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Show Tige B2 Thursday, March 4, 1982 The Newspaper Five Park City skiers named to Junior Olympic squad Ml 4 Nordic champs (Safe pt Jlntlfrnttr (Ocvman Cuisine ilrtvh mnh Ptnlj NEW WINTER HOURS: Mon. -Fri., 5-11 p.m. Open for dinner Sat. & Sun., 1-11 p.m. '402 Wain St:! Park City7649-5944. PARK CITY (White Pine Touring Center) BRIGHTON ' L J III A f I Chris Fellows, Michael Richards and Craig Irvine teamed up to take first place in the under-21 division of the nordic relay race held Sunday at the mite Pine Touring Center. See results in the Scoreboard section. i For sale in Old Town Ijjpjp mmmmzm Small brick home on quiet street, laundry room, carport, fireplace, price $90,000.00. CONTRACT AVAILABLE. THE HUNTSMAN CHRISTENSEN CORP. 649-7220. BOOT MARCH 9 MARCH 10 649-6935 Ski with the U.S. Ski Team. Citizen racers are encouraged to attend. Prizes are awarded to all contestants. For more information, and a complete entry form, write to. USSADannon Series, P.O. Box 100, Park City, Utah 84060 Five members of the Park City Ski Team have been picked to compete in the JII Junior Olympics, scheduled to be held in Aspen March44-20. March44-20. According to Ski Team Coach Bob Marsh, the five are Tori Pillinger, Andrea Peterson, Nicki Koch, Jason Lawson and Rolfe Sandberg. The JII class includes 14-and 14-and 45-year-old skiers. Selection Selec-tion to the Junior Olympic squad was based on performance per-formance in qualifying races during the season. Marsh also announced that three Park City racers have qualified to compete in the JI Junior Olympics, to be held on the East Coast later this month. The three are Robert Ayers, Matias Alvarez and Scott Williams. However, Marsh indicated that Ayers is the only one who actually plans to make the trip. The JI class includes 16- and 17-year-old competitors. In action in Park City last weekend, Alvarez was at the top of his form, finishing sixth and fourth in a field which included competition from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. "I think Matias skied exceptionally ex-ceptionally well," Marsh said after Monday's race. The slalom course was set on the Park City Ski Area's Clementine run. Marsh noted that, in the JI class, Alvarez finished third and second in the two races. He said that Ayers and Jonathan Cloud also skied well Monday. Meanwhile, the JII and JIH racers were at Powder 'Mjm' I I ' jf ' 1 7'', '' y V mJ Park City's representatives to the JII Junior Olympics: Front row: Andrea Peterson and Tori Pillinger. Back row: Nicki Koch, Jason Law-son Law-son and Rolfe Sandberg. Mountain for two days of competition in giant slalom. Coach Jordan Swenson said that Park City's Erin Calmes had an outstanding weekend, finishing third and fourth in the two races. Andrea An-drea Peterson was close behind, finishing fifth Saturday Satur-day and sixth Sunday. "Michelle Black also skied very well Sunday," Swenson said. "She was only about a second out (of first place), which is real good for her." For results of last week ends races, please turn to the Scoreboard section. In competition scheduled for this weekend, the JIV and JV skiers will travel to Jeremy Ranch to host senior tourney The new Jeremy Ranch Golf Course will be the site of a regular tournament on the TPA Senior Tour beginning this August. This word came Tuesday from Max Greenhalgh, director of planning for Bagley and Company, developers of the Jeremy Ranch project. According to Greenhalgh, the tournament will be held Aug. 25-28 this year, and about the same date every year after that. "We intend to make it the premier event of the TPA Seniors Tour," he said. Officially called the Jeremy Ranch Seniors Tournament, the event will offer a purse of $150,000, with $25,000 to the winner. Greenhalgh said Arnold Palmer, the architect of the course, and Utah resident Billy Casper will serve as honorary tournament hosts. "Because of their draw, we expect a good showing from the top seniors," he said. Helping to promote the event will be Osmond Enterprises. Enter-prises. Any profits from the event will be donated to the Cottonwood and Alta View hospitals, and to the nonprofit non-profit Osmond Foundation. , In conjunction with the tournament will be a two-day two-day pro-am event. Each amateur will pay $3,000 to participate. An 18-hole warm-up will be held for the amateurs Aug. 24 on the Park City Municipal Golf Course. "It could be a very important impor-tant ingredient in the Park City-area economy," Greenhalgh Green-halgh said. "It should bring into the community a couple of million dollars from lodging, gas, food, entertainment..." enter-tainment..." He said tournament organizers would try to make use of facilities in the Park City area as much as possible. The TPA (formerly called the PGA) Seniors Tour is open to touring golf pros 50 years of age or older. Resort to host 1982 Camel Ski Days Sports Illustrated and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company are teaming up this season to bring two days of competition, competi-tion, coaching, and apres-ski festivities to skiers at Park City March 19 - 20. Highlighting the Camel Ski Days weekend, Andy Mill, a two-time U.S. Olympic Ski Team member, will conduct a demonstration featuring racing turns, starting techniques, tech-niques, and finish line tactics, followed by a free clinic for skiers 21 and older. Entrants will be limited. Those wishing wish-ing to participate should sign up in the base lodge as early as possible on the morning of March 20. Ski hats or bandanas go to all participants. In addition, a free trip to Padre Island, Texas, will be given away through a special drawing. As part of the Camel Ski Days, a bartender employee em-ployee challenge will be held at 10 a.m. on March 19. Teams of four will race against the clock with the fastest cumulative time determining de-termining the winning team. To qualify, at least one member of the team must be a local bartender, restaurant or ski shop employee. A special trophy will be awarded to the winning team, and each member will receive his own plaque. 0mm Snow Basin for a downhill while the "A" and JI racers are due to go to Soldier Mountain, Idaho, for two days of slalom races. Another Mahre steals the spotlight Chalk up another top-ten finish for the Mahre family. Phil? Nope. Steve? Nope. This time, the spotlight shifted to a younger member of the Mahre family: Paul. With his two big brothers on the sidelines, Paul Mahre of the famous skiing family posted a ninth-place finish in a men's World Cup downhill at Mount Whistler, British Columbia. Paul was the top American in the Feb. 27 race, won by Peter Mueller of Switzerland. Switzer-land. Second went to Steve Podborski of Canada with teammate Dave Irwin finishing finish-ing third. Swiss and Canadian Canad-ian skiers also captured fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh sev-enth places. The other American finishers finish-ers were Bill Johnson in 19th, Craig Hegg 22nd, Tris Cochrane Coch-rane 27th, Andy Chambers 33rd, Andy Luhn 40th, Peter Field 46th, Alan Lauba 48th, Mike Brown 49th and Tom Bowers 53rd. The men are now in Aspen for two downhills scheduled for March 5 and 6. Steve Mahre, who was scheduled to appear at the U.S. Ski Team Celebrity Classic in Park City last weekend, instead headed for Lake Tahoe to have a small piece of cartilege removed from one knee. He expects to be back in action when the tour returns to Europe in the middle of the month. Meanwhile, on the women's tour, 20-year-old Karen Lancaster of Incline Village, Nevada posted the fastest time by any American Ameri-can skier to finish fourth in the giant slalom held Saturday Satur-day in Aspen. Cindy Nelson was seventh. The top three finishers are all familiar to World Cup watchers: Maria Epple finished fin-ished first, sister Irene was third, and Erika Hess of Switzerland, the current overall points leader, was in between. Two other American contenders, con-tenders, Christin Cooper and Tamara McKinney, blew out on the first run. The women's tour is now in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, for a pair of races March 3 and 4. Golf fees set The city has adopted a resolution setting fees for the use of the Park City Municipal Golf Course during the upcoming season. The fee schedule includes the following: Green fees, 18 holes $11. Green fees, 9 holes $6.50. These rates apply to golfers of all ages, on both weekdays and weekends. Nontransferrable season passes are also available for a fee of $200 for adults, $125 for persons 17 years of age or younger. Junior passes will not be valid after 2 p.m. on weekends or holidays. Resident playing cards will be made available to those who live or own property within the city limits for a fee of $20. The playing card entitles the holder to a 50 percent discount on all green fees, but not on cart rentals. ren-tals. This card is valid on weekends and holidays. For more information, please turn to the Legal Notices on Page A12. Nordic skiing Test yourself against the best Twenty-three members of the U.S. Nordic Ski Team will join other top skiers in two Dannon West Crosscountry Cross-country Series races to be held at Park City, March 9, and Brighton, March 20. The races are open to all who wish to enter, so that anyone can see how he or she stacks up against the best skiers in the country. Prizes will be awarded to the top licensed and citizen skiers, and every contestant will receive a hat and Dannon Yogurt. The Park City race will be a series of sprints ranging from 200 meters to two kilometers in length. The event at Brighton will include in-clude a 12-kilometer race lor men and a six kilometer race for women. U.S. Ski Team members who are scheduled to be entered in both events are: Jim Renkart, Eric Ahti, Duncan McLean, Todd Weber, We-ber, Pat Ahem, Gary Crawford, Craw-ford, Kerry Lynch, Mike Randall, Matt Byerly, Todd Boonstra, Bruce Likly, Joe Galanes, Jim Recob, Stacy Veeneman, Joanne Musolf, Karen Henery, Kate Freeman, Free-man, Pam Smith, Kristen Petty, Leslie Thompson, Lilly Shuell, Ingrid Langell, Stephanie Stegall. These races are the third and fourth in the six-event Dannon West Series which follows similar series in the East and Midwest, all sponsored spon-sored by Dannon Yogurt and sanctioned by the United States Ski Association. Starting Start-ing times are 10 a.m. in Park City and 1 p.m in Brighton. |