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Show 24 Vernal Express wedndoy, jonuory 23, ns IT v iBf to. r v nr!j UINTAH UTES, Mark Powell, Kyle White and Brett Weldon, left to right, battle for control of the basketball. Mountain View Mowinittaiin View defeats Uintah Utte basket bailers in region contest The Uintah Ute varsity team had high hopes for their first Region 7 home opener after close losses on the road at Orem and'Timpview, but their happy home opener turned into sad times out on the basketball court as they were crushed by Mountain View, 55-37, Friday. The Utes are 0-3 in region action and will battle Provo on the road, January 25. Uintah will host American Fork, February 1. Mountain View Jumped out to a quick 4-0 lead on two field goals by Todd Gentry, which were set up on steals. Jason Taylor flipped in the first points for the Uintah Utes on a field goal with 6:47 to go in the first quarter, but Jim Payne poured in two points for the Bruins. Horrocks connected on a two-pointer two-pointer for the Uintah Utes, but Mountain View scored six straight points on two field goals by Gentry and two charity tosses by Payne to tike a ten point lead of 14 4 over the Utes. The Utes rallied for four points toward the end of the quarter on field goals by Horrocks and Taylor, but Mountain View's Payne added two more points to make the score 16 to 8 r : , 0 . . 1 t":'--;j 1(kA ( I . ife'l V ft I ; 7 i-v .... -r :Jh : 'j :Li in favor of Mountain View after one quarter of action. The Uintah Utes went into a delay game and Kenny Rasmussen fired in two points for the Uintah Utes. Field goals by Horrocks and Kyle White during the Utes' delay game brought Uintah within six points of the Bruin lead. Mountain View ran off most of the seconds on the clock and a Bruin hit a shot with three seconds left to give Mountain View a 2416 lead. The Uintah Utes kept on playing their delay game and a field goal and free throw by Horrocks sliced Mountain Moun-tain View's lead to five points at 26 21 with 3:19 to go in the third quarter. An offensive foul was called on Mountain Moun-tain View end the Utes had a chance to cut the Bruin lead to three, but they turned over the ball. Mountain View connected on three field goals to take a 33 21 lead over the Uintah Utes. Rasmuxwn flipped In one out of two free thrown, but a field goal by Steve Kirk gave Mountain Moun-tain View a third quarter lead of 34 22. handed Uintah its third region loss of the season. The Utes will battle the Bulldogs in Provo, Friday. The Uintah team scored 15 points in the fourth quarter, but Mountain View poured in 21 counters to beat the Uintah Utes, 55-37. Mark Powell popped in two points for the Utes and Horrocks struck for two free throws and a bomb to slice Mountain View's ' lead to ten points at 38-28. However, Mountain View added seven more points to go up by 17 points at 45-28. Todd Mulvillc, Powell and Horrocks scored for the Utes to make the final score 55-47 in favor of Mountain View. Horrocks scored the final five points for the Uintah Utes. Mountain View completely dominated the boards as they gained countless second se-cond chances at the basket. Horrocks led the UUVah Utes with 20 points. He fired In seven field goals and hit 6 out of 8 free throws. Taylor poured in three field goals for six points. Powell lowwd in two field goals for four points. Rasmussen added ad-ded three points. MulviJIe snd White scored two points. Uintah hit 7 out of 10 fire throw attempts. Todd Gentry was the top Bruin scorer at 20 points. He fired In nine field goals and hit 2. out of 4 free throws. Kent Lewis pumped in seven field goals for 14 points. Jerry Jeffs scored ten points. Payne added six points and Hansen scored two points. Cooper added one point. ictr BREAKFAST SKirPERS Jones Paint & Glass 14 2 Strickers Sure Test 12-4 Rowdy Rollers u s High Series Robbie Roberts 544 Paulcttc May 542 Lis Fullerton 530 High Games Liz Kutlrrton 200 Charlotte Ncilson 2O0 Unda Alexander 139 .v UTE HOOPSTER Theron Murphy, center, jets to the hoop for two points and also in the picture is Jamie Childs, center. The Ute sophomores own a 5-5 mark. The BOX SEAT By Adam Beckerman Old stars retire before new heroes are annointed. A string of imposters hold titles in a confusing array of weight divisions. And officials offi-cials at the American Medical Medi-cal Association want to banish the sport. Seeking to inject fresh blood into the pugilistic ranks rendered anemic by a variety of problems, ESPN and Bob Arum have launched the 1985 Top Rank Boxing Tournament. And if even a few contenders contend-ers with strength and style can emerge from this 70-bout 70-bout showcase as did Dwight Braxton (now Dwight Muhammad Qawi) and Frank ''The Animal" Fletcher in the tournament's tourna-ment's 1980 version its existence will be justified. Boxing commentator Al Bernstein, a man whose salt and pepper hair is almost as tall as boxing promotor Don King's, travels tra-vels across America in search of good boxing bouts. Alter honing his journalistic skills in Chicago as a newspaper reporter and editor, he finds it ironic that he is currently the only working broadcaster who both scores and analyzes tights, "One of boxmg's big tailings tail-ings is that as soon as a guy tO!,es. puople Start saying say-ing he should retire." says Bernstein. "But we can't t perfect in life, in this tournament there'll be guys wiio might've lost before, but who didn't pud and who c.im b.iek and now SECKING f OR someone to le tail to is J rsh Ute t-vet-: e. f ' !. ba"?f Kenny M-af and ry:rg to eel Mohaf lolurn etal c-ef ef e Gery, let a"d Pctris. rgM, ct Moy.t3:n V-e. have another chance. We were after a mixture of young fighters who'd been seen a little but who hadn't yet had a chance to shine, and fighters who had not been seen on national TV but who had good records." Eight fighters will compete com-pete in 10 separate weight classes. Quarter-final regional bouts are scheduled sched-uled for eight rounds: semifinal semi-final bouts are limited to ten rounds; and the finals can last up to 12 rounds. The top two in each division divi-sion will battle during special spe-cial broadcasts in April and August. Thursday, Jan. 31, marks the appearance of two welterweights wel-terweights whose progress viewers might find intriguing: intrigu-ing: The rugged Kenny Butler But-ler (15-1. 7 KO'S). out of the Goode-Petronelli stable (one that includes the undisputed middleweight champion of the world Marvelous Mar-velous Marvin Hagier) punches in one bout, while Rodney Trussel (19-0. 7 KO's), a member of the Detroit-based Kronk Boxing Box-ing Team (featuring the tall and lanky Thomas "Hitman" Hearns) will be a featured in another. "Boxing has no fltj.iie." says Bernstein, aware that numbers can't latter alio-fliances alio-fliances between tort and fighter. "You can't look m the paper and see who's in fust. But if we can give poo-pie poo-pie some sens (jl pet'.pec-tive pet'.pec-tive as we prcc-cd," ho concludes, "we tan ihi tho 6tt)ty of th--.e tjo.f, " |
