Show The Uintah High School varsity were unable to compete In the state but the Utes defeated two teams that placed high in state tournament and toppled two other squads that competed in the state tournament during the past hoop Uintah defeated the Green River 80 to on December 1978 in The Green River team went on to capture third place in the Class AA state hoop tournament in Green came from behind late in the final period and dropped 68 to to take third place on March The Wolves were down by 12 points in the third but the Green River squad came back to tie the game at with a minute and a half A Mike Frink rebound and a basket put the Wolves in the for the first time since the first where they stayed until the final Gregg was the fop scorer for Green River with 20 Frink put in 13 points and Scott Schultz tossed in Green River had 64 rebounds in the John Searcy nabbed 18 rebounds and Frink and Kevin Sadler pulled down 16 Green River nabbed third place as they defeated some of the best clubs in the state of but the Wolves were unable to down the Utes in Vernal December Uintah jumped out to an early lead of and had a lead at the end of the first The Utes were at the end of the first Uintah had an advantage of 63 to 57 after three quarters of Top scorers in the win over Green River Derrin Scott Burke 14 and Chad High scorers for Green River were Searcy and The Wolves nipped 60 to in overtime in the first round of the Wyoming state was the high scorer with 15 Schmidt and Searcy scored 12 points Green River dropped into the battle for third place with Sheridan when they were thumped by Cheyenne 59 to in the second Schmidt scored 16 points and hit 11 The Wolves were down by one point at the end of the first Sadler had 21 Uintah's basketball Kerry was the best that we played state championship and their third title in a row when they nipped Cheyenne March Jordan High School garnered fourth place in the state tournament when they defeated Ogden last 60 to The won 3 of 4 games in the state but the Jordan squad was unable to thump the Utes in the first meeting between the two teams in Region Five action January Uintah defeated 68 to Craig Ensign of Jordan was the number two scorer in the state tournament with 88 points and he put in 24 points in Jordan's 60 to 52 victory over Ogden for fourth Ensign was held to eight points in the first battle with the Utes January Top scorers for the Utes in the first game with Jordan were Derrin Ron Ron 12 and Clark The top scorers for Jordan were Lynn Dave Olsen Steve Union and two teams that were eliminated from the state tourney in the first two were defeated by the Uintah Utes during the past The Uintah Utes downed Union in 2 of 3 contests and split contests with the Tooele Uintah nipped Tooele in Vernal February 71 to The Utes were defeated by Union in a playoff 59 to American Fork captured the state title when they nipped defending champion 48 to Gary Elder Beck of American Fork was the high scorer in the game with 19 Beck was also the top scorer in the tourney with 91 A number of unusual items took place in the state Judge Memorial blasted 63 to in the second round of the but the finished higher in the final standings of the state After the win over the Bulldogs were downed by American 60 to and placed sixth when they were thumped by Woods 72 to Jordan defeated Springville and toppled Ogden for fourth place Ogden defeated Dixie in the first round of the state 67 to but Dixie placed fifth and Ogden garnered seventh Dixie downed Murray and toppled Box 66 to for the consolation Ogden was defeated by Woods Cross and downed The Ogden team was thumped by Box a team that finished in a tie for fifth place in Region Four and had to win a f game in order to go to the state captured eighth place honors in the Box Elder was nipped by Judge 61 to in the first round and then defeated Pleasant Grove and a team that nabbed a first place tie In Region failed to place in the Murray was downed in overtime by Davis and then defeated The Spartans were knocked out of the tourney by |