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Show IN THE B SECTION Weather B-2 Business B-7 Professional Services B-10 Scene & Heard B-12 FYI B-13 The www.parkrecord.com WEDTHURSFRI JANUARY 15-17,2003 SPORTS EDITOR: EricWalden 649-9014 ext. 1 13 sportsparkrecord.com 3 rark Record Briefs Americans land on aerials podium Aerialists Kate Reed (Montrose, Colo.) and Jeret "Speedy" Peterson (Boise, Idaho) reached their first World Cup podiums Sunday in sunny but bitter bit-ter cold weather. Peterson, in his first World Cup of the winter, was second to Canadian Jeff Bean, while Reed finished fin-ished third behind Olympic champion Alisa Camplin of Australia. It was the first World Cup aerials event since the opening weekend Sept. 7-8 in Australia. The contests starts the North American tour, which includes the Sprint U.S. Freestyle Grand National with two aerials meets and a moguls contest next weekend in Lake Placid, N.Y., and the 2003 World Championships Jan. 29-Feb. 1 on the Olympic venue at Deer Valley, Utah. Bean, the World Cup leader, received 245.18 points for his two jumps, with Peterson's full double-full full and lay double-full full worth 242.35. Olympic medalist Joe Pack (Park City, Utah) finished fifth at 239.74 and Brian Currutt (also Park City), another Olympian, was 12th. Defending World Cup champ Eric Bergoust (Missoula, Mont.) slapped back on his first jump and didn't make the 12-man finals at the jumping site near Mont Tremblant's mountainside village. Klug seventh in Snowboard Championships The first medal of the FIS World Snowboard Championships went Sunday to Slovenian Dejan Kosir, who captured the men's parallel giant slalom. Olympic medalist Chris Klug (Aspen, Colo.) had the top U.S. performance, per-formance, finishing seventh with Pete Thorndike (Meredith, N.H.) in 11th place in sub-zero cold. The surprise silver medalist was Simon Schoch of Switzerland, who knocked off Klug in the semifinals. Nicolas Huet of France was third, and World Cup leader Mathieu Bozzetto of France in fourth. Eric Warren (Bennington, Vt.) was 23rd, with Ryan McDonald (Entiat, Wash.) 29th in the field of 83 riders. Lodwick in first Nordic combined podium of year Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) earned his first nordic combined World Cup podium Sunday, finishing third behind Austrian Felix Gottwald in an individual event. Gottwald crushed the field, beating Germany's Ronny Ackermann by 45 seconds with Lodwick 1:42.5 out and the next skiers nearly a half-minute farther far-ther back. An ailing Johnny Spillane (also Steamboat) was 13th in jumping, but did not start the 1 5-km race. Lodwick was fifth in the jumping and started a few seconds ahead of the top two, but couldn't keep up with Gottwald, the 2001 World Cup champ, and Ackermann, the 2002 champion, once they pulled away on the six-lap course. LET SILVER MOUNTAIN HELP YOU ACHIEVE THEM! Lose Weight Change Your Look Increase Your Fitness Level THE EXPERTS WILL HELP YOU AT SILVER MOUNTAIN SPORTS CLUB Join by January 31st for ONLY $175 and get FREE Nutritional Counseling and Personal Training Records broken at speed skating SCOTT SINE PARK RECORD Jennifer Rodriguez took first place in Saturday's 1,000-meter women's race and finished second in the same event on Sunday, leading a 2-3-4 USA finish fin-ish at the Essent ISU World Cup in Kearns. Girls' rally falls short, while boys get Mihprc' micrnpc from foul line cost team shot at impressive comeback' By ERIC WALDEN Of the Record stuff Mothers' admonitions to their high school-aged children about "bad habits coming back to haunt you" are usually reserved for procrastinating on a 10-page term paper until two days before the deadline. Last Friday night, such a lecture might have helped the Park City girls hoops team. For while the Miners were able to rally from the sporadic play that put them behind early, the miscues appeared again at the most crucial moments, leaving the team on the short end of a 56-55 decision to Judge Park City's fourth straight loss, and one that drops the team below the break-even mark (6-7 overall, 0-2 region) for the first time all year. "The girls dug a hole, and they dug themselves out of it. clawed back and gave us a chance to win." said PCHS coach Steve Crandall. "But we used up all our chances." The team fell behind early, and trailed by as many as 16. but in spite Of all the Miners' myriad problems, senior guard Valerie Mey still had an opportunity to prolong the game, as she was at the free-throw free-throw line for the tying attempts with just two-tenths of a second to go. She rattled the first one in. llie second was well short, barely graz-Please graz-Please see Girls hoops, B-3 YUM u ! K . -i 'A t , .. .... si:'- 'Azi ' SCOTT SHIPARK RECORD Senior center Jeff Hackett scored 10 points for the Miners last Friday, but the team fell behind 52-15 by halftime and could never recover against Judge. The Miner boys have now lost nine of their last 10. SWIMPlay Racquetball As Olympic venue sees 114 records fall over course of three-day World Cup event By ERIC WALDEN Of the Record staff The Utah Olympic Oval, the site of speed skating events at the 2002 Olympic Winter (James, was touted as having "the world's fastest ice." And after 114 records were set there at last weekend's Essent ISU World Cup event, observers would he hard-pressed to argue. Two world records, three junior world records, eight national records, 15 junior national nation-al records, and 86 personal per-sonal records were eclipsed in the three-day three-day event. And with the debut of fit This is a big weekend is want to do well on next week. " 1 0 0 - m e t e r BMMMMii races that took place last Friday, there were two more unofficial records added to the mix. Despite all of that, however, some of the skaters maintained that next week's World Sprint Championships in Calgary. Alberta. Canada will be the real proving ground for many of the athletes who graced the ice on the Salt Lake Valley's west side. "This is a post-Olympic year, and the big weekend is next weekend." said U.S. skater Jennifer Rodriguez. "You want to do well here, but the focus is on next week." Nevertheless. Rodriguez got a nice a Family 'USh'-': .;( )." 2080 Jfforld Cup start. She won the women's 1.000-mctcr competition on Saturday, and had the lead again Sunday until (iermany's Monique (iarbrccht-Enl'eklt lopped her in the final pairing. Until the (ierman came along, the U.S. actually had the top three limes, with Rodriguez, fellow 2002 Olympian Chris Witty, and Becky Sundstrom leading lead-ing the way. Witty, the gold-medal winner and world record holder in the event, wound up finishing about 1.3 seconds oil her best-ever time, but was still pleased with having earned a podium spot each of the last five times she's raced the 1.000 meters. "I wanted to ski technically good on the inside laps), and I did OK with that." Willv said. "I was a little nnst-Mxmnir par anH tho lonuer than 1 next weekend. You here, but the focus is would have liked; maybe I could have had a quicker I e ill p o . Otherwise, lor an oil-season like this. I'm doinn 1 list - Jennifer Rodriguez U.S. speed skater A n d the American continual', was dis- while appointed at losing its 1- 3 placim; m t he event, the athletes weren't surprised, as Ciarbrecht-Enleldt won three of the four races she competed in over the weekend (with Rodriguez' victory in Saturday's 1.0(K) meters beiiis; her lone defeat). Achieving that same feat was Canada's Jeremy Wotherspoon. who was second only to the Netherlands' Erben Wennemars in Sunday's 1.000 meters (Wennemars finished in 1 minute. 7.33 seconds - just 0.15 seconds oil llie world record set by Dutch teammate (ierard van Velde at the (James last F-'ebruarv ). blown away Judge's domination in first half sends Miners to 10th loss of season By ERIC WALDEN Of the Record staff Right about now. the members' of the Park City boys basketball team are either standing near a mountain precipice hoping for some stray boulder to come along and konk them on the head, thereby inducing some blissful amnesia, or soliciting some black-suited, cloak-and-dagger-type CIA operative to appear in their gym, flash a badge, and sternly insist, "This never happened." After enduring an S'2-41 drubbing at the hands of Judge last Friday night, the Miners will try just about anything to help them forget that performance. After all, the memory of a loss like that is equally unwanted as the mental scar that results from bursting into your parents' bedroom and inadvertently catching them in the middle of "it." And while years of intensive psychotherapy psy-chotherapy might cure the latter. Park City's debacle versus the Bulldogs is now in the record books, unfortunately preserved pre-served for someone's masochistic posterity. poster-ity. In spite ol that. Miners coach Ed Potts said all he and his players can do is hope for a memory span that would make Buster Douglas' reign as heavyweight heavy-weight champion of the world seem long by comparison. In this affair, the Miners (2-IQoverall. Please see Boys, B-4 DID YOU KNOW? The perfect Silver Mountain workout consists of circuit franing, yoga or spinning ; then tanning or massage, then steam and shower & end it aO with a smoothie. Singles: $61-75r Couples: $51.37 Families: $31.19 ' Bated en 4 pepl. 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