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Show Pape 12 - January 27. 1998 : Sports Uintah Basin Standard ' ' v vs .. v vt HERE, TAKE Cougar. April Mccham, left, attempts to get the ball to teammate, Alicia Uresk. center, and hoping fora turnover is a Wasatch player. Union made some key buckets in the final minutes to edge Wasatch in Roosevelt, Friday. IT-L- ady 49-4- 6. head coach. Roger Pyper, right, charges onto the court to discuss a call SHOULDN'T BE THERE-Wasatc- h's with the officials. The officiating crew accidently allowed Union to inbound the ball and take a shot at the basket when the ball actually should have been given to the Wasps. Pyper wasnt whistled for a technical as apparently the referees weren't going punish him for their mistake. When the game resumed. Union beat the Lady Wasps, Lady Cougars hit key shots to sting Wasp crew, 49-4- 6 By Aldon Rachele gion 10 action. Lchi beat Uintah, 52-5and is Wasatch drops to 2 and Uintah to Bev Richens scored 10 out of her 12 points in the third quarter. A super duper turn around jumper by Nicole Larsen had Union up by ten and had local fans breathing a little easier. However, Wasatch came right back and some supporters wished they had an oxygen tank 1, Both lady hoop teams.Union and Wasatch had suffered just one loss and won a combined 25 games prior to their battle in Roosevelt, Friday, but the Cougars had the upper hand lead after three with a However, Union quarters at 43-3discovered that the game was far from over aa they had to hit some key shots late in the final minutes to take a 49-4- 6 triumph to improve their record to 14-- 1 and 0 in Re ten-poi- nt 3. 3-- 2-- 1. 2-- nearby. Carrie Summerhays, who is famous for her golf game along with 49-4- 17-- 0 her Senior Tour dad, Bruce, produced a couple of style with long distance s. She hit her first bomb and then tapped in a free throw to slice Unions lead to just two points at 43-4However, Carrie wasn't done as she stroked another bomb to make local fans wonder if her bombing skills were "Par For The Course to turn Roosevelt City into Nervous City with the advantage at one Unions point for the Cats at Alicia Uresk had ended the Cougar drought with a bucket that put the Roosevelt area team up by but Carrie Summerhays was producing a show that was almost as scary as the famous Carrie movie where the prom queen got ticked. Sheila Hutchison came to the rescue for the Cougars with one free throw and then fed a pass to Sarah Colton, who gobbled up the delivery, and pumped in a shot to increase Unions lead to four at 4 and put a road block to the Wasp three-pointer- 1. 45-4- 4. 45-4- 48-4- comeback. The Lady Wasps continued to bug the Cats by hitting two free throws to come within two at but Hutchison pumped in a charity toss to make the final score: Union 49, Wasatch, 46. Union stopped. Wasatch in the final seconds as they kept them from scoring a game tyr. ing Uresk and Richens led Union with 12 points. Hutchison scored nine and Tami Nielsen, Colton six points each. Wasatchs Summerhays hit two free throws with zero seconds left in the first quarter for a 9 Wasps lead, and the first half ended tied at 25-2- 5 as both teams suffered scoring droughts. Union scored just six, but Wasatch was worse with only four counters. Unions Alicia UreBk in the first hit two quarter. Richens pumped in a three-pointand then a for a 7 Cougar advantage. Unions Richens pulled a rerun move with another three-pointand as she powered the Cougars to their edge in the third quarter. Union scored only six points in the fourth after an third, but those six were important as they enabled the Cougars to take a triumph in front of the home folks. 48-4- 6, three-pointe- 21-1- AVr, .. J. three-pointe- rs er two-point- er CROWDED PLACE-Uni- on High Schools Kevin Ross, right, puts some pressure defense on Wasatch hoopsler. Nathan Parker. Union went on a 7- 0 run in the fourth quarter to beat the Wasps. Friday night. Union held Wasatch scoreless for the final six minutes. The Cougars own a 5 record. 1 9-- 32-2- er nt 1 j200SSV7 130M LefPM I and 14-- 1 3-- 0 in region play. Cat Run Cougars rally in 4th quarter to clobber Wasatch Wasps that By Aldon Rachele Once again, it is a Game as the Fourth Quarter is the entire story with Union High Schools boys hoopsters getting an A" for the D that shut down the Wasatch Wasps for zero points in the final six minutes and high marks for 17 straight points to take a 60-4- 9 triumph, Friday in Roosevelt. Union improves to 5 and is second in Lehi region play with Uintah at to improve to beat Uintah, in Region 10. Wasatch drops to 3 and Park City is winless. JefTCarpenter hammered Union for an amazing eight and totalled 30 points for the game to put Wasatch up by six points at 49-4- 3 early in the fourth quarter, but then the Cougars nailed the hoop lid tight for Carpenter and other Wasps with In Your Face defensive moves to hurl a shutout better than Nolan Ryan or Roger Clemens of baseball fame. Chaz Frandsen came off the bench and jazzed up the Cougar attack with a three-p- nter that gave Union a shot in the arm, and then Union depressed the Wasps with the press, which produced steals and then two close-i-n buckets by James Heaton that dropped the Wasatch lead to just two at 49-4We played tough defense, and worked hard. We just put the full court press on them and I was there for those two hoops near the inbounds area by the basket, said Heaton. Frandsen zeroed in for two free throws and the game was tied at 49-4r, and then another Dirk Olsen showed off the Cougars bench strength by popping in a 9-- 2-- 78-6- 9, 1-- three-pointe- rs oi trying." Nelson pumped in another field goal, and Dirk Olson, Ross converted free throws to complete the 17-- 0 run that sand blasted any winninghopes by Carpenter and company from Wasatch. It was a great team win. We played great fourth quarter defense and that got us the win, commented Dirk Olsen. Heaton led Union with 14 points and Ross scored 11. Nelson added 10 counters. Dusty Olsen, one of Union's bigmen, hit two and scored seven points. Ross, Bo also had two Gardner added 6 and Frandsen 5. Dirk Olsen scored three and Mitch Labrum two. Matt Price and Beau Hancock added one counter each. Ten Cougars scored points in the game. Of course Wasatchs No. 1 basketball driller was Carpenter and his 30 counters. Besides his Red Game Hot Three-PoiThem 8 Long Bombs-- he also hit and was 4 for 4 one from the foul line. Now for the rest ofthe game-t- he first quarter ended in a 4 tie and then the Wasps took a 8 lead midway in the second quarter. Union came within one point at 25- three-pointe- three-pointer- nt rs s. unt two-point- er 14-1- 23-1- by Dusty Olsen in the final seconds of the first half. Bo Gardner scored the first bucket of the second half to give Union a 26-2-5 advantage. Carpenter screwed up the Cougar lead when he started smoking from three-poirange for four long distance bombs 44-3- 8 to carve, out a Wasatch third quarter lead. Union had averaged 95 points over the three previous games-a- ll triumphs, but frankly they stunk on defense. The Cougars showed off their high offensive moves in the fourth quarter by scoring 22 counters with 17 in a row. More importantly, Union held Wasatch to just five points and rallied for a victory that had the local bunchs Super Defense Smelling Like A .Rose In Roosevelt. 24 on a three-point- er nt six-poi- nt Utes take win over Cougars Uintah increased it winning streak over the Cougars to two meets when they beat the Union matmen at Roosevelt, Thursday, 52-- Union won the first match on a pin. The Cougars will host Carbon, Tuesday, January 27 and then battle defending champion, Wasatch in Heber City, January 29. 6. 7. non-starte- two-point- er toputUnionintotheleadat two-point- ten-poi- nt to improve to 6, JamesNelson and Kevin Ross added field goals to increase Unions lead to six at and the Cats were on a roll that smashed the Wasps. We stepped up our defense intensity and shut them down, said Frandsen. 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