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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 19,1990 the stats and stripes Page 21 air Force softball wins Safe women a title Raf Ben Waters England Wei Brincken Defeated Ramstein 7-4 in 10 innings wednesday to claim the Safe women a slow pitch softball championship. Ramstein had beaten Wei Brincken 5-2 mor Day and the two teams had finished the six team round Robin play tied with 4-1 records. The lad rams and warriors were tied 4-4 after seven innings and Wei Brincken broke the tie in the top of the 10th. Gloria Fischbach reached on a dropped Fly Ball by the right fielder to Start the winning rally. Sercy Cunningham singled her to second and one out later Toni Moore a Fly Ball advanced the runners. Kara Scott smashed a shot to deep Short scoring Fischbach with the winning run. Christy Samson drove in Cunningham with a single. Ramstein a Rhonda Barfield had four hits in five trips and drove in two runs. Evonne Brown of Amstien won the sportsmanship award. Lakenheath finished the tourney tuesday in third place at 3-2, in Ciurlik wound up 2-3, and Alconbury and Comiso were both 1-4. A show Venisti Lyons wants to be known for his Ball playing Detroit apr Sparky Anderson called him a  friends Call him  Steve Lyons just wants to be known As a hustling ballplayer a not the Guy who dropped his pants in front of 14,770 baseball fans and some All seeing television cameras. Lyons is the Chicago White sox Utility Man with a reputation for doing the unexpected. He did it again monday night during Chicago a 5-4 a ppm loss to Detroit. Lyons dropped his double knits to his Knees after sliding safely into first base in the fifth inning. He said he wanted to shake the. Dirt out of his pants. He got a Roar from the crowd. He tried again on tuesday to explain the latest highlight of a career More colourful than successful. A a in a not sure still Why a the career .262 i did it hitter said. A i just Steve Lyons thought a shoot you got to get that stuff out of  i guess i just picked the wrong time to do  Lyons did no to show much skin. He was wearing mid thigh support shorts under his uniform. Still a few appreciative female fans waved Dollar Bills at him on his Way Back to the dugout. Detroit fans Rode Lyons before tuesday nights game. A they Steve want to Wear my Belt a one fan yelled. A anything he does does no to Surprise me a White sox manager Jeff Torborg said tuesday. A a he a one of our resident characters. But i like him for what he does baseball Wise. In a not into the  take Safe Crow non Aviano Italy the Ramstein rams won the Safe menus slow pitch softball title wednesday under the most unusual of circumstances. In the Bottom of the 7th, Span Dahlem sabers led Ramstein 14-10. But Span Dahlem put in an unauthorized player a a Pinch runner who had been inserted into the lineup twice already which is the Safe substitution limit. A when Span Dahlem put in the player for the third time the Ramstein coaches waited until the Ramstein Pitcher threw his first pitch. Then the coaches approached Home plate Umpire Tom Vellegas to Point out the violation. Vellegas conferred with Safe sports director Dick Mullins and both agreed to forfeit the game and the title to Ramstein because of the Rule violation. Before  a fatal error in the last of the seventh Ramstein had taken a iq-4 Lead after four innings on Donnie Patrick a two run Homer Mark Webb a two run blast and Solo shots by Donnie Brown and Lester  Force softball Span Dahlem came Back with three runs in the fifth four runs in the sixth and and three More in the seventh a All on 11 singles in those three innings. Jack Craft hit his second grand slam in two Days to give the sabers an Early 4-0 Lead., his Sci Cath inning slam tuesday gave the sabers a 13-9 win Over san Vito. Players making the Safe All tournament team were Mark Webb Ramstein first base Dan Lussier Span Dahlem second base Joel Obman Ramstein shortstop Ken Morrow Span Dahlem third base Steve Jones san Vito Outfield Johnny Hernandez Ramstein Outfield Rick Kibbey Ramstein Outfield Scott Delong Raf Fairford Outfield Donnie Brown Ramstein Catcher John Greer Ramstein Pitcher and Matt Beadles Raf upper Heyford extra player and Winner of the sportsmanship award. T Safe officials gave an award for sportsmanship instead of one for most valuable player. Kmic finishes unbeaten Naples Italy a undefeated Kaiserslautern military Community wrapped up its european big league championship with victories late tuesday and wednesday. The squad now Heads to fort Lauderdale fla., for the big league world series aug. 10-18. Kmic finished the tournament at 8-0, followed by Rhein main at 4-4, Pitburg 4-4, Saarland 3-5, Ana Naples 1-7. In wednesday s games Kmic 12, Saarland 4 Brent Ward was the winning Pitcher and David Voorhees took the loss. Keith Boswell went 3 for 4 and Rich Playford 2 for 2 for Kmic. Mark Lamkin went 2 for 3 for Saarland. Rhein main 8, Naples 6 Harry Bloss Iii was the Winner and went 3 for 4. Peter Baird took the loss. Sean Parker went 2 for 4, Wayne Chambliss 2 for 3 for Naples. In the late game tuesday european big league Kmic 7, Pitburg 1 it was the Jamie Southerland Snow for Ramstein. He fanned 17 batters and pitched 5ft innings of no hit Ball that included nine straight strikeouts at one Point. Southerland settled for a two hitter. He also nailed a Solo Homer in the first inning and finished 4 for 4 at the state. Ray Cabral parked a two run Homer in the sixth and Scott Archer went 2 for 2. Rickey Ybarra took the loss. All tournament team Southerland won the tourneys most valuable player award. He struck out 27 batters in 15 innings. He also went 10 for 24 at the plate for a .416 average. Joining Southerland on the All tournament team Are Ernie Alcaraz and Cabral of Kmic Donnie Bridges of Saarland Ybarra Jose Luna and Brian Park of bit Burg Todd Craft of Rhein main and Darrell Johnson of Naples. A Scall up Canseco s brother Huntsville Ala. Apr Ozzie Canseco the younger brother of Oakland slugger Jose Canseco has been called up from the athletics a team to play alongside his brother. Huntsville stars manager Jeff Newman told Canseco tuesday night that Oakland manager Tony la Russa wanted him to join the american league West division leaders a ooh Man in a Happy As hell a said Canseco 26. He got word of the promotion following his 19th Home run of the season for the Southern league team a club record for career homers. Canseco had 34 homers in his career with the stars nine More than his brother Jose hit in 1985, and one More than the old record Holder Terry Steinbach had in 1985-86, a a in be been in the minor leagues since 1983,�?� said Ozzie a and just to go up there Oakland and be a part of the team without being a Spectator. Its just an unbelievable feeling. All i can Tell you is in a very very Happy. This is just an incredible feeling. I never knew this would feel this  Canseco leaves Huntsville where he first joined the team in 1988, with a .229 batting average including 11 homers and 21 rib in the past 22 games. A a in be found my optimal stance my optimal batting stroke my optimal Frame of Mina a he said. To a very relaxed at the plate in a not fighting myself and honestly i just done to think ill Ever lose  Canseco said joining the Oakland roster would a be scary for me Ana i know ill be nervous but that s part of it. Everybody who goes up for the first time goes through it. He said he was unsure what he would say to Jose on his arrival thursday. A i done to know i guess ill say a How you doing Bro in a finally Here its time to do it a Quot said Ozzie. Quot hopefully i la get some playing time and be Able to  Newman said Ozzie is a hitting the Ball very very  a Oakland has a need for somebody with some Power to come up and fill in the gaps while they be got some injuries and Ozzie is certainly the Best one i be got to Send up there now a he  from Page 19 and Only one person has done it in each of the last three decades. Five of the seven a a later repeaters have been americans. Bobby Jones won at Royal Lytham 2nd St. Annes in 1926 and at St. An Areus the next year and Walter Hagen Jed it the next two years at Royal St. Forgets and Mirfield respectively. Arnold Palmer achieved the feat in 1961 at Royal Birkdale and tron in 1962. Trevino and Watson notched their repeats in the �?T70s and �?T80s, As mentioned. South african Bobby Locke won at Royal St. Georges in 1949 and at Troon in 1950. Thompson was the Man of the �?T50s with his triumphs at Royal Birkdale St. Andrews and Hoylake. Thompson also won in 1958 at Royal Lytham and again in 1965 at Royal Birkdale and shares second place for most wins with Watson  Taylor a triumphed in 1894, 1895, 1900, 1909 and 1913 a and James braid who won in 1901, 1905, 1906,1908 and 1910. Calcavecchia was wingless through the Hartford open where he blew a two stroke Lead with two holes to go. Hell tee off today still looking for his first win of the decade after an eighth place tie last weekend in the Bank of Boston classic. However he has posted five second place finishes and a third in America. He also finished second in the Irish open at por Mamock. Ballesteros Faldo Norman and Curtis strange loom As the most serious obstacles to Calcavecchia y retention of his title. Strange failed in his bid to become the first person to win three consecutive . Open titles in 85 years last month but he always is among the leaders. Hale Irwin who showed his appreciation for a last minute exemption to the . Open by winning it and followed up with a Victory in the Buick classic last month also could be a contender. Maybe Watson can find the touch for that record tying sixth title and maybe Nicklaus can record a third Victory at St. Andrews. But thedd makers probably will give them the same Chance they give Calcavecchia to repeat a not much  
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