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Show Wednesday, January 18, 1978 Page 6 St. Joe Beats Miners, 60-59 Bac It was the best of games with the worst of endings. The Park High Miners battled bat-tled the highly touted St. Joseph Jays into overtime Friday night but suffered a narrow 60-59 defeat. Laurels for the St. Joseph victory rest largely on the shoulders of Bob Imhoff. The 6'2" senior forward was devasting in close, scoring 33 points. ; The Miner attack was severely hampered midway through the final quarter of regulation play when hot-shooting hot-shooting Howard Davidson fouled out. Miners Jump Ahead Although the game turned out to be a tense seesaw struggle, the Miners had things under control in the first quarter. Playing before the hometown crowd, Park City took the opening tip and guard Dave Radford went back up with a rebound for the first basket of the game. Brad Goff followed seconds later with a layup and the Miners were ahead 4-0. Park City held a 12-9 lead with three minutes left in the quarter after two baskets by Davidson and scores by Goff and Todd Hunter. The Jays stayed close, with Imhoff doing most of the damage. With the ball about to go out of bounds under Park City's basket, St. Joseph tried the old playground ploy of bouncing the ball off an Park City Racquet Club For Tennis Reservations Call 649-8080 r Pro Shop on the Golf Course Now Open 9 - 5 Daily with New Trak Rentals, Complete Accessories and a Full Line of Equipment and Apparel Lessons &. Guided Tours Available with Certified Instructors WOLFE'S WHITE PINE CROSS-COUNTRY TOURING SHOP CENTER L opponent's leg out of play. The trick backfired, however, as Radford caught the ball and went up for the easy basket. Goff then scored on a sizzling siz-zling fastbreak layup, making it 16-9. Imhoff hit again but Tim King made good on a corner shot at the buzzer to give park City a seven-point lead. The Miners maintained a furious pace and hit a high percentage of their shots in the first period. It was, perhaps, the best quarter of basketball they have played this season. Lead Changes Imhoff received some scoring help from John Hyland and Mike Greeley in the second quarter and St. Joseph fought back to briefly take the lead. The Jays scored the first three baskets of the period to pull within one, 18-17. Davidson David-son then hit a jumper from the side but St. Joseph responded with a basket underneath. un-derneath. Hunter then connected con-nected on two foul shots, making the margin three again, only to have Greeley connect on a turnaround jumper. Park City went up by three once more as Davidson sank an acrobatic jump shot from the top of the key, a favorite place of his all night. Greeley was on target with a shot from downtown but Goff maintained the spread with Visit Us in the 649-8701 Howard Davidson goes way up for this jump shot. a 15-foot jumper. St. Joseph took the lead for the first time in the game with 2:10 remaining in the half. Hyland hit on a baseline jumper and then scored on a tip-in the next time down the court, putting the Jays ahead 27-26. Park City regained the lead when Hunter rebounded an errant shot by Tim King and put it through the hoop. But Hyland struck again, this time on a fall-away jump shot. Davidson missed both ends of two-shot foul but the second attempt was retrieved by Hunter and he went back up for two. Imhoff had an opportunity to give his team a one-point lead at the half but he missed ; two free throws and the Miners went into the locker room with a slim 30-29 advantage. ad-vantage. Battle Continues The lead continued to bounce back and forth in the third quarter. King started things with a basket underneath but Imhoff scored two straight hoops, putting the Jays ahead 33-32. After a score by Davidson, St. Joseph forged its biggest lead of the evening, 39-34, on three consecutive baskets. With the complexion of the J game threatening to change radically, Miner coach Bruch Reid called a timeout. When play resumed, Davidson came out smoking. Hitting on three straight jump shots, he put the Miners ahead 40-39. Imhoff scored on a rebound but Hunter converted a three-point three-point play with two minutes remaining in the quarter. The Jays were called for traveling and Davidson made still another jumper. Imhoff, claiming the middle mid-dle as his own, put in four more points to knot the score at 45 all. ; Park City played for the last shot of the period, but King missed from the corner, and the teams were even-going even-going into the fourth quarter; More of the Same Thirty seconds into the period, Imhoff went to the bench with four fouls but the Miners were unable to capitalize. They trailed 49-48 with just over seven minutes remaining in the quarter and then both teams went into the doldrums. Three minutes elapsed before either team scored a basket. The score came on a layup by Greeley but more importantly it was during this lull that Davidson David-son commited his fifth foul, Ski Thefts Reported Three more ski thefts were reported to the Park City Police Department during the past week. A pair of Wolfe's rental skis were stolen from a Louisiana man on Friday, Jan. 13 at the resort center. That same day, Friday the 13th, Glen Miller of Villa Park, Calif., also had a pair of skis and bindings valued at $325 taken from the resort center. On Jan. 10, Nancy MacKelvey had a pair of skis stolen from outside Mac's Donutsatabout3p.m. Tim King shoots sending him out of the game with 20 points. Radford brought the Miners to within one, 51-50, and with 28 seconds remaining Goff was fouled by Joe Laucirica. The senior guard made the front end of the one-and-one situation to tie the score but missed the bonus shot. The Jays then missed a layup and Park City called time with seven seconds left in regulation play. Goff brought the ball up court and took a long desperation shot at the buzzer that was off the mark, sending the game into a three-minute overtime period. . , Overtime v. . The emotionally , drained crowd found no relief during the extra three minutes. St. Joseph controlled the tip and Imhoff was fouled driving to the hoop. He converted con-verted both free throws and the Jays went into a full court press. The Miners broke the press and Marty Cowin, who came in for Davidson, was fouled by Hyland while taking a rebounded shot to the basket. The 6'2" sophomore made both attempts at-tempts from the charity stripe and the score was tied. . The Miners went ahead on a Radford jumper from the top of the key but the Jays' Pat Gilmore responded with a turnaround shot that was good. Miner Todd Hunter forced a shot that missed and Cowin then fouled Greeley who made one of two free throws, putting the Jays ahead by one. King hit from the corner, where he seems most comfortable, com-fortable, to flip the lead but Cowin fouled Imhoff and the star forward sank both shots. Trailing by one with 21 seconds left, Park City suffered suf-fered a crucial turnover when Radford was called for traveling while trying to drive along the baseline. The Miners then intentionally fouled Steve Kenny in an aj-tempt aj-tempt to get the ball bacjk. But Kenny hit on both free TRANSIT p.o. box 2182, park city, Utah 84060 ski repairs accessories LOCATED BEHIND GYPSY'S ARM Hours: 12-9 p.m. Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-9 weekends r fr over Bob Imholt. throws and Park City was down by three with nine seconds remaining. Goff drove up the middle but missed a layup while vainly trying to draw a foul. Cowin put in the rebound but it was academic as the buzzer buz-zer sounded, ending the game. Scoring Imhoff led all scorers with 33 points followed by Park City's high man, Howard Davidson, who tallied 20 points before fouling out. Hopefully, the fans got a good look at the Miners during Friday's contest because the team will be on the road for the next five games. On Wednesday, Park City; travels to Dugway and two days later they meet Wen-dover. Wen-dover. Both teams are considered con-sidered contenders for the Region 11 title. Dugway is led by 6'2" forward for-ward Paul Brown. The muscular and mobile 200-pounder 200-pounder is averaging more than 25 points per game and the Miners must control him better than they did Imhoff if they hope to win. J.V. Prior to the varsity heart-stopper, heart-stopper, the Mini Miners downed the St. Joseph junior varsity 54-45. Up by 17 at the half, Park City coasted to victory on the strength of Walter Hagmann's 20 points, 12 of which came in the second quarter. Hagmann got help from Jeff Murnin, who had 13 points on the evening. VARSITY BOX SCORES Park City Radford 8 Davidson 20 Hunter 10 Goff 9 King 6 Cowin 4 St. Joseph Gilmore 8 Hyland 6 Imhoff 33 Laucirica 6 Greeley 5 Kenny 2 ' -" Cointr: DKllIIg ft, 4 By Bob Utah Powder Guides Earlier this season three skiers were caught in an avalanche near the head of Silver Fork in Big Cottonwood Canyon. One was completely buried and his life saved by his partners' quick use of a Pieps radio locator. Just what is this device that can search out and find a man buried under tons of snow? 'r- ;:s '''"' r-uvrr The Pieps is a small electronic signal render and receiver which operates on four 1.5 volt pen-light pen-light batteries. The batteries should be removed from the set in the summer or when the set is inactive in-active for long periods of time. With proper care the battery life should be 350 hours or 43 days of skiing. Range of the Pieps is 20 meters or a little over 60 feet. Care must be taken to test the Pieps before each trip and if the range drops below 15 meters the batteries must be replaced. How does the Pieps work? Each Pieps, when set in the transmit position, will send out an electronic elec-tronic beep signal. The signal is audible by the ear only at very small distances but can be picked up by another Pieps, set in the receive position, from over 60 feet away. At the start of each day the Pieps is turned on and set in the transmit position. Check that the range is okay (for this you need a friend and another set but that's no problem because we never ski the backcountry alone, right?) and recheck with your ear every now and then as problems can occur with the transmit-receive button. If a member of your party is caught in an avalanche, all non-buried members must turn their sets to receive and take up the search immediately. im-mediately. The ear plug, located in the bottom of the set, is placed in the ear and if a signal is being picked up, the volume control should be turned down until the signal is just audible. You may get no signal at all, in which case you should walk down the slide path at 20 meter intervals inter-vals until a signal is received. Continue to walk until the signal diminishes, then go back to the loudest point. Turn the volume down again and walk at right angles to your previous path until you find the loudest point again. Once more turn the volume down and with the Pieps held close to the ground, a refined search is carried out. The spot at which the set, now at low volume, beeps the loudest is located directly above the buried person. Probe carefully (you are carrying a probe, of course) and, dig out the victim without delay with the collapsible shovel you are also carrying. We know of one incident where the victim vic-tim was found because of his Pieps, but died before his rescuers could dig to him with their hands. The greater the depth of burial, the less distinct distin-ct and clear is the maximum reception volume. The point of burial must be exactly determined because otherwise a very large hole must be dug and valuable time is wasted. As good as the Pieps is, it is not better than the person using it. Practice with it before you have to find a buried friend. And above all, remember that all the well-known rules of conduct in avalanche country are as valid as ever. We might ask those skiers mentioned in the beginning begin-ning of the story why they were all exposed rather than skiing one at a time. Don't think that a Pieps will compensate for unnecessary risk taking. 0 0 J". I ' f t w V, -wot Photo: Pat McDowell Bailey |