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Show SPORTS The Park Record. Editor: Ben Ramsey sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.104 Twitter: @ParkRecSports BASIN RECREATION FALL SOCCER Basin Recreation’s fall soccer is a recreational soccer league designed for boys and girls in preschool through ninth grade. Each player will be placed on a team and will receive a uniform, coach, and a ticket to a Real Monarchs game. The league begins on Aug. 20 and runs through Oct. 13. For more information, visit basinrecreation.org to register or call 435-655-0999. SHRED-N-BBQ AT TRAILSIDE BIKE PARK Basin Recreation, Mountain Ranks and Traeger are hosting a celebration of the Trailside Bike Park and its users on Aug. 24 from 5-8 p.m. The Shredn-BBQ offers BBQ, music, giveaways and laps in the park. Basin Recreation will show the mountain biking documentary “UnReal.” YOUTH TENNIS PROGRAMS Park City Recreation will be hosting its youth tennis programs soon. The first round of the Fall Junior Tennis Program starts Aug. 27. Experience groups range from beginner and intermediate to advanced tournament players. Visit parkcityrecreation.org or call 435-615-5401 to register. MOBILE RECREATION TRAILER Park City Recreation is offering free activities through its mobile recreation trailer. The trailer brings equipment for game and activities like kickball, hula hooping and street hockey, and will be setting up at various spots around town in August. Visit parkcityrecreation.org or call 435-615-5401 for more information on dates and locations the mobile recreation trailer can be found. www.parkrecord.com B-1 WED/THURS/FRI, AUGUST 15-17, 2018 Miners and Wasps dust off their old rivalry for Friday’s season opener Departures usher new players into big roles, while other shift BEN RAMSEY The Park Record Until 2013, Wasatch High School and Park City High School were rivals. That rivalry effectively ended when the Utah High School Activities Association changed the criteria for competitive zoning, moving Wasatch up to Class 4A. Since then, Park City has moved up to 4A, and Wasatch has moved up to 5A. For Park City coach Josh Montzingo, the rivalry was before his time. “I was told this was our main rival,” he said regarding the start of his tenure six years ago. “For us, lately, it’s been more South Summit, but that’s just because we played more often. And proximity comes into it. (Wasatch) are the next biggest town up here, and they are a bigger school than us, so it’s fun to be able to do that same thing with them as South Summit.” Park City was eliminated in the first round of the Class 4A playoffs last season, losing 30-6 against Dixie High School and going 2-3 in Region 11. Wasatch was eliminated in the first round of the 5A playoffs in a 61-24 loss against Highland High School, and went 3-2 in Region 8. Though it has been years since the teams have faced each other on the football field, Montzingo said the rivalry between Park City and Wasatch is still alive. “They kind of get the rivalry,” he said of his players. “Last season the basketball team played Wasatch and TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Park City High School players line up for photographs on Aug. 10. The team will start its season with a bang by reviving its old rivalry with Wasatch High School. The rivalry was dampened when the two schools were put in different competitive classes. the turnout for the game was high, and the energy was up, and I think the kids kind of got that this is a real rivalry.” This year’s squad will put new players in a handful of key positions after losing several prominent players to graduation this year. “The team is young,” Montzingo said. “We don’t have a large senior group. We don’t have a lot of starters returning, so we have to reload on both sides of the ball and some guys will have to grow up fast as far as experience is concerned. But I like our talent and I like how we compete. I think it will be fun as long as we stay healthy.” Fans will recognize Mark McCurdy, who returns to the team after playing quarterback for most of last season. Montzingo said this year, McCurdy will be a receiver, cornerback and flex roles on special teams. “He can do more if he’s not playing quarterback,” Montzingo said. “We’re going to play him all over the field.” Jack Skidmore will likely be the Miners’ new quarterback after filling that role for the junior varsity team last season as a sophomore. Former linebacker Penn Komisar is Please see Miners, B-3 Head injury keeps local from Tour of Utah A crash over the handlebars concussed Parkite Tanner Putt TRY HOCKEY FOR FREE BEN RAMSEY The Park City Ice Arena has invited the public to try ice hockey for free on Tuesday, Aug. 28, or Thursday, Aug. 30, from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. The event is designed to provide kids between the ages of 4 and 12 a completely free experience to try youth hockey. The organization’s coaches will be on the ice to assist children in learning the basics. Participants do not need previous skating or hockey experience. The Park City Ice Arena is also offering ice skating lessons on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings for children ages 3 years to adults. Visit parkcityice.org or call 435-615-5707 for details. The Park Record COURTESY OF UNITEDHEALTHCARE RACING Please see Sports briefs, B-4 NEWCOMER, REGULAR GARY JOHNSON, FORMER WIN TRAIL SERIES 15K, B-2 GOV., LIKES HIS BIKES, B-3 Tanner Putt, 26, was kept out of his second Tour of Utah in two years due to injury. Tanner Putt, a Park City native living in Boulder, Colorado, was scheduled to compete in the Tour of Utah this year for team UnitedHealthcare before finishing the season with the Colorado Classic, which begins on Thursday. However, Putt crashed during the Littleton Twilight Criterium, a race in Denver, two weeks ago, sustaining a concussion and bringing his season to an early end. Putt said he went over the handlebars of his bike and hit his head during the crash. Understandably, Putt isn’t happy with the way his season ended. “Those are my favorite races of the year,” he said of the Tour of Utah and the Colorado Classic. “They are my home races, both of them, and missing them is 2483 E. Copper Belt Way 4 Bedrooms | 5 Bath | 4,218 Sq. Ft. MLS 11703869 | $1,695,000 always a bummer, especially for a crash.” It was his second consecutive year missing the Tour of Utah after a torn labrum kept him out of the race last year. Like last season, Putt and the UnitedHealthcare cycling team spent the winter training in Colombia and started racing in Argentina in January. The team then traveled to Europe for two months before returning to the U.S. Putt, 26, said he was pleased with his results from several of the European races this season, and was also happy with his performance in the Tour of California, where he said he rode with three breakaways. Though he said he had no “big wins” this year, he said his season had gone well up until his concussion. Had he ridden in the Tour of Utah, one of his main jobs for UnitedHealthcare would have been to protect his team leader, Travis McCabe, and lead him into a good position that he could sprint from. McCabe, who has won the tour twice before, won the first and third stages of this year’s race and established himself as the race’s dominant sprinter, though he sank to 53rd in the general classification by the its finish. Putt said he would have liked to have been there, but biking is out of the question for him at the moment. “Nowadays, people know how dangerous concussions can be, especially falling and hitting your head and getting a second concussion,” he said. “I’ve tried to really be careful this past week, and I’ve literally sat in a dark, quiet house for about a week really hoping to get better by (the Colorado Classic). But I’ve tried to ride a couple times and I just get headaches and dizzy on the bike, so it’s just not safe to race.” So, for now, Putt is taking time off and looking at his options. The end of this season was scheduled to be the end of his contract with UnitedHealthcare, and his injury accelerated that process. The team is also in search of a lead sponsor, without which it will collapse. Now, he’s looking at other teams in anticipation for next season, and hopes to sign on by mid-September, though he would not mention any specific teams. “I’m talking to a few teams, but there will be a few more talks before we get stuff rolling,” he said. 2407 E Copper Belt Way 4 Bedrooms | 4 Bath | 4,215 Sq. Ft. MLS 11704873 | $1,675,000 Just minutes from downtown Park City, owners enjoy: www.RedLedges.com GOLF | TENNIS | EQUESTRIAN | DINING SWIM & FITNESS | SKI LOUNGE Mike Wood (435) 657-4051 Mike.Wood@RedLedges.com Exclusively Brokered by Red Ledges Realty, LLC . Obtain the Property Report required by federal law and read it before signing anything. No federal agency has judged the merits or value, if any, of this property. All descriptions, depictions, and renderings are provided solely for illustrative purposes and are subject to change. ©2018 Red Ledges Land Development, Inc. |