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Show rsdav. Fehruar r maim . ;ir i x 1 , u- L.Mnnr , , , mtTTW" n, , , , , nrr , n,-...nn.n.n- , ,.., -.fc,,,,',, Hat? k ec : ... F,at eNn9 Pain, LATT-pacityUta;nun PI I XI 7 A FAVORITE WITH SALT LAKERS FOR YEARS Breakfast 7-11:30 a.m. Lunch 11:30-3:00 p.m. Dinner 5:00-10:00 p.m. THE PUB 4:00 p.m. -closing hors d'oeuvres specialty drinks entertainment on weekends Private Banquet Facilities and Meeting Space 649-8659 1800 Park Avenue THE 19X1 "l it- V- xapi-r f ' Is Lv f -I t V in wii- I ones, i J Restaurant Cms YARROW Wrestlers prepare for Region 11 Saturday is the day of reckoning for the Park City wrestling team. On Saturday, wrestlers from six Region 11 schools will travel to Kamas to compete com-pete for the right to go to the state tournament. To ensure himself a place at "state," a wrestler must finish first or second in his weight class. Park City Coach Wayne Carlson explained that this seasons wrestling tournaments tour-naments involving Region 11 foes will be used to deter- ' mine the seeding for the region tournament. Carlson said he expects three Park City wrestlers to be seeded first in their classes: Jess Sieverts at 103 lb. James Meekins at 138 lbs , and John Newland at heavyweight. South Summit's wrestling team shows its strength in the other classes, with as many as six representatives expected to be seeded first. Duchesne is given an outside chance to challenge for the Region 11 team championship, champion-ship, with two and possibly three wrestlers favored to win in their weight classes. Also participating in the tournament will be North Summit. Altamont and South Rich. The preliminary round in the tournament is set to begin at 10 a.m. The second round will begin at 2 p.m., with consolation finals scheduled lor 6:30 p.m. and finals at 7:30 p.m. Twox-c races down, but Brighton still to go Two popular citizen crosscountry cross-country races scheduled for this weekend have been cancelled, can-celled, but the annual Easter Seals Ski-a-thon is still on for Saturday, Feb. 7 at the Brighton Touring Center. The Boulder Mountain Marathon in Sun Valley has been cancelled due to lack of anyone to pack the race course. Dan Hamilton of the Galena Touring Center has packed the course other years, but has declined to do it this year, and no one else has offered to take Hamilton's place. The Temple Peak race up Logan canyon was cancelled due to bad snow conditions prior to last weekend's .storm. The race sponsor, USU's Army Rpfc; can-; celled the race when; it "ap-: peared there would not be adequate snow to cover the rocks oi the overland course. The Easter Seals race will begin at 10 a.m. at Brighton. There is no entry fee for this race. Instead, racers secure 1 :es for skiing and the n is turned over to the I '..ill i.iinu Association. D.s'.;ti,ci .iic I'ivi 10 and 23 ki'.. .. i Jekvll and Hvde Girls' team sizzles, then Would the real Park, pity girls' basketball team please stand up? , !ih'ti Local fans left thd; Park City gym shaking "their heads last Thursday night, wondering if they had imagined the Jekyll , and Hyde act which had just taken place on the basketball floor. Hosting the North Summit Braves, the Miners turned in an awesome first half, controlling con-trolling every phase of the game and outscoring the visitors 24-4. Pint-sized guard Carmella Byer had several steals, forward Denelle Gardner controlled the boards, and Bernadette Ott connected with almost every shot she took, scoring 17 first-half points. The Miners did not have the same intensity in the third period, giving up 14 points, but still went into the final period leading 38-18. Then the roof fell in. In a five-minute stretch, the Braves scored 19 (that's right, nineteen) straight points to turn a runaway into a cliffhanger. .Time after time the Miner defenders were caught napping, giving up easy lay-ins. "We got complacent," Park City Coach Bob Burns acknowledged later. "We didn't rebound well and we didn't get back on defense. We had at least four cross-court cross-court passes intercepted. Also we missed some front ends of free throws." With three minutes left in Carlson said that the wrestlers who finish first and second automatically qualify for the state tournament. tour-nament. The third-place wrestler in each weight class from Region 1 1 will face the second place wrestler from the same class in Region 10, with the winner also advancing advanc-ing to state. That round is scheduled for Feb. 10 in Price. The slate tournament will be held Feb. 13 and 14 at Beaver High School. . In action last week,' Park :'City'Mmishedi Sixth W'hn eVglif-feam toufnamehi held Saturday at Kamas. Park City was one of only three 1 A schools in the tournament. James Meekins was the top Miner wrestler in that event, finishing second at 143 lb. Heavyweight John Newland took a third, losing only to the eventual champion champ-ion from Bonneville High School. And Tom Tebbs also took a third at 167 lb., recording record-ing pins over three different dif-ferent adversaries. Miners finishing fourth included Jess Sieverts at 103 lb. and Rob Maloney at 119. lb. Sieverts barely missed out on third place, losing the consolation finals in overtime. over-time. In fifth place were George Stenmark, Mahre hold positions in World Cup action Phil Mahre consolidated his hold on second place in the World Cup overall standings stand-ings last weekend by taking a second place in the slalom held at St. Anton, Austria. Unfortunately, the only man to beat Mahre was the same man who has a hold on first place in the overall standings: Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark. Mahre was in second place behind Austrian Wolfram Ortner after the first run, while Stenmark was well back in 12th place, 77 hundredths hun-dredths of a second behind Ortner. But the second run belonged to the Swede, who makes a habit of overcoming seemingly insurmountable first-run deficits. Stenmark overtook both Ortner and Mahre to win by 12 hundredths hun-dredths of a second. Mahre's second-place finish, together with a 20th place in the downhill at St. Anton on Saturday, was good enough to give- him first place in the combined. He now has 168 World Cup points poin-ts while Stenmark has 200. In third place is Switzerland's Peter Mueller with 140.' Canada's. Steve Podborski and Harti Weirather, both downhill specialists, are in a fourth-place tie with 105 points. Steve Mahre holds ninth place with 89 points. The St. Anton downhill went to Weirather, who edged teammate Peter Wims-berger. Wims-berger. Podborski finished Act r 11 LEFT: Park City's Sheila Hannay (22) fights for ABOVE: Coach Bob Burns hands out the orders. the game, the once-huge Park City lead had shrunk to a single point. With 1:56 left to play, the score was tied at 39. Ott finally woke up the Miners, hitting three free Glover at 98 lb. John Howard at 138 lb., Greg Bair at 135 lb., and Ken Eley at 185 lb. Team standings saw Union High School finish in first place with 166 points, followed by Wasatch (119'-). South Summit 10441. Bonneville Bon-neville (901, Pleasant Grove, i89i. Park City 72 . North Summit Hi9 and Morgan '68 1, In a dual meet held last Thursday, the Miners travelled to Brigham City to tangle with the Intermoun-tain' Intermoun-tain' 'Eagles,'-' and walked -'away ' wVf H'a' 1 '44-22 'VicMry . Recording pins for Park City were George Glover, John Howard. James Meekins. Greg Bair. Tom Tebbs and John Newland. Complete results are listed below, with Park City wrestlers listed first: Park City II, Inlet-mountain 22 !ix 11).: George Glover pinned pin-ned Francis Cosley. I0." lb.: Jess Sieverts dicisioned Dave Calniptewa. 19-7. 112 lb.: Park City lost by forfeit. It!) lb.: Rob Maloney was pinned by Francis Benioh. I2ii lb.: Bill Reed was pinned by Holmes Long. 132 lb.: Vaughn Georgio lost a 9-6 decision to Leon Ramon. is:i lb.: John Howard pinned Ben Harrison. 1 1." lb.: James third. There were eight Austrians in the top 15 places. In the women's' overall World Cup standings, the United States now has three of the top 10 contestants: Cindy Nelson and Christin Cooper are tied for eighth place, while Tamara McKinney is in 10th. Racing Saturday on the short but demanding course at Les Diablerets, Switzerland, Swit-zerland, Cooper was seventh after the first run but had the best time in the second run to finish in second place behind Erika Hess of Switzerland. "Too bad I lost so much time in the first run," said Cooper. "I had trouble finding find-ing my rhythm and the run was too short to allow for any mistakes." Cooper is the only woman on the circuit to have finished all six of the slalom events held so far this season. Leading the women's overall World Cup standings is Marie Therese Nadig of Switzerland with 238 points. Teammate Hess is second with 177. , This weekend, the World Cup tour will take the men to Schladming, Austria, for a downhill race Saturday, then to Oslo, Norway for slalom on Sunday. Meanwhile, the women are scheduled to travel to Haus, Austria for a downhill race Sunday. throws in a 20-second stretch to give her team a 42-39 lead. Then a basket by Wendy Hagmann with 1:06 left (the first Park City field goal of the fourth period) gave the Miners a five-point lead and I -. v- ' j - -. ' ' ' l . - Ij 'j .. Jx ?p1--: ''- 'V4- ' Meekins pinned Dennis Lopez. i.-5 lb.: Greg Bair pinned Floyd Garcia. 167 1b.: bv Ilichard Barnum-Reece ports Journal Guard-heavy Jazz could trade Dantley You can bet that Jazz Coach Tom Nissalke probably put it up there in the Jazz locker room. It's a headline and story from the Boston Globe: "Celtics Enjoy a Laugher, 117-87." 117-87." The Utah Jazz had taken on the Celtics in a televised game and the humiliation wasn't the sort that a Boston sportswriter was going to pass up. No one said anything about it. Nissalke probably just pasted up that sign and then let it set there for all players to see as they walked into the shower, sometimes glancing over to see the taped replay of the game they'd just played. Adrian Dantley is probably the most competitive com-petitive Jazzman. Dantely leads the team in offensive rebounds as well as the league in scoring. But his defense, which always has been the weakest part of his game, has even improved. I asked Calvin Murphy, the former all-star with the Houston Rockets, what he thought of the criticism that Nissalke didn't bend his system to the talent he had on the team; that he tried to bend the players to his system instead. in-stead. "That's bullshit," Murphy said. "If. you can put the ball in the hole, Tom will find a way to get the ball to you. Look at A.D. If you happen to be a shooting guard, then Tom will find a way to get the ball to you, too. It doesn't matter mat-ter if he's going to have to set triple picks." Murphy once thought he was going to be coming with the former Houston Rockets coach to Utah. That wouldn't have bothered him much either he admits. Nissalke is the kind of coach that a national baton twirling star who shoots baskets better than any other player under six feet would like to work under. un-der. "I think he's easy to play for," Murphy said. "He's business that's true. He believes in his players and he never ends up blaming one individual for a loss. He's just an excellent ex-cellent coach." It happens that Frank Layden, the Jazz general manager, is the former college coach of Calvin Murphy at Niagara Universitv in upstate New York. Layden had great success fizzles a rebound. put the game out of reach. The final score was 48-40. Ott finished the game with 31 points, only two shy of her personal record set last year. Hagmann added eight points, Byer had five, Gar tournament Tom Tebbs pinned Joe Mar- tinez. ix: lb.: Ken Eley decisioned Gilbert Antone, 2- dner two and Kim Prince two. The girls' team will not see action this week, but will host Cyprus High School next Tuesday, Feb. 10, at the Park City gym. l- Heavyweight: John Newland pinned Kevin San Diego. with the Atlanta Hawks, and earlier it may be that Uncle Tom Nissalke and Layden sat down and discussed the possibilities of picking up Murphy. But it didn't turn out that way. Instead the team picked up Ron Boone from the Los Angeles Lakers' bench and well the rest is history: Boone ending his 1,000-plus game winning streak last week when Layden told Nissalke it was time to dump the old man of the hardwoods. "The Jazz is just one man away from making it into the playoff someone in the hole (center)," Murphy said. But meanwhile, the Jazz is rich in guards, and one local TV announcer said he thinks the Jazz will even deal away Adrian Dantley, their most beloved of all players, if they can get a shot at a hotshot center. Jeff Wilkins is young and inexperienced and Wayne Cooper is too weak against the likes of such hulks as Kareem and Sven Nater.of San Diego. Ben Pouquette, who is a natural big forward, played Moses Malone to a standstill (maybe even beating up on Moses a bit) in Utah's recent victory over the Rockets. "It was one of my best games," Poquette said after the win. "I did about the same thing to him the last time we played. You've just got to get in there and push and shove if you want to have a chance against him. He's one of the best in the league." The Jazz guard line, with Ricky Green blossoming into one of the best point guards in the league, and Darrell Griffith starting to even out his performances, looks very promising indeed. Backing up Green is Georgetown University Univer-sity star John Duren, who was a Jazz first-round first-round draft pick this year, only to come down with a knee injury in the first part of the season. The Jazz has another first-round draft pick in Carl Wicks, who appears to be a solid contender for one of the starting guard positions next season. The fifth guard is swingman Jeff Judkins who Nissalke sees as a small forward complementing the big forward for-ward the Jazz presently does not have in its '..id. |