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Show Lb Park Record Thursday, August 28, 1986 Page CI m '" " i i I, I Are the by KURT KIDMAN Record associate editor Last year the Park City Miners football team made its debut in the tougher 2-A classification with a trip to the quarterfinals of the slate tournament. tourna-ment. Overall, it was a good not great, not poor season. . ' Led by coach Bob Burns, the Miners finished 3-5 in Region Nine play, and 4-6 overall. The records are respectable considering in 1985 the Miners moved up to the 2-A ranks after having played as a 1-A (smaller) school for years. So, what is in store for the 1986 Miners? Burns is the first to admit that things look bleak right now. On Friday, Aug. 29, Duchesne is coming into town for the season opener. Are the Miners ready? Based on the performance of the annual Red-White game held at Park City High School, Saturday, Aug. 23, the team is a little behind of where it should be. "The game showed us that we were deficient in several areas," Burns said as diplomatically as possible. "First, the effort was poor. There was no second or third effort which is necessary to win. As far as performance is concerned, the game was as poor as any we have ever held." The game ended 0-0. About the only highlight was the coaching of 1954 graduate Pete Toly. Each year a couple of former Park City High School athletes will be chosen to help coach in the Red-White Red-White game. This year Toly, along with 1947 graduate Joe Urlarte, were given the honors of helping the regular coaching staff. Urlarte was unable to attend. , Actually, Burns could have used a couple of more coaches during the preseason. Originally, Burns figured he would havs a staff of four, including in-cluding himself, but a lot of the time only he and junior varsity head coach Jesse Schaub have been at practices. Only two coaches for 70 players is not enough. "The lack of having enough coaches hurt us in the Red-White game," Burns said. "We just weren't able to work with a lot of the varsity players because we were having to teach the younger kids." Burns also said that the rain that fell before the game didn't help the team's execution. " w ..s-s "The game did give us an excellent ex-cellent opportunity to identify the areas we need to improve," Burns said. "We have picked out one thing we needed to improve on, and we are going to work on that in practice this week. For instance, today (Monday) we worked very hard on our offensive offen-sive backfield's fakes on (a series of running plays)." Obviously Burns is concerned with the season opener which is scheduled schedul-ed less than a week after the Red-White Red-White game. "I'm concerned about how poorly we played, but I feel confident we can rapidly improve and be ready for the game on Friday," Burns said. Burns admits that 1-A Duchesne might be a tough test for the Miners. Last year the Eagles beat the Miners 22-9. The Miners led at half, "but we just ran out of gas in the third quarter," Burns said. Big field turns out for Park City By JENNIFER MADGIC Record contributing writer Despite the rumble of an impending impen-ding morning storm, the third annual an-nual Park City Triathlon sported a record attendance almost doubling the number of participants of past years. As the clouds held their own, competitors com-petitors got off to a dry start Sunday at 8 a.m., as they pedaled their way from the beginning of the course at Park City High School to Rockport Reservoir 13 miles away. From the entra-ice of Rockport State Park, racers ran a 3-mile stretch before jumping into the lake for a quick l10th-mile dip. If you had a chance to bet your money on one guy at the Park City Triathlon, you probably would have come out ahead granted you're up on your triathlon trivia. Because in Sunday's crowd of tri-sportsmen and women was the winner of the '86 Heber Triathlon and third-place finisher in the East Canyon Triathlon. Money on this fellow would have done you well. Twenty-one-year-old Tom Jones was the man, and he ended up living up to his past achievements, adding yet another top title to his already impressive record. Jones finished ahead of the field of 44 competitors, with a time of 47 minutes, 37 seconds. The Salt Lake resident pulled ahead of the pack within the first mile of the bike ride, after getting off to a slow start. He was able to keep a wide margin between himself and the next racer throughout the race. Miners ready for Burns is concerned that the Miners might "run out of gas" against the Eagles again this year. In fact, he is more than a little concerned. con-cerned. "We're not in great shape right now, but we're working on it in practice prac-tice every day," Burns said. "It would be interesting to see what would happen if Friday was a nice hot, sunny day." The coach expects Grantsville and Morgan to battle for the top spot in Region Nine. Last year Grantsville finished second in state, losing the title ti-tle game to Lehi. "In the second group, fighting for third through fifth spots should be South Summit, Lehi and Wasatch," Burns predicted. "Initially I would put us in with those teams. But, if we work hard and play as a unit we could move into the first group. And, if we don't work hard and play as a unit we could go to the bottom. "Our No. 1 goal right now is to qualify for state, and our No. 2 goal is to qualify as high as possible so we don't have to play one of the best teams in the first round," Burns said. "We know our opponents much better this year having played a season in 2-A. I know that all the teams we play will be well coached." coach-ed." Right now Burns is hedging his bet a little. It is the custom for football coaches to talk about how bad his team will be before the season starts. Will the Miners be ready Friday, Fri-day, Aug. 29 at 5 p.m.? "Getting a team ready is like being be-ing in the newspaper business," Burns explained. "Every day you have a deadline that you have to meet. Our deadline is Friday, and, yea, we'll be ready." Just how ready they are will be known Friday, at about 6 : 30 p.m. r'Yt W i J Todd Mullen, left, Bruce Buckner, Cliff Long and Jed Savage Red-White game with some concern. V : .' ) - - 'J " - Park City resident Rob Wyatt used his specialty, swimming, to finish second in the Park City Triathlon. Wyatt should be good at swimming, he used to be a lifeguard at Newport Beach. The course, which maintains considerably con-siderably shorter distances than most triathlons in this area, took competitors out of town on Hwy. 248 to Hwy. 40. From Hwy. 40, the bike portion continued over Brown's Pass (Route 189) to Rockport State Park, v here the run-portion of the race began. Contestants then swam around a marked buoy off a boat ramp in the park. MV': fin & X, i ? . . - jr. - h ry l x u I - l4 Tim Horyna leaves a couple pair (Todd Mullen, 87 and . 4 r The contest for second place looked look-ed like it was going to go to Jim Nelson who also pulled ahead in the bike ride. He maintained a second place position throughout the bike and run, and was second to hit the water. However, to his surprise, after completing the swim he found someone had overtaken him. "I didn't even know he was there until I stood up out of the water," admitted ad-mitted the Salt Lake resident. Park City resident and former Newport Beach lifeguard, Rob Wyatt inched behind Nelson for most of the 3-mile run around Rockport Reservoir. And Wyatt decided that instead of working to overcome Nelson early, he would just wait for the swim his best event. "I didn't want to push it. I knew that I could catch him in the water," said 25-year-old Wyatt, who placed 10th overall in the Heber Triathlon on Aug. 16. While others were busy changing shoes at the bikerun transition, Wyatt got off to an early lead. Starting Star-ting off the race with running shoes rather than biking cleats, he eliminated a few seconds that lielped move him to an early lead in the run. The former waterpolo player easily easi-ly surpassed Nelson halfway through the swim, beating the unsuspecting un-suspecting would-be-second-place man by close to 20 seconds. Their respective times were 48.52 and 49.11. Sean McCabe of Summit Park came in fourth with a time of 50.50. A pack of eight riders maintained a fairly consistent pace throughout the bike ride, behind the lead of the their season opener? 'W , - " t of Miners on the ground (Ken Shawn McMillan, 74) to gain : . look at the action during the triathlon top two men. Included in this pack were both Wyatt and McCabe and also the top female competitor of the race Laura Mueggler. Mueggler, finishing fifth overall, clocked in the fastest female time of 51.11. Mueggler, who is a junior at the University of Utah, finished with a pair of seconds in the Heber and East Canyon triathlons. Her nearest competitor, 22-year-old Rita Warren of Park City, finished finish-ed 21st overall, turning in a time of 59.13. Other local residents to finish were 39-year-old Phil Palmer who placed first in his age division. Palmer finished with a seventh overall time of 54.01, stepping out of the water a fraction of a second ahead of Roy Moyer of Summit Park. Local resident Jana Richardson claimed first in the 30-35 age division, divi-sion, clocking in a time of one hour, 11 minutes. She finished 37th overall. Her husband, Ed, finished 20th. Race organizers attribute the increase in-crease in entrees this year to the overall growth in individuals participating par-ticipating in triathlons. More commonly known as the Park City Dash for Cash, Richard Barnum-Reece, race cordinator, decided to eliminate the cash aspect of this year's race, saying that it has caused problems in previous races. "I had too many people complain and it just wasn't worth it," said Barnum-Rcece, editor and publisher of The Wasatch Runner. The Dash for Cash was designed to award top finisivers with a set amount of money for each contestant contes-tant they beat. V'-r T-'t TV "V:. v i- n a'J . V-':--- Allred, 63 and David Nelson, 57) ground for the White team. Nichols-Byrum win Showdown By NEAL PALUMBO Record staff photographer Teamwork. That's what is takes to win in best-ball golf, and that's what won The Showdown Classic for Bobby Nichols and Curt Byrum Sunday at the Jeremy Ranch. Nichols and Byrun entered the final round of the $450,000 tournament tourna-ment on Aug. 24, with a one-shot lead over Don January and Brian Clear. The Nichols twosome had carded a 187, 29 under par for the first three rounds and never looked look-ed back in Sunday's round. Byrum was carrying his senior partner for most of the tournament, tourna-ment, but the tables were turned early Sunday as Nichols made an eagle on the par-5 ninth hole to give the team a three stroke lead at the turn. Their lead went to four strokes after two more birdies early on the back nine but things changed drastically on number 14. The leaders struggled to a bogie on the par four 418 yard hole as Byrum three putted while Nichols found himself in a bunker with no hope of getting home. At the time the Nichols tandem was writing down the five, the father and son combo of Gary and 24-year-old Wayne Player was See Showdown C'5 hi 'f t ' YJ . : , . , f 1 i i V v (lary Player, right, congratulates his son, Wayne, after the youngster chipped in from the sand on the 18th hole during the first round of the Jeremy Ranch Showdown. '. . . . . V. -. . - 1 V, and runs away from another Bob Goalby thrusts his putter forward after canning cann-ing a putt. f nr j I - ' - ; ; ' . V. |