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Show Page 14 Thursday, April 3, 1980 The Newspaper Picture her on Easter morning as i KODAK Instant Print Film -.) f , ii ys x i V Pictures that smile ... in beautiful color by Kodak in moments. Ejects from your camera clean and dry. Develops in moments with elegant SATINLUXE Finish for pretty-as-a-picture prints. Kodak f rrli'no ' 1 Tt 1" PROCESSING . J 523 Main Street 649-9431 MondaySaturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. n & r if April 7th & 8th Free lunch & day pass for day of race plus free pass for another day. Call the Race Department 649-81 11, ext. 294 or 649-8749 f lite X SKI TEAM Lite Spring Series Gomes to Park City Come See The U.S. Ski Team Race April 5th & 6th Local Support By Star Distributing a wholly-owned subsidiary of Miller Brewing Co. JPW S MTtAM Above: Susan Mahoney finishes first place bar routine. Right: Carrie Morecraft during floor exercise. "s . . . J . - -?. ..Amm- . - 7-. ,f... .; J - jouMMHW HW"' ' ''4 : '-.h" : . "LIWI" - m 11 - J sHb mmfrv S ' '. -. " . , " i, ' ' 'J - , " t : C.' Gymnasts. Win Park City boasted the top 1A gymnastics team in the state last year. And if the first meet of this season is any indication, that ranking isn't about to change. Hosting the four other Region 11 teams March 26, Park City won 24 out of 35 possible places to finish more than 200 points ahead of second-place Duchesne. Park City's Susan Mahoney was the top individual in-dividual competitor at the meet "dominating Cjasi, II with a first place on tljje hjars, a second in the floor exercises exer-cises and the optional vault, and a third on the balance beam. Connie Hamilton, also from Park City, finished first fir-st in the floor exercises, second on the bars and third in the optional vault. Mahoney took first place in the all-around Class II point standings, followed by Hamilton in second place and teammate Chris Hale in third. In Class III, four different Park City gymnasts finished first in the four events. Pam Tebbs topped the com-rpeliiion, com-rpeliiion, on., .the .. , balance .beam ,,Suzy Clark finished . tXW On fcsajan Soares led a 1-2-3 sweep in the vault. And Julie Eriksen won the floor exercises. In the all-around Class III point standings, Pam Tebbs was second and Anita Miles finished third. Complete meet results are listed in the scoreboard section. sec-tion. The members of this year's team include Suzy Clark, Chris Hale, Julianna Eriksen, Connie Hamilton (captain), Margo Mahoney, Susan Mahoney, Anita Miles, Carrie Morecraft, Alana Soares, Pam Tebbs, , Lisa ..Thaller . and, .Madge . Marcellin. , They are being coached by Gail McBride and Richard Johnson. Mrs. McBride said this year's team compares favorably to last year's. "I think we have greater ability this year. On the other hand, the competition has improved." im-proved." There is only one senior on this year's Park City squad. The 1A gymnastics season actually lasts less than a month. It will end with the state championship (which will not include 2A teams this year) April 19. The girls spend more weeks in practice prac-tice than in competition. "We started working out in January,". Mrs. McBride pointed out. "It takes the girls some time to learn their routines and get in shape." Top Racers Compete in Park City Spring Series By Richard Barnum-Reece The best ski racers in the United States will be slashing down the U.S. Ski Team runs here this weekend in the final competition com-petition of the 1979-80 season, the Spring Series. Joining U.S. Ski Team member Roxanne Toly of Park City will be Christin Cooper, who was crowned national slalom and giant slalom champion last week during the Nationals at Squaw Valley. Cooper also finished second in downhill to win the overall combined championship. Other Olympians competing com-peting at Park City will be Cary Adgate, Karl Anderson, Ander-son, Phil and Steve Mahre, Billy Taylor, Abbi Fisher, Holly Flanders, Cindy Nelson and Tamara McKin-ney. McKin-ney. U.S. Ski Team members joining the contingent will include Sun Valley's Maria Maricich, Cindy Oak, Diane Berard, Eva Pfosi, NorAm Champion Noel Lyons, and Viki Fleckenstein. Unfortunately, Pete Patterson Pat-terson and Heidi Preuss will not attend. Both skiers were injured at the National Championships held last week in Squaw Valley, California. They both are scheduled to undergo operations this week. A ski team spokesman said Preuss, who came into her jwn this year as a downhill threat as well as a top-ranked top-ranked technical skier, is a question mark. "We just don't know for sure how serious the injury is," the spokesman said. "We're hoping for the best." Two slaloms for men and women are scheduled in the traditional Spring Series races. Tentative plans are to hold both races Saturday and Sunday, thus ending the season for at least a month for the top-ranked competitors. com-petitors. And for some, like Michigan's Cary Adgate, the race will signal the end of an amateur career that spanned span-ned almost 10 years as an in-ternational in-ternational competitor traveling the World Cup circuit. cir-cuit. "It's been a good career for me," Adgate said earlier this week at the Celebrity Classic in Sun Valley. "Right now I'm looking at my options." op-tions." He said he was considering going onto the pro circuit if the financial arrangements could be worked out to his satisfaction. Adgate said he was disturbed distur-bed at some developments by ski team administrators. He said some ski team coaches seemed to be trying to regiment the ski racers too much, and that could destroy the fabric of the team. "You look at the best ski racers in the world and there are some pretty individual individuals," he said. "That's ski racing right there. It's an individual sport and when you go too far in trying to get people in line it can backfire." Adgate remarked, "You can't make these guys work at being good ski racers any more than they work right now. Especially Americans. They're not like that. Skiing is an individual sport." Adgate said two other A Team members who have considered joining him in bidding adieu to the Ski Team are Olympians Steve and Phil Mahre. "Phill is one of the best in the world, the very best," Adgate said. "He knows how to get the best out of himself." Before the Olympics, Phil Mahre told a New York Times Magazine reporter that he and his brother would quit the team if coaches attempted at-tempted to supervise their off-season activities such as moto-cross riding. "If they wanted that (offseason (off-season control) we wouldn't be on the ski team," Phil Mahre said. "We'd say forget it, we've got other things to do. Sure, skiing is our life in the winter, but there's a lot more to our lives than skiing." Also competing in the races which begin Saturday at 10 a.m. on the Ladies G3' run, will be skiers from Japan, Bolivia, Italy, Norway, Nor-way, New Zealand and junior racers who have sufficient suf-ficient points to be admitted to the competition. Surprises Mark Year on Pro Tour Medley Relay Reset The Media Medley scheduled for last Sunday on the Park City slopes didn't quite attract the array of newspaper, radio and television personalities hoped thanks to a snowstorm that had most of the ski area closed until late morning. The 16th running of the Park City Media Medley has been rescheduled to Sunday, April 13. The race is open to any newspaper, magazine, wire service, radio or television station, and each organization may enter as many three-member teams or individual racers as it wishes. Awards will be given in each of three classes to individual in-dividual men and women winners, as well as to team champs. Registration will be held Sunday, April 13 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Race Department located next to the Pay Day chairlift. The giant slalom race will begin at noon on the Clementine Clemen-tine run, and will be followed by the fun Media Mania race. An awards party will be held at Prospector Square Ski and Conference Center. Vail, Co. In a season full of surprise first place victories, vic-tories, the final race was no exception as Laurent Guf-fond Guf-fond swept through a tough field of 145 competitors to take his first win on the Coors Colorado Pro Tour. The former French ski team member now living in Squaw Valley, Calif., is a shy man of few words when it comes to the English language. When race announcer an-nouncer John Gurther asked how he felt as a winner, Guf-fond Guf-fond said, "Happy and surprised sur-prised a little." And the race? "No big problem-nice problem-nice runs," he said grinning. grin-ning. Dave Cleveland, last year's overall champion, took second and he elaborated on the race. "I've got the second place blues two second place victories vic-tories and second overall. But I am happy. This was an exhausting race. I know I made a mistake on that second to last run. He (Guf-fone) (Guf-fone) deserved this win," he said. Wayne Wright, 25, Vermont, Ver-mont, finished third and Dan Brelsford, 23, Bozeman, Mont., took fourth. Upsets dominated in the finals as Bruce Gamble and Jean-Peter Ostbye were ousted early. Both wanted to finish well in order to improve im-prove their overall position in the standings and Ostbye hoped to move from third to second. It was tough to predict who would surface in the duel between Guffond and Wayne Wright in the semi finals, but Guffond survived sur-vived when Wright blew out on the first run and did not finish the second. And the final draw between the Frenchman and Cleveland really thrilled the spectatorsCleveland spec-tatorsCleveland won the first run by .439 seconds but losttoGuffond's.458. The overall champion was decided two events ago when Greg Snider pushed his point total beyond the grasp of any other competitor. Snider was eliminated by Cleveland in the New Lange Cup's round of 32 when he lost both runs. |