r ' ' ' I l ' V, ', J - : 1 r : , - j TWO NIGHTHAWKS, Jeff Utley, left, and Arlin "Obie" Tavea-pont, Tavea-pont, right, clash with the Provo Blazer's Dee Baxter, center. Baxter won the battle as both Nighthawks failed to block the SPORTS FLASHBACKS Uintah Utes defeat Carbon cagers, but lose to Alumni The Utes nabbed victory over Carbon half of the final quarter when Uintah in 1955 and the story follows as it was pulled away steadily to a final victory printed in the Vernal Express on Dec. of 44-37. 19, 19d5- First score went to Cutshaw after e-tv-i ni'iDTCDDivc several unsuccessful tosses at the OFF FOR UTES S CARBON basket by Carbon. Barnett evened the DEFEATED TUESDAY 44-37 score for Carbon, then scored again. Uintah's basketball battle with Cutshaw evened the score for Uintah Carbon Tuesday was an exciting affair and Bryson pushed them into the lead with a neck and neck race until the last by 6-4. Cutshaw then caught Carbon I HWIIB I 1 shot, but the Nighthawks of Fort Duchesne won the war due to a 76 to 66 championship triumph. napping and seemed to stroll down the court to put an easy shot into the basket. Pope retrieved an unsuccessful foul throw and Barnett scored for Carbon to bring the score to 10-6. Miller scored for a 10-8 final tally at the end of the first quarter. Barnett made a point on a foul throw. Cutshaw weaving in and out w ith good passing support brought the score to 12-9 12-9 in favor of Uintah. A foul throw by Bertelsen and a basket by Barnett evened the score for Carbon. 12-12. Time was called for Uintah. Bryson threw a basket. Barnett evened it for Carbon. Another basket by "tall in the saddle" Barnett lead the visitors by 16-14 16-14 but Bearnson fouled and Bryson took advantage of it. evening the score again to 16-16 in the last two seconds of the second quarter. Bearnscn put the visitors ahead two points and Abegglen evened it. Slaugh scored for Carbon and Lyman evened it. Bliss fouled and Carbon called for time out. Lyman sank two foul throws then fouled himself and Bertelsen returned the compliment by scoring two for two The score was even again at 22 22. Each side fouled and scored one for two. A foul was called on Cutshaw and Carbon made both throws count to lead 25-23. After a strenuous struggle Bertelsen scored and Carbon went ahead 27-23. Abegglen opened the score for the final quarter. He made up in speed and enthusiasm what he lacked in height. After some good passing, Cutshaw netted one and Carbon's coach began to get worried and called for time out. By this time the Redskins had their second wind and were on the way. Lyman put one in the basket. Cutshaw fouled and Barnett scored one for two. Bryson scored one for two. A double foul was called on Barnett and Cutshaw and the score ended up 33-31. Carbon called another time out. Judd replaced Bliss. Lyman evened the score 33-33 and Abegglen pushed the Utes in the lead for 35-33. Carbon called another time out. There were three minutes to go and the crowd was roaring. Bryson scored then Pope scored two baskets and a foul was called on Bertelsen. At 1:04 minutes to go Uintah asked for time out. Lyman made a point on two foul throws and Pope netted another. Carbon tried to recover and Bertelsen scored. Miller netted two for two and final score showed 44 37 in favor of the Hodmen. A basket Iki II .story follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on Dee. 22, 1955. AI.UMNI WIN I.IVIXY (iAMK itY i-:ik;in(; utls W ITH 53-45 SCOKK Height, experience and stamina paid off Monday night at the traditional Alumni lite game when the grnds nudged out the varsity team with a 53-45 53-45 victory. In the first minute of the game Valoy Eaton scored and at the end of the first quarter the Utes were leading by 13-10. The teams were neck and neck in the second quarter with scores reading 14- 14. 16-14, 16-16 and then the Alumni drew away steadily until at the end of the quarter they led by 31-18 During the third quarter the Utes were able to narrow the margin to 39-35 but didn't keep it up. In the last quarter the Alumni reached 47 points before the Utes rallied and scored again. In the last minute of the game Eaton and Cutshaw put them in the net fast but it was too late and the final score wound up with the Alumni on the w inning end of 53-45 On the grads team. Barr, Hatch and Wells show ed good defense on the backwards. back-wards. Cutshaw and Eaton were very aggressive for the varsity. High scorers were Eaton. 27; Well, 22 and Cutshaw, 12 At halftime the cheerleaders and Iwnd were very entertaining and paid gracious tribute to the visiting team. Referees were DeVon Andrus and Joe Moody of Roosevelt. On the visiting teams were Charlie Wells. Sterling Kendall. Donnie Barr, Earl Gross, Art Ia-c, Ronnie Abegglen. Brent Roberts. Grant Richens and Gary Hatch. Former Coach Frank Wright gave them some helpful hints during the game. A basketball story follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on Dec 15, 1955. JUNIOR BASKETBALL HITS SECOND WEEK. TEMPO INCREASES The junior basketball season is moving along, with the second week of play completed. Interest is mounting as teams acquire more skill in ball handling han-dling and shooting. With twelve wards participating, spectators and players are sure to receive hours of good entertainment. Beginning the games last Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Naples defeated dines with a 39 to 22 score. Norman Merrell was high scorer of that game with 1R points. Gary Case of G lines was close behind with n total of 14 points. In the second game G. McKee of Tridell led his teammates in scoring 12 points as they defeated Davis 30 to 21. High point man for Davis was Nolan Slaugh with 8 X)inls. In the thriller of the night Jensen and Maeser 2nd see-sawed lack and forth through the game. Maeser 2nd ran up n total of 24 points toedge out Jensen's 23. Scoring honors were shared as Francis Bowdcn and Barton Snow each scored 11 points. The first game of the night showed n fat and plucky Lapoint team trying to keep up with the bigger and more ex-perienrcs ex-perienrcs Maeser 1st crew, Iji point was right in the ball game until the second half, then Maeser 1st hit their stride and ran up a score of 32 points as Ijipoinl scored only 14. Kenny Ashby scored 14 points for the victors. Allen Justice was high xiint man for Ijqioinl with six tallies.