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Show iners Come From Behind To Sink South Summit In Overtime Thriller ryl nil I YyL. If the St. Joseph game left you without any fingernails, then by now you must be down to the first knuckle. The showdown between Park City and South Summit Saturday left all the fans at the Kamas gym shaking their heads in disbelief, but there was one difference. The Park City fans were smiling. They had just watched the Miners fumble their way through the first half, sink 11 points behind with only 10 minutes to play, then suddenly sud-denly turn the game around to force a tie at the end of regulation time and win with eight unanswered points in overtime. The final score was 71-63. Park City fans saw two different Miner teams that night, although the players were the same. The first Miner team groped its way through the first half, shooting shoot-ing 33 percent from the field and 27 percent from the free throw line. The players were throwing passes away, missing miss-ing easy layins and walking with the ball whenever they got the chance. At the end of the half, they were behind 34-27. Only two things kept the Miners from being run out of the South Summit gym in the first half. One was the Wildcats weren't playing much better. The other was Marty Cowin and company dominated the boards. "Our board play was awesome," awe-some," Park City Coach Bruce Reid agreed. "Marty (Cowin) got 21 rebounds and Jeff (Smith) got 14. It's not often you'll find two players with 35 rebounds between them." It was a different Park City team that played the second half, shooting 60 percent from the field and 57 percent from the free throw line. "What was killing us in the second half, they were shooting shoot-ing better than we were," Reid said. "We were scoring points. We just weren't stopping them." Led by the deadly outside shooting of Ted Bair and Perry Lewis, the Wildcats stretched their lead to 50-39 with six minutes played in the third period. Although the Miner rubberband defense de-fense shut down the inside AH Dinners Include Bonanza Salad Bar Seasoned Rice Hot Rolls & Butter Partial Menu Top Sirloin 8 oz $6.95 Top Sirloin lloz $8.95 Teriyaki Sirloin $7.95 London Broil $6.75 Beef and Bird $5.95 Chicken Cordon Bleu $7.25 Fresh Snapper $5.95 Shrimp Scampi $9.95 Halibut $7.50 Seafood Boat $9.95 Steak & Sea Combo $12.50 Open Every Night from 5:30 p.m. game, Bair and Lewis were content to burn up the net from distances up to 25 feet. Reid and the rest of the Miners had the dubious pleasure of sitting right in front of the South Summit fans while all this was going on. "The crowd was great," Reid said. "They would start oohing and ahhing when they (the Wildcats) put the ball up, and when the ball went through the hoop they would explode." With 2:09 left in the period, Reid decided to make a change. He called a time out, threw away the rubberband, and put the Miners in a man-to-man defense. "That was the obvious turning point," Reid said. "It changed their offensive flow." The results were apparent almost immediately. The Wildcat lead had been trimmed to 50-43 by the end of the period, and little more than a minute and a half later, it was 52-51. The Park City fans, who had seen little to cheer about up to this point, were going delirious. South Summit's outside shooters, unaccustomed to the man-to-man pressure, suddently lost their touch, while Cowin and Smith waited hungrily underneath for the rebounds. For the next three minutes the Wildcats managed to protect their slim lead, and actually pulled three points ahead on a basket by Danny Mondragon with 4:20 left in the period. About a minute later Cowin tied the score at 56-56 with a three-point play. But he did it the hard way, getting a layin then crashing to the floor after the foul. The crash brought the Park City coaches off the bench, but Cowin slowly picked himself up, hobbled to the free-throw line, and made the shot. Once again the Miner fans were on their feet. Reid recalled turning to one of the other 1A coaches who was sitting behind the Park City bench. "I said, 'Boy, the fans are getting their money's worth tonight'." With 2:24 to play, Wildcat center Neal Gines pulled off "t2 sW mm . ' ' . Karnv Murnin's foul helped Wildcat Neal Gines to a three-point play, but the Miners soon made up the difference. a three-point play of his own to put his team ahead 59-56. But Cowin waited only 15 seconds before bringing the Miners back within one at 59-58. If the Wildcats had any thought of protecting their one-point lead for the last two minutes, Mark Uriarte put an end to that. With no thought for his own safety he threw himself across the floor to knock the ball away from a South Summit guard. Barney Murnin joined the scrap for the loose ball, finally steering it to a Miner teammate. With 1:34 left, Scott Evans was fouled while shooting. If he made both shots, it would W&P i)H t 1 www I W0' I put the Miners ahead for the first time. He made them both. It was 60-59 Park City. A steal by Cowin ended the next Wildcat threat, and Marty soon made the score 62-59 with a basket at the other end. A free throw by Uriarte made it 63-59. With only 30 seconds left and their team down by four, a few disgusted South Summit fans headed for the exits. They should have stayed put. The game was far from over. With 27 seconds left, Wildcat Danny Mondragon went up for a rebound and came down on top of Miner Jeff Smith. Smith was called for the foul. Mondragon hit both shots. It was 63-61. South Summit Coach Kent Thursday, February 28, 1980 A V Page11 , h A" i : ' Frazier called for a full-court full-court press, and the gamble paid off. Uriarte, trapped in his own zone, fired a high cross-court pass to Cowin. Park City's star forward, playing with a sprained ankle, dragged his pivot foot and was called for travelling. travel-ling. The Wildcats wasted no time in tying the score on a 25-foot shot. Incredibly, the Miners committed com-mitted another travelling violation, this time with four seconds left, and the Wildcats Wild-cats actually had a chance to win the game. But a long shot from the corner by Perry Lewis bounced off the rim, and the game went into overtime. Reid said the last turnover could have been avoided if the Miners had called a timeout. time-out. "I don't think they'll make that mistake again," he said. "We work on this all the time. It's the one part of the game where the kids are really smart and that's why we win close games." When compared to the final 5 ' Scott K ans (lelt) and .led Smith put some heat on South Summit's Pern Lewis late in the Uanie. six minutes of regulation N - w O time, (he three-minute over- ,' "v ifx time period was anticlimac- ' ' k - v - j tic. The Miners won the tip, , Vt JBf-1 and a turnaround jumper by '-Nk rfhl Cowin gave them a quick . tjy?T V r? M'i A missed scoring opportunity opportuni-ty by the Wildcats gave the Miners the ball and the chance to protect their lead. Reid instructed the team to spread out and look for the open man. "I thought the whole team ran the four corners extremely ex-tremely well," he said. "It's not a delay game; it's a spread offense." A key to the final two minutes was the play of Scott Evans. A billiant pass to Cowin underneath set up a two-shot foul and put the Miners up 67-63. Then Evans stole the ball twice in the next 30 seconds, leading to another basket by Cowin which gave the team a six-point six-point lead. Steve Toly put the icing on the cake with two free throws with 30 seconds left as Park City outscored South 4- I f-wt'. ... j ii. I f !j 8 i I j II Open Every Evening 5:30- 10:00 p.m. At the Resort Plaza I i J Mark Uriarte puts up quarter. The shot was oil Summit 8-0 in overtime to win 71-63. Reid couldn't say enough about the play of the Miners. "They never gave up," he said. "They stayed in the game the whole way. "I've never had a team come back from 11 points behind against a team of South Summit's calibre. We played a very fine team." Beside grabbing 21 rebounds. re-bounds. Cowin finished the game with 34 points, almost half the team total. Evans played another strong game, scoring 18 points and picking off eight rebounds. In the first half, Cowin and Evans scored 23 of the team's 27 points. Until Smith hit with 30 seconds left in the half, no other Miner had scored a point from the field. Smith came on strong in the second half to finish with 13 points and 14 rebounds. Uriarte and Murnin each only scored two points but each was instrumental in the win. "Barney plays with such Restaurant Seafood Beef Oyster Bar Set Sail For Park City's Finest Restaurant a shot late in the first the mark. intensity that he helps in other places," Reid pointed out. "He does a lot of things that people never see." He recalled the play wherp Murnin sprawled on the floor to secure the ball after Uriarte's spectacular steal. And he had nothing but praise for the play of Uriarte. "For a guy who scored two points, he played an awesome awe-some game." The victory over South Summit made Park City the second seeded team in Region Re-gion 11. And the Miners could go in to the state tournament as the top seed. All they have to do is knock off Dugway, the only undefeated high school basketball team in the state, this weekend. The rematch with Dugway is set to begin at 7:15 p.m. Saturday in the South Summit Sum-mit gym. "They play very good team ball and they're very aggressive ag-gressive on defense," Reid said. "It will be no cakewalk. But I think we'll give them hell." Year Round 649-7778 |