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Show Wednesday, October 5, 1977 Jim Hunter Will Compete On Pro Tour Page 6 MONTREAL- Canadian ski sensation Jim Hunter has signed a contract with the Rossignol Ski Company to race professionally this winter win-ter on the World Pro Skiing tour. "In order for me to live my life the way I want to," said Hunter at a Montreal news conference, "I've decided to turn pro." Coach Named Pentti Ranta,37, Duluth, MN, has been appointed Assistant Jumping Coach for the U.S. Ski Team, U.S. Nordic Nor-dic Director John Bower announced an-nounced from Team headquarters here in Park City. "We look to Pentti to provide technical and moral support for the jumping program in a way that complements com-plements the responsibilities of the Head Coach," said Bower. "I think that he is the best man available to fill that need." Ranta, a native of Helsinki, Finland, served as head ski coach of the Canadian jumping team in 1976. For three years before that, he coached the Finnish national junior and senior jumping teams at major European competitions. A graduate of the University of Helsinki, Ranta taught cross-country skiing and ski jumping at his alma mater from 1966-73. He will assist head U.S. Jumping coach Glenn Kotlarek during the upcoming FIS Championship Champion-ship season. LI Vi PRICE SALE ON ALL GROWING STOCK BEGINNING OCTOBER 6 Examples: 5 Gal. Arctic Pfitzer Juniper Reg.$9.95 Sale Price $5.00 5 - 6 ft. Clump Birch Reg. $12.95 Sale Price $6.50 5 Gal. European Snow Ball Reg. $10.50 Sale Price $5,25 Open 6 days a week Located in Snyderville midway Monday - Saturday 9-5 between Park City and Kimball's Jet. v. In conjunction with the Hunter announcement, Labatt Breweries sales promotion manager, Jean-Pierre Jean-Pierre Toupin, revealed that the brewery will sponsor three World Pro Skiing meets in Canada this winter, including the first-ever pro event in the Calgary area at Paskapoo. Labatt will also host World Pro Skiing events at Mont Sainte-Anne, Quebec and Blue Mountain, Ontario with a total purse of $120,000 being offered to the top professional ski racers in the world. Hunter, now one of that elite group, was a member of the Canadian National Ski Team since 1969. As an amateur, Hunter racked up a number of top ten marks in all three disciplines on the World Cup circuit, including a bronze medal in the combined com-bined at the 1972 Sapporo Olympics. His best season came in 1976 when, among Roster Of Nordic Regional Coaches Filled Nordic Director John Bower has announced that the roster of Nordic regional coaches is now complete for the 1978 competitive ski season with nearly all divisions represented. According Ac-cording to Bower, regional coaches perform a dual role for the U.S. Ski Team. Not only are they an important liaison with the competitors in various regions of the . C. Greenfields HURSERY Ski&SPcrt INTRODUCING THE LTRALIGHT 970 : FROM other things, Hunter placed first in both the slalom and giant slalom at the Canadian National Championships, and second in the downhill. Hunter feels he's just now maturing as a ski racer and the best is still to come. He hopes to finish in the top three his rookie year on the World Pro Skiing circuit-a feat few have accomplished. "Jim Hunter is one of the best ski racers in the world today," said Jean-Pierre Rosso, president of Rossignol, USA. "We are certain that he will represent Rossigitol well as a pro racer." Rossignol 's Canadian distributor Raymond Lan-ctot Lan-ctot feefe, "Jim Hunter will add an exciting new element for the many Canadian pro ski fans and we are looking forward to him competing on our product." "My success as a pro," Hunter said, "will depend in part on when the harvest United States, but they also 'assist and augment the national coaching staff in both training and competition. com-petition. Cross-country regional coaches for the 1978 competitive com-petitive season are: Tom Besh, Anchorage, AK, Alaska Division; Peter Davis, Telemark Academy, Cable, WI, Central Division; Bud Fisher, Williams "' ' ; comes." He and his wife Gail farm their 3,000 acres in Saskatchewan, and Hunter must confine himself to dryland training until the harvest is in. World Pro Skiing officials expressed their pleasure with Hunter's signing. Bob Beattie, president of World Wide Ski Corporation said, "We are always seeking to improve the caliber of the pro tour and Jim Hunter's addition is certainly consistent con-sistent with that goal. " Hunter joins top Canadian veterans on the World Pro Skiing circuit including for-: mer national team members Doug Woodcock and Paul Carson of Ontario, and Alain Cousineau of Quebec. This year's Rossignol pro team will consist of Hunter, Americans Tyler Palmer, Perry Thompson and Steve Lathrop; Norwegian Otto Tschudi; and Frenchmen Claude Perrot and rookie Bernard Front. College, Williamstown, MA, Eastern Division; Cliff Mon-tagne, Mon-tagne, Bozeman, MT, Northern Nor-thern Division; Kris Gut-tormsen, Gut-tormsen, Seattle, WA, Pacific Northwest Division; and Dick Taylor, Devil's Thumb Ranch, Fraser, CO, Rocky Mt. Division. Jumping regional coaches will be Bruce Jennings, Nor-thfield, Nor-thfield, VT, Eastern Division; and Tim Den-nisson, Den-nisson, Cheyenne, WY, who will work solely with Junior Team Jumpers. Page Given Nordic Post Jim Page,37, head ski coach for Dartmouth College, has been named Nordic Combined Coach for the U.S. Ski Team during the 1978 competitive season, U.S. Nordic Director John Bower announced last week. "I am thrilled that Jim has accepted the position," declared Bower, "for it represents what amounts to the salvation of the Nordic Combined program for the U.S. Ski Team. He comes to us with a thorough knowledge of the event as well as a superb coaching record," Bower concluded. Page, who began his coaching career at Holder-ness Holder-ness School where his teams produced six New England Prep School championships in a row, has long been associated with Nordic Combined competition. He was a member of the 1964-65 national Nordic Combined Team and competed on the 1964 U.S. Olympic Team. During Page's four years at Dartmouth, his teams have won two Eastern Intercollegiate Inter-collegiate Ski Association championships and an NCAA title. In 1974, the Lake Placid, NY, native was named EISA Coach of the Year. Cff3JU 1111 mm iTflBbl Featuring of Poison p.m. Mon. 317 Main Street IT gporte Miners Buried Nmth Sminriinriit, This is one pass that freshman Mike Gebauer did 4 11 It was homecoming and it was the first game ever played on the new Park High football field but the North Summit Braves showed little sentiment or sense of history Friday afternoon as they scalped the Miners 36-8. The Braves were led by junior tailback Bart Richins who scored three touchdowns touch-downs on the day and senior end Scott Robinson who caught two scoring passes. Fast Start North Summit established their dominance early in the game by taking the opening kickoff and marching 53 yards in seven plays for a touchdown. The Braves obtained excellent ex-cellent field position to start the drive when a Park City on-side kick attempt failed, giving them the ball at their own 47. On the first play from scrimmage, senior wingback Scott McQueen raced up the middle for 11 yards to the Miner 42. Two first down offside penalties against Park City made it first-and-ten at the 32. McQueen then bulled his way to the 12, dragging would-be tacklers along with him. After quarterback David Judd gained four yards yar-ds to the eight, McQueen blasted up the middle for what appeared to be a touchdown, but an illegal procedure penalty brought the ball back to the 11. $5 fx pa 'A. SM S NT the best omeletes this aide Creek. Open 7a.m. 9 - Sun. Beer available. Richins then went over the right side for four yards and two plays later he took it in from the 1 for the score. A two-point conversion attempt at-tempt was stopped, making the score 6-0 North Summit. Fumble Park City's senior halfback half-back Bob Jarvis returned the ensuing kickoff 40 yards from his own 20 to the North Summit 40 and a penalty gave the Miners a first down at the 21. But a costly fumble fum-ble on the Miners' first play from scrimmage turned the ball over to the Braves. Aided by two 15-yard penalties, Park City forced a North Summit punt and took over at their opponent's 49. On first down, junior fullback Howard Davidsen rambled to the 38 and then carried for another three yards. After being tackled in the backfield and pitching to Davidsen for two yards, quarterback Cory Provost dropped back to pass. He spotted Davidson open along the right sideline and let loose with a Bill Kilmer pass that somehow wobbled its way into the receiver's hands. han-ds. Davidson then scampered scam-pered to the Brave's five-yard-line but a clipping penalty brought the ball back to the 27. On fourth-and-nine from the 26, an errant Provost toss was picked off by North Summit's Jack Blonquist who returned it almost to 649-8284 not catch in Friday's game with North Summit. midfield. A clipping penalty and a too-much-mouth call against Braves' coach Sam Blonquist pushed North Summit back to their 10. The Braves made two first downs on the ground, bringing the ball out to the 35, but the Miner defense stiffened and North Summit had to punt in the early minutes of the second quarter. quar-ter. Three consecutive runs by Jarvis gave Park City a first at their own 45 and a piling on penalty gave then another at the North Summit 40. But Provost, playing with a sore neck, was sacked twice and Park City had to kick the ball away. A short punt gave the Braves possession at their 42. Led by the slashing runs of McQueen and Danny Richins, North Summit pushed to the Miner 14. Bart Richins ran for four yards to the nine and then scored his second touchdown after taking a pitchout and turning the right corner. The two-point conversion was successful, giving the Braves a 14-0 lead which they took into the locker room at halftime. Second Half Taking advantage of a 15-yard 15-yard penalty against the Miners for returing to the field late, North Summit kicked the ball into the end zone to start the second half, giving Park City a first-and-ten at their own 20. The Miners immediately relinquished the ball on a fumble and on second down, Scott Robinson caught his first TD pass of the day, increasing in-creasing the Braves' lead to 20-0. The conversion attempt attem-pt failed. More Scores After the two teams exchanged ex-changed a pair of punts, Park City drove from its 20 to the Braves' 42 with Davidson David-son and Jarvis picking up valuable real estate on the ground. The drive stalled, however, when a fourth-and-ten pass to Jarvis was just short of the first down. Penalized for holding, North Summit faced a first-and-25 situation at its own 44. But on the first play of the final period, and Robinson again shook himself loose, gathered in a pass and raced into the end zone. By 36-8 The conversion was good and North Summit had a commanding 28-0 lead. Jerry Johnson returned the kickoff to the Miners' 37 and quarterback Provost hit Jarvis with two consecutive passes that took Park City to the North Summit 33. Runs by Jarvis and Davidson David-son gave the Miners two more first downs, bringing them to the 13-yard-line, but the Braves' defense proved futile, Provost tried to go to the air but was sacked twice, giving North Summit the ball at its 30. Helped by penalties, the Braves moved to the Miner 23. Almost trapped in the backfield on first down, quarterback Arlin Ovard escaped several tackles and ran to the 15. Two plays later Bart Richins took a handoff at the 13 and muscled his way into the end zone for his third touchdown of the wintery afternoon. The conversion made it 36-0 36-0 with less than four minutes remaining. Park City TD Park City's lone scoring drive was started by Davidson David-son who fielded the kickoff at the 15 and took it 37 yards to the Braves' 48. Passes to freshman end Mike Gebauer and halfback Jarvis brought the Miners to the 18. Davidson then took a handoff and picked up five more yards. On second-and-five from the 13, Jarvis ran a slant off the left side that carried him to the 2. Davidson then went over right tackle for the touchdown. Jarvis made a diving catch cat-ch in the end zone for the two-point conversion and Park City had 8 points on the board. With less than a minute remaining in the game, North Nor-th Summit coach Sam Blonquist put in a strong bid for the Idi Amin Sportsmanship Sportsman-ship Award. Ahead 36-8, he called three time-outs in a vain attempt to add still another score. South Summit The Miners will meet the strong South Summit squad at home Wednesday. Savoring a 45-0 thrashing of Dugway, the boys from Kamas will provide little respite for Park City which is searching for its first league victory. |