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Show 1NTHE B SECTION Weaiher SPORTS EDITOR: ADIA WALDBURGER 649-9014 ext.113 sports@parkrecord.com THE PARK RECORD Scori.Uo.ird Francis qualifies Park City High School graduate Todd Francis qualified for the Utah State Am at Park City Golf Club on June 22. He will go up against the state's best July 11-15 at Thanksgiving Point Golf Course, For more information, visit www.uga.org. Triple Crown in town July filled with fastpitch softball Fix your flat Team Sugar/White Pine Touring will offer another "Fix a Flat" hands-on bike maintenance clinic for women on July 18 from 7-9 p.m. Team Sugar will get "down and dirty" about maintenance and on-thetrail fixes for mountain bikes. Clinic includes hands-on practice, free giveaways, refreshments, snacks and handouts. The clinic will take place at White Pine Touring, located at 1790 Bonanza Drive. The cost is $25 per clinic. Register at White Pine Touring. For more information, please contact Cathy Morton at cathymorton@hotmail or call White Pine Touring at 435-649-8710. Museum celebration The Alf Engen Ski Museum Foundation will host a five-year Anniversary Celebration honoring the Alf Engen Ski Museum on Saturday, July 14, from 1-5 p.m. at the Utah Olympic Park. Admission to the event is free. As part of the celebration, there will be halfprice rides on The Comet summer bobsled, Xtreme and Ultra Ziplines and Quicksitver Alpine Slide. There will also be free hot dogs and sodas to the first 500 attendees. Additional activities tor the whole family include a magician, face painting, bounce houses, giveaways, museum tours, ski history lectures and more. For more information, pleas© call 658-4240 or visit www.engenmuseum.org. By ADIA WALDBURGER Of (he Record staff The Triple Crown Girls Fast-Pitch Softball World Series is getting a bit more sassy this summer. What was already one of the most successful girls fast-pitch softball tournaments in the area ha been re-vamped this year to make the three weeks of competition more exciting for the athletes and the community. The changes are thanks in part to Triple Crown tournament director Bill Walters, arguably the busiest man in softball. Besides spear-heading the annual tournament, this year he donned a marketing hat and looked for ways to make the event more exciting for everyone involved. And he's serious about it. "We're spicing things up. That's our philosophy," said Walters. He said that attracting teams to Park City is no problem, but he wanted to make sure that everyone knew how to enter the tournament and that their time, once they arrived, would be well spent. "The town sells itself, I just had to let people know how to get in," Walters said. He said that most participants make the annual trip to Park City a family vacation, so it only made sense to make things more fun. The event will now open every Monday at Deer Valley at 6 p.m. with a, large party of sorts at the Snow Park Outdoor Ampitheatre. The teams will have the chance to play the video game Guitar Hero on a large screen set up at the base of the hill, with the winner being declared the Park SPORTS CALENDAR 2 - 6 p.m. Sunday Weather Hotline (cancellations) 615-5432 Summer Sports Bike Racing Intermountaln Cup Series Sherwood Hills July 7 8 a.m. 20th Annual Mountain Bout July 14 8 a.m. Softball Premier Resorts Triple Crown Fast-prtch World Series Ages 10A& 10B July 9 - 1 4 TBA Ages12A& 12 B July 9 - 1 4 TBA Ages14UA&14UB July 1 6 - 2 1 TBA Ages 16UA& 16US July 23 - 28 TBA Ages18UA&18UB July 23 TBA Recreation Sports Park City Recreation Services Racquet Club (615-5401) Adult Coed Softball Monday 6 - 1 0 p.m. Adult Men's Softball Tuesday 6 - 1 0 p,m. Adult Coed Softball Wednesday 6 - 1 0 p.m. Adult Men's Softball Thursday 6 - 1 0 p.m. Adult Coed Softball Friday 6 - 1 0 p.m. Adult Coed Softball B- I SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, JULY 7-10, 2007 www.parkrecord.com EXTRA POINTS 13-2 Ice Arena (615-5700) Public Skate Monday 1 2 - 4 p.m. 2 - 4 p.m. Tuesday 1 2 - 4 p.m. Wednesday 2-4, 5 :30-7:30 p.m. Thursday Friday 12-4, 7 : 3 0 - 9 p.m. Saturday 12:30-5, 7:30-9 p.m. (Visit www.pcice.org (or complete schedules) Basin Recreation Fleldhouse (655-0999) BattIng/GoII Cages 8 a.m. - Noon Sunday Drop-In Lacrosse Sunday 7 - 9 p.m. Over 30 Drop-in Coed Soccer 9-11 p.m. Monday Senior Fitness Class 9:30-10:30 a.m. Tues/Thurs. Adult Fitness Camp M/W/F 8:30-9:30 a.m. Adult Drop-in Soccer Wednesday 7-9:30 p.m. South Summit Aquatics & Fitness Center (783-2423) Pool Monday-Friday 5 a.m. - 9 a.m. Monday-Friday Noon - 1p.m. Monday-Friday Saturday Rock Wall Monday, Tuesday Saturday 2:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. 5 - 8 p.m. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO The Premier Resorts Triple Crown Girls Fast-Pitch Softball World Series descends on the the area this week. The tournament will continue throughout the month of July. City Idol. "I have no idea what Guitar Hero is," Walters chuckles. "I need to go to Best Buy and figure it out." Games will only be played between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. to allow teams time to explore Park City and all of its offerings. Triple Crown has also added all-star games at the end of every week, so attendees and Parkites can come and see the best softball talent of the week. The 18s (age 18) division will be coached by junior college and four-year college coaches. As always, Triple Crown will tape the 16s and 18s championship games and syndicate it for cable rebroadcast. There will be the usual skills contest at the start of each week for the girls to go headto-head with their individual talents. This time around the stakes will be higher, with the top three home-run hitters battling it out for the crown during the all-star game. Besides the marketing changes the schedule has also changed and expanded. The first week, July 9-14, will welcome the A and B division of girls 10s (age 10) and 12s, July 16-21 will feature the 14s A and B divisions. The tournament will wrap up July 23-28 with 16s A and B and 18s A and B. The latter will be full of college prospects who will likely play for top programs next year. Walters is already seeing the fruits of his marketing labor. This year, over 350 teams will play in the Park City and Salt Lake areas. That's a 25-percent jump from last year that Walters would like to believe is due in large part to his efforts. "When you have been in this business long enough, you find it's more than an event," Walters said. "It's a vacation." He also hopes that the changes will make the three weeks more enticing to the Park City community. He says that some people will be amazed by the talent of the older girls, but a game featuring the younger girls can also be quite entertaining, because there is more scoring and excitement. "If you like girl's fast-pitch, it doesn't matter," Walters said. Games will take place in Park City, Coalville, Oakley, Heber and Salt Lake. Walters hope to see the Park City tourney eventually grow to include 600 teams. He thinks that if he keeps up his marketing efforts, that could be accomplished in three to four years. With completion of the new Quinn's Sports Complex at Quinn's Junction, he thinks the event will only continue to flourish. For more information about the tournament and a complete schedule of the games and events, visit www.triplecrownsports.com. Park City's revolving coaching door Athletic department undergoing many changes By ADIA WALDBURGER Of the Record staff Park City High School isn't the only thing getting a renovation this year. *The athletic department has been undergoing significant changes in the last few months that will give the sidelines and home benches a whole new look this year. Rest assured, it wasn't any mass migration from the land of the Miners due to disgruntled workers or internal issues. Still, Park City Athletic Director Doug Payne had had his share of exit and hiring interviews. A total of six coaches left or were asked to leave their positions. Most have already been replaced, said Payne. another Region 10 title. Volleyball - Ed Potts, who took over the program as interim head coach after the dismissal of Josh Fisher, was named head volleyball coach for this season. Cross-country - B ill Kahn resigned as co-head coach at the end of last season ending a 22-year stint with the program. Co-coach Jeff Wyant will assume direction of the entire squad. Girls soccer - Matt Evans resigned at end of last season to get married and move to Riverside, Calif. New Park City transplant Pete McGovern was hired as head coach in June. Girls tennis - Lori McMahon will return as head coach. Golf - Tim Jeffrey and George Murphy will continue to head the program. Winter sports Boys basketball - Troy Buford resigns mid-season. Matt Nagel takes over the team for the duration of Region 10 schedule. Payne The coaching run-down: decided to open the position after the season. West Jordan assistant coach Jim Boyce was hired in late Fall Sports sprinp as new head coach. 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