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Show r Page Bl InI Newspaper A by Jim Murray Thursday, May 14, 1981 Boys Tennis Miners beat Mustangs for region crown Take that, you old sway-backs! sway-backs! The Park City High School tennis team, still smarting from a 3-2 loss to Dugway April 30, turned the tables on the Mustangs last Friday (if you can turn the tables on a horse) by winning four of a possible five matches in the Region 11 championship finals. The region tournament . was a five-team affair, but you wouldn't have known it from the final round. In all five championship matches, the opponents were the same: Park City and Dugway. Dug-way. By sweeping all but the number two singles match, the Miners won their first-ever first-ever region title in tennis. The final team standings found Park City with 18 points, followed by Dugway with 12, St. Joseph with four, South Summit with one, and St. Mark's with none. The tournament, held at the Park City Racquet Club, was scheduled for the seven outdoor courts. But the weatherman didn't cooperate. co-operate. "I went to bed expecting sunshine, and woke up to a snowstorm," Park City Coach David Chaplin said with a grin. With several inches of snow on the courts, the matches were moved indoors. in-doors. But good fortune still shone on Park City. By a strange quirk, the Miners faced only two other schools in their march to the championship. The tournament tourna-ment was arranged so that the number four and number five seeds in each class would face each otherjn the quarterfinals, with the winner win-ner advancing to meet the number one seed in one of the semifinal matches. The other semifinal match pitted the number two seed against the number three seed. In each of the three singles classes, Park City was seeded second and St. Joseph was seeded third. And in both of the doubles classes, Park City was seeded first and St. Joseph emerged victorious from the quarterfinal quarter-final rpund. So the Miners and the Jays met in five semifinal matches. In number one singles, Darrick Olsen outlasted Greg McDonald of St. Joseph, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, to advance to the finals. In number two singles, Shawn Glieden knocked off Kevin Willard, 6-2, 7-6 (winning the tiebreaker 7-3). And Paul Dyer slipped past Alan Lipman in number three singles, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. In number one doubles, Ted Bird and Mike Jarosz dumped Mike Kenny and Harry Wong, 6-3, 6-1. And Scott Pirraglio and Collyn Adamson had little trouble with Bo Arbogast and Steve Bamberger, winning 6-1, 6-1. Then came the finals. While the Miners were winning their semifinal matches, the Mustangs were doing the same against South Summit and St. Mark's. Suddenly, it was a rematch of the April 30 meeting. But the results were very different. Instead of losing all of their singles matches as they had done the previous week, the Miners turned it around. In number one singles, Darrick Olsen played what Chaplin called "the best match he's played in his entire life" to knock off John Bate, 6-4, 6-1. Olsen gave a clinic in how to play the net, slamming shot after shot past his Dugway opponent. "He had tremendous control, knowing know-ing when to attack and when to rally," Chaplin added. Early in the match, Olsen spotted a weakness in Bate's backhand and used it to his advantage. The number two singles finals could have been billed as the battle of the hotheads. Dugway 's Steve Bruce and Shawn Glieden traded almost al-most as many insults as they did shots. No one kept score w if ' : . VT: v ) - . ... ' -v f Paul Dyer returns a shot during his semi-final match against Alan Lipman. in the war of the words, but Bruce won the tennis match 1-6, 6-4, 6-2. "Steve is a very competitive competi-tive kid, as is Shawn," Chaplin said. "But Steve seems to control his anger better, or at least directs it better." In number three singles, Paul Dyer paid back Troy Carney for the loss April 30 by beating him 6-4, 7-6. Paul made fewer mistakes and played with more authority au-thority (than he did April 30)," Chaplin said. He pointed out that Dyer was trailing 5-3 in the tiebreaker, then took the next four points in a row. "And he took them with pressure, not with luck." In number one doubles, Mike Jarosz and Ted Bird took three sets to beat Joe Mohammed and Sam Le-diard, Le-diard, 6-0, 5-7, 6-2. "I think they got lazy," Chaplin said when asked to explain the second set. "They didn't attack on their serves, and they didn't play smart, percentage tennis. "But we had a little chat between the second and third sets, and they handled it (after that)." Collyn Adamson and Scott Pirraglio also took three sets to beat Kevin McMinn and Steve Lundy, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. "Collyn and Scott kind of did the opposite of what Ted and Mike did," Chaplin explained. "They started to try extra hard, to do everything every-thing perfectly." Adamson and Pirraglio also were subjected to a chat between the second and third sets. But it took a while for the message to sink in: they dropped the first three games of the third set before coming back to take six of the next seven. With the region championship champion-ship in their pocket, the Miners now advance to the state tournament, also scheduled for the Park City Racquet Club. Play is set to begin Friday at8:30a.m. "If anyone has any influence in-fluence over the weather, we would appreciate anything over 35 degrees and dry, with a wind velocity under 10 "v. ' 4, v V- 4 ... W . : . 1 f , Condolences? Coach David Chaplin appears to be consoling Collyn Adamson and Scott F'i !" aft or n loss at Friday's tournament. He's not. They won. Monirray oim pqpirit She could beat the boys, but not the boycott Did you know that you run with your arms, not your legs? You can't talk and run at the same time, or even the same year? Running is as much mental as physical and it's not necessarily the legs that go first; it might be the brain? And European women beat American women on the track because the Americans think there's a mystique about them they're a kind of "bionic women" produced not in a womb, but in a laboratory? These are not the views of some tight-lipped leave-my-athletes-alone track coach on the spore of a national championship, but those of Evelyn Ashford. And attention must be paid because Evelyn, when she feels like it, is not only one of the world's fastest runners, but fastest talkers. She is not one of those you-saw-it-you write-about-it types, but Evelyn feels a little bit used by history at the moment because there are girls walking around Leipzig or Minsk wearing her gold medals. Nineteen Eighty was to have been the year the world found out about Evelyn Ashford via NBC satellite and not just Track and Field News. It took the unlikely partnership of the Red Army and Jimmy Carter to trample on that dream. Evelyn Ashford was not pulled out of a computer by some East bloc commissar and sent off to be a state zombi in athletics. Evelyn found out she could run the old-fashioned old-fashioned way she beat the boys. It was not just any old boys, it was the Roseville High football team. Evelyn used to beat them every night in 50-yard sprints while the whole student body in that Sacramento suburb turned out and cheered. They put her on the track team. Not the women's. They didn't have one. The men's. Evelyn ran No. 3 in the school sprints and a leg in the relay. It wasn't that the school tried to hid the fact that Evelyn was a girl. That's the first thing you notice about Evelyn Ashford. That she's a girl. Especially when she runs in that form-fitting form-fitting body suit of the type Eric Heiden made famous (and Evelyn Ashford made gorgeous). Evelyn's specs, 5'5", 115 pounds, run more to chorus line than football line. Evelyn found out she could run by sprinting away from all those 9.9 halfbacks at Roseville. She found out she could beat more than football players when she made the 1976 Olympic team. Only 19 and with no formal training in the sport, Ashford won a quarterfinal quarter-final heat in the 100 at Montreal, finished a charging second to the eventual winner in another heat, and a strong fifth in the finals. She found world-class sprinters only a little harder to beat than tight ends. "You know, in world-class competition, the Europeans have this mystique about them," she says. "We, in America, have this fear about them, that they know something we don't, that they're like bionic women. I lost this fear at Montreal." By '79, back at Montreal, it was their turn to fear Evelyn Ashford. Evelyn whipped the flower of the European laboratories in the World Cup meet there. But, if she could outrun the boys, she couldn't outrun the boycotts. Depressed and disgusted when her chance for Moscow went glimmering, she went to Japan for a series of meaningless races. "I was in the best shape of my career for Moscow," she remembers. "I felt it was the culmination of four years of hard work. When it got wasted, I didn't do the things I should do to keep fit. For instance, I ran on 'green tracks', new surfaces they were putting down there to get ready for the 1988 Olympics. Also I came directly home from Japan and ran in the Pepsi Invitational last year without providing for the two days' rest and sleep you need. I pulled a muscle. I was out for a year. I didn't care. I almost courted injury." When the mind wanders the feet follow suit. But Evelyn Ashford still feels the world owes her a gold medal and, last week, she was back at the same UCLAPepsi Invitational track meet at Drake Stadium to start her campaign for the '84 Olympics. This time, the mind is in partnership. Evelyn is lifting weights because, she says, "You run with your arms, you strengthen your upper body to make your lower body meet its expectations." She decries, but puts up with, the media pressure and demands on her time because "It's distracting to run and talk at the same time and distraction, by definition, is the opposite of concentration." She regularly tools the 30 minutes or so daily from her apartment in Hollywood to the UCLA track in the family sedan which isn't always mentally ready for the run, either, and hubby, Ray Washington, a basketball player and auto mechanic, has to put the machine back together between coughing fits. You have the feeling women's track and field is going to find out what the Roseville varsity found a long time ago, that nobody with a football can run as fast as Evelyn Ashford without one and neither can people who come out of test tubes with bolts in their foreheads or somebody else's blood piped in. 1981, Los Angeles Times Syndicate miles per hour," Chaplin pleaded. "Then we'll finish before midnight." Qualifying for "state" on the basis of their showing at region are Park City (in all classes), Dugway (in all classes), St. Joseph (in four classes) and South Summit (in number two doubles only). Also on hand will be the best tennis players from Regions 10 and 11. Chaplin said he expects tough competition com-petition to come from Kan-ab, Kan-ab, Monticello, Green River and Wasatch Academy. Court time for both region and state tournaments is being donated by the Park City Racquet Club. Tournament Tourna-ment director is Harry Reed. 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