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Show , Wednesday, February 22, 1978 Page 7 0 NEW! 8 fltA 2 Telemark Tales -: 1 9 i By Steven Erickson White Pine Ski Touring Center The 1978 Rossignol George Washington Tribute concluded Monday with a Nordic dual slalom held on the Clementine run at the Park City Resort. A total of 113 competitors participated in the three days of Nordic skiing. Saturday was a 30 kilometer event held in the Lake Flat area of the proposed Deer Valley Resort. The sixth event in the Deseret News Cup Series provided speedy downhills and difficult uphills, challenging the best with thrills and spills for all to see. The fastest time of the day was posted by Bob Kassow of the White Pine Touring Center. Only a few minutes behind trailed Jock Glidden from Weber State College. Fourteen teams from throughout the Wasatch Front were represented at Sunday's team relay event. Far ahead of the first place citizen team was the University of Utah's Nordic Flyers . Edging out the White Pine team by only 11 seconds was a Salt Lake group. John Michaels put the team out in front running the first leg in a 23:23. Doug Holbett brought home the awards and a pair of Rossignol racing skis for each member of his team with an impressive 20 : 47. Third place honors went to a team of three I JohftJlRrhaels, Koniti DahlJohn Winquist andf)?mg Hollett blew away jthe proband other pmapurSjio wii'hNpi;dic;Ileauiday. women and one man, Liv Arnesen, Bente Bjon-stu, Bjon-stu, Gro Styrmo and Bob Kassow finished with a 91:28, a minute and 8 seconds behind the winning team. Nordic slaloms are a new addition to the field of cross-country racing. They demand performance per-formance in both uphill and downhill technique. The format starts racers in opposing slalom courses at the top of the mountain. Competitors run the gates to the bottom, turn 180 degrees run back to the top, change courses and head back through the gates to the finish line. - Through the process of elimination the field is narrowed to two final contestants. An indication of true skiing ability was gained from the results of Monday's race. One alpine and one nordic competitor from the University of Utah eliminated all the competition in the women's class. Lyndall Heyer (alpine) and Sue Beck (nordic) were neck and neck in the final heat. Lyndall was ahead by two full gates as they made their first pass through the finish gate, But when the going gets tough, the tough get going and Sue breezed on the uphill, passing Lyndall and taking top honors of the day a new pair of Rossignol skis. One last award was given to Lee Smith for the most spectacular fall of the day. And spectacular it was as Lee took out several gates on his way to the bottom. This annual event was a great success judged by the glowing faces of all participants. Nordic slaloms are an up-and-coming thing and I believe they will eventually show where true skiing ability lies. Alpine skiers defend your honor. The next dual slalom is March 19th. 7W PARK CITY RESORT PLAZA 649-7373 i OPEN DAILY Race Results Nordic Slalom, Relay, 30k Nordic Dual Slalom Men 1st Steve Erickson 2nd Marv Melville 3rd Richard Groth 4th Lenny Cannon 5th Alan Bronston Women 1st Sue Beck 2nd Lyndall Heyer 3rd Dede Beldsoe 4th Jennine Wait 5th Jill Tipton nfr ) lJU I Drop To Dugway Miners Beat Wendover The Park High Miners struggled to a triple overtime over-time victory against Wendover Wen-dover Friday night after turning in a lackluster performance per-formance in a losing effort against Dugway Wednesday evening. The 46-44 win over Wendover Wen-dover marked the last regular season game for the Miners who will now be pointing poin-ting for the Region 11 tour-" nament which starts on February 28. Park City will be hosting the tournament. Dugway Wednesday night's game against the Dugway Mustangs was the first home contest for Park City since January 13 but Dugway forward for-ward Paul Brown turned the homecoming into an unhappy unhap-py occasion. He scored 29 points and led his league-leading league-leading team to a convincing 65-52 win. The Miners gave up too many easy baskets in a contest con-test marked by a seemingly endless succession of foul shots. Park City appeared tight on offense. They had little movement away from the ball and were unable to find open shots. Park City stayed close most of the first quarter but Mustang free throws in the final minutes gave the visitors an 18-14 edge. Dugway scored underneath under-neath at the beginning of the second quarter but the Miners Min-ers responded with a three-point three-point play. Dave Radford made a good feed to Howard Davidson who was fouled while making the basket. Davidson's conversion made it 20-17. Dugway then scored seven unanswered points, five on foul shots, giving them a ten-point ten-point bulge. This spurt was fatal to the Miners, who could come no closer than six points ' during the remainder of the game. With the Miners trailing ' 21-17, Radford sank two free throws and Todd Hunter i countered a Paul Brown basket with a layup to make it 29-21. Dugway's 6'5" Jim Keetch then scored on an offensive of-fensive rebound but Davidson David-son responded from the cor f 1 I Oporto 9 Team Relay 1st John Michaels. Dahl, John Winquist, Hollett 2nd Al Bronston, Christians, Al Davis, Konni Doug Erickson 3rd Li v Arnesen, Bente Bjonnstu, Gro Syrmo, Bob Kassow , 4th-Charles Butler, Pat Lambrose, Ron Nehring, Rick 5th Richard Groth, Karen Epifano, Jutta Saastamoinen, Bill Bradford 30K Race VII 1st Bob Kassow 2nd John Kaaecs 3rd Al Davis 4th-CharlieBosh 5th Rick Sylvester VIII 1st Jock Glidden 2nd Dave Hanscom MI 1st David Uhnluuen Mil 1st Dennis Orgici Mill 1st Drew Barney 2nd-Dwight Butler 3rd Ralph Bird 4th Richard Groth 5th Jim French ner with only 40 seconds remaining in the half . With the Mustangs working for a final shot, guard Greg Mohammed was called with a charging violation. The Miners took possession with ten seconds left but were unable to get a shot off and trailed 31-23 at intermission. After one minute had expired ex-pired in the third quarter, Davidson hit from the baseline, putting the Miners as close as they would be for the rest of the evening, 31-25. Davidson and Radford combined for Park City's next seven points but Brown .accounted for eight of Dugway's next 11. The Mustangs went into a stall after Marty Cowin tipped in a missed Davidson shot to make it 42-34 with 2:10 remaining. Dugway missed after running run-ning the clock down but a Radford shot at the other end was rejected by keetch and Butch Boegler raced for a Mustang layup. On the next possession, Radford again was blocked by Keetch and Boegler once again went in for a layup, boosting the Dugway lead to 46-34. Cowin was fouled as the Mustangs applied a full court press and he converted on both ends of a bonus situation to make it 46-36 at the end of the third quarter. Park City started the last period on the wrong foot as a defensive mixup allowed Boegler to slip free for an uncontested basket. With 7 : 10 remaining in the game, Park City abandoned its "rubber band" zone defense defen-se in favor of a man-to-man effort. The change did not bother Brown, however, as he scored 10 of his game-high 29 points in the fourth quarter. quar-ter. The play became more intense as the time ticked away, particularly on the boards, but Park City continued con-tinued to allow fast break baskets and scores from in close. Sharp passes from senior guard Brad Goff found Davidson and Radford open in the closing minutes but it was too little, too late and the ft II I SKI OUTFITTERS LW- I 25 OFF '-iVi-V-1''.' P I 77-78 KASTLE & : (4 ' I ROSSIGNOL ST J .' .r--'- j ' If & ROCS J :'-1.AJJl- 25 OFF I : 'CTCI. I SCOTT BOOTS J : I 40 OFF f I DOLOMITE BOOTS j A Nordic dual slalom climaxed the Rossignol George Washington Tribute Monday. MIV 1st Bob Chambers 2nd Bob Irvine 3rd Charlie Peterson 4th Frank Bird MV lst-2nd- Ed Phelps -Gerry Dean Miners fell 65-52. The Dugway victory avenged a loss to Park City earlier in the season. In that game, the Miners snapped a Mustang 20-game home court winning streak. Wendover Friday's triple overtime, homecourt win against Wendover Wen-dover was thrilling if not artistic. ar-tistic. The extra periods saved what had been an exercise in non-productivity. After four quarters of regulation play both teams had mustered only 34 points and the overtime excitement made the fans forget that the final score was a meager 46-44, 46-44, despite the nine extra minutes of play. Park City trailed at the end of the first quarter by an unalarming but uninspiring 8-6 score. Radford and Davidson occasionally were successful in penetrating Wendover's 2-1-2 zone in the second quarter but the Wildcats Wild-cats were more successful against the rubber band and the half time score was a ho-hum ho-hum 19-16. The first six minutes and 45 seconds of the third quarter quar-ter produced one Wendover foul shot and a Tim King jumper. After three Wildcat free throws and a basket by Radford, Wendover went into in-to a stall. The stall was detectable only because the Wildcats stayed a greater distance from the hoop. As time ran out in the third quarter, Rocky Brown connected con-nected with a long bomb from the corner and Bob Spillman followed with a fastbreak layup to give Wendover a 27-20 advantage. Park City made its move in the fourth quarter, scoring 14 points to Wendover's seven. Radford started the period with a jumper and then rebounded a missed foul shot and scored, making it 27-24. Wendover connected on a foul shot and another Spillman layup but the next six points belonged to Park City. Goff hit on a jump shot and Hunter followed with a turnaround tur-naround jumper of his own to bring the Miners within two. FII lst-2nd-3rd-4th- Liv Arnesen -Lynn Davis -Dede Bledsoe -Nini Hindert Fill 1st Louise Hollander Davidson was off the mark on Park City's next possession but he grabbed his own rebound and was successful on the second attempt, at-tempt, knotting the score at 30 all with 5:30 left in the game. Wendover's Mike Crawford then sank a free throw but Radford answered with a jumper from the top of the key. Two foul shots by Todd Hunter made it 34-31 at the2:39mark. Rocky Brown made one of two after being fouled by Davidson on a rebound, bringing the Wildcats to within a basket. Richy Dixon made that basket on a layup with 52 seconds left. Following a Park City timeout with only ten seconds secon-ds showing on the clock, Davidson missed a jump shot. Radford took the rebound back up but could not connect and the game went into overtime. The Miners jumped to a 38-34 38-34 lead in the first three-minute three-minute overtime period on two free throws and a jum-pber jum-pber by Davidson. A twisting shot by Spillman cut the margin to two. Goff twice had an opportunity oppor-tunity to pad Park City's lead but was unable to sink foul shots. Wendover called timeout with 20 seconds remaining and when they put the ball into play, Spillman fed Brown for the tying basket and another overtime period. Park City again took the lead in the second extra period when Goff found Radford all alone under the basket. But two successive Wendover scores put them up by two, 42-40. Radford converted on two free throws to knot the score and a Wendover traveling violation gave Park City possession with 48 seconds left. Tim King was fouled as the Miners worked for the last shot but missed the free throw with seven seconds left. Wendover was unable to score and the game went into the third overtime period. 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