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Show Park Miners Capture Third Straight Win - ' f t f - ...mm - f (J ? . j ..,..-- V 'J tit $ -. " " (r ih'Af ti V" 7 -i . i. r . i t y - ?-'' w i 5 - I - : I I ; ; ' 4 v ' . ... --.-r' ..... ' 2 ' -" 5 " ;: " f ' , - - J : ' Coach Burns discusses strategy with his players before the Inter-mountain game. A 64 yard touchdown run by I Rob Jones on the first play from scrimmage gave the Miners all the points they needed to win Friday's rematch with the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Eagles. The final score was 8-2. Like the Miners first two games of the season, Friday's game could be characterized as a low-scoring defensive struggle. But, in contrast to the first two games, the Miners did not reply exclusively on their running game. Quarterback Norm Sagona, starting for the first time, surprised sur-prised Park City fans by attempting at-tempting three passes in the first quarter, more than were thrown in the entire game against Altamont. He completed one of the three, a 34-yard bomb to Jim Higham at the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain 10-yard line. The defense, on the other hand, allowed the Eagles more running room than it had in the season opener between the two teams held Sept. 1 in Park City. During one first-half drive, the Eagles drove from their own five-yard line to the Miners' seven before the Miners managed manag-ed to stop the uprising. The game began with Inter-mountain Inter-mountain kicking to Park City. Mark Uriarte carried the run-back run-back to the 38-yard line. On the first play from scrim mage, Rob Jones took the hand-off hand-off from Sagona, headed through a huge hole in the left side of the line, and suddenly found himself in the clear. He raced down the left sidelines and into the Eagles endzone, untouched. After fullback Jerry Johnson ran the ball in for a two-point conversion, Park City had an 8-0 lead with only 29 second played. On the next series of downs, the Eagles made it to midfield before turning the ball over on a fumble (recovered by Uriarte). But the Miners handed it right back when a second down pass was intercepted by the Eagles' Jim Sequerro, and carried back to the 29. Led by tailback Al Leon, the Eagles started to move the ball on the ground, until a fourth-down fourth-down gamble at midfield was foiled by the left side of the Miners' defensive line. Once again Miners' quarterback quarter-back tried the long pass on second down, but this time the results were different. Higham and an Eagle defender went up for the ball on the ten-yard line, and Higham came down with it. But the Miners managed only five yards in the next four downs, and the Eagles took , over. Mixing his plays well, Eagle quarterback Trent Gonzales then led his team on the longest sustained march of the game. The Eagles were hampered by a clipping call, but gained the yards back on a well-executed draw play. A roughing-the-kicker penalty against the Miners gave the Eagles second wind at midfield. Park City finally stopped the drive inside the 10-yard line when a fourth-down pass play was broken up by Jim Higham. The Eagles defense scored the team's only points on the following follow-ing series of downs when Miner quarterback Sagona was dropped in the endzone for a safety. Four and a half minutes had been played in the second quarter. The Miners' alert defense and several Eagles' mistakes kept Intermountain in its own end for the rest of the half. Tim King stopped one drive by grabbing ! an Eagles fumble. Marty Cowin sacked quarterback Gonzales on the Intermountain 10-yard line to keep the Eagles deep in their own end. Play ended with the Miners in possession near mid- field. Most of the third quarter was played in Intermountain territory but the Miners couldn't capitalize capi-talize on the breaks. Uriarte helped set up a scoring threat with a punt return from the Miners' 30 to the Intermountain 42. The running of Johnson and Jones gave the Miners another first down at the 28. In the next five plays, the ball changed hands four times. The Eagles intercepted a pass and started on their own 20. But on third down, Mickey Henrion intercepted for Park City, was tackled, fumbled, and Intermountain Inter-mountain retained possession.' On the next play, Howard Davidson recovered an Eagles' fumble and the Miners had a first down on the 15. However, the offense managed manag-ed a minus three yards on the next four downs, and the ball changed hands once again. Rob Jones was injured during that series, and had to be carried off on a stretcher. The injury was later diagnosed as a bruised kidney. One of the highlights of the final quarter was another beautiful beauti-ful runback by Uriarte. He gathered in a kick at his own 18 and raced down the right sidelines side-lines until finally knocked out of bounds at the Eagles' 39. The run set up another Miners' scoring threat, which got as far as the Intermountain 11 before a fourth,down pass from Sagona to Uriarte was broken up on a diving stab by defensive back Alex Chico. Intermountain then put together toge-ther its second sustained drive of the game, led by the running of Walse Yellowtaile. The Eagles moved from their own 15 into Park City territory as the clock showed less than four minutes left. With two minutes left, they had a first down at the 33. The Miners' defense allowed them only two yards on first and second down. On third down, Jim Higham intercepted a Gonzales Gon-zales pass, ending the Eagles' threat. There were 44 seconds left. The Miners had only to hang onto the ball to run out the clock. The Eagles, having used up their time outs, could only hope for another fumble. It didn't happen. 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