Show Tournament of Tribal to begin gin Wed Champions I b I i. i itt J PIS RL 1 The Ute Tribes Tribe's Tournament of Tribal Champions will begin in Fort Duchesne at atthe atthe atthe the Purpose Multi-Purpose Building The first contest will begin at 5 p pm p.m. m. m The tourney will also take place on April 7 8 and 9 The games on April 7 7 and 8 will begin at 10 am a.m. The consolation championship game championship game will begin at at pm p.m. on April 9 The battle for first and second place will start at p pm p.m. m. m on April 9 9 FT DUCHESNE'S Ute Chiefs will take on a team from Wyoming at pm p.m. on Wednes Wednesday ay Members of the Ute Chiefs basketball team are Ron John Angel Greg Red Elk Vince Rock Lornie Lawrence Pin- Pin Arlyn Gary Bl Black ck Bobby Franklin Reed Heed Chester Rick Chapoose and andRex andRex andRex Rex LaRose Lafose coach There will be sixteen teams taking part in the Tournament of Tribal Champions Some of the teams are Ute Chiefs Salt Lake Mixed Tribes Eagle Stars from Intermountain Provo Indians Wind River Indians of Wyoming Fort Washakie Wyoming Cowboys Crow Agency team from Montana Fort Hall Idaho and Poplar Montana There will probably be lx some additional teams from Utah Idaho Colorado Nevada Nevada Neva da New Mexico Wyoming Montana and California According to Rex Hex LaRose Ute Tribe Recreation Director there will be a berth granted to the top team in the lower bracket in the National Indian Activities Associations Association's I find I national tourney which will beheld be beheld beheld held April 23 19 at Minneapolis Minnesota The lower bracket will consist of NIM t teams ams The Ute Chiefs have alre already dy qualified for the national tourney and will be in the upper bracket with the non teams LAST FRIDAY Y and Saturday the Ute Chiefs captured first place in an invitational basketball tourney at Utah State University In the first round the Ute Chiefs defeated the Salt Lake Chieftains The Ute Chiefs thumped the Utah Native American Consortium Red Red- A 4 nt n. n i t skins 71 to 59 On March 19 UNAC edged the Ute Chiefs for first place in the State State Tournament The Ute Chiefs defeated the Spotted Eagles of Springville by 25 points in the championship contest last Saturday Lornie Ute Chiefs was selected as the most valuable player Ron Ute Chiefs was the leading scorer in the tourney scored about 85 points in the tourney He lie averaged 30 points per game tossed in 42 points in the championship battle with the Spotted Eagles was named to the all all- tourney team |