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Show BUSINESS C7 CLASSIFIEDS C15 O T.V. LISTINGS C1 3 The Park Record D Section C Thursday, September 1 5, 1 994 Page C1 r- Brief - Mountain Challenge is Sept. 1 7 It's time once again for The Utah Nordic Alliance's Mountain Challenge. The annual fundraising event for TUNA, the combination nine kilometer run and 15.5- kilometer bike will take place at Telemark Park on Saturday, Sept. 17. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with the race start scheduled for 10 a.m. The race day entry fee is $15 per team, $18 for individuals. Cost for TUNA members is $10 and $12 respectively. For details about the race, call 272-7875 or 532- 2410. Tour des Suds on tap for Sept. 24 Another annual race, the Tour des Suds, is set for Saturday, Sept. 24. Starting at City Park, the race will climb 1,700 vertical feet in five miles to finish at Guardsman Pass The Tour des Suds is fundraiser and all proceeds will benefit the Mountain Trails Foundation. Pre-registration fee is $10 and same-day registration costs $15. Forms can be found in the Park Record and at ColeSport, Jans, White Pine Touring and the Deer Valley ticket offices. For more information, contact Tim Henney at 649-4035. Sports Park free for any PC worker The Utah Winter Sports Park at Bear Hollow will host two Park City employee days in the , next week. On Saturday, Sept!7 and Wednesday, Sept. 21, beginning at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m each day, the park will be open free, of charge to all Park City business employees furnishing proof of local employment: a business card, firm ID or t heck stub will suffice. Each, session will include members of the U.S. Nordic and Freestyle Ski Teams training, an official guided tour of the facilities and an opportunity to learn about winter programs available to locals and tourists alike. Call 649-5447 to reserve your place at one of the sessions. Book Cliffs presentation at REI in SLC The Book Cliffs are home to black bear, elk and raptors, and include some of the wildest and most remote lands in Utah. Outstanding recreational opportunities abound in this : region. On Tuesday, Sept 20 at 7 p.m The Nature Conservancy's :Alyson Heyrend and Bill Christensen from the Rocky : Mountain Elk Foundation will present a slide show and discuss the Book Cliffs Conservation Initiative. This free clinic will take place at REI, 3285 East 3300 South in Salt Lake City, PC patrol I er is tops in region " Park City's Jesse Schaub was cited recently by the National Ski Patrol after 15 years of service. At a ceremony in Jackson, Wyo., Schaub was declared the outstanding Winter Emergency Care Instructor for the Intermountain Region. The award comes after a season-long evaluation, unknown to Schaub, of his proficiency in handling winter emergencies. Schaub also received his national appointment in Jackson. 4F f ;m ; x v 3! -Vab ,'. j i rf. mar -,r j . photo by Luke Smith Freshman Jordan Krieger works over the Delta defense. Krieger has been a contributing factor in the Miner offense. Girls' soccer ups region record to 2-0 with 3-2 victory at Wasatch by LUKE SMITH Record staff writer Their winning percentage in Region X remains 1.000. They've now doubled the number of wins they had last season. A day after moving into the state ranking for 3A soccer teams, the Park City High School girls' soccer team proved their upset of Lehi was no fluke with a hard-fought 3-2 win on the road at Wasatch on Thursday, Sept. 8. Anna Knudsen continued her scoring streak, getting the Miners on the board with a score on a penalty kick in the first half. Just before the end of the half, trailing 2-1, the Miners pulled even on a goal by junior Sarah Drown. Drown's goal came on a corner kick from another junior, Karen Massey. After a scoreless majority of the second half, Knudsen made it two straight two-goal games, scoring with about five minutes remaining and putting the Miners up for good. Park City returned home to face potential post-season opponent Delta at Treasure Mountain Middle School on Saturday, Sept. 10. A lackluster Miner harriers host pre-region meet on a truly "cross-country" course .'-:- 1:, ; '.. J.J. Krieger left and Cara Wieser lead the Miner girls at the by LUKE SMITH Record staff writer Park City High School cross country coaches Michelle and Scott Taylor brought new meaning to the phrase "water hazard" with their course for the team's pre-region meet on Thursday, Sept. 8. Beginning on the soccer field east of the high school, the track ran alongside Treasure Mountain Middle tr- ... performance by both teams overshadowed the fact that Park City held whatever advantage existed throughout the game. Knudsen extended her scoring streak in the 35th minute, taking a beautiful cross from Tara Reeves and tapping the ball into an open net. Jordan Krieger had started the play with a lead pass for Reeves near the right post Reeves simply tapped the ball across to a streaking Knudsen in the goal mouth. Twenty-eight minutes into the second half Drown picked up her second goal in two games after Delta's goalie misplayed a shot from Alynn Nelson. Nelson sprinted down the left side and fired a roller toward the net The ball rolled through the goalkeeper's legs and Drown pounced on the loose ball, firing it into a wide-open goal. Next up for Park City is Uintah, a team notorious for causing the Miners problems with its physical play. The Region X match-up features the No. 3 team in 3A Utah, Uintah, against the new upstart No. 4 team, the Miners. Game time is 3:30 p.m. at the Treasure Mountain Middle School field. 4 'AV School and up onto the hill behind the school. After circumnavigating the peak, the course topped out in the saddle next to the large, white "PC visible from town and proceeded downhill to the new fields .north ofTMMS. But before the runners could reach the fields and return to the finish line, they were faced with a choice: take a longer path to a bridge over a creek or opt for the So close and yet so far: Miners are three points short of ending streak Emery Spartans edge Park City, 33-30 .1 nyri Chason Memmont wraps up an Emery runner as Troy Jewkes 77 move in to help. The Miners held onto Emery for a while, by LUKE SMITH Record staff writer Assistant football coach Jeff Schwalbe reflected the emotions of everyone involved with Park City football when he said, "I honestly thought that if we had a chance to win a game, that that would feel good. From so many losses in the last couple years, I thought it would be such a moral victory. And it isn't A loss is a loss." The Miners played Jekyll and Hyde football against the Emery Spartans on Friday, Sept. 9 at Dozier Field, ultimately falling three points short, 33-30. At one point in the second quarter, after scoring 23 unanswered points, Park City led 23-7 23-7 and looked to be on their way to breaking a now 13 -game losing streak. But the Spartans rebounded, scoring 18 unanswered points of their own in the final five minutes of i 1 photo by Luke Smith start of the pre-region meet. short cut through the creek. Easy decision, right? Wrong. The creek was too wide to clear in a jump and mid-stream featured water about six feet deep. Beneath the water lay sneaker-sucking mud that threatened to de-shoe any runner who tarried too long in the muck. It was, in short, an honest-to-God cross country course. Much to the consternation of some of continued on C4 the first half to take a 25-23 lead into the locker room. The Dr. Jekyll Miners returned from the break and regained the lead only to see the Mr. Hyde Miners allow it to slip away once and for all. Things looked bad from the start for Park City. In their first play from 4 ' ri '; Chason Memmont, who caught two touchdown passes, prevented an interception with this hit on the sideline. Bid suffers setback as Huntsman pulls support by LUKE SMITH Record staff writer Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics was dealt a setback last week when Utah industrialist and power broker Jon Huntsman declared that hosting the Games might not be such a good idea. In a report in the Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Sept. 8, Huntsman said the economic and environmental situation in Utah has changed and the move to host the Olympics must be reexamined, in so doing, Huntsman becomes the most prominent figure in Utah to publicly state reservations about the Utah Olympic bid. Huntsman told the Tribune, "We gave more than $100,000 to the Olympic cause in 1988. The environment has changed in 1994 and we need to analyze the benefits bid tor the 2002 Olympics 17, photos by Luke Smith No. 21 and Lance Steck No. but finally let them slip away. scrimmage, quarterback Randy Tatton threw to Joe Pack on the right sideline. The ball was tipped up and into the arms of the Emery cornerback the who returned the interception to the Miner 15. Four continued on C6 against the negatives as they apply to today's environment" He added that perhaps another referendum, such as the one voters approved in 1988, might be in order. "If people feel at some point we should have a referendum before the 2002 Olympics, then so be it" men we needed jobs," he told the Tribune. "We needed exposure. But now we should focus on developing our infrastructure and focus on improving our infrastructure, on attracting industries that will provide good, Vi rrV nniiintf iaKo wnat i am saying is not popular. But I believe it I i r j n - c -v ?SjlllvVtffl ii .tailj isAerighUhing 1 '"' 1 to say. This conversation also is the last time I will address this issue. It now is up to political leaders, the media and the public to further analyze the issue. But somebody had to break 1 the ice. Huntsman is out. of the, country continued on C5 |