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Show Uintah Cops Region Six Mat Title To the surprise of absolutely ab-solutely no one, the Uintah Uin-tah Utes walked away with the Region Six wrestling wrest-ling meet Friday and Saturday, Sat-urday, i.t Vernal. The Utes also took a giant step toward to-ward a fourth straight state title. Moab's mat team wound up fourth with -10 points behind L'int-.h Ml, Union 101 and Monticello 50. The Red Devils qualified only one giaoplor for the state meet at Fillmore next weekend. John Gai-tlier. Gai-tlier. 185 pounds, took se- cond in his clsas. Steve Walston and Jim Whi-.e copped third places while Jody Shumway, Lance Pratt and Richard Taylor were fourth. First and second only qualify for state. Monticello's Curtis Redd and Randy Butler were tiie only southern division grapplers to take a title, although one other teammate team-mate will join them at Fillmore. The Ute.s took nine individual in-dividual titles and had two seconds which means they qualified 11 of their 12 man team. Union, run-nerup run-nerup to Uintah in the state last year, had the bulk of the other qualifiers. quali-fiers. The crowds at Vernal, according to Moab Coach Gene Leonard, were tremendous. tre-mendous. The finals drew a standing room only turnout. |