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Show Saturday, July 15, 2000 The Park Record B-5 Visa NSF hosts Junior Springer Tourney by Susi Talkington RECORD GUEST WRITER Nordic ski jumpers from three clubs competed on two hills at the Utah Olympic Park this past weekend to complete the first half of the Junior Springer Tournee which is currently being completed in Calgary, Canada. This four hill competition is modeled after one of the most prestigious meets in ski jumping, one which is held in the middle of winter and demands that the jumpers compete on four hills over a seven day period. In this North American version, ver-sion, junior athletes from Park City's VISA NSF. the Steamboat Winter Sports Club and Calgary jump the K20 and the K40 hills four times each over an eight-day period. After the first weekend VISA NSF boys stood one-two on the K2D and one-two-four on the K40 while the gui tanked one on the K20 and one-two-three on the K40. Friday night as the helmeted lumpers garbed in colorful spongy suits hoisted their skis over their shoulders and climbed the stairs to the tops of the jumps, accompanied by the omnipresent sounds of loud rock music, the crowd of spectators reached for their visors and cold bottled water instead of their hand warmers and polarfleece. As one veteran parent observed. "The biggest question is does evervone have on sunblock'" sun-block'" Even though the feeling is somewhat surreal as this once winter-only sport is now performed per-formed on green plastic covered jumps while a "meter babe" informs the spectators of the length of the jump by donning the appropriately numbered jumping bib over tier shorts and tank top. the level of intensity among the young athletes remains constant summer and winter. The focus of this competition fell on the J4's on the K20 and the JVs on the K40 although there was a J5 event on the K20 and an open class on the K40. The ll-ear-old "veteran." Anders Johnson, threw down the gauntlet Friday by jumping to the K" point (the ski jumping equivalent equiv-alent of par) on the K20 and then jumping a meter and a half farther far-ther on his second jump, while collecting the highest style points of any jumper except Open Class Brett Camerota. Teammates Josh Hanson and Alex Haupt jumped far and well for second and third, although Alex had some troubles on landing, land-ing, not an uncommon occurrence occur-rence on plastic. Salt Lake's Kevin Lockwood. recruited through the school program, pro-gram, jumped well enough for ninth on Friday. On the distaff side Brenna Ellis put together two good jumps for first and for a point total that would have placed her third among the boys. Young Hyrum Bailey took third in the J5's. Logan Oxford put together two monster jumps on the K40 for first place and the prize money collected from spectators spec-tators for the longest standing jump. Teammate Chris Francis jumped not as far but almost made up the difference on style points to grab second while Anders Johnson made it an NSF sweep of the top three places. Local jumpers also took eighth through 11th with Skyler Keate. Josh Hanson. Stephei. MacKav. and Alex Haupt battling one another. The NSF trio of Jessica Jerome, Alissa Johnson, and Brenna Ellis battled one another and finished gold, silver and bronze for the girls. In the Open Class brotheVs Brett and Eric Camerota finished one-two while the rapidly improving Trevor Keate challenged chal-lenged for third as the trio had to contend with a lower starting gate and the accompanying slower slow-er speeds. Saturday proved a bluebird day and provided the spectators with great jumping as rivalries heated up. On the K20 hill Anders Johnson and Josh Hanson jumped well and held on to first and second while Alex Haupt soared consistently but was passed by several jumpers and so ended up fifth overall. Kevin Lockwood. whose point total increased 25 points, had to settle for 10th overall. For the girls Brenna Ellis continued con-tinued her domination and opened up a seemingly insurmountable insur-mountable lead. Once again Hyrum Bailey finished fin-ished third in the J5'v Logan Oxford grabbed first again and established himself as the one to beat in Calgary, all the while holding off a serious challenge from Steamboat's Bryan Fletcher who won the honors for longest standing jump. Chris Francis placed fourth but remains second overall while Anders Johnson slipped to fifth on Saturday and fourth in the two-day standings. Making the greatest improvement improve-ment of the NSF athletes, Bransford Briggs moved from a disappointing 13th on Friday to eighth on Saturday, putting him at ninth overall behind teammate Skyler Keate who wound up eighth. Stephen MacKay stayed a consistent con-sistent 10th while young Alex Haupt took 12th. Jessica Jerome. Alissa Johnson, and Brenna Ellis remained one-two-three, and Alissa held off Brenna by one-tenth of a point On Sunday the cross country portion of the Nordic Combined event took place on a course which, according to Alan Johnson. NSF parent and SLOC official, is "a tough course. It's hot. iot.ky. tuiny. twisty. wiih lots of up and down." The 14 km course twists around the bobsled and luge course and tests the mettle of the competitors. The J4's ran a 2 km race with Anders Johnson starting and finishing fin-ishing first, while posting the fastest time of the race. Josh Hanson ran a good race, breezing to second while posting the fourth fastest time. Alex Haupt ran a gutsy race and crossed the line fifth. Buck Bailey came out of 12th and placed sixth, turning in the second sec-ond fastest time. Brenna Ellis captured first for the girls, this in spite of having been ill the entire night before. The J3 race saw favorite Logan Oxford too sick to compete com-pete so the lone NSF athlete, Skyler Keate, turned in the second sec-ond fastest time of the event and streaked from seventh to third. The Open Class saw Brett and Fric Camerota egg each other on to a one-two finish over the 5 km course with Trevor Keate. running run-ning virtually alone, finishing third. This nine man team of 1 1 to 15-year-olds will go to Calgary and then to Finland for two-and-a-half weeks. On September 1 they'll find themselves in Colcraine. Minn., for the Summer Nationals on the K0 hill The Calgary coach, introduced intro-duced by coach Corby Fisher, said. "Some people call him Benedict Arnold; some call hint friend." about (iregor Linsig who works for the NSF in the winter and is on integral pait of the J'aik City program. "His number one-goal one-goal is that he wants the kids to respect and enjov the sport for what it is." 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