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Show IN THE B SECTION Business B-7 FYI B-13 Professional Services B-12 Weather B-2 Spo rts The ParkRecoiiL www.parkrecord.com WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14,2001 SPORTS EDITOR: Sterling Clifford 649-9014 ext. 1 10 Briefs Spring Basketball The Park City Racquet Club spring basketball league begins play March 15. Team registration is going on now. Call the the Racquet Club for more information, 615-5414. Baseball tryouts Park City Competitive Baseball will hold it's spring tryouts March 14-15 at the Ecker Hill Middle School gym. Tryouts are from 5-9 p.m., and are divided into age groups. For more information, infor-mation, or to get the tryout time for a specific age group, call John McTigue at 649-0438. Aikido classes The Racquet Club is offering Aikido classes for those seeking some spiritual spiritu-al harmony and physical fitness. The classes are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Call the Racquet Club for more information, 615-5401. Snowboard clinic The UTah Snowboard Education Foundation is hosting half and full-day carving clinics at the Park City Mountain Resort March 17-18. Registration is going on now. Call the Park City Snowbaord Team for more information. Level II Avalanche Course at The Canyons The American Avalanche Institute is offering a Level II Avalanche Course at The Canyons Resort. This 2-day course will be Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1. Rod Newcomb, Director of the American Avalanche Institute will be the instructor. Cost is $200 and includes lift access. For more information or to register call Mike Ruth at 649-4527. Aerial Assault The BMW Aerial Assault returns to The Canyons this weekend. Watch high flying aerial jumps by professional skiers and snowboarders Saturday, March 17 at noon and 8 p.m. Jumping continues Sunday, March 18 at noon. Locals claim World Championship Gold Park City skiers rule their home hill in Masters consortium Contributed by Steve Linck Stan Beach, Rosie Moschel, Billy "The Sheriff' McGrath, and Glenn McConkey all claimed gold medals in the 2001 Masters World Championships held this past week at Park City Resort. Of the 75 medals claimed by the US during the four-day four-day event 21 of them were taken by the local Masters. Three hundred and forty athletes representing rep-resenting 16 countries descended on Park City, over two hundred foreign racers aged 30 to 85 traveled to Park City for a week of races on the Olympic venues. The large turnout of competitors for this event is no doubt a reflection of the level of international interna-tional enthusiasm for the upcoming Olympics. The quality of the venues was easily equaled by the quality of the competition. For example, some of the Austrian contingent contin-gent had been to Park City before, only not for Masters races. They had been participants par-ticipants in early World Cup races on Willy's. Ask anyone who has been around Masters Ski Racing for any time and they will agree: This was the best Masters ski-racing ski-racing event ever held in North America. Leading the local medal count was Glenn McConkey with a gold and three silvers. Sally Tauber hauled in a silver and three bronze. Stan Beach pulled in a gold and two silvers. Other multiple medal winners were McGrath (gold and silver), coaches Bill Skinner (two silver) and Bob Skinner (two bronze). Rick Slabinski scored impressive silver in the Super G and was third overall in that race. Rosie Moschel collected gold before getting injured off piste taking her out of competition. Chris Peterson, Darci McGrath, and Steve Linck each added one PHOTO COURTESY OF RANDY ANDERSON Park City's Darcie McGrath claimed one of the 21 Masters World Consortium medals handed out last weekend at Park City Mountain Resort. The races were the final event of the Masters racing season. bronze each. Ned Dolan 5th in GS and 6th in Super G, Simply getting in the top 10 in class was John Bloomberg 6th in both Super G and a great achievement with the quality ot tne Oa, cnns KatzenDerger witn a 4th place competition. Some ace groups had 40 result in GS and a 5th in Super G, Amy competitors. Lanzel with a 4th in GS, Joni Taxin with a Of special note are the performances of 5th in GS, Georee Crown with a 6th ii Randall Malin who was 5th in his class for and 7th in slalom, Celeste Puckett who the Payday Super G and eighth overall, was 5th in the GS, Pam Sheeler 4th i Super G, Bill Tabar 8th in slalom. Thunder Jalili 10th in GS, and Tom Wood was 9th in the Super G. bverything about this event was Dig time. The Park City Race Department was world class as usual, the awards parties were huge, Ralph Raffin and Warren , B-3 Bergoust brings home world Cup Uzuki njAlEBTI S' suzukJB SH7!!SfiSfc TP KHWMH i k City resident Eric Bergoust, posing with the trophy and women's n the freestyle World Cup overall title Saturday. The win marks the first JOE FITZGERALDUSSA Jacqui Cooper of Austrailia, title of Bergoust's career. Season ends on a hiqh note for Schlopy by Paul Robbins SPECIAL TO THE RECORD Park City's Erik Schlopy laughed as he thought about the moment. There he was, perched Saturday on the monstrous shoulders of ex-bricklayer Hermann Maier. The strapping Austrian had just won the final World Cup giant slalom of the season in Are, Sweden, when Swiss great Michael Von Gruenigen - who has co-shared the GS realm with Maier over the last four years - inexplicably fell near the finish and blew his chance for the title. Maier, who led the first run, came down and won. Schlopy, who had finished a stunning stun-ning second after being third in the first run, was there to congratulate him. Instead, Maier picked him onto his shoulders, almost as if he were throwing a towel around his neck as he walked away from a swimming pool. "I think he was pretty happy, of course, that he'd won the tile. But I think he was giving me partial credit because he'd beaten Von Gruenigen," Schlopy, 28, said in a telephone tele-phone interview. "I became his instant best friend for a few minutes. "Actually, I was rooting for Von Gruenigen. I thought he deserved the title. Obviously, Hermann had a great year, and to be on the podium with Hermann and Von Gruenigen was so great...the cherry on top of my season." sea-son." 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