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Show ggTHE Page 7 Softball Season Star By Brown Wednesday, June 8, 1977 KB run NBA I fciilSlliss ,v i ... ...v.wsitellliitipii f ' ir ' Noted sports writer Gary Avise pulls up at second base. Photo: Pat McDowell Park City's men's slowpit-ch slowpit-ch Softball competition got underway Sunday with predictable results. The league has been expanded ex-panded from eight to ten teams and the pre-game favorites dominated the five-game five-game slate. The first pitch of the season was served up by the Sirloin Saloon's Steakiepoo and the veteran righthander lobbed his squad to a 16-10 victory over Crescent Ridge Maintenance, formerly the Timberhaus ten. The Big Shot expansion team got their baptism of fire as they were buried by Mountain Realty, 38-9. Despite some personnel changes, Spencer's Auto, the defending champs, appeared to be in mid-season form as they ran over Mountain Fishery, 28-5. The Fishermen Fisher-men are also an expansion squad. Last year's Ski Club is now the Alamo Saloon but a contender con-tender is a contender by any other name and they gave Park City Ventures the shaft, 22-2. The most exciting game of the day saw the Old Men , who are even older this year, score two runs in the bottom of the seventh to overtake Shields, 18 to 17. The Shields squad is molded from last season's Alpine Club but with some decided improvements. im-provements. Monday night's scheduled allowed the Sirloin Saloon and the Old Men to leap to the top of the standings with ' i . ,1-ti- iTTiinrn-nii-iiiTrffliirriwriM irfar F'"- st&, , i taM Part of the crowd that turned out for Sunday's softball opener. Photo: Pat McDowell figS TinactinJf jl oz. SPI fiJ CreamJf Listermint f J I Itesun Travel Kit Te fP Tampax Oral B jl ii 2For I t Toothbrush' fT, -4 89 ill 59J g f Gillette I SelsunBlue 3 (JQ19 I ft 80z Lotion U AT THIS GOOD NEIGHBOR PHARMACY their second victories in two days. The Sirloin downed Big Shot in a reasonably close 9-4 win while the Old Men scored an appropriate 30 (the qualifying age) runs to P.C. Ventures' eight. Judging from the initial performances. Spencer's and the Alamo have to be considered the early season favorites for the title with Mountain Realty, formerly O'Brien's, capable of making a strong run for the glory. Beer In The Park The Park City Council Thursday night amended the city ordinances to permit the drinking of alcoholic beverages in City Park. Beer drinking during softball sof-tball and rugby games has been common practice in past years despite a legal ban and the council unanimously approved the policy change. Police chief Garth Wilkinson Wilkin-son said he was not opposed to people drinking beer in the park as long as the city law was amended to accommodate accom-modate it. Steakiepoo tosses Mr pitch o! the season. I'hoto: Pat McDowell s .. t. far "mm. few,,: .V "vv VsN s f wWtfvfe, N4 - Pat McDowell waits for throw but Pete Wise doesn't. Photo: ick ass .,iint ITALIAN CUISINE iin elegant but ciisiuri atmosphere Famous Italian Restaurant is now open 7 days a week For Your Dining Enjoyment StHVING I Ht BEST ITALIAN fOOD WEST OF ITALY Open 6-10:30 Weekdays 6-11 on Friday & Saturday We Do Catering and Banquets 649-8211 WE EflTIN Featuring the best omeletes this side of Poison Creek. Open 7a.m. 9 p.m. Mon.-Sun. Beer available. The NBA season, one of the longest and most grueling in the world of sports, came to an exciting ex-citing close Sunday as Bill Walton and the Portland Por-tland Trail Blazers ended the hoDes of the multi-talented multi-talented Philadelphia 76'ers for winning the NBA crown taking the sixth and final game 109-107. Portland, down two games to none came back to win four straight to capture the coveted title for Jack Ramsey in his first year as head coach. The Trail Blazers are the first team in the 31-year 31-year NBA history to come back as they did winning win-ning four straight. To sum up the series, it came down to one team putting forth an extremely well-balanced team effort versus another team becoming totally dependent upon their star player. In each game the Trail Blazers got valuable contributing from eight or nine players while Philadelphia too often became a one-man team. Julius Erving was forced to try and carry the 76'ers as the other talented members of the team were unable to provide much help. Though the Trail Blazers won through a team effort, it was center and captain Bill Walton, described by coach Jack Ramsey as "the key component of this team" who made it all work in the end as he scored 20 points and grabbed 23 rebounds in the final game to be voted the Most Valuable Player in the championship playoffs. Julius Erving once again added most of the fire power for the 76'ers as he pumped in 40 points to lead all scorers. Tennis After having been dubbed with the dubious title of "The Eternal Second" by his native press, Argentina's Guillermo Vilas routed America's Brian Gottfried in three sets 6-0, 6-3, 6-0 6-0 to win his first Grand Slam event, the French Open tennis championship. Playing on the red clay of Stade Roland Garros, which were slower than usual due to occasional oc-casional rain, Vilas posted the most decisive victory vic-tory in a men's singles final since the French tournament became an international championship champion-ship in 1925. Runner-up in the 1976 World Championship Cham-pionship of Tennis finals and Italian Open and this year's Australian Open as well, Vilas was becoming perplexed by the rumors especially prevelant in his native Argentina that he couldn't win the big ones. Golf Tom Weiskopf, a highly talented but a somewhat tempermental man, broke out of a two-year slump as he scored a two-stroker victory vic-tory in the Kemper Open Golf Tournament played in Charlotte, NC. Claiming the 12th American title of his career, Weiskopf shot a 11-under-par 277, 72-hole total on a course damaged by a hard winter, drought and storms. Weiskopf collected $50,000 from his first tournament win since the 1975 Canadian Open. It put him into position to gain a spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup team which will play Britian's best this fall. Baseball Even though the National League West, division race continues to be a runaway, the other three divisions are providing the fans with all the excitement they could hope for. The Los Angeles Dodgers continue in their domination of the N.L. West as they still hold a 10-game lead over the Cincinnati Reds who only playing .500 baseball. Looking to the N.L. East we find the Chicago Cubs holding a slim 12 game lead over the Pittsburgh Pit-tsburgh Pirates. Moving over to the American League, it's fie Baltimore Orioles holding a scant tw-percentage tw-percentage point lead over the New York Yankees in the East and the Minnesota Twins two games in front of the Chicago White Sox in the West. Park City Racquet Club For Tennis Reservations call 649-8080 Mt. Air Mall Park City 649-8300 317 Main Street 649-8284 |