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Show PARK RECORD SECTION D Thursday, May 21, 1992 Page B1 Miner track teams finish run for glory Boys sprint to state crown Girls jump to fourth if ' I " t -i Youth baseball Softball camp Little Leaguers and softball players are invited to a youth baseball and softball camp June 15-19 at City Park. Camp for ages 5-9 will be from 9-11:30 a.m. daily; kids ages 10-15 will attend from noon-3 p.m. Interested parties can sign up through June 8 at the Racquet Club. All pre-registrants pre-registrants will receive T-shirts. T-shirts. Summer girls' softball Park City will field a girls high school softball team in a summer league at the Cottonwood Complex in Cottonwood Heights. Coached by Abe Abrams, the team will play on Thursday nights from May 26-July 30. Sign-up will be at 2:30 p.m. May 21 at the Park City High Schooi softball diamond. Participants are asked to bring gloves, and checks for $20 made out to Salt Lake County Recreation. Sherie Harding, at 649-3076, has more information. Salt Lake Classic 5K The Salt Lake City Classic 5K and 10K races-two of the largest road races in Utah-will Utah-will take place on May 23 starting at Brigham Young Monument at South Temple an Main Street in Salt Lake City. Race-day registration costs $18, and will be held at the monument from 6:45-8:30 a.m. The race packet includes a T-shirt, race number, coupons, pins and Salt Lake Classic Official Program. For more information, call 972-7838. 5K Fun Run Valley Mental Health and the Community Health Coalition hope to encourage Park City residents to get a natural high during their sixth annual 5K Fun Run. 'The Fun Run will take place May 30 at 10 a.m. at City Park. The sign-up period for this free race will be from 9-9:45 a.m. Participants can walk, run, bike, roller blade or skateboard. After the race, a Natural High Fair is scheduled for City Park. The fair will focus on ways to get high without using drugs, according to a release from Valley Mental Health. Demonstrations on neck massage, bike tuning, roller-blading roller-blading and juggling are all planned for the fair. Swim lessons The Park City Recreation. Dept.'s summer, swim lessons start June 14, and are open to everyone. Registration will be held May 30 for locals, and begins June 14 for all others Space is limited. Call 645-5100 645-5100 to find out more. 4 , gt i j "hi'iih im,-. "i l III' James and Osguthorpe broke the 800. The two seniors had The Park City High School boys track team was tough enough at this year's Utah 2A High School State Track and Field Championships. Champion-ships. They won a battle of two heavyweights and topped Delta, 131 to 121, to capture their second straight state title May 15-16 in Provo. Hurricane was third, with 54.4 points. Their win over Delta was no knockout. The two teams, who finished one point apart two weeks earlier at the fiYU Invitational, traded individual wins the way boxers trade blows. Delta placed high in the field events and the hurdles; the teams I'm"- I ' '. I - ii i r,i ,1 TTi f -x f - 6PI0HAU YDUN3 , -, Wli SktfaL,... . .. .fj-'i Aaron Olsen (left) and Delta's Bryant Curtis raced neck-and-neck in the 300 hurdles. Curtis escaped with a .26-second .26-second victory. Pedal for Big Brothers Big BrothersBig Sisters of Greater Salt Lake will hold their annual two day benefit bike ride, Tour de Champagne, in Park City June 6-7. The Tour de Champagne is a two-day two-day fund-raising bicycle ride that tours Park City and the Heber valley. Cyclists take part in 15-, 25-and 25-and 50-mile rides along paved roads with rest stops every 10-15 miles. The rest stops will be stocked full of healthy foods and drinks, and a "sag wagon" will assist any weary or troubled riders along the way. The $25 entry fee includes a Tour de Champagne t-shirt and all support' stops during the ride. Participants who receive $200 in pledges will also enjoy free lodging at the Olympia Resort Hotel, a champagne reception, dinner and entertainment Saturday night. Additional prizes will be awarded based upon the amount of :rir-v--r--f away from the rest of the field never before raced each other. both had first-place finishes in the relays. In the end, Park City's dominance in the running events helped them clinch a victory. Led by senior Roger Osguthorpe, who won the 100 and the 400, and by Mike James, winner of the the 800, 1600 and 3200, the Miners fell just short of winning every individual (non-hurdle) running event. Osguthorpe finished second by just .32 seconds in the 200, the only (non-hurdle) running event Park City didn't win. Together, Osguthorpe and James accounted for 62 of Park City's points, not counting the relays. But they weren't without help. pledges the riders sign up. These -prizes include a Rocky Mountain adventure, VCR or CD player, cellular phone, Disneyland vacation package and the grand prize, a backroads bicycle tour through California's Napa Valley. Big BrothersBig Sisters will bill and collect the pledges. Riders need only sign up the sponsors and turn in the pledge sheets at the ride. Brochuresregistration forms are available at local bike shops and sporting goods stores throughout the Salt Lake valley or at the Big BrothersBig Sisters office at 3999 South Main 51, Salt Lake City. All proceeds will benefit children in the Salt Lake Valley. Funds raised will be used to recruit and train volunteers to be matched with children from single-parent homes. For more information about the Tour de champagne or Big BrothersBig Sisters, call 265-1818. - t) VV7:" over the last 200 meters of Brad Chamberlain won the javelin, and the Miners' medley relay team (Blake Heller, James, Chamberlain and Mike Carlin) came through with a win late on the second day to help clinch Park City's team title. Other Park City athletes who earned points were Aaron Olsen (second, 400; fourth, 110 hurdles); Dan Hudgens (third, javelin) and ' Eric Schmitz (third, long jump). Park City's 1600 relay team finished second, and their 400 relay team came in sixth. Miner coach Bill Kahn juggled his runners to earn big points for Park City in several races. Kahn pitted Osguthorpe against James for the first time ever in the 800, and the two earned 18 points for Park City, to none for Delta. And when Olsen and Osguthorpe raced together for the first time in the 400, they earned 18 points, to six for Delta. "Roger's the fastest in the 400 by far," said Olsen, a senior. "I only knew I was going to race the 400 by the region meet. Roger hasn't had anybody pushing him. To have me in the race made it real intense." The Miners began to take command when they won the medley relay, the third-to-last event of the weekend. James came from behind to eliminate a 30-yard lead for Delta and lead the four-man four-man team, which included three seniors. "That being my last race, that was fun," James said. "Three of four of us were seniors. We psyched each other up... We were screaming, 'We're going to do it.'' "I was very surprised at how good was feeling today," added James. "I was feeling good." And so, it seems, were the rest of the Miners. Three Park bmith and . to U.S. Freestyle Mogul Team May 9 was a memorable day for Park City's mogul skiers. Three Park City residents-Craig Rodman, Sean Smith and Beau Brinkerhoff- were named that day to the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team, to compete in moguls next season. Rodman, 19, will be a member of the B Team next year, in his second season on the U.S. squad. Rodman is currently recuperating from a late-season late-season knee injury. After finishing the season travelling with the U.S. on the World Cup circuit, the 21 -year-old Smith will start his first full season with the national team next year, as a member of the C Team. Finally, 20-year-o' Beau Brinkerhoff used a six place finish at nationals to earn a spot on Heather Hall finishes her leg the Miners finished second. The Park City High School girls track team performed well at the Utah 2A State High School Track Championships in Provo. One week after winning the Region 9 title, the Miner girls finished tied for fourth at state meet. They completed the two-day contest, held May 15-16 at BYU, with 48 points-the same total as for Juab. North Sevier was first, with 103 points. Morgan (64) and Grantsville (52) came in second and third, respectively. Kristen Russell finished sixth in the javelin to earn Park City's only point on the first day. On the second day, Trisha Johansen and Anji Buckner led a Park City charge. Johansen, a junior, was third in the 300 hurdles and sixth in the 100 hurdles. "I wanted to try and ii " i i - J. ii will , rj-yi V a' V - fH L : i :i s; k. J h Hi W(W u a . I - : Anji Buckner takes the baton from a teammate. The senior helped lift Park City to a fourth-place finish. City Boys' Brmkerhott the C Team next season. Rodman, Smith and Brinkerhoff are all recent graduates of Park City High School. Together, they Racers Nobis, Park City residents Jeremy Nobis and Kristi Terzian were two of 35 skiers named May 9 to the 1993 U.S. Alpine Ski Team. The team includes 21 skiers who competed in the 1992 Olympic Winter Games. Nobis and Terzian are both recovering from injuries y fp'-last fp'-last year. Nobis was naincd to the men's A Team, while Terzian was ... HESS of the medley relay, in which get second in both," she said. "In the trials I was second, but I messed up today. I messed up my steps and stuff." Buckner, a senior, finished third in the 400, to complete a successful comeback from knee surgery last year. Park City's high jumpers, Liz Snyder and Rebecca Spencer, finished second and fourth, respectively. Snyder cleared 5-2, four inches off the winning jump. Park City's best performances came in the relays. The Miner medley-relay team (Buckner, Snyder, Spencer and Heather Hall) came in second, as did the 1600-meter 1600-meter team (Buckner, Johansen, Snyder and Hall). The 400-meter relay team (Snyder, Spencer, Buckner and Johansen) came in third. - Rodman, V x I rm' 0 ' ' ..!- -- ifwiMif - selected constitute half of the six-member U.S. men's mogul team, which will compete on the World Cup circuit in 1992-93. Terzian tapped named to the women's B Team. Other skiers named to the men's and women's A Teams were Matt Grosjean, 21, Steamboat Springs, Colo.; AJ Kitt, 23, Rochester, N.Y.; Jeff Olson, 26, Bozeman, Mont., Hillary Lindh, 23, Juneau, Alaska; Julie Parisien, 20, Auburn, Maine; Dian Roffe-Steinrottcr, 25, otsdam, N.Y.; Krista Schmidin-ger, Schmidin-ger, 22, Lee, Mass.; and Eva Twardokens, 27, Santa Cruz, Calif. |