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Show I n t h is to u m a m e n t, Park City locals will have their day in court by Randy Hanskat Next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday the Prospector Athletic Club will be a showcase of athletic prowess on the racquetball court-local court-local style. Yes, there will be no Salt Lake ringers coming up to Park City to try to take the prizes this time. In the Fifth Annual Locals Only Racquetball Tournament, Tourna-ment, as the name makes clear, only people from the Park City area need apply. Athletic Club members can pay $15 to be a part of the tournament, while non-members non-members must put up $20. Annette Sneed of the Athletic Club expects about 60 racquetball rac-quetball pounders to enter the tournament. The matches match-es on Nov. 17 and 18 will be held during the evening, with the finals played early in the day on Nov. 19. Sneed says there will be divisions for male and female fe-male players in the tournament. tourna-ment. Divisions will be broken bro-ken into A, B, C, and novice classifications. There will also be senior and junior groupings. For the entry fee, in addition to a spot in the tournament, entrants will receive T-shirts, full hospitality hos-pitality such as refreshments refresh-ments and food, and two hours of court practice time at the Athletic Club to get rusty racquets back in shape for the event, Sneed said. And for those good enough to think about prizes, Sneed has arranged a nice assortment. assort-ment. There will be day passes to Park City and Park-West Park-West ski areas, free dinners din-ners at various area restaurants, rest-aurants, passes to the Athletic Ath-letic Club, free merchandise merchan-dise from the pro shop, as well as other goodies. For those curious about who you'll be following, here are last year's tournament winners. Men's A John Miller, Mil-ler, Men's B Judy de los Cobos (she was too good to play in the women's division); divi-sion); Men's C Mark Pen-nels; Pen-nels; Women's A Grace Weaver; Women's B Stacy Anderson. Entry deadline for the Fifth Annual Only Racquetball Racquet-ball Tournament is Monday, Nov. 14. Anyone interested can sign up at the Prospector Prospec-tor Athletic Club. |