Show State finals set for Friday Saturday Uintah High Schools School's football team gained three victories this year and one one was a 7 20 triumph over the Morgan Trojans on on ri September 9 The Morgan squad will battle Delta for the Class A 2 state title Saturday at noon at the University of Utah Uintah a a- a A 3 school completely com comm dominated A 2 power Morgan in Vernal on September 9 9 The Trojans recovered from the loss to Uintah as they went wenton on to tie for filst place in their region and advanced to the final Cinal game of the 1977 A 2 season MORGAN HIGH School earned its spot in the the final contest with a 6 14 victory over the defending A 2 champions Mi Millard Hard last Friday in Spanish Fork The game was a rematch of the 1976 A 2 state final Curtis Jones rushed 24 times for yards for the Trojans Delta High School bombed South Sevier 31 to 14 in Fillmore last Friday to advance into the final contest Delta was led by senior quarterback Roger Hoger Ashby who ran for one touchdown passed for another kicked a yard 36 field goal and booted four our extra points Delta Dell tv t v von n the 2 A 2 state tat Murray will battle Davis High School for the A 3 state title Friday at p pm p.m. m. m in Rice Stadium at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City Murray defeated Uintah 35 to 0 O. O this past season Uintah held Murray scoreless until th the mark o of the second quarter The Spartans scored 20 points in the final 51 5 minutes o of the second quarter Uintah also held the Spartans scoreless in the third quarter Murray gained 15 points the Utes in the THE TIIE SPARTANS edged Ogden last Friday 14 to 6 for a semi-final semi win which places Murray in the final contest Rocky Hocky Ulibarri rushed for yards ards and scored one touchdown touchdown touchdown touch touch- down for the Spartans The score at halftime was 7 0 in favor of Murray due to a one- one yard quarterback sneak by Joel Winters Steve extra point kick was good Ogden narrowed the Murray lead to 7 6 with a yard 33 touchdown touchdown touchdown touch touch- down run by Mike Todd in the third quarter The extra point kick was blocked by Murray Murray recovered a fumble on the Ogden yard 27 line Ulibarri darted four yards for forthe forthe forthe the touchdown in the fourth quarter extra point kick was good to make the final score Murray 14 and Ogden 6 6 In the other A 3 semi-final semi contest Davis just barely edged Judge Memorial 14 to 13 Steve Malnar darted 68 yards for the first Davis touchdown early in inthe inthe inthe the first quarter Malnar also scored the two-point two conversion to give Davis an 8 0 lead MALNAR lt scored the second Davis touchdown in the second quarter on a yard two-yard run Th The score at the end of oC the first half was Davis 14 and Judge Memorial o 0 O. Judge scored its first touchdown touchdown touch touch- down Iown when Tom Eckroth darted 18 yards ards for the six-pointer six inthe inthe in inthe the third quarter Reed Heed Quinn Quinns extra point kick was good to narrow the Davis lead to 7 14 The Bulldogs Bulldogs' Tom Eckroth recovered a fumble by Davis inthe inthe in inthe the end zone for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter after a heavy rush by Judge Memorial Reed Quinn booted the extra point which would have tied the score However the ball struck the right upright and bounced back to enable the score to stay at 14 13 for f Davis avis HEAVER vim VEl AND NU South Summit will clash Friday at noon for the 1 A 1 A state title in Rice Wee Stadium at the University of Utah Beaver Heaver has won four Cour state titles tilles in the last seven years South Summit advanced to the final contest of 1977 with an 18 0 triumph over North Sevier last Friday in Springville Beaver blanked North Summit in Payson last Friday 0 13 0 for Cor a 1 A semi-final semi victory Olympus and Skyline will combat for the A 4 state title Saturday at pm p.m. in the Rice Stadium at the University of Utah Skyline is the defending defending defending ding champion The Olympus Titans gained a 19 14 semi-final semi win last Thursday over the Layton Lancers The score was 14 13 for Layton after a touchdown by bythe bythe bythe the Titans and a successful extra point kick would tie the game at al 14 However with 26 seconds left Layton blocked Olympus' Olympus extra point kick Mike stepped back hack to pass with four our seconds left in the game couldn't find an open receiver o he started scrambling With the clock at zero tossed a pass to John Chase in inthe inthe inthe the end zone of the winning touchdown which made the score Olympus 19 and Layton Skyline bombed Brighton on last Thursday in order to advance advance advance ad ad- vance into the final contest |