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Show met SatSunMonTue, February 7-10, 2004 The Park Record local kids have goldeoD touch ! . - 1 From left to right: Local riders Wade Wiliams and Sage, Kirra and Blaze Kostenburg show off the gold medals they won during a U.S.A. Snowboard Association event in Jackson Hole, Wyo. over the weekend. Williams, 18, took first place in halfpipe and second place in slopestyle in his age group. The Kostenburg girls, meanwhile, mean-while, have dominated their age brackets all year, combining combin-ing for 25 gold medals and one silver between them since the beginning of January. PHOTO COURTESY OF PETER SWISHER Girls throttle Uintah, jump up in region Continued from B-1 its game plan, Crandall said. Meanwhile, the rest of the Miners' lineup steadily did damage from all over the court. J.D. Harris, Krista Berry and Caitlin Jolley each scored six points, while point guard Nicole Tomlin had five. Kim Mackaben added two. The Utes' Maggie Bartel led all scorers with 14 points. "We've had different players step up every night," Crandall said, adding that Park City's evenly-distributed scoring makes it difficult for opposing teams to prepare for games. On a given night, any mem ber of the team can go off for double-digit points. 'Hie way was opened for Judkins' big night partly because of the attention drawn to Harris, Crandall said. '1 Tie senior guard has earned the fear and respect of other teams with her deadly shooting range, and Uintah wasn't going to take any chances with her on Wednesday. 'They don't give J.D. any open lix)ks," Crandall said of opposing teams. Although Harris still found a way to connect on a pair of three-pointers, three-pointers, she was content to set screens for Judkins and play more of a defensive role, he said. "She did exactly what we wanted her to do, and she was glad to do it." Besides giving Park City the satisfaction sat-isfaction of a win, the victory handed hand-ed the Miners the No. 3 spot in the Region 10 standings. With three games remaining in the regular season, sea-son, there is still hope to move up to No. 2. Park City traveled to Union on Friday, and will host Wasatch in its home finale on Tuesday. A trip to Granite on Feb. 13 will wrap up the season. "They're all big games from here on out," Crandall said, adding that the Miners will only worry about one game at a time. The top four teams in the region will qualify for the state playoffs, but the No. 3 and No. 4 schools will have to play their postseason games on the road. Depending on what happens in the rest of the regular reg-ular season. Park City will probably have to travel to play a Southern Utah team. Crandall said. Whatever the future brings for the Miners, the coach isn't worried. "I don't care who we play," he said. "We'll be ready to play. Two-seed, Two-seed, three-seed, four seed. ..it doesn't matter." Tip off on Tuesday is at 5:15 p.m. at Park City High School. Mercer Auto hockey beats Last Call 9-2 Submitted by Richard Mercer Marching on with its unbeaten streak, which now stands at six games, the Mercer Automotive team soundly defeated its latest opponent in the Salt Lake Sunday night hockey league, dropping Last Call 9-2. Mercer Auto used a proven formula for-mula of solid defense, tough forechecking and out-shooting the opposition three-to-one. Last Call got on the board first, when Todd Nate caught Mercer Auto goalie Brad Kidwell off-guard less than a minute into the game. With his team trailing 1-0 midway through the opening period, Mercer Auto's Kyle Moore scored to tie things up. Nate scored, again for Last Call, but Tyler Dustman and Darrin Wright each scored goals to put Mercer Auto back up 3-2 by the end of the period. Dustman scored again late in the second period to make it 4-2 heading into the third. The Mercer crew took over from there, scoring five unanswered goals. 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