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Show Park Record Thursday, May 1, 1986 Page B3 tDODIPTl SUBURBAN VOLVO FIREBIRD JETTA DC S I 1 BBS I 1 Golfers improving in time for regionals by KURT KIDMAN Record staff writer It is said that a golfer would climb the highest mountain, swim the widest sea or eat raw liver in an effort ef-fort to cut a stroke off his score. It is unclear just what Park City Golf Coach Paul Willard is feeding the Miners these days, but it is working. work-ing. Despite some un-golflike weather in Park City lately, the Miners are the most improved team in the region. They proved just how improved they are April 28 at the Park City Golf Course by shooting a team score of 348, their best total the season to finish third behind Wasatch (316) and Union (344). Lehi placed fourth at 362 and Morgan was fifth with a 374 total. The win catapults the Miners into fourth place in the overall standings going into the May 5 final region tournament and state qualifier at Jeremy Ranch. In the four region tournaments so far Park City has a 1,492 total, seven strokes ahead of Morgan at 1,499. Wasatch is in first with a 1,286 total, Union is second at 1,366 and Lehi is third at 1,396. "Every week we are improving and I'm glad to see that happen," said an elated Willard after the tournament. tour-nament. "We were just four strokes out of second place, and I think our kids can play even better. We played well despite the crummy weather we have been having." Leading the Miners once again was Jeff Keye with an 82. Mark Veronne was just one stroke back at 83, Jacob Doilney shot an 86 and Robert Jones was the fourth scorer with a 97. "I think playing at home and the kids knowing the golf course helped, but I think we can Dlav that kind of golf consistently," Willard said. "With our scores you can see that the kids are gaining confidence. We have a couple of younger kids who have never really competed in tournament tour-nament golf like this and it takes some time to get over the nerves." So far this year the golf team has met every goal that Willard has set. He has asked them to keep improving improv-ing their score by 15 strokes per tournament, and to keep moving up in the standings. In the four tournaments tour-naments this year the Miners have moved from fifth place to third place and have cut 53 strokes off their team total. "We feel very good about meeting our goals. Now our next goal is to qualify for the state tournament," Willard said. "We are looking forward for-ward to a good conclusion to the season. Our steady improvement has built enthusiasm, and I think if we can consistently shoot in the low 340s it gives us a legitimate shot at finishing second in the region tournament." tour-nament." At Monday's tournament at Jeremy Ranch, all the 1A and 2A schools in the northern region will try to qualify for the state tournament. tourna-ment. Those teams who finish in the top half of the region tournament will qualify for state. As of now 12 teams have indicated they will enter the region meet, which means the top six will travel to St. George for the state meet. "Of course Jeremy Ranch will be a tougher course than we have played but I still think we can turn in a score in the 340s," Willard said. "A ? f f 1 I . 1 fx. V 4" '..1 ,.'." J n I k Jeff Keye (above) shot an 82 to lead the Miner golf team to a third place finish in Monday's match at the Park City Golf Course. Teammate Jacob Doilney (right) added an 86 to the Miners cause. couple of our kids have had some practice playing the course before and we are going to try to get over there for a practice round. " The region tournament will begin at 10 a.m. o Jim Smedley Track team picks up victories at Tooele Park City High School's girls' and boys' track teams picked up victories vic-tories in an eight-team meet held April 24 at Tooele High School. The Park City girls dominated their meet by running up 210 12 points. The next highest team was Wendover with 46 12 points, followed follow-ed by St. Joseph with 41 and South Summit with 31. The boys' team also picked up a big victory in the meet by tallying 172 points to 132 for Grantsville and 72 for Wendover. "Both victories really made us happy," Coach Bill Kahn said. "It was nice the girls won by so far, and it was good for the boys to win because they beat Grantsville, which had beaten us a week before. It really helped us to have gone against them once before because we knew their strengths and weaknesses and we were able to juggle jug-gle our team to get the maximum points." The Park City boys won despite giving Grantsville a 31-point head start because the Miners have no pole vaulters. Leading the boys was Scott Tatum with two excellent results. He long jumped 20 feet 5 inches, the best of his life, to win the long jump, and turned in a 15.32 seconds in the high hurdles to win the race with one of the fastest times in the state this year. In other Park City results, Mike Richards held on to win the mile in 4.58, and Chris Carlson won the. 300-meter hurdles. Nate Smith came through to win the javelin, an event in which Park City doesn't usually pick up many points. In the girls' meet, Abbey Peterson picked up firsts in the 1600-meter and the 3200-meter runs. Freshman Tracey Montgomery picked up a win in the high "hurdles and Pam Finegan was triumphant in the intermediate in-termediate hurdles. The Miner girls also placed first in the three relays. In the 400-meter relay it was the team of Kathryn Willard, Holly Elkins, Wendy Smith and Heidi Hannay. The win in the 1600-meter medley relay went to Stacey Moore, Montgomery, Hannay Han-nay and Stacey Richards, while Heidi and Kathy Hannay, Moore and Elkins teamed up to win the 1600-meter relay "We are doing a lot better now. Of course we get better later in the season in the events that we can only practice during actual competition," competi-tion," said Kahn, referring to the lack of track at Park City. "We are trying to peak now, and our depth is improving." The region meet will be held May 9 at Lehi High School. The Miners will get some idea how tough the competition com-petition will be with a May 6 meet at Morgan. "All the schools in the region will be at the Morgan meet so we will get some idea of where we stand," Kahn said. "The region meet is going to be close. We could finish anywhere from first to last. There are no teams that are far, far superior or far, far inferior." Those Miners who place in the top four at the region meet will qualify for the state meet to be held May 17 at Brigham Young University. Muckers open season with loss in Vegas by KURT KIDMAN Record staff writer The Park City Rugby Football Club (the Muckers) began the season in Las Vegas Saturday with a tough 10-4 loss to a team that many of the Muckers said they could beat. The fact that the Las Vegas team was playing its last match of the year, plus some strange refereeing, led to the Muckers' downfall. "It was a pretty good game. I think Las Vegas was a little embarrassed embar-rassed that they didn't beat us easily," easi-ly," said Mucker George Austin. "It was great to get in the first few hits of the season." By playing the match in April the Muckers have begun their season earlier than usual. The team is well stocked with players, and they hope that the B side will be formed by the end of May when the games with the Utah and Idaho teams begin. "The wind was blowing real hard down in Vegas, and when we didn't score with the wind with us we knew we were in trouble," said long-time Mucker Dave "Sonny" Sundquist. "There was also a referee who wasn't real familiar with the rules. He disallowed a couple of things that are very important to our game. That was really a shame, plus we didn't react very well to the way he refereed, or at least as well as we should have." Park City's only try came on a scrum about five yards from the goal line. The Muckers pushed the scrum into the goal area and the forwards for-wards fell on the ball. "I thought we played very well," Sundquist said. "Jack Walzer, Jim Hays, Steve Simchen and Steve Creer all made some impressive tackles and ran the ball real well." If the game had been refereed the correct cor-rect way, we would have won. But I'd rather lose one game like that early in the season than change and lose more at the end of the season." Next up for the Muckers is the Maggot Festival to be held the weekend of May 10 in Missoula, Montana. The Missoula Maggots will be hosting the festival, which is one of the largest in the West. The Park City home opener will be at the end of May against Pocatello. "Last year we beat every team in the Great Basin Union at least once, and I think we have basically picked up this season where we left off last season," Sundquist said. "The backs are running well, the forwards are playing well and we are in relatively decent shape. Actually we are in pretty good shape for this early in April, and we have been having some really tough practices. We should be in good shape for the season." Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Max O. Vierig 1 729 Sidewinder Dr. Prospector Sq. 649-9161 STATE FARM INSURANCE See me for car, home, life and health insurance. 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