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Show SECTION' II ..J'.." Park Record Thursday, November 1 ITS JUL Dw JLir" vLL' UXl' .Briefs':.. Youth volleyball The Park City Rec. Dept. is organizing a youth instructional instruc-tional volleyball program for players of all skill levels. The program starts Nov. 12 and runs through Dec. 14, with play on Monday or Wednesday afternoons. Youths in grades 4-8 are eligible, and can register at the Park City Racquet Rac-quet Club. For more information informa-tion contact the Recreation Dept. at 649-8080. First Park City Tennis Ball The First Annual Park City Lodging Association Tennis Ball, a fundraiser to benefit junior tennis in Park City, is scheduled for Nov. 3 at the Yarrow. The $75 dollar per couple price includes dinner, beverages and dancing. The proceeds from the event will go to Park City junior tennis ten-nis (pee wee through high school), to offset costs for scholarships, uniforms, coaching, court time and .balls. Tickets are available at the Park City Racquet Club. Call 649-8080 for more information. Snowbird Ski and Sport Swap Snowbird's swap, slated for Nov. 2-4 at the Snowbird Center, offers a few items not available at the enormous Park City Ski Swap. The Snowbird swap will include climbing gear, mountain bikes, windsurfers and snowboards, in addition to cross country and alpine ski equipment. : ' Equipment check-in will be from noon to 8 p.m. Nov. 2. And ski swap hours will be from 9 to 9 Nov. 3 and from 9 to 5 Nov. 4. Call 521-6040 for more information. Pheasant hunt looks fair The 1990 Utah pheasant hunt runs from Nov. 3-16. Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) biologists report an increase in pheasant numbers this year in the Uintah Basin country of northeastern Utah. Elsewhere in the state, pheasant numbers are the same or slightly down. DWR Upland Game Progam Coordinator Jay Roberson says that hunters statewide should enjoy slightly better success than last year, but that the success rate will still be well below the long term average. ' - Fourth Annual Park City Mountain Challenge Run The Third Annual Park City Mountain Challenge Run will take place at the Prospector. Athletic Club starting at 10 a.m. Nov. 3. , The race, part of the Utah Mountain (Running) Series, starts and finishes at the club . and includes approximately 4.5 miles of trail running in the hills behind Prospector Square. "It's a fairly advanced run.. .a little change of pace from the normal fare of road races," said Prospector Athletic Club manager Scott Siemon.. Pre-regtstration costs $10 (shirt included) and runs through Nov. 1. Race-day , registration costs $12 (shirt included) in-cluded) or $6 (no shirt), and starts at 9 a.m. at the Prospector Prospec-tor Athletic Club. Entry forms are available at the club or in Utah Runner magazine. Call 649-6670 for more information. Miners by ALEX WELLS Record staff writer , Forget the alleged superiority of the southern schools in Utah 2A high school football. For a week, at least. The Park City High School football trounced Millard, a top team from Utah's southern 2A region, 35-0 in a state quarterfinal game Oct. 26 at Dozier field. The South hadn't looked so weak since Sherman pillaged Atlanta. . But Millard wasn't a weak team. The Miners were simply too much for the Eagles, Park City took the opening kickbff and drove 63 yards to score. On the Miners' fourth play from scrim- mage, quarterback Matt Marriott kept the ball and made a nice cross-field cross-field cut for a 32-yard gain. Two plays later he hit halfback Justin Christensen in stride near the goal line on a 27-yard scoring pass. It looked easy. Millard fumbled on their next possession, and Park City defensive back David Berry recovered on the Eagle 40. , The Miners picked up 17 yards on a Marriott keeper, and 16 more on a pass to Christensen, giving them a first down on the two. From there fullback Mike Packard rambled off tackle for his 10th touchdown this season. The Miners were up 14-0, with 6 : 18 left in the first quarter. v a- " 5w m t- - Senior linebacker Brock Stratton pulls down a Millard player. The Miner defense has gone 18 quarters without allowing a touchdown. Miner girls i Ki'A. --fi t. . .. . -J a Amber Pitt was the only Miner senior to compete at the state championships. At this year's Utah State 2A Cross Country Championships at Sugarhouse Park, the Park City High School girls team came within 14 points of winning their first state championship. South Sevier, helped by a runner they hadn't had when the two teams tied in an earlier meeting, finished ahead of the second-place Miners. Richfield came in third, nine points behind Park City.-: Miner coach Bill Kahn was satisfied with his team's performance. perfor-mance. "I hoped they would win it, but my worst hope was that they'd bomb Ms tit -4 Senior halfback Justin Christensen hauls in a pass from quarterback Matt Marriott (no. 9) . Christensen scored three touchdowns for Park City. Millard threatened to close the gap early in the second quarter. They connected on a 61-yard pass play to move deep into Miner ter -. t. ...v,, . t just miss I. 4 ! t -A If.- i. i, -- J"; MexWeHa get fourth," he said. South Sevier placed three runners in the top 10 and five runners in the topl2inthe38-runnerfield. The Miners placed two competitors com-petitors in the top 10 and five in the topn.j ; . Freshman Cristin Circo was the fastest Park City runner, finishing the 3.1-mile race in 20 minutes, 41 seconds the fourth fastest time. Circo's time beat her previous best by 25 seconds. "So that's real good continued on B3 i i""'.""""?" " , i " , .," . - f ... "-,".'- , , . , . ..... ... . ' -V. , -.,,,,. - ... ) , '- ,'V- e. Millard, move to ... A in " ritory. The Eagles had a first down at the Park City 2. But the Miners played some of their best defense this - :. ' A 1 Miner boys' cross country team makes it two straight state championships , J; ? V MexWeM The Miners leave the starting area en route to a championship. The visible Park City runners are (from left) Mike James, Tav Streit, Matt Thomson and Bryan Peterson. by ALEX WELLS Record staff writer Several years ago Park City High School cross country coach Bill Kahn told his team that they could throw him in the pond at Salt Lake City's Sugarhouse Park if they won the state championship. At the time he thought he was safe. "Back then the team couldn't even win region," he says now. . On Oct. 25 he ran past the "no swimming" signs and jumped in the brown, chilly waters for the second straight year. The Miner boys had repeated as 2A state champions, in the race held at the Sugarhouse Park. The Park City runners worked all year to make sure Kahn got cold and t , A I 7& 4 W v !..' season, stopping the Eagles cold on four straight plays. On third down linebacker Brock Stratton broke through the line and knocked back the Eagle halfback. On fourth down defensive lineman Dirk Christoffer-son Christoffer-son grabbed the jersey of the Eagle fullback, and his teammates swarmed swarm-ed to bring the ballcarrier down. ' "The front people drove Millard back, which is the way you have to play goal-line defense," said Miner coach Bob Burns. The goal-line stand preserved the Miner defense's touchdown-free streak, which after the game stood at 18 quarters. The Miners have not allowed a TD since the second quarter of the Sept. 21 North Summit game. An interception by senior defensive defen-sive back David Guelich helped set up the third Miner touchdown, late in the first half. The Miners drove from the Millard 40 to the 9. Then, on third , down at the 7, Marriott hit junior tight end Eric Francis on a crossing pattern. Francis made the catch at the 1 and dove into the end zone. Park City led 21-0 at halftime. Christensen scored two third-quarter third-quarter touchdowns to blow the game open. He took a handoff from Marriott, looked inside, then cut around the end and ran 37 yards untouched un-touched to the end zone. On Park City's next series he took a perfectly timed pitch from Marriott and sprinted again untouched 21 yards for the touchdown. wet in October. "Every time we went out (running) we were thinking about the state championship," said . junior Tav Streit, the third- fastest Miner this year. The Park City team ran the course several times before the State Meet. Then, on Oct. 25, they ran past the competition. Three Miners placed in the top five in the 57-runner field, and four Park City competitors finished in the top 10. Park City finished with 40 points, 15 fewer than second-place Richfield and 24 less than third-place San ' Juan. The Miners, clearly, ran away with it. Junior Mike James romped to the individual crown, completing the 3.1 mile course in 16 minutes, nine ' seconds more than 21 seconds semis n ' 4 photos by Alex Welti "There was no one outside; I just ran by them all," Christensen said of his second rushing touchdown, and his third score of the day. Marriott said the two-week layoff made the offensive line aggressive. "We hadn't played for two weeks, the line just wanted to hit so bad," he said. Marriott finished with 106 yards rushing on nine carries, and completed com-pleted five of 11 passes for 73 yards and two touchdowns. Christensen rushed 11 times for 84 yards and caught three passes good for 54 yards. He finished with 26 points. Packard rushed for 126 yards on 16 attempts. In all, the Miners finished with 445 total yards to Millard's 196. They had 16 first downs 11 more than the Eagles. The Miners had no turnovers, tur-novers, and forced four Millard giveaways. The Miners face Delta another southern school in a state semifinal game slated for 3 p.m. Nov. 2 at Mountain View High School in Provo. Last weekend Delta beat Hurricane Hur-ricane the state's no. 1 team 28-18 on Hurricane's home field. Delta's attack features a 1,000-yard rusher, and a power-oriented offense out of a formation Burns likens to an upside-down wishbone. Burns knows the dominant play of the Miners last week doesn't mean anything this week. "Whether we won by one (point) or 35 doesn't matter," mat-ter," he said. "(Delta) beat soundly the no. 1 team in the state." ahead of the second-place finisher. "It was a great day and we all were pumped up for it and psyched," James said. Thom Felt, the only senior in Park City's top five runners, finished in third place. Felt, who finished just two seconds out of second place, said he was "very happy" to have won the state championship in his last race. Streit needed 17 minutes and nine seconds to complete the grassy, hilly course, and finished in fifth place. Since the top five runners for a school count in its team score, the Miners also needed top performances perfor-mances from their fourth- and fifth-fastest fifth-fastest runners. Those runners continued on B4 |