Show despite cliff hanger hanged moments utes finally dump cougars by errol burns burn uintah linth high school gym nil sturn was the scene of the first meeting of tile year be tween iee I ee the uintah utes and the union cougars and al though it was a pres preseason easo n encounter the traditional rival ry between the two schools 00 Is lent an air of tenseness to the game the visitors managed to score first as they took the opening tip off however the utes ute 4 came c a in e bick b ac k to take the lead after boniv two min utes had bad lapsed the rest of the first quarter was play ed on even terms w with I 1 th neither team man aging much of an offensive game and the score at tile the end of tin the ter was a low 7 76 6 had it ad for uintah scoring picked up somewhat in the 2nd and quarter as the entire ute team contrib contris buted to the cause and push ed e d the home team out to a 24 16 halt half time advant advantage ge the cougars had been un able to muster any sustained scoring threat throughout the entire first half but bastian and eldredge Eldred gL had shown hown some fin fine shooting ability when given an open ing A very sticky defense kept the cougars from scoring a field goal during the first 4 minutes of the 3rd ard period while the utes were contina ing their balanced storing scoring attack to put the pressure on the cougars instead of the cracking under the pressure however the began to fight back and only a very nice left handed hook shot by the utes gayle mckeachnie as the buzzer buizer sounded to end the 3rd ard quarter let the utes ute enjoy a 33 25 lead at that point the cougars then pulled even closer at the beginning of the final period and it looked as though another of those famous butah union cliff hangers was underway but 35 33 33 was as close as the cougars could come as the utes quickly put ons on a rally of their own to soon put the game out of reach the utes won the game going away with a 52 45 43 score the key to uintah a win seemed to be their well bal alced scoring aln everyone in the game contributing gayle garle mckeachnie ute center en again garnered scoring goofing honors for the utes with jimmy kirnon tVr non who ha has been looking very impressive alvo of late and J jimmy tn colv calv ers ern both scoring coring in double figures |