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Show PARK RECORD SECTION O , Thursday, November 29, 1990 Page B1 rm .: Briefs ' Kutcher honored Park City Golf Course pro Mike Kutcher was recently named "Assistant of the Year" by the Utah Section of the PGA. The Utah Section's monthly newsletter said that "Kutcher has distinguished himself by his willingness to volunteer for section activities in addition to his duties working work-ing with Doug Vilven at one of the busiest courses in the state." Youth Sports Board meeting The regular meeting of the Park City Youth Sports Advisory Ad-visory Board is slated for 6 p.m. Dec. 5 at the City Park Recreation Building. The board invites comments on the city's youth sports programs. i I . . ; Junior Jazz basketball sign-up The sign-up period ends soon for this year's Junior Jazz basketball season, which begins Dec. 17. Boys and girls in third through eighth grades are eligible to play. Players in the league will receive a jersey, a Utah Jazz ticket, and will play in games, in addition to attending an instructional clinic led by a Utah Jazz player. The registration deadline is Dec. 2. For more information call the Park City Racquet Club at 649-8080. Free ski day at Parkwest ;I,f more snow falls, Park West Ski Area will offer a free ski day Dec. 6, the day before the resort's official opening. According to communications com-munications director Sally Roberts, the day "will let residents, business people and employees in the Park City Heber City area get acquainted ac-quainted with the 1990-91 ParkWest staff." Don't fall off ladder New racquetball "ladders" "lad-ders" featuring competition in Men's Open, Men's B, and Women's classes will be set up Dec. IS at the Park City Racquet Club. The Racquet Club offers a 25-percent discount dis-count on courts for matches which count toward ladder standings. Players can sign up for the ladder of their choice through Dec. 5. Call 649-8080 for more information. Sundance correction The price of a weekend lift ticket at the Sundance Ski Area will be $22 this season-not season-not $21, as reported in last week's Park Record. Telemark race clinics The Wasatch Telemark j Series will present a series of ; telemark race clinics at ParkWest this winter. The : clinics will be held on both weekends and weekdays at , ParkWest.1 The weekend ! clinics will be more formal, with instruction and drills. The weekday clinics will be informal, in-formal, with emphasis on gate volume. The emphasis of the clinics will be on race training, train-ing, for the telemark racer who needs a place to train, or .for the telemark skier who 1 wants to learn to race. The first weekday clinic will be Dec. 6, and the first weekend clinic will be Dec. 22. The $25 cost includes lift ticket. For more information contact Chris Larson at 649-3605, or Kerry Clark at 521-7426. !Criaus by ALEX WELLS Record staff writer Austria's Bernhard Knauss was unstoppable in the Nov. 25 America's Opening Pro Cup slalom race at the Park City Ski Area. In ten dual races on the Clemen- . tine run, Knauss was tested just once. He cruised to the title. The win made it three days of near-perfect skiing for Knauss, the second-place finisher last year on the U.S. Pro Tour. He was unbeaten in all the Nov. 23 preliminary runs, and again in 10 giant slalom runs Nov. 24. By sweeping his ten runs in slalom, he extended his unbeaten streak to 40 consecutive runs. Knauss collected a $7,000 check fort winning the slalom race, for a total! take of $20,500 for the weekend. The Austrian coasted through the early rounds. His first two opponents op-ponents Swede Christian Hytzberg and Norwegian Ove Nygren each failed to complete two runs. In the quarterfinals Knauss beat Gunnar Neuriesser easily, by a combined two-run difference of 1.1 seconds. In the semifinals Knauss met Yugoslavian Tomaz Cerkovnik, whom he called his toughest opponent oppo-nent that day. Knauss won two close races over Cerkovnik, by margins of .322 and .073 seconds, respectively. Mathias Berthold, a former Austrian National Team member in his first year on the pro tour, was Phil Mahre picked up his kids fHP" ... - , . TSUI '""" '"'" " t.g .. - t,, ..j t A Dj3 vu! Former schoolmates final round of women's giant by ALEX WELLS , Record staff writer Austrians Roswitha Raudaschl and Birgit Hussauf continued a long rivalry when they met in the finals of the women's giant slalom competition Nov. 24 at the America's Opening Pro Cup faces. Hussauf, 22, said she had skied against Raudaschl "more times than I can remember." "We are pretty even," Raudaschl chimed in. "We are the same age." ( The two had gone through school together in Austria from age 15, and had both joined the Austrian National Team at age 17. Raudaschl won the pro tour championship in 1988. Hussauf was second on the tour last year. Hussauf enjoyed better results than Raudaschl in giant slalom ' last year, finishing second in two races and third in another, while Raudaschl failed to crack the top four in any race. But Raudaschl was stronger on this day. She beat Hussauf by about a half-second on both runs to take the championship. She took the first run while skiing on . the slower course. Then, with the strong first run under her belt, she relaxed and cruised on the second se-cond run. "I had skied on the blue course and I had a lead," she said. I could go loose; when you can go loose it's always easier." Hussauf, who won the slalom race at the 1988 America's Opening Open-ing pro races, defeated Park City's Tori Pillinger and Colorado Col-orado residents Beth Madsen and Lynda McGehee-Walsh to reach this year's finals. Raudaschl, 23, topped Americans Noel Lyons and Bren-da Bren-da Buglione and Swede Catharina Glasser-Bjerner to reach the stays perfect in slalom I . -' ' .. . .TV.. Knauss (right) edged Berthold (left) in the slalom finals to over $20,000 in Park City. Knauss's foe in the finals. The rookie skied well, but lost both runs to Knauss. Berthold, 25, said he would have needed two outstanding runs to win. "You have to ski nearly perfect," he said. "It was close today, but he's skiing very, very well." , and a total of $2800, after finishing fourth in the slalom. 1 t '. A 1 Above The top women's g.s. finishers were (from left) McGehee-Walsh, Raudaschl, Hussauf and Glasser-Bjerner; below Park City's Pillinger jumped back into racing. finals. In the consolation round, McGehee-Walsh edged Glasser-Bjerner Glasser-Bjerner by a .072 second margin, to finish third. The 1990 women's pro champion, cham-pion, Glasser-Bjerner had problems pro-blems maintaining her speed on the course's flat run-out on the Clementine run. "We haven't been flat training at all," she said. "We've just been steep training. That was a mistake because I lost time on the flats." Raudaschl received an enormous enor-mous (literally) check for $7,500 for her first-place finish, and Hussauf pocketed $4,500. Hussauf also won a Rolex watch, for registering the fastest times during dur-ing the Nov. 23 qualifying runs. And she won the Avis Badami' Trophy and a solid gold "Badami Bullion" coin for the best combined combin-ed finish in qualifying and on race-day. Berthold had knocked out Swede Jorgen Sundqvist in the quarterfinals quarter-finals and Phil Mahre in the semifinals. Mahre, who played flag football to train for the pro season, said he worked too hard in the quarterfinals and ran out of steam against Ber- K V K-l. C Y, tA 7- ., V:'-"' - , iit ; i axwiu complete a weekend of near-perfect skiing. He won phote"b1' AtoxWrtl thold in the semis. "In the quarterfinals quarter-finals against Torjus Berge I used a lot of energy.. .those two runs killed me," Mahre said. "I was tired, I admit ad-mit it." While a sun-soaked crowd of about 4,500 cheered him on, Mahre lost to Berthold by .341 seconds on the first run, and by .657 seconds on the second se-cond run. Mahre still fared better than his brother, Steve, who hooked a ski on a gate on his first run and was eliminated by Dave Stapleton. Another first-round casualty was Park City Ski Team coach Jesse Hunt, who lost by less than a tenth of ViSA Brother Steve Mahre wasn't on a gate and nearly slid off a battle in slalom ! . . .,'...-' . v mm Ski! win a second to fellow American Hans Standteiner. Austrian Roland Pfeifer, the pro tour's overall leader last year, injured in-jured his back on his first run and withdrew from the competition. The slalom concluded a weekend of dual-format, professional ski races held on Park City's Clementine Clemen-tine run. Knauss received a gold "Badami Bullion" coin for being the top skier overall for the weekend (qualifying runs included). Berthold was given a gold-and-silver coin for finshing second, se-cond, and Austrian Sebastian Vit-zhum Vit-zhum received a silver coin for third place. ,""5"'J - ' ' 4 A I s so fortunate; he hooked a ski jump. Six Miners honored as All-State Six members of the Park City High School 2-A state runner-up football foot-ball team were named to the 1990 Salt Lake Tribune All-State teams. Three players seniors Beau Petrone, Matt Marriott and Justin Chris tensen were first-team All-Staters All-Staters on defense. Petrone was a defensive lineman; Marriott and Christensen were honored as defensive defen-sive ends. Marriott, a quarterback, and Christensen, a halfback, were also strong candidates for honors on offense, of-fense, but no player could be named to the teams at two positions. Selph, a fine defensive lineman, was named to the first team as an offensive of-fensive lineman. Travis Axtell, a senior offensive lineman, and Spencer Daines, a senior linebacker, were second-team second-team All-Staters. Only Beaver, with five first-team All-Staters, had more players on the top team than Park City. Flanders' workshop The first "Holly Flanders High Performance Workshop" of the season is scheduled for Dec. 8-9 at the Park City Ski Area. The workshops are open to skiers of all ability levels, and include daily continental con-tinental breakfast, instruction, video analysis, use of gates as a teaching tool, and written evaluations. The workshops' start at 8:30 a.m. and cost $180 with lift passes or $120 without passes. - Two-time Olympic skier Holly Flanders leads the program. "This year the workshops are going to be a lot of fun, and it's a great way to improve im-prove your skiing," she said. Call 6494111 for more information. |