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Show Page 11 Thursday, December 21, 1978 Summits Stop Miners , Losing Streak Continues Tis the season to be jolly but you would have a difficult dif-ficult time convincing Park High basketball coach Bruce Reid of that. The preseason has been anything but jolly for Reid, whose team dropped drop-ped two more decisions last week, bringing their record to 0-6. The Miners traveled to Coalville Friday night and suffered a heartbreaking 62-59 62-59 loss to the North Summit Braves in a seesaw battle that saw Park City come as close to victory as it has all season. A decisive factor in the game was a questionable technical foul called in the final minute of play. The team bus traveled to Kamas on Saturday night and somehow escaped without having its lights shot out. The South Summit Wildcats Wild-cats hit everything else they shot at in the second half and their outside fire power propelled them to a 67-52 victory. vic-tory. The Miners' major weakness to date has been their inability to play solid basketball in the third quarter. quar-ter. In the six games played they have been outscored 118 to 74 in the third quarter. Park City led North Summit 30-26 at the half, only to trail 42-40 at the end of the third Walter Hagmann controls a jump ball. quarter. In the South Summit Sum-mit game, the Miners were tied 27-27 at intermission but eight playing minutes later they were behind 54-40. "I gave the team a lecture last week on our third quarter quar-ter lapses," Reid said Monday. Mon-day. "Unfortunately, we continued to have our problems in that period." North Summit Before the North Summit game, Reid said his cagers would have to stop high scoring Dan Richins and that Miner Dave Radford would have to have a good night if Park City was to win. Radford scored 15 points but Richins had 16 and he was supported by Doug Garfield and Wade Judd, who combined for 34 points. After the opening tip, Tim King scored the first basket ol the game and ensuing Jtt ; Any Plan. . .Any Size. . .Any Place Owner Built Spec Homes Joint ventures with investors Ed Sail 801-272-6041 801-272-0330 scores by Radford, Marty Cowin and Mike Gebauer gave Park City a 9-4 lead. North Summit was cold in the early going and the quarter quar-ter ended with the Miners ahead 15-10. King also opened the second quarter with two points. The basket was answered an-swered by Richins and Gebauer followed with a turnaround turn-around jumper that gave Park City a 19-12 lead. The Miners' "rubber band" defense was successful suc-cessful in creating turnovers but the offense was getting burned by a full court press sporadically employed by North Summit. The press has given Park City trouble all season and their inability to get the ball down court has cost them heavily. With five minutes left in the half, Cowin committed his third foul and was replaced by Walter Hagmann. Park City maintained a 30-24 30-24 advantage in the final seconds of the half and had several opportunities to pad their lead. But traveling violations against King and Hagmann gave the ball to North Summit and Judd used a good move to give the Braves the final basket of the half. 1 S Leading 30-26 going into the third quarter, Park City added three points on a Radford Rad-ford layup and a foul shot by Mark Uriarte. After the teams traded turnovers, Richins got the Braves going on a basket from in close. A three-point play by Uriarte put the Miners up by 10, 38-28, but the next ten points belonged to North Summit. A three-point play by Garfield, two free throws by Richins, a drive by David Judd, a layup by his brother Wade and a foul shot by Garfield Gar-field tied the score at 38-38 with two minutes remaining in the fatal third period. With 1:21 showing on the scoreboard clock, North Summit took the lead for the first time on two free throws by Wade Judd. Hagmann tied the game on a strong inside in-side move but Judd came back with a jump shot and the Braves led 42-40 at the end of the quarter. Hagmann controlled the fourth quarter tip and Gebauer followed a missed Tim King shot to tie the game at 42-42. Hagmann then hit a free throw to give Park City the lead for the last time. David Judd's defensive play and the outside shooting of brother Wade put the Braves up by seven and they appeared ready to pull away from the Miners. But Park City fought back to tie the game. Both King and Radford Rad-ford rebounded their own shots and made good on the second attempts to cut the margin to three and Radford then sank consecutive free throws to knot the score at 52 all. A basket by Garfield and two foul shots by Mark Vernon Ver-non were answered by Cowin and the score remained tied 56-56 with 1:25 left in the game. Wade Judd then converted con-verted two free throws but Radford also hit from the charity stripe to bring the Miners within one. With 51 seconds left, two crucial calls by the referee dashed Park City's hopes. Cowin was called for his fifth foul and he reacted with emotion as he departed the game. The referee immediately im-mediately assessed a technical foul and although Richins made only one of three free throws, North Summit retained possession of the ball. The technical foul was questionable not only in light of the game situation but earlier North Summit coach Dan Skinnner was warned three times to be seated as he objected to a call. Despite the repeated warnings, no technical was called. With the Braves in possession and only seconds remaining in the game, Park City was forced to foul. After making his first free throw, David Judd missed the second but the rebound went out of bounds off the Miners and two more foul shots by Richins made it 62-57, A turn-around turn-around jumper by Hagmann just before the buzzer was too little, too late. South Summit Having failed in the north, the Miners went south on Saturday to face the highly regarded Wildcats. And again, Park City succumbed to the third quarter blues. The Miners jumped to a 7-2 lead on baskets by Radford and Gebauer but their old nemesis, the full court press, began to haunt them. Turnovers allowed South Summit to tie the score at 10-10 10-10 with 1:46 left in the quarter quar-ter and the Wildcats gained a four-point advantage on baskets by Russ Muir and Perry Lewis. But Gebauer and Cowin scored from close in on feeds by Uriarte and Mickey Henrion to pull Park City even. Uriarte was fouled at the buzzer and as the two teams huddled for between-quarter strategy talks, the 5'7" guard sank two free throws to put the Miners ahead 16-14. The lead changed hands several times in the second quarter. Cowin tallied the first two points but Muir and Log Homes Neal Fines tied the game after af-ter three minutes had expired. ex-pired. After Gebauer put Park City in the lead, 27-25, with two free throws, South Summit's Danny Pace lobbed lob-bed the ball toward the basket and 6'3" Greg Pottter leaped high, took the pass and put the ball through the hoop in one motion to end the half at 27-27. The third quarter was all South Summit as they equaled their entire first half output in one period. Hitting from downtown, the Wildcats Wild-cats mounted a devastating outside shooting attack that left Park City staggering. The South Summit scoring was well distributed and the long range artillery was supported by fastbreak layups. During one stretch, the Wildcats registered seven unanswered baskets and they took a formidable 54-40 lead into the final period. Down by 14, Park City resorted to a full court press of their own during portions of the last eight minutes but, unable to cut the margin, they went down to a 67-52 defeat. Davidson Returns Park City will host the first half of a four-team tournament tour-nament this week and their hopes will be brightened by the return of Howard Davidson, David-son, last year's leading scorer. Davidson suffered a broken leg during football season and has yet to suit up for a basketball game. "He will play some," Reid said Monday. "How much will depend on what kind of shape he's in." South Summit will meet Morgan in the Park High gym Thursday at 6 p.m. and the Miners will face Wasatch at 8 p.m. The following night the four teams will travel to Heber where the previous night's losers will play at 6 p.m. and the winners at 8 p.m. SCORING North Summit D.Judd .. 5 Garfield 18 W. Judd 16 C. Pace l Vernon 2 Blonquist 4 Richins 16 Park City King 8 Uriarte 5 Henrion 0 Radford 15 Hagmann 5 Gebauer 16 Cowin 10 Murnin 0 Evans 0 South Summit Muir io Park 14 Thomas 9 Lewis 4 Potter 12 Stembridge 15 Gines 5 Park City Uriarte 3 Murnin 2 King 4 Henrion 2 Radford 13 Cowin 16 Gebauer 12 Hagmann , 0 3 Sports IW V! ' w 13 if ,V4?'-s ff r F0UCM! DO ST TOW FOR TOTS It's natural for youngsters to , experience difficulties maneuvering on skis. And when they try to climb uphill, skiing may begin to seem more like work than play. This situation can sour little tykes on skiing. Every so often, it's a good idea to break up your children's arduous uphill assaults with a free tow uphill. Using your own poles, give each child a basket end and ask them to put it between their legs like a Poma lift. Slip pole straps over your wrists and start pulling straight uphill. You can tow youngsters with your skis on or off; it's easier and faster with skis removed but works well either way. 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