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Show PARK RECORD El SECTION Page B1 Thursday, August 31, 1989 Briefs Noaker third in Masters Tom Noaker of Park City placed plac-ed third in the Masters National Cycling Championship, held Saturday in Harriman State Park in upstate New York. Noaker, 40, finished the 87-km road race in a virtual deadlock with the first-and first-and second-place finishers. His next race will be the Mountain Bike National Championships, held September 8-12 in Mammoth, Mam-moth, California. "I'm taking a brief rest period," Noaker said. "I start training on my mountain bike next week." Hogs Back II Fall Classic Set The Hogs Back II Fall Classic Mountain Bike Festival takes place September 13-24 in Richfield, Utah. The Festival includes in-cludes 65- and 35-mile endurance rides, which start at the Richfield City Park, pass through the Fish Lake National Forest and finish at the Elk Meadows Ski Area. There will be divisions for all ages and skill levels, with a cash purse and prizes awarded to top finishers. The festival is sanctioned sanction-ed by the National Off Road Bicycle Bicy-cle Association (NORBA). For more information call 1-800-631-6178. Moab offers horse ride The Moab Chamber of Commerce Com-merce is holding the LaSal Mountain Moun-tain Endurance Horse Ride September 2 and 3. There will be a 12-mile fun ride for novices, as well as 25- and 50-mile rides for more advanced riders. Invitations Invita-tions have been sent to over 1,000 riders in 15 western states, and over one hundred riders are expected ex-pected to take part. The race starts at a base camp at the LaSal Mountain Lodge, located 18 miles East of Moab on the LaSal Mountain Loop Road. The Moab Chamber of Commerce, at (801) 259-7531, has more details. Mountain man meeting If you'd like to meet a real mountain man, visit the Annual Labor Day Mountain Man Rendezvous, September 2-3 at Fort Buenaventura State Park. Mountain men will trade pelts and stories, and shoot muzzle-loader muzzle-loader guns. Bluegrass music, Native American dancing, and tomahawk throwing are also on the schedule. For more information informa-tion call the Utah State Parks Public Information Office at 538-7220. Midway 10K run slated for Sat. The Swiss Days 10 K road race takes place this Saturday at 8:00 a.m. in Midway. The race begins at the intersection of 150 West and 200 North (on the Midway grid). Registration is eight dollars. All participants will receive T-shirts,and T-shirts,and male and female overall winners will receive trophies. Sign up Saturday from 6:45-7:45 a.m. in front of Midway Town Hall (located on Main Street). For more information informa-tion call Kerry Collings at 654-3950. Duck season dates set Utah waterfowl hunters will have a split-season duck hunt this year, from October 7 through November 26, and from December 23 through December 30. Schwandt wins Expresso Ride Cyndi Schwandt of Park City rode her mountain bike to victory in the women's 20-mile race at Expresso Ride '89. The race took place Saturday at Jeremy Ranch. Schwandt finished the course in one hour, 21 minutes, 24 seconds. Marty Jemison won the men's 20-mile race with a time of 1:08:55, one second faster than second-place finisher Martin Stenger. H' "" ' 1 ""W mi.n iii in i jiiiiniigi,ii ii ) m ... mn ii ,i j .11 i n mini i. i mil ilium, mini i) i.ni.piin.i 1.1 - . . ' ' I ' .'I . t . "'-rv i ' f - (ABOVE) No. 65 Kevin Cochran races to recover a Wasatch fumble. (BELOW) Park City Quarterback Matt Marriot eludes the defense. ( BOTTOM ) Corey Francis fends off an opponent. It Racquet Club improvements nearing completion by ALEX WELLS Record staff writer Construction is nearly complete on $1.5 million worth of additions to the Park City Racquet Club. According to Bob Johnston, Park City leisure services director, contractors "are looking at November 1 as a completion comple-tion date." The largest addition is a new gymnasium. gym-nasium. With six baskets, the gym will be large enough to accomodate one full court basketball game, two "short court" games, or six smaller games. Drop-in volleyball and drop-in drop-in basketball will be held at the new gym on a regular basis, while league play will remain at the high school and middle school gyms. The recreation department also hopes to begin a gymnastics program there, though at present they lack money for equipment. Another new addition is a six-lane, 25-yard outdoor swimming pool, which replaces the four-lane pool. The pool has no deep-end or diving area (pool depth tapers from five to four feet), but starter's blocks and lane dividers make it ideal for other competitive swimming. "We're looking to have a real expanded swim program with the new pool," Johnston said. He named water volleyball and water basketball as other planned activities. The pool will open next spring. Johnston hopes to see a whirlpool installed in the pool area next summer. The city has also added an aerobics room and a multi-purpose room to the club. Users of the multipurpose multi-purpose room will have views from above of both the tennis courts and gymnasium. Eventually Johnston hopes to fill the room with circuit- photos by David Schultz ?? ! If 1 ,W trainer type weight machines and aerobic equipment such as stationary sta-tionary bicycles and "Stair-masters." "Stair-masters." "We didn't budget money for weight equipment," he said. "Hopefully we can work out some sort of a lease agreement." Due to high insurance costs, the club will not offer free weights. Other changes at the club include new, larger locker rooms and an expanded ex-panded lobby area. Each locker room will have a sauna. New exits, walkways and restrooms will enable the facility to host special events (conventions, concerts, trade shows, etc.) with minimal interruption of normal activities. . The city does not plan to sell memberships to the club. A general admission fee will cover use of the pool, gym, weight room and locker room. The amount of the fee, while subject to city council approval, should be about five dollars. A local's card entitles the holder to half-price. The club will continue to charge court fees for the use of tennis ten-nis and racquetball courts. With all the improvements it's easy to forget that only two years ago the club was in bankruptcy. Park City, using funds from the sale of the Memorial Building, purchased the facility (known then as the Park Meadows Racquet Club) for $425,000 at a sheriff's auction in 1987. Last November the city passed a bond issue of $1.4 million improve the facility. Interest from the bond and extra money from the sale of the Memorial Building gave the city an additional $100,000 to spend. Construction Con-struction began last June. Francis, Christensen Players of Corey Francis Unfortunately, $1.5 million wasn't enough. High construction bids have forced the city to delay some planned plann-ed improvements on the club. "One of the things we had to cut out was some of the landscape budget," Johnston said, adding that $150,000 to $200,000 was needed to complete work on the grounds. Resurfacing the tennis courts and the repainting and restretching of court fencing have also been delayed. Estimates on this work range from $35,000 to $40,000. An additional $5,000 is needed need-ed to replace pool room mechanical equipment, which Johnston says has "run its course." The future of the club depends on its ability to break even. The club's management projects operating losses this year of approximately $100,000, much of which can be attributed at-tributed to loss of revenue during construction. These losses will be paid out of the city's general fund. Johnston expects the facility to break even within three years. "We hope having a nice product will create its own demand," he said. Nonetheless, he intends to advertise in Salt Lake and to send promotions to tourists. "It's essential to do marketing because of our location." Another source of revenue will be special events held in the gym and tennis areas. Johnston said he was "very concerned" about overbooking overbook-ing the space to outside interests. "I'd like to encourage special events in the summertime, when the townspeople are more involved in outdoor activities," he said. (The recreation department wishes to thank Park City residents for their patience and cooperation during construction. ) Miners at South Summit Friday Wasatch defense throttles PC 21-0 The Wasatch Wasps football team swarmed the the Park City Miners Friday night, shutting them out 21-0 at Wasatch High School. The home team's defense shut down the Miners almost completely, and caused a pair of key turnovers which led to Wasp touchdowns. The first turnover came in the second se-cond quarter, when Wasatch intercepted in-tercepted a pass by Park City quarterback Matt Marriot and returned the ball to the Miner ten-yard-line. Fullback Nick Larsen ran it in from there, breaking through the Park City line for the touchdown. Wasatch missed the extra-point and led 6-0. In the third quarter another Park City turnover helped Wasatch widen the margin. An errant snap flew over the head of punter Beau Brinkerhoff. Brinkerhoff, who has little experience as a punter, fell on the ball on the three-yard line rather than taking a safety in the end zone. Wasatch took posession of the football, foot-ball, and slotback Bill Summerhuys ran it in for the score. The Wasps added ad-ded a two-point conversion to increase in-crease their lead to 14-0. Wasatch completed the scoring in the Week Corey Francis and Justin Christensen were named the Park City Chiropractic and T.V. 45 "players of the game" for their outstanding performances perfor-mances against Wasatch. One hundred-fifty dollars will be donated in their names to the Park City High School Scholarship Fund. (Dr. Cofer contributes $100, and T.V. 45 adds $50.) Francis, a senior halfback, had six rushes for 16 yards against Wasatch. He also had an interception on defense. Christensen, a junior corner-back, corner-back, made another interception. intercep-tion. 3 " u fll 4 x I ' I i f 1 1- -ii-- Mr..' I 1 ' U I I I "il' ' 'I i ,i inr 2 4! Racquet Club remodeling should be completed by Nov. the fourth quarter, on a twelve-yard touchdown run by fullback Nick Larsen. Park City had only 86 yards in total offense, and never moved the football into scoring position. Quarterback Matt Marriot (4-10-43, 1 interception) passed the ball well when he had protection, but protection protec-tion didn't come often. The Miner offensive of-fensive line appeared overwhelmed by the quicker Wasatch linemen. "I'm very disappointed in our offensive offen-sive line performance," Park City coach Bob Burns said. Burns said the Miners need to improve their cutoff blocking, to prevent opponents op-ponents from penetrating between linemen. Burns denied that he would make major changes before this week's game at South Summit (7:30 start). "We're not going to panic," he said. "We want to see where we need to be down the road." He added that Wasatch is "one of the better if not the best team we will play this year." Still, the game against South Summit doesn't promise to be easy. The defending Division 1-A State Champions, South Summit won their opening game 54-6. 3 v I . ; if V"" 'i mm Justin Christensen mm f i! MSsJt ' i i . I! 7T hi |