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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, March 27-29, 2019 B-3 The Park Record A return to cutting edge Miners produce ‘rare’ score PCHS’ 28-1 win over Viewmont is likely a team record BEN RAMSEY The Park Record PHOTO BY MARCO GOBER/U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD Steven Nyman trains at Alpe Cimbra in Italy during the 2018-2019 World Cup season. Nyman finished his season in 16th place in downhill after missing most of the previous two due to injury. After two scuttled seasons, skier earns solid results BEN RAMSEY The Park Record After missing the two previous seasons to injury, alpine skier Steven Nyman is officially back. The Utah native and former Park City resident finished the FIS World Cup schedule with a strong downhill season, taking 16th overall, even after a handful of setbacks. Nyman started his season with a bang, quickly working to the front of the competitive pack despite starting near 60th position in many races after losing his FIS World Cup points while sidelined from two consecutive season-ending knee injuries. He moved up from outside of 30th to 11th at the season opener in Lake Louise, Canada, in November. Then, later that month in Beaver Creek, he took ninth, then climbed to fifth at Val Gardena in Italy, in December. “That was great start,” Nyman said. Then came the trials and tribulations. He hit a rock at the next event, in Bormio, Italy, in December, and took 17th in downhill after placing seventh in a training run. Then another more serious mishap followed at the next event at Wengen, Switzerland, in January. “I caught an edge going about 95 (miles per hour) and did the splits, but my skis came back together so I kneed myself in the face and gave myself a concus- sion,” he said. Nyman considers the accident — which forced him to miss races in Kitzbuehel, Austria — a close call. He was walking and talking immediately after the accident, which could have been much worse. His first race back was the World Championships in Åre, Sweden, which was something of a marathon endeavor just to attend. Blizzards were battering central Europe, grounding flights. “I was dragging my family to missed flights — blizzards in Munich and blizzards in Stockholm, and blizzards near Are.” When Nyman arrived with his wife and daughter, he had been traveling for more than 30 hours straight, and was exhausted. His skiing showed it. “I was like ‘Wow, I’m really bad right now,” he remembers thinking during a training run. He said his Super G competition was going well until he made Continued from B-1 WALK WITH EASE Sports briefs SOCCER PROGRAM Park City MARC is hosting soccer leagues for teens and adults who want to develop their skills through games, activities and scrimmages. The season opens on April 24 and runs on Wednesdays for kids ages 11-15 of all skill levels. There is also an adult seven-versus-seven league starting April 11 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Registration for both programs can be found online at parkcityrecreation.org or by calling 435-615-5400. COURTESY OF U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD Steven Nyman, 37, looks forward to next season. Basin Recreation’s April session of Walk with Ease, a four-week program that focuses on walking to help or prevent arthritis, is taught by instructors certified through the Arthritis Foundation. The program is could help those trying to rehabilitate after an injury or those seeking to increase mobility while making new walking buddies. Classes run April 2-25 and meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10–11 a.m. at The Fieldhouse. Cost is $20 or free with a Silver Sneakers or Renew Active card. Learn more or register at basinrecreation.org. ROYAL COURT PICKLEBALL Each Friday from 12-2 p.m., the PC MARC gymnasium will be reserved for Royal Court Pickleball. This “a big mistake” and lost nearly a full second, which ended up costing him the race. In the end, he was happy with his eighth-place finish in that event, but not with the rest of the competition. “The rest of the World Champs was a junk show,” he said. “The downhill was a full-on blizzard. I started 20th and when I ran there was three inches of snow on the track, which is super-unfair compared to the guys who ran earlier.” Nyman took 23rd overall. He said visibility was “horrible,” adding that there “shouldn’t have been a race that day.” After the World Championships, he finished his downhill season with a seventh-place finish in Kvitfjell, Norway, and a 16th at Grandvalira Soldeu, in Andorra. He said he finished the last two races with shin pain. Relaxing at his home in Jackson, Wyoming, with his daughter, who is not yet 2, he said he was just happy to have made it through the season. “Overall I’m happy with it,” he said. “I exceeded my expectations, and I’m happy to put forth that effort toward next year and see what I can do starting in a much more favorable position — not having to rehab, not having to go through that process again which I did two years in a row, just to have a consistent physical training summer, get my knee into a place where there’s no pain and see what I’m capable of.” He said his technique is more instinctual than it’s ever been. The trial, Nyman said, will be keeping his confidence high so next winter, when the time comes, he can build on what he achieved in his first season back. The Park City boys lacrosse team recorded its highest scoring spring game in recent memory, notching a 28-1 beatdown of Viewmont on Saturday at the Legacy Events Center in Farmington. The win is the highest scoring game since the team switched to its current website, which keeps records dating back to 2013. “That’s a rare thing, really,” Miners head coach Brian Bilzi said. “The team we played; I don’t know what to say. It’s new, it’s a little disorganized. We don’t like to do that to teams.” The Miners scored 11 unanswered goals in the first quarter, Continued from B-2 Alpine regional finals eighth respectively. Friday started under more epic weather with the girls super G championship race. Erika Lynch of Mammoth set the pace for the second day in a row with a winning time of 53:08. Two PCSS female racers proved that they can ski at their limit from the top to the bottom of the course. Kennedy Heavrin earned sixth with a time of 54:16 and Mia Hunt eighth with a time of 54.76. The boys championship giant slalom race was held on Greyhawk run. Ryder Sarchett of Sun Valley won both the first and second runs to win the race with a combined time of 1:40.21. It was a stellar day for PCSS male racers: Justin Bigatel took second, Gunnar then nine more in the second while allowing only one from the Vikings, leading 20-1 at halftime. Bilzi said the team cycled through its entire roster over the course of the game. “The way our season started, we weren’t able to get new guys in,” Bilzi said. “Once they get in it, it’s not really fair to them to tell them to hold back too much just because the other team isn’t within snuff.” Eleven Miners scored during the game: Connor Monson (7), Dylan Bauer (5), Thomas Vandenberg (3), Tyler Vendetti (3), Cole Ward (2), Ketch Schueler (2), Kirby Baynes (1), Brady Baumann (1), Connor Hales (1), Alex Fugate (1) and Henry Silverman (1). Some of the Miners’ other high-scoring games include a 21-7 win over Logan at home last season, a 20-2 win in Novato, California, over Novato in 2017, a 21-0 win over Wasatch in 2016, and an 18-2 win over Jordan at home in 2015, when the team had three 18-point games. Until Saturday, there was no online record of the Miners scoring a 28-goal game, and their highest winning goal differential was 21 points. The team has existed since 1994, but rose to its current power more recently, said Jeff Brzoska, who helps maintain records on the team’s website. The Miners will travel east to play Cherry Creek Colorado at Stutler Stadium in Greenwood Village, Colorado, on Thursday at 8 p.m. in what is expected to be a much more competitive matchup. According to Bilzi, Cherry Creek is one of the best teams in the Mountain West. “We’re really hoping to make a statement against those guys,” he said. “If we can get a good showing that will be huge for our program and Utah, so hopefully we can get it done.” Travis took third, and Benny Brown and Dylan Thompson tied for fifth. Also finishing in the top 15 were T.J. Weaver in ninth and Tay Polster in 11th. Saturday morning started with the boys championship super G race. PCSS earned the top two podium spots with Justin Bigatel in first and Gunnar Travis in second. Benny Brown was just off the podium in sixth, followed by T.J. Weaver in eighth and Tay Polster 10th. The girls put together two separate runs to determine who would be crowned Mrs. GS. Dasha Romanov of Sun Valley won the GS title with a combined time of 1:48.07. PCSS’s Mia Hunt earned a fifth-place podium spot with a time of 1:50.01. Kennedy Heavrin also proved she has the goods with a ninth-place finish. On St. Patrick’s Day Sunday, both girls and boys competed to see who would be crowned the slalom champ. The boys started racing at 9 a.m. sharp. Nearly 40 racers did not have the luck of the Irish and either failed to finish a run or were disqualified. Ryder Sarchett won the technical two-run test and earned the top podium spot. Gunnar Travis and Jack Pollard won medals with third and seventh place finishes. Dylan Thompson put together two solid runs to capture 11th. For the girls, Tea Kiesel of SBSTA showed strong tactical skiing to earn first place. PCSS had two girls in the top 15: Mia Hunt in seventh and Annika Drivdahl in 14th. The U16 Western Region champs is the pinnacle of the season for these racers, with athletes working hard to accrue the necessary points over the season to qualify for the event. Based upon their performance at this series, some PCSS racers till head to U16 Nationals in Breckenridge, CO at the end of this month. U16 athletes who did not compete at this event headed either to Tri-Divisional Champs in Jackson Hole on March 21-24 or the IMD Finals at Snowbird March 23-24. For more information on the PCSS alpine program go to: parkcityss.org drop-in program takes the form of round-robin play. Winners stay on the court; losers are sent to the bottom and must work their way back to the top. Royal Court Pickleball is included in monthly facility passes or requires a $7 drop-in fee. Equipment available at the MARC front desk. 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