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Show I Page 6 Wednesday, July 19, 1978 Mucker Wire Service Hiding the control of a strong forward pack, the Park City Muckers finished third in the eight-side Steamboat Steam-boat Springs Cowpie Classic this past weekend. The tournament did not provide for a playoff for third and fourth place, so Park City had to be content with their deadlocked finish with Breckenridge, behind tournament tourn-ament champion Fort Collins Col-lins and runnerup Queen City. Tournament co-favorites Boulder and Denver Harlequins Harle-quins were both eliminated in the opening round of play by Fort Collins and Park City, respectively. Boulder seemed to fall victim to the 8 a.m. cobwebs, making critical criti-cal errors which led to each of its opponents' three trys. The Park City-Harlequin match was a different story. The Denver club had mounted mount-ed several successful tournament tourn-ament efforts earlier this year. The only local opponent oppo-nent to give them trouble had been Boulder, with the clubs splitting two matches. Park City was not viewed as a strong tournament contender contend-er and drew the favorites. But Colorado rugby followers follow-ers were to witness an intense display of forward pressure by Park City which severely affected the continuity conti-nuity of the Harlequin's play. In the first five minutes of the match it was apparent that the Muckers would be no pushover and that the Denver Den-ver pack were in for a long day. Time and again Park City won possession in set play and rode the fine toe of Skip Schirf to good field position. What second phase ball the Harlequins won was smothered by aggressive defense, featuring the sure i tackling of Dave Brown, Fred Grambau and Bill Hart. Denver showed their class, however, by taking advan-tage advan-tage of an, early Park. City terror and striking -from beyond halfway for the game's first try. John Sundquist failed to cover a Har lequin kick to the open side wing that was placed behind Park City's cover defense. It was open sailing for the Denver wing once past Sundquist and the try was scored under the Ryan's Stays On Top But Not Alamo Continued From Page 5 The Drywallers won two during the week, one over Mt. Fishery and the other over Wasatch Homes, to climb a notch in Division I. The Fishery also lost to the Pary City Players. The virgin Outlaws almost broke into the win column Sunday night but a rash of walks scuttled their hopes. The winless wonderwhys were outsluggtng the Old Men by a wide margin but an unrelenting string of bases on balls allowed the Old Men to score 17 runs in the third inning. The Old Men went on to register a 35-31 w in in the .tight pitchers' duel. Spencer's stayed atop Uivision II with a win over CAVALRY 1 CHAPEL A DIDLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP A PLACE TO FEAST ON THE WORD OF GOD 9:00 a.m. SUNDAY AT THE TREASURE MOUNTAIN h For More Information: 649-8295, 649 8424. f. nr 7955 or write: P.O.Box 2473, Park City. U: Muckers Third In Tournament posts. The goal was converted convert-ed to give the Harlequins a 6-0 advantage. From the ensuing kickoff the Mucker forwards continued conti-nued to apply pressure and when a scrum was ordered seven yards out, Park City went in with their ten-man shove. The respected Denver pack was driven steadily toward their in-goal and an attempt to wheel Park City off the ball failed. Number eight Grambau fell on the ball for the Muckers' first points and Bruce Reid tied up the match with his kick at goal. The match then acheived a stalemate status, just as the score did. Denver did have one good scoring opportunity hut Sundquist atoned for his earlier mistake with an escaping run and a fine kick to touch. Park City had a chance to drive for another score in the scrum but failed to control its charge to the line and lost the ball in the following ruck. The ninety degree heat was beginning to take its toll on the match as well, several movements stalling through lack of support. The 6-6 score held up through halftime and into twenty minutes of the second period. When it seemed all scoring had ended, the Harlequins made a fine blind side break from a scrum at mid-field and once again took the ball long-distance for their second se-cond try. The score was made in the corner and the kick at goal missed, leaving Park City behind 10-6. The Muckers came back to hand their opponents the shock of the match. With under three minutes left to play, Denver committed a penalty thirty-five yards out from their line. Since they had a four point lead, the kick for points would have done Denver nothing but favors, so Park City elected to run a penalty play in an attempt to make a game-saving game-saving try, v,.'! i; Allen Terry took the ball i;i near the twenty with Harlequin Harle-quin pursuit all around him and managed to put up a nice up-and-under kick which carried down to the Harlequin Harle-quin ten. Bruce Reid along with Terry covered the kick and forced the Harlequin defender into a bad pass which Reid picked up and Doc's, pushing their record to 10-0. The Brothers remained within striking range with three wins during the week. Before the Alamo fell victim Sunday, Wasatch Homes felt the Brothers' wrath twice. Mt. Realty was even on the week, balancing their loss to the Mad Jacks with a win over the Players. The Players then rebounded for their Sunday win over the Fishery. The Old Men weren't as lucky with the Woodhaus as they were with the Outlaws and their won-lost percentage percen-tage remained at .500. The Woodhaus was 1-1 last week while Wasatch Homes dropped drop-ped three more. touched down in-goal for tying points. The pressure was now on Reid The Park City breakaway break-away had a chance to end the game with a converted goal from fifteen yards to the right of the posts. With no time remaining, Reid's kick never cleared the crossbar, the match hanging in the balance of ten drop-kicks at goal to break the tie. This marked the first time in Mucker club history that Park City had been involved in a tournament tie game. The drop kick method favored fav-ored by the Steamboat tournament committee was one innovated by Alamo Dave Mueller in 1973 for the Park City Challenge Cup. . The Harlequins were able to put only one of five kicks over the' bar, while Bill Hart and Rick Phaler made their attempts to end the match and send Park City into the semi-finals against another Denver side, Queen City. The Queen City match proved to be a frustrating affair for the Muckers, who have been unable to make it into a tournament final since 1974. After their excellent performance against the Harlequins, Park City began to make many mental errors which denied them points and kept Queen City in the game. Compared to the prior affair, this match never got rolling. A knock-on or a penalty seemed to ruin continuity for both sides, and to Queen City's credit they took lineout control completely com-pletely away from the Muckers. A three-point penalty kick early in the match held up for the Denver Club through the entire first half and much of the second. Hart, Schirf and Reid all had chances to even the score from middle distances but all the Mucker kicks sailed wide and Queen City maintained their tenuous tenu-ous margin. - - With My ten minutes to play Rif again provided the Muckers with hope by finally splitting the uprights for the tying points from thirty yards out. The final moments of the game proved to be a classic example of how to lose a rugby match with both sides committing penalties directly direct-ly in front of their own posts. -xftttj i ' V A. :S. r, . v Jp if f ,.. J 4 via- .. , U iMmi'.K'" : mhMmmm Queen City converted their chance into a 6-3 advantage and Reid answered for Park City to knot the score again at 6-6. Park City had two more chances just before no-side to break through Queen City's defense, but three critical mistakes deep in the attacking zone sent the opportunities aglimmer and the match was whistled up at 6-6. Alas, live by the sword, die by the sword; the Muckers failed to drop kick a single attempt out of five over the Park City Tops In 'Marathon' A Park City entry took first fir-st place in the Mad Marathon held at the Racquet Club last Saturday. The Mad Marathon is an annual fundraising event benefitting the Utah Association for Children's Therapy (UACT). It consists of competition among teams which total up to 20 members each. The events include golf, tennis, gin rummy, kui1 i & SUMMIT TV can solve your problems. 1 jScsS' J 5 I p Just Arrived ( L2 2J I Motocross 5 and 10 Speeds I ZENITH AUTHORIZED DEALER f i f New Zenith TVs now in stock tISO I we service an makes of tvs and stereos. BIKE RENTALS $6 Vi day $ I O full day-1 I SUMMIT T . V . J OPEN DAILY 10 to 5 I 627 Park Avenue Park City, Utah 649-8070 . cSOOtCttt 1 1 Tues-Sat. 10 am to 5 pm I 1240 PARK AVENUE J Closed Sunday and Monday f PARK CITY, UTAH 84060 f I PHONE 801-649-9123 1 tT"iii miTfljM iinJtitl rfNU iiiiifL) f t jftfti t iiAjifal 'mmammmirmmmammmmmmimmmmm'magtmmmmKmimmmtutmmm iaiiim,virasaB'we333giBagegj3 bar. Queen City made one and advanced to the finals against Fort Collins. The two semi-final losers Park City and Breckenridge Brecken-ridge were not given a game to play off for third and fourth place. Perhaps the Muckers will meet hot club Breckenridge in the Ski Town Tournament August 26 to settle the score. Park City's next two matches match-es include a fixture against Zebra Touring Side in Poca-tello Poca-tello on July 29 and a home match with Steamboat Springs August 5. volleyball and swimming. Eleven teams participated in the benefit and all but the winning Park City entry were from Salt Lake City. 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