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Show Wednesday, March 8, vJ7b Page 11 St. Joe Downs Miners For Third Place Bob Imhoff provided the fire power and Joe Laucirica provided the spark to lead the St. Joseph Jays to a 48-35 victory over the Park High Miners Saturday night. St. Joseph's strong inside game was triggered by Laucirica's sharp passing and Imhoff scored 21 points on the night. Playing on their home court for Region 1 1 's number three seeding in the state 1A tournament which begins tonight) Park City was aggressive on defense but unproductive on offense. The number one seed went to South Summit, which surprised Dugway 47-44 to take the tournament crown. Two Wins Prior to Saturday night's loss, Park City had defeated Manila 76 53 on Tuesday and then cruised past South Rich on Wednesday, 63-49. In the South Rich contest, the Miners played good defense and converted on high percentage shots to post the convincing victory. Coach Bruce Reid called it "the best game we've played all year." South Rich employed variety of defenses in an attempt to thwart the Miner attack and they made several sever-al runs to close the gap. But Park City adjusted and always responded to the South Rich challenge. Slow Start Reid said his cagers were playing their best basketball going into the St. Joseph game but they turned in a lackluster performance against the only Division II team they failed to beat this season. "They appeared tight on offense," the coach said. "I can't explain it." The signs were ominous at the outset. Park City trailed 12-4 with only seconds remaining re-maining "irt the first" quarter-but quarter-but a free throw conversion and a rebound score off the missed second foul shot brought Miners to within five and gave them momentum going into the second period. But Park City committed numerous turnovers in that quarter. The Jays, however were equally inept in the low-scoring eight-minute period and the Miners still within five. 21-16, at the half. Davidson Named To All - Howard Ski With Rene Results KINDERGARTEN 1st Cameron Symonds 2nd Ali Solomon 3rd Cheryl Hannay 1ST Boys. 1st Paul Johnson 2nd Jacob Doilney 3rd Stevie Nestel Girls 1st Wendy Berry 2nd Christy Leatham 3rd Ashley Imboden 2ND Boys 1st Colin McComb 2nd Jeremy Nobis 3rd Cha. ht Anderson ' and Zacn Craigle Girls ' lstWendy Griffin 2nd Gina Glenne Park City scored last on a twisting baseline layup by Dave Radford made possible by a smart pass from Howard Davidson. Dan McCleUan drives by The second period may have been low scoring but most of the third quarter was non-scoring. After St. Joseph's Jo-seph's Pat (iilmore made a layup at th 1 .seven minute mark, more than four minutes min-utes elapsed before (iilmore sank a jumper to make the score 25-lti. Miner guard Brad Golf responded immediately immed-iately with a basket of his own and then was robned by an in-and-out seconds later. Gil more and Imhoff upped the margin to 2(i-1K before Davidson connected from the extreme corner. Jay Mike Greeley sank two free throws and, with seven seconds sec-onds left. Davidson missed on a jumper but Todd Hunter snatched the rebound and put in in at the buzzer. Imhoff Romps Trailing 31 22 going into :he final eight minutes. Park City had to find the hot hand but they appeared afraid to even test the temperature as several Miners passed up open shots. Not so timid was Imhoff. He scored ten of his 21 points in the final stanza to secure the J Davidson 3rd Carrie Rukavina 3RD Boys 1st Travis Price 2nd Mark VanLuven and Brad Zaba 3rd Tom James Girls 1st Lisa Thomas 2nd Abbey Peterson 3rd Rachel Dreyfuss and Amy Morris" 4TH Boys 1st Kenny Prince 2nd Pat Jarosz 3rd Skipper Thomas Girls 1st Rhondi Tclten 2nd S'enh. :ue Holcomb J S i ( . - Park City's Tim King as win and the third place seeding. A Laucirica foul shot and a turnaround jumper by Imhoff Im-hoff put the Jays up by 12 with 6 ::'.() showing on the clock. Park City then missed on four consecutive shots directly under the basket highlighting the olfensive frustration they experienced throughout the game. Imhoff scored the next six Jay points to widen the margin to 40-24. Fast break layups, two by Davidson whittled it back to ten but Imhoff then sank two free throws. Radford threw it from the comer but. seconds later he fouled out on a charging violation, following Marty-Cowin, who committed ' his fifth a minute earlier, to the bench. With 2:3(t remaining, the Miners found themselves facing a ten-point deficit. Compounding their woes. Radford and Cowin were finished and the usually prolific Howard Davidson was having little success. As the clock passed the two-minuti mark, coach Reid admitted the inevitable and began Park High junioi Howard Davidson was named to the All-Region Lleven basket ball team, announced before the Dugway-South Summit title tilt Saturday night. The high-scoring Miner forward for-ward was joined on the all-star team by: Rocky Brown. Wendover: Robert Spiilman, Wendover; Rusty Price, North Rich; Robert Imhoff, St. Joseph; Eddie Foster. USD; Jim Dean. South Rich; Paul Brown, Dugway; Glayde Stembridge, South Summit; and Bart Johnson. South Summit. Other Awards Other Region Eleven awards presented during the pre-game ceremonies in 3rd Con Ann Martinez 5TI1 Boys 1st Graig Griffin 2nd Kenyon Kennard 3rd Zach Henrion Girls 1st Maile Edwards 2nd Jilbette Fletcher 3rd Jennve Lewis GTH Boys 1st-Jim Hays 2nd Rich Williams 3rd Mike Jarosz Girls 1st Vicki Holme-2nd-Kelly Bolton 3rd Wendy Plummer John 1 1 viand looks on. substituting. 'It was very frustrating." a bewildered Reid said after the game. "At one point I told the players to forget everything we had practiced and just freelance. Nothing else seemed to be working." Park City's loss to the Jays put them in the unenviable position ol pla. ing Kanab in the first round of the state tournament. Kanab has been rated among the top three 1A schools all season. "We're definitely the underdogs," under-dogs," commented Reid. HOX SCOHKS Park City Radford Davidson Hunter King Golf Cowin Johnson St. Joseph Greeley Gilmore Imhoff McClella-i Laucirica Hyland Shiranizv U 4 4 4 1 4 (i 10 21 II 5 4 Region cluded: Girls Tennis - South Summit Marching Tintic Fall Baseball -St. Joseph Cross-Country Tintic Division I Girls Volleyball --North --North Summit Division II Girls Volleyball Tintic Volleyball Tournament WinnerSouth Win-nerSouth Summit Football Co-Champions North and South Summit Girls Basketball Tourn-' Tourn-' anient South Summit Wrestling North Summit Division I Basketball -South Summit Division II Basketball St. Joseph and Dugway Basketball Tournament Trophy - St. Joseph 7T1I Boys 1st Paul Mawhinney 2nd P.J. Spalding 3rd Jeff Lamonte Girls 1st Madelyn Marcellin 2nd Tlesa Sanchez 8TH Boys 1st Steven Toly 2nd Gil Holmes 3rd Troy Putman Girls 1st Julie Erikson 2nd Kari Sandburg 3rd Holly DeVries Teacher Forerunners Margie Hadden Dianne Vance So. Summit Region Champs The South Summit Wildcats throttled high-scoring Paul Brown and were deadly accurate from the outside to defeat Dugway 47 44 tor the Region Eleven basketball title Saturday night in the Park High gym. Brown, one of theTFgions top point producers, was held to nine and the inside muscle ot Jim Keetch was not enough to counter South Summit duo of Glayde Stem-bridge Stem-bridge and Mark Atkinson. Stembridge and Atkinson scored 14 and 12 points, respectively, while Keetch was the game's high man with 17. Comeback Dugway jumped to an early first quarter lead and appeared ap-peared on the verge of blow ing the game w ide open before it had hardly bomin. Brown scored the first lour points on a jumper and a faslback layup and brother Greg followed with two baskets ol his own. Keetch scored Irom underneath and with more than tour minutes still remaining in the quarter, quart-er, the Mustangs held a in-o advantage. Ray Peterson broke the ice for South Summit at the 3: 15 mark but Dugwny's Butch l'.oegler responded with ' a jumper from the foul line Peterson hit again and the Wildcats took advantage of Mustang turnovers and errant er-rant shots to pull within six. 12-6. at the end oi the quarter. Perhaps the most significant signifi-cant move of the game came when the Wildcats shifted mm I Jllr tD D I Irom a zone detense to man-to-man. The change seemed to bother Dugway, especially Brow n, w ho scored only live points in the final three quarters. The Mustangs stretched their lead to ten again early in the second period but South Summit came charging charg-ing back. Consecutive baskets bask-ets came by Stembridge. Bart Johnson and Atkinson narrowed the margin to four. 16-12. As the half drew to a close the Wildcats began connecting on long-range bombs that would have required radar on any other night. As they departed for the locker room for the halftime intermission the Dugway players looked up at the scoreboard to see that their lit point bulge had been cut to one. 23-22. Tough Battle The two teams battled almost evenly throughout the second half. South Summit Sum-mit gained the lead lor the first time in the early moments of the third quarter, quart-er, held it until the end of the period, gave it up in the beginning of the final quarter quart-er but then regained it at the end. The lead changed hands for toe first time with only 40 seconds expired in the third quarter when Atkinson hit from the corner to put the Wildcats ahead 24-23. Two free throws by Boegler pushed the pendulum the -other way but Atkinson hi! again and South Summit held on for the rest of the EVERY Friday night CHILDREN $1.50 ADULTS $0 00 With this coupon ond $6.00, you get a french fries and GOOD EVERY EVENING ski iacts Park City 117" ParkWest 129" Alta I(7r Snowbird Brighton 155" Solitude J15" Parley's Summit W White Pine Touring ? MIIIHIIMHIH quarter. The Wildcats pulled in front by fix e at several points but the Mustangs kept fighting back ami trailed by only one. 36-33. going into the final period. Brown handed the lead back to Dugway one minute into the fourth quarter on a breakaway, layup. South Summit responded with two free throws but the next two baskets belonged to the Mustangs. Down 41-3!'.. South Summit regained the lead, 44-43, on Itace organizer Steve Krickson talks with iirst-place iirst-place finisher Jacques Glidden after the first Brighton-to-Park City Cross Country Ski Race March 4. UNCING EVERY Tuesday night ABES' Ml a beverage. lid. two baskets by Stembridge and one by Dan Pace. The Wildcats then went into a stall Willi less than two minutes standing between them and the region title. With 55 seconds showing on the clock. Brown hit one of two free throws to knot the score at 44 all. Stembridge then answered with two free throws of his own. Another foul shot by Bill Mitchell with 36 seconds left combined com-bined with a tight defense gave South Summit the victory and the trophy. ' 1 III IMJII IT mi mm |