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Show Park Record Thursday, September 1 1, 1986 Page B7 Miners come from behind to beat Wildcats, 21-14 ft - I !!. U.I . i nil.. I I by KURT KIDMAN Record associate editor For the second straight week the 'Park City Miners football team used an opportunistic offense, a stingy defense, some great individual efforts ef-forts and a strong second half performance per-formance to defeat a ranked 1-A team. , This time the victim was South 'Summit, and the win is more impressive im-pressive when you consider the game was in Kamas. After spotting the Wildcats a 14-3 lead, the Miners came back to win the Region Nine opener, 21-14. Coupled with Park I City's win over Duchesne on Aug. 29, the Miners now boast a 2-0 record. "It was a great win for the team," said Miner coach Bob Burns. "I think our conditioning helped in the second half of both of our wins. Hopefully it will continue. South Summit's intensity dropped in the second half when they got tired, and we were mentally aware of what we had to do to win in the fourth quarter." The win over the Wildcats was a sort of tortoise vs. hare affair. The tortoise, in this case the Miners, got the lead in the second quarter after Bruce Buckner's punting gave them good field position and quarterback Cam Hone hit Buckner with a 37-yard pass. Although the pass moved the ball to the four-yard line, . the Miners were forced to settle for a Buckner 24-yard field goal and a 3-0 lead. Then the hare (South Summit) took off. South Summit's Clint Bergstrom took the ensuing kick-off 1 at his own goal-line, cut to the right a little, and thanks to some bruising blocks, sprinted 100 yards for a touchdown. Five minutes later, South Summit's quarterback, Mark Rydalch, hit wide-receiver Dee Crews for a 72-yard touchdown pass. The Wildcats missed their first extra ex-tra point, and then converted on a two-point conversion. Before you could say "Big Play," the Wildcats led 14-3 "We have some concerns about our special teams," Burns said. ' "And on the touchdown pass our cor-nerback cor-nerback just fell asleep. Overall they have always had good or great ' team speed and we were worried about that. The team speed is what hurt us on the two big plays." However, the two scores were all the Wildcats were to get in the game, as the tortoise slowly, but surely, overcame the hare. Near the end of the first quarter, Hone was replaced at quarterback by last week's starter Brian McReynolds, who had been injured in the Duchesne game. Hone left the game after completing three of his six passes for 45 yards, with one interception. in-terception. "We initially felt we were going to start Brian if he was healthy enough to go," Burns said. "Cam did well in the game, but we felt we needed to go with a change. The two kids are different, they have different strengths. Against South Summit we felt we needed Brian's strengths." The game's turning point may well have occurred during the last minute of the first half. After a Buckner punt pinned the Wildcats on their own one-yard line, Burns called call-ed a time-out with less than 20 seconds left in the half. "Anytime the ball is on their one-yard one-yard line we try to put the pressure on them," Burns explained. "His (South Summit coach Tom Crit- Bike 'n Tie to have a shotgun start Mayor Hal Taylor has promised to ' dust off his 12-gauge shotgun and t fire the blast that will start the 1986 Park City Bike 'nTie. This is the second year for the race that started in Park City last summer. sum-mer. Unlike triathlons, marathon running or any other endurance event Bike 'n Tie is more than a test of physical stamina. Competitors say it's a game of strategy. The 24-mile race course loops in and out of Park City terrain including in-cluding ski runs, rocky trails, old mining roads and paved streets. Mountain bikes, with the fat, knobby, knob-by, tough tires, are the preferred 51 equipment. In addition to being a long ride the course has more than 3,000 feet of vertical climb. The course was also arranged for spectators spec-tators as competitors duck in and out of the backcountry. Two-person teams share one bicy-' cle during the race. One team ' member must ride and the other must run and they can trade duties at any time. The strategy comes into play in deciding who should run and ride certain sections of the race. Both participants must either run or ride every mile of the course. Bike'n Tie to B10 a A . (T ... 1 AW aC :J -')v NJ r . vv- A - j v?; A r T? ill it v L"vt? ' iwL l . - O f lM II;- muimmmmmmmmmmrmumimmmmtmmHmmmmmmimmmm saiaiiMitaniwtivtiiii,i As the game against the South Summit Wildcats moves into the fourth quarter, the Park City Miners hold up four fingers and start yelling, "FOUR." When the game gets close at the end, the Miners want everybody to know that they intend to win. NeaipaiUmbo tenden) reasoning at that point was probably that we were going to put pressure on him and that we would be vulnerable to a pass. He was right, we were. We rushed eight people peo-ple and dropped only three back. Luckily they threw it to one of our three guys." The eight-man rush put some serious pressure on Rydalch, and the sophomore threw the pass to Park City's Cliff Long at the 20-yard line. Long returned the ball to the Wildcat's six-yard line with six seconds left in the half. On the next play, McReynolds took the snap and rolled to his left. Just before getting hit very hard McReynolds threw the ball in the general direction of split-end Ron Mathews. The ball was tipped by a South Summit linebacker as Mathews fell on his back in the end zone. Fortunately for the Miners, the ball was tipped in Mathews' direction, direc-tion, and he had the presence of mind to gather the pass in for a touchdown with no time left in the half. "When they had the ball at the one and we called time-out we had the attitude of 'hey we're coming after you,'" Burns said. "I think that changed the momentum of the game, the pendulum had swung back our way." The Miners missed a two-point conversion and were down just 14-9 at half. One of the more impressive statistics of the first half was that the Miners allowed only two Wildcat -first downs. The Miner defense continued con-tinued to dominate the second half as South Summit ran only three plays in Miner territory after halftime. The Wildcats began getting tired, and the Miners got the lead near the end of the third quarter when Buckner took a deep handoff at the 17-yard line, cut right and sprinted for the score. The touchdown was set-up by a 23-yard pass from McReynolds to Mathews. The Miners showed some killer instinct in-stinct late in the game when they used us-ed a time-consuming eight-play drive to get the final touchdown and move the score to 21-14. The drive was keyed by some great individual efforts by fullback Eric Hales and McReynolds. While the Miners were giving second and third efforts, the Wildcats seemed to be out of breath. The Wildcats tried to get the tying score, but time ran out on them, and Brent Benson was able to put the final nail in the coffin by intercepting intercep-ting a desperation pass with 33 seconds left. "We had several outstanding efforts," ef-forts," said Burns. "Buckner had a Miners to B9 Team unity, leading to Miner wins by JIM SMEDLEY Record staff writer It was almost the same Park City High School Miner football team that lost 12-6 to South Summit Sum-mit last year. Oh, the Miners have a little more experience, but so did the Wildcat players. Something was different in the Miners' 21-14 win in Kamas. And that diference is that they think and act like a team. The "me" is now "we" and the "we" are confident in the games. Many spectators pointed to Cliff Long's pass interception on the South Summit's 20-yard-line and run back to the 6-yard line with six seconds left in the half as the turning point in the game. Park City called time out and scored on the next play when Ron Mathews caught a tipped pass Unity to B8 ft A v I'litoinritiTr Ttif4 as&te-vtW Miner's senior Tom James has a big grin on his face as he hugs teammate Cam Symonds following Park City's second straight win. vl MM t rrrrrr-v r 1 Schedule is hard for young vol ley beill team Top left, Holly Robinson, Nichelle Spera, Jodi Wimmer and Jenny Wight, middle row from left, Carolee Santy, Dana Richman and Amberly Totten, and sitting from left, Holly Elkins and Theresa Lints hope to have a successful volleyball season at Park City High School. By JENNIFER MADGIC Record contributing writer Concentration and communication are the key components the Park City Ci-ty High School girls volleyball team is striving for this year. And if achieved, coach Gail McBride feels it just may be the type of season you could write home about. But, better not count your chickens before they're hatched. The team is young and learning how to play two tournaments a night is something they haven't quite gotten use to yet. The team's inexperience showed last Thursday they beat South Summit in the first match of the evening and lost the second. The two-games-a -night schedule began last year as a means to cut down on traveling expenses. McBride, who has coached volleyball for six years, says the schedule is new to her and getting her team to maintain their concentration concen-tration and increase their endurance is imperative. "The game is more mental than physical. By the second game, we are mentally lost," says McBride who believes the team "has the ability abili-ty to play together well." "The team did such a good job the first match and then they lost it the second." But, McBride and team aren't about to let a little thing like the two-game two-game format get them down this year. According to co-captains Theresa Lints and Holly Elkins, the team may be young, but they are ready to play well at all costs. "The team is a lot better than last year," says Elkins, who says the team experienced some personality conflicts last year. "Instead of wondering whose looking look-ing to beat us, we're going to be the ones looking for teams to beat," says Lints. "We know what's expected of ourselves." The 1986 starters include: Team captain Holly Elkins (junior), Valeri Elkins (junior), co-captain Theresa Lints (junior), Holly Robinson (junior), Jenny Wight (sophomore), and the team's only starting senior, Jodi Wimmer. The girls face their second away again today (Sept. 11) at 5:30 against Morgan. Their first home game will be played Oct. 2 against Grantsville. All matches start at 5:30 p.m. with the varsity games leading off, followed by the J.V.s and the second varsity game. |