Show Games At Altamont To Open Cage Season Friday Union Battles Altamont Is Host To Race For Two Top Spots Due To Be Wide Open A Region Eight basketball race that is expected to be more than ever and with state tournament berths for its two top opens with games at Altamont and Duchesne Friday Duchesne Eagles and the Union two hard-to-judge battle at Duchesne Friday with the team opener scheduled for the main game for 8 p.m. At the Longhorns battle Uintah's Utes in a game may ish the Altamont boys as the team of the Tabiona ii ripening its ference season Friday Much pre-season speculation has centered on where j j is a year-round center of Coach Ken Bearden is fairly well stocked with like Paul and with good experienced youngsters like Pete free-throw artist and general and the always-improving Grant a whiz as a sophomore last The Longhorns rost of their games and have the bench worry any opposing At Coach Jerry Christ has an up and coming team that took most of its pre season including some close and in Elden has a high-coring forward who leads an ar ray of senous-minded determined to put Duchesne on the basketball this plagued by decreasing enrollment from which to draw nevertheless can't be counted out of the race just for that The upper country boys are well known for their hustle and spirit and upsets happen every week in Union's Cougars appear to be a team that could be up on the basis of height and but could lose out by a somewhat low basket making average and lack of speed and on Classified BASKETBALL SEASON from Page Coach Glen Allred has led his charges through an intentionally tough pre-season but a low winning percentage in the early games is reportedly never a true indication of the strength of Allred-coached Height under the with Gordon and Clarence among and experience out front Kenny the leading pre-season make the Cougars a senous Over in Coach Thair Allen has brought his Uintah Utes through a schedule duplicating Union's in many cases and the Utes are also a question Their point-making appears to be more plentiful than Union's but they're without many of last year's fine crop that took the region Finish position of last year won't have a great deal of bearing on this year's race they could be almost completely reversed but here they Uintah came out on top by a with seven victories and a single that to Union in the final Union finished with a losing once to Uintah and dropping a surprise verdict to The latter team came in with five out of eight and Duchesne won both its games from Tabiona to finish fourth and put the latter five on the 4 Uintah at Altamont Union at Duchesne 11 Tabiona at Uintah Altamont at Union 18 Duchesne at Uintah Altamont at Tabiona 25 Uintah at Linion Tabiona at Duchesne 1 Union at Tabiona Duchesne at ALtamont HALF 6 Altamont at Uintah Duchesne at Union 8 Uintah at Tabiona Union at Altamont 15 Uintah at Duchesne Tabiona at Altamont 22 Union at Uintah Duchesne at Tabiona March 1 Tabiona at Union Altamont at Duchesne |