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Show Tennis team far from stellar at region Park Record Thursday, October 1, 1987 Page B3 1 !' r I , 1 ! ---.-... ....... ... .1 , . ; 1 I m f Hilary Felton found the going not so easy in third singles at the Region Nine tennis tournament. tourna-ment. ., u ... Randy Hanskat second match. The news didn't get better in second se-cond singles. Jessie Whitesides, who started the season off poorly, but has been coming on the past few weeks, was pitted against Amy Nelson of Grantsville. The two players were very evenly matched, in their last meeting stretching out to three sets before Whitesides prevailed. One day one would win, the next the other would take it. Wednesday happened to be Nelson's day, and she won 4-6, 7-6, 6-7. The match took three and a half hours to decide. Whitesides then came back to beat Nora Lundeen of Wasatch 6-4, 6-2 to take the third seed out of region. Hilary Felton returned to the third singles slot in the region tournament, tourna-ment, and proceeded to dominate her first match, pounding Karen Rose of Morgan 6-1, 6-1. Next she ran into Rita Ogden of Grantsville, and got dominated by RANDY HANSKAT Record staff writer The Park City High School girls' tennis team must have known what a nail feels like last Wednesday, Sept. 23 at Lehi. They got hammered, ham-mered, finishing fourth out of the five teams in Region Nine competition. competi-tion. It ended up with Lehi on top of the region, followed by Grantsville and Wasatch. Then came Park City in fourth. Only lowly Morgan, which had defaulted its match with Park City to open the season, was below the Miners. Park City Coach Maggie Carley put it bluntly, "It was very depressing," depress-ing," she said. "We didn't even beat Wasatch; that's how depressing it was." v She said she expected the Miners to finish at least third, maybe second with a little luck. But it wasn't Park City's day in the sun. Luckily, all of the girls are still alive for state. The sole purpose of the region action was to seed the players for the zone tournament between bet-ween Regions Nine and 11. That action ac-tion was held Tuesday in Liberty Park in Salt Lake, but the sports deadline precluded coverage this week. Right from the top the day didn't go well for Park City. Number one singles star Chrissie Volla had a bye in the first round, but came up against Amy Jackson of Grantsville in the second round. Volla was doing fine against her tough opponent, until un-til the air combined to do her in. She suffered an asthma attack midway through the match which threw her game off, never to recover. Carley thought Volla would have prevailed on a normal day, but instead in-stead she went down to a 4-6, 3-6 defeat. From there, the best she could do was place third. And she proceeded to do that by crushing Catherine Smedley of Wasatch 6-3, 6-1 in her herself, 3-6, 2-6. Carley said Felton was a bit tense against Ogden, having hav-ing not played singles for three weeks, but thought she could beat Ogden the next time around. The loss dropped Felton down to the fourth seed in third singles. In first doubles the team of Krista Steinke and Jennifer Putz was reun-tied, reun-tied, after trying Putz at third singles for a couple weeks. But the old chemistry didn't seem to do much. The pair lost its second round match (after a bye) to Wasatch's Brenda Casper and Jean Smedley 5-7,3-6. Then in the pair's second match it was Stacy Chadwick and Shonnie Anderson of Grantsville on the other side of the net. That tandem was the number one seeded doubles team in the region tourney, but was upset by Lehi in the first round. They showed they did deserve their high seeding, though, whipping Steinke and Putz 1-6,2-6. The two losses put the Park City team in fourth seed for the zone tourney. The number two doubles team of Heather Circo and Alicia Thompson was far from stunning in its opening two matches. Missy Felix and Annette An-nette Carlton of Lehi mashed them in the second round (after an opening open-ing bye) 3-6, 0-6. Then Jill North and Leanne Brandner of Wasatch repeated the feat 1-6, 2-6. To stay out of the bottom seeding, Circo and Thompson had to play a third match. They beat Tisha Johnson and Lisa Martinez of Morgan 6-2, 7-6 to clinch the fourth seeding. On the day Park City chalked up two third seedings and three fourths. Not much to write home about. Tuesday's zone tournament put Region Nine and 11 together at Liberty Park in Salt Lake. The play was double elimination, with a total of eight teams competing. The top four seeds from every bracket were set to go on to the state tourney Saturday at B.Y.U. Reminder - Tonight For a great time at the Ofi Reunion young 7:30 p.m. Snowpark Lodge Deer Valley 649-2624 Third season at Wyoming Downs a promising one Slight increases in handle and attendance at-tendance figures this year marked a stabilizing trend at Wyoming Downs that has track president Dick Sims looking forward to next season. "I can tell you without any doubt that we plan on opening again next year," Sims says. "As of now we're thinking the season will be another Memorial Day to Labor Day campaign cam-paign with about the same number of racing dates as this year." Members and guests mix it up on court "A wonderful time was had by all." That famous catchphrase was said by Candy Johnson, assistant manager of the Park City Racquet Club, to describe this past weekend's Member Guest Tournament. A total of 18 netters turned out Saturday and Sunday for the tourney, which was broken into three brackets: 3.5 and under, 4.0 and under, and 4.1 and above. Winning the 4.1 and above bracket was the Johnson and Johnson team, Jack and Al. The 4.0 and under group was conquered by Rich Assen-burg Assen-burg and Gary Kimball. And the 3.5 and under bracket was taken by Jerry Smith and Mike Sullivan. Those champions took home embroidered em-broidered Racquet Club caps, all compliments of Cole Sport. The real news of the tournament came from the 4.1 bracket. There it was a bit of "Victor, Victoria" role switching, as Racquet Club Assistant Assis-tant Pro Lizz Hackett was needed to fill in a vacancy. The captivating Hackett tried her best to disable the opposition, but in the end she and partner Steve Kemp lost twice to be eliminated. Coming up in October are two events, according to Johnson. First, on Oct. 18, will be a champagne mixed mix-ed doubles event. Tennis will begin at 10 a.m., followed by a brunch at noon. The cost per person will be $15. The next real tournament will be the Pumpkin Pursuit on Oct. 24 and 25. Johnson said the format of tha event has not been set yet. Official attendance figures snowed snow-ed that the Downs drew 120,944 fans this season in 49 racing dates, an average attendance of 2,468. Total handle (amount wagered) was $6,652,470, with the average bet being be-ing $55 per person. "We were up four percent in the handle and two percent in attendance atten-dance compared to the same number of racing dates in 1986," Sims says. "I think that is good, particularly par-ticularly considering that we encountered en-countered worse weather this year." Sims was candid in admitting that he had hoped for bigger increases over 1986, a year in which attendance atten-dance had dropped 22 percent from the opening season of 1985. Still, he was happy to see the trend change from down to up. "These first three years have been nip and tuck financially, but I think we've stabilized to the point that with continued improvement in our product and marketing, we can reach a profitable mode," he says. Another factor Sims feels would have a positive affect on the Downs would be year-round simulcasting in Wyoming. A proposal currently being be-ing considered by the Wyoming State Racing Commission calls for horse races from various locations throughout the country to be simulcast at restaurants or lounges in 10 Wyoming communities. The simulcasts would be held daily, with two, nine-race cards per day. Patrons at the 10 Wyoming simulcast sites would establish their own pari-mutual odds on the races. "We feel a state simulcast network net-work would generate profits and increase in-crease the earning ability of live races at our track," Sims says. Changes and improvements being considered at the Downs for 1988 most of which came from research conducted throughout the 1987 season include : Issuing a public stock offering that would allow racing fans to share in the ownership of the track. Enclosing a portion of the grandstands, grand-stands, probably at the south end, as a protection during inclement and cold weather. Improving the public address system. Improving the variety and quality quali-ty of food. "We're pleased with the feedback we received from our surveys," Sims says. "The above changes would be our effort to respond to that feedback. We hope the 1988 season will be our biggest and best yet." 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