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Show sports potpourri By Alexander T. Holmsen was played yesterday against the Germania Eagles, and the next gajne will be Saturday at 11:00 ann. at City Park. ltie United States Open Tennis Championships at Flushing Meadows, Mea-dows, New York, have movedito the quarterfinal round with two major upsets recorded. "Defending "Defend-ing chariipion Guillermo Vilas lost to unknown Californian Butch Walts in five sets on Monday night, and third-seeded Virginia Wade was also upset. Top seeds Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors have had their difficult early round moments also but look as though they'll both make! it through to the finals, as do Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. This reporter will go with the American duo to reverse the Wimbledon results, despite the fact that Borg needs the U.S. Open to keep his grand slam hopes alive. One thing everyone agrees upon: the fast artificial playing surface at the new Flushing Meadows Mea-dows complex favors the attacker. I mean, who ever saw Guillermo Vilas before forced to come to the net on practically every point? Park City's only competition junior soccer team, the under-14s, under-14s, played in the Pan World Rocky Mountain Invitational Soccer Soc-cer Tournament over the Labor Day weekend at Riverside Park in Salt Lake City and came away with one win against two losses. Led by new coach David Fernandez, Fer-nandez, director of the Kimball Art Center as well as a player for Pan World 1, the under-14s lost their first game, 4-2, to the powerful Pioneer Cavalry, their second game to a strong Idaho Falls team, 5-0, before winning final consolation game from a unimpressive-looking Bountiful team, 3-2, in overtime on a penalty kick. The winner of the tournament was the Germania Eagles, last year's league champions, who defeated Idaho Falls in the championship cham-pionship game by a score of 3-2. Park City, playing tlgir first games of trie year, played ragged- " ly throughout the tournament. One always seemed to have to ask who was playing that position. Good steady play was turned in-by in-by Mike Jarosz, David Hoffer, Stephen Hoimsen, and Scott Williams. Wil-liams. Mark Zaba mad a spectacular spectac-ular save in the winning effort in which Shawn Glieden kicked the winning penalty goal. The first regular league game |