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Show taC:. ' i .1 i- . ., Thursday, November 13, 1980 Page 1 1 Two Down. One To Go Miners Bump Kanab, Advance to State It's becoming a Park City trademark. Trailing 7-3 with time running run-ning out in the fourth quarter, quar-ter, sophomore quarterback Tom Flinders passed for two touchdowns in 53 seconds to lead the Park City Miners past the Kanab Cowboys 16-7 Friday in Richfield. The come-from-behind win propelled the Miners into.the state 1A championship game against defending champion Beaver. It was the third time in the past seven games that the Miners have turned defeat into victory with a touchdown pass in the final minutes. V i t , . K . ... : '"V ; "f "'-.At if VI:. ,l T a i ' s ' 1.. . t; Miner end Paul Dyer makes the second of his two touchdown catches. Miner tackle John Newland set the stage for the winning touchdown when he recovered a Cowboy fumble at the Kanab 18-yard line with little more than eight minutes left in the game. On first down, Flinders rolled out to his left and lofted lof-ted the ball into the hands of 6'2" end Paul Dyer, who was cutting toward the left corner cor-ner of the end zone. Dyer had eluded the Cowboy defensive backs and simply had to step over the goal line to give Park City the lead. But the Cowboys' troubles were far from over. They fumbled again the next time they touched the ball, this time at their own 26. Again the Miners recovered. After gaining four yards on first down, Flinders took to the air once more. Again Dyer was the target in the left corner of the end zone. But this time he was well covered and Flinders had to aim high to avoid the interception. inter-ception. Stretching his lanky frame to the maximum. Dyer somehow managed to grab the pass and come crashing down with both feet in bounds. The extra point by Darrin Lawless ended the scoring with 7:12 left in the game. Flinders and Dyer were not the only Miner heroes. In fact it was the defense, not the offense, which deserves "much of the - ccedi.t.for. keeping the team in the game. Safety Kory O'Brien had a spectacular day, intercepting in-tercepting three passes, and defensive iineman Jeff Smith had one of his best games ever, raising havoc in the Kanab backfield all afternoon. af-ternoon. The fourth quarter fireworks helped wipe out some of the memories of a disastrous start in which the Miners gave up the ball four times on fumbles in the first quarter, twice on the first three plays from scrimmage. "It was the jitters." Park City coach Bob Burns said later. " Hopefully we got them out- of -our system in" by Jim Murray Mmnriray nim pnirtt Everything He Touches Turns To Goal : that game." The second fumble led directly to Kariab's only touchdown. It gave the Cowboys a first down on the . Park City 21 early in the quarter. Four plays later, sophomore running back Eric Brown blasted into the end zone from the 10-yard line. With little more than four minutes played, the Miners were behind by seven. The fourth fumble cost Park City a chance to score late in the first quarter. The Miners had driven from their own 45 to the Kanab eight-yard line when Flinders Flin-ders lost the handle on the snap. The Cowboys recovered. re-covered. Fortunately, the Miners settled down, committing only one turnover alter the first quarter. The final tally showed that there was a total of 12 turnovers turn-overs in the game, five committed by Park City (all on fumbles) and seven by Kanab (three fumbles and four pass interceptions i. It was a pass interception midway through the second quarter which helped the Miners get on the scoreboard for the first time. With a first down on his own 39-yard line. Cowboy quarterback Brent Robinson threw a short pass to the sidelines in front of the Kanab bench. But Park City linebacker John Ott was in "lhe" right place, intercepted the pass, and ran the ball back to the Cowboys' 21. The Miners, couldnlt get any . closer, but on fourth dov. n-Darrin n-Darrin Lawless boomed, a 40-yard 40-yard field goal. ,' That kick looked so good that Burns decided to try another a few minutes later. The only problem was that the second time the Miners were on their own 49, making it a 68-yard attempt. "If we didn't make it. it would have been the same thing as a punt," Burns said later when asked to explain the call. "If Darrin had kicked it as well as he kicked the first one, it would have been pretty close." He didn't kick it as well as the first one. The kick was short and off to the right , but . still travelled into the end zone, forcing the Cowboys to start at their own 20. Neither team could sustain ; a drive in the third period. However, Kanab did make it as far as the Park City 18 before a holding penalty brought the ball back out ol scoring range. It was not until the final few minutes of the game that the momentum (and the turnovers) turn-overs) started to swing in favor of the Miners. The 47-yard drive (ending in a fumble) late in the first quarter was the closest thing to a sustained effort that the Miners could produce all afternoon. af-ternoon. "It wasn't really a matter of us not being able to move the ball," Burns said. "It was a matter of us losing the ball on fumbles. "Respite us giving up the ball so many times, the defense kept us in the game." Nevertheless. Park City's workhorse fullback Troy Packard still managed to gain 101 yards on 22 carries against the begrudging Kanab defense. Flinders completed throe nf five passes good for 4(1 yards and two touchdowns. Halfback Sieve Toh was zero, for one in the passing department. ,- JZi Jf&. V". t. mm feV k . jf . i ' '" ' ' .,.3 r j j v ' - f "V : :"x . . . i x i s , - t . , ' 1 i . " y " T . ' ' . i , " ' 4 1 A inii ii.mi turn I Above: The picture of dejection, Kanab senior Eric Bennett suffers through the last seconds of Friday's loss to Park City. Below: Ballcarrier Steve Toly (11) gets knocked off his feet. J., i " ,:r - - ? r , ! r lis l-- V, , t s. , r- ii. Jin-.u. : - l4 r. How would you like to be a card player and have one of every 2'2 cards you picked up be an ace? How would you like to drill for oil when one out of every 2' z wells is a gusher? How would you like to hit paydirt every third pan you pulled out of a placer stream? Kevin Williams, better known around USC as The Water Bug, has caught 64 passes for the school and 25 have been for touchdowns. Never have so many owed so much to so few. That's like finding a pearl in every second oyster. Williams' 25 touchdown receptions recep-tions would have broken the old conference record by four this year except that Stanford's Stan-ford's Ken Margerum, operating in that aerial circus up at The Farm, has caught 10 this year and broken the old record by nine. Margerum's total is 31 touchdown receptions. But Margerum's touchdowns have come on 135 receptions, or more than twice as many as Williams. The old record, 22, was set by Washington State's Hugh Campbell in 1960-62, who needed 176 receptions to do it. To say that Kevin Willimas is dangerous at large in a secondary is like saying Willie (The Actor ) Sutton v. ' dangerous in.a bank or that Geronimo was dangerous on horseback. It's like hearing Napoleon has escaped. You hide the women and children. You would think, from a study of his statistics, that Kevin Williams was a long-legged, long-legged, long-armed power runner who could knock cornermen or defensive secondaries out of his way with a thrust of his shoulders or a sweep of his elbows, but Kevin could walk 10.27. AtlMoscow, this year, that would have won him the Olympic bronze medal. That was won in 10.39 by a Bulgarian. In fact, the gold and silver were not out of reach. They were won in 10.25. Williams has run on 400-meter relay teams that posted 38.69 and 38.85, marks which would have been fifth in the Olympics. If a man had a pass-to-touchdown ratio of 1 to 2 2, you would think the quarterback would find a way to deliver it to him 20 times this year. That's usually because Kevin has more guys around him than a visiting head of state. And as quarterback Paul McDonald said last year: "first, you got to find him. And sometimes it's like picking somebody out of a crowd shot." Since he's only 5-9, 165, he also sometimes looks from a distance like a loose helmet rolling down the field. But Kevin takes two to three men out of play with him every time he runs deep. "That's because he's like King Midas," explained ex-plained an Arizona coach. "You don't dare let him touch the ball. Everything he touches turns to six points. " . Williams got" the ballnly--thrjee.times against Cal at the Los Angeles Coliseum last weekend For two touchdowns. That's an average of four points every time he touched the ball, j In his sophomore year, Williams had an incredible in-credible 10 touchdowns and 17 receptions. Lots of guys score when they get open in the end zone, But when Kevin gets the ball, the "end zone" can extend out to the 30-yard line. Sometimes, wherever he catches the ball is through' a Volkswagen with his hat on. He's hard "to see standing still, which he seldom is. . fhs trick is to be unnoticed, to keep on the the end zbne so far as the other team is con move HKe a iox ai iwuigni. aeconuaries nave cerneel to guess where he is by the rustle. In tall grass, they would need native beaters. Usually, you think the quarterback has thrown one away. And, then, all of a sudden, there is this Bug on the ball. In the first place, he runs the 100 meters in It just may be that the Bug is just a miser at heart. Whenever he gets the ball, he wants a 40 percent return on his investment. It's a policy which, to say the least, keeps the opposition op-position well bugged. c 1980, Los Angeles Times ijf' v eta ...KirO sEDJ?:5s i- mm - ni v ..ire COSK Saturday, Nov. 15 Sunday, Nov. 16 Free ski fashion show See all the latest ski wear from the Snowbird shops! Sat. 6 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m.; Alpine Conference Con-ference Center. 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