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Show Miners Suffer Weekend Defeats to Arch Rivals game Nov. 24. Park City led South Summit 18-14 at the close of the first quarter. But the Wildcats tied the game 27-27 as the first half ended. South Summit employed a three-quarter and full court press during the second half, hampering the Miners' efforts to get the ball down court. Consequently, the Kamas squad leaped to a 14-point lead when the third quarter ended. South Summit led at this point, 54 to 40. The fourth quarter proved frustrating for Park City and the Miners suffered its sixth defeat of pre-season to the Wildcats, 67-52. "South Summit's the best team we've faced so far," said Reid. Park City will play Wasatch tonight (Thursday) in the Park High Gymnasium at 8 p.m. The basketball tournament tonight i will also include a game between be-tween Morgan and South Summit Sum-mit at 6 p.m. Winners and losers will play each other tomorrow to-morrow night at Wasatch High School in Heber beginning at 6 p.m. Individual Totals Park City North Summit. Park City: Mike Gebauer, 16; Dave Radford, 15; Marty Cowin, 10; Tim King, 8; Mark Uriarte, 5; Walter Hagmann, 5. North Summit: Doug Garfield, Gar-field, 18; Wade Judd, 16; Danny Richins, 16; David Judd, 5; Jack Blonquist, 4; Mark Vernon, 2; Cory Pace, 1. Park City Against South Summit: Sum-mit: Park City Marty Cowin, 16; Dave Radford, 13; Mike Gebauer, Ge-bauer, 12; Tim King, 4; Mark Uriarte, 3; Barney Murnin, 2; Mickey Henrion, 2. Glade Stembridge led South Summit scoring with fifteen points. Mike Gebauer, Park High finished finis-hed the quarter with a five point lead, 15-10. The Miners doubled its lead over the Braves, leading 30-20 with T :32 left in the half. Danny Richins, who scored 16 points for the Braves, hit a jump shot, Park City then turned the ball over, and North Summit's Wade Judd, who also had a 16-point game, made a basket as the half ended. Park City held on to a slim four-point lead at half time, 30-26. North Summit received the tip at the beginning of the third quarter and Marty Cowin got a rebound after Wade Judd missed miss-ed a lay up. North Summit was called for traveling twice, and Park City also committed two turnovers when Coach Bruce Reid asked for a time-out with 4:54 left in the quarter. The Miners led at this point, 33 to 28. The Miner lead again stretched stretch-ed to ten points with about four minutes remaining in the third quarter, but the lead quickly evaporated as Braves' Richins and Judd teamed up, making outside and inside shots. North Summit tied the game at 38-38 with less than two minutes left in the quarter, then went ahead as a result of two free throws by Judd. Park City trailed the Braves, 42-40, as the third quarter ended. end-ed. Mike Gebauer quickly tied the game at the start of the final quarter of play. North Summit never let up and had a seven point lead with 4:44 left in the fourth quarter. King and Radford Rad-ford scored two baskets, closing the gap to 52-49 in favor of North Summit. Coach Skinner quickly called time-out. Dave Radford was fouled by North Summit, made both free throws, and Park City came within one point of tying. The Miners continued to play hard and succeeded in tying the game with two minutes left in the game, 54-54. Then, Gebauer fouled out of the game with 1:36 left. Three Miners fouled out of the game Mark Uriarte, Marty Cowin and Gebauer. Dave Radford had four fouls called on him. There were only 40 seconds left when Cowin was called for a technical. North Summit's Richins Rich-ins made only one of the free throws, but Park City was unable un-able to put any more points on the board before the quarter ended. The score: North Summit Sum-mit 62, Park City 59. "I wanted to win that game desperately," Coach Reid said. The Miner Coach said before pre-season play began that he expected the Highland JV's to be the team's toughest opponent, oppo-nent, but after facing the South Summit Wildcats Saturday night in Kamas, he now thinks otherwise. "South Summit's an awfully good team," Reid told the Record Re-cord this week. The Wildcats last week beat Intermountain who walloped Park City in its first pre-season -v CLJ '-'it- z,., . I wy"""" .. . The Park High Miners suffered suffer-ed two disappointing defeats over the weekend to arch rivals North Summit and South Summit Sum-mit and have yet to win a pre-season game; but Coach Bruce Reid said this week, he hopes his team will be ready to begin the regular season against Wendover, Jan. 5. In both games, Park City jumped off to a quick lead; in fact, the Miners held the lead during the Friday night game against North Summit until almost al-most the end of the third quarter. quar-ter. Third quarters have been a jinx on Park City since the beginning of pre-season play. "All year it's been a rough third quarter," said Coach Reid. One bright spot developed for the Miners when it was learned that Howard Davidson, who suffered suf-fered an injury during football, began practicing this week with the team. But Reid cautioned that Davidson will not play until he is completely recovered and may see only limited action Thursday night against Wasatch. Was-atch. The Miners, according to Coach Reid, need improvement primarily in two areas: ball handling and shooting. And the zone defense still perplexes the Miners. Even though Park City is improving each game, Reid added they are simply not playing play-ing up to their potential. "We'll come together," said Reid. "we're just not there yet." Tempers were hot Friday night in Coalville against North Summit as Coach Reid and North Summit Coach Dan Skinner Skin-ner constantly jumped up and asked the referees for clarification clarifica-tion on various calls. In an uncharacteristic fashion, Coach Reid was visibly upset at the refs following several calls against the Miners. "What irritates me," Reid told the Record, "was that they (referees) allowed the North Summit Coach to complain about a call and spent two minutes explaining the rules to him; but, when I stood up, they told me to immediately sit down With emotions as high as they were, a technical foul was called on Marty Cowin with about 40 seconds left in the game. "The reason we lost the game was not because of the officiating," officia-ting," Reid said. "We didn't maintain our composure." Twenty-seven fouls were called call-ed against Park City; North Summit had 16 fouls. After Park City received the tip-off, Tim King scored the first two points of the game for the Miners with about seven min-. min-. uteslcft in the first quarter. Led by King.' Dave Radford and Miner Dave Radford tries to get past a Brave's defender enroute to the basket. t? CLASSES ?PXV Vf Stmt Wft "' '-"iJ- S J v rX , . Coach Bruce Reid reviews the game plan Friday night against North Summit. |