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Show Thursday, April 12, 1979 Page 5 Park High Netters Lose Park High started its 1979 tennis season on a sour note last Thursday with both the men's and women's teams losing to St. Joseph at the Park City Racquet Club. Not only did both teams lose, but they lost by identical iden-tical 4-1 scores. In the men's competition, Chip Dyer was the sole Park City winner. Dyer, playing in the number three singles slot, defeated Javs basket ball star John Hyland 6-4, 6-2. 6-2. Number one singles player Dave Radford lost 7-6, 7-6, 7-6 in a hard fought match against Steve Pombo. The number two singles win went to St. Joe's Joe Bergera, who beat Russell Ratcliff 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. In the doubles matches, the number one team of Darrick Olsen and Seaton Prince fell to Matt Irsik and Tim Kenny 6-1. 4-6. 7-5. Haul Dyer and Eric Smith, Park City's number two doubles duo, were downed 7-5. 5-7, 6-4 6-4 by Seph Nang and Greg McDonald. The Park High female squad was forced to default in two matches and Margaret Van Wagoner posted its only win. Van Wagoner playing number two singles, came back from a 1-6 first-set defeat to win 6-2, 6-0. Number three singles player Susan Mann lost 6-1. 6-0 and the number two doubles team of Annie Mellott and Sonya Ratcliff were beaten 1 6. 6-2, 6-0. Park High's second match was scheduled for last Wednesday Wed-nesday in Kamas against South Summit, weather permitting. 88 ENS Park Seven The 27th annual Salt Lake Tribune Classic attracted 180 skiers to Park City's Payday run Saturday and when the competition was finished the local ski club garnered three of the nine class titles. Park City added four more wins the following day in a giant slalom held on the women's G.S. run. A bright sun and good snow conditions Saturday greeted racers from Park City, Sundance, Snowbird, Nordic Valley, Snow Basin, Jackson Hole and other In-termountain In-termountain locations. Park City's most impressive im-pressive showing was in the intermediate girls class where it captured seven of the top ten spots. First place went to Dory Donner, an East High student who skis for Park City. Donner bested second place Deborah Lynch of Nordic Valley by more than two seconds. Completing Park City's dominance were Polly Ivers, third; Tori Pillinger, fourth; Susan Knutsen, fifth; fif-th; Nancy Donner, seventh; Amy Irvine, eighth; and Andrea Peterson, tenth. Jere Calmes topped the peewee boys competition in the Tribune Classic. Calmes covered the Payday course in 1:11.08, compared to Connor Con-nor White's second place time of 1.12.99. White skis for Nordic Valley. Third place went to Park City's Harold Jensen. The local club's other first place winner in the Classic was Bret Johnson. Johnson edged Jackson Hole's Mike Overcast for his seventh win of the season. Also finishing high for Park City were Jeremy Nobis, third; Eric Johnson, fifth; and Mark Tesoro, seventh. The intermediate boys race was won by mark Wheadon of Sundance. Park . I J-JL .''.I' ' "r ' v '--. :- - -'.'' I , ; I dk i ; . ' p . ;-- ' I ; V J; r-? - I - " ' Jason Lawson races to a City's highest finisher was Whitney Burr, who took ninth. Scot Beck, Sundance, placed first in the novice boys class with Park City's Jason Lawson taking a fourth. Snow Basin's Melisa Sneddon topped the novice girls, beating Snowbird's Suzanne Williams by less than a second. Park City's Kim Koch was fifth and sister Nicki took tenth. The super novice race for boys was won by John Zulbrennen of Sundance with Sean Landis taking a fourth. The girls peewee and mighty mite competition was dominated by two sisters from Snowbird. Amy Oelerich outraced all the peewee entrants and Emely Oelerich finished ahead of Park City's Gina Glenne for the mighty mite trophy. Sunday Park City tied with Sundance Sun-dance for the most wins in the Tribune Classic but the next day the local club was heads above the crowd. The hometown racers captured four of the nine crowns with Sundance's two victories the closest competition. Gina Glenne avenged thp previous day's loss t, Emeley Oelerich beating the Snowbird racer by almost two seconds in the mighty mite race. Park City also repeated as the boys mighty mite winner win-ner with Jeremy Nobis edging teammate Bret Johnson for the title. Mark Tesero was fourth and Eric Johnson was fifth. Harold Jensen put Park City in the winner's circle again as he narrowly, defeated Nordic Valley's Teddy Brewer in the peewee City Wins fourth in the novice class Racers In Two Days class. Jensen posted a time of 60.83 and Brewer had a 60.87. Jere Calmes was fourth. four-th. Kristine Kjeldsberg, Snowbird, was tops among the girl peewee racers. Park City was once again the power in the intermediate inter-mediate girls competition on Sunday, this time taking six of the top ten positions. The race was won by Polly Ivers, who finished third the previous day. Ivers placed just ahead of teammate team-mate Tori Pillinger, who moved from fourth to second with a day's rest. Amy Irvine, Susan Knutsen, Knut-sen, Kim Beattie and Nancy Donner took sixth through ninth respectively. Snow Basin's Melisa Sneddon repeated as the girls novice winner with Park City's Nicki Koch taking third, Kim Koch eighth, and Jennifer Lewis tenth. Ted Bird was Park City's highest finisher in the boys novice class, taking a third behind winner Paul Faletto of Nordic Valley. P.J. Spaulding was seventh and Ciry Higham was tenth. Sunday's super novice title was t iinv-i by another repp;i? v ;:.;,t, ' hn Zum-breitht Zum-breitht : Simonce, who edged i-i iai; of Rock Sprigs. Vi'yo. Oi-thd- Sundance racer, Keiiy Tyler, finished first in the intermediate boys race. Park City's Whitney Burr was third and Jason Lawson took sixth. The End Last weekend's competition com-petition marked the end of the race season for Park City and coach Bob Marsh was pleased with his team's performance. K ... Post "The races Saturday and Sunday provided an excellent ex-cellent finish for an excellent ex-cellent season," Marsh commented. The coach noted that Park City is in the running for high point honors in Intermountain Division competition. "All of our racers gave their best this year and Pat-ti Pat-ti (coach Patti Formichelli) and I are very proud of them," Marsh said. "We're looking for even bigger and better things next season." The Park City Ski Club will hold its annual awards and fundraising banquet on April 26. More details will be available soon. Muckers Win Opener The Park City muckers won their rugby opener Saturday, defeating Utah State 7-3 in Logan. The Muckers dominated the first half, registering all their scores in that period. Don Symonds got the local side rolling with a drop goal that made it 3-0. Don Sturges then added a try that boosted the Mucker margin to 7-0. The conversion conver-sion kick by Symonds was no good. The only score of the second half was a penalty goal by Utah State. Park City's next game will be May 5 against the Flagstaff Rugby Club in Page, Arizona. The side's home opener takes place May 12 when they face Idaho's Boise Motherlode at 4:30 in City Park. A Diverse Group Capture NASTAR Titles in Park City A casino vice-president, an 8th grade math teacher and a 56-year-old housewife were among the winners of the 11th annual SchlitzNASTAR Finals race held in Park City April 17. The 80 skiers competing in the national finals qualified from a field of more than 100,000 racers who competed com-peted in NASTAR (NAtional STAndard Race) this winter. win-ter. NASTAR, the largest recreational ski racing program in the world, is conducted on a regular basis at 98 ski resorts nationwide. "None of these skiers is a classified racer," said Bob Beattie, NASTAR commissioner. com-missioner. "Instead, these are fun-seeking recreational skiers from all walks of life who enjoy mixing a bit of competition with a good time on the slopes." Two men and two women in each of four age categories form each of the five NASTAR regions comprised com-prised the field of finalists, who raced on the Clementine Clemen-tine run. "This is a once in a lifetime experience," exclaimed ex-claimed a smiling Maria Morant, 56, of Windham, New York. She placed first and won a Schlitz Gold Cup in the age 50 and over women's group. The mother of two added, "I've never won anything like this in my life." Morant's male counterpart, counter-part, John Gianotti, 50 of Stateline, Nevada, trained Entire Stock Of X-Country Rental Equipment Located Next to the Gondola New Hours vigorously for the event and was elated. He is vice president of Harrah's Hotel and Casino. "This has been a goal of mine for a long time, to win the SchlitzNASTAR Finals, and I'm sure I'll be easier to live with now." Winner in the 40-49 women's group was Margarethe Kichter, 40, of North Haven, Connecticut. "I'm surprised and in shock," said the cost analyst for Blue Cross and Blue Shield. "My husband is the racer in the family, not me." Her husband, Reinhard, also qualified for the finals but did not finish in the top three in his group. Richard Berbeka, 42, a welder from Carson City, Nevada, skied to victory in the 40-49 group. He came to this country from Poland two years ago. He had skied on the same mountain with Pope John Paul II in Poland, he said. Two 31-year-old teachers learned their ski lessons well, winning Schlitz Gold Cups in their classifications. Sue Severson, a biology teacher at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, won in her class, and Tim Loughlin of Saco, Maine, won in his. Mrs. Severson has three children. Heidi Christensen, 20, Carpentersville, Illinois, was surprised she was named top recreational ski racer in the nation in her class. "I never figured someone from the flatlands could do so well against the 8:30-6:00 stiff competition we had here in the Rockies," said the student at De Paul University. Lon Whitman, 23, Laramie, Wyoming, took a few days off from his studies of petroleum engineering at the University Univer-sity of Wyoming to compete. "I haven't skied much this whole year because of school," he said, "so when I got the telephone call inviting in-viting me to the finals it was a real shock. Winning this is unbelievable." The highest local finish was registered by Park City's Cindy Fish, who took fourth in thp wompn's lQ-'ft Crepe & Expresso& 402 Main Open 7 days 5:30-10:30 class. All 80 finalists, who came here from such distant places as Maine and Miami, Florida, plus one woman from Canada, were guests of the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sponsor of NASTAR since it was started in 1968. NASTAR is a SKI magazine program administered by World-Wide Ski Corp. Aspen, Colorado. Beattie is president of World-Wide. This season, NASTAR attracted at-tracted some 175,000 entrants entran-ts (about 110,000 individuals, some of whom raced more than once), a record season Fondue Cappuccino 649-9998 |