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Show IN THE B SECTION Weather B-2 Scoreboard B-4 Recreation Report B-6 Business B-9 FYI B-ll n www.parkrecord.com SATSUNMONTUESJULY 17-20,2004 SPORTS EDITOR: Brett Larsen 649-9014 ext. 1 13 sportsparkrecord.com Park Record Briefs Girls' lacrosse coaches needed Park City high school and middle school lacrosse programs are looking for additional coaches. Potential candidates candi-dates must have previous coaching experience and skills in any sport, but knowledge of lacrosse is preferred. Teams begin workouts in September, with games in the spring. Call Mary Leader at 647-3257 or Karyn Sheaffer at 658-1379 for more information. Basin Recreation adult drop-in soccer Adult drop-in soccer will be offered at the new Basin Recreation Fieldhouse, beginning Wednesday, July 28. It is scheduled to run weekly from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Cost is $5. For more information, call 655-0999. Park City Recreation skateboard series Park City Recreation will present a skate competition on Saturday, July 31 at the Park City skate park. Riders will compete in beginner, intermediate, advanced and girls' street divisions, as well as an open bowl division. The event starts at 11 a.m. For registration information, contact the Park City Racquet Club at 615-5401 or online at www.parkcityrecreation.org. Park City Recreation soccer camp Park City Recreation will offer a soccer soc-cer camp for kids ages 7-15 starting Monday, July 19 and continuing through Friday, July 23. Games and competitions run from 9 a.m. to noon. Register at the Park City Racquet Club or online at www.parkcityrecreation.org. Utahns battle through Triple Crown crowd Bringing the heat: Title games tor 16U and 12U divisions scheduled today By BRETT LARSEN Of the Record staff Most Parkites have probably noticed the crowds, the SUVs with slogans scrawled in the windows and the jammed parking lots in front of local hotels and restaurants. They've probably also spotted the stream of California. Arizona and Idaho license plates. The Triple Crown Sports World Series of girls' fast -pitch Softball has descended on Park City this week, drawing draw-ing thousands of young athletes from points all over the U.S.. and the action is far from over. Today's championships for the 10-and-under. 12-and-under and 16-and-under brackets will mark the halfway point in the two-week tournament, which is marking its second straight summer in Park City. Although there weren't any local girls who participated in this week's games, there were still a dozen Utah teams trying try-ing to make a name for themselves in a field that included roughly 140 total squads, most of them from California, the hotbed of fast-pitch Softball talent in the West. "It's pretty exciting. It's kind of intimidating." intim-idating." said Melanie Chase, the left-fielder left-fielder for Utah Express, an Ogden-based Ogden-based team competing for the InU crown. In pool play on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Express went 3-1. earning earn-ing a spot in the double-elimination championship bracket on Thursday and Friday. "It's nice to know you can beat these teams. Nobody thinks too much of Utah." Chase said. "So it's fun when you beat them." concluded her teammate, second baseman base-man Perri Grilz. Lisa Parker, coach of the MurrayTaylorsville squad Utah Magic, another 16U team, said the tournament was a great opportunity for her players to learn from other talented athletes. "It's good. We get to go up against some really good competition." she said. At first, the Utah girls were a bit jittery. "You always get a little nervous." said Magic shortstop Nicole Ru pp. "If you're not nervous, there's something wrong." Eventually, the girls found they were just as good if not better than most of their competitors. Parker said, and settled set-tled down, finishing the two days of pool play with a 3-1 record and a berth in bracket play. "They think that they're comparable to the other teams). They haven't shown any intimidation." she said of her girls. Utah's 16U teams fared much belter than their counterparts in the 12U division. divi-sion. While three of the eight Utah 16U teams made it into the double-elimination round 'Iliursday. none of the five 12U squads survived past Wednesday, with three of them going 0-4 and the other two finishing 1-3. The other 16U team that qualified for bracket play was the Utah Zephyrs, from South Jordan, who went 4-0 in pool play-There play-There were no Utah teams signed up in the 10U competition. The champions in the 1 01 J division were crowned Friday evening, while title games in the other two divisions are scheduled today. The 12U championship gets underway under-way at the Treasure Mountain Middle School field at 5:45 p.m.. while the 16U girls will battle for the title in prime time at City Park. First pitch in that game is at 7 p.m. Attendance for spectators at all events is free. :;,r rK -- . " 'mmtV SCOTT SINEPARK RECORD Utah Magic's Brittany Parker rifles a pitch during the first day of pool play action on Tuesday. Coach brings worldwide soccer savvy to kids5 camps California native Randy Farris mixes fun with sport for Park City Recreation By ADIA WALDBURGER Of the Record stuff If soccer is the world's game, then soccer certainly has taken Randy Farris to places in the world he never expected. Farris is coaching a series of kids' soccer camps for Park City Recreation, with the next session beginning Monday. July 23. and has a knack for meeting people that take him to new places. A Bay Area native. Farris first headed north from his home in San Jose. ( 'alii, to play college soccer at the University of California, Berkeley 'Iliere he met his coach, who later went on to coach at St. Mary's College. When the coach left St. Marys, he left a coaching vacancy, and Farris headed southeast south-east to Moraga. Calif, to till the position. During his time at Berkeley. Farris also met teammate Bob Martin, who became a soccer soc-cer co-coach with him at St. Mary's. Martin, who had family in Park City, convinced Farris in 1979 to take the summer camps that they ran in the Bay area to this town, as well as the fellow ski resort town of Aspen, Colo. In the early days. Farris and Martin would garner youth participants by walking up to children on the streets of the resort towns and ask them what there plans were for the next day and hand them a flyer about the program, 'llieir hands-on style of public-ity public-ity and word of mouth established their Please see Coach, B-5 .-rrv.-i . ,. . . . . lCi'-Vft i " y"1'! t u&afr . O n v "-! ' SCOTT SINER4RK RECORD Former St. Mary's College coach Randy Farris has been leading kids' soccer camps in Park City at different intervals inter-vals since 1985. Registration is underway for the July 19-23 camp at the Park City Racquet Club. 1 I f : k Stiver Mountain Sports Club |
