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Show I IN THE B SECTION Professional Services Travel Weather B-7 B-2 B-9 B-2 Sports The Park Recoil www.parkrecord.com SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2001 SPORTS EDITOR: Sterling Clifford 649-9014 ext. 1 10 Extreme soccer Park City Extreme Soccer Club will hold try-outs for the U16 and U18 girls teams for the spring session on Tuesday, January 30, and Thursday February 1 at the Jeremy Ranch Elementary multipurpose room. For more information, call 655-0407. Personal Fitness The fitness, aquatics, spinning and tennis staffs of the Park City Racquet Club have joined forces to create Strong Resolutions. Strong Resolutions is a free club-wide motivation motiva-tion and incentive program. Call 615-5409 615-5409 for details. Young Riders The Young Riders, a mountain biking bik-ing group for kids ages 13-18 will hold a registration meeting January 31 at 7 p.m. The Young Riders runs programs from February through September, for intermediate to advanced riders. The meeting will be held at 1300 Snow Creek Drive in the former Wasatch Bagels location. For more information, call 655-3871. Park City Snowboard Team The Utah Snowboard Education Foundation has begun if s training program pro-gram lot the season. There are Programs for boarders ages 8-adult from all ability levels. New members are always welcome, call 615-8839 for more information. Free Throw Contest The Knights of Columbus free throw competition, for children ages 10-14, will be hald on Saturday, February 3 at 9 a.m. in the Park City High gym. For entry forms or information contact Jim Houlihan at 645-7122 or jack Cunniff at 649-2419. You can also register at the gym. Correction The name of Lexus Tomba Challenge participant Catie Blaine was incorrect in Wednesday's edition. We regret the error. Hot hand Miners put Uintah in a deep hole Park City gets win number five by Sterling Clifford OF THE RECORD STAFF Is unbelievable the right word? Maybe incredible is the better adjective. How ever you want to describe it, the emergence of Park City as the top boys basketball team in Region X is causing a lot of people to throw out their preseason predictions. The Miners overcame an 11 -point deficit in the final four minutes Wednesday night, earning a 62-61 win over Uintah, and holding on to first place in Region X. Carl Fine dumped in the winning layup for the Miners with just under two seconds to go in the ball game, capping a 26-point fourth quarter. Park City improves to 5-0 in the region and 10-7 overall, Uintah ranked in the top five among 3A teams, slips to third in the region standings at 3-2, 11-5 overall. Brennan Jones led the Miners in scoring with 19 points, Fine had 16. and Chris Drolett added eight. The 26 points Park City scored in the fourth quarter was more than they managed man-aged the entire first half. Uintah jumped out to a six point lead after the first quarter, quar-ter, and though the Miners cut it to two by halftime, the Utes pulled away again in the third. It wasn't until half way through the final period that the Miners pulled it together. "We changed around some personnel,'" said Benson, "and we started pressing them, it seemed to bother them a little." It bothered Uintah enough that the Utes gave away the game. Uintah, bigger and faster than any other team in Region X, couldn't shut down the Park City offense in the fourth quarter, and couldn't get enough offense going. Only six Utes scored points, and two players accounted for 38 Uintah's 61 points. The Miners benefited from a more balanced bal-anced scoring attack, with eight players putting points on the board, and six who Chris Drolett (44) and Jason Jones (15) double up on a Uintah player to block second loss of region play, and the Miners improved to 5-0. Drolett and Jones it really threw them off," Benson said. With five wins in the region, and two more virtually guaranteed, the Miners appear to be on track for a region championship, and scored six or more. "Carl Fine came through big time," said Benson. Fine scored almost all of his 16 in the second half. And of course, there was the little matter mat-ter of playing defense. Always the focus of a John Benson coached team, the Miners defense kept Uintah from running away with the ball game early. "We played a zone for most of the game, and so when we went into that press the playoffs, for the first tune in years. The Miners host Wasatch on January 31, the Wasps have yet to win a region game. Likewise, Lehi is winless in region action. Still, Benson is concerned about every game on the schedule. "Wasatch beat Duchesne, and they are STEPHEN ZUSYfi4flK RECORD a shot. Park City handed Uintah it's combined for nine points. still a good team," he said, "and they are hungry for a win." The toughest opponents on the Miners schedule are still Uintah, who Park City will visit for the last game of the season, and Judge, who the Miners play in Salt Lake on February 2. Park City got a short but much needed break in the schedule this weekend. With no Friday game, the Miners have a week to prepare tor Wasatcn. Park City makes a push, but Uintah holds out for the win IriPi wSm STEPHEN ZUSYPARK RECORD Park City's Amanda Smith rises above the crowd for two points In Wednesday's loss to Uintah. Smith scored four points for the Miners. Second half comeback come-back not quite enough for Park City by Sterling Clifford OF THE RECORD STAFF Calling these hard times doesn't quite cut it for the Park City girls basketball team. The Miners lost their fifth straight game Wednesday night, falling 54-48 to the Uintah Utes. The Miners never held the lead, never managed to tie the score, though they did cut an 18-point Uintah lead to as little lit-tle as four points in the final minutes before losing by six. The Utes started the game hot, going up 11-3 in the opening minutes. The Miners had a hard time cutting Uintah's lead in the first half, and in a scoring flurry to end the second quarter, the Utes knocked in nine unanswered points to take a 16-point lead into the break. Park City mounted a comeback in the third when Brittany Esty and Grace Crandall combined for 16 points in a six minute stretch. Park City out scored the Utes 19-6 over that period, turning what looked like yet another route into a real game. But the obviously tired Miners couldn't sustain their push, and Uintah regained it's composure in the last four minutes of the ball game. Taking advantage of a string of turnovers by Park City, Uintah built it's lead back up to 12 with less than a minute to go. Brittany Esty hit two three pointers in the last 20 seconds of the game to pull the Miners back within six. "We had too many turnovers," said coach Steve Crandall. "We've got to take care of the ball more." Despite the final score, Crandall did take some positives away from the game. Defensively, the Miners were on for most of the game. Uintah managed only 54 points, and it was mostly defense that allowed the Miners their 19-6 run. "I'm happy with the defense," said Crandall, "we go some great stops out there." But turnovers proved costly for the Miners, as did a lack of rebounding near the end of the game. Uintah scored six points as the direct result of turnovers in the final two minutes min-utes of the game. The Miners also shot the ball much better than they have in past games, a confidence builder not lost on Crandall. "We did have a good shooting night," Crandall said, "we need that for once." Seven Miners contributed baskets, Esty led the team with 16 points, Crandall finished fin-ished with nine. With Wednesday's game in the books, the girls have now finished the top half of their region schedule, they will get a second shot at all five teams in the region. If the Miners run the table, they will finish the year at .500. This weekend. Park City gets a bit of a breather. After playing two games a week since coming back from the holidays, holi-days, the Miners don't play again until Wednesday night at 7 p.m. The second half of the region starts with a home game against Wasatch. Craig Reece, CRS UNDERSTANDING THE PURCHASE AGREEMENT Whether it consists of several pages of big type or a few of fine print, a real estate purchase agreement is a serious document. In most areas, there are "boiler plate" forms that spell out what each party agrees to do by certain dates and what happens if either side breaks the contract. The best time to familiarize yourself with these forms is when you are beginning your search. Ask the Realtor for a copy of the purchase agreement and then review it, keeping in mind that it has the force of law. If you don't understand the document, consult an attorney. If mere is a dispute between buyer and seller, a court will hold you to what the purchase agreement says, not what you thought it meant or what you thought the Realtor said it meant. There are several crucial points you should be dear about. What are the deadlines for loan application and obtaining financing? If you decide to back out because of the structural inspection report, can you do that? Do appliances convey? When will the closing take place? If you understand these clauses before you find the perfect house, you will avoid a lot of stress and minimize the likelihood of misunderstandings. For rock solid advice on buying or selling real estate, call Craig Reece at 801-0647-8017 or toll free at 1-800-553-4666. 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