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Show : : 4 Hard Fighting Miners Lose As a large crowd of Park High Alumnus and other spectators looked on, The Park 'Miners were defeated de-feated 4 5-6 by the Intermountain Inter-mountain 'Eagles" Friday afternoon. The Miners fought hard throughout the annual homecoming home-coming scrimage but were unable to crack the Intermountain Inter-mountain defense and keep them from scoring again and again. Moments after the game had commenced, the Eagles were on the score board 6-0 after crashing across the goal line for a touchdown. touch-down. The point after was made and Intermountain was ahead 8-0. After Park City had been forced to punt the ball, Intermountain Inter-mountain put together several sev-eral successful sets of downs Aided by a 15 yard penalty, Eagle quarterback Paul Be- Parry Jean for the point after and the Eagles led 22-0. Just two plays after Park City had received the ball they fumbled again. Number 40 Terrance Cover-up did anything but cover-up as he picked up the ball and ran 30 yards for the fourth Intermountain In-termountain score. Number 41, Amos Frank ran in for the two point conversion giving giv-ing the Eagles a comfortable 30 point lead. Intermountain kicked-off again deep into the end zone, giving Park City possession on their 20. Then to the horror hor-ror of the crowd, Park City who seemed to be playing with a greased ball fumbled again and the Eagles recovered recov-ered placing them within 20 yards of another goal. Park City's powerful defense de-fense came alive after an apparent period of hibernation, hiber-nation, dropping the Intermountain Inter-mountain Quarterback for a rion then completed a long pass to tight end Pete Martinez Mar-tinez deep into Eagle territory. ter-ritory. Martinez boggled the ball into the hands of Intermountain In-termountain who took over on their own 39. On first down Intermountain Intermoun-tain ran for a 5-yard gain placing them ontheirown44. Then quarterback Paul Be-gay Be-gay completed a long bomb to Larry Parsons who ran in for yet another Intermountain Intermoun-tain touchdown. The two point attempt was good giving the Eagles a 38-0 lead. Shortly before the end of the third quarter, an Intermountain Inter-mountain fumble was recovered re-covered Clark Martinez on their 40. ..Park City ran to the 50 giving them a first down. On the first down Tom Martinez ran to the Intermountain Inter-mountain 43. On second down Bill Hen-rion Hen-rion completed to Pete Martinez Mar-tinez to the 30, giving Park City another first down. Sev- gay completed a 30 yard pass to full back Larry Parsons which placed the Eagles on the P.C. 15. Several plays later Intermountain scored with a quarterback sneak. But Park City thwarted the point after attemptjholding the score at 14-0. Park City got possession on their own 24 after the kick off. After several unsuccessful un-successful plays,the Miners were faced with a fourth down situation when a personal per-sonal foul was called against Intermountain advancing the ball to the 35 giving Park City a first down. Unfor-tunatly Unfor-tunatly the ball was fumbled and the Eagles recovered, placing them within 30 yards of scoring. In a short series of downs Intermountain advanced ad-vanced to the 25; to the 15; to the 10; the 3 and in for their third touch down. This time Begay completed to 10 yard loss on the fourth and two situation giving the Miners possesion on their own 18. After scoring no gain on the first down a penalty advanced ad-vanced the Park City ball to the 22. Quarterback Bill Henrion completed a pass to Kelly Mackley who fumbled. fum-bled. Fortunately Mackley recovered his own fumble but leaving them short of the first down. Park City was forced to punt, giving Intermountain possession on the 50. The Eagles put together a powerful power-ful drive to the Park City 13 when the gun signaled the end of the first half. Shortly after the first half Shortly after the second half got underway Bob Jar--vis of Park City picked off an Intermountain pass. Hen- eral run attempts were bro-ken-up by the Eagles setting set-ting up a third and four situation sit-uation for the Miners. Then Henrion completed again to Pete Martinez down tothe 13. The next play Henrion again found his favorite receiver, re-ceiver, Pete Martinez moving mov-ing the ball to the four. A personal foul was called a-gainst a-gainst Intermountain further moving Park City to the two. Jack Mawhinney crashed over the line for the first Park City touch down of the game. The Miners missed the point after attempt but were on the score board, 6-38. Moments before the gun signaled the end of the game Intermountain scored another an-other TD with a short pass to Larry Parsons. They converted con-verted for a one point kick and won the game 45-6. |