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Show Mneirs 'Lose to PowerM Bearer, Face "East , Cartom FrMay Mglkt The Park High Miners1 traveled to Beaver . Friday night and lost to the powerful state 1-A champions. 37-12. Led by a " 190 pound running back. Jess Cox, the Beavers built a 23-0 halftime score, a lead the Miners were not able-to overcome. Cox carried the ball 35 times for 156 yards during the game.- Beaver gained 354 yards in total offense" compared to Park High's 2C0. Park City's Trov Packard led the Miners in rushing with 1 1 carries for 74 yards. Teammate Steve Toly grounded cut 54 yards on 14 carries. "We did cot play well during the first half in all aspects of the game," said Miner Coach Bob Burns, , adding "but we came out in the second half and did better. Some of the ; under - classmen were : intimidated ' by thesizef Beaver'. . Beaver wasted no time getting on the scoreboard. After receiving the opening kick-off. the Beavers marched march-ed sixty-eight yards in. four downs for their first .touch- down of the night. The point-after-toachdown was; good. ' ' " Later in the first quarter, the Miners found themselves in horrible field position on their own one-yard line. Punting from deep ' in their own end zone, the Beavers took over, on Park City's 41 yard line. But the Miners ipse to the occasion and held v Beaver to only ten yards. " v Beaver's second score came when Quarterback : Burton Myers connected on a 50-yard pass play to David '. Eyre , all the way down to Park High's six-yard line. And the Beavers scored four plays later; and the extra -point was again good giving : them a 14-0 lead After an exchange of downs, beaver punted to Park City's 15-yard line. A high snap from Center resulted in a two-point safety for Beaver. -...The final score in the first half came off another long pass play on third down and short yardage. The Beavers. : caught the Miners in a goal line defense, and the PAT was as Park City took the halftime break twenty-three . points behind. The Miners finally got on I the r scoreboard in - the third quarter when, after making two first-downs. Quarterback Kory O'Brien threw a ,65 - .yard touchdown pass .to . v Chris Sloan. Darrin Lawless : missed the extra point. Beaver returned Park City's Ci-ty's kick-off to the Miner v 49-yard line. A broken play then turned out,a 17-yard run by ; Quarterback Myers, which set up an 1 1-yard TD ; pass from Myers to Jess Cox. The PAT was good as Beaver , stretched its lead to 24 . points, 30-6. The Miners were unable to put together a successful drive on their next series of downs. On fourth down, Park City punted for short yardage yard-age and the Beavers returned return-ed the punt for 37 yards into the end zone, their last : touchdown of the game. . The Miners . managed to put-six more points on the scoreboard before the end of the game. Starting from their own 28-yard line Park City, led by Troy Packard. who Crushed 52 yards, : marched down . the field for the touchdown, the TD came off a three-yard pass from Tom Flinders to Paul Dyer. The . extra point try failed, and the game ended with the state champs from Beaver winning . by a convincing, 37-12 -score.. 'We're glad it ' was a practice game,!'' said Coach Burns. 4 The whole : purpose of scheduling Beav- er (in pre-season) was to play a championship team and to ' find out where our weakness-' es are. And it's obvious 1 we've got a lot of things we ' need to improve." In one of the few high points of the game for the Miners, Bret Wright hauled down an .interception , in the fourth quarter. - -Park City's pre-season action ends this Friday night in Sunnyside when the Miners play East Carbon in a game beginning at 7:30pm. The Miners will have to play without the services of1 Tackle Ken Eley who suffered suffer-ed a neck injury during the Beaver game. . The travel-weary Miners (all three pre-season games were far and away) will play their first league game of the 1 ; season here a week from Friday against Dugway. The dugway game will also be "Homecoming" for the Mm- ' , CIS. : - - n '.r , .. -: .... ' . p ' . ' .;;'.''v' :r-.-, .-!".,; ''Vr';...-,1.'.l,','!--,lir i'ff-y.t |