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It's called pride, and it was evident on everyone's face as they left the gym following Satur-, Satur-, day's awards ceremony. . Not only did coach Bruce Reid's quintet make believers out of local , Parkites but also of our ,. neighbors - , in other geographic extremities of this country. Even South Summit supporters nodded their heads in agreement when Mayor-elect Jack " Green suggested the Miners will be a team to be reckoned with not only in the future, , but now! ! Tiey should know a winner. Last month South Summit won the state foot-. foot-. ball championship in the, 1A class. . .' East Carbon Park City took the floor against the East Carbon Vikings in the last game of the evening session on Thursday. Thur-sday. They followed an exciting ex-citing overtime contest which saw the Star Valley Wyoming Braves lose to. the : South Summit Wildcats '64-, '64-, 57. because, they failed to capitalize from.the foul line. of 13 first half attempts while South Summit was six for six from the line. By the end of 3K the second game those in at-' - tendance were questioning the foresight of the school districts' architect. As long as they were going to stage these exciting contests, why not install seat belts in this beautiful new facility? t That first night Park City ran up against an East Car-bon Car-bon scoring machine in the form of 6'2" Tracy Johnson ; and 6'1" Stephen Valdez. ; These two seniors kept the Vikings in the contest throughout, with Johnson connecting for 23 points, almost all from the 18'-22" range, and Valdez working s on the inside for his game ,high of 25 points. East Carbon's zone defen-9 defen-9 se had the Miners somewhat confused and carried the Vikings to a five-point first quarter lead, 16-11. However, in the second quarter Park City started working the ball inside to Howard Davidson who picked up 14 in the first half and senior Todd Hunter who . added 9. Johnson was held to one field goal in the second period by the Miner's "rubber "rub-ber band" defense and the - teams entered their locker rooms with 32 points each at the half. Tim King had the hot hand for the Miners in the third quarter. He collected six field goals, most of which were baseline jumpers from medium range, while Hunter was again strong underneath. under-neath. The Miners took a slim three-point, 51-48 lead into the final stanza. The fourth quarter saw the score knotted several times before Valdez picked up his fourth personal foul, greatly reducing . his defensive abilities. When Tracy Johnson John-son committed his fifth personal per-sonal with 3:56 remaining in the game, the leadership and offensive punch of East Car--t9h"weftndtltfie Mcff wW ' him. Park City, led by Oavidson's 22 points, had four starters in double figures and found themselves them-selves in the semifinals pitted pit-ted against their arch rivals the Wildcats from South Summit. South Summit Most, if not all of the spectators spec-tators who filtered in for the opening game of the Friday evening session could not remember exactly when Park City had last defeated South Summit. Miner yearbooks year-books of the last decade didn't print the final scores, just the outcome. Besides, no one expected a reversal of rolls as the Wildcats were 2-0 and appeared ready to pick up in basketball where they left off in football. Absolutely unexpected was the possibility of a low scoring game as Park City had averaged 64 points in its last two outings and South Summit scored that many the previous night. Their fans even made more noise than ours. All of this was thrown out the window when referee Ted Taylor tossed up the ball and the Miners raced to a 8-0 lead on the strength of Tim King's outside out-side shooting and good board work which repeatedly allowed the Wildcats only one shot at the hoop. South . Summit had been able to run their man-to-man patterns at will the previous night but they fell victim to numerous turnovers against Park City. The Miners' "rubber band" defense (one which coach Bruce Reid employed while an assistant at Butte College last season) is a shifting zone and the problems it creates . in the passing lanes proved particularly annoying to the Wildcats. Led by Tim King's eight points, the Miners left for the locker room at half time with a slim 20-19 advantage. advan-tage. Evidentally liking what was used against him, South Summit coach Kent Fraser came out and surprised everyone by throwing up a seldom used zone of his own. What ensued was a very defensive third quarter during which neither team could score in double figures. In fact, both teams equally split a total of only eight points. Davidson scored P.C.'s four and the . quarter ended with Park City on top 24-23. Brad Goff takes a shot during Saturday Satur-day night's loss. Hometown fans were sensing sen-sing what they hadn't felt in years and the people in green were just about that color, squirming in their seats. Those attired in the red and white, well, they couldn't even find a seat. It was loud in that gym, like an orange bow tie. The fourth quarter revealed a trait characteristic charac-teristic of Coach Reid's team this season poise. They went out and blew a six point lead early in the final period, at one point allowing South Summit to gain a one point lead (the Wildcats only lead of the night). But the Miners calmly sank 11 of 15 fourth quarter free throws to hold off the pesky Wildcats by a scant point at the buzzer, 37-36. 37-36. . For the"" record', "South " Summit sank 13 field goals to only 10 for Park City. However, the Miners shot a brilliant 77 per cent from the Hone, converting 17 of 22 attempts. at-tempts. Equally encouraging en-couraging was a balanced scoring attack led by Davidson's David-son's 11 and closely followd by Brad Goff, Dave Radford and Tim King who each had eight points. The second semi-final contest con-test of the night found the Highland High JVs rolling through the Dugway Mustangs 68-55. The tremendous depth of the class 4A junior varsity just wore down the divisional champions despite fine efforts ef-forts by Paul Brown who scored 24 points and on numerous occasions broke r"" A banquet honoring Park City's three soccer teams will be held in the Memorial Building this Friday night at 6:30. 5. a; ,-'' Awards will be presented to the most valuable players on the young Panther and Astro squads and also to the most valuable player on the older High Roller team. The Panthers will be presented with participation medals by, coach Sandy Holmsen. The Astros already have received Highland's 2-1-2 press. So, there in the championship game of its own 1st annual tournament stood the Mighty Miners ready and willing to tackle perhaps the best 4A junior varsity in the state of Utah. Saturday's schedule saw the Tooele junior varisty edge East Carbon 57-53 in overtime to capture seventh place. The fifth place contest was equally exciting as Star Valley Wyoming squeaked by the Wasatch Wasps in a very high scoring confrontation, confron-tation, 77-76. ' Final Night The first game of the evening session was to have been close. It wasn't. Dugway found itself down by seven at the half and without head coach George Bruce wh6 had be'en'a'sked to Teave" in the second quarter after picking up his third technical foul. South Summit out-scored out-scored Dugway 16-2 in the third quarter and coasted to a 53-37 victory and the third place trophy. The old adage contest that Park City had two chances for victory slim and none proved all too prophetic Saturday night. An extremely well-oiled Highland machine took apart the outplayed but not out-classed Miners 75-54 before a large, enthusiastic crowd. In this reporter's opinion, it was a pleasure to watch the benefits that a long-established long-established well-run program can bring. The summer clinics, the year- Banquet Set For P.C. Soccer Players It V) Soccer coaches Bruce Henderson, Rip Griffith and Sandy Holmsen trophies for their first place finish in Division II of the Utah Junior Soccer League. The dinner, provided by John and Mary Demkowicz of Shenanigans, , will be followed by the awards ceremony and by the election elec-tion of officers for the Park City Soccer Club, which will coordinate all soccer activity ac-tivity in town. City recreation director Bruce Henderson noted that soccer drew 120 participants this fall and predicted this round dedication, the winning win-ning tradition that goes along with a program that has produced a collegiate All-American in Utah's Jeff Judkins and another promising freshman in his brother Jay, has put the Highland Rams in the penthouse pen-thouse suite with Park City checking their bags down in the lobby. Observers across the street are quick to point out, however, that both teams share the same building and a common foundation. The Miners scored first but had little time to savor the only lead they would possess this evening as the Rams converted two turnovers tur-novers produced by their effective ef-fective 2-1-2 zone press. It is still very early in the season (P.C.s fifth game) and first year coach Reid just hasn't been able to devote the necessary practice prac-tice time to the theory of breaking a 2-1-2 press. First priorities being the installation in-stallation of an offense and defense. Regardless, it was this traditional Highland tactic which confused the local five, allowing the Rams to control the tempo of the contest. Still, Park City out-scored out-scored the Rams in the second quarter and had several opportunities to cut the margin to six before the first half ended with the Miners trailing only 40-33. The rapid pace of the third quarter combined with the fine inside play of 6'4" junior David Aird (15 points) and the outside firepower of juniors Leo Lucey (16) and Spencer Hewlett (21 ) put the game out of reach. The final stanza saw numerous substitutions by both coaches as all twelve Miners saw action. The final score was academic but for ,a'l,X0.u rivibjffe i4wJ5-54. i4wJ5-54. Hats not only go off to the players and coaches of the respective teams but also to Park City coach Bruce Reid and principal Dr. Jack Dozier. They organized and staged this 1st Annual Invitational, In-vitational, replete with colorful halftime shows courtesy of the Miner Boosters and their advisor v Gary Straight. So well-coordinated well-coordinated was the tournament tour-nament that those of you who attended can pat yourself on the back this event, in its first year, finished financially finan-cially in the black. The Miners next home game will be this Saturday night when they host the Piute Thunderbirds. Junior varsity tipoff is at 5:15 with the varsity to follow at 7:00. X? 0 . number will increase in the spring. "We want to involve as many parents as possible in the soccer club," Henderson commented. "We're trying to get organized and we figure this is a good time to doit." After the elections, a film featuring soccer ? superstar Pele will be shown. . ; Tickets for the soccer f banquet will cost $3 per person. |