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Show Miners Claim Region 11 Tennis Title on Home Courts Win 9 of Of 10 Matches Enroute To Victory : : f ,- ! ' r 'J J' J I , . - '' : . ; : , i V V I . - -ri . - .. ' - " '. ': ' " ' ' V - - ( f ' " : By Jim Smcclley The PCHS lennis icam. sparked by a brilliant and deiermincd performance in the finals from number one singles player Da-rick Olsen. won (he Region 11 tennis championship May 8 a: the Park City Racquet Club. Although five ic.ims showed up for the tournament it was destined to be a two team match -Dugway, and Park Ch. And this is the way the finals shaped up as both teams moved through their competitors with relative ease. Park City won all of its first round matches. which happened 10 be against St. Joseph. and Dugway defeated its five opponents all from South Summit Earlier in the vear Dugwav the second. By using a good backhand and aggressive net play Bate was able to gain a 4-2 advantage. Then Olsen got serious. He kept Bate at bay with long, low baseline volleys until the lime was right to come to the net. which he charged with a vengence. Bate, who at times appeared to be the John McEnroe of I A tennis, became flustered ai the intensity which Olsen played with and found his once successful backhand being unmercifully grabbed by the net. Olsen broke service in t he enth game for the b-4 first set victory and Bate was putty in his hands the entire next set. "I've never seen Darriek hat determined.- He had no ieii:ence at all."' said Chaplin. "He just executed Darriek Olsen finds the range with his low, long backhand return in action against Dugway's John Bate. Olsen downed Bate 6-4, 6-1 to win Region 11 championship. Mike Jarosz leaps up and pops a backhand return crosscourt for a point against first round opponents from St. Joseph. Jarosz and Ted Bird won the opening set. defeated Park City 3-2 by taking all the singles matches. So the stage was set ai the two 1A heaw weights came out swinging - the Miners determined to prove i hey were the best team and the Mustangs wanting to show their earlier w in w as no fluke. Before the match singles players all told ric that they could defeat the players from Dugw av ." said Miner coach Dave Chaplin. "And 1 beieved them." Olsen was the first Miner to lake the court against a very expressive John Bate, who earlier downed Olsen in two straight sets. This time Olsen returned the favor. Prior to the match Olsen said he made a mistake the firsl time in trying to slug it out with Bale and he would use lobs and aggressively play to beat Bate. He followed his game "plan to a tec in downing Bate 6-4. 6-1. t .v-V .!-"i f . ;- " -: i - - ' . : - , .- . , ' . it . . . 1 . I , i f ' " v, .JJ r . VtM't I J i ? - i : " i i ," t " ' : V i : . . ' :. - - "'4 .V ' ; - --y v.. - ; ? ; ' 'i v, .. .f ; s. , ....... . ; - - " f- t : everyining ue naniai io in an extremely high degree of efficiency." Chaplin said the rest of the team was. "quite keen to know who was doing well" while they were playing and thought Olsen's win gave the team a boost. Olsen had a tough time with Greg McDonald of St. Joseph in the first round defeating him 4-6. r-2, b-. McDonald won a ticket to the state tournament as third seed from region II via a victorv over South Summit's Dave Brow n. Gliedcn Too Careful Number two singles seed Shawn Glieden started out against Dugway's Steve Bruce like he owned the courts. He was hot and Bruce fell 6-1. But Bruce calmly played his game in the second set and built a 4-1 advantage. Glieden rallied to 4-5 then Bruce held service in the tenth game that went to deuce for the w in. "Glieden won the first two games of the third set then lost six in a row. "Shawn got careful in the Please turn is page 2B Both players were nervous at the beginning of the firsl set. Bate broke Olsen's serve in the firsl game and Olsen broke Bale's serve in Number two doubles seed Collyn Adamson. powers forehand smash past his Dugway opponents enroute to a victory in last Friday's regional championships. Lanky, lefty Paul Dyer powers a forehand past Dugway's Troy Carney to ice the first set: Dyer went on to win. lennis learn Captures Kegion Continued from Page, 1B second set and when you are too careful things go wrong." Chaplin said. "You end up saying to yourself somebody or soemthing is picking on me and it is hard to make things works" "Shawn's serve was good, well above 50 percent of his first serves were in. But in the last two sets Bruce put him in the position of making errors on his ground stroke," Chaplin explained. Kevin Willard from St. Joseph, who lost to Glieden 2-6. 6-7 in the fust round, came back to slop Kenneth Lewis of South Summit 7-6, 6-4 to claim, the region II third seed in the state tournament. Paul Dyer struggled through his first round match against St. Joe's Alan Lipman 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, turned around te defeated top seeded Mustang Troy Carney 6 4, 7-6. "Paul played the up and down type of tennis he plays," Chaplin said. "It was a very tense experience for me." Double Pleasure Both Miner doubles teams-must teams-must have been reading from the same script. They cruised thorugh their first round opponents eliminating their opponents in two straight sets, won the first set of their final matches, lost the second and came back to win the third. Ted Bird and Mike Jaros2 defeated St. Joseph's Mike Kenney and Harry Wong 6-3, 6-I meeting very little resistance. In the opening game of the finals match, against Mustang's Joe Mohammed and Sam Lediard. they had to go through 1 2 points before breaking Mohammed's serve. They lost only 10 points in the next five games v' ; " " . 1 ! .-" t - y f I-- .: - : - . t .i ? i ' r I,"1 i ........ji. ii ..in .). I.. i w" " '"" m--tl, v"w "".' ii .i ii . ... i. . . . ,tet . ' " t f , " -V ill : -MMf . . -A?- to win the first set 6-0. The Miners dropped the second set 5-7 then won 6-2. "They seemed reluctant to come to the net in the second set whereas they are usually strong there," Chaplin said. "They got burned a couple of times and got careful. They started attacking in the third set and the pressure paid off." "Collyn Adamson and Scott Pirraglio got a case of steel elbow in their second set," Chaplin said of the championship game. "They knew what to do but were so concerned with not doing it that they didn't." The Miners number two doubles team won the first set 6-3 and lost (heir second set 2-6. Adamson and Pirraglio were down 1-3 in the third set when they decided to play lennis. "They steadied up, started hitting the ball and played their regular game of tennis in winning the nexi five of six games," Chaplin said. "It was a pleasure. to sec the light bulb swiich on over their heads and sec ihings start working again." Bruce Vetter, senior PCHS tennis player left and Dave 'Don't caJl me coach' Chaplin don't bat an eyelash while watching championship match between Olsen and Bate. |
