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Show Thursday, December 6, 1979 Page 5 I M mers Down Highland or Season's First ' The Park High Miners used a' strong defense and clutch free throw shooting by Mark I nai le l posi an mi pressive ((.-() home court win over the Highland High junior varsity Friday night Although billed as the "junior" varsity, the Highland High-land squad included two of this season's varsity starters and the visiting coach had flowing praise for Park City's performance. "You beat a good team tonight," coach John Kener told Miner coach Bruce Reid: - I Highland is the defending 4-A state champion (although (al-though they have moved down to the 3-A class this season) and Kener was shocked at the showing of Park City's 0-3, lrAteam. "Obviously, I'm pleased," Reid said after the game. "The defensive performance was the best this year and Uriarte's pressure free throws and ball handling were exceptional." Uriarte, who was the game's high scorer with 16 points, was 14 for 15 from the charity stripe arid hit nine in a row in the fourth quarter ip cement the vfttorv. Park Cit7go7off Vo a i slow start a2ainstrthe taller Highland team. For the first five minutes of the game, only Marty Cowin's layup off a steal lit up the home team side of the scoreboard. With Highland's 6'6" center Chuck Blackwelder scoring underneath,' the Miners found themselves trailing 8-2 with three minutes left in the first quarter. But Mike Gebauer sank a foul shot and Cowin again scored on a layup after a steal by Scott Evans. Uriarte then hit two in a row from the foul line and Park City trailed by one. The Miners took the lead for the first time with 1:05 remaining when Cowin grabbed an offensive rebound re-bound and put it back up, giving Park City a 10-9 it.1- r . t, . r& " ill advantage. The Miner defense began to assert itself, refusing to allow Highland to get the ball inside, and another Cowin fast break layup made it 12-9 at the end of the first quarter. Increase Lead The start of the second quarter was a reversal of the beginning of the first period. Park City came out hot and Highland couldn't find the hoop. Cowin took a pass from Gebauer and sank a good turnaround jumper. Evans then hit from the outside and, after a basket by Highland's Blackwelder, Gebauer sank two free throws. A Cowin foul shot made it 19-11. But Highland got back into the game in the latter part of the period. Jeff Barlow connected from the outside and,, after a Gebauer jump shot, Ben Oakes put in a layup. Two foul shots by Barney Murnin were answered an-swered by layups by Oakes and Robert Maxwell and another basket by Oakes. With his team ahead by a slim 23-22 margin, Cowin J popped in a: short jumperr s a'fteV being foulecfori' a steal and the margin was back to one. Cowin then fed Murnin underneath for a score with only seconds showing on the clock. A Park City full court press prevented pre-vented a last shot by High land and the Miners led 27-24 at the half. Back and Fourth A nice jumper by Mike McLaughlin and twisting shot by Jim Bennett put Highland back into the lead as the third quarter got underway. A foul lane jump shot by Gebauer gave Park City the advantage but Highland came back again to go ahead 33-30. Evans then sank one of his soft-touch jump shots and Cowin followed with a basket off an Evans feed. Two more 1 I'l I 4 ... 1 1 i I ffi u " ' " ' J ""-'mijt 'A, ' i free- throws by Urjartcpuf Park City upty three'. That margin held up until the last seconds of the quarter when Uriarte stole the ball and raced the length of the court for an uncontested uncon-tested layup. Cowin Out Cowin, Park City's top scorer this season, left the game with five fouls as the final period began and coach Reid reinserted Gebauer, who had been on the bench with four fouls. Cowin accounted ac-counted for 15 points on the night despite being accorded man-to-man coverage in Highland's diamond-and-one defense. Ahead 44-39, Park City maintained its lead for the rest of the game. Gebauer scored after controlling the offensive boards, Evans swished from the outside and Gurski hit from the land. With time running out and trailing by seven. Highland was forced to foul in an attempt to get the ball. This might have been good strategy stra-tegy except for Uriarte's accuracy from the foul line. He hit 10 of 11 and nine in a row to put the game on ice. Defensive Change One of the keys to Park City's defensive success Friday night, according to Reid, was switching Barney Murnin to the "rubberband man" position in the Miners' "rubberband defense." The rubberband man's job is to stay between he ball and the basket at all times. "Barney's tenacity at that position made all the difference," dif-ference," Reid said, "and it allowed us to use Scott's (Scott Evans, previous rubberband rub-berband man) quickness at the guard spot.". "I also was extremely pleased wuh our ball handling hand-ling and composure against the press," the coach ci : tinued. "This is directly attributable to experience, something we didn't have last year." Park City's next game is this Friday night at home against Altamont and Reid intends to use speed as his major weapon. "Altamont is big but slow," he said Tuesday. "We have W in t been' raring-reany welj in ractlcleand we will'' be pressing and fast breaking against them all night." A game originally scheduled sched-uled for Wednesday, Dec. 5 against .St. Joseph has been postponed until February 13. Scoring Park City Uriarte Cowin Murnin Gebauer' Evans Gurski Highland Barlow Maxwell Ostler Blackwelder Oakes Bennett McLaughlin 16 15 6 10 9 4 (1 it, J I H i UN J. . I l. 1 ! 1 FINISH CARPENTERS WANTED: Immediately! Applications being taken. For information call 649-8163 Sitae! THE CLUB NOW OPEN 449 Main Street Vanatta Wins Volvo Cup In Switzerland Lonny Vanatta ot Steamboat, Steam-boat, Co. made his mark with Swiss skiing enthusiasts Nov. 25 when he won the , Milium in the vin.iHiu iili Cup World Pro Skiing competition com-petition in Saas Fee, Switzerland Switzer-land A ciiiud ul iniiri' Hi. in 3.0O0 spectators cheered the 22 year-old American on his r second victory of the weekend, week-end, winning both the giant slalom and slalom events. Although Vanatta says. "I concentrate on winning races and don't think about winning the championship much," the third year pro does have a good chance of placing high in the standings at the end of the season. Last season he finished fifth behind Canadian Jim Hunter Austrian Hans Hinterseer, Swiss Walter Tresch and two-time World Pro Skiing champion, Andre Arnold of Solden, Austria, site of last week's competition where, like Vanatta, Arnold won both events. With the two victories in Switzerland, Vanatta is now only 10 points behind Arnold, who is leading lead-ing the lour. Vanatta scored his first World Pro Skiing giant slalom victory as he defeated defeat-ed two-time.WPS champion, Andre Arnold decisively in Toly Named To Training Squad Alpine Director Bill Marolt, has named four additional members to the 1980 Olympic Olym-pic Training Squad, bringing the new tolal to 2: including Koxanne Toly of Pa'rk 'City . Those National Junior Team members named to the squad are Roxanne Toly of Park City, David Staple-ton, Staple-ton, Aspen, Co., Maria Mari-cich, Mari-cich, Sun Valley,and Cindy Oak, Orchard Park, N.Y. They will now join existing National Team members Cary Adgate, Boyne City, Mi.; Karl Anderson, Greene, Me., Billy Dorris, McCaHv Id., Mike Farny, Aspen, Co., Phil and Steve Mahre, White Pass, Wa., Andy Mill, Copper Cop-per Mountain, Co., Pete McKinney Races Women Racers Skiing with a stronger field of international competitors during the second day of FIS Women's Slalom racing at Les Diablerets, Sui., American Ameri-can National Team member, Tamara McKinney, Olympic Valley, Ca., relied on her consistency to capture her second win in as many days. Fellow American team both rounds of the finals. Vanatta is ranked the top pro skiing American and reacted to his win with a positive outlook. "1 don't worry. The two times I raced him in the past I beat him. This win proves his vulnerability." Arnold has been a major force on the WPS tour since he turned pro in 1978 off the Austrian national "B" team. Over the past two seasons he has scored wins in 12 out of the last 17 giant slaloms, including the most recent competition held last weekend week-end in his hometown, Solden, Austria. A slalom specialist, Vanatta focused his attention atten-tion on giant slalom during his month of training in Europe this fall. Never getting past the round of 16 in the dual slalom format of World Pro Skiing in his two year career, Vanatta easily dominated contenders Tony Deboise of Worchester, Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, Kent Grahn of Swedem. sixth-ranked Robert Rob-ert Schuchter of Austria and Diego Amplatz of Italy, who finished third, to meet Andre Arnold in the finals. Walter Tresch of Bristen, Switzerland Switzer-land finished fourth. When asked how he felt beating the World Pro Skiing champion, Andre Arnold, in Europe, Patterson, Sun Valley, Id;, Abbi Fisher, South Conway, N.H., Holly Flanders, Manchester, Man-chester, N.H., Viki Flecken-stein, Flecken-stein, Syracuse, N.Y., Jamie Kurlander, McAfee, N.J., Tamara McKinney, Olympic Valley. Ca.. Cindy .Nelson. Lutsen, Mn. and Heidi Preuss of Lakeport, N.H., already named to the squad. This means each of the 23 squad members will be vying for one of 14 slots available on the Olympic Team. Following the December racing . series,, Marolt i will jvaluatejthejrfoijances; of other National Junior Team members and announce an-nounce further additions to the Olympic Training Squad. member Christin Cooper, Sun Valley, Id., improved Saturday's ninth place performance per-formance with a tie for fifth with Swiss racer, Brigitte Nansoz. The third official U.S. entry was Abbi Fisher, South Conway, N.H., who hooked a tip on the third gate in the first run and was out of the competition. On Saturday, Fisher skied very well on her way to an eighth place finish. 649-9066 5 n Vanatta replied. "I think it is more than a victory for me. American ski racers don't generally do well in Europe and 1 think the people back home will look at my win as a win for American ski racing." rac-ing." Vanatta joined the World Pro Skiing tour in 1978 coming out of a brief but successful campaign on the regional pro skiing tour in Colorado and earlier, the U.S. Developmental Ski Team. Since that time he has been a serious threat in slalom, finishing second overall last season and winning the omega conic back award for his victory over Walter Tresch in the WPS finals at Sun Valley last March. During that competition, competi-tion, Vanatta overcame a 1.5 second disadvantage to beat Tresch in the slalom by 1.502 seconds. Giant slalom has not been Vanatta's best event. Vanatta skied flawlessly to defeat in the double eliminations elimina-tions in the slalom event in Saas Fee. Philippe Barroso of France, Diego Amplatz of Italy, and newcomer Eric Pletzer of Austria to meet four-year World Pro Skiing veteran, Alain Cousineau of Brownsburg, Quebec, Canada. Can-ada. Cousineau, who is back .si I i OF 47 TOSSES ONLY 16 WERE BEST RATE IN TUEN.F.C. HE'S HAD ARM OPERATIONS. "11 1 Ht ) ' 1- -J ' -ivf;!;;. irwiib jiU :v ifjhuvYN ifcorh lo 'yy.it k " 1 i ' A COME IN AND COMPARE 0'JCey-eao INSURANCE AGENCY INC. 421 Main Street 649-6831 PEOA MINI-RANCH I f Brick home, 3 bedroom, 1 bath with full basement, ready for -expansion. Fireplace, large kitchen, 2 car garage1 shade trees, barn, with great view of Peoa VaJJyp Rockport is 2 minutes away, Weber River is closer. Property Proper-ty for sale contains 3 acres with up to 9 acres available. Seller will carry contract appointments appoin-tments only .$125,000 on the tour this season after an accident necessitating knee surgery last season, was equally as tough as Vanatta in the elimination rounds. Cousineau defeated Austrian Aus-trian World Cup great. Hans Hinterseer in the round of 16. WPS champion. Andre Arnold Ar-nold in the quarter finals and Guiseppe Oberfrank of Italy in the semi-finals who finished fin-ished in third place, to meet Vanatta in the finals. In the first run, the French-Canadian Cousineau beat Vanatta by 0.213 seconds. In the second run. Cousineau caught a tip on the 15th gate, falling and giving the victory to Vanatta. "This is a good start for me," said the exhausted Vanatta admitting admit-ting he logged little sleep the night before due to the excitement of his giant slalom win. "I just want to take one race at a time and reach my goal of finishing in the top three. If I do well enough, maybe the top is possible." The tour now moves to Vail, Colorado for the $50,000 Avis Cup, December 8-9, Featuring Featur-ing giant slalom and slalom competition. It will be the third of 14 stops during the 1979-80 season. BRILLIANT COLLEGE CAREER, ARCHIE MANNING OF WE NEW ORLEANS omINTS SPENT a YEARS WITH FRUSTRATION, INJURIES AND MEDIOCRITY. THEN, LAST SEASON, MIS F&RTUNF5L IMPROVED IN A BIG WAY! THIS TALENTED RED-HEAD WAS TOP PASSER IN THE N.F.C. WITH 61.8 PERC9STA6E OF COMPLETIONS! HE HEAVED 17 SCORING PASSES. HE HAS SUPER. RECEIVERS |