), David Boyce, and Eric Schuller theWranglers five out of six games this least number (25) of walks. able player award; Gerringa, ! week, OSU head coach Tom Chesbro (left), and All skills that are necessary for winning a wrestlingseason. He struck out 50 men in batting (.388); Depew, pitching (4-3:! —1.94 ERA); Curt Owen, fielding:! American for OSU Ricky Stewart demonstrate to David match. On the other hand, Whitworth 42-one-third innings for a 4.93 said he doesn’t feel that he can earned run average. (.985); Lake, roolde-of-the-year;;! complain too much. Depew ended the season with aBarkell, most improved player;;! total of 53 strikeouts in 51 Whitworth, most inspirational:! player. | “We ended the season on a realinnings—a record the coach called Experts at eager camp high note,” he said, explaining the“almost unheard of in this land of The Cubs will round out their! two y ear old club improved its over­ baseball”—and tallied an ERA ofseason with a father-son game! all record to 14-11 from last years 1.94. Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in Vigilante ; 3-18. Harvey Lake also showed Park. The Northwest Cowboy Wrestl­ The camp featured three daily Martin, a three-time Big Eight ing Camp, directed by Oklahoma sessions covering all areas of the champ and three-time All-Ameri­ State University coaches, was held sport. can; Ricky Stewart, twice NCAA at Western Montana College last Heading the supervisory staff champ and three-time All-Ameri­ week with 143 boys reporting for was OSU head coach Tom Chesbro, can, and Ricky Arhburg, a standout R & R, Beaverhead Sports tops! the specialized instruction. who has produced 15 NCAA on the current OSU squad. Registrants included youths, champions and 53 All-Americans The Monday night R&R Womens The Mens B Division saw some went 4-4 and collected the most! ages 10 to 18, from Montana, during his Oklahoma State tenure. Also assisting at the camp were team did what they had to do and emprises in the final tourney of the valuable player award. Wyoming, North Dakota, Idaho, Working with him at the Dillon Butte High coach Jim Street and beat Bud Lite twice in the cham­ season. Top seeded Charlies Washington and Oregon. camp were his assistant coach Paul WMC coach Rick Hamilton. pionship tilt. Bakery could only manage third Tuesday, Last Week’s Women's On th e come b ack trail-, R&R ex- p lace. Results ...... .i:: ploeed for five runs in .the fourth - The championship game pitted R&R 21, Windsong 0; HEH 8, Mode; inning to build a comfortable lead. High Country Tours against Bea­ O Day 5; Bud Lite over Stephens by; Kolene Brown and Beth Royce verhead Sport8. The Beaverhead forfeit; Co-op defeated Focher’s by! put up a stone wall defense to hold Sports team flexed their muscles forfeit; Towns Inn 26, Merchants 0.: Shriners start drills off the Bud Lite team. The final score ended 6-3. and crushed High Country Tours by L ast W eek's M ens Results Hus put both the teams with one a score of 18-3. Wednesday Men The 35-member West Shrine directed the 1978 club.'He will beaccording to Harold Peterson, who After a six run third inning, Bea­ Windsong 17, Sneeds 12; Charlie’s football squad, joined by five assisted by Ron Lehnerz of Butte has served as West Camp coordin­ loss ana a final game to play. Bud Lite jumped to an early 5-2 verhead Sports never looked back. 22, Blomquist 7; Beaverhead Sport­ coaches and two trainers, opens Central, Mike Charlton, Boulder, ator since 1977 when the training They were led by Paul Tash who ing Goods 11, Hi-Country Tours 6. drills next Monday at Western and Clyde Tucker, Arise, along session was moved here from Great lead, but R&R capitalized on Bud Lite e rro rs to tie th e sco re a t five all Montana College in preparation for with Butte High assistant coach Falls. \ Montana’s 38th annual East-West Dan Lean. going into the final inning. Bud Lite failedto score in their Shrine Game Aug. 14 in Great Falls. Representing this area on the Peterson is also directing ar­ half of th e inning. R&R got their Strutters lead girls The W est griddera, marking their West squad are David Rhea, rangements for the Parents Day sixth consecutive camp at WMC, all-state linebacker from Beaver­picnic Sunday, Aug. 8, for West will be seeking to even the Shrine head County High School, and Dan Camp personnel and families under series which the East now rules by Buhler, Lima's all-state defensive sponsorship of the Southern Mon­ a narrow 18-17 margin. end. tana Shrine dub. Assisting is Guiding the West team is Butte Pre-game drills continue on the Dillon’s "Serve Our College Com­ High coach Jon McElroy, who also Dillon campus through Aug. 12, m ittee. Softball tourney Mini-Midr league champ The Mini-Midi team became the but could not increase on it. J&L off in the bottom half of the inning sanction league’s mens regular tied the game in the bottom of the for a 3-2 victory. season champions by defeating the sixth. Both teams failed to score in Final M ens Sanction J&L C ar-W ash 3-2 la st week. the seventh to force the game into League Standings extra innings. The two teams had split the four 1. Mini-Midi 12-3 previous meetings and were in a In the top of the eighth, Shawn 2 . J&L 10-5 virtual tie for first place. Ori scored on b ase hits by Sid Nield 3. L&S Ready Mix 5-10 Mini-Midi took an early 2-1 lead, and R ay W anty. Mini-Midi held J&L 4 . Old Ozzies 3-12 Tucker, Morse shoot 40's By ROGER GO WAN As the days events drew to a close questions On July 11, the Big Hole Valley once again arose on the bragging rights to the days festivities. trembled as canyon walls echoed challenges roared A shoot out was Bet to decide the outcome. Weapons across the area's shooting range. were selected and chicken targets were set at 200 meters as the shooters squared off. Roars of A battle started months earlier was to climax approval and encouragement greeted both as at the here. Mike Morse of Dillon led off with anend of round one they remained tied at three apiece. impressive 39 of 40 in unlimited dass. Not to beBut at the end of round two, the shooters were tied outdone John Wilke of Wisdom followed with a again at three all. Both contestants shook hands and perfect 40unlimited class. The stage was set asagreed to a draw and to share the limelight. Larry Tucker of Wisdom stumbled to the line. For months he and Mike had battled each other across The Big Hole's next match is Aug. 8. two states and several counties in pursuit of the elusive perfect score—40. P-Int—John Wilke, 7TCU, 34; P-AAA—Michael Morse, 7-TCU, 34; P-AA—Ken Christiansen, 7-TCU, Calmly Tucker breezed by the chickens and pigs30; P-A—Joe Adams, 7-TCU, 21; P-B—Gordon and escaped without a fault through the turkeys.