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Show Play in the snow with the Muckers by RANDY HANSKAT Record staff writer The final Jeopardy answer tonight Is... Snow Bowl. Contestant 1 : What is a toilet in Alaska? BUZZZZZZ Contestant 2: What is a cross between a snow cone and the Tidy Bowl Man? B VZZZZZZZ Contestant 3: What is a college football game played in Siberia? BVZZZZZZZ Contestant 4: What is guys running run-ning around playing rugby in the unpacked snow of the City Park in Park City? APPLAUSE signs flash. "Good answer, good answer" mutter the other contestants. We have a winner! win-ner! To see first hand just what a Snow Bowl is you had better get yourself over to City Park this Sunday to see the Third Annual Snow Bowl beginning at 1 p.m. Snow Bowl is rugby played in the snow, all for fun. The Park City Ci-ty Rugby Club is behind the Snow Bowl, as you would expect. This year's edition will attempt to raise money for an emergency medical fund for the team. That fund, according to Sonny Sund-quist, Sund-quist, team spokesman, will help out those players who receive an injury which causes them to miss work. Money will be raised by food sales, raffle tickets, and donations. dona-tions. Up for grabs will be over $500 worth of prizes, Sundquist says, from 25 to 30 items. Any of which can be had for a measly $2, the price of a raffle ticket. Among the goods up for grabs: four day passes at the Park City Ski Area, two dinners at the Claimjumper, a pair of Smith Goggles from Jans, a keg of Wasatch Beer, $10 bar tab at Cactus Cac-tus Rose, $25 bar tabs at the Alamo, the Club, and Mileti's, two dinners at Texas Reds, two ski tunes from Herman's, and other assorted goodies. The Snow Bowl tradition began , two years ago as the Muckers' entry en-try in the Winter Carnival. It has gone beyond that to become a fundraiser and interest creator for the team. Sunday will begin at noon at Ci- ty Park with a bar-b-que. Burgers, dogs, hot chocolate, sodas, and beer will be available. The rugby action will get started at 1 p.m., complete with snow, between the Muckers and players from the University of Utah and United Rugby Clubs. Following that action will be freestyle, or open play, in which anyone can take part. Former members, future members, tentative ten-tative members, all are welcome, Sundquist says. Then the ladies can get in on the action, with coed snow rugby. After the snow play is over, the scene shifts to the Alamo, where live music and free beer will be on tap. Sundquist expects everyone to head that way about 4 p.m. if the day is nice, about 1:15 if its a blizzard 1 The day is all for fun, and totally total-ly non-competitive, Sundquist maintains. The atmosphere will be for families. He expects between bet-ween 150 and 200 people if the weather is nice. The addition of snow gives novice spectators an interesting advantage, he says. The play progresses pro-gresses at about half of normal speed, due to the snow. Because of that, it is a good opportunity for people to get the feel of what is going on. Wasatch, Ventures on tap by RANDY HANSKAT, Record staff writer The cream of the crop in the men's recreational basketball league has risen to the top. After four weeks of toil under the backboards, the Ventures and Wasatch Brewing are the two dominating teams of the nine-team league. This week the Ventures in particular were abusive, nailing the Alamo worse than Santa Anna ever dreamed by the score of 8845. Yes, the Ventures, that team which sounds more like a Motown trio than a basketball whirlwind, did their doo-wops all over the Alamo. Davy Crockett wouldn't even have been any help Tuesday night at the Treasure Mountain. Middle School in the contest. His raccoon cap would have been singed by the fast break madness of the Ventures, whose 88 points was the largest offensive offen-sive total of the season. Unfortunately, no last names were apparent on the score book, so individual in-dividual glory cannot be detailed on the team, i - Those mad Brewers over at Wasatch continued to show their round ball prowess, as well, narrowly beating Blue Flame Heating to remain undefeated. A lone bucket was all that separated the two in the 54-52 contest. As is his norm, that lean, mean scoring machine, Lou Hudson, looked like the NBA star he was. He had 22 points. Cofer Chiropractic, the Spine Kings of the league, sit in third place, having only lost to Wasatch this season. They marched on like tin soldiers, abusing Valley Monument 54-37. Mark Young took over the scoring lead on the Spine Kings, dumping in 17 points. The other contest of the evening pitted two lowly teams against one another, Stein's and the Olympic. Yah, Stein's prevailed in this low scoring affair by the tally of 32-31. Those kind of numbers are put up by the Ventures in a quarter! , The scoring title for Stein's was a standoff between Brett Talbot and John Allen, both with 12 points. After four weeks of dribbling mania, Wasatch has a record of 4-0, the Ventures Ven-tures are 3-0. Cofer is third at 3-1. No other teams look very strong, all nired in .500 or sub .500 play. That dubious form of energy creation, the Blue Flamers, are 2-2, while Johnson-Hogle is 1-2. Both Stein's and the Olympic are l-3..Then comes the Alamo, not to be remembered, at 0-3. Action on Tuesday, March 1 will open with the Olympic vs Johnson-Hogle at 6 p.m. At 7 p.m. it will be Blue Flame and Valley Monument, followed by Stein's and the Alamo at 8 p.m. Finally, at 9 p.m. the contest of the century, the Ventures and the Brewers will tip off . Citizens Series standings race and he will clinch. If he doesn't race and Steve Erickson wins, the two would be tied at 104 points each. Lee Shea sits in third in the men's 30-39 year olds and could improve his situation if he does well Saturday. Satur-day. He has 78 points over three results, whereas the second place point total above him is 96 points, taking the best from five results. Two other locals, Christoph Schork and Charlie Sturgis have both attended at-tended only one race in the series, and are not in contention. by RANDY HANSKAT Record staff writer It's down to the wire for those who like the skinny skis. The final race in the Wasatch Citizens Series, the largest cross-country race program in the area, will kick off this Saturday Satur-day at Wasatch Mountain State Park in Midway. Going into the finale, many age brackets are up for grabs, depending on the final race for decision deci-sion making. Here are the standings through five races. Each racer counts only four races in their totals. These are the best four races for each, not counting this weekend's, of course. As is our norm at the Park Record, we will highlight only the locals. Jenny Erickson trails in the expert women by 20 points with her total of 86, but doesn't yet have four races to count. If she does well in Saturday's final the situation could get interesting. in-teresting. If she wins, Erickson will be the expert women's champ. If she is second to leader Robynn Masters, the two will be tied. Kathy McCarthy is in third with 76 points in three races. Lori Erickson has wrapped up the women's 19-34 year-old bracket. Of ' the five races, Erickson has won four and finished second once. Domination. Marsha Groth has only three races to her credit in the women's 35-49 year-olds. Her total of 78 points, however, is good enough to guarantee her third place. She can't move up or down, whether she races or not. On the men's side, Ken McCarthy is a virtual lock to take the expert category. All McCarthy has to do is take a single point in Saturday's Chris Erickson has a good shot at the men's 19-29 year-old bracket. Clark Johnson of Salt Lake leads the bracket with 112 points, but Erickson is right behind at 106. The final race will tell all between those two. Otherwise, Chas Jones has a shot at third if he races Saturday. In one of the tightest brackets, Richard Groth overcame the efforts of both his younger brother Ray and local standout Dave Hanscom to win the men's 40-49 year olds. Groth won three races and had a third to clinch the category. But the battle for second se-cond and third will hinge on Saturday's Satur-day's race. Only four points separate Ray Groth, Hanscom, and Dave Wagner. Mike Kane is the last local with a shot at glory. In the men's 14-19 year olds, Kane needs frontrunner John Moreton of Salt Lake to miss Saturday's Satur-day's race. Otherwise, . Kane is almost a lock on second, if he participates. par-ticipates. Saturday's race is a 10K freestyle race beginning at 10:00 a.m. Registration will be from 8 : 30 to 9 : 30 at the golf club house. After the race will be an awards party, with free Wasatch Ale and lots of food. Here are the facts about U.S. freestyle skiing Park Record Thursday, February 25, 1988 Page B3 Listed below is a fact sheet published by the United States Ski Association (USSA) regarding freestyle aerial competition. In the United States, only upright aerials are allowed up through and including the National Championships. Champion-ships. Inverted aerials are performed perform-ed at NorAm and World Cup sanctioned sanc-tioned competitions only ; Selection to the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team is based upon upright aerial ability only. Only after being named to the team can an athlete enter an inverted aerial training program ; The U.S. Freestyle Ski Team maintains main-tains a very rigorous and carefully designed aerial training program for those USFST members who desire to participate. To be included in this training program, the athlete must show evidence of physical fitness. Inverted aerial training is only conducted con-ducted in the U.S. at the newly constructed con-structed $2.6 million facility in Lake Placid, N.Y. Training can only be conducted when USSA certified coaches are present ; An athlete is first instructed in basic aerobatic maneuvers such as tumbling, diving and trampolining. Trampoline instruction is done with the aid of a safety harness called an 'overhead mechanic' ; Basic maneuvers, such as backwards somersaults and full twists, are first qualified on a diving board or trampoline. Only after specific maneuvers are qualified with a 100 percent safety rate is the athlete allowed to train these maneuvers on an artificial ramp with water landing; Only after an athlete has qualified a maneuver with a 100 percent safety rate into water is the athlete allowed to train that maneuver on snow. Only On-ly after the maneuver is performed with a 100 percent safety rate on snow can the athlete perform the maneuver in competition. Thise process pro-cess usually takes several months. A 100 percent safety rate refers to the athletes' ability to perform the aerobatic maneuver successfully with a complete knowledge of the body mechanics necessary to complete com-plete the maneuver. One measure of accomplishment is successful completion com-pletion ten out of ten times ; An athlete will travel between the trampoline and water ramp as additional addi-tional maneuvers are learned ; At any time the coach may require the athlete to cease in performing the maneuver if it is viewed as losing its elements of safety ; Both water ramps and snow aerial facilities are constructed to very specific criteria; and must be certified cer-tified by the International Ski Federation before they are used. Only On-ly two certified snow jumps currently current-ly exist in the U.S., at Lake Placid, N.Y. and Breckenridge, Co. The only certified water ramp is the Official USFST Aerial Training Facility in Lake Placid. There is a significant risk of permanent perma-nent injury or death to any person attempting inverted aerial maneuvers without proper training and supervision. Inverted aerials should only be practiced at certified facilities. Sunny skiing Sunny skies and very warm temperatures have us all delirious with spring fever. One antidote, as seen above, is to hit the slopes. Quite therapeutic, indeed! High Valley Aviation LEARN TO FLY 654-5831 HEBER AIRPORT Flight Instructions Airplane Rides from $1 0 Rental Aircraft Visa Mastercard "Come make that dream of a lifetime a reality" Pounders win first vball game! by RANDY HANSKAT Record staff writer Call the Guiness Book of World Records! Call the police! Call your mom! The P.C. Pounders won their first game of the winter volleyball league season! Now, that fact may not seem like much when compared with nuclear war, hunger, Presidential Presiden-tial policies and such. But in the realm of the Treasure Mountain Middle School, the site of the weekly Wednesday night volleyball league, it is Big News. Yes, the Pounders, sporting a spiffy 0-12 record going into Feb. 17, actually lost their chance to finish the league season defeated by taking a sole game from the Telethon Team. The Telethon Team, exhibiting quite the uncoordinated un-coordinated brand of play, prevailed by the score of 2-1, but should be admonished for allowing allow-ing the Pounders a single game win. Pam Bradford, owner and general manager of the Pounders, pondered just what the secret ingredient was which propelled pro-pelled the team to its first win. "I think it was because they didn't have me on the court that night," she suggested. Otherwise, the Wasatch KahunaBrewers continued to roll, sweeping Brennan & Shultz Painting 3-0. The Brewmeisters are the diametrical opposites of the Pounders, having only lost one game so far in the five weeks of league play. The other two contests were splits. The P.C. Ski Schoolers beat Sharp Construction 2-1, and the Scuz Balls surprisingly lost a single game to the Green Machine, winning 2-1. The Team of Scuz had only lost two games in the previous four weeks of play. With only two weeks of regular season play left to report, Wasatch leads with a foamy 14-1 record. Team Scuz is second at 12-3. The Painters are third at 8-7. Team Spasmatic is at 7-8, along with the Schoolers. Sharp Construction Con-struction is 6-9, and is followed by the Green Meanies at 5-10. Last, but not least, are the Pounders at 1-14. Wednesday,- March 2 is the final week of the regular season. At 6:30 p.m. the Pounders will try to sharpen their record against Sharp Construction, and the Team of Scuz will take on the Painters. 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