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Show B-2 The Park Record Wednesday, August 5, 19981 . I 4i' I V. '.' a. t ( t Y I v u ' " ; irf JORSE FOR SALE. COMES WITH OWN SHOES. you have ever considered the time is now. we have a few the purchase of a fine Arabian, select horses for sale. Call Thoroughbred or a National 435.645.7936 or 435.901.0997 Show Horse for your own? for information. Jiorses offered 6y Cyuus Corp SroHered lirouyfi Ofie Cxfuine 7aoifion The eouinE c PARK (lit 645 West Old ranch road Park city, Utah 84060 'i , . r -(.. . . . . i ! Get in tune uith the 10th Annual Founders Title Folk and Bl u eg r ass Festival in the next issue of the Uasatch Ranger Wasatch Ranger is published bq The Park Record, and is distributed bq the US Postal Service twice a month to all three Pork Citq Area Codes. For more information call 435-649-9014 XX Morgan leaves field behind Continued from B-1 But Aoki left a birdie putt short on No. 11 and missed left by a few inches on No. 12. Aoki finished fin-ished tied for second with John Mahaffey at 12-under 204. Heber City's Bruce Summerhays was out of contention con-tention following a first round 78. He corrected somewhat on Saturday with a 68 but finished with a 75 on Sunday. Summerhays, a perpetual optimist, opti-mist, said he was not disappointed disappoint-ed while signing autographs following fol-lowing his final round. "It's just one of those weeks, they happen. You've got to take the ups with the downs." "I'm not swinging well so I'm happy with the result," said Summerhays who spent Saturday evening playing golf with his kids at Wasatch Mountain State Park. Summerhays' son, Bryan, cad-died cad-died for his father on Sunday and said dad doesn't get too upset when he plays poorly. "He realizes real-izes it's just a golf tournament," the 30-year-old Layton resident said. Thirteen-year-old Nick Kerr of Park City spent last week cad-dying cad-dying for a man more famous for his baseball swing than golf swing. Kerr, son of golfing coun-cilwoman coun-cilwoman Shauna Kerr, carried the bag of Senior PGA Tour rookie Johnny Bench during his first three rounds on the senior tour. The caddying Kerr now has an autographed baseball mitt under glass in his bedroom and an "off-the-record" amount of money in his pocket. And how was Kerr, Mr. Bench? "He had ants in his pants the whole time," the former Cincinnati Reds catcher said of his caddy. "I thought he was standing on hot coals." Bench said he was "thrilled" and "honored" to play in his first professional golf event despite shooting a pair of 78s and a 75 to finish tied for 72nd with Ronald r '-vf I Mrs --SSt' ' SCOTT SINER4RK RECORD,. It was Isao Aoki's putting that propelled the Japanese golfer into contention Sunday on the front nine. He made six birdies' on the first nine holes in the final round of the Utah Showdowri.1- Peay and Jerry Heard, earning second shot from the sand on that $760 in the process. "I'm going with it next week and then back to work so I can eat," Bench said. It was at a breakfast at the U.S. Senior Open that Stockton, the tournament's defending champion, convinced Morgan to come to the Utah tournament. Stockton told Morgan that it would be "in his best interest" to come to Park City, according to Morgan. And he was right. "(Park Meadows) played very well to my game," Morgan said. "Overall, this course, with the altitude and my length, it played very well for me." Morgan said he had trouble judging distances but only struggled strug-gled with the par-3 No. 14 and par-5 No. 15. Morgan's tee shot was a little right of the pin on the water-line par-3 No. 14. "It wasn't was-n't even close," Morgan joked. The new champion said his tough 15th was "the only hole, that I felt like I was in trouble."-. ,, Because he originally planned, to spend this week paying bills,! catching up on correspondence-and correspondence-and watching his girls play tenniSji Morgan said he may "flip flop ont-' another tournament later this' summer. ? Although no official announcements were made oh-Sunday, oh-Sunday, the sponsorship rumdr' mill was abuzz with word that several sponsorship options tiadi surfaced in the last week. ; ' Tournament chairman Bryan. Naugle said, "We need to have, something to present to the tour, in the next 14 days." , And he is confident it will hap pen. . "I think we're going to have -a. tournament for the next foanu years," Naugle said on Monday.: "The reaction to the tournament" was very positive." Chojnacki, Evans win Ultimate Continued from B-1 it." RetiredXJ.S. Ski Team aerial-ist aerial-ist Tracy EvanWed $ lay-full-full triple back flip to earn first place in the women's individual event over gold medalist Nikki Stone 98.18 to 95.19. "You get lucky now and then," said Evans, who, like Stone, is moving to California this week. Evans will run the office of her brother's sports marketing company in Southern California and Stone is moving to be closer to the television and film industry indus-try and her boyfriend, Michael Spencer, will attend law school at Pepperdine. Not wanting to completely leave Park City, Stone purchased pur-chased a Racquet Club condominium condo-minium last week and will spend much of her time in town. Nagano gold medalist Eric Bergoust did not compete Saturday evening after landing on his chest and face during warm up on Saturday. By competition com-petition time, Bergoust, who recently moved to Park City from Missoula, Mont., was feeling feel-ing better but his face was swelling and red prompting him to joke, "That's going to leave a mark." "I gave it too much on my takeoff and landed on my chest," Bergoust said. A new jumping style in which Bergoust uses his arms less to; initiate the flips and twists may be partially to blame for the crash. The only other serious moment in an otherwise carnival-like show that included a half-pipe for skateboarders and freestyle bike riders, a trampoline trampo-line and a live band occurred when freestyler Kip Griffin struggled to get out of the pool in wet jeans, a hard hat, skis and boots. Griffin, who was half of a comedy skit with Jerry Grossi, was pulled to safety and not harmed, just tired, according to medical personnel on hand. Evans and Stone combined synchronized forces in the team event and won the $4,000 first-place first-place money, topping Brenda Petzold and Stacey Blumer with a score of 98.87. After finishing second in the individual event, Swartley teamed up with Joe Pack to win the men's team event with a score of 125.49. Griffin and Chojnacki finished second with 114.61 points and Todd Loveless and Grossi were third (108.33). The event, which is part of a growing U.S. Ski Team summer event schedule, drew numercajs athletes out of retirement ahtl was the final chance to perform in fron.tfcrowdrevsr "It's good to see-teveryone wp-here." wp-here." Stone said. " "This is a-igreat Sway for pe'o-t pie to see the facility and see how we train for this," said Evans, who spent two weeks-training weeks-training for the event and netted $7,000 in her final freestyle com-,, petition. Following the individual and" team competitions, ESPN cam- eras moved to the half-pip where riders of all kinds o"f-wheeled o"f-wheeled devices performed tricks. A few of the skateboarders skateboard-ers and in-line skaters flipped off. the ramp and into the chilty. pool. Back at the pool, BMX riders, sailed off the single jump performing per-forming single and double front.; and back flips. The night's finale. included more than 20 athletas;. simultaneously jumping into tHfej. pool from every imaginably' ramn nnH ctriirtur 1 Freestyle skiers were not the only people earning some loot on Saturday however, Jim Palt father of Joe Pack, eliminated several competitors in the chipping chip-ping contest to a floating "green," and earned a trip to Hawaii. Saturday Jumping Series continues this weekend at Winter Sports Park Missed the Sprint Ultimate Airwave? Catch a Saturday jump show at noon SUBMITTED BY THE UTAH WINTER SPORTS PARK Last Saturday's Sprint Ultimate Airwave, the spectacular spectacu-lar freestyle aerial jumping competition com-petition and demonstration, has stimulated the incentive of the U.S. Ski Team jumpers to "go big" and whetted the appetite of local freestyle enthusiasts for more. This coming week is the final week of the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team's training camp, and several sever-al of the top U.S. men are itching to take a crack at the new "Super-Quad" "Super-Quad" kicker at the park's freestyle training pool. The new jump, which launches aerialists skyward at a 70-degree angle, is nearly 30 feet above the pool surface, sur-face, and with a take-off speed of 40-plus mph, the jumper can reach heights of 60 feet or more above the water. Thought to be the largest freestyle jump in the world, this new kicker will enable America's best aerialists to perfect per-fect the quadruple fliptwisting maneuvers. While the U.S. Ski Team ath letes usually train Tuesday through Sunday mornings, next weekend's Saturday Jumping Series demonstration at noon is a great time to catch this exciting action. This half-hour demonstration gives visitors an excellent sampling sam-pling of the skills required for freestyle ski jumping. Admission for the Saturday Jumping Series is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and $1 for children 12 and under. The Rocket Ride will close for the summer season the day after Labor Day, so if you haven't tried this unique Sports Park attraction, attrac-tion, which runs on the Olympic Bobsled and Luge Track, time is running out! This is one of the few attractions giving the public an opportunity to experience the Olympic course and, best of all, no skill or prior experience is needed to enjoy this ride. The Rocket is offered Wednesday through Sunday, from noon to 7 p.m. The one-person, luge-type sled is outfitted with wheels and it rolls down the track at 45 mph. Tickets are avail- able at the host desk on the maui level of the day lodge for $27 per ride; riders must be at least 5G inches tall. Group rates are available, avail-able, but these must be arrangetl in advanced. Visitors who want to know more about the Utah Winter Sports Park and the athletes who use it should consider a tour. The story behind the facilities is neatly neat-ly as intriguing as watching the athletes use them, and Ca"rl Roepke and his professional torn guides have a way of making the facility and its Olympian future come alive. '. - Walk-on tours are available Tuesday through Friday at 1 p.m Saturday at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. an3 Sunday at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and p.m. The price is $5 for adults and $3 for seniors and children, 12 and under. Group tours may be arranged at other times -as well; call the park office for mor information. j The Sports Park is open to the public Tuesday, from 9 a.m. to,S p.m.; Wednesday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; the park is closed on Monday. There is ay admission fee of $5 per car. Fpc more information on all part activities, please call 658-4200. , POOR |