Park City High School Miners .Park 0ty SMts-Out No . Sevier In First Pre-Season Match, 36-0 Jhe Park High Miners ". swept through Salina like a hurricane last Friday night, . leaving the North Sevier Wolfs breathless following ai 36-0 route. It was the first pre-season victory for the Miners, but they won't have much, time to celebrate because tomorrow tomor-row night in Beaver, the ' Miners face the 1-A state champs. And Beaver, many local fans -will remember, defeated Park: High 31 -6f " last year in ,the state . semi-finals. : Although head- Miner i coach Bob Burnssaid he was . pleased with his team's performance last Friday night, he was quick to point out that North Sevier is "a very inexperienced team" playing under a new coach this year. : "I was pleased with the offensive backs and quarterbacks quarter-backs running the team," he said, but added, 'we need to work on overall defense, offensive line and.receiv-ers. and.receiv-ers. The Miners racked up 303 yards rushing in the game and 24 yards passing Junior . . halfback Steve Joly led the o Miners attack on the ground, carrying the ball nineteen times for 1 1 4 yards. Troy Packard, also a Junior, wasn't far behind with 14 carries for 103 yards. And two: other Park High backs contributed significantly to the offensive attack; Junior . ; Ton Tebbs grounded out 40 yards on eight carries, : and Senior Bret Wright carried the, ball six times for. 24 yards. ' Coach' Bob Burns used senior , Kory O'Brien and sophomore Tom Flinders in the quarterback slot; each . saw about the same amount ; of action in the game. The Miners attempted nine passes, pass-es, completing only one in the second quarter from O'Brien to Roger Burns for twenty-four yards. Coach Burns said he was particularly pleased with the four . running, backs; Troy Packard. Steve Toly, Tom Tebbs and Bret Wright. : Park High's first scoring drive was set up with a good punt return by Steve Toly in the first quarter. At the end of the 60-yard drive, Troy Packard scored on a 2-yard run. Junior Darrin Lawless converted the extra point, and the Miners led at the end of the first quarter, 7-0. North Sevier's offense could never get on track against a more experienced Miner defense. Troy Packard scored again in the, second quarter; after receiving a pitch from Ouarterback Flin- ders, Packard scampered 25 yards for Park High's second TD of the night. The conversion was good by Lawless, ; , In' the onlv successful ' passing play. O'Brien threw to Roger Burns, which set-up ' ; a 30-yard field goal by Lawless. The field goal was the final play in the first half, and the Miners led at , halftime. 17-0. The third quarter got off to a shaky start for both teams with fumbles over-shadowing much of the play. Finally, the Miners settled down and marched down the field, scoring on a Bret Wright 4-yard run. The extra point kick missed, but the Miners held a comfortable 23-0 lead. Tom Tebbs led Park High in scoring during the final quarter of play with two ' touchdown runs, one for three yards and the other for twelve yards. Lawless missed miss-ed one of the extra point trys, but it didn't make any difference in the final outcome out-come of the game as the : Miners relished their first win, and shut-out, of preseason pre-season play. "It's always good to win," said a cautious Coach Burns, "but we've got a lot of areas we need to improve... we aren't reading and reacting on defense like we should." When asked what he expects tomorrow night in Beaver, Coach Burns said simply, "a good, hard football game." And if playing the 1-A state champs isn't challenging enough for ' the Miners, they will have to travel 220 miles before the 8pm kick-off. -.1