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Show Saturday, November 11, 2000 The Park Record B-3 At Continued from B-1 l. free of charge, may either go directly to the hit on November 1 1 to use their tree day. or show their Rewards pass at the ticket window and purchase a lilt ticket for $30. The Chew Truck America's Opening will he held November li - IV m the Resorts Eagle Race Arena, an official venue of the 2i)u2 Olympic Winter Games. General admission tickets to the races are just $5 each - Park City Mountain Resort full season pass holders are admitted free of charge. Spectators may also purchase Lunch at the Races tickets, which entitle bearers to finish-area bleacher seating, a catered lunch and official Chevy Truck America's Opening memorabilia Lunch at the Races tickets are $20 tor "ITiursday and Fridays races, and $40 for Saturdax and Sundav's events. Call NX (-222 PARK (7275) or 4-5 -Np-MfvS to purchase America's Opening tickets. For the latest ski and snowboard conditions at Park ("ilv Mountain Resort, call 4'5-W-544 or SUt-222 SUt-222 PARK (7275 Gremlins finish with 5-3 record and playoff loss to the Bingham Miners by Randy Jones RECORD GUEST WRITER Park City's I'te Conference Gremlin team in the World Continental League ( Div ision 2) finished the regular season with a record of 41 in their conference (-. overall) and v entered the playoffs as one of four seeds in the Division. The Park City team drew the Bingham Miners for the November 4ih game, which wjs played at Brighton High School. It was a cool but beautiful morning morn-ing lor !tKtball in Salt Lake City. T he Bingham district evident-Iv evident-Iv h.'d over a hundred S and s) year olds turn out for football this year, and so fielded lour or foe Gremlin teams, rather than lust "A" and B" teams, like Paik City City's Division 2 team was made up ol almost all S veai old lust time players. The Bingham team the Miners faced has milk! .a game n two years, mhK "tvpttrH-dl) gave up only thrvfwl IV this entire season., In the game against Bingham. Park City got off to a rocky start with a very questionable possession posses-sion call by the ulerees. Bingham seemingly muffed the opening kickoff and it How do you survive riding the luge tun on a skeleton sled - hang on tight Sports Editor dives head first into luge, skeleton reporting, with a helmet of course by John W. Cannon OF THE RECOR0 STAFF Well folks here's the nitty gritty details of what it's like to go head first down the luge run on a skeleton skele-ton sled. Alter going through a training course for the "Athlete for a day " program we headed out to get our gear. W hen Boh Bills, director of the Olympic Athlete for a day program had invited me he had suggested that we wear light fitting clothes and snug gloves. Tight gloves would help to get a better grip on the skeleton sled handles Since I dnl happen to have a spandcx racing sun on hand I made do with an old snowmobile suit. We did have one athlete show up in a spandcx span-dcx suit, but most of our group was just wearing jeans ot snow pants. We were then issued bobsled track shoes, They have three quarter quar-ter inch steel spikes on the fiont ball ol the foot but no spikes on the heel "Dm gives you the strange feeling of walking around on your heels. When we walked around on the wood decks at the starting gate and finish line the kng pointed spikes would stiek into the wood. Especially for us bigger guys, we would be pulling the spikes out of the wood every step. The decks koked they had been attacked by 3,(XK) woodpeckers, from all the spiked shoes. After we got out shoes we went down to the storage bins and got our sleds, helmets and foam shoulder shoul-der pads. The helmets were on the small side with plastic face shields and chin guaids. One of the w men was given a helmet that he didnt particularly want. When aked why he explained that there was blot! on it and he didnt want it. Kind of like issuing a new soldier going into combal a gun with blood on it. No doubt a little bit disconcerting. We loaded our gear and sleds onto a truck and headed for the lowest starting platform. It was lather like a morgue in the back of the truck. Nobody said much and everybody looked pictty serious. ess Opsning days away , , r . --yfig ab." . ... ... ' t S f . " , f ' ; ! 1 : STEPHEN SoTV PAS GtCCWQ Nick Wentworth.and Art Ballew are shown here getting the resort ready for opening day at the Ski resort traveled only about eight yards. The Miners" kick-receive team lunged for the ball but made no contact. Bingham fell on the hxjse ball, still short of the ten-yard ten-yard point, and was awarded the ball with a first down 1 he nearest oflicui! incorrectly thought a Miner had touched it. Essentially. H was a perfect onside kick to open the game. Bingham proceeded to run some pretty tricky plays for Gremlin football, getting a huge cam on a silent-count. OB sneak. Bingham scored and converted in the second quarter, but the two defenses played better than either offense and the half ended with the Miners on the short end of a 7.0 score In the third period, the tough Park City defense created a big pi. iv by knocking a Bingham fumble fum-ble to the turf. Mat Christensen. Paik Citv OB Safety, surprised cvciybtKiy on the lield by running run-ning it back plus yard for J.he sc.re. City went lor "one" on the PAT but could not get it in. leaving the score at Park City played hard and made a few moie gKd plays, including a tcr-rilic tcr-rilic open field thumping of the "f ear bonds." said Bob Bills. "After this ts over you guys will all be bonded." Once arrived we unloaded our gear and then put on our steel spike shoes and shoulder pads. One by-one by-one we climbed onto our sleds and were sent down the track. After each racer was sent down green light would go on indicating that the track was clear and the next racer could proceed. Commentary was given over the loudspeaker as to the progress of each racer and the times and lop mph were posted for each of us on the scoreboard. finally it was my turn to go. I put on my helmet and snugged it down reai light. I climbed on the sled and when the instructors where satisfied that I had the proper prop-er fonn they gave ne a litik push down the track. It seemed like I was instantly going U.(K) miles per how. And still gaining speed. Faster and faster, the sled was glancing off the walls, a long sharp turn to the right then Kick and forth turning quickly from side to side then a lone sharp turn to the left. But when I was on the sled it was all just a blur. I tired to ihmk about what turn was coming up next but it just took way too long. By the time the thought crossed nty mind the actual event was long behind me. Especially when I kept bouncing off the walls at 54 mph. That has a way of completely ruining ruin-ing sour concentration. I had a death grip on the handles and it was a struggle to stay on the sled with arms straight and toes fainted, shoulders down. The vied it the wall really hard several times as I picked up speed and neared the end of the course. After crossing the finish line the track w idens and 1 ping ponged back and forth from wall to wall. Rather embarrassing, but I was no worse the wear having survived my first run completely unscathed and unmiured. After everyone in the group had finished their first run there w,x Bingham punt returner, by City's Dylan Chynoweth. It looked like PC would get the ball back several times in the 4:h. but the Miner defense (who had played really well all morning) morn-ing) started jumping offsides on hard snap counts from the Bingham OB The Salt Lake valley val-ley team was well coached, and had some very good athletes. The Miner Gremlin "B" team played their hearts out all season but came up one point short m the playoff game against Bingham Had City won they would now be preparing for the division championship game against Alta. who upset the team from West later in the day Ten weeks ago this Gremlin team could hardly snap the ball without fumbling. They really came a long way this year. The got! news is that most of this team can play together again next year, still as Gremmicv On behalf of all the learns parents I would like to say thank you and congratulations, to ail the players. Head Coach John Chvnoweth. and his dedicated staff. W ELL DONE! only one visible minor iniury. One ol the other writers had hit the wall headfirst and the plastic vrsor on his helmet scraped a dime sied chunk of skin off the bridge of his nose. Some of the racers had top speeds of just over Ml mph. it sort of became a bragging nghts thing to see who could get the fastest top speed. Our instructors explained to us that top mph doesn't count for anything in competition, what ts measured is the fastest overall time down the track. Nevertheless we were a bit fascinated by the mph thing. The truck was there 1 1 neet us. so we loaded up our gear and headed back to the t .p. The conservation con-servation this trip was much more lively as even body talked about how fast it was and tola horror stones sto-nes of hitting the wall. The conversation con-versation went something like this. "Did you hit the wall?" said one racer. '"Yes. I hit the wall really hard." says another racer. "Oh yea well I hit the wall head first." iay a third racer and so on. My second run down I was determined to do better and rvot hit the wall. My heart was just pounding and 1 could feel the adrenaline rush as I got 'Jown on my sled. Having gone once did not make it less intense. Quite the opposite, I was much more terrified for my second tun than for the first, because now I had an inkling of what was coming. I concentrated fiercely on the center of the track and amazingly I stayed in the middle. mid-dle. I donf know exactly just how but I was not hitting the wall. Even in the sharp turns i was riding up on the side but generally staying in the middle. I found out xer quickly that when you donl hit the wall you go a lot faster My speed kept picking up. It was getting harder and harder hard-er to stay in the middle by vhear willpower and concentration alone. 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