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Show One Game Left Before Tournament Park City High Rollers Tie Twice by David Neu The Park City High Rollers added two more ties to their record this past week against league leading Appollo on Saturday at the new City Field, and in the previous Tuesday's make-up game ' gainst Ogden at Rose Park in ' Salt Lake. Both games finished dead- locked 2-2. In Saturday's action, the , Rollers lived up to their , reputation of playing the tough teams well. "All the people played real well," said Roller Team Captain, Gary Moore. "We had to run ' and play agressively. They ' are a good passing team, but we slowed that down by playing an equivalent game." Appollo scored the first goal slipping it by rookie fullback Mark Cole who filled in as goalie in the absence of Rick Phaller and Russ Coburn. "He did a terrific job as goalie." said Moore. Then with only a few minutes remaining in the first half, right winger George Hart kicked a high spinning shot into the center where center forward Ed Vydra, a first year Roller, tipped the ball nicely to the goal with the back of his foot. The Rollers went ahead the second half with a 20 yard kick from Ron Johnson, before Appollo scored with 10 minutes remaining in the game. A flurry of close shots, one that caromed off both posts like a seven ten split, faifed to give the Rollers a winning goal, and the final score was 2-2. Tuesday night at Salt Lake City, the game with Ogden which had been called with 20 minutes to go resumed with Mike Sullivan making the penalty kick and tyinu the game 2-2. The Rollers are now 3-5-5 with one more game to go before league playoffs. That final game is 2 o'clock Saturday at the new city field against the Vikings of Sail Lake City. |