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Show B-4 The Park Record Shiffrin wins super G title Calendar High School Sports Baseball Park City @ Desert Hills March 16 TBA North Summit @ North Sevier March 16 3:00 p.m. Wasatch @ Pine View March 16 TBA Park City @ Skyline March 18 3:30 p.m. South Summit @ Am. Leadership March 18 3:30 p.m. South Summit @ Timpview March 19 3:00 p.m. South Summit @ Millard March 20 3:30 p.m. Park City @ Grantsville March 21 3:30 p.m. Wasatch @ Desert Hills March 22-23 TBA North Summit @ Ben Lomond March 23 1:00 p.m. South Summit @ Gunnison March 23 11:00 a.m. Park City vs. Stansbury March 26 3:30 p.m. North Summit @ Duchesne March 26 3:30 p.m. South Summit @ Summit Acad. March 26 3:30 p.m. Softball Park City @ Bonneville March 19 3:30 p.m. North Summit vs. Altamont March 19 3:30 p.m. Park City @ Skyline March 20 3:30 p.m. South Summit @ Sky View March 20 3:30 p.m. North Summit @ Duchesne March 21 3:30 p.m. North Summit vs. Providence Hall March 22 3:30 p.m. South Summit @ Summit Acad. March 22 3:30 p.m. North Summit vs. Morgan March 25 3:30 p.m. Park City @ Ben Lomond March 26 3:30 p.m. North Summit @ Rowland Hall March 26 3:30 p.m. South Summit @ Morgan March 26 3:30 p.m. North Summit vs. Utah Military March 22 4:00 p.m. South Summit vs. Summit Acad. March 22 3:30 p.m. North Summit @ St. Joseph March 25 4:00 p.m. Weather Hotline (cancellations) A fourth-place finish is enough to clinch series 615-5432 Track & Field Park City @ Juan Diego March 20 3:00 p.m. Park City @ Pine View Invite March 22-23 TBA Park City @ Stansbury March 27 3:00 p.m. Boys Lacrosse Park City @ Corner Canyon March 16 7:00 p.m. Park City @ Viewmont March 23 2:00 p.m. Park City @ Wheat Ridge, CO March 30 10:00 a.m. Park City @ Juan Diego April 3 7:00 p.m. Girls Lacrosse Park City @ Herriman March 21 Park City @ Bingham March 25 Park City Ice Arena Ice Hockey 615-5707 Gold League Sunday Silver League Wed/Thurs/Sun 6:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Speed Skating Training Wednesday 6:30-7:45 p.m. Basin Recreation Fieldhouse (655-0999) 5:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Tennis Park City @ Wasatch March 19 3:30 p.m. Park City @ St. George Tourney March 22-23 TBA Park City @ Ben Lomond April 2 3:00 p.m. Girls Golf Park City @ Ben Lomond March 25 10:00 a.m. Park City @ Bonneville March 28 10:00 a.m.. 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Mail or Home delivery within Summit County (Includes a free Sunday Tribune and e-Edition subscription) Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 16-19, 2019 CHRIS FREUD Vail Daily VAIL, Colo. – Tie goes to the runner, right? Ironically, in her “worst” super-G performance of the season, tying for fourth with Austria’s Nicole Schmidhofer during Thursday’s World Cup finals in Soldeu, Andorra, Vail’s Mikaela Shiffrin iced the first World Cup super-G title of her career. That’s pretty impressive given, that the now 24-year-old Shiffrin — her birthday was Wednesday — only competed in four World Cup super-Gs all season. Shiffrin won three super-G starts (Lake Louise, Alberta; St. Moritz, Switzerland; and Cortina, Italy) and a tie for fourth with Schmidhofer gives the American 350 points on the season to the Austrian’s 303 and Lichtenstein’s Tina Weirather (268). That’s World Cup title No. 3 this season for Shiffrin, who’s already clinched the overall and slalom titles, going into this season. Germany’s Viktoria Rebensburg won Thursday’s super-G in Andorra with a time of 1 minute, 23.91 seconds, ahead of Austria’s Tamara Tippler (15-hundredths of a second behind) and Italy’s Federica Brignone (34-hundredths back). But for Shiffrin, the key was to stay ahead of Schmidhofer and Weirather in Thursday’s race to win the globe. The tie with Schmidhofer was as good as a win and Weirather was a DNF. “It’s special because I really never thought I could be in this position this season already in super-G,” Shiffrin said to The Associated Press. “… The way that everybody came together and made this work was just amazing. We are all so proud and everybody feels some ownership of this. … I’ve dreamed about someday, maybe, being able to win a globe in super-G but I really wasn’t expecting it this season.” Rapid ascent Yes, Shiffrin is best known for her technical skills in the slalom and giant slalom, but she has branched out into speed (downhill and super-G) during the last two seasons. She won a downhill in Lake Louise on Dec. 2, 2017, and completed the cycle of World Cup wins with a super-G triumph (Dec. 2, 2018) in Alberta to start the 2018-19 season, but no one thought she would ascend to this status this quickly. While she did win the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in super-G last month in Are, Sweden — worlds do not count toward World Cup points — she made it clear throughout the season that winning the speed discipline’s season title wasn’t necessarily a goal for the campaign. Having felt that she overextended herself last season in the run-up to the 2018 Olympics and initially attempting to compete in all five events (downhill, super-G, combined, giant slalom and slalom), Shiffrin was committed to keeping a schedule that kept her at her best physical and mental levels throughout the grinding season. “I did think about it for a split second and then I tried to reel my brain back down to Earth,” she said of altering her schedule to add more super-G races in a conference call with reporters on Jan. 24. “The super-G title was not one of the goals that I had set for this season, and I try to be really careful about not overshooting or changing my plans like crazy in the middle of the season. That might sound kind of stubborn because for sure I’m in an amazing spot in super-G right now, but I think it would add one too many things to the plate and could potentially kind of ruin all of my other goals.” However, she might have gotten a break with the schedule as weather wiped out a pair of super-G races two weeks ago in Russia leaving her remaining atop the super-G standings. Third to 2,000 In one of those oh-by-theway moments which have become rather familiar during Shiffrin’s historic season, the American ski racer became the third athlete in World Cup history to surpass 2,000 points in one season. Croatia’s Tina Maze racked up 2,414 points during the 2013 winter. Shiffrin has 2,004 with two races remaining this week — slalom on Saturday and GS on Sunday. The legendary Hermann Maier had 2,000 in 2000. That’s some good historical company; it’s also rather amazing in the era of specialization. In her run to 2,414, Maze started all 35 events in 2012-13, won 11 times, had a whopping 24 podiums and was in the top 10 in 32 of 35 races. Shiffrin was a “youngster” on tour during Maze’s rampage, and, according to the New York Times’ Bill Pennington, in 2014, Tina told Mikaela — as friendly advice — not to try to compete in every race. Shiffrin seems to have heeded those words. She has started on the World Cup in 24 of 33 events. In those 24 starts, she has 15 wins, 19 podiums and has been in the top 10 in all of her starts. Her “worst” finish of the season is ninth in a Lake Louise downhill, and, as strange as it sounds, by finishing fourth in Thursday’s super-G, she missed the podium for only the fifth time this season. Call it the efficient road to 2,000. ‘I had no idea how it went’ Shiffrin started 13th on Thursday with her pursuers for the super-G globe Weirather, wearing bib No. 7, and Schmidhofer going ninth. Up at the start, Shiffrin did her pre-race routine and had no idea that Weirather ended up as DNF and was out of the globe chase. With bib No. 9, Schmidhofer came down in third place at the time. As it has been her modus operandi all season, Shiffrin focused on herself. “In the start, I had no idea how it went with Nici (Schmidhofer) or with Tina, and I knew that it was going to be a battle and everybody would be going for it,” Shiffrin said to AP. “The way I have been skiing super-G all season I felt like, I didn’t know if it was enough to win but I knew that if I could be aggressive, I really had a good chance for the globe. I had to focus on my skiing and on my tactics. It worked out just enough.” Shiffrin ended up coming down tied for third with Schmidhofer. Austrian Tippler bumped the duo to fourth by finishing second. Bigger picture, Shiffrin clinched the 10th globe of her career (six slalom crowns, three overalls and super-G). Next up for Shiffrin, who turned 24 on Wednesday, is slalom on Saturday, followed by GS on Sunday. Having already won the slalom championship for the sixth time in seven years, the business at hand is clinching her first giant-slalom globe. She will enter with a 97-point lead and essentially just needs to finish in the top 15 to secure another title. Shiffrin has won three GS races this season and finished no worse than fifth in any race in that discipline this season. 1 Year $56 2 Years $98 Mail delivery outside of Summit County (Includes a free e-Edition subscription) 1 Year $80 2 Years $138 Home Delivery within Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Wasatch Counties (Includes a free e-Edition subscription) 1 Year $80 2 Years $138 Call us today and ask for Lacy 435.649.9014 BEN RAMSEY/PARK RECORD The Park City High School girls lacrosse team warms up before practice on Thursday. The team went 1-2 in preseason games in California, earning what coach Zach Sadoff called a “necessary” win. Continued from B-1 Lacrosse seeks six straight the first half,” he said. “This year the girls were ready right from the start, and there were times when it really could have gone either way. So that was exciting, it was a great way to start our trip.” He added that it might seem trite to draw conclusions about the difference between last season’s game against St. Margarete’s and this year’s, but said “if you were there, it was a different ballgame.” “By no means did St. Margarete’s play their best game, but neither did we, and it’s OK to be in a dogfight like that,” he said. The Miners then faced Santa Margarita High School, a 20 minute drive inland in Rancho Santa Margarita, the next morning, losing 13-12. “The girls were a little tired,” he said. “We traveled the day before. It was not ideal conditions, but still a beautiful sunny day for them to play a game. Again… the margins got thinner, and we had a couple unforced turnovers.” The team then defeated Newport Harbor High School, an hour away in Newport Beach, 12-11 in the last game of its trip. Sadoff said the win was “necessary.” “I think the nice thing about the California trip is it gave us things we need to work on but it also proved to us that when we play our game that we can play with just about anybody,” he said. “So you find that bal- ance.” Toward the end of the game, he said the team started to click in a way it hadn’t in the other two. It will need that unity through the season, starting with two big tests next week at perennial contender Corner Canyon on Monday at 5 p.m. at Draper Park Middle School in Draper, and last season’s state runner-up, Herriman, on Thursday at 5 p.m. at Copper Mountain Middle School in Herriman. As for the state championship, Sadoff said the team is under enough pressure without belaboring the subject in practices. He said they acknowledged it at the start of the season, and have moved on to the work of preparing for the upcoming games. “I think just makes you aware that you can’t take plays off” he said of acknowledging the goal. “Because the other teams aren’t.” |