Show rT 5 A t I KAYL KAYLYN YN HACKING 5 Uintah bumps the volleyball into into the air Watching the flight of the ball aro are Uintah players Joan Jarm January Jarman 43 Doris Dons Merrell 30 and Kym Kyma a Buckalew 21 Uintah iota vale d Cyprus on onN F Vember r 1 16 in to two straight games 7 y P f a 1 Y S J R F. F y 5 r L 4 UINTAH'S DORIS MERRELL slams the volleyball over the net during the Cyprus Uintah battle in Vernal November 16 Also in the picture is Uintah's KayLyn Hacking 52 The Uintah Utes nabbed first place in Region Five Uintah will compete at the state meet December 1 2 3 3 The Utes are the defending champion Uin Uintah tah voile down Cyprus Pirates The Uintah Utes gained their fifth straight region win with a triumph on November 16 over the Cyprus pirates in Vernal Uintah is In first place If tl Murray won last week the Spartans would be in second place Cyprus is in third place UINTAH AND ANI Cyprus staged a close battle in the first game as the lead changed hands several times The Pirates had hadan hadan hadan an 18 to 17 lead and needed only two points to win the first game gamer However Uintah tied the score at 1818 18 and scored two more points to win the first game 20 to 18 In the second game Uintah jumped out to an early 4 to 1 lead The Pirates narrowed the Uintah lead to 4 to 3 but the Utes hammered out eight unanswered points to take a huge advantage of 12 to 3 Cyprus cut the Uintah lead to 12 to 4 but the Vernal squad gained three more points to toJI JI take a 15 to 4 lead The Pirates outscored Uintah 5 to 1 in the next few minutes to narrow Uintah's advantage to 16 to 9 Uintah went on to win the second and final game of the match 10 to 10 as they scored four points and Cyprus earned only one point in the final moments of the game TilE THE HIGH scorer for Uintah in the first game was KayLyn Hacking lacking with seven points The top point gainer for the Utes Inthe in inthe inthe the second game was Kym Buckalew with eight counters Cyprus garnered a win in the junior varsity match when they downed Uintah 20 to 6 in the first game and 20 to 5 in the second game The high scorer for Uintah in the first game was Kristy McNeill with three points Janet Merrell and Cheryl Hall hail were high scorers for Uintah In the second game with two points poi ilse JL When asked to comment on the Uintah win over Cyprus Uintah volleyball coach Kathy Olsen remarked This was the toughest match of the season Murray and Cyprus were our closest matches We came through both of them fairly well Murray Uintah and Cyprus would have been tied for lor first if we lost We wanted to establish that we Uintah are the number one team The Uintah ute Ute v volleyball team will defend Its 1976 A 3 title at the state meet at Brigham Young University in on December 1 2 and 3 TJ TEN N PIN Tea Team m Standings W tv L L Hot Oil 33 15 Parrish Oil Tool 31 17 Rucker Acme Tool 29 19 High Series Kay Virginia Clavton Clayton Dorothy Pitchford ord High Games Games' Elaine Rich Virginia Clayton Betty Burns Mary Baker F iw r v s f 7 e Y M Mt t 4 I t w JOAN JARMAN 43 Uintah knocks the volleyball over the net and into the direction of a Cyprus player t lk i KYM BUCKALEW left and Joan Jarman 43 have all of their attention focused on the volleyball |