Stars home after bad Colorado trip

Monday, June 30, 1997 | 11:07 a.m.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The Las Vegas Stars will return to Cashman Field tonight looking to regain the form that saw them win six of the first eight games of the second half.

After going 6-2 in the opening homestand of the second half, the Stars dropped four straight at Colorado Springs, including Sunday's 9-5 defeat to the Sky Sox, and have lost five in a row. Las Vegas is 6-6 in the second half.

Las Vegas opens a brief four-game homestand against the Albuquerque Dukes tonight at 7:05.

The Stars held a 2-1 lead going into the bottom of the third inning Sunday, but former Stars outfielder Jeff Barry belted a grand slam off starter Stan Spencer (2-1) to give the Sky Sox a 5-2 lead.

Colorado Springs added two runs in the fourth off Spencer and two in the sixth off reliever Bob Scanlan.

Steve Scarsone was one of five Stars players to have two hits in the game. Scarsone had a double and a solo home run, his fifth. Chad Tredaway, Trey Beamon, Derrek L. Lee and Helfand also had two hits each.

Spencer took a 0.69 earned-run average into the game after two starts with the Stars, but gave up seven runs on eight hits in five innings and saw his ERA balloon to 4.00. Spencer, who had walked only one batter in 13 innings, walked five (two intentional) Sunday and struck out four.

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