Vernal Sih wins semi-final game A field goal by Vernal 3rd's Craig Monsen sliced the Vernal 8th team's lead to three points at 40-37 early in the third quarter, but the fans of the Vernal 8th team had nothing to worry about as they outscored Vernal 3rd, 54 to 28 in the rest of the quarter for a 94 to 65 semi-final triumph in Roosevelt-Vernal Senior Multi-Region Tournament, Friday at Uintah High School. Vernal 8th grabbed an 8-0 lead early in the first quarter and Vernal 3rd gained its first points of the game on a two-pointer two-pointer by Gary Monsen. Burke Buckalew scored a two-pointer for a Vernal Ver-nal 8th lead of 10-2, but Gary's brother, Craig Monsen stole the ball and scored a field goal. Craig's brother, Gary Monsen scored five points, which included includ-ed a three-point play, to cut the Vernal 8th lead to one point at 10-9. Gary Monsen scored five points in a row, but Vernal 8th's Kim Oliverson out did Monsen as he scored seven straight counters, which also included a three-point three-point play for a 17-9 Vernal 8th advantage. Craig Monsen came close to matching his brother's performance as he poured in four points in a row to narrow the Vernal Ver-nal 8th lead to four points at 17-13. Vernal Ver-nal 8th scored five points on three points by Buckalew and two counters by Oliver-son Oliver-son for a first quarter lead of 22 to 15. Vernal 8th's center Jim Marshall struck for four points to deliver an 11 point lead of 26 to 15 to the Vernal 8th team. Tim Hadlock poured in two points for Vernal 3rd and Buckalew, Marshall and Ostler scored for a Vernal 8th advantage advan-tage of 31-19. Ence and Martin connected on field goal tries to increase the Vernal 8th advantage to 15 points at 36-21. However, Vernal 3rd got back into the ball game as they outscored Vernal 8th, 14 to 4 in the rest of the second quarter to reduce the Vernal 8th lead to five points at 40-35 after two quarters of action. ac-tion. Gary Monsen scored six points and Tad Coon added four points during the hot streak. Jensen and Hadlock scored two points each. Coon had a shot roll into in-to the basket to cut the Vernal 8th lead to three points at 38-35. Vernal 8th nabbed nabb-ed a five point lead of 40-35 on two free throws by Oliverson. A two-pointer by Craig Monsen narrowed nar-rowed Vernal 8th's lead to three points early in the third quarter at 40-37, but Vernal 8th didn't worry they just produced produc-ed 14 points in a row to put the game out of reach for Vernal 3rd at 54 to 41. Buckalew scored a field goal and Oliverson hit two in a row for a Vernal 8th lead of 46-37. Jim Marshall netted a rebound on a missed shot by Vernal 3rd and delivered a fastbreak pass to Buckalew. Buckalew scooted down to the right side of the court and delivered a behind the back pass to Oliverson for an easy basket. Elden Buckalew and Gary Monsen burned the hoop for four points and Ence scored to give Vernal 8th a 13 point advantage. Vernal 3rd scored three points at the foul line, but Elden Buckalew struck for gold twice at the basket for a 58-44 advantage. ad-vantage. Hadlock scored a field goal for Vernal 3rd, but Vernal 8th pouted in seven points for a 67-46 advantage. Elden Buckalew fired in two points and Marshall Mar-shall gained a three-point play for Vernal Ver-nal 8th. Both teams scored two more points to make the score 119 to 48 after three quarters of aciton. The Vernal 8th cagers poured in 25 points in the fourth quarter as compared to 17 by the Vernal 3rd for a 94-65 win. Ostler and Martin scored two counters for a 73-48 lead and Edwards scored for Vernal 3rd. The Vernal 8th hoopsters reeled off four points for a 77-50 lead. Harper and Bishop connected on shots for Vernal 3rd and baskets by Workman and Herb Jensen cut Vernal 8th's lead to 20 points at 79-59. Ron Gardner and Rod Anderson fired in two free throws each for a Vernal 8th lead of 83-59. Vernal 8th outscored Vernal 3rd, 11 to 6 in the rest of quarter to win the game by the score of 94 to 65. Oliverson led the Vernal 8th in scoring at 19 points. He put in eight field goals and hit 3 out of 4 free throws. Martin popped pop-ped i 18 points on nine field goals. Burke Buckalew added 14 points and Elden Buckalew scored 12 counters. Marshall scored ten points adn Ence added nine counters. Ostler added seven points. Gardner, Anderson and Mark Van-Wagoner Van-Wagoner added two counters. Gary Monsen led the Vernal 3rd team with 21 points. He popped in five field goals and hit 11 out of 12 free throws. Also scoring for Vernal 3rd were: Hadlock, 8; Craig Monsen, 8; Jensen, 7; Bishop, 6; Coon, 5; Edwards, 4; Workman, 4 and Harper 2. ''. ' . s i y ' v ' . ... 1 ,i v : ; I l' hJL . '- . :fv i A - J I Ut . -f I - ! it: . ' -. ) " i i ' i r w .. ' .. ' i ' ' Xf 1 i A . J -v. t A ; S r- - ; r - I " f s ' ' V . t . ..J L?--. , , . ' VERNAL 8TH's Mark Van Wagoner, right, gets ready to pass the ball away and hoping that the aerial is a bad one are Tad Coon. . ' ' J : " . V VERNAL HOOPSTERS, Mark Van Wagoner, left and a Vernal 3rd eager chase after the bounc- ing ball during a game between Vernal 8th and Vernal 3rd Friday in Vernal. left and Tim Hadlock, right. Vernal 8th downed Vernal 3rd in the semi-finals, but lost to Maeser 4th in the title game.