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Show Park City News Thursday, March 24, 1983 Page B3 Town Race Monday was a day of surprises by Nan Chalat The Town Race course on Clementine was fast and icy last Monday, which led to a number of upsets both on the mountain and in the season standings. In several classes, dark horses pulled ahead of the established leaders, leaving the competition competi-tion for the season titles wide open for the last two races. Early Monday morning a lot of attention was focused on two nordic contenders, Brad Makoff and Karl Ja-cobson Ja-cobson who were tied for first place in the season standings. To everyone's surprise, neither of the two placed first this week. It was Dee Wallace, coming up from fourth place in the season standings, who took the fastest run. His adjusted time for telemarking through the 23-gate course was 26.71 seconds. Looking over the top three nordic scores, race coordinator coordina-tor Bill Skinner commented that the handicap scoring system, which subtracts 5 percent from the times of those using telemark turns, seems to be working. Wallace's Wal-lace's handicapped time for his telemark run was just II 100 seconds faster than Jacobson's uncorrected time for parallel turns (on three pins) and Makoff 's telemark time was just 5 100 seconds behind Jacobson's, "There was a lot of discussion about the five percent figure at the beginning begin-ning of the season," said Skinner. He explained that they derived it from clocking Brad Makoff's times doing parallel and then telemark runs, and found that there was a consistent 5 percent difference between the two. "Some people thought it was too much and some people thought it was too little. But now I think everyone agrees it is the best way to let three pin skiers get out there and run gates whichever way they feel most comfortable." Among the women on nordic skis, Karri Hays maintained her season lead over Lea Battiste but Monday Mon-day there .was less than a tenth of a, second difference; between their times. And Cindy Fish was just two tenths of a second behind Battiste putting her in third place in Monday's race. The only clear season lead in the nordic standings goes to the Ski Service Center team which has locked up first place with five consecutive consecu-tive wins in the seven-race series. Overall, says Skinner, the C and B Class times are getting faster each week. League basketball Teams Like the NCAA basketball season, the Park City Recreation Department basketball league is drawing to a close with only three games remaining before the spring tournament. For the top four finishers in the league, the road will lead not to Albuquerque but to the Treasure Mountain Middle School Gym and an eight-team area tournament. tour-nament. The tournament is scheduled for April 7, 8 and 9. Acting Recreation Director Direc-tor Annie Bowman has invited in-vited four area teams from Salt Lake City, Coalville, Evanston, and Heber, in addition ad-dition to the four Park City teams. Utah's Finest Rcritan & Wicker Sforo Direct Importer Scm9 from 30-50 Open 10-6 Mon. thru Sat. Amonp th P Class women. Sue Hillman placed first Monday, Shawn Dubiago came in second and Kathy Vandergrif t was third. A newcomer, Neil Ross-miller, Ross-miller, swept into first in the men's C Class. Tom Mitchell followed in second and Kyle Welch was third. The No Name C Team had the fastest total time in its class, but the Corner Store's total time was just a second behind. And the third place team, the Eating Establishment, Establish-ment, had a combined time less than a second behind the Corner Store's. Next week the competition will be hot. Susan Steindorf upset the established women's B Class ranks with a first place win over the favorite, Jamie Merrell, who came in second. Patti Prince finished third. Bob Peek garnered his first win in the men's B Class, closely followed by Tom Ashburn in second. Charlie Belissary came in third, which is the position he currently holds in the season standings. According to Skinner, the Eating Establishment has locked up the B team title but it is still unclear who will take the overall team trophy. This year, Michelob is offering offer-ing a lighted wall clock to the team with the most points at the end of the season (regardless of class). Currently Cur-rently the EE's B team and the Ski Service Center pros are tied for the clock The vets have been racing neck and neck all season and Monday was no exception. Rolf Sandberg and George Ward went into the race tied for first place in the season standings and they tied again running head to head on the first run. On the second run, however, Sandberg Sand-berg fell and broke his thumb. (But he vows to be running the gates again next week.) The fastest time went to Al LaMarre (66.) who pulled ahead of Adolph Imboden (67.24) on the second run. Larry Baker was third. . Karen Korfanta maintained main-tained her comfortable edge . over the women's vet class with a six second lead over second-place Marit Glenne. Mary Cole finished third. The Mountain S and M vet team placed first with Adolph's in second and Mountain Sprouts in third. One hundred racers turned out to compete in the A Class races and, Skinner says, "It is getting harder and harder to tell the AZ's from the pros. Any place in the top ten in the A's is very respectable." compete for tourney It will be a double elimination tournament. However, before four teams from the Park City league can play, they will have to finish their regular season. As the league stands as of March 21, Irish Camel remains on top with a perfect per-fect 8-0 record, after defeating Cofer Chiropractic in a nip and tuck overtime game Monday, 45-43. Kamas Valley Lumber holds down second place with a 6-1 record. Claim jumper jum-per lost to the Flyers last week, dropping its record to 5-4. Jeremy Ranch won against Summit Lumber on Monday and has a 5-3 record. The Flyers, by defeating 535 S. 7th E. Phone 534-068 7 Brad Steve Reynolds came up from fourth place in the season standings to take first. Another new racer, Mac Jacob, came in second. Alan Johnson was third. There was less than a second spread between these top three times. Sue Jacob, running her first Town Race of the season knocked Heidi Francis Fran-cis out of the first place position in the, A class which, she has held for the last three races.- Franqis .came , in second and Ginny Sislane was third. Janie Hooker, who was also a leader in the class, had an exciting close run with Francis in the first heat but caught an edge five gates from the finish on her second run. She is now sporting a black eye. The Alpha Beta A team had the fastest combined time in its class. Janneaux's was second and Milhaus Surefoot was third. In the Pro Class Bill Skinner Claimjumper, have upped their record to 4-4. The rest of the teams are as follows: Cofer Chiropractic: 3-5; Summit Lumber: 2-5; P.C. Nads: 2-5; Recreation Department: 2-6; and the Slampunks 0-7. Since only four teams will go to the tournament, the next three games will make or break some teams' chances. chan-ces. The remainder of the schedule is: Monday, March 28 Claimjumper vs. Cofer Chiropractic Flyers vs. Jeremy Ranch Wednesday, March 30 Irish Camel vs Slampunks Jeremy Ranch vs. Recreation Recrea-tion Department -n Q 7t China Olitye (Restaurant Open 7 days a week, Mem, thru Fri. 11:30 a m. -11:00 p.m. Sat. Sun, 3:00 to 11:00 ( 'Egg f I V, Take out available mini bottle service. ' Makoff skied to third place maintained his season lead mth a time of 61.19 seconds. He claimed that his spirits were high for the race after winning a tough race Sunday against the favored racer Scott Hoffman (see separate story). Karl Jacobson was just one half of a second behind Skinner and Geoff Neilson came in third, moving mov-ing into the top three for the first time this season. Arch Wright,;who had been holding hold-ing fourth, in the; season Standings fell coming out of the gates and dislocated his shoulder. Roxanne Toly won another first in the women pro class but Karri Hays was less than a second behind. Dorte Carlson, a member of the University of Utah Ski Team and one of the top ten finishers in the NCAA, finished fin-ished third. The town race finals will Lj held Monday and Tuesday, Tues-day, April 4 and 5. Skinner would like all of the competi spots Monday, April t Kamas Valley Lumber vs. P.C. Nads Summit Lumber vs. Claim-jumper Claim-jumper Bowman predicted, given the remaining schedule, that Irish Camel, Kamas Valley Lumber, and Flyers would all advance to the tournament. tour-nament. The fourth spot, she said, is a toss-up. "The league has been its best ever, because of the middle school gym. The games have had less fouls, more wide-open play. The community is extremely lucky to take advantage of the gym. Dr. Schiller (the principal) is very community-oriented and has been very gracious to us." LUNCH SPECIAL Monday - Friday 11:30 a.m. -3:30 P.m. Roll, Chicken Chow Mein, Pork Fried Rice $2.95 in the cross-country class. tors to note there will be some changes in the format of these final races. The signup procedures will be the same with registration registra-tion from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 9 a.m. to noon on Sunday. The Cross-country, C and B Classes will be run Monday at 10 a.m., 10:30 and 10:45 respectively. 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