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Show Hi Sporteo IN THE B SECTION Weather B-8 Scoreboard B-7 Recreation Report B-2 Education B-9 FYI B-15 The r ark Record www.parkrecord.com SATSUNMONTUES, MARCH 27-30, 2004 SPORTS EDITOR: Brett Larsen 649-9014 ext. 1 13 sportsparkrecord.com III. Miners' hopes still afloat after big losses Briefs Basin Recreation kids' baseball and softball Basin Recreation is offering spring baseball and softball for children ages 5-15 for baseball and 7 years old - 9th grade for softball, with a deadline of April 16. For more information on these programs or any other programs being offered by Basin Recreation log on to www.basinrecreation.com or call 649-1564. ft Basin Recreation spring break camp Basin Recreation will be offering a spring break camp the week of April 5-9 5-9 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for boys and girls in grades 1-8. Cost is $110. The camp will be at Ecker Hill Middle School. Early drop-off and late pick-up are available on request. Register online at www.basinrecreation.com or call 649-1564. Park City Recreation spring soccer league Park City Recreation is taking registration regis-tration until March 30 for its Youth Spring Soccer League. The league is for boys and girls ages 4-15. Games will be played on Saturdays at Treasure Mountain Middle School from April 17 to June 12. Cost is $50 per child and includes a uniform and participation award. Scholarships are available for those in need. For more information or to register, call or stop by the Park City Racquet Club, 615-5401. Girls' tennis clinic at Racquet Club The Park City Racquet Club is offering offer-ing a brand new girls-only tennis clinic for first, second and third graders. Beginning April 16, there will be two different dif-ferent clinics being held Friday afternoons after-noons or Saturday mornings. For more information call Melanie at 615-5429 or call 615-5401 to sign up. By BRETT LARSEN Of the Record staff Park City got throttled by Skyline in water polo on Tuesday, but first -year Miners' coach Bill Carter isn't letting that dampen his enthusiasm. According to him. both the boys' and the girls' teams are on track to becoming a force in Utah water polo. It just might take a few years. "I think we can have a competitive team," said Carter, who coaches both the boys' and girls' squads, which are relatively new club teams at the high school. "That's what we plan on." Due to a general lack of experience with water polo locally. Carter said his teams will need a bit of time to really gel with their sport. Unlike mainstream sports like basketball or football, which benefit from widespread participation and TV exposure, water polo takes quite a bit of getting used to, he said. Even if a new water polo player is a strong swimmer, there is a lot more to the game than merely throwing a ball into a net, he added. "Inexperience is a big, big deal." he said. "It poses a lot of problems." It was that inexperience among Park City's players that caused the 13-2 and 18-4 drubbings that the boys and girls suffered at the hands of the Eagles on Tuesday. "They just Uxk advantage of the opportunities oppor-tunities we gave them." said Carter. Not only that, but Skyline boasts two of the top water polo programs in the state "They're a counterattack team. Fundamentally, they're better," Carter said. "It's tough to go up against that." Not much went right for the Miners, who hosted the Eagles at the Ecker Hill Middle School pool. In both games, Skyline kept the Park City defense on its heels, penetrating and scoring with relative ease. The losses dropped the boys to 2-6 on the season, while the girls fell to 1-3. But Carter isnt giving up. Both teams feature superb athletes who are steadily developing, he said. 3T1 1 'J& ti f 1 : v s r '8 V;'r'r sis SCOTT SNEIPARK RECORD Park City goalie Alexa Wilkinson reaches out to block a Skyline shot during the Eagles' 18-4 win over the Miners on Tuesday. Both Park City water polo programs lost to Skyline, but retain high hopes for the future. For the boys, senior captain Jeff Livingston, freshman sensation Tyler Pool and sophomore Randy Pankow will provide the spark in the field, while Will Jones is a reliable stopper at goalie. On the girls' side, meanwhile, the goal-keeping goal-keeping tandem of Courtney Pool and Alexa Wilkinson provide a solid backup for Carter said they will focus on the fundamen- drivers Ashley McRae and Brenna Schmidt, tals of the sport, things like passing, sluxiting Hie team will miss the services of freshman and defending. The ultimate goal is to make Amanda Margulies. who recently injured a a run through the playoffs in years to come, hand and is expected to be out at least a Although that process might take a season month. or two. Carter is confident his teams will see 'lb build the teams up to a higher level, it through. Park City sojecer shreds Wasatch in rivalry game V 4 ?rrt?v 'V- v 5.:; v- .i; , -i.J 1, t 1 11 1 r a 1, 1 7 1 ilni. . tin .. , , 1. r. in 1 1 1 11 ... I sps can't keep upas Miners roll to 4-0 victory, PCHS improves to 5-0-2 By BRETT LARSEN SCOTT SINE IPARK RECORD Park City senior Chad Agy heads upfield during the Miners' 4-0 win. Of the Record staff Park City boys' soccer coach Mike (iiietschow couldn't have written a better script for his team in its meeting with Wasatch on Wednesday. While things could hardly have gone better for the Miners in a 4-0 win in Heber, almost nothing went right for the Wasps. For that, (iiietschow credited his team's ball control. "We were stringing together eight and 10 passes in a row. That's exhausting to a defense," he said. "'Ilie passing and ball movement we had just forced them to exhaust themselves chasing us. There was really nothing left for them to put anything together offensively." It also didn't hurt that Ryan Hart scored the game's first goal barely 10 minutes into the contest, silencing the large contingent of Wasps' fans early on. "Going to Wasatch is always a tough place to play. Their fans can be pretty boisterous," Guetschow said. "We pretty much gave them nothing to cheer about." Hart's goal turned out to be a snapshot snap-shot of how the entire game was played. Following a six-pass series, Aleks Roising drove to the left endline before firing the ball to Reid Baker in the mid dle of the field. From there. Baker passed to Hart, who sent a rocket right by the Wasatch keeper. "'The ball movement we had is getting much better. Our team defense is getting much better," Guetschow said. "'Iliey were chasing us all over the field." It was the defense that sparked the offense, Guetschow added. "Our defenders were very active," he said. "'Iliey made passes out of the back to start the offense." Even playing in the face of a stiff wind in the first half didn't slow Park City too much. Late in the half, forward Paul Loboschefsky took a pass with his back to the Wasatch net. spun around into the wind, and booted the ball 35 yards towards the goal. "He tagged it." Guetschow said of the kick. "It was a knuckle ball. ..it had absolutely no spin." When the ball came within a few feet of the keeper, it suddenly sud-denly dropped to the turf and rolled into the net. "The keeper thought he had it, then it was underneath his hands." Guetschow said. Up 2-0 at the half, the Miners didn't let down after the break. At the end of another long series of passes. Roising scored his first goal of the season. When Nick Manookin sent a pass to Matt Smith early in the half. 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