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Show is T V r ' 1 ' 'I , j ' : 17 W J I 1 M . ., . jl ' " ; . . , ,, .- a The Miners' best player, Kenny Collins, taunts gravity while laying up this shot. Boys' basketball team bounced again; 71-54 by Randy Hanskat Park City was up against a fine passing, fine shooting North Rich squad Friday night in Miner Gym. From the beginning there was not much doubt over the outcome, out-come, as the Miners went down to their 10 th defeat of the season against three wins. Unlike other Miner games where they crept back into the fight but came up short, Friday's game was never even very close. The Miners looked spirited when they took the floor at 7:30 p.m. Immediately Park City applied its full court pressure defense in an effort to shake up the Mustangs. But the Mustangs had no anxiety attacks. Instead they used fine long baseball passes to hit the open man down the court, effectively breaking up the Miner press. The Miner defense couldn't contain the long-range long-range open man, so the Mustangs were able to score many easy fast-break buckets. The score soon swelled to 12-6 for the Mustangs, then 16-8, and then 17-10 at the quarter. But the Miners weren't ready to give up yet. Strong rebounding from sophomore Scott Tatum for Park City, coupled with a good spurt of defensive play, brought the Miners within four at 20-16 with six minutes remaining in the second quarter. The Miners, a team prone to surges and lulls, then went into a lull. The Mustangs took advantage and pushed the score to 27-18. At the buzzer North Rich added insult to injury by sinking a 20-foot jump shot to make the halftime score 35-23, the largest deficit of the game thus far. In the second half the dispirited Miner shooters gave up working the ball around, looking for the best shot. Instead, after advancing advan-cing the ball down court, whoever had the ball would put it up. The Miners started taking virtually all their shots from the perimeter. Many of those shots would have been from three-point range in the professional ranks, and not surprisingly many of them did not even hit the rim. The Miners had given up waiting for the high percentage shots. At the start of the fourth quarter the Miners were more than 20 points behind at 66-45. And the Mustangs didn't let up. They continued to display passing that even the Los Angeles Lakers would appreciate, passing three and four times on the fast break until one man came wide open for the easy layup. Mercifully, the game soon ended at 71-54. The Miners will continue to try to switch to the winning track this Friday night when the South Summit Wildcats come to town. The junior varsity game will start at 5 :45 and the varsity at 7:30. |
