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Show Wednesday, December 28, 1977 Mil 1 U 77i 12 Page 7 Away From The Park High Miners coasted to a 70-46 basketball win over Duchesne Friday evening in their final tune-up for the Jan. 6 league opener. Playing at Duchesne, the Miners built up a 20-point half time lead and then held off a furious assault in the final two quarters. Davidson Stars Junior standout Howard Davidson gave a sparkling performance, tickling the twine for 27 points, the team's high individual tally this season. Davidson received support from sophomore Marty Cowin, who registered 13 points in his first start and was strong on the boards. Duchesne scored the first two points of the game but the next 14 belonged to Park City. With guard Brad Goff quarterbacking numerous fast breaks, the Miners successfully suc-cessfully converted 3-on-2 and 4-on-3 situations. They worked the ball well and took U.S. Ski Team Members Top Performers At Gitchi Garni U.S. Nordic Combined Red Team member Jim Galanes and the U.S. women were the top American performers in the second annual Gitchi Garni Games held at Telemark, Wi., Dec. 14 and 15. In the featured American Cup race on Dec. 15, Galanes, 22, Brattleboro, Vt., notched a third place behind Heikki Torvi and Jarmal Kopra of Finland. For Galanes, his finish at Telemark marked a strong opening for the FIS Championship Cham-pionship season. In the women's events, Alison Spencer, at 24 a nine-year nine-year veteran of the national team, led the field in the senior women's 5 kilometer opening event, besting Norway's Nor-way's Berit Jensen by 6 seconds with a winning time of 15.46.2 Betsy Haines, 17, Anchorage, Ak., finished first fir-st among the junior women with a time of 16:02.2 while another Alaskan, Lynne Vonderheide, 23, turned in the best senior women's finish in the 10 kilometer event with a second slot behind Norway's Jensen. Both the men's senior and junior relay events were won by teams from Finland. Said U.S. Nordic Director John Bower of the U.S. performances per-formances in the first race of the international com k STAR OF THE WEEK 7 ! Kip 1 M chff, SuStendVatty ! , Win evtetrybbidy a fealthysand Prosprousx Mpen Noon to 5 . ! Miners Post An Easy Victory Over Duchesne only high percentage shots. "We played good, sound basketball in the first half," coach Bruce Reid said after the game. The Miners began pulling away rapidly at the end of the second quarter and took a 38-18 advantage into the locker room at the half. Different Team Park City faced a completely com-pletely different Duchesne squad in the second half. The home team coach must have offered some very persuasive per-suasive commentary during the intermission because his cagers played much more aggressively in the final two periods. "Bodies were flying everywhere," Reid commented. com-mented. "They had five guys on the boards on almost every shot." Rebounding became even more of a problem when Cowin, filling in for injured Todd Hunter, fouled out in the third quarter. He was hit petitive season, "I'm happy with the women's results which show the progress they've made." Asked about the men's results. Bower continued. "We think that Jim's performance definitely confirms his potential to be a top world contender in Nordic Combined Com-bined this year. I'm disappointed disap-pointed with the men's results in general but it Denney Double Winner Jon Denney, last year's Junior National U.S. Jumping Jum-ping champion led the field of jumpers on both days of the FIS tryout meet held Dec. 17 and 18 on Steamboat, Colorado's new 70 meter jumping mil. J he youngest of Dlllllth s three mmnincf: of Duluth s three jumping; Denneys scored 230.3 points on the first day of competition com-petition and 237.4 on the second day of the meet. U.S. Red Team jumper Jim Denney, 20, did not compete in the meet but forejumped the event in which his two younger brothers, Jeff, 18, and Jon, 17, participated. Six U.S. jumpers were selected from among the top point scorers in the Steamboat Steam-boat meet to travel to Europe for the Springer-tournee Springer-tournee and other early with four quickies in that period and the officiating drew a blast from coach Reid. "The officials were very inconsistent but not to either team's advantage," he said. "They called the most trivial fouls and let the bone-breakers bone-breakers go by unnoticed." "Everybody was in foul trouble," he added. "It ruined my whole night." With Cowin out of the game and Duchesne controlling con-trolling the boards, the Miners went to a more deliberate offense against their opponent's zone defense. defen-se. Park City's lead fluctuated between 16 and 24 points throughout the halt as Davidson continued to scare. Although the Miners were unable to pull away, Duchesne could not come within striking distance. Reid revealed that Davidson David-son had altered the position of his shooting hand on the ball during last week's practice prac-tice sessions and con- should be kept in perspective. perspec-tive. We have a lot of illness and many of our top racers are not skiing at capacity." Bower referred to the colds which plagues top performers perfor-mers Koch, Caldwell and Dunklee and the stomach problems which sent a fourth Red Team member, John Mike Downey, home to Butte, But-te, Mt., prior to the races. January jumping events. According to U.S. Nordic Director John Bower, Jim Denney is already a discretionary choice for the FIS Championship Team to cnmnete in I.ahti Finland fron,jaf J& The ad j-y . '3..SWiiiy fl.J& dittonal five'wilf'be cMsen on the basis of their performances perfor-mances in European meets and in important U.S. competitions com-petitions to be held during January and February at Steamboat, Co., Laconia, N.H., and Leavenworth, Wa. The six athletes slated to depart for Europe on Dec. 2(1 are Jim Denney, 20; Jeff Denney, 18: and Jon Denney. 17, allofDuluth, Mn.; Chriss McNeill, 23, and Jeff Davis, 19, both of Steamboat, Co.; and Kip Sundgaard. 21, St. Paul, Mn. and University of Utah. 'he shot better anytime this season. Reid emptied the bench in the final three minutes and the substitutes easily preserved the victory. Open at Home Park City begins its Region 11 campaign at home against Tintic on Jan. 6. "It's a tough league," Reid commented. "It looks like St. Joe's and Dugway will be the two toughest teams with Wendover not far behind." Reid expects every league opponent to use a zone defense and a full court press against the Miners. "Those are the two things we will definitely be working on before the opener," he said. The schedule maker has been good to Park City, making their first two contests con-tests against Tintic and St. Joseph at home. 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