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Show The Newspaper Thursday, April 9, 1981 Page B3 Dave Peets was the only Park City skier to finish all four runs. Mammoth defends title in Great Instructor s ' Race The faces were different, but the result was much the same. A team of ski instructors from Mammoth Mountain, Calif, returned to Park City last weekend to defend its title as the best in the nation. And when the dust had cleared, Mammoth had defeated de-feated teams from four other ski areas to win the Great Instructors' Race for the second year in a row. None of the names on the Mammoth roster was familiar fami-liar to those who watched last year's race. Three members mem-bers of the team were in France a year ago, and the fourth was ineligible in 1980 because he was a pro racer. Nevertheless, they picked up where last year's team left off, winning both the giant slalom on Saturday and the slalom on Sunday to take the team trophy back to California. .Snowmass,jCplo. was unable un-able to catch Mammoth, in spite of sparkling individual performances by Christian Pravda and Belinda Brow-nell. Brow-nell. Pravda 's prowess in the slalom put him three-and-a half seconds ahead of the field, pushing her into first place in the combined standings. stand-ings. And Brownell was easily the best of the female competitors, finishing with a combined time almost 15 seconds better than Ellen Shanley of Loon Mountain, New Hampshire. Shanley's teammates suffered suf-fered through five DNFs during the two days of racing to hang onto third place in final team standings. Ax Yewer of Jackson Hole, skiing as an individual, turned in solid performances in both giant slalom and slalom to finish behind Pravda in the men's combined com-bined standings. The Park City team, composed com-posed of Geoff Nielson, Julie Spidell, Dave Peets and Vince Majewski, in third place after Saturday's giant slalom, but ran into trouble on Sunday and ended up fifth overall. Peets was the only Park City representative represen-tative to finish each of the four runs in the two-day event. Both races were held on the Park City Ski Area's Ladies GS run, where the NCAA apline events had been staged three weeks before. be-fore. Most racers agreed that the course held up well, in spite of fluctuating conditions. condi-tions. Saturday's giant slalom was held under blustery conditions con-ditions with a wind blowing almost straight up the hill. As a result, first-run times were relatively slow. "I think it was the weather Only two racers failed to finish the giant slalom on Saturday, one in each run. "The course was not really technical," Peets said Saturday Satur-day night. "Tomorrow should be a lot more exciting." excit-ing." And so it was. The first run of the slalom claimed no less than six skiers: five DNFs and one DQ. Among the victims was Kent Johnson of Bridger Bowl, Montana. He made it ' - "' .' V . , . Park City's Vince Majewski was one of several racers who had trouble in Sunday's slalom. that slowed people down," observed Petts. To cut down the times for the second iun, some of the gates were moved closer to the fall line. While that tactic gave the racers more speed, the afternoon sun made the snow more "grabby," to use the description of one competitor. compe-titor. "I think it was very deceiving deceiv-ing for everyone," Peets agreed, "except for the guys from Mammoth. It didn't seem to bother them at all." With Jean Pierre Filsnoel and Pascal Feige leading the way, the guys from Mammoth Mam-moth took a three-second lead over Snowmass at the end of the second giant slalom sla-lom run. as far as the seventh gate before going off the course. Johnson was asked what he thought of the course. "I dunno," he said. "I didn't get very far." The next racer was Bill Nadler of Snowmass, who lost a ski in almost the same place. Teammate Franz Kopp was disqualified during dur-ing the same run, and Snowmass Snow-mass dropped into third place, more than 14 seconds behind Mammoth. One of the best times was posted by a plastic garbage bag, which got loose at the start and made it almost halfway down the course before running into a tree. "Somebody get an intermediate inter-mediate time for that bag," cracked one of the racers. Although the course was reset between runs, the instructors in-structors continued to have their problems. Ten racers either failed to finish or were disqualified during the second run, including two members of the Mammoth squad. Nevertheless, Mammoth won the event comfortably with a combined time (slalom (sla-lom and giant slalom) of 892.602 seconds. Snowmass was second with a time of 911.135, and Loon Mountain was third in 927.897. Bridger Bowl finished fourth and Park City rounded out the field. No teams finished lower than fifth, because only five teams showed up. Missing from the competition were representatives of the Central Cen-tral Division, the Northwest Division, the Northern Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Division and Alaska. Alas-ka. Duane Vigos, director of the Park City Ski School, said he was notified by the office of the Professional Ski Instructors of America two days before the race that there would be no prizes (last year the top team won a trip to Hawaii). Vigos said the Park City Ski School was left to arrange accommodations accommoda-tions and organize the race. The only sponsor's representative repre-sentative to show up at the race was Kevin Hillier, Ros-signol's Ros-signol's western promotion coordinator. "We did have some sponsors, spon-sors, but they bailed out on us at the last minute," Hillier Hil-lier acknowledged. In the opinion of many of the racers, it was this factor which prompted four of the teams to pull out. "I thought the race itself was well organized," said Rick Bergen of the Mammoth Mam-moth team. "It's too bad a lot of the sponsors backed out." Bergen's teammates, Filsnoel, Feige and Nadine Servonnet, are natives of France who came to Mammoth Mam-moth to teach last November. Novem-ber. Filsnoel finished with the third best combined time overall, and Servonnet was third among the women competitors. ' - . WW m ' l - Zi4 if I 'It-' U't ' III 1 " i V 1 V - A ' If 4 ml: The Cowboy Bar Presents... MOii 1 ct CAPITOL RECORDING fhYj VI ARTIST mmt -norton rwjf C BUFFALO ' y IN CONCERT . l April 18th & 19th ALJlny' $6.00 advance Tg t Sg " $7.00 day of show COMING JUNE 29th AUSTIN CITY LIMITS' j JOE ELY AN EVENING WITH SUN VALLEY'S JOE CANNON April 20th & 21st $5.00 at the door PARK CITY. 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